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Series: The Politics of Knives Paperback Jonathan Ball 9781552452622 $17.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2012

Winner of the 2013 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry (Manitoba Book Awards) If David Lynch crashed into Franz Kafka in a dark alley, the result might look like The Politics of Knives. Moving from shattered surrealism to disembowelled films, these poems land us in a limbo between the intellectual and the visceral, between speaking and screaming. Finding the language of violence and the violence in language, Jonathan Ball becomes the Stephen King of verse.
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Series: A Pretty Sight Paperback David O’Meara 9781552452813 $17.95 POETRY Sep 20, 2013

Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices of the past and present into a stitched song lifted and sounded toward the next century. Haunted by ‘time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of the canvas,’ O’Meara's new book explores aspects of culture, art, war, rebellion and technology, offering defiance amid decay. ‘O’Meara is a poet of the personal. Of the person. In and amongst the social documentary and human observation at which he excels, here is a writer prepared to put feelings on the line an... + Read More
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Series: White Piano Paperback Nicole Brossard 9781552452738 $17.95 POETRY Feb 27, 2013

language I'll say yes from the top of my rib cage language will you come out and unearth the salt the certitude Between the verbs quivering and streaming, White Piano unfolds its variations like musical scores. A play of resonance between pronouns and persons, freely percussive between prose and poetry, and narrating a constellation of questions, White Piano offers readers a 'language that cultivates its own craters of fire and savoir-vie.' 'At once achingly aware of mortality and hell-bound in its determination to press forward, change, and gr... + Read More
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Series: Cutting Room Paperback Sarah Pinder 9781552452646 $17.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2012

Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and 'natural' spaces as landscapes charged with possible violence and desire. Using hyper-focus and the long gaze, they draw the eye to the corners and seams of these spaces, slowing us down, shifting our focus to worn detail, asking us to seek pattern and possibility in a hyper-paced present tense. Theseare little ominous films, documenting the minutiae around us that can be our undoing.
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Series: Multitudes Paperback Margaret Christakos 9781552452790 $17.95 POETRY Sep 20, 2013

Poet Margaret Christakos, throughout her eight previous poetry collections, has created ruptures and splices inside of and against the limits of the confessional lyric, often using recombinatory procedures, cyclical and serial structure, and enmeshing intimate vernacular with highly aestheticized language in writing that explores maternality, sexuality and intimate address. In her new collection, Multitudes –Â?Â? where cellphone tweets snipe 'y wd I nd/ 2 spk 2 u?' alongside echoes of aria, chant and dirge –Â?Â? Christakos freshly pairs Whitman... + Read More
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Series: book of variations love - zygal - art facts Paperback bp Nichol 9781552452721 $23.95 POETRY Mar 21, 2013

The range of bpNichol's output is unparalleled, the reach of his curiosity, wit and inventiveness, immeasurable. Concrete poetry, novels, comics, sound poetry and even a television show, Fraggle Rock – it's his eclecticism and love of 'borderblur' that make bp so unique. The perfect counterpoint to his acclaimed nine-volume long poem, The Martyrology, the three long-lost classics contained in a book of variations showcase Nichol's diverse, sprawling imagination. Placing love: a book of remembrances, zygal: a book of mysteries and translations ... + Read More
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Series: Divide and Rule Paperback Walid Bitar 9781552452547 $17.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2012

In Divide and Rule, Walid Bitar delivers a sequence of dramatic monologues, variations on the theme of power, each in rhymed quatrains. Though the pieces grow out of Bitar’s personal experiences over the last decade, both in North America and the Middle East, he is not primarily a confessional writer. His work might be called cubist, the perspectives constantly shifting, point followed by counterpoint, subtle phrase by savage outburst. Bitar’s enigmatic speakers are partially rational creatures, have some need to explain, and may succeed in par... + Read More
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Series: For Display Purposes Only Paperback David Seymour 9781552452745 $17.95 POETRY Mar 21, 2013

These poems pause for the spectacle: cloning technologies, super-slo-mo photography, narcotic cab rides. Making fun of consciousness, they describe a system of tripwires, pitfalls and decoys that this notion of daily viewership entails. These poems are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, where the act of living becomes more and more like watching a film in which we play no role.
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Series: Probably Inevitable Paperback Matthew Tierney 9781552452615 $17.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2012

Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) If it were necessary to tell someone where I am, I’d say the spheres of Kepler resonate like icicles.I’d say I have loved. These are high-energy poems, riddled with wit and legerdemain and jolted by the philosophy and science of time. 'Time's not the market, it's the bustle; / not the price but worth,'he muses, sailing through the rhythms and algorithms of a world made concrete by Samuel Johnson, before it was undone by Niels Bohr. Tierney's narrators grapple with the gap between what's seen a... + Read More
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Series: Decomp Paperback Jordan Scott 9781552452820 $24.95 POETRY Sep 20, 2013

In the summer of 2009, poets Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott traveled to five distinct ecosystems in British Columbia, leaving a single copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species to decay for a year in each remote outdoor location. A year later the texts were retrieved, photographed and documented, and worked into Decomp, an extended photoÂessay and prose poem. The poets allowed nature to make 'selections' from Darwin'stext, via decomposition. Each distinct ecosystem offered a different 'reading' of (and through) the rotting book's page... + Read More
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Series: Need Machine Paperback Andrew Faulkner 9781552452752 $17.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2013

Need Machine clamours through the brain like an unruly marching band. Both caustic and thoughtful, these poems offer a topography of modern life writ large in twitchy, neon splendor, in a voice as sure as a surgeon and as trustworthy as a rumour. Honest, irreverent and sharply indifferent, this book will hogtie you with awe.
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Series: The Lease Paperback Mathew Henderson 9781552452639 $17.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2012

The lease is meaningless: a square paced first by seismic workers, and then your father, and then by every other man you know. Distilled from his time in the Saskatchewan and Albertan oilfields, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease plumbs the prairie depths to find human technology and physical labour realigning our landscape. With acute discipline, Henderson illuminates the stubborn and often unflattering realities of industrial culture and its cast of hard-living men. Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) Shortlisted for the Ger... + Read More
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Series: Needs Improvement Paperback Jon Paul Fiorentino 9781552452806 $17.95 POETRY Sep 02, 2013

Whether misreading sixth?grade pedagogical materials or offering visual schematics for reading Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Jon Paul Fiorentino'?s sixth poetry collection asks us to reconsider our engagement with received information —?? but does so with a wink during detention, a dodgeball to the gut during recess. 'Needs Improvement is as a book of a new logic making its way from witty statements to slow moving alyric villanelles, achieving brilliantly a contemporary sense of streaming among words, places and "no self." Whether this fe... + Read More
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Series: New Theatre Paperback Susan Steudel 9781552452554 $17.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2012

New Theatre stages a lively foray into spaces geographical and utopian that calls into question the process and nature of meaning. Steudel’s coolly cerebral ‘Birch’ sequence about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s later life muses on power and identity, but is balanced by an intimate autobiographical long poem that gives quieter, equally surprising shorter pieces room to spike and bloom in this assured debut.
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Series: Masham Means Evening Paperback Kanina Dawson 9781550505504 $16.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2013

It is six years since Canadian forces began their long struggle to hold Kandahar province. Ten years since Canada opened its embassy in Kabul and launched Operation ATHENA to establish security in the city. Twelve years since Canadian forces were committed to Operation Enduring Freedom to dismantle al-Qaeda's network and remove the Taliban from power. As Canada prepares to bring its troops home for good, Masham Means Evening is a poetry collection that takes the reader inside army camps, convoys, schools, markets, and villages, charting a young... + Read More
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Series: Dead Ends Dancing in the Wind Paperback Stanley Sparkes 9781897174937 $14.95 POETRY Jul 30, 2012

During the last century, one of the most exciting and dangerous occupations in Newfoundland was pulpwood driving. One of those river loggers was Newfoundland writer Stanley Sparkes, the author of a new lyrical collection of poetry entitled Deadends Dancing in the Wind. Sparkes is passionate about his profession. Whether it is a reflection about a man driving logs, or a snapshot in prose of black bears in the wild, the words convey powerful and lasting images. Sparkes has created a lasting tribute to the men who risked their lives to sustain the... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Against The Light 1st edition Paperback Tiziano Broggiato 9781550716634 $20.00 POETRY Apr 30, 2013

To read Broggiato is to discover his devotion to the act of writing poetry that is intense, vibrant and lit from within: where the words resonate with our modern sensibility, where behind the words lies an immense pity for the human condition. His is an awareness that however imperfect our perceptions and senses are, our imaginations have freedom within the constraints of those imperfections, both latent and ever-vigilant, as in the lines: "searching for the moon/ through the iron grill of the gate."
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Series: First Poets Series Black Suede Cave 1st edition Paperback David Reibetanz 9781550717389 $15.00 POETRY Dec 01, 2013

The poems in Black Suede Cave meditate on the space inside us, where darkness and imagination animate the unknowable. They illuminate the shadows of memory that slip into our darker corners, reveal by lamplight the furtive nightscape of Toronto, and ponder how loss creates its own places of reflection about what we have loved.
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Series: Essential Poets Series By Available Light New and Selected Poems 1st edition Paperback Michael Carrino 9781550716399 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2012

By Available Light is a book of poetry in which Michael Carrino offers poems from his four published books, along with a group of recent poems, to continue an exploration of how the act of reverie casts a sometimes pale, sometimes vivid light using evocative, sensual images of object, place, and person to remember, make sense of such remembering, and to effect how we make our way through a life.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Dreaming of Lost America 1st edition Paperback Eugene McNamara 9781550716245 $15.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2012

Dreaming of Lost America takes us on a nostalgic but unsentimental trip through a world where innocence reigned but the dark-edged shadows were never far away. This is poetry fixed in one time and place yet timeless.
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Series: First Poets Series Exaltation in Cadmium Red 1st edition Paperback Sonia Di Placido 9781550716184 $15.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2012

Exaltation in Cadmium Red splatters and brushes in poems, both as a toxic, poisonous, metallic mix, and a rich, vibrant, powerful oil colour. Shades of cadmium red have persisted throughout history as the most exuberant in the oil-paint palette; the hues meant to be mixed with other oils in subtle, specific, and precise doses for greatest effect. This body of poems revels in this fanatical, fantastic colour to express the heights and depths of passion - engaging in meditations on prayer, spirituality, feminism, and the breadth of existence... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Exile At Last Selected Poems 1st edition Paperback Chava Rosenfarb 9781550716818 $15.00 POETRY Mar 31, 2013

When Chava Rosenfarb arrived in Montreal in February 1950, she was already a published poet with one acclaimed volume, Di balade fun nekhtikn vald (The Ballad of Yesterday’s Forest) to her credit. She was also a Holocaust survivor who, after being liberated from Bergen Belsen in 1945 had crossed the border illegally into Belgium, where she lived with her mother, sister and husband, all Holocaust survivors. In 1950 Rosenfarb’s Montreal publisher, Harry Hershman, who had just published a Canadian edition of Di balade fun nekhtikn vald sponsored t... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Fire Watcher 1st edition Paperback Vivian Demuth 9781550716962 $15.00 POETRY Mar 31, 2013

From the vast expanse of the boreal forest, Vivian Demuth shows both an exquisite eye for detail and a profound concern for the larger environmental picture. Her lively poems show that, to an engaged observer with an accomplished literary imagination, the mountain forest is a complex, animated bio-community resonating with beauty and sentient beings, large, small, and mysterious. Mixing elements of realism and magical realism, humour and protest, and traditional and experimental forms, this volume offers a unique contribution to Canadian eco-poetry.
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Series: Rooms the Wind Makes Electronic book text, EPUB James Deahl 9781550713640 $9.99 POETRY Jan 01, 2012

The publication of Rooms The Wind Makes completes a cycle of four poetry collections, the preceding volumes being No Cold Ash, Even This Land Was Born Of Light, and When Rivers Speak. James Deahl was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in and around the Laurel Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains. {Guernica Editions}
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Series: Essential Poets Series Fugitive Horizons Paperback Henry Beissel 9781550717327 $20.00 POETRY Dec 01, 2013

These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time. The counter-intuitive insights of modern science here become reality as we are led to question the representations of our senses. Quantum physics and cosmic relativity, captured in the intimacy of the prevailing sonnet form, create a dynamic challenging the reader to reaffirm the human world in the face of the unknowable.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Habibi The diwam of Alim Maghrebi 1st edition Paperback David Solway 9781550716153 $15.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2012

Habibi, the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi, is the latest in a series of David Solway’s poetic translations, dating from Andreas Karavis’ Saracen Island and including Nesmine Rifat’s The Pallikari, Rhys Savarin’s Reaching for Clear, Bartholomew the Englishman’s The Properties of Things, and Dov Ben-Zamir’s New Wine, Old Bottles, the latter still in manuscript. These are what Solway calls his "ostensibles," poetic voices and artifacts which he regards as constituting an extended trope or metaphor of the desire ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Series Human Presences and Possible Futures Selected Poems 1st edition Paperback Robert Dickson 9781550716665 $20.00 POETRY Apr 30, 2013

This collection of poetry is a selection of award-winning Franco-Ontarian poet Robert Dickson’s various collections of poetry, including his Governor-General Award winning Humains paysages en temps de paix relative.
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Series: Essential Translations Series Instead of Whom Does The Flower Bloom The Poems of Vlado Kreslin Paperback Vlado Kreslin 9781550716368 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2012

Kreslin’s poetry is a beautiful aesthetic experience, evocative and subtle, particularly rich in natural imagery. There are clear themes that run like veins throughout it: the Mura River (which winds through Prekmurje), the ubiquitous storks of Prekmurje and other avian images, an appreciation for gypsy culture (particularly their musical traditions), trans-generational and trans-cultural inspiration, mist and stars. One might imagine the poems best read in the early morning hours, on the mist-spread banks of the Mura.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Moon On Wild Grasses 1st edition Paperback Keith Garebian 9781550716849 $15.00 POETRY Mar 31, 2013

Moon on Wild Grasses, with illustrations by the author, shows the unsuspected scope of a very concise, precise poetic form. Keith Garebian’s haiku encompass a wide range of themes in a vividly elegant style that combines the pictorial with the passionate, erotic or reflective. Nature, empirical experience, the self, love, death, and grief are captured with a perceptive, sensitive eye.
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Series: Essential Anthologies Series Poet to Poet Poems written to poets and the stories that inspired them 1st edition Paperback Julie Roorda 9781550716450 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2012

Poet to Poet is a unique anthology that features the poems of Canadian poets on a writer who has left a mark on them or their writing. Each poem has a back story to it, ranging from impressions to chronological details. Edited by Julie Roorda and Elana Wolff, the anthology sheds light not only on the creative process but also on the relationship between and among writers.
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Tenants of The Hotel Biron Electronic book text, EPUB Laura Marello 9781550713602 $20.00 FICTION Jan 01, 2012

Laura Marello writes, through the voice of Eduard Steichen, that “… all these powerful artists are so invulnerably weak.” Rodin, his lover Camille Claudel, Picasso, Rousseau, Nijinski, Matisse, Rilke and others, all tenants of Hôtel Biron, and all brilliantly and excitedly human, presented by manuscripts fictionally collected. The result is an appropriately cubist look at each, because we see each from several subjective vantages. This is a brilliantly conceived work of reflective and self-reflective parts. With Marello we get to imagine, as wa... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Rooms The Wind Makes Paperback James Deahl 9781550713633 $20.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2012

James Deahl has been called "one of the ten or twenty finest poets writing in the English language." His poetry has been described as "precise articulations of landscape ..." producing "a highly charged evocation of place ... that it is as if the reader were the first person to stand there." This collection continues Deahl's exploration of the natural world around him in language that is precise and startling, tinged with nostalgia but bravely facing the realities, and always with an eye on the larger picture.
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Circular Incantation An Exercise in Loss and Findings 1st edition Paperback Irene Marques 9781550717358 $20.00 POETRY Dec 01, 2013

This collection is an announcement, an announcement from the crossroads, from the crosscurrents, from the multiple paths of writing and thinking, of feeling being and existence. It extends the self in all directions so that that very self can exit the chains of the individual ego and feel the larger Being that exists outside... It is between poetry, chronicle, existential and transcendental meditation. Yet it might be none of those but only words upon words, incantations upon incantations, which will lead through the many spheres of life, the r... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Daring of Paradise 1st edition Paperback Brian Day 9781550717112 $15.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2013

The Daring of Paradise reconfigures stories and images from multiple religions and also from fairy tales, cracking them open to release new light. Poems probe the intense devotion in the letters of Paul and the sensuality shimmering within the traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. They cast lines across religious divides, gather elements of incarnate spirituality, and consider how, in our present moment, religion might speak to the body of the Earth.
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Series: Essential Poets Series The Woman Who Drank Her Own Reflection 1st edition Paperback Louise McKinney 9781550717143 $15.00 POETRY Apr 30, 2013

A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney’s writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now. More than depicting mere geographical adventuring, this work expresses the poet’s personal vision and emphasizes the importance of living out one’s potential. This emotional journey may include the necessity of leaving something, of passing through wild and dark places in the shadow self. It may also mean becoming a different person, or persons. Sometimes inner and outer landscape me... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translation Series Things That Fall 1st edition Paperback Denise Desautels 9781550713732 $20.00 POETRY Mar 31, 2013

In French, Tombeau de Lou. At its origin, the death of the childhood friend, the chosen sister, swept away by a sudden cancer. She was fifty-three years old. Like the poet. The one who remains, the survivor, the inconsolable woman. That’s the anecdote. Afterwards, if an afterwards is possible, the urgency presses, the need to find words for the pain and questions that death raises, strewn at random in revolt, in violence, in memory, in mourning and in dread. To translate the hasty metamorphosis of the ever-so-living into the ever-so-dead. To gi... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series This Cockeyed World 1st edition Paperback Jim Christy 9781550717174 $15.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2013

COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight. In other words, Jim Christy, Canada's most iconoclastic and irreverent poet, views this cockeyed world the way it is; not only with 20/20 but x-ray vision and often through laughter and tears.
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Series: Essential Poets Series When The Rapture Comes 1st edition Paperback Max Layton 9781550716429 $15.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2012

In his first collection of poetry, Max Layton takes the post apocalypse to new heights. Satirical in places, full of longing and remorse in others, the poems (each beginning with "When the rapture comes ...") bring together memories of family, trips to fantasylands, and outrageous humour. Life, in other words, in all its varied colours and shapes – despite the shadow of when the rapture comes.
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Series: Essential Translation Series Where Spaces Glow Selected Poems 1st edition Paperback Francis Catalano 9781550716993 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2013

Francis Catalano’s poetry speaks of space, place and people. In the extracts from Index and qu’une lueur des lieux geographical, geological, geometrical and ancestral textures, shapes and colours kaleidoscope to create powerful North American landscapes. Wide open skies, craggy mountains, blinding snow, endless straight black top roads and fast food outlets reflect, refract and radiate in multi-facetted verse. In Romamor, framed within a city’s walls, another dimension is added contrasting light and darkness, space and proximity. Where Spaces G... + Read More
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Series: Essential Poets Series Where The Sun Shines Best Paperback Austin Clarke 9781550716931 $15.00 POETRY Apr 30, 2013

Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to the war in Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking. The poet, whose downtown Toronto home overlooks the armoury and surrounding park, describes the crime, its perpetrators, the victim, and a cast of homeless witnesses that includes the woman, a prostitute, who first alerts police. The subsequent trial evokes reflection on the immigrant experience the poet shares with one of the accused, and on the agony of that young soldier’s mother. F... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Tilt, A Paperback Farideh de Bosset 9781926708669 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2012

