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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771057854Author Don McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

A legend of 19th century French Canadian poetry, Emile Nelligan was only 16 when he fell under the influence of Baudelaire and Rimbaud and began writing taut, confidently surrealistic poems, shot through self-lacerating melancholy. Translating Nelligan's...

Take a trip through Alberta with some of Canada's finest established and emerging poets as your guides. Writing the Terrain is the first anthology dedicated solely to the poetry of the Alberta landscape and cityscape, by authors who have travelled the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551526799Author Kai Cheng ThomFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784907359393Author Robert MacLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Isobar PressPublisher Isobar PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712133Author Rita WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940996356Author Psy D Christopher WillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Crisis Chronicles PressPublisher Crisis Chronicles PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888393425Author Robert ServiceFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771022326Author Leonard CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771051586Author Tolu OloruntobaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783945337Author Archibald LampmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Later Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices, each one concerned with the living and the dead: voices of historians and moralists, voices of great (and not so great)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771099410Author Madhur AnandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend her previous...

Typography meets poetry at a Pink Floyd laser-light show In Surface Tension, poetry is liquefied. Flowing away from meaning, letters and words gather and pool into puddles of poetry; street signs and logos reflected in the oily sheen of polluted...

Civil Elegies is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087896137Author Catherine PoseyFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and humour, sympathy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307950673Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012620Author Fred WahFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 410g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771043116Author Kaie KelloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738936007Author Sarah Jeannine BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Sarah Jeannine BoothPublisher Sarah Jeannine BoothWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860152Author Fiona Tinwei LamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 126g

Winner, Archibald Lampman Poetry Award and Ottawa Book AwardThese poems chart moments where the beauty of life is glimpsed like a carnival through a crack in a fence. The verse is full of living toys, dressing up, and daylight ghosts. His world is...

Come, anguish. Help us manage / the plainsong of an open shore, / its language of high tide rich and close, / close and hard to see.The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death, loss and renewal. Drawing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680922127Author Robert W ServiceFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Poems to read in the small hours before dawn, when the sirens start up again. Swivelmount's concerns - the collapse of subject and world, eros and law, knowledge and bafflement - gain new urgency as Babstock fiercely reimagines and reassembles the...

Two decades ago a critic characterised Marius Kociejowski as a poet `whose imagination prowls the geographical boundaries of western culture'. He has a Polish name, was born in Canada, and lives in London where he collects other exiles, listens to their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909849556Author Mark Fuller DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Leaky Boot PressPublisher Leaky Boot PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039116443Author Marie GroundwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that challenge the widespread assumption that prisons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of QSPELL Award 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780375701290Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771099397Author Phoebe WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988747996Author Eimilidh NiceoghainnFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Bradan PressPublisher Bradan Press

Relic species extinct everywhere else on the planet thrive on a remote archipelago. Evolution requires isolation, and these islands offer the perfect environment for genetic variation to take place, fostering new and unique forms of flora and fauna...

Sara Sutterlin's I Wanted to Be the Knife picks at the bones of modern romance by exploring the disappointments of intimacy and the loneliness of dissolving relationships. Her poems are brutal, funny and full of tender, ugly details that remind us of...

This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay's best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Meira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771072345Author Michael PriorFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

He has outlived his usefulness. He is stressed, over-produced, and in crisis. He is searching for a role in modern society. So he is turning to Benedict Cumberbatch, green nylon bombers, and Rambo: First Blood Part II. He is turning to GQ, graphic knits,...