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1.
Accretion Paperback Irfan Ali 9781771315180 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

2021 Trillium Book Award Shortlist An extraordinary debut set in Toronto, unfurling against the backdrop of an ancient Persian love story. The story of Layla and Majnun, made immortal by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in the 12th century, has been retold thousands of times, in thousands of different ways, throughout literature. Against the backdrop of this story, to the sound-track of modern hip-hop, and amid the struggle of an immigrant family to instill an old faith under new conditions, Irfan Ali's Accretion hurtles towards an unsustainable... + Read More
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Afloat Paperback John Reibetanz 9781926829821 $20.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2013

Afloat, John Reibetanz's eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations. The centerpiece, a sequence on the Three Gorges Dam and its cultural and environmental implications, brings ancient Chinese sources (Meng Chiao and the painter Dong Yuan) together with modern ones (Edward Burtynsky's photographs and violent video games) to create an elegy that is moving and meditative. Although water is everywhere present as a subject, it is song that provides the motivating power, the vehicle of longing that animates the book. "We th... + Read More
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All Our Wonder Unavenged Paperback Don Domanski 9781894078580 $18.95 POETRY Apr 24, 2007

A poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe. In his first full-length collection since 1998's Parish of the Physic Moon, Don Domanski writes with clarity of vision. He is a poet of the holiness of subtleties, a master of mindfulness and being. His writing is a form of osmosis, spirit seeping through the details of each poem, creating a marvel of metaphysics and language distilled to purest energy. Living in the moment here is synonymous with being the moment, a transform... + Read More
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All the Names Between Paperback Julia McCarthy 9781771314572 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2017

Poems that form an eloquent, searching contemplation of "the warp and weft of being and nonbeing." All the Names Between is Nova Scotia poet Julia McCarthy's meditative and crackling-with-dark-energy third collection. From her observation of "long-horned beetles... rearranging the landscape" to an apperception of "part of me /...seeded by dust / of meteors and asteroids," McCarthy makes palpable, in richly layered imagery and with attentiveness that unfolds stillness, the "Singing Emptiness" that informs and quickens the crow's flight, the sto... + Read More
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The Anatomy of Keys Poems Paperback Steven Price 9781894078511 $18.00 POETRY May 29, 2006

A tour de force, a book-length poem, embracing a wide variety of poetic and prose forms, to tell the story of Harry Houdini. Steven Price's Houdini knows better than most the limitations of life, having bent the efforts of a lifetime to transcending them, and having failed. Ah, but his thinking! Or rather Steven Price's thinking with and through him. "Make it muscular and be apparent in it," says Houdini's archivist/advisor, "words are also escapes." So they are in a book with the sinew of Anatomy of Keys. The facts of Houdini's life are herei... + Read More
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Auguries Paperback Clea Roberts 9781771314510 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2017

Whether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of Auguries, the much-anticipated second collection from Yukon poet Clea Roberts, are saturated with their northern landscape. Roberts is well versed in the distances and dynamics between tedium and ecstasy, light and dark, isolation and solitude, freeze and thaw, flow and stillness. Her poems are spare and clean, each like a single larch in an immense white plain; their exactness startling and arresting. As the Gerald Lampert Award jury cit... + Read More
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Bite Down Little Whisper Paperback Don Domanski 9781926829869 $20.00 POETRY Aug 15, 2013

From a master poet, meditative lines running like veins through the dark grace of being alive. Governor General's Award-winning poet Don Domanski's new collection, Bite Down Little Whisper, delves into the interconnectedness of all life with spiritual gravitas and powerful mindfulness. These are poems brimming with mythological and scientific energies, with a multi-dimensionality that opens itself to both complexity and clarity. Domanski shows us seams and fastenings that unite our longings with the earth itself, with the nonhuman vitality that... + Read More
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Blue Sonoma Paperback Jane Munro 9781926829883 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2014

A wise and embodied collection of dreamscapes, sutras and prayer poems from a writer at her peak In Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner's crossing into Alzheimer's is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and wakefulness, Eastern and Western poetic traditions. Rich in both pathos and sharp shards of in... + Read More
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Bones Paperback Tyler Pennock 9781771315210 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

2020 Raymond Souster Award Longlist * 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist * 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards Shortlist Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. Bones, Tyler Pennock's wise and arresting debut, is about the ways we process the traumas of our past, and about how often these experiences eliminate moments of softness and gentleness. Here, the poems journey inward, guided by the world of dreams, seeking memories of a loving sister lost beneath layers of traged... + Read More
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Breaker Paperback Sue Sinclair 9781894078665 $18.00 POETRY Oct 30, 2008

The essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry. Sue Sinclair is the director inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke: she possesses intense lyrical vision, steeped in wonder at the existence of the world, and a kind of grief at our inability to lose ourselves in it completely. Her perception is acutely focused and rigorous; and she is acutely self-aware. She is not afraid of words like "beauty" or "being," yet, because of the intensity of her vision, she never uses them as clichés. Her gift for metaphor is astonishing and m... + Read More
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By Hand Paperback John Reibetanz 9781771315036 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

Poems that examine the creative achievements of the human hand, from cave art to contemporary photography. John Reibetanz's twelfth collection, By Hand, begins with an epigraph from Lewis Mumford: "Until modern times, apart from the esoteric knowledge of the priests, philosophers, and astronomers, the greater part of human thought and imagination flowed through the hands." Reibetanz's new poems investigate human creativity as a visceral interaction with the world: our imagining hands finding the music implicit in the stuff of earth, a "duet// o... + Read More
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Careen Paperback Carolyn Smart 9781771313827 $20.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2015

Remember Bonnie & Clyde? A complex, dramatic rendering of a familiar story made new. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are the stuff of legend — why tell their story again? Chances are you don't know the nuances — their love story and that of their accomplices Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche; their aspirations, conflicts and prayerful natures; and ultimately the sources of their tragedy. At its core, Careen is a long poem spoken by the characters, though the voices are companioned by newspaper articles often ironically at odds with the inside sto... + Read More
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The Cyborg Anthology Paperback Lindsay B-e 9781771315302 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

2021 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award Shortlist * 2021 Elgin Awards Longlist Poems written by Cyborgs in the future—this collection melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine. The Cyborg Anthology takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs living peacefully beside Humans, but a disaster destroyed all Robot and most Cyborg life. The book is organized like a typical anthology of literature, split into sections that include a biography of each poet and a sample of their poetry. It covers early Cyborg poetr... + Read More
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Devil in the Woods Paperback D.A. Lockhart 9781771315098 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2019

A collection of letter and prayer poems in which an Indigenous speaker engages with non-Indigenous famous Canadians. D.A. Lockhart's stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, thoughts, and experiences of an Anishinaabe guy from Central Ontario and the manner in which he interacts with central aspects and icons of settler Canadian culture. Riffing off Richard Hugo's 31 Letters and 13 Dreams, the work utilizes contemporary Indigenous poetics to carve out space for often ignored voices in dominant Canadian discourse (and in par... + Read More
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Everything, now Paperback Jessica Moore 9781926829784 $19.00 POETRY Aug 01, 2012

Poems about being stranded in a truth that shows no mercy, speaking from the last place you'd ever choose to go. Part lyric, part memoir, Everything, now, Jessica Moore's heart-rending debut, describes an untimely death and the journey of going on alone. The book stares down loss and struggles to transform that loss into language that can pass through boundaries of intricate sorrow; the act of translation here is not about two different languages — although Moore uses her own translation of Jean-François Beauchemin's Turkana Boy as a template f... + Read More
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First Paperback Arleen Paré 9781771315425 $22.95 POETRY May 01, 2021

2022 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Shortlist Governor General's Award?winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost first friend. They conjure the subtle layers of meaning in that early friendship to riff on to a search for how we might possibly understand the primal First: the beginnings of the cosmos that contains our own particular lives, beginnings and longings. This layered evocatio... + Read More
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The Girls with Stone Faces Paperback Arleen Paré 9781771314640 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2017

A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award?winning Lake of Two Mountains, turns her cool, benevolent eye to the shared lives of Florence Wyle and Frances Loring, two of Canada's greatest artists, whose sculptures she comes face to face with at the National Gallery of Canada. In the guise of a curator, Paré takes us on a moving, carefully structured tour through the rooms where their work is displayed, the Gallery'... + Read More
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Glass Float Paperback Jane Munro 9781771315241 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

Griffin Award-winner returns with new poems that are spacious with interiority, alive with a hard-earned lightness. Waves carried a glass float—designed to hold up a fishing net—across the Pacific. Beached it safely. Someone's breath is inside it. In Glass Float, her seventh collection, award-winning poet Jane Munro considers the widening of horizons that border and shape our lives, the familiarity and mystery of conscious experience, and the deepening awareness that comes with a dedicated practice such as yoga. This book is about connections: ... + Read More
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Grey All Over Paperback Andrea Actis 9781771315395 $22.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

2022 ReLit Awards Longlist "Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment?" Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So began her passage through grief, self-reckoning, and graduate school in Providence, Rhode Island, where the poetics she studied (and sometimes repudiated) became integral to her gradual reconstruction of wholeness. An assemblage of "evidence" recovered from emails about paranormal encounters sent and r... + Read More
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The Grey Islands Brick Books Classics 2 Paperback John Steffler 9781771313438 $20.00 POETRY Feb 15, 2015

Deluxe redesign of a seminal book by Canada's former Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the second of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of The Grey Islands features a foreword by scholar Adrian Fowler and a detailed and insightful look back at the book and the time of its inception by Steffler himself. Featuring a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. The Grey Islands is the st... + Read More
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Hard Light Brick Books Classics 5 Paperback Michael Crummey 9781771313469 $20.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2015

New light on Michael Crummey's classic depiction of Newfoundland and Labrador's past. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fifth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Hard Light features a new Introduction by Lisa Moore, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. In Hard Light, first published in 1998, Crummey retells and reimagines his father?s and others' stories of outport Newfoundland and the L... + Read More
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House Dreams Paperback Deanna Young 9781926829913 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2014

A book of dark corners and shifting locations, full of switches that light up the unobvious places, elsewhere in the house. House Dreams, Deanna Young's haunted and haunting third collection, is at once a core sample of the life we all live underground, and a view beneath the foundations of the various eras and places that make up one woman's life story. These poems have the plainspoken power, surreal shifting, uncanny logic and transformed everyday imagery of our most numinous dreams. It's as if Jung's assertion that "[w]hen an inner situation... + Read More
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How to Avoid Huge Ships Paperback Julie Bruck 9781771314855 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2018

Both "grave and brave, serious and hilarious" — new poems from a Governor General's Award?winning poet. How to Avoid Huge Ships, Julie Bruck's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of arguments and spells against the ambushes of age. This is, of course, a pointless exercise with a rich history. Bruck's new poems excavate a middle zone as old parents wither and regress, while the young declare their independence. Parents grow down, children up, and it's from the uncomfortable in-between that these poems peer into what Philip Larkin describes as... + Read More
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I Am the Big Heart Paperback Sarah Venart 9781771315364 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2020

Winner of the 2021 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry * 2021 ReLit Awards Longlist A love story to the emotional self—this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite. What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How does being a parent stretch it further? How does a heart manage under the pressure of children, of self, of hospital technician, of partner, of death? In this collection, big heartedness is both demand and desire. It emerges from family life—the ki... + Read More
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If You Discover a Fire Paperback Shaun Robinson 9781771315272 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2020

Precision-built poems that attempt CPR on their own irregular meter, on their own unreliable meaning. Vancouver poet Shaun Robinson's If You Discover a Fire is a debut collection of poems that make a virtue of their failure to communicate. They forage through the syntax and vocabulary of late-night voicemails, letters to the editor, songs invented in the shower, professional jargon, "Witness Wanted" signs, technical manuals, and text-message typos to assemble verbal collages that raise more questions than they answer. In settings ranging from M... + Read More
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Karyotype Paperback Kim Trainor 9781771313797 $20.00 POETRY Oct 15, 2015

A remarkable debut that expresses a humanism grounded in physiology. At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the Taklamakan Desert. Karyotype's poems range from the title sequence, which explores the DNA and woven textiles of this woman and her vanished people (a karyotype is the characteristic chromosome complement of a species), to the firebombing of the National Library of Sarajevo, from an abecedarian hymn on the International Red Cross "Book ... + Read More
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The Knowing Animals Paperback Emily Skov-Nielsen 9781771315333 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

2021 New Brunswick Book Awards Shortlist * 2021 ReLit Awards Shortlist Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being as an embodied, contemplative, feeling animal. In Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, The Knowing Animals, our consciousness is interconnected with the surrounding trees, bugs, rivers, atmospheres, and cosmos. Here, flowers escape Victorian domestication and ally with girls' green powers of attraction. Here, the social politeness of motherly domesticity and the raw dangers of adolescent sexual awakening are shot ... + Read More
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Lake of Two Mountains Paperback Arleen Paré 9781926829876 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2014

A hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory Lake of Two Mountains, Arleen Paré's second poetry collection, is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network of relationships around a lake. It maps, probes and applauds the riparian region of central Canadian geography that lies between the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence Rivers. The poems portray this territory, its contested human presences and natural history: the 1990 Oka Crisis, Pleistocene shifts and dislocations, the fea... + Read More
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Modern and Normal Paperback Karen Solie 9781894078474 $17.00 POETRY Jul 29, 2005

Evade your eye. Try to see as others do what is desired or refused. What went wrong. Or right, then wrong. Objectively, what hangs. Pull yourself together. Years are neither kind nor cruel. You drag on. The girl is gone. Consider that it might be time to call in a professional. Blood is fearless, runs to meet a touch, indiscriminate, remembering the first time it fell in love with the world, unaware that now you are alone. From "Mirror" In Modern and Normal, Karen Solie takes her on-the-road fascination with being between places to a new level,... + Read More
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Moldovan Hotel Paperback Leah Horlick 9781771315456 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

2023 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards Shortlist * 2022 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist * 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Shortlist Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism to neofascisms, Europe to the Americas to the Middle East, typhus to HIV/AIDS, genocide in Roman... + Read More
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Monkey Ranch Paperback Julie Bruck 9781926829746 $19.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2012

Comic and sober by turns, these poems ask us what is sufficient, what will suffice? ... a mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad neighbourhood, a long marriage, even a spoon, grapple with this unanswerable conundrum — sometimes with rage, or plain persistence, sometimes with the furious joy of a dog who gets to ride with his head through a truck's passenger window. Julie Bruck's third book of poetry is a brilliant and unusual blend of pathos and play, of deep seriousness and wildly veering humour. Though Bruck "does not stammer whe... + Read More
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Mowing Paperback Marlene Cookshaw 9781771315159 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2019

An award-winning poet's day-book of poems, where both bounty and loss are tenderly assigned value. Marlene Cookshaw, in her first collection of poetry in more than a decade, invites her readers to partake in a long-anticipated harvest that comes in many forms. Whether she's haying June-high grasses, relishing a neighbour's gift of new potatoes with her husband, logging fragments of poetry she's read in a notebook, or honouring the deaths of her parents, Cookshaw works an open field. Through this pastorale wander dogs, horses, chickens, and donk... + Read More
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Museum of Kindness Paperback Susan Elmslie 9781771314671 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2017

A meditative and piercing collection that explores traumas both ordinary and out of the ordinary. Museum of Kindness, Montreal poet Susan Elmslie's searching second collection of poetry, is a book that bravely examines "genres" familiar and hard to fathom: the school shooting, PTSD, raising a child who has a disability. It is a collection about thresholds big and small. In poems grounded in the domestic and in workaday life, poems burnished by silence and the weight of the unspoken, poems by turns ironic and sincere, Elmslie asks "What, exactly... + Read More
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Night Work The Sawchuk Poems Paperback Randall Maggs 9781771314947 $20.00 POETRY Jan 15, 2018

