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Evolving from a routine of long walks he began to help him quit smoking, Winnipeg singer, songwriter and musician Scott Nolan's debut poetry collection Moon Was a Feather reflects on a life we

Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint.

Immigrant Blues, an extension and deepening of the famous poems of the siege of Sarajevo translated in Simic's Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford, 1997), explores the personal and the public

Grounded in the experience of presence in which the external and internal meet, a crossroads of consciousness where “a language without a name / remembers us” and the poem is a votive act, All the

The poems in this book arise from Robinson's Crossing - the place where the railway ends and European settlers arriving in northern Alberta had to cross the Pembina River and advance by wagon or on

A linguistically inventive exaltation, a wild ride down into the privacies, the here-and-goneness of girlhood.

Through public judgments, detouring dreams and unspoken prayers, Tell Them It Was Mozart, Angeline Schellenberg?s debut collection, traces both a slow bonding and the emergence of a defiant humour.

Nominated for Gay Poetry (2009 Lambda Literary Awards). A journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body.

In Hard Light Michael Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago.

Poems about being stranded in a truth that shows no mercy, speaking from the last place you'd ever choose to go.

Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.

Poems that stride bravely into the day-to-day, recovering the misdirected intensity at its core.

Winner of the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Winner of the 2012 Atlantic Poetry Prize. Sue Goyette's outskirts is a tour de force.

How to Avoid Huge Ships, Julie Bruck's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of arguments and spells against the ambushes of time.

Foreign Homes, Joan Crate's second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece, made into home