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"In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet." Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and

Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented

Shortlisted for the 2001 ReLit Awards John Reibetanz is good on grief: "You, mother,/ dying, left what was hard first:/ bones weeping into/ / your veins like flutes, teeth/ vanished on some h

Notable Book in the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards Catherine Greenwood draws on the stories and legends which surround the development of cultured pearls by Mikimoto,

Jane Munro's poems are explorations of the mysteries of inner experience. What are the truths of emotion? What can the body know?

Ed Dyck finds that you cannot say "piss" on the radio in Saskatoon. There wasn't very much radio promotion of his book. That's a shame.

From Microphones there will be no returning to the standard detective story.

Introduction to the Introduction to the Introduction by Andre Alexis For me, reading the Introduction was like being caught in a spring shower while waiting for the 41, and running into a library

In his fifth book of poetry, Douglas Burnet Smith tunes his eye and ear closely to the world, conscious of those points where the everyday blossoms into fierce magic.

Reading Julie Berry's poetry means entering a new poetic space, crossing thresholds of pain and delight at once raw and refined.

In these passionate poems, this long poem, there is a story (there are stories) which a reader mines out of a landscape of language moulded under great pressure and eloquent of the stresses that fo

Atmospherically light and stylistically expansive – poems that regard our givens as a gift.

Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets.

Ink Monkey is Diana Hartog's first book of poetry in more than thirteen years and her patience is the reader's reward.

Winner of the 2004 Archibald Lampman Award (National Capital Region -- Ottawa) and shortlisted for the 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2004 ReLit Awards In The Vicinity David O'M