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Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins.

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass.

an orientation of thought in thinking how a / thought begins and then travels on to arrive / at another place connected and like-minded A work of art is never entirely present in itself but rather

The Colour of Clouds features poems that focus on the Greater Toronto area which includes a variety of towns, hamlets, cities and landscapes with a rich history and culture.

Radiant is a poetic exploration of one hopeful person's healing journey through cancer-from missed appointment, to mammogram, to diagnosis, to surgery, chemo, and radiation, through hysterecto

Tracks and ley-lines pull us, carry us / past Lindisfarne - or an imagined glimpse / drifting holy in the distance, / another reality running through it.

Text surrounds us. Text is everywhere, all the time, and the contemporary world is a codex to be deciphered and disassembled.

Afraid to be alone / we met by lamplight, trading stories: // Sin of Man was one, // Age of Science, another. More // prayers than answers.

Took all this time to actually in fact bite our own tail to learn that that hurts; I guess it was worth it. / Developed a taste for tails.

Falling Backwards Into Mirrorsis a book that merges poetry and memoir. At the same time, it is a collection grounded in the body, naked and spare, wounded and wonderful.

We Are Malala is an imagined dialogue between Nobel Peace winner Malala Yousafzai and the poet about historical, cultural and spiritual themes.

The poems in Any Waking Morning probe deeply into love, loss, and life's darker dilemmas.

The poems in this collection are sculpted like carnallite crystals and come together as elegiac meditations, drawing on history, and on mythology.

Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso.

War, Pestilence, Famine, Death. Was I deaf / to the headline roar of my unwieldy load?