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Nominated for the CAA Award for Poetry [Canadian Authors Association] A renowned poet lets language ride its own musically-malleable syntax into unfamiliar regions of consciousness.

Shortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award and the 2009 Heritage and History Book Award [Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador], nominated for LGBT Poetry (2008 Lambda Literary Awards) and

Poised and buoyant, musing among ironies; alive to the psychologies of weather, night noises, mowing the lawn and putting it off; knowing the many mindscapes of neighbourhood, detecting the places

John B. Lee's first collection of poetry.

Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it moves between reverence and irreverence, sincerity and irony as

Verve, energy, wit, piquance and pure linguistic excitement: Mia Anderson's poetry is a whole cookbook of poetic experiences.

Longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award Hooked is a stunning new collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson

A long poem dramatizing the clash in visions of the land which occurs when a white settler builds on a sacred Iroquois site.

Rediscovered Sheep takes its origin generations ago when an ancestor of John B. Lee began to raise Lincoln sheep in Ontario. John B.

J.A. Hamilton distinguished herself with Body Rain (1991) a tough, passionate lyrical book written out of a woman's anger and a woman’s love.

Readers of Colleen Thibaudeau's selected poems, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair, will feel at home in The Martha Landscapes, where domestic dearness and the exotic, like stra

A pinball wizard stars in this urban romance, set where the blues meet jazz in London, Ontario's historic York Hotel.

"In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet." Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and

Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented

Shortlisted for the 2001 ReLit Awards John Reibetanz is good on grief: "You, mother,/ dying, left what was hard first:/ bones weeping into/ / your veins like flutes, teeth/ vanished on some h