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14 Tractors
Gerald Hill
Gerald Hill
In 14 Tractors, tractors pull versions of story, poetic form, landscape, light, and family history, offering themselves as vehicles for looking and remembering.
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Aphelion
Jenna Butler
Jenna Butler
Aphelion is about distances, simultaneously belonging to two countries but being rooted in neither.
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Bindery (The)
Shane Rhodes
Shane Rhodes
This third collection from award-winning poet Shane Rhodes takes off in full flight from where his other books left off. Tracing concurrent themes of travel, love, personal and collective history, all in a rich multifaceted style.
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Blue Feast
Shawna Lemay
Shawna Lemay
An eloquent collection of poems from award-winning Canadian wordsmith Shawna Lemay that examines motherhood, marriage, and the prosaic nature of everyday life.
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Collected Works of Pat Lowther (The)
Christine Wiesenthal
Christine Wiesenthal
The Collected Works of Pat Lowther brings together, for the first time, the complete contents of the poetry editions published by Pat Lowther.
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fluttertongue 4: adagio for the pressured surround
Steven Ross Smith
Steven Ross Smith
fluttertongue 4: adagio for the pressured surround is poetry at its most eloquent. In this long poem, Smith imagistically evokes birds and plants, physical torture, and human relationships as he delves into the meaning of words and ponders language itsel
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Fragmenting Body etc.
Doug Barbour
Doug Barbour
Innovative long poems by a well-known poet and critic, including an elegiac sequence for bpNichol, a poetic response to the art of Edmonton printmaker Liz Ingram, a poem written daily during the Gulf War, and the long title poem exploring aspects of what
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Holding Pattern
Shane Rhodes
Shane Rhodes
From the author of The Wireless Room comes Holding Pattern, a brand new collection of poetry. In this collection, Rhodes explores the boundaries between poetry and fiction through a selection of lyrical poems and two long poems.
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In Visible Ink: crypto-frictions
Aritha van Herk & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Aritha van Herk & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Aritha van Herk explores other texts, other bodies, other moments arising from the otheredness of the writer in the uneasy position of critic.
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Labyrinths of Voice: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch
Shirley Neuman
Shirley Neuman
The voices of other novelists, poets, and critics participate in this series of conversations—they agree or disagree, illustrate or elaborate on Robert Kroetsch’s own words as he talks about literary influence, the importance of game theory in literature,
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Letters From Deadman's Cay
Nina Berkhout
Nina Berkhout
A fictional account of an actual experience that took place on an out-island in The Bahamas. Through a collection of first-person prose poems arranged in a narrative, the author of the letters describes the feelings of isolation she endured on a small, re
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Lyric/Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry
Doug Barbour & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Doug Barbour & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
The very best of Barbour’s criticism over the past two decades, Lyric/Anti-lyric is the latest addition to the Writer as Critic series, edited by Smaro Kamboureli.
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moving to the clear
Jason Dewinetz
Jason Dewinetz
This is the first full-length collection of poetry by Jason Dewinetz. The work contains four sections, including: A Guide in the Birds of the North Okanagan;" "Géricault’s Severed Limbs Paintings;" "moving to the clear;" and "In Theory.""
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My Beloved Wager
Erín Moure
Erín Moure
In her essays and linguistic-sculptural interventions on what poetry makes possible, Moure reveals why she has placed her bets on poetry as life.
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Nightmarker
Meredith Quartermain
Meredith Quartermain
In expeditions to City Hall, the police station, the sugar refinery, and the courthouse, Nightmarker explores the human city as an animal behaviour, a museum, and a dream of modernity.
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Paper Trail
Arleen Paré
Arleen Paré
Frances, a manager for a large corporation, finds her peace of mind unravelling as she becomes overwhelmed by the destructive bureaucratic nature of the work world she lives in. Frances starts to lose small body parts, hears mysterious Leider music boomin
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Spaces in Between (The): Selected Poems, 1965-2001
Stephen Scobie
Stephen Scobie
A retrospective selection of poems by Governor General’s Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie, arranged in chronological order from 1965 to the end of 2001.
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This Way the Road
Nina Berkhout
Nina Berkhout
Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of assembling a blindingly white museum display on the Hindenburg Zepplin.
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Vancouver Walking
Meredith Quartermain
Meredith Quartermain
Journey along Vancouver’s colourful city streets, past its landmarks, through the sounds and smells of Chinatown. Ramble along the seawall on English Bay, ride the curving streets to Kitsilano on a winter afternoon...
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were the bees
Andy Weaver
Andy Weaver
were the bees is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice.
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Wireless Room (The)
Shane Rhodes
Shane Rhodes
The Wireless Room is a stunning first collection of poems ranging from studies in western pastoral history through highflying evocations of the sub-atomic particles to deeply personal poems about and for parents.
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