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Poetry

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Gulf Music: Poems - trade paperback
By Robert Pinsky - $15.50 - add to cart

An improvised, even desperate music, yearning toward knowledge across a gulf, informs Robert Pinsky’s first book of poetry since Jersey Rain (2000). On the large scale of war or the personal sca...

 

Here Come the Moonbathers: Poems - trade paperback
By Patricia Young - $17.95 - add to cart

While the tone of Patricia Young's latest collection, Here Come the Moonbathers, is perhaps the more dark and difficult and tragic than her earlier work, beautifully hedonic poems spark and sizzle ...

 

i can still draw - trade paperback
By Heather Spears - $17.00 - add to cart

Heather Spears is an award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and she has published several collections of drawings. Her other books with Wolsak and Wynn include: winner of the CBC Lit...

 

Invasions: New Poems - trade paperback
By Adam Kirsch - $14.95 - add to cart

In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditi...

 

The Invisibility Exhibit - trade paperback
By Sachiko Murakami - $15.95 - add to cart

These poems were written in the political and emotional wake of the “Missing Women” of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Although women had been going missing from the neighbourhood since the late 197...

 

It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems - trade paperback
By Jeannette Lynes - $16.95 - add to cart

In this, her fourth book of poetry, one of Canada's best-loved poets takes on one of the most compelling divas of our time. In sixty-one audacious poems, Jeanette Lynes re-imagines and reanimates t...

 

Jailbreaks and Re-creations: 99 Canadian Sonnets - trade paperback
By Zachariah Wells - $19.95 - add to cart

In 1910 Lawrence J. Burpee published an anthology of 100 Canadian Sonnets. Poet and critic Zachariah Wells figured it was high time for an update on that dusty tome. In Jailbreaks, Wells has gather...

 

Jeremiah, Ohio - trade paperback
By Adam Sol - $18.95 - add to cart

The Biblical prophet Jeremiah is reconceived as a modern protagonist, embarking upon a road trip through rural America in the days before September 11, 2001. Accompanied by his mismatched companion...

 

Living Things - trade paperback
By Matt Rader - $16.95 - add to cart

Written in the year after the birth of Matt Rader's first daughter, Living Things honestly introduces the contradictions of the modern world: "how what we see in daylight is less than whole / and a...

 

Love Letters - hardcover
By Peter Washington (editor) - $18.95 - add to cart

Here are 200 irresistible love letters from over the centuries, love letters both historic and fictional, love letters by poets and by princes, love letters enchanting, tragic, comic, superbly sele...

 

More to Keep Us Warm - trade paperback
By Jacob Scheier - $16.95 - add to cart

Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheier’s debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young man’s mother instigates and informs these investigations, the real...

 

Noble Gas, Penny Black - trade paperback
By David O'meara - $18.00 - add to cart

Many of the poems in Noble Gas, Penny Black explore the subject of departure and arrival, an ongoing theme in David O’Meara’s work. Travel—being between places, in stations and airports and unfamil...

 

Noise from the Laundry - trade paperback
By Weyman Chan - $15.95 - add to cart

Weyman Chan’s second poetry collection elaborates his singular and solitary work on the renaissance of the contemporary lyric form. Unmistakably present in these poems are the sensibilities of Li P...

 

Paradise Lost - trade paperback
By John Milton - $13.00 - add to cart

John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in wor...

 

Paradiso - trade paperback
By Dante - $23.95 - add to cart

With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this...

 

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