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$21.95
The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel
JHU Press |
February 18, 2014 |
64 pages
The poems in The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel navigate the evanescent boundaries between the public and the private self. Daniel Anderson’s settings are often social but never fail to turn inward, drowning out the chatter of conversation to quietly observe the truths that we... More Info
$12.95
The Albertine Workout
New Directions |
July 24, 2014 |
64 pages
Anne Carson's take on Albertine, Marcel Proust's famous love interest
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$14.95
Immigrant Songs
July 24, 2014 |
100 pages
Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Rosario D’Agostino. It includes poems, a story, a chapter of an unfinished novel, and letters. These fragments from a seminal Italo-Canadian writer whose life was cut too short are part of the literary history of the Canadian Immigrant.
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$18.95
The Seasons
Porcupines Quill |
May 1, 2014 |
128 pages
A collection of tender love poems, The Seasons offers readers a glimpse into the many moments of beauty and promise between a lover and his beloved.
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$17.50
Madman at Kilifi
July 24, 2014 |
60 pages
Clifton Gachagua’s collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the... More Info
$17.50
One Hundred Love Sonnets
January 15, 2014 |
240 pages
"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual poems draw on the wind and tides, the white... More Info
$18.95
The Prophet
Oneworld Publications Limited |
July 24, 1998 |
112 pages
Poet, philosopher, and artist Kahlil Gibran is known and loved around the world for his spiritual poetry and mystical art, combined here in a special gift edition of his most popular work. A tale inspired largely by nature, The Prophet conveys the yearning for a unity of being that can only be... More Info
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
Penguin Group USA |
May 27, 2014 |
80 pages
A breathtaking new collection from one of today’s boldest and most adventurous poets Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: what if a deer did porn? Is America going down on Canada? What happens when... More Info
$22.95
The Promise of Hope
July 24, 2014 |
297 pages
Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana’s most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited... More Info
$16.99
Rivering
April 1, 2014 |
80 pages
Opening doors, dreaming awake, tracing networks of music and meaning, Marlatt’s poetry stands out as an essential engagement with what matters to anyone writing with a social-environmental conscience. Rivering includes poems inspired by the village of Steveston where, before the war, a... More Info
$17.50
The World Will Follow Joy
April 1, 2014 |
208 pages
This collection of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple features verse that pays tribute to Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem and the Dalai Lama and also deals with anger, forgiveness and wisdom. 17,500 first printing.
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$16.95
Fierce Departures
Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
February 12, 2009 |
40 pages
These selections, drawn from work between 1990 and 2006, delineate with searing eloquence, how history marks and dislocates peoples of African Diaspora, how nations, concretely and conceptually, fail to create safe haven, and how nevertheless human desire persists.
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$16.95
Speaking of power
Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr |
July 24, 2014 |
56 pages
Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandtintroduces the reader to the lyric power and political urgency of the poetry of Di Brandt, providing an overview of her poetry written during a prolific and revolutionary twenty-year period. Beginning with her early poetic inquiries into the dynamics of... More Info
$16.95
The more easily kept illusions
Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr |
July 24, 2014 |
80 pages
Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and '70s poet. The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdyis a selection of thirty-five poems that includes... More Info
$19.95
Pigeon
House of Anansi |
July 24, 2014 |
100 pages
A second volume of poetic works by an award-winning writer from Toronto expands the repertoire of her earlier collection to consider topics that are not traditionally explored in poetry. By the author of Short Haul Engine. Original.
