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As night falls on a soft summer evening, neighborhood children are drawn out of their houses by the sights and sounds of the world after dark.

In this bedtime poem, written by Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, an Inuit mother sings to her Kulu--or baby--about animals and other elements in their Arctic world and the gifts they bring to th

Tell: Poems for a girlhood is a collection based on the story of Reena Virk, who was murdered on November 14th, 1997, in a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia.

Après «Le poème est une maison de long séjour», «Le poème est une maison de bord de mer» constitue le second volet de la trilogie «Catalogues affectueux».

A collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us.

In Never Mind, Katherine Lawrence constructs a centuries-old immigrant tale that is fiercely feminist, surprisingly modern and darkly funny.

Burning in this Midnight Dream is the latest collection of poems by Louise Bernice Halfe.

This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school system: the fragmentation of families and histories, with blows that resonate through the generat

Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.

The poems in Violet Energy Ingots contain a sense of dis-ease, rupture, things frayed, and grief—as love shimmers the edges.

Lisa Martin’s new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy an

A collection of poetry about aging, grief, and the eccentricities of the natural world -- a cockroach, an eggplant.

Surrey Stories connect is a time-capsule: a snapshot of Surrey in the fall of 2016.

"In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child.

La mer, le chagrin, le ciel, les Touaregs, l’amour et les sirènes… le bleu est partout dans nos coeurs.