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Near the centre of Marrying the Animals, Cornelia Hoogland's new book of poetry, is the sequence "In the Meantime: Elizabeth Smart Poems" Hoogland's exploration of Smart's

The Way to Come Home is Carolyn Smart's fourth book of poems.

Glenn's new collection confronts the deaths of dear friends and family members, returns to her prairie childhood and youth, and engages hard, hard questions of mortality, and of existence in a

Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness.

A sequence of elegiac poems by the least recognized major poet in Canada, celebrating place all the way to glory.

Winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, a Globe 100 Book for 2012, shortlisted for Pat Lowther Memorial Award and CAA Award for Poetry 2013.

A sure-tongued linguistic menagerie.

In Memoirs of an Almost Expedition, Barbara Schott peels back the skin of language to reveal its musculature, its bone.

A love affair chronicled--from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith.

Winner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards Poems exploring the idea of home and the difficulties of a deeply ambiguous relationship t

Michael Kenyon's Rack of Lamb is a compelling study in voice.

This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F.

Provisional, roaming, obsessed with remnants and deferrals, the poems in Charmaine Cadeau’s second collection navigate flexible and shifting terrains where the speaker’s emotional directness tether

A man who might be Erik Satie floats, a la Magritte, above Paris rooftops, thinking of a newly-extinct species of songbirds, "contemplating grief in the absence of song." By turns tender,

In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor.