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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

Marlene Cookshaw, in her first collection of poetry in more than a decade, invites her readers to partake in a long-anticipated harvest that comes in many forms.

A pitch-perfect debutand a call to act in the service of Earth through radiant attention.

Deluxe redesign of a seminal book by Canada’s former Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Includes new material.

A collection of humorous and short two-spirit plays about the desires, identity and community of homosexual Indigenous people.

An unhappy orphan who finds solace in paper cut-outs of her parents, an Indian doctor who displays his medical degree in his taxi cab, and waiters who tamper with fortune cookie are some of the vib