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Poetry

This is a selection of our Poetry section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

Augustine in Carthage: And Other Poems - trade paperback
By Alessandro Porco - $16.95 - add to cart

Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic élan. A deeply felt and original collection, this work unders...

 

Ballistics: Poems - hardcover
By Billy Collins - $28.00 - add to cart

A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its ...

 

The Baltic Quintet: Poems from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden - hardcover
By Edita Page (editor) - $25.00 - add to cart

Tied together only by the touch of the Baltic Sea, the poems in this anthology feature the invigorating voices and visions of Northern Europe. The Baltic Quintet gives the reader a taste of the poe...

 

Be Calm, Honey - trade paperback
By David Mcfadden - $18.95 - add to cart

A tour de force of compression, these brief poems (as full and satisfying as his longer narrative works) display McFadden's trademark wit, mischief, curiosity and quirky wisdom. He explores politi...

 

Bush Camp - trade paperback
By Marvin Francis - $15.95 - add to cart

Both a politically engaged achievement and a highly personal one, Bush Camp is a fitting addition to the unmistakeable idiom of Marvin Francis. A dynamic poetry collection of dry wit and powerfu...

 

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - trade paperback
By Michael Ondaatje - $17.95 - add to cart

Funny yet horrifying, improvisational yet highly distilled, unflinchingly violent yet tender and elegiac, Michael Ondaatje’s ground-breaking book The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a highly po...

 

Correction Line - trade paperback
By Dennis Cooley - $15.95 - add to cart

correction line is a powerful and evocative poem sequence that reconstructs memory through ancestral connections, and personal history. The poetry is as fundamental as the southern prairie landscap...

 

Cypress - trade paperback
By Barbara Klar - $18.00 - add to cart

A poetic pilgrimage into the luminous presence of nature. In focusing on the Cypress Hills of southwestern Saskatchewan, this series of linked meditative poems takes the reader to a unique landsca...

 

Dear Darkness: Poems - hardcover
By Kevin Young - $32.00 - add to cart

Las Vegas, Nashville, despair, the Midwest, “Bar-B-Q Heaven” and his family’s Louisiana home: these are the American places that Kevin Young visits in his powerful, heartfelt sixth book of poetry. ...

 

Faceless - trade paperback
By Genni Gunn - $14.95 - add to cart

In Faceless , Genni Gunn explores "the impulse for the edge," a magnetic field between the gloss of the topside world and the grit of the world beneath. Both these landscapes are fascinating and tr...

 

For the Confederate Dead - trade paperback
By Kevin Young - $20.00 - add to cart

The award-winning “lively and excellent collection” (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a ...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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