Poetry. Erebus, the dark and shadowy outer realm of the Underworld in Greek mythology, becomes a place of transition and becoming in Julia McCarthy's RETURN FROM EREBUS. The poems articulate this dark
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 D
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
Poetry. With crisp, elegant language, sharp wit and resonant images, Julie Bruck's new book gentles the largesse of life out of its many smallnesses. The way a straw buoys up in a can of pop, or a fri
Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003In Margaret Avisons new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger ones. Her sli
A hockey saga, wrapping the game?s story in the "intense, moody, contradictory&3quot; character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies.Denied the leap and dash up the ice,what goalies know
Poems that echo Satie's haunting music and refract the ironies of the Parisian Dada movement.A man who might be Erik Satie floats, à la Magritte, above Paris rooftops, thinking of a newly-extinct spec
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
An elegiac and incisive debut that blends poems of social justice with poems of ordinary life. In her first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa's life--West
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
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 wit
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, Heathe
Anxious, twitchy, urgent poems--a collection that's at once sardonic and "chronically wishful." Reckon, Steve McOrmond's first book of poems since his acclaimed 2010 collection The Good News about A
Poems about commitment and catastrophe,from a voice of intense lyrical skepticism and wonderful tonal mobility. False Spring, Darren Bifford's second collection of poetry, is a book largely concerne
A wide-ranging meditation by an accomplished poet on the uncontainable materiality of the world.From yoghurt tubs to pop-up books to bobcats, from cement trucks to lost socks to the products of concep
Lyric poems built with consummate skill by a poet at the peak of her powers.Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions--What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is
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 goali
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it
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 taun
