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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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771004285Author Lorna CrozierFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 136g

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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)...

A collection of P. K. Page's poems, socially conscious work that focuses on our planet and on the beauty of existence. Shortlisted for the 2003 Griffin Award for Excellence in Poetry, Cosmologies is a careful distillation of Canadian poet P.K...

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

"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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713086Author Rita WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 128g

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...

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.