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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.AwardsWinner of 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize 2017 (Canada). Short-listed for 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry 2017 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9780889229778Author Jordan AbelFormat...

CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN POETRY BOOKS OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARDhwaet, another Beowulf translation? Not exactly... Welcome to Denmark's Heorot Hall, where King Hrothgar...

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 9780771051586Author Tolu OloruntobaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

The Polymers is a bold new work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds. Structured as an imaginary science project, the varied pieces in this collection investigate the intersection of poetry and chemicals, specifically plastics, attempting to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2014 (Canada). Short-listed for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award 2014 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9780889227880Author...

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)...

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 *...

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 9780982156124Author Luci ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Pinyon PublishingPublisher Pinyon PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

"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...

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

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

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...

"Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy...Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt...She wields language expertly, even beautifully."--The New York Times What if the cinema of the present were a...

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 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...

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...

Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career.The Collected Poetry of...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702259Author Anne MichaelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 210g

In my palliative months / the cormorant leaves me / at peace, disintegrating / with the exhalation of a BuddhaWithout Beginning or End is Jacqueline Bourque’s final testament to a life well lived, written in the wake of a terminal cancer diagnosis.Deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712645Author Gillian WigmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593802649Author Margaret AtwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 917g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228801832Author William Gordon MallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995010857Author Dayna E MazzucaFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Dayna E. MazzucaPublisher Dayna E. MazzucaWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228801849Author William Gordon MallettFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228809395Author Brian Allan RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228812234Author Jordan a RippelFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228809388Author Brian Allan RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 152g