Death, Grief, Loss

A Passing Bell is the culmination of a life's work. The poem skillfully takes the form of a series of classic Persian ghazals, a style perfected by poets such as Hafiz and Rumi, into a contemporary setting. The ghazal is a lyric poem often compared to...

Startlingly lucid poems of mourning-specifically over the death of her partner, poet James Tate. A significant contribution to the elegy genre. A new and distinct approach for this poet-these poems will surprise and impress her longtime readers. Wier...

As Far As You Know, acclaimed poet A. F. Moritz's twentieth collection of poems, begins with two sections entitled "Terrorism" and "Poetry." The book unfolds in six movements, yet it revolves around and agonizes over the struggle...

A muscle's "twitch force" is a measurement of its energy potential. It's history dependent: you can forget it, but it's engraved on you where you can't see it, and all it wants to do is repeat. Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill's first...

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves? Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language,...

A rich medley of broad and deep practical knowledge of the natural world.Book InformationISBN 9781636281407Author Robin MagowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen Press

With tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead. Following the poet’s recent prose work on the historical and...

In his twentieth book, most of which was first composed on the backs of medical forms while on break as a third-shift medical technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose sequence reflecting on disability, chronic illness, addiction,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950268450Author Garrett CaplesFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Wave BooksPublisher Wave Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649796967Author Hi-Dong ChaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944697860Author Jack FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 281g

In Michael Earl Craig's sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.Whether he be writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the "Italy of God,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622882410Author Aaron BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860602Author Barbara NickelFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622889204Author Floyd CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880792Author Kevin CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint CavanKerry PressPublisher CavanKerry Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649796974Author Hi-Dong ChaiFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 286g

An unnamed speaker navigates a world where God comes in the shape of a cardinal, speaks in the voice of Georgia O'Keeffe, and paints the desert with bones. Driven by sound, heartbreak, and the baffling limits and possibilities of language, a nameless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925950366Author Sandy JeffsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 184g

In The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, Eric Tran contends with the aftermath of a close friend's suicide while he simultaneously explores the complexities of being a gay man of color. Grief opens into unraveling circles of inquiry as Tran reflects on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682011218Author J. Vincent HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint North Star Press of Saint Cloud IncPublisher North Star Press of Saint Cloud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622882403Author Tyler JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944697488Author Jack FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 166g

Written during an autistic breakdown after his father's sudden death, Sweeney's visionary elegy for the living occupies the voice of the newly dead. Through shifting identities, genderless, omnigendered, bereft and haunted, this work affords an intimate...

In Lovers of Today, Garrett Caples is his most playful and heartfelt. Here are poems that generously place the reader in a particular poetic moment that is both elegiac and also wildly entertaining. Taken from a bar of the same name in New York City,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948825494Author Hazem SultanFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Austin MacauleyPublisher Austin MacauleyWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860770Author Yvonne BlomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578600574Author Zachry K DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Zachry K. DouglasPublisher Zachry K. DouglasWeight(grams) 354g

Enacting both the pain and heightened awareness of a body in crisis, Joshua Beckman’s latest collection of carefully assembled poetic fragments seeks to elucidate the synthetic reality of being sick and being medicated. Written from inside of illness and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211450Author Abba KovnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622889419Author Gerry LaFeminaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Stephen F. Austin State University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880853Author Gibson Fay-LeBlancFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint CavanKerry PressPublisher CavanKerry PressWeight(grams) 152g

Somewhere between elegy and memoir, poetry and prose, Ed Pavlic's Call It in the Air follows the death of a sister into song. Pavlic's collection traces the life and death of his elder sister, Kate: a brilliant, talented, tormented woman who lived on...

This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.Using true stories from her own family annals, Wioletta Greg makes a literary journey through the last century, from Poland at the outbreak of the First World War to present-day Britain. In...

This collection of poetry interrogates the impact of grief and partner violence on a family lineage, as well as the connections between sorrow and joy as they relate to poetry, women's writing, and the process of the "confessional." Inextricably woven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007105Author Alexandra RegaladoFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 178g

In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771333412Author Marilyn PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

Traversing the wild landscapes of the American West, prose and photography combine to create a lucid, dream-like vision of visitations and allegorical animal encounters with Snake, Owl, and Dragonfly, among others. The Spring tells a stirring, elegiac...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933880914Author Daniel SummerhillFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CavanKerry PressPublisher CavanKerry PressWeight(grams) 152g