A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with a person who has frontotemporal dementia. Selah, from Psalms and Habakkuk -- to praise, to lift up, to weigh in the balances, to pause,
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 Schellenbe
A powerful grief book--poems that are not so much elegiac as visionary. Stomata, Genevieve Lehr's second collection, asks that language shoulder loss, that it reach out centrifugally, at full metapho
Poetry. 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 poe
Poetry. 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, m
Poetry. 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 argument
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 Mou
A pitch-perfect debut and a call to act in the service of Earth through radiant attention. Humankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of ang
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 t
In her third book of poetry The Perils of Geography, Helen Humphreys charts a world that opens under the prodding and promise of language. With the wit and eye for evocative detail which gained reader
The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a voice that has captured the attention of Canadian poetry readers for the last half-dozen years. Deeply centred in domestic life, Goye
Instructions: An elimination dance begins with a crowded dance floor. At a signal, the band stops playing and the announcer reads an elimination, say, "Any lover who has gone into a flower shop on Val
Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the happiness. Otherwise you could train for life, y
My great- grandmother slept in a boxcar on the night before she made the crossing. The steel ended in Sangudo then, there was no trestle on the Pembina, no siding on the other side. They crossed by fe
