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The big theme—perhaps the only theme—is the narrative that unfolds between the bookends of our birth and our death. Each of us is born into a time and place—our present—and must answer the questions only we can answer for ourselves: Who are we? What will we do? What...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2016-03-15
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Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton’s diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps best known for his acclaimed solo sound performances and his...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2015-11-07
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Laurier Poetry
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With grace and courage Ann Elizabeth Carson looks to the past from the perspective of a contemporary feminist. A lively evocation of her aunts and their home in Cheltenham, Ontario, reveals the rich and powerful ground for the poet's own emerging sense of herself. As...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2015-08-30
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Ilona Martonfi’s third poetry collection, The Snow Kimono, can best described as an obsession with truth. The Snow Kimono invites the reader into a magical world where reality shimmers with the fragile beauty of the moment and the dark, haunting awareness of a painful...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2015-08-30
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Increasingly known as the “poet’s poet,” Governor General’s Award–winner Phil Hall has long been a constructor of intricate sequences, collecting and arranging lines and phrases, artifacts, and small revelations. He writes on influences, literary and local; he writes of...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-07-23
Collection :
Laurier Poetry
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Dancing on a Pin is Katerina Fretwell’s eighth poetry, and art, collection. Honest, stark, brave, and at times a humorous evoking of feelings and ideas, this collection of evocative poems is focused on the poet’s husband's illness (cancer) and eventual death, her close...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2015-06-15
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Titled after the Latin term for “unknown land”—a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented—Terra Incognita is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings both buried...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2015-06-15
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Jernigan and Jones celebrate the vitality and diversity of poetry inspired by, or in conversation with, myth. Looking back to the early 20th century and forward to the contemporary, Earth and Heaven gathers voices and stories as it moves through "four ages" of mythic...
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Parution :
2015-05-25
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A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman. Antony Di Nardo's third collection of poems occupies the air between Canada and Lebanon, viewer and painting, victim and triggerman, reader and page. Blending a bohemian ebullience with a...
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Brick Books
Parution :
2015-04-01
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Deluxe redesign of an aching solo situated at the mid-point of a long, melodious career.
On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the third of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Riffs...
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Brick Books
Parution :
2015-04-01
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Under the sugar maples of Montreal, family life is given mythic dimensions
in this sweeping novella-in-verse.
If Dionysus and Ariadne lived in Montreal in the late twentieth century, would he serve veal stuffed with apples and paté de fois gras? Coach nubile young...
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Brick Books
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2015-04-01
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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 new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2015-04-01
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A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman.
Antony Di Nardo's third collection of poems occupies the air between Canada and Lebanon, viewer and painting, victim and triggerman, reader and page. Blending a bohemian ebullience with a...
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Brick Books
Parution :
2015-04-01
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In The Family China, her second book of poems, Ann Shin examines the decentering experiences of migration, loss and death, and the impulse to build anew.In five suites threaded through with footnote-like fragments that haunt and ambush the text like memories, the book...
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Brick Books
Parution :
2015-03-18
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Astatine is an Italian girl, who like Dante's Beatrice, haunts the narrator of Michael Kenyon's incandescent fourth book of poetry. Named after a radioactive element whose isotopes endure half-lives of mere seconds, she is simultaneously a disappearing and abiding...
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Brick Books
Parution :
2015-02-06
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Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky’s poems, one may perceive the attunement of her...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-01-13
Collection :
Laurier Poetry
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A bilingual English-Italian collection of love poems, Text Me/Dimmelo per SMS expresses through language and metaphor the many ways to say "I love you." Calabrò's poems often evolve from the experiences of the body: from sensual impressions, "Your cheek on my...
Editeur :
Signature Editions
Parution :
2014-09-22
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This Drawn & Quartered Moon makes pre-millennial San Francisco its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam vet named Othello, a Mafia don, a drug mule en route to jail, Elvis Presley (the...
Editeur :
Anvil Press
Parution :
2014-08-13
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This anthology brings together, for the first time, the complete published works of Jewish Canadian poet Miriam Waddington and features a rare selection of previously unpublished poems. Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2014-05-08
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This anthology brings together, for the first time, the complete published works of Jewish Canadian poet Miriam Waddington and features a rare selection of previously unpublished poems. Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2014-05-08
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