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Winner of the 2012 Governor General's Award for Poetry, a Globe 100 Book for 2012, shortlisted for Pat Lowther Memorial Award and CAA Award for Poetry 2013.

Hooked is a stunning new collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles, and Elizabeth

A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle.

A meditative and piercing collection that explores traumas both ordinary and out of the ordinary.

In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor.

Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions? What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us?

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Shortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award, the 2008 Lampman Scott Award and the 2008 ReLit Awards Imagining the lives of nineteenth-century women asylum patients, Nadine McInnis charts her descent

Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome.

A hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory.

Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her.

Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that it's hard to believe this is a first book.

Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwicky's experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landsc

Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner’s first poetry collection. Includes new material.

In Modern and Normal, Karen Solie takes her on-the-road fascination with being between places to a new level, exploring conceptual and perceptual states of in-betweenness - for example, between wha