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The writer of the letter in Kenneth Radu's title poem is reaching across an enormous silence: from a microchipped contemporary Canadian setting to the rest home on the Black Sea where his fath

Few artists (one thinks of Rilke and Hopkins) have presumed to evoke the spirit of embodied Nature. A. F.

Annie Sancerre's French husband was killed in the First World War, before their son Davie was born.

John Donlan’s lyric work seeks the connection between lives—not just the life of a coyote and the life of a man, or the peaceful cacophony of a pond in summer and the life of the human listener—but

What would happen if someone invented a device that rendered guns and bombs virtually harmless? What would be the effect on crime, on terrorism, on international relations?

Poems of great passion and tenderness, as close to rapture as a writer can get and still hold on. E. Alex Pierce's voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth.

Steven Price’s second collection is part of a long-lived struggle to address the mysteries that both surround and inhabit us.

The story of Louis Braille, born in France in 1809, and his struggle amid harsh conditions to perfect a code of raised dots punched through sheets of paper, to fashion an alphabet that opened the w

In Nora Gould’s one-of-a-kind debut, the Prairie itself is a central character: muse, mythic persona, the place of deepest solace and of deepest questioning.

Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003 In Margaret Avison's new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger on

A sequence exploring the bittersweet corners of motherhood.

Young French widow, Claudette Arneau, arrives at a million acre cattle station in the Kimberley. Can she survive?

This is Michael Kenyon’s third full-length collection of poems.

In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and ref

Diana Fitzgerald Bryden's second book of poetry, Clinic Day, (choreo)graphs the experiences and thoughts and feelings of three characters (The Secretary, The Surgeon, and a wanderer named -- n