A new edition of a hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies. Denied the leap and dash up the ice, what goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monk and cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes are elsewhere as they contemplate their narrow place. Like saints, they pray for nothing, which brings grace. Off-days, what they want is space. They sit apart in bars. They know the length of streets in twenty cities. But it's their saving sense of irony ... + Read More
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Omens in the Year of the Ox Paperback Steven Price 9781926829760 $19.00 POETRY Feb 01, 2012

Omens, curses, the reading of entrails: means of grappling with what is out of our hands, beyond our ken. Steven Price's second collection is part of a long-lived struggle to address the mysteries that both surround and inhabit us. The book draws together moments both contemporary and historical, ranging from Herodotus to Augustine of Hippo, from a North American childhood to Greek mythology; indeed, the collection is threaded with interjections from a Greek-style chorus of clever-minded, mischievous beings — half-ghost, half-muse — whose comme... + Read More
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Other Houses Paperback Kate Cayley 9781771314541 $20.00 POETRY May 15, 2017

From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley — poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar. In Other Houses, Kate Cayley's second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence of the people who have handled them. Myths and legends are interwoven with daily life. Visionaries, mystics, charlatans, artists, and the dead speak to us like chatty neighbours. An imaginary library catalogues missing people. Reading becomes a way of remembering the dead. Home is an elsewhere we are "called to," a mystery that impel... + Read More
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Our Latest in Folktales Paperback Matthew Gwathmey 9781771314978 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

Poems of serious wordplay — an affirmation and celebration of the spectacles we make of our lives. On-stage in Matthew Gwathmey's debut collection are agitated 19th century horsemen, 80s comic book beetles, plaid-clad suburban grunge enthusiasts, Korean aunts turned traffic cops, Parisian mimes — in short, "a multitude of horns." Meanwhile, the "understories," the sub-spectacles of these poems, are the everyday trials and thrills of marriage and family, the search for meaningful love and friendship, and the palpable relief at being able to perf... + Read More
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A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth Paperback Stephanie Bolster 9781926829708 $19.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2011

An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things. A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a coherent vision of nature — constructed or framed, both in the present and in the recent past — through zoos, apiaries, formal gardens, menageries, and books like the Time-Life one named in the title. Informed by the author's grand tour of these zoos and gardens, these poems provide a strong lens for considering the many paradoxes of inter-species relations; they open up the possibility of hone... + Read More
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Pale as Real Ladies Poems for Pauline Johnson Paperback Joan Crate 9780919626430 $14.00 POETRY Jan 16, 1991

In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor. Part white, part Mohawk princess, Pauline Johnson /Tekahionwake would perform her poems first in buckskin, then, after the intermission, in silk.
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Reunion Paperback Deanna Young 9781771314886 $20.00 POETRY Oct 01, 2018

Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint. Reunion is a parable, an origin story, a cautionary tale. It is also a time machine in which poems commune with ghosts in an attempt both to reckon with and subvert their legacy. It is a tale of the impossible quest for the original, unhurt self. A girlhood is re-inhabited and oddly transformed as the adult becomes ally of her younger self. Young's writerly range extends through language both candid and stylized, and to forms from ballads to prayer t... + Read More
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Riffs Brick Books Classics 3 Paperback Dennis Lee 9781771313445 $20.00 POETRY Mar 15, 2015

Deluxe redesign of an aching solo situated at the mid-point of a long, melodious career. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the third of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Riffs features a new introduction by the poet Paul Vermeersch, a reprint of an extended interview with Dennis Lee about the book, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. Riffs is a story of a passionate love affair, told in vintage Lee... + Read More
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Sotto Voce Paperback Maureen Hynes 9781771315128 $20.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2019

