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A debut collection with a fresh approach

A moving, lyrical, and original collection from an award-winning poet

New poems from one of Canada’s best-known poets

Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of ci

A poetic journal looks at life in a war-torn country.

Poetry of ambivalence, humour, and doubt that belies a kind of optimism.

Hate to tell you, but you're going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off the wisdom while it's warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom.

This is a collection of 20th and 21st century poets, handpicked by JoAnn Becker and Diane Croft.

Poets and identical twins Daniel and David Simpson were born blind in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1952.

This richly illustrated Inuktitut book makes the story of Uumasuusivissuaq accessible to Inuit everywhere.

Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use

The poems in this book brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, these verses give voice to our deepest intuitions.

Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC.

Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, this is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty.

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations.