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A Tantrum of Synonyms (Book)

Heather Cadsby

ISBN:9780919897571

A Tantrum of Synonyms is Cadsby's third book of poetry. "Cadsby's voice is intensely personal, sharp and revelatory as she explores how we create meaning...more details
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A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway (Book)

Jeanette Lynes

ISBN:9780919897687

A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway is Jeanette Lynes' delightful first book of poetry....more details
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Big Breath of a Wish (Book)

Richard Harrison

ISBN:9780919897625

Richard Harrison's fourth book of poetry delves deeply into the linguistic discoveries children make in their first two years of life.This is a fasciniating read. With Big Breath of a Wish...more details
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Breath Takes (Book)

Douglas Barbour

ISBN:9780919897786

"Breath Takes is CPR for the poetry lover." Susan Holbrook...more details
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Burning House (Book)

Richard Lemm

ISBN:9781894987400

In a portrait-gallery of poems, Richard Lemm considers everything from the history of war in the United States to an undertakers' convention in Charlottetown...more details
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Cantos from a Small Room (Book)

Robert Hilles

ISBN:9780919897373

In his seventh book of poetry, Hillies describes his feelings of affection and admiration for his mother-in-law, and the sense of loss the family experienced upon her death of cancer in her middle years. An astounding collection of poems...more details
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Cape Enrage: Poems on a Raised Beach (Book)

Douglas Lochhead

ISBN:9780919897779

Cape Enrage is a brilliant collection from a long-respected figure in the Canadian literary landscape. Focussed on the Cape itself, the poetry is full of meditations both personal and natural....more details
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Chinese Execution (Book)

Polly Fleck

ISBN:9780919897342

In The Chinese Execution, Polly Fleck uses the framework of a dream-like diplomatic reception to suggest, on the one hand, violent events thought to be occuring off-stage...more details
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Connect the Dots (Book)

Nicole Markotic

ISBN:9780919897410

Connect the Dots is Marcotic's first full-length book of poetry, full of surprising notes of linguistic reference....more details
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Cowboys and Bleeding Hearts: Essays on Violence, Health and Identity (Book)

Ron Charach

ISBN:9781894987356

A collection of essays and letters on political and ethical topics. From gun control to Jewish identity, Charach investigates the place of these issues in our lives....more details
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Drive (Book)

Chris Pannell

ISBN:9781894987332

In sure and tender poetry Chris Pannell looks into the rearview mirror of his bus - and his life - to celebrate the humanity of his passengers, and himself....more details
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Dust from Our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa (Book)

Joan Baxter

ISBN:9781894987301

Part memoir, part adventure tale, part policial thriller - a compelling read that dissolves stereotypes and exposes paradoxes about Africa....more details
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Feria: A Poempark (Book)

Oana Avasilichioaei

ISBN:9781894987295

A poetic frolic in Vancouver's Hastings Park eluding boundaries of landscape, time and narrative...more details
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Figuring Ground (Book)

Robert Moore

ISBN:9781894987325

An eclectic selection of poetry, rich with imagery, ranging from recreating the past to imagining the inner life of cows. Darkly funny and suprisingly philosophical...more details
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Finding the Lights on (Book)

Robert Hilles

ISBN:9780919897274

A book full of compassion and love, without a shred of sentimentality. Hillies' earlier books of poetry include Look the Lovely Animal Speaks...more details
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Four Red Cresent Moons (Book)

Julie McNeill

ISBN:9780919897601

McNeill's identification with the oral tradition of poetry is revealed in the strong lyrical voice of her work. This is her much-anticipated first book....more details
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Four Ways of Dealing with Bullies: Poems (Book)

Richard Lemm

ISBN:9780919897755

"Richard Lemm's poetry arcs from the deeply interior - mapping the core of masculinity from childhood crimes and losses and shames - through a vital engagement with the world...more details
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From an Argument I've Taken with Me (Book)

Jim Roberts

ISBN:9780919897694

From an argument I've taken with me is about travel - both about the poet's actual travels to the other side of the globe, and about travelling as a way of being in the world. Roberts journeys to Tibet and Nepal...more details
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Geometry of the Old (Book)

Stan Rogal;Stanley Wm Rogal

ISBN:9780919897632

Rogal's fourth book of poetry, Geometry of the Odd is a delightfully irreverent book of poems about life in the big city. Nothing the writer touches is sacred...more details
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Hallucinations in the Alfalfa and Other Poems (Book in Spanish)

Griselda Garcia

ISBN:9781894987431

SPANISH LANGUAGE. The poetry of Griselda GarcA-a is a hallucinatory journey through a landscape haunted by startling images of sensuality and desolation, humour and conflict...more details
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How to Read Faces (Book)

Heather Spears

ISBN:9780919897069

How to Read Faces won The Canadian League of Poets' Pat Lowther Award for 1998....more details
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Human Acts (Book)

Heather Spears

ISBN:9780919897243

Spears travels widely and reports on her findings in disturbing and powerful drawings and poems. She makes us see and hear what needs to be seen and heard...more details
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I Can Still Draw (Book)

Heather Spears

ISBN:9781894987271

Spears illuminates the small and large tragedies in life, drawing the reader close to her subjects with surprising tenderness....more details
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Icon Driven (Book)

Eric Folsom

ISBN:9780919897724

In Icon Driven, his third book of poetry, Eric Folsom takes on "art, rebellion and the importance of looking good for the camera," meditating on both iconic figures and the position of the "flesh-and-blood artist" in such an icon-driven culture...more details
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Land Without Chocolate: A Memoir (Book)

Faizal Deen

ISBN:9780919897670

Land without Chocolate is Faizal Deen's startling first book of poetry. This book is a potpourri of delight, bursting with resonances of Peter Pan...more details
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Minotaurs & Other Alphabets (Book)

Nicole Markotic

ISBN:9780919897595

The poems in minotaurs & other alphabets range from the prose poetry we were introduced to in her previous book, Connect the Dots, to a less referential exploration of female desire and mythological beasts....more details
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Next to Nothing (Book)

Christina McRae

ISBN:9781894987387

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Nothing Vanishes (Book)

Robert Hilles

ISBN:9780919897526

Nothing Vanishes convinces his audience that Hillies' talents are still multiplying. If you only read one book of poems this month, let this be the one....more details
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Now Is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey (Book)

Jamie Dopp

ISBN:9781894987349

From its myth of the frozen northern pond, to its establishment as a new sport in New Zealand, Now is the Winter examines all aspects of hockey...more details
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Poems Selected and New (Book)

Heather Spears

ISBN:9780919897618

Poems Selected and New contains a sample from her eight earlier poetry books, as well as a generous number of new poems....more details
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Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000 (Book)

Heather Spears

ISBN:9780919897700

In 1999 and 2000, two Victoria teenagers were convicted of the murder of their schoolfellow, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk. Of the more than 500 drawings she prepared as courtroom artist for the trials...more details
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Reticent Bodies (Book)

Moez Surani

ISBN:9781894987370

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Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea (Book)

Lesley Choyce

ISBN:9781894987394

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Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love (Book)

Sarah Klassen

ISBN:9780919897656

Winnipeg author Sarah Klassen's fifth book of poetry, Simone Wiel: Songs of Hunger and Love, is a poetic treatment of the intriguing and disturbing story of the renowned French thinker and activist Simone Wiel...more details
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Sister Prometheus: Discovering Marie Curie (Book)

Douglas Burnet Smith

ISBN:9781894987288

This book imagines the inner life of a scientific genius, mother, wife and lover in both verse and prose poems; an immersion in Marie Curie's life....more details
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Some Bones and Story (Book)

Alice Major

ISBN:9780919897748

Some bones and a story is Alice Major's sixth book of poetry, in which she looks at the lives of some of her favourite female saints. The poet's point of view is decidedly contemporary while at the same time she manages to give these poems a medieval flavour through her use of language and imagery....more details
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Sweet Betsy from Pike (Book)

Stan Rogal;Stanley Wm Rogal

ISBN:9780919897281

Sweet Betsy from Pike is Stan Rogal's first book of poetry. "It's as though Stan Rogal had snuck up on a whole regiment of stock cultural myths and assumption...more details
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The Killed (Book)

Douglas Smith

ISBN:9780919897717

A young female translator who has endured the siege of Sarajevo is only now capable of revisiting the trauma of having witnessed the destruction of the city...more details
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The Knife-Thrower's Partner (Book)

Douglas Burnet Smith

ISBN:9780919897151

The Knife-Thrower's Partner is Douglas Burnet Smith's sixth book of poetry. The poems tell a compelling story, bound to grip the reader....more details
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The New Blue Distance (Book)

Jeanette Lynes

ISBN:9781894987318

In this collection Jeanette Lynes distills Canada into poetry; curling, spring in Saskatoon and grape vines in Antigonish bind the country into the book....more details
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The Parable Boat (Book)

Hannah J Main-Van Der Kamp;Hannah Main Kamp

ISBN:9780919897663

The Parable Boat is Hannah Main-van der Kamp's second book of poetry. Her first book, The Gift of Ruin, came out in 1995....more details
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The Photographer of Wolves (Book)

John O'Neill

ISBN:9780919897557

Not surprisingly, the title piece from The Photographer of Wolves won second prize in the Prairie Fire Long Poem contest. This is John O'Neill's third book of poetry....more details
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The Poet's Journal (Book)

Noelle Allen

ISBN:9781894987035

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The Strength of Materials: Poems (Book)

Rhea Tregebov

ISBN:9780919897762

The elegies in The Strength of Materials both praise and commemorate the material world in all its beauty and fleetingness; they speak of loss and recovery...more details
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The Well: New and Selected Poems (Book)

Kenneth Sherman

ISBN:9780919897731

The Well is Sherman's ninth book of poetry, bringing together a range of new work with the very best of previous colletions....more details
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The Word for Sand (Book)

Heather Spears

ISBN:9780919897106

The Word for Sand by Heather Spears takes up where her previous book, The Lowther Award-winning How to Read Faces, left off. The poems are informed by the author's long sojourns in both Canada and Europe...more details
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Turning the Corner at Dusk (Book)

Jacquie Buncel

ISBN:9781894987363

Turning the Corner at Dusk is a searing collection of poetry. Starting in Presov, Slovakia, we join Jacquie Buncel as she accompanies her father back to his boyhood home. With poems as clear as snapshots...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:100

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What King of Love Did You Have in Mind? (Book)

Eric Folsom

ISBN:9780919897533

"Using images and language from everyday experience, Folsom maps out the territory between one heart and another. The results are poems that teeter on the brink - simultaneously wanting to hang on no matter what...more details
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Wishbone Dance: Collected Medical Poems (Book)

Glen Downie

ISBN:9780919897649

"Downie's poetry carries us to the precipace where the heart of human illness and suffering is in full view. ... These are courageous poems, full of tough hope." - Jack Coulehan...more details
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You Know Who You Are (Book)

Ian Williams

ISBN:9781894987417

Ian Williams writes challenging poetry. His poems address the crisis of young, black masculinity in cities, paint starkly urban portraits of live and break open stereotypes. Sly humour laces through this collection...more details
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