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Lorsque j'ai reçu le formulaire de déclaration de la victime, j'étais seule à la maison. Je suis montée m'asseoir à la fenêtre de ma chambre d'enfant. C'était l'été, le quartier était silencieux.

Il paraît qu'il y a des gens qui ont une tête de chalet une tête calme avec vue sur la forêt ou sur le lac [...] moi ma tête c'est une maison hantée une tête boule disco une tête qui a mangé trop d

Dans la cabine des toilettes j'examine mon propre corps mes poils frisés mes orteils croches avant même de mettre le pied à l'eau déjà je me noie Cheveux non conformes. Pensées non conformes.

Les sutures se veut une tentative de capter les dernières lueurs d'un monde au bord du gouffre.

In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees

Memories of farming in the 1940s conjure up images of horse-drawn farm machinery, grain stooks in fields, hay meadows, free-range chickens and cords of wood strategically placed for fuelling the ki

Of one of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry."

In Prime, Miranda Pearsons first collection of poetry, the narratives of female identity, the white wedding, and the enshrined position of the mother are interrogated, using the lyric as a form of

In this Ottawa writer's first volume of verse, there are trees, of course—catalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel, nameless species in whose bare branches the winter sols

Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, ide

Naturalist, ornithologist, avocational archaeologist and poet, Winnipeg’s Dr. Robert W. Nero has authored nine books dealing with his amazing spectrum of interests.

Actress Mae West once said "I’ve been things and seen places." Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast.

Like the shifting and often turbulent skies of our own emotional meteorology, Rhonda Batchelor's poems forecast the shifting patterns of a marriage from quiet moments of a graceful dawn to sto

Peter Jailall continues his search for the place called home in his third volume of poetry, exploring the "open, dangerous" landscape of a post-September 11th world.

Henry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer. He was an ecologist before the term was invented.