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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.

A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney's writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now.

COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight.

Mothers of the 1950s were wasp-waisted, dutiful, serene, and tied to the kitchen with apron strings. Or so we thought.

These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time.

The poems in Black Suede Cave meditate on the space inside us, where darkness and imagination animate the unknowable.

Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around w

The poems in Courage Underground burrow beneath the skin to examine the relationship between consciousness and body.

Death and its many mysteries are explored in these autobiographical poems about the passing of the poet's beloved brother, the dementia that claimed her father, and the inevitable bodily changes th

A stunning collection of poems, these works explore moments of empathy in suffering, epiphany in ruin, and grace in surrender.