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Resumption of Play, The

By (author) Gary Geddes
Categories: Poetry

The gripping title poem of The Resumption of Play, which won the 2015 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, dramatizes the traumatic experience and enduring legacy of Canada’s Indian residential schools. ...

La main hantée

Une femme fait euthanasier son chat, décision qui suscite chez elle une prise de conscience de sa capacité à tuer. Elle écrit, la main hantée par l’Histoire, elle retourne jusqu’à la mémoire ...

The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out

By (author) Karen Solie
Categories: Poetry

In her fourth collection, and the first since the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning Pigeon, Karen Solie advances her extraordinary poetics of impetus and second thoughts. Ferrying the intimate self through ...

Milton Acorn

Compiled by Kent Martin & Errol Sharpe
Photographs by Kent Nason
Categories: Poetry

When Canadian icon and original Canadian People’s Poet Milton Acorn was passed over for the Governor General’s Award for his 1969 collection I’ve Tasted My Blood, several of his peers, including ...

Short Talks

By (author) Anne Carson
Categories: Poetry

Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material.

On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six ...

Au monde

« Antoine Dumas recense les grandes beautés et les petites tragédies qui émaillent la marche du monde, du minéral au végétal, sans oublier l’humain. Il déploie une langue inventive et libre, ...

Découper le silence

« Composé à la fois de ses poèmes à elle et de brefs essais inspirés par la lecture, la pratique et l’enseignement de cette forme héritée du XVIIe siècle de Bashô, ce “regard amoureux” ...

Pages intimes de ma peau

Pages intimes de ma peau réunit trois recueils de Josée Yvon parus aux Écrits des Forges entre 1977 et 1986. La poète, héritière de la Beat Generation, a aussi été influencée par l’art lesbien ...

Halifax Hal

By (author) Nick Thran
Illustrated by Gabe Foreman
Categories: Poetry
Series: Odd Little Books

Sad, poetic tale of Hal, a lobster from Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a talent for playing the guitar.

A lovely poem for children and adults by the winner of the 2011 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Nick ...

Fugitive Horizons

By (author) Henry Beissel
Categories: Poetry
Series: Essential Poets Series

These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time. The counter-intuitive insights of modern science here become ...