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Exaltation in Cadmium Red splatters and brushes in poems, both as a toxic, poisonous, metallic mix, and a rich, vibrant, powerful oil colour.

Vlado Kreslin will be a revelation to North American readers. His poems seem at one and the same time postmodern and pre-modern.

By Available Light is an education on how lost time can be recovered through poetry, how the murky, clogged waters of the past can be clarified by words and made to flow again.

In his first collection of poetry, Max Layton takes the post apocalypse to new heights.

Poets find inspiration in all manner of human experience, from the comical to the sombre.

In tight, compact words that resemble an unravelling DNA code of life, poet Robert Flanagan contemplates mortality in his latest collection, Giant Sky of The Shepherds.

A bilingual English-Italian collection of poetry from one of Switzerland's widely published Italian-language poets and critics.

This collection presents a bilingual Italian-English selection of the poetry of Tiziano Broggiato, winner of the prestigious Premio Montale.

This bilingual collection of poetry is a selection of award-winning Franco-Ontarian poet Robert Dickson's various collections of poetry, including his Governor-General Award winning Humains pa

When Chava Rosenfarb arrived in Montreal in February 1950, she was already a published poet with one acclaimed volume, Di balade fun nekhtikn vald (The Ballad of Yesterday? Forest) to her credit.

Moon on Wild Grasses, with illustrations by the author, shows the unsuspected scope of a very concise, precise poetic form.

Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking.

From the vast expanse of the boreal forest, Vivian Demuth shows both an exquisite eye for detail and a profound concern for the larger environmental picture.

Francis Catalano's poetry speaks of space, place and people.

The Daring of Paradise reconfigures stories and images from both multiple religions and from fairy tales, cracking them open to release new light.