Having practiced as a psychiatrist for many years, as well as having personally experienced years of intensive personal psychoanalysis, has given the poet, Farideh de Bosset, the opportunity to look at, and experience, life with an acute intensity of joy and pain. Each poem records the events of a woman's everyday life, as well as the poet's experiences of talking to, and healing with, patients, and friends and family, as well as the impact of literature and art, the countries she's lived in and visited, and, of cours,e her dreams and her under... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Class Acts Paperback Katerina Fretwell 9781771330725 $18.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2013

Class Acts, Katerina Fretwell's seventh poetry (and art) collection, confronts the covert, historical caste/class system in the West. Section One details proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's injection of female rights into the French Revolution's post-industrial, democratic discourse. Section Two contrasts the 2008 financial meltdown with Fretwell's 50s and 60s coerced debutante upbringing. Section Three, through Fretwell's social work in 60s/70s Halifax, illustrates implacable poverty. Poetic forms mirror themes: repetitive pantoums underscore... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Dark Water Songs Paperback Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes 9781926708942 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2013

The poems in Dark Water Songs begin on the margins of islands and ancestors, and fan out, probing love, loss and life's dilemmas. They expand and deepen the poetic exploration which began with my earlier collections, mining the reciprocal spaces enabled by the hyphen between Jamaican and Canadian, exploring silences, the weight of memory, and a sense of the sacred. The collection contributes to the body of work by contemporary Canadian writers of Caribbean origin. The perspective is that of a poet/educator and former nun ― a writer who negotiat... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Engagement Calendar Paperback Mary Rutherford 9781771330763 $18.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2013

The poems in this collection are a voyage of self-discovery. They are poems of disclosure, of exposure, of allowing one's self to be vulnerable, of telling truths. The poet touches upon myriad themes such as bird-watching, illness, accidents--but through all of these, she examines the complexity of human feeling and relationships. These relationships can be familial or romantic, and as such, poems explore the poet's relationship with her mother and sister as well as with her husband and, at times, her children. Engagement Calendar documents a p... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Flying Under Water Poems New and Selected Paperback Eva Tihanyi 9781926708737 $18.95 POETRY Aug 15, 2012

Anne Michaels calls Eva Tihanyi's poetry "moving and powerful." Susan Musgrave calls it "very accomplished, beautifully crafted." Now, almost 30 years after her first book was published in 1983 comes Tihanyi's latest collection, Flying Under Water: Poems New and Selected, which brings together the best of her previous six volumes plus a group of new poems. The book is edited by Patricia Keeney and introduced by J.S. Porter, who writes: "Tihanyi gives you desire in all its permutations, love in all its dimensions, in all its colours from green t... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series I write these words/ J'écris ces mots Paperback Lélia Young 9781771330527 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2013

I write these words / J'écris ces mots is a fascinating volume of poetry that examines the world of a woman born in Tunisia but living in Toronto, and women's universal struggle to find their place in the world. Poems explore the roles woman play in diverse societies and cultures and draw the reader in with gentle, probing verses that beguile with their beauty, but challenge with their meaning. Sometimes the reader travels in the present, sometimes in the past, into the world of a woman and poet who is pulled in many directions.
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Rebel Women Paperback Vancy Kasper 9781926708966 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2013

Rebel Women begins by moving in and out of women's kitchens, parlours, meetings and wagon-rides on the eve and throughout Toronto's 1837 Rebellion. The poems let the reader eavesdrop on the loves, fears, hatreds and courage of these feisty pioneers as they are engulfed by an uprising some did or did not support. The poems are based on the stories, gossip, and rumours that Kasper's grandmother, Statira Catherine Shepard - the granddaughter of Joseph Shepard, a prominent leader of the Reform Party (after whom Sheppard Avenue is named) and the you... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Book of Changes, The Paperback Madeline Sonik 9781926708683 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2012

In her second volume of poetry, Madeline Sonik creates poetry through the contemplation and inspiration of the abstruse symbols encountered in the ancient oracular Chinese text, the I Ching (The Book of Changes). The interplay of concept and image that the I Ching offers, as well as the non-causal worldview it implicates, presents a unique place of poetic inquiry. Carl Jung used the I Ching as a method of exploring the unconscious, and pointed out how it worked by allowing chance details to "enter into the picture of the moment of observation a... + Read More
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Series: The sea with no one in it First Paperback Niki Koulouris 9780889843639 $14.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2013

