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These "subversive sonnets" overhaul the traditional sonnet form to address a range of subjects, from the tenderness of love to the terror of rape, punishment, torture, and murder.

Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes is a poetry collection of great sensitivity. Above all it is a cry from the heart, as if empathy and poetry were dazzled by the eruption of a volcano.

In this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginal writer from Quebec again confronts the loss of her landscape and language.

de book of Mary is an epic poem in Jamaican Creole based on the Biblical story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus.

A neo-Nazi skinhead is charged with murder, and Legal Aid has assigned him a Jewish lawyer.

Su-Ling, an open minded and intelligent young woman in Shanghai, has her feet bound by her grandmother, Poa-Poa.

These are poems about what it means to be from the north ; a town divided along colour lines ; and a family dealing with its history of secrets.

Mother Tongue is a unique and innovative play that weaves together Cantonese, English, and sign language.

Life is tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in receivership, and there’s a move on to unilaterally declare self-government.

An ode to Winnipeg's north end, where Ms. Vermette grew up. It's also the neighbourhood where her Métis brother went missing.

Evolving from a routine of long walks he began to help him quit smoking, Winnipeg singer, songwriter and musician Scott Nolan's debut poetry collection Moon Was a Feather reflects on a life we

Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint.

Immigrant Blues, an extension and deepening of the famous poems of the siege of Sarajevo translated in Simic's Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford, 1997), explores the personal and the public

Grounded in the experience of presence in which the external and internal meet, a crossroads of consciousness where “a language without a name / remembers us” and the poem is a votive act, All the

The poems in this book arise from Robinson's Crossing - the place where the railway ends and European settlers arriving in northern Alberta had to cross the Pembina River and advance by wagon or on