This evocative new poetry collection speaks with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poet's life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the strug
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Author:Bouvier, Rita
Summary:Genre: Canadian poetry, Indigenous materials
Author:Morford, Mark
Summary:Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, International Tenth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available- and the first full
Genre: Myths and folk talesAvailable Formats:
- Publisher: Crane Library,
Author:Girard, Mario
,Ouriou, Susan
Summary:A hilarious fairytale for adults facing a complicated world.
Genre: Myths and folk tales, Humorous fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Ding, Jing Jing
,Daboud, Nelson
Summary:A story of three Buddhist monks based on a traditional Chinese folk tale about cooperation.
Genre: Myths and folk tales, Juvenile fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Bowering, Marilyn
Summary:In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Friesen, Victor Carl
Summary:Memories of farming in the 1940s conjure up images of horse-drawn farm machinery, grain stooks in fields, hay meadows, free-range chickens and cords of wood strategically placed for fuelling the ki
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Frutkin, Mark
Summary:Of one of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry."
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Pearson, Miranda
Summary:In Prime, Miranda Pearsons first collection of poetry, the narratives of female identity, the white wedding, and the enshrined position of the mother are interrogated, using the lyric as a form of
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Folkart, Barbara
Summary:In this Ottawa writer's first volume of verse, there are trees, of course—catalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel, nameless species in whose bare branches the winter sols
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Cooper, Afua
Summary:Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, ide
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Nero, Robert W.
Summary:Naturalist, ornithologist, avocational archaeologist and poet, Winnipeg’s Dr. Robert W. Nero has authored nine books dealing with his amazing spectrum of interests.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Smith, Douglas Burnet
Summary:Actress Mae West once said "I’ve been things and seen places." Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast.
Genre: Canadian poetry, Travel writingAvailable Formats:
Author:Batchelor, Rhonda
Summary:Like the shifting and often turbulent skies of our own emotional meteorology, Rhonda Batchelor's poems forecast the shifting patterns of a marriage from quiet moments of a graceful dawn to sto
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Jailall, Peter
Summary:Peter Jailall continues his search for the place called home in his third volume of poetry, exploring the "open, dangerous" landscape of a post-September 11th world.
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Friesen, Victor Carl
Summary:Henry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer. He was an ecologist before the term was invented.
Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian poetryAvailable Formats: