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Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award Sue Sinclair's poems speak from that precise place where our perception of the world and our capacity for language meet and embrace, where our s

Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award) In Cartography and Walking, Adam Dickinson charts his own listening -- an acute listening of eye a

Jaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship, with textual notes and bibliography.

Whether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of Auguries, the much-anticipated second collection from Yukon poet Clea Roberts, are satura

Edited by Mark Abley; Preface by Hilary Clark; Afterword by Mark Abley This posthumous collection will be a delightful surprise for readers who thought they had heard the last of Anne Szumigalski&

The world in Carolyn Marie Souaid’s latest collection is both an act of the imagination and a responsibility.

A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with a person who has frontotemporal dementia.

Nominated for the CAA Award for Poetry [Canadian Authors Association] A renowned poet lets language ride its own musically-malleable syntax into unfamiliar regions of consciousness.

Shortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award and the 2009 Heritage and History Book Award [Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador], nominated for LGBT Poetry (2008 Lambda Literary Awards) and

Poised and buoyant, musing among ironies; alive to the psychologies of weather, night noises, mowing the lawn and putting it off; knowing the many mindscapes of neighbourhood, detecting the places

John B. Lee's first collection of poetry.

Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it moves between reverence and irreverence, sincerity and irony as

Verve, energy, wit, piquance and pure linguistic excitement: Mia Anderson's poetry is a whole cookbook of poetic experiences.

Longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award Hooked is a stunning new collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson

A long poem dramatizing the clash in visions of the land which occurs when a white settler builds on a sacred Iroquois site.