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$18.95
Everyone Is Co2
Wolsak & Wynn Pub Limited |
April 21, 2014 |
120 pages
David James Brock writes poem to entertain the contemporary pop-cultural intellectual. His subject matter is wide ranging, addressing the things that influence our private mythologies, from television to space exploration, from heavy metal to the epic of Gilgamesh. What distinguishes his work is... More Info
$14.95
The Essential Earle Birney
The Porcupine's Quill |
April 17, 2014 |
64 pages
Over the course of a career spanning five decades, Canadian poet, novelist and playwright Earle Birney produced some of Canada’s best-known poems. The Essential Earle Birney contains a selection of his pivotal works, including early break-out successes; nuanced, mid-career lyrics; avant-garde... More Info
$19.00
Nay Rather
February 15, 2014 |
40 pages
This cahier unites two texts by celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson, encouraging readers to experience them alongside and illuminating each other. 'Variations on the Right to Remain Silent' is an essay on the stakes involved when translation happens, ranging from Homer through Joan of Arc to Paul... More Info
$28.95
Morning in Serra Mattu
McSweeneys Books |
April 15, 2014 |
150 pages
A mosaic of interrelated stories exploding with personality, myth, and geohistorical weight, Morning in Serra Mattu is a profound, joyful meditation on life in modern Sudan. Arif Gamal seamlessly blends large-scale political realities with the local and the traditional: “old villages/whose... More Info
$19.95
Translations from Bark Beetle
July 24, 2014 |
96 pages
In this inspired new collection, acclaimed poet and translator Jody Gladding takes the physical, elemental world as her point of inquiry, examining how language arises from landscape, and deriving a lexicon for these poems from the rich offerings of the world around her. In some poems, Gladding... More Info
$18.00
The Stag Head Spoke
Wolsak & Wynn Pub Limited |
April 21, 2014 |
120 pages
Having taken over a decade to write, Erina Harris' first full-length work comprises two serial poems or "Books" within which individual poems stand on their own, and also refract amongst themselves, building, within each Book, its own careful language. Harris engages historic modes such as the... More Info
Dog Ear
Signal Editions |
May 1, 2014 |
78 pages
Like the “page turned down to make another / page,” Dog Ear explores the marks we leave on a world whose social, political and personal markers are constantly shifting. In his fourth book of poems—and most focused work to date—Jim Johnstone establishes himself as an exquisite observer of... More Info
$19.95
Sun Bear
March 28, 2014 |
112 pages
The fourth collection from the celebrated American poet and editor, Matthew Zapruder. Matthew Zapruder’s poems begin in the faint inkling, in the bloom of thought, and then unfold into wide-reaching meditations on what it means to live in the contemporary moment, among plastic, statistics, and... More Info
$19.95
Directing Herbert White
March 28, 2014 |
88 pages
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco I’m a nocturnal creature, And I’m here to cheat time. You can see time and exhaustion Taking pay from my face— In fifty years My sleep will be death, I’ll go like the rest, But I’ll have played All the games and... More Info
The Quiet
March 28, 2014 |
104 pages
Anne-Marie Turza’s poignant debut collection is a vibrant, imaginative meditation on quiet — in unseen cities, in secret spaces, in forgotten rooms, in our everyday life. In these delicately vibrant poems, The Quiet illuminates the private, hushed, underlying moments that discreetly pervade the... More Info
$19.00
The Digamma
January 1, 2014 |
64 pages
The Digamma is the latest book of poetry in prose by celebrated author Yves Bonnefoy, who is also the leading translator of Shakespeare in France. In this new collection, his fascination with the defining author of our language is amply reflected in ?God in Hamlet' and ?For a Staging of Othello',... More Info
$27.95
And Short the Season
W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
July 24, 2014 |
112 pages
From the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, a stunning collection of poems that course with the rhythms of nature."
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Abecedarium
February 1, 2014 |
124 pages
would you believe me when i make consorts of alphabet runaways & stayathomes i have rounded up where they wandered all over the page Dennis Cooley masterfully extends the genre of the abecedary to explore his curiosity of the limitlessness of human communication. With linguistic wit and... More Info
$23.00
Secession/Insecession
Bookthug |
April 15, 2014 |
200 pages
Secession / Insecession is a homage to the acts of reading, writing and translating poetry. In it, Chus Pato's Galician biopoetics of poet and nation, Secession - translated by Erín Moure - joins Moure's Canadian translational biopoetics, Insecession. To Pato, the poem is an insurrection against... More Info
$16.00
Satisfying Clicking Sound
Signal Editions |
May 1, 2014 |
64 pages
Satisfying Clicking Sound is a book that’s never afraid to make a show of itself. Jason Guriel gives us a quick-thinking colloquial style able to segue deftly from deadpan wit to deep emotion. Like the hard-to-master knuckleball he celebrates as being “less spun / than blown / out onto the air,... More Info
$19.95
Polari
April 8, 2014 |
88 pages
"Polari," from the Italian "polare" ("to talk") is a coded language, originating in the U.K. and dating as far back as the 16th century. Overheard in outdoor markets, the theatre, fairgrounds, and circuses, it was appropriated by gay men to provide them with cover as well as with a way to assert... More Info
$28.99
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
April 1, 2014 |
336 pages
In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.