In The sea with no one in it, Niki Koulouris takes readers from the mysterious and powerful depths of the ocean to the familiar and disparate artifacts of our land-locked daily lives.
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Series: Slack Action First Paperback Jeffery Donaldson 9780889843677 $16.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2013

?Slack action? refers to the free movement experienced by the boxcar of a train, when the car coasts free, neither pushed nor pulled. Jeffery Donaldson?s fifth collection, in which single words, images and even poems coast free, suggests that all life is middle life, and that we live in a present moment that coasts between a beginning we can?t remember and an end we can?t predict.
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Series: The April Poems First Paperback Leon Rooke 9780889843592 $16.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2013

Leon Rooke's latest collection of poems concerns itself with an irrepressible heroine, adopting a variety of distinctive perspectives on her life, her loves and her losses.
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Series: Essential Poets The Essential Robert Gibbs First Paperback Robert Gibbs 9780889843493 $14.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2012

The precision, originality, and playfulness of Robert Gibbs' poems have captivated readers for over half a century. Mixing the cerebral and the heartfelt, Gibbs' poems investigate and celebrate family, history, and nature with decisive imagery, idiomatic immediacy, punning wordplay, and breadth of imagination.
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Series: Essential Poets The Essential Tom Marshall First Paperback Tom Marshall 9780889843530 $14.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2012

A comprehensive introduction to this enigmatic Canadian poet, The Essential Tom Marshall provides an overview of the breadth of Marshall's career, from the intense, daring poetry of his youth in the 1960s to the reflective work of his later years.
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Series: Wayworn Wooden Floors First Paperback Mark Lavorato 9780889843516 $16.95 POETRY Jun 01, 2012

Mark Lavorato's debut poetry collection, Wayworn Wooden Floors, is a striking piece of work, informed by an acute observer tuned to the everyday. These frank, thoughtful poems evoke both the tragedy and the comedy endemic to daily existence. Lavorato's poems are penned in accessible, unpretentious verse, which is as clear as it is varied in form, tone, and vantage.
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Series: Words for Elephant Man Second. Paperback Kenneth Sherman 9780889843509 $16.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2012

Kenneth Sherman's collection Words for Elephant Man delves into the fascinating life of Joseph Merrick, the titular `Elephant Man' who came to prominence as a sideshow curiosity in England in the late nineteenth century. Sherman's spare, captivating verse gives a voice to Merrick's fraught and complex existence, and couples it with a genuine compassion quite distant from the chill of a gawking public.
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Series: Tether Paperback Laurelyn Whitt 9781927079133 $16.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2013

To tether is to join or hold together. It often involves placing, or accepting, constraints in order to continue in relationship. Or in order to protect and safeguard. Ultimately, tethering has to do with coherence and continuation, rather than separation or dissipation. In these poems, many things serve to tether: gravity and touch; history and memory; listening and dreams.
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Series: Elseworlds Paperback Nina Berkhout 9781927079034 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2012

Elseworlds observes everyday moments ? the mundane and the enlightening ? through conversation, story and daydream. Whether a preoccupation with time and the nature of memory, a coming to terms with failed relationships, reflections on the haunting presence of departed loved ones, or the intermittent desire to escape into another world altogether, Berkhout?s wry humour and honest voice resonate beyond the personal in these meditations on life and loss.
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Series: 97 Positions of the Heart Paperback Jaik Josephson 9781897289778 $16.95 POETRY May 15, 2012

Elizabeth Smart, author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), has been heralded as a complicated and passion fuelled artist who dared to live in disregard of the burdensome expectations for women in the first half of the last century. 97 Positions of the Heart is a lyrical travelogue through the courageous life of this Canadian writer. Poet Jaik Josephson mines both her biography and literary catalogue to escort the reader into her remarkable world. Each poem charts SmartÕs persistent quest to resist the forces that sought to ... + Read More