An inspiring collection of musical poetry about the women and men who have made our world a better place.
Whimsical, absurd and simply hilarious, this collection of mistakes, malapropisms and misinterpretations will have any devotee of literature laughing.
An intricate and beautiful collection of essays considering humanity’s relationship with the northern land that the author calls home.
A triumphant, lyrical portrait of two extraordinary swimmers: one destined for fame and glory, the other on a path toward obscurity and ruin.
With rich language and startling imagery Ken Howe renews our understanding of eco-poetry and of the cities we live in.
An array of poems that explore the depth and breadth of the city, capturing both its darkness and its charm.
A sharp-edged and darkly comic assessment of how women heroes are portrayed in popular culture.
A fond, quirky and wry collection of sketches that captures the heart of Hamilton.
A shimmering tapestry of family, physics, ghosts and storytelling.
Sequins, pasties, dead centrefolds and freshly plowed fields – Archive of the Undressed will change the way you think of men’s magazines.
A re-release of this out-of-print classic, illustrated with the stunning woodcuts of Wesley Bates.
A brilliant incantation of myth, poetry and language.
Spare, elegant poetry that highlights the disconnect between love and travel.
A deeply personal collection of essays on the muse, memory and creativity.
With inimitable style Naomi Wakan takes on aging and death in this witty and wise collection of essays.
Identity, history and the ties that bind a community sparkle in this debut novel.
Haunted and haunting, Dying a Little is a riveting collection of poetry, spiky with grief and memory.
Sharp as slivers of glass, the poems in A Difficult Beauty cannot be forgotten.
A thoughtful and engaging introduction to the diverse world of Canadian creative nonfiction.
Just Like Her (Tout comme elle, in French) is a searing and daring work of poetry, written for the theatre, about the inevitability of loss and the enduring nature of love.
Choyce's new book is a send up of a traditional self-help book.
The Islands is a voyage through images of islands and water and an exploration of memory, ritual, grief and childhood.
From the front porch to Toys "R" Us, Glen Downie playfully, and poetically, reveals the world we live in.
Cornelia Hoogland takes the story of Little Red Riding Hood and turns it inside out in this sensuous Canadian retelling.
Zombies, modernism, post-modernism and dangerous women mingle in this fascinating look at the history and impact of the comic book superhero.
Humour and humanity mix beautifully in an eye-opening debut collection.
Recipes and memories weave a beguiling tale that spans the life of a remarkable prairie woman and captures the vanishing stories of the Great Depression.
A vivid and sensitive poetry-portrait of a pioneering woman photographer and the British Columbia forests she captured on film.
The poetry of Griselda García is a hallucinatory journey through a landscape haunted by startling images of sensuality and desolation, humour and conflict, passion and suffering.
This lively conversation covers almost every genre – fiction, essays, poetry, biography, science and the arts – and Naomi’s tart observations on both books and authors frees readers to consider what they actually enjoy reading, rather than what they
An exploration of the injustices and exploitation of Africa
Turning the Corner at Dusk is a searing collection of poetry.
It addresses the crisis of young black masculinity in cities, flirting with language that is street savvy and involves the reader in the creation and application of stereotypes.
In a portrait-gallery of poems, Richard Lemm considers everything from the history of war in the United States to an undertakers’ convention in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Next to Nothing is composed of poetry that is raw with honesty, written in a voice that asks for no sympathy and gives no quarter.
This collection is a philosophical and perceptive memoir of a time in author Lesley Choyce's life when he'd been knocked down "several rungs on the wobbly ladder I was climbing."
Reticent Bodies is Toronto author Moez Surani's long-awaited debut collection
Editors Jamie Dopp and Richard Harrison have put together a wide-ranging collection of essays that examine all aspects of Canada's beloved sport.
A passionate and thoughtful call to action on deeply troubling issues in Western society.
In a darkly elegant collection of verse, Robert Moore examines his family, his future and cows. These poems border on noir, with the collection interspersing philosophy, sardonic wit and arresting imagery.
Lynes distills Canada into poetry; curling, spring in Saskatoon and grape vines in Antigonish weave the country into the book.
In sure and tender poetry, Chris Pannell looks into the rearview mirror of his bus - and his life - to celebrate the humanity of his passengers, and himself.
Tied together only by the touch of the Baltic Sea, the poems in this anthology bring the invigorating voices and visions of Northern Europe to anglophone readers.
Douglas Burnet Smith imagines the inner life of a scientific genius, mother, wife and lover in both verse and prose poems.
Heather Spears is an award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and she has published several collections of drawings.
poetry that breaks boundaries of narrative and time
Berger juxtaposes ordinary objects with unusual contexts to achieve extraordinary and thought-provoking results
Karate, fatherhood, travel, and Italian-Canadian identity are the cornerstones of this sinewy premiere collection by Toronto poet Domenico Capilongo
A gritty, original collection on a subject rarely addressed: the surprising affinities between crime and poetry.
In this witty and energetic collection, Naomi Beth Wakan explores all aspects of writing - from the movement of inspiration to the art of the back cover endorsement
Under the Wings of Africa is a provocative mélange of poetry, memoir, and letters to a lover chronicling the author’s visit to South Africa in the company of his wife.
Selected Portraits celebrates selected poetry from Ron Charach’s seven previous collections
A rich and elegant collection in which the author fuses his reverence for our natural environment with his desire to deepen his understanding of humanity.
With a poet's turn of phrase and an artist's eye for detail, Noteboom captures the joys and sorrows of her daughter's first year.
Raymond Knister was a rising Canadian literary star when he died mysteriously of drowning in 1932. In this debut collection Micheline Maylor considers the circumstances surrounding Knister’s sudden death and captures the voices of those caught up in thi
Stenson offers beautifully-shaped poems that show the living how to find space for the dead in their own lives.
Downie’s polished poems reveal hard truths as well as moments of tenderness and wonder.
This is a vibrant, warm and wry collection, a remarkable book.
In Primer on the Hereafter, Steve McOrmond distills the fleeting beauties and lingering pains of daily life into darkly elegant, elegaic poems.
ime, 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.
In this lively, perceptive, and encouraging book Naomi Beth Wakan shares her experiences as an older writer, from dealing with ageism to working around a sometimes erratic memory, providing valuable insights to other older writers.
In this collection he remembers some of the times and people he has known and for the first time shares his own poetic works.
The Fist of Remembering is a collection of poetry that starts with death and ends with life. Nason begins with the death of his partner from cancer, and then weaves through his experience, remembering, grieving, and celebrating his love following the deat
In Shall: ghazals, Catherine Owen has created a collection of spare and haunting beauty. These poems, based on the Persian ghazal form, catalogue a series of losses.
Scoring in Injury Time is about endings. It is likely the last collection of poetry that will be published by the distinguished poet, Francis Sparshott.
Erin Noteboom's is an elemental poetry of bones, salt, water, dust, and at the same time a celebration of all things as holy. In these arias of praise and prayer, her gift is to flare the ordinary detail as well as the extraordinary event into visions, me
An unconventional 'translation' of Shakespeare's sonnets that highlights the homo-erotic subtext of the poetry, with the original sonnets printed beside Rhenisch's new versions.
In this collection of poetry and collage, Stan Rogal tackles all of our myths and monsters.
Governor General Award-nominated poet Richard Harrison’s latest collection is a meditation on fathers, fatherhood, God and war.
A strong debut collection from Montreal poet Oana Avasilichioaei
With lively and witty verse, Naomi Beth Wakan investigates the big and little questions in life, considering art, ageing, gardening, the universe and preparing for death.
From Japan’s subtle intricacies to the harsh realities of the Trans-Mongolian Express, Tierney captures the experience of movement and the freedom and dislocation of the traveller with potent imagery and persuasive verse.
This volume charts the course of a poetic career which has seen Tregebov consistently praised for her elegant writing, carefully shaped lines, and strong poetic voice, all of which are showcased in this new collection.
Steve McOrmond captures what it's like to love and leave your hometown in Lean Days, his debut collection of poetry.
Lesley-Anne Bourne has written a book of poems about the experience of loss and suffering, and of ultimate recovery from anorexia.
As a skilled poet, she is able to turn her observations into lively, amusing, and often quintessentially urban poems.
Forever the Last Time, the second book of poetry by Jim Slominski, chronicles the lives affected by the illness of the poet’s oldest child, Jake.
Richard Harrison thrilled poetry and hockey lovers with a collection of poetry devoted to the great Canadian game.
Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska is Erin Noteboom’s remarkable debut collection of poetry. Based on the recollections of a World War II Veteran who asks to never have his name put on anything, Ghost Maps introduces us to the intimacies of war with poem
Stan Rogal starts ( sub rosa ), his seventh collection of poetry, by defining the rose as a highly complex symbol. The book itself is also highly complex, and often symbolic.
Left Fields, Jeanette Lynes's second collection of poetry with Wolsak and Wynn, consolidates her reputation for writing clear-eyed, accessible and deadly funny poetry.
Douglas Barbour, an innovative poet keenly attuned to the spoken word, adapts the ancient verse form of the ghazal in this contemporary collection.
Whether Dwyer explores the tenuous connections between generations of those caught in the fabric of history.
There are leaps of knowing here, risks taken and pledges kept. There's a brilliant clairvoyance running through these pages, a rare perceptual gift, a deep sensing of inner and outer worlds. These poems give us back wonder, shadow and the sheer joy of lan
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
John Weier gives us not the composer or the performer but rather the Stradivari longing, the violinmaker's poems of work and love, the pleasures of shaping, a radical genesis story. We learn a new harmony.
Four poetic narratives, each evolving its own form - exuberant or analytic, intimate or multi-voiced - exactly as necessary.
Glen Downie took pilgrimage leave from his role as a clinical social worker to "leave behind the silencing/ cancers and wander/ a geography of voices."
In Icon Driven, poem after poem swings softly open on glimpses of what remains
Occasionally a new book of poetry appears which astonishes us with the accuracy of its aim.
These poems both praise and commemorate the material world in all its beauty and fleetingness; they speak of rejoicing through grief and grieving through joy, of loss and recovery, of bereavement and resilience.
The Wrecks of Eden re-animates, superbly, the corpses of the fauna so blithely tortured, slaughtered, wasted, by our civilization's pursuit of ecocide.
For over forty years Douglas Lochhead has delighted readers with the deceptive simplicity of his poetry.
In Douglas Burnet Smith's poetic sequence "The Killed," a young woman translator who has endured the siege of Sarajevo revisits, through "translations" for the killed, the trauma of having witnessed the destruction of the city, and the deaths of countless
In 1999 and 2000, two Victoria teenagers were convicted of the murder of their schoolfellow, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk. Of the more than 500 drawings she prepared as courtroom artist for the trials, Heather Spears has selected some 50 to accompany the
Sherman always seems to be listening to the voice of Canadian soil and landscape at the same time as he is attentive to the great European metaphysical theme of the soul in conflict with the world and time. - Fraser Sutherland
Richard Lemm's poetry arcs from the deeply interior - mapping the core of masculinity from childhood crimes and losses and shames.
Sarah Klassen's intelligent lyrical poetry and prose give a strong voice to the brilliant, startling, enigmatic figure of Simone Weil.
This poet has a remarkable naturalist's eye, a painterly eye.
Rogal's mental weather often starts froma a very traditional place - an eclogue, a love poem - and wanders off through many asides. The effect is both distracting an alluring, with wordplay, anagrams and lines like brief ruminative essays embodying his re
Downie's poetry carries us to the precipice where the heart of human illness and suffering is in full view.
At its best, poetry is the true vocabulary of experience. Jeanette Lynes's poems - visceral and full of heart - return the power of the ordinary and extraordinary moments of life with language that is vivid, humorous, intensely felt. - Helen Humphreys
Anyone who has watched Heather Spears drawing her fast, incisive portraits will have been astonished by the sureness of her hand and the sympathy of her eye.
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 identificati
Richard Harrison's fourth book, Big Breath of a Wish, delves deeply into the linguistic discoveries children make in their first two years of life.
Julie McNeill's long-awaited first collection will confirm what poets close to her have known for years. She is an original, whose craft is as seamless and natural as her voice. The intimacy and eroticism, of her poems are an antidote to the cold cynicism
Lyric and experimental poetry.
These poems, by turns tender, grim, and shocking, and are about sex, separation, anguish, beauty, the blues, and all other varieties of love and loss.
The Church Not Made with Hands
"[Polly Fleck] outlines ordinary tableaus of the social world and invests them with magical vitality, symbolic tensions, ironic facination and an insistent aesthetic passion." - Richard Lemm, ARC
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry
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