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$18.95
Complicity
McClelland & Stewart Limited |
March 1, 2014 |
112 pages
Award-winning poet Adam Sol's fourth collection is a meditation on complicity. By turns intimate and lyrical, experimental and outlandish, the collection focuses on how we cannot escape the troubling structures that determine our lives. Sol addresses gender politics, the value of art, capitalism... More Info
$18.95
Old Hat
March 1, 2014 |
96 pages
Old Hat is the third book of poetry and first collection of occasional poems by the author of the 2007 Globe 100 book, Muybridge's Horse: Governor General and Trillium Awards nominee, Rob Winger. Driven by an attempt to understand how to reorder common experience, the book's transitional sections -... More Info
$15.95
She Draws the Rain
Thistledown PressLtd |
March 15, 2013 |
76 pages
As an environmental activist and avid gardener Chambers has finely tuned her sensitivities to the magic and drama of nature. Her poetry uses this energy to describe the relationships that people have to the environment, to themselves and to each other. She Draws the Rain contains poems of both... More Info
$12.95
SubUrban Legends
Freehand Books |
April 1, 2009 |
88 pages
Joan Crate’s much-anticipated third book of poetry is equal parts revision and reverie, offering a mid-life view of childhood influences and expectations that is stirring, startling, and wise. Deliciously invoking the iconic figure of Snow White, subUrban Legends considers what lies beyond youth... More Info
Last Temptation of Bond (The)
University of Alberta |
August 15, 2013 |
120 pages
Poet Kimmy Beach has succeeded where every Bond villain has failed: to kill 007.
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The Tree of Meaning
Counterpoint |
July 1, 2009 |
329 pages
“Poems, where I come from,” writes Robert Bringhurst, “are spoken to be written and written to be spoken.The Tree of Meaningis a book of critical prose composed in the same way.” Together, these thirteen lectures present a superbly grounded approach to the study of language, focusing on... More Info
Baghdad
Harvard University Press |
November 18, 2013 |
377 pages
Baghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's enduring metropolises. This unusual anthology offers original translations of 170 Arabic poems from Bedouin, Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Jewish poets--most for the first time in English--from Baghdad's founding... More Info
I Write These Words / J'cris Ces Mots
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series |
April 15, 2013 |
90 pages
I write these words / Jcris ces mots is a fascinating volume of poetry that examines the world of a woman born in Tunisia but living in Toronto, and womens universal struggle to find their place in the world. Poems explore the roles woman play in diverse societies and cultures and draw the reader... More Info
$18.95
Global Poetry Anthology 2013
Signal Editions |
November 15, 2013 |
88 pages
The Global Poetry Anthology is a one-of-a-kind collection of contemporary previously-unpublished poems gathered from all corners of the English speaking world. An international editorial board ensures the present volume's cosmopolitan palette, and the "blind" selection process guarantees that... More Info
$15.95
Wild Rice Dreams
September 15, 2013 |
80 pages
“Wild Rice Dreams” is a collection of Aboriginal poetry that delves into the human experience from an Anishinaabe perspective. The book captures sensible cultural and emotional challenges, and ultimately shares subtle insight and compassion. The poems explore how intricate relationships between... More Info
Again for the First Time
Wordspace Press |
July 24, 2014 |
88 pages
Originally published in 1984 to great acclaim, including being awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize, this stirring collection of poems pairs and often plays against the mythologies of the author’s mixed Greek and Mexican heritage. A strong work of feminism, the pieces blend... More Info
The Same As Yes
November 4, 2011 |
79 pages
The startling poems in this debut collection are both pretty and strange, clear and mysterious. All of the poems are conversations, of sorts: a dancer talks to the floorboards; a dressing gown talks to itself; an old man talks to the radio in his sleep; men and women talk, and talk without talking.... More Info
Fallout
Hagios Pr |
April 30, 2010 |
86 pages
Fallout embraces the darkness of the 20th century in poems that inhabit both the fear and wonder of that time. On the surface Fallout appears to be about the legacy of the nuclear age yet Ridley writes with a subversive humour that counters the fierceness of her subject.
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Blewointment Press |
March 1, 2011 |
95 pages
X, passing the Ancient Mariner on his new SeaDoo, like pirate flix with cheap FX, no kraken exploded from no Styx. Extras wandered the ship, eyes X-ed out like the dead in comix. All in all, our luck was mixed.
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Post-Apothecary
September 15, 2011 |
81 pages
In this collection of poems, the author explores the themes of sickness, healing, isolation, and regeneration. The work was inspired, in part, by a visit to an abandoned TB sanitarium in Saskatchewan, the author's home province. "'Place'sets tone and atmosphere, generates image, and carries its own... More Info
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Waverley Books Limited |
September 1, 2012 |
480 pages
Collects the poems and songs of the famed Scottish author.
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