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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) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

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) 413gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 18mm

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

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) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777384500Author Georgia StavsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint ISBN CanadaPublisher ISBN CanadaWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm

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 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

"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.