1.
Series:
A Matins Flywheel
Paperback
John Lent
9781771871914
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2019
In his new book of poems, A Matins Flywheel, John Lent brings a life-long fascination with literary forms to the hybrid prose/poetry of a new long poem called “Matins for St. Agnes of The Crossroads: 62nd Avenue and 109th Street, Edmonton,” and to the new, loose, genre-mixing poems and prose sketches about growing up in Edmonton, Lent’s love of jazz, his travel to Prague, and his remembering the writing legacy of Robert Kroetsch. Because these meditations and poems are rooted in the visceral struggles to find the necessary love and honesty requ...
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2.
Series:
Oona River Poems
Paperback
Peter Christensen
9781771871907
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2019
This collection of poems is bigger than the idea of a poet turned loose in the natural world because Christensen intends the work to also be an antidote to the plethora of information, propaganda, and opinion with which we are confronted every day. His poetry is a vehicle to tell stories, to juxtapose ideas and images that share insight into human and natural affairs. He acts as a guide to the inner self and as a chronicler of the collision of nature and human emotion and action.
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Series:
Lift
Paperback
Emily Davidson
9781771871921
$12.95
POETRY
May 01, 2019
The debut collection of New Brunswick poet Emily Davidson, Lift is an examination of how to be alive without being adrift. Loosely narrative, the collection spans two Canadian coasts, its speaker a transplant from Atlantic to Pacific. Lift asks questions of of revellers at house parties, of ex-lovers, of classic films and grade-school dramas. Through careful observation, wry humour, and inquisitive uncertainty, Davidson charts her course through solitude and disconnection back to her roots and into the unknown. Comprising poems that are colloqu...
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4.
Series:
Snow Melts First in the Middle of the Slough
Paperback
Catherine J. Stewart
9781771871945
$12.95
POETRY
May 01, 2019
These poems recall and reimagine a family’s life in Spillimacheen, British Columbia – no plumbing, no central heating — and a childhood spent outdoors, framed by the Rockies and Purcell Mountains. Wound through this collection are the tensions and hostilities that go back generations, to the great-great grandparents who immigrated from urban centres and settled in isolation. Women forced to relinquish their children to the lure of the rivers and men who trudged the trapline and worked in mines. The voice in these poems, never sentimental and ra...
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5.
Series:
This Hole Called January
Paperback
Paula Jane Remlinger
9781771871938
$12.95
POETRY
May 01, 2019
From Superman to James Bond, from childhood’s imaginings to life’s darkest moments, Paula Remlinger explores identity and depression with humour and empathy. The collection moves from innocent beginnings to the starkness of the Canadian winter and its profound effects on the psyche. The final section expands into a playful juxtaposition of popular culture and an adult awareness of the inevitable cycles of life. Winter on the prairies brings a barren sense of isolation, as well as an uncanny beauty. These poems explore the duality of winter — co...
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6.
Series:
Five Red Sentries
Paperback
Raye Hendrickson
9781771871952
$12.95
POETRY
May 01, 2019
Hendrickson’s debut collection Five Red Sentries feeds our explorer nature. Nothing is too big or too small to kindle curiosity. From imagining what it feels like to be a "sheet of rain" or an acrobat in outer space "spring-boarding from the edge of the earth" to musing about prairie landscapes ("wide open space/spreads like a blanket,") Raye Hendrickson takes us on journeys that evoke deep and mysterious longings. She explores connections, and the depletion we feel when someone or something vital is lost to us ("death stole my grounding.") She...
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