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A much-anticipated debut collection from one of Canada's most promising emerging poets Pebble Swing earns its title from the image of stones skipping their way across a body of water, or, in the au

"Many cultures have had names for seers like Matt Rader. Contemporary Western culture has none.

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

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Intermission is an uncommon and refreshing excavation of popular culture, memory, and relationship.

Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, Melanie Dennis Unrau’s debut collection is an elegantly spare, thoughtful, and fiercely tenacious meditation on the trials and tribulations of modern motherhood

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 expect

Over the course of a lifetime, we all experience catch-of-breath moments that stir exquisite awareness of life’s transience.

A bilingual collection of renga poetry by two of Canada’s most celebrated poets in English and in French, each writing in his respective language in response to the other.

The blue skies of childhood exist in the warmest of our memories, but what chases us all through the rest of our lives are the storm clouds.

With poems that both calm and awaken, Mary Barnes brings her Ojibwe roots to the fore and elegantly coaxes out the seemingly quiet world we often take for granted in What Fox Knew.

Miraculous Sickness deals with society’s views and treatment of schizophrenia from ancient times to modern day.

A gibbous moon arrives in shadow and light. First at waxing then at waning, two moons in one cycle just shy of full.

In this brave first book, Lucy Haché transports the reader with intimate revelations on self-awareness and identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the sea, forest and