Books tagged: Poetry
"For New Orleans" and Other Poems
Edited by Ashis Gupta
Hurricane Katrina moved the Editor and Publisher of this collection to embark on this attempt to delve into the hearts and minds of some of Americas finest poets, several from the south. The result is a moving collection, sometimes sad, sometimes joyous, sometimes puzzled and ... Read more
(flood basement
By Jeremy Stewart
Jeremy Stewart's first book, (flood basement, is a young poet's search for and discovery of his place in the local landscape. The poet is haunted by the legacy of colonialism and propelled by the struggles of a community seeking its own identity. (flood basement is the raw, shocking ... Read more
97 Positions of the Heart
By Jaik Josephson
Illustrated by Erin Josephson-Laidlaw
Elizabeth Smart, author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), has been heralded as a complicated and passion fuelled artist who dared to live in disregard of the burdensome expectations for women in the first half of the last century. 97 Positions of the Heart ... Read more
A Dream in the Eye
Edited by Stephen Collis
Illustrated by Phyllis Webb
Contributions by Diana Hayes, Betsy Warland, and Laurie White
First collection of visual work by renowed Canadian poet Phyllis Webb *
* A Dream in the Eye presents colour reproductions of the paintings and photocollages of renowned poet Phyllis Webb. A Governor General's Award–winning poet and a member of the Order of Canada, Webb ... Read more
A False Paradise
By Brian Rigg
Paradise found: a stunning new voice. Moths, wasps, and toads. Designer drugs, glass eyes, stray bullets, and tea-bagging. Africville, dreads, and ghetto palms. This is a false paradise. Brian Rigg’s lush and linguistically sensuous debut collection shimmers with poetry ... Read more
A Northern Woman
By Jacqueline Baldwin
In her second volume of poetry, acclaimed writer Jacqueline Baldwin examines life in the North as a poet, feminist and environmentalist.
A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth
By Stephanie Bolster
Shortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial AwardAn ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things. A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a coherent vision of nature -- constructed or framed, both in the present ... Read more
A Possible Landscape
By Maureen Harris
Maureen Harris’s first volume of poetry evokes “a possible landscape,” where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent’s “green quiver,” his “sibilant caress,” where a snake tires of his ... Read more
