Poetry

The Year Is a Circle

by Victor Carl Friesen

Taking a series of quotations demonstrating Thoreau's philosophy, Victor Carl Friesen writes a poem for each and illustrates them with outstanding colour photographs.

When September Comes

by Peter Jailall

Peter Jailall continues his search for "home" in his third volume of poetry, exploring the "open, dangerous" landscape of a post-September 11th world.

Weather Report

by Rhonda Batchelor

Batchelor's poems forecast the shifting patterns of a marriage. This work keens to the notes of a personal lament but emerges healed and ultimately blessed.

Purity of Absence

by Dave Margoshes

In Purity of Absence, Dave Margoshes explores love in its waxing and waning, the extravagance of its fullness, the agony of its departure. Like an explorer charting new territory, he casts his eye on the rhythms...

Helsinki Drift

by Donald B. Smith

In these poems Smith takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through Amsterdam's antique streets and canals, Tuscany's sun-soaked landscapes, and more.

Growing Old Together

by Robert W. Nero

Poems in tribute to the author's wife, Ruth - and to "Lady Grayl," the great gray owl Nero adopted in 1984 and who lived with the couple until her death in 2005.

Copper Woman

by Afua Cooper

Afua Cooper's poetry brings mythic, historical, and present-day voices to life, all the way from Africa to the Caribbean to Canada and beyond.

Prime

by Miranda Pearson

Gritty and darkly humorous, Pearson's verses address modern myths head-on. British humour and psychoanalytic and feminist theory meet under the poet's steady gaze.

Iron Mountain

by Mark Frutkin

Of one of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry." Divided into two sections,...

The Gift of Country Life

by Victor Carl Friesen

These poems, grouped into seasonal activities or observations, celebrate the rural world of 1940s farming.

The Alchemy of Happiness

by Marilyn Bowering

Bowering delivers poems that blend of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness.

New Covenant Bound

by Tony Crunk

"Our only sin was not having what they thought was enough. And being forced to take what they called help." Pain and anger resonate deeply in the voice of New Covenant Bound's central narrator. Forced from her...

Twin Cities

by Carol Muske Dukes

A sophisticated and lyrical new collection from one of today's finest living poets.

Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose latest collection, Sparrow, a haunting elegy for her late husband,...

Unmade Roads

by Alan Franks

A collection of moving, witty and passionate poems about love, loss and landscape, about men and women struggling to find meaning in a land reeling from urbanisation. Here too are beautifully crafted homages...

The Lifting Dress

by Lauren Berry

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes.

Lauren Berry's bracing and emotionally charged first collection of poetry delivers visions of a gothic South that Flannery O'Connor would recognize....

World Wheel Vol. IV-VII

by Frithjof Schuon & William Stoddart

During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel, and the same...

World Wheel Vol. I-III

by Frithjof Schuon & William Stoddart

During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel, and the same...

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poetry

by Mark Haddon

From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems.

That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the...

The Woman I Kept to Myself

by Julia Alvarez

The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They...

The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus: A Novel About Marriage, Motherhood, and Mayhem

by Sonya Sones

My name is Holly.

This story is about me—

a writer who's way behind

on her deadline.

But, honestly,

how can I concentrate on my work

when my fiftieth birthday's

rushing at me like a freight train,

my hormones are...