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Winner of the 1995 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry Bert Almon's poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that the

Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry A fascinating, ambling, loitering mystery story in verse, a whoizzit rather than a whodunit.

Jenny and Laura Nightingale are as different as chalk and cheese.

orient is the third collection from one of Western Canada's most accomplished poets.

Longlisted for the 2004 ReLit Awards Slovenly Love is Meira Cook's third book of poetry.

House Dreams, Deanna Young's haunted and haunting third collection, is at once a core sample of the life we all live underground, and a view beneath the foundations of the various eras and pla

Sheriff Whelchan finds two men hanging in the tall tree and sets about unravelling the mystery.

From a master poet, meditative lines running like veins through the dark grace of being alive.

Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.

Winner of the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers' Federation).

Jane Graham, unmarried mother, tells of trying to bring up her son, David, as normally as possible, but with the tension created for her by knowing that his father may try to claim him.

From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar.

Much of this poised and luminous book is rooted in an idea of epiphany, an aesthetic of everyday incarnation; not the sudden and profound manifestation of essence or meaning, but the smaller steps

Poems about the unexpected and often wry coincidences language lends to life.

Reading John Reibetanz, one is struck with the way language, closely attended to, kept oiled and sharp, can give experience back its bite.