Author: Aisha Sasha John
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771050712
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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A new collection ablaze with urgency and radiant inquiry from a 2015 finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry A demand and promise; an obligation and challenge; a protest and call: I have to live. Juiced on the ecstasy of self-belief: I have to live. A burgeoning erotics of psychic boldness: I have to live. In which sensitivity is recognized as wealth: I have to live. Trumpeting the forensic authority of the heart: I have to live. This is original ancient poetry. It fashions a universe from its mouth.
Author: Blaine Marchand
Publisher: Buschekbooks
ISBN: 9781894543583
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: League of Canadian Poets
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Author: Susan McMaster
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Press
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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For more than a decade, a group of feminist writers in the League of Canadian Poets, self-dubbed the Feminist Caucus, have been meeting to wrestle with issues of language and gender, to share revelations and convictions and poems, and to reaffirm their place in the community of people who spend much of their lives working to end the violence of language and the silencing of voices that corrupt our society.
Author: Kateri Lanthier
Publisher: Signal Editions
ISBN: 9781550654660
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Siren, Kateri Lanthier's astonishing second book, calls us to attention. In her search for what she calls "compelling melancholy," Lanthier's new poems not only draw on the ghazal's history as love poetry but remind readers of the dangerous and alluring quality of the ancient form itself. The siren was a lethal yet seductive figure, and that sense of power--and as well as her fast-taking bemusement at her own reputation--is present in lines that marry unnerving dream logic to emotional fearlessness. Siren is an uncompromising achievement: an original style at once mysterious, witty and musical that refines and clarifies the world in consistently surprising ways." Call it playing with fire. Call it connect-the-dots lightning."
Author: John Emil Vincent
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228010314
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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The past grabs back / what it lets us handle Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide’s wreckage. After John Emil Vincent’s best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre. Vincent sorts through and tries to arrange cosmologies, eloquence, narrative, insight, only to find fatal limitations. He tries to trick tragedy into revealing itself by means of costume, comedy, thought experiment, theatre of the absurd, and Punch and Judy. The poems progress steadily from the erotic and mythic to the lapidary and biblical, relentlessly constructing images, finding any way to bring the world into the light – what there is of light, when the light is on. In his most personal book, Vincent moves from stark innocence through awful events and losses, to something like acceptance without wisdom – Jonah spit back onto the sand with little to report but that he’s home.
Author: Jillian Christmas