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This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school system: the fragmentation of families and histories, with blows that resonate through the generat

Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.

The poems in Violet Energy Ingots contain a sense of dis-ease, rupture, things frayed, and grief—as love shimmers the edges.

Lisa Martin’s new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy an

A collection of poetry about aging, grief, and the eccentricities of the natural world -- a cockroach, an eggplant.

"In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child.

La mer, le chagrin, le ciel, les Touaregs, l’amour et les sirènes… le bleu est partout dans nos coeurs.

These poems are steeped in loss and lament as they concern the death of the poet’s family members, particularly her father and the premature death of two brothers two years apart.

"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm.

Traditional poetry continues to hold its place in contemporary literature, in part, because of the emergence of women whose writing is informed by tradition but whose subject matter crystalizes in

In their second poetry collection, Tawahum Bige explores belonging and voice of a Two-Spirit Dene youth.

With Here, award-winning poet Colin Browne offers a book of luminous encounters, contradictions, collisions, and meditations on art, nature, justice, historical memory, and territorial occupation.

In trademark lyric prose, accompanied by the images depicting the sights and sounds of nature, Warland's roving observations in and around Vancouver's Lost Lagoon offer insights into natu

Hastings–Sunrise is a love letter to a fleeting place and time. Bren Simmers's second collection captures her old East Vancouver neighbourhood in the midst of upheaval.

BC Book Prize, Poetry: Cecily Nicholson, From the Poplars (Winner). In the North Arm of British Columbia's Fraser River lies an uninhabited island.