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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?

Adele Wiseman, lifelong writing friend of Margaret Laurence, is best know for her novels, The Sacrifice, winner of the Governor-General's Award in 1956, and Crackpot, Winner of the Canadian Bo

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada's most exciting and challenging poets.

Is the self inside the body / or is it the body / or can it leave?

In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things.

Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking new volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished.

There is beauty in the teacup like dresses requiring crinoline or beaded purses too small to carry anything but anger -- from "Inheritance" Marita Dachsel's third poetry collection explores parenth