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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771082665Author John StefflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award The follow up to The Sentinel, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A. F. Moritz's The New Measures is a bold collection of fiery,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771834087Author W. Bruce MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771837217Author Erin VanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771315784Author Louise B HalfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Brick BooksPublisher Brick BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 145mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771614603Author Rolf HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Mosaic PressPublisher Mosaic PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Extra Illicit Sonnets chronicles a love affair between a man and a woman of different complexions, cultures, continents, and generations, Sonia Fuentes of Andorra and Luca Xifona of Canada. She is Spanish in heritage; and he is Maltese. She is a Boomer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550962635Author Bruce MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Exile EditionsPublisher Exile Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550963083Author Lawren HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Exile EditionsPublisher Exile EditionsWeight(grams) 245g

Shortlisted, Independent Publishers Book Award, PoetryThe Qingming Shanghe Tu scroll, sometimes called "Spring Festival by the River," was thought to have been painted by Zhang Zeduan before 1127, when the Northern Song capital of Bian-Iiang was overrun...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012101Author Roy MikiFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 1410gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771835084Author Earl FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550963014Author Daniel David MosesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Exile EditionsPublisher Exile EditionsWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926743813Author Michael E CasteelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Invisible PublishingPublisher Invisible Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772015188Author R. KoleweFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772013658Author Razielle AigenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Governor General's Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in his astonishing collection Patient Frame. From the court of Medici to the My Lai massacre;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774390283Author Carol Harvey SteskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 172g

Erin Moure, a frequent nominee and winner of the Governor General's and other literary awards, is one of the most consistently innovative, imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure seeks nothing less than to re-create the act of writing...

George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, the wet leaves of fall are described in language that cuts two ways: "I work the rake, / you the wheelbarrow...

The sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey. Eclectic, unpredictable, and strange, Passengers follows Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer on an imagined circumnavigation of...

Mad Long Emotion wants to talk flora to fauna like you. It talks by dancing, as bumblebees do. In its dances, loosestrife shoos humans away, green carnations flirt with handsome men beyond the shade, and "dogbanes though dead bloom." Meanwhile, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714045Author Matt RaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada's most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ethical, and political questions that inform Zolf's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679779131Author Michael OndaatjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738278503Author S GrewalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Deck of PoetryPublisher Deck of PoetryWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530761Author Elizabeth BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood's Power Politics startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916393585Author Don DomanskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Xylem BooksPublisher Xylem BooksWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887848230Author Karen SoliePage Count 112Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,CanadaPublisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada

A New York Times Notable Book of 2010 Longlisted for the Warwick Writing Prize Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995--2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin. Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine...

We don't choose the stories we inherit, but we can stitch new futures from the threads of our past .Selvage is a work of salvaging and selving, of salvaging a self from disparate elements. Fragments from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738110506Author Chris GallantFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Chris Gallant SpeakingPublisher Chris Gallant SpeakingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable...

In Vancouver as the dark winter tapered into springI undertook to singMy life my body these wordsThe men from a perspective.The Men is a work that will be both familiar and fresh to anyone who has read Lisa Robertson. As a poet Robertson has received...

In The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent-Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to "extend the choreography."In fact, his entire thrust is out and toward. Each poem moves out along its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777569624Author Annie Sophie LeFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Annie Sophie LePublisher Annie Sophie LeWeight(grams) 140g

Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen? Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind's prose transforms into the sleeper's poetry...

From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read Frustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve - racial inequality, our pernicious depression, the troubled relationships we...