POETRY

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We, Beasts

By (author) Oana Avasilichioaei
Categories: Poetry

Winner of the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers' Federation

With undeniable verve, Oana Avasilichioaei upends expectations of literature and poetry in this fascinating collection. We, ...

Terracotta Army, The

By (author) Gary Geddes
Categories: Poetry

In 1985, Gary Geddes won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region, for The Terracotta Army, a brilliant sequence of his Chinese sonnets. The nine-couplet poems were inspired by his 1981 visit to ...

Skin Like Mine

By (author) Garry Gottfriedson
Categories: Poetry

In Skin Like Mine Garry Gottfriedson offers a suite of poems that peel away the skin of contemporary first nations society to reveal an inside view of individual experience. Gottfriedson speaks of “minds ...

Mama Dada

By (author) Jan Horner
Categories: Poetry

Open Wide a Wilderness

The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada’s regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the ...

Pigeon

By (author) Karen Solie
Categories: Poetry

Karen Solie launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine (2001), finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of many other awards and citations. She continued her upward ...

Mother Time

By (author) Joanne Arnott
Categories: Poetry

After reading this collection, you will never look at mothers - at the playground, at the elementary school, or across the kitchen table - in quite the same way again. Beginning with a poem of pregnancy, ...

O Cadoiro

By (author) Erín Moure
Categories: Poetry

O Cadoiro is an astonishing exploration of lyricism by one of our greatest poets, best known in recent years for her challenging experimental work. But where experimental poets often disdain lyric, Moure ...

Seminal

Edited by John Barton & Billeh Nickerson
Categories: Poetry

A groundbreaking, comprehensive anthology of Canadian gay male poetry, the first of its kind, that reveals a national queer poetic that is equal parts eloquent, subversive, and moving. The material, from ...

fluttertongue 4

By (author) Steven Ross Smith
Categories: Poetry

Fluttertongue 4: adagio for the pressured surround is poetry at its most eloquent. In this long poem, Smith imagistically evokes birds and plants, physical torture, and human relationships, as he delves ...