Poems that give full attention to a world in shambles, a world in which "mercy is failing." Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city's afflicted watershed, she turns her attention to the near and far, shifting it from the First Nations' stolen lands to Syria and the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean; from the deaths of family and friends to the newborns into whose care our endangered planet will pass; and from love'... + Read More
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Standing in the Flock of Connections Paperback Heather Cadsby 9781771314794 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2018

Poems that skitter between life and death, "sleep and hurry," at their heart a kind of tender panic. By turns funny, frank, mysterious, and heartbreaking, Standing in the Flock of Connections, Heather Cadsby's fifth collection of poetry, is one hundred proof associative thought. These poems testify to the human mind's capacity to "do" — taking into account all of the performative, causal, athletic, and sexual connotations of that verb. Many of them come in on an overheard conversation or monologue — mid-fight, mid-stride — and the absent detail... + Read More
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Tell poems for a girlhood Paperback Soraya Peerbaye 9781771315548 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2021

Winner of the 2016 Trillium Book Award * 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist A collection of poems partially based on the Reena Virk murder case.Virk was an Asian adolescent whose drowned body was found in the Gorge Waterway in a Victoria, BC suburb, in 1997. Some of the poems use found material from court transcripts. The murder made international headlines due to the viciousness employed by Virk's assailants: seven girls and one boy between the ages of 13 and 16, five of whom were white. The poems examine in part the poet's remembrances of gi... + Read More
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Tell Them It Was Mozart Paperback Angeline Schellenberg 9781771314428 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2016

Linked poems that uncover the ache and whimsy of raising children on the autism spectrum. Through public judgments, detouring dreams and unspoken prayers, Tell Them It Was Mozart, Angeline Schellenberg's debut collection, traces both a slow bonding and the emergence of a defiant humour. This is a book that keens and cherishes, a work full of the earthiness and transcendence of mother-love. One of the pleasures of this collection is its playful range of forms: there are erasure poems, prose poems, lists, found poems, laments, odes, monologues an... + Read More
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Unidentified Poetic Object Paperback Brian Henderson 9781771315005 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2019

Poems that highlight an excess, an emptiness, and a wilderness on the other side of use. In Unidentified Poetic Object, his twelfth collection of poetry, Brian Henderson strikes from language an "alphabet of lightning": an animacy and urgency in which every object is potent with actions, past and present; every action is alive with the potential of what it might move in the world. And since every object is more than we know in our eagerness to turn it to human use, Henderson wants us to dive into that unknown space. The world is composed of ast... + Read More
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What Kind of Man Are You Paperback Degan Davis 9781771314732 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2018

What does it mean to be a man now? The answers in these poems are bold and deeply moving. The poems in Degan Davis's debut collection, What Kind Of Man Are You, move between the title's societal taunt (prove yourself) and its more tender and inquisitive question (how to be a man in this era?). Davis has guts; he trusts the voice of a poem to draw out those truths that in lesser hands might render us mute. The writing navigates the spaces between traditional male archetypes and 21st century possibilities, through the lenses of music, tribes, war... + Read More
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Wild Madder Paperback Brenda Leifso 9781771315067 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2019

Poems that stride bravely into the day-to-day, recovering the misdirected intensity at its core. Brenda Leifso's Wild Madder is about way-finding — through those moments in which you no longer recognize where you are. It's about not knowing — who you are anymore, how to be in the world, how to love. It's about what's unspoken and about what speaks — conversation with the wild and animate world. It's about marriage, family, motherhood — the drudgery in them and the quiet beauty. This is lyric poetry wracked with pain, rage, and longing. In the b... + Read More
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Yellow Crane Paperback Susan Gillis 9781771314916 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2018

Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin. Yellow Crane, Susan Gillis's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of many views, many voices. A long look at the changing landscape of a Montreal neighbourhood becomes at once a lament and a love poem. A sequence of poems inspired by Japanese tanka take on the cultural weather, core-drilling into the contradictions and uncertainties of the everyday. Writers, artists, thinkers, cooks, and others congregate in a hammock on the edge of a h... + Read More