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In Exploding into Night, Sandy Pool delves into the heart of a grisly murder that took place in the Parkdale area of Toronto.

The poetry in Marimba Forever is concerned with love and longing, which the author displays in all their multifarious guises.

This selection of poems offers the reader a good introduction to a poet of oxymorons, the poet who brings light out of the darkness.

Born in Amqui, Quebec, in 1938, Madeleine Gagnon has published over forty books of poetry and prose in Quebec and France.

Lane is a pluralist in outlook and technique whose work, over the years, has explored civic space, domestic space, wilderness space, and interiorized psychic spaces.

Exhale, Exhale explores the many facets of love, including nostalgia, separation, and newly-found happiness.

Bodies float in rapture, and in death, transported by waves of pleasure, or lapped by failure, fallen, having flown too close to the sun.

The thirty-three authors whose poems appear in this collection are: Jonathan Bennett, Rosemary Blake, Allan Briesmaster, Robin Blackburn, Clara Blackwood, James Clarke, Ron Charach, Margaret Christ

In Footsteps on the Ceiling, Baila Ellenbogen explores the overlapping planes of existence her experience and intellectual curiosity have led her to inhabit, reliving childhood memories while

Michael Mirolla's poetic world is one where a mirror, or any simple reflective item is tilted ever so slightly, providing an opening to places we never imagined existed.

My Father's Hands Spoke in Yiddish' is a powerful collection. Karen Shenfeld's poems are filled with passionate sensuality, triggered by dazzling memories of people and places.

The Cure Is a Forest probes the various processes of growth and transformation among all living things in deep ecology.

In her first collection of poems, Suzanne Robertson meditates on the nature of intimacy; the connective tissue that binds stranger to stranger, human to animal, soul to landscape, heart to mind.

The poems in Bending the Continuum are slave to no genre. Science-fiction, alternative realities, and time are fluid.

Filtered through insomnia and distress signals, Amphetamine Heart pumps out an atonal pulse over flashes of lowered inhibitions.