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A love affair chronicled--from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith.

Winner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards Poems exploring the idea of home and the difficulties of a deeply ambiguous relationship t

Michael Kenyon's Rack of Lamb is a compelling study in voice.

This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F.

Provisional, roaming, obsessed with remnants and deferrals, the poems in Charmaine Cadeau’s second collection navigate flexible and shifting terrains where the speaker’s emotional directness tether

Norway, 1870. Young Scottish painter Beth Stewart sets foot on her mother's native land, and into a maelstrom of suspense, intrigue, blackmail and death.

A man who might be Erik Satie floats, a la Magritte, above Paris rooftops, thinking of a newly-extinct species of songbirds, "contemplating grief in the absence of song." By turns tender,

In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor.

Tuning a fine ear to Lawrence’s letters from 1906 until his death in 1930, Barry Dempster’s poems uncover the man within the myth and give voice to Lawrence’s passionate mortality.

Francis Urquhart, ruthlessly expedient politician and newly appointed Prime Minister, engages in a battle of wills with the new King. Sequel to `House of cards'.

Winner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the south-western Ontario farm of John B.

Living in his remote Scottish eyrie Alexander Kinloch is used to seeing hikers. But unlike his usual visitors, they are not asking for a cup of tea or directions.

In her third collection of poems, Sue Wheeler writes of the ephemeral with an eye trained on the eternal questions.

Dead Man's Float details that sad emblem of Western alienation, the tourist couple in their rented tropical Eden. Here life is temporary and not at all cheap.

A sequence of fifty dated poems, four quatrains each; lyrical arguments; quick thinking amid the rational absurdity of everyday machinery; intuitive explorations of unknown energies; a diary of the