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Monument is a conversation with Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal, which moves her legacy beyond the Taj Mahal. Monument upturns notions of love, monumentalisation, and empire by exploring buried facets of Mumtaz Mahal's story. The collection layers linear time and geographical space to chart the continuing presence of historical legacies. It considers what alternate futures could have been possible. Who are we when we continue to make the same mistakes? Beyond distance, time, and boundaries, what do we still carry?

Governor General's Award-winning poet Don Domanski's posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, moving lyric whole.

Dans ce recueil, l'écologie que l'auteur partage avec nous est à la fois celle de l'intérieur de l'être et celle du monde extérieur. Dans cette rencontre de la physique et de la philosophie sont décortiqués avec soin le processus de la nature, tout comme les objets anodins qui entourent le poète, leurs transformations et leurs déplacements. Ce livre est le troisième de la collection Nouvelle Rouge dirigée par J.R. Léveillé. Cette collection a pour but de révéler les jeunes talents émergents de l'Ouest et du Nord canadiens.

Robert Currie's Shimmers of Light: New and Selected Poems uses the vernacular of ordinary working people to tell stories and sing songs of small-town prairie life. Like Alden Nowlan, or more recently, Billy Collins, this poet constructs poems from the unvarnished wood of common language--there's no veneer, no glossing over here.

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today.

Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world--subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multilingual airplane safety instructions, one of Italo Calvino's invisible cities--the poems in Hugh Thomas's Maze playfully (mis)translate the maze of languages and language into moments of amazement.

The poems in Port of Being hold modern technology--surveillance, shipping, the Internet--to examine communication, migration, and identity. Preoccupied with the city, virtuality, reflexivity, and the ways we watch ourselves, Shazia Hafiz Ramji's debut collection hums with wonder as it probes the human and non-human actors in our mouths and bodies, above and underneath the water, in the satellites and fibre optic cables that surround us all.

Poems about being stranded in a truth that shows no mercy, speaking from the last place you'd ever choose to go.

de book of Mary is an epic poem in Jamaican Creole based on the Biblical story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus. The first book of a trilogy, Pamela Mordecai's de book of Mary covers Mary's life from her early years, through the arrival of the Archangel Gabriel and the birth of Yeshua, to her death. A Chorus of male and female voices provides an accompanying commentary.

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. Mordecai has an unfailing ear for voices, for the music that sings and laughs and laments the stories of family, clan, and tribe. This is Pamela Mordecai's fifth collection of poetry.