Harold Rhenisch’s first artistic love was the theatre. Twenty-eight years after first playing Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he brings Shakespeare alive for us in this sparkling and inventive ...

Call them prayers or curses. Fictions or true stories. Mary Dalton’s new poems are voices caught in print, fashioned from the vigorous idioms and cadences of Newfoundland speech. Readers will, likely ...

One of the greatest mad, sad literary love affairs of the twentieth century was that between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In her collection of poems, Hurdle adapts her own research on their lives ...

Nicole Brossard’s sensual and provocative investigations of our bodies ? the physical and spiritual museums of who we are and what we desire ? pulse and surprise at every turn. These poems sculpt a ...

Laura Lush’s new collection of poems is nature poetry at its strongest and most insightful, the images connecting to give voice to our many uncertainties as we creep further into an already darkening ...

In these elegiac poems, George Payerle registers the experience of life continuing after the death of his closest friend, the BC poet and historian Charles "Red" Lillard. The poems describe their last ...

Connie Fife is one of Canada’s warrior poets. Poems for a New World, her third book of poems, refuses to take prisoners. She writes of Oka and Gustafson Lake, of the police shooting of a Native mother ...

For rob mclennan, poetry is a way of seeing, and what is seen in harvest: a book of signifiers is always a landscape as it inhabits the poet and his various personae. In the absence of capital letters, ...

Lifted from an ancient Chinese astronomical text, the title Dream Pool Essays hints at Gil McElroy’s interest in cosmology: always a construct made visible between the elements of chaos.

These poems ...

Since 1975, Ken Norris has produced some of Canada’s most intriguing poetry. Whether detailing the amorous lives of produce ( ‘Vegetables’ ), documenting travels to the South Seas ( ‘The Better ...