The poems are informed by the author's long sojourns in both Canada and Europe, and a new horizon appears: the author gets acquainted with a group of refugees from the Near East and in some of the poems describes their predicament and her own identification with these homeless people, who begin to define a new country of the mind. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award.

The Word for Sand

Literature & Fiction

Spears, Heather

Poetry

Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.

Sweet Betsy from Pike is Stan Rogal's first book of poetry. "It's as though Stan Rogal had snuck up on a whole regiment of stock cultural myths and assumption, armed only with folksong, imaginative muscle, abundant mother wist, and a wicket talent for subversive wordplay: it's the surprise that enlivens; the trickster's art." - Don McKay

Sweet Betsy from Pike

Rogal, Stan

In The Chinese Execution, Polly Fleck uses the framework of a dream-like diplomatic reception to suggest, on the one hand, violent events thought to be occuring off-stage, and to display, on the other hand, the intimate details of real life. Reality so misty it might be a dream is intertwined with dreams so precise they might be reality.

The Chinese Execution

Fleck, Polly

A Tantrum of Synonyms is Cadsby's third book of poetry. "Cadsby's voice is intensely personal, sharp and revelatory as she explores how we create meaning..." - Maureen Hynes

A Tantrum of Synonyms

Cadsby, Heather

The Parable Boat is Hannah Main-van der Kamp's second book of poetry. Her first book, The Gift of Ruin, came out in 1995.

The Parable Boat

Main-van der Kamp, Hannah

A young female translator who has endured the siege of Sarajevo is only now capable of revisiting the trauma of having witnessed the destruction of the city, and the deaths of countless numbers of its inhabitants.

The Killed

Burnet Smith, Douglas

"He is in short, a poet, and a good one. The world he inhabits is a geographically, politically and emotionally extensive one in which he is entirely comfortable in his own skin, and therefore able to register the surrounding phenomena exactly." - Michael Fournier, Hiram Poetry Review

The Way Life Should Be

Norris, Ken

Left Fields

Lynes, Jeanette

Ten years ago, Richard Harrison thrilled poetry and hockey lovers with a collection of poetry devoted to the great Canadian game. This beloved collection has been re-issued with a new selection of poems, "The Hero in Overtime," an essay by the author on ten years of living with hockey poetry, and a foreword by Roy MacGregor. "I was mesmerized by Harrison's writing – his observation that Mark Messier's stare 'weighs 200 pounds'; his descriptions of Don Cherry; his astonishing, yet accurate, comparison of hockey to Sumo wrestling – and I am delighted that, 10 years on, he is back with a new issue of Hero of the Play with all kinds of new writing to fascinate and intrigue and, most importantly, inspire those of us who profoundly believe it is impossible to know this country without knowing its game." – Excerpt from Foreword

Hero of the Play: 10th Anniversary Edition

Harrison, Richard

Time, memory, love and death weave through this intricate and mesmerizing collection of poetry. In this book, Robert Moore has created a museum of stories, people and ideas —some real, some imagined —that captivate the reader. From Joan of Arc, to Rapunzel, to his father, Moore draws ideas and images out of the darkness, making them new and strange, using them to create a rich, shadowy tapestry of verse.

Museum Absconditum

Moore, Robert

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