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Reclamation and Resurgence

By (author) Marilyn Dumont
Edited by Armand Garnet Ruffo
Categories: Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

To describe the writing of Marilyn Dumont is to call her a poet of reclamation and resurgence. Some thirty-five years ago she set about documenting her life as a young Métis woman and telling the story ...

Gay Girl Prayers

By (author) Emily Austin
Categories: Poetry

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

The extreme level of sass in Emily Austin's Gay Girl Prayers does ...

Stations of the Crossed

Finalist, 2023 Book of the Year Award; Finalist, 2023 SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski; Finalist, 2023 Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples? Writing Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards).

Recalling ...

Wet Dream

By (author) Erin Robinsong
Categories: Poetry

Winner 2023 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

Wet Dream is an expansive book of ecological thinking for living on a wet planet on fire. Erotic and political, vibrating with pleasures, medicines, and unrest, these ...

Bear Bones & Feathers

By (author) Louise B. Halfe
Categories: Poetry

In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide.

Employing Indigenous spirituality, ...

On Her Own Terms

By (author) Carolyn Gammon
Categories: Poetry

Internationally acclaimed author Carolyn Gammon conjures a kind and unflinching portrait of her mother’s memory loss—ultimately revealing the love, joy and life which remain even as memory fades. ...

The City That Is Leaving Forever

The City That Is Leaving Forever is a unique twenty-first-century time capsule: an instant-message exchange between Kashmir and British Columbia spanning more than five years in the lives of two Muslim ...

I Am Still Your Negro

By (author) Valerie Mason-John
Categories: Poetry
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series

Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the African Diaspora to the story ...

In on the Great Joke

By (author) Laura Broadbent
Categories: Poetry

In a blend of essayistic poetics, Broadbent wields alchemy, translation and necromancy to bring readers In on the Great Joke.

What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university ...

3 Summers

By (author) Lisa Robertson
Categories: Poetry

A grappling with time, form and embodiment.

Recite your poem to your aunt.
I threw myself to the ground.
Where were you in the night?
In a school among the pines.
What was the meaning of the dream?

Organs, ...