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Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but

Shortlisted for the 2005 Atlantic Poetry Prize, the 2005 Dartmouth Book Award and the 2005 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry Undone is a cornucopia of passionate poems arranged into thr

Shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award In J.A. Hamilton's poems blood is red, black hearts are black.

Carl Strassberger, the only son of a wealthy banker, is summoned from his home in France to search for his missing brother-in-law.

These astute, generous poems give us contemporary Beirut in all its ravaged and incongruent beauty.

Shortlisted for the 2000 Governor General's Award for Poetry From the outskirts of the fevered empire, and the embers that were its heart, Moritz sings us to our selves -- our failures, our c

The reputation of the Marquis of Falcon was such that Queen Victoria would bestow no further honour upon him until he married.

Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths is a book-length series of poems written from the perspective of a daughter who reads Chekhov obsessively while spending a spring and summer caring for her mother, who

Meditative, meticulously-crafted poems that nonetheless take seriously the idea that all poetry is a form of praise, and that "the habit of sadness just isn’t enough/ … / because it isn't

Shortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things.

Dorothy interrupts a chat with a young man on the London train to get some coffee. When she returns, the man is dead.

Shortlisted for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region) Brenda Leifso’s first volume of poetry is a stunning debut: haunting, disturbing but resol

Deals with the relationship that develops between two women as they fall in love, and the effect this has on their lives in a small rural English village.

On Easter Sunday, 1908, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell was summoned to treat a boy with osteomyelitis who had been operated on two weeks earlier.

Who says you can’t go home again? Sylvia can’t imagine why anyone would ever try. She had left rural Newfoundland as a scrawny, shy girl who was too smart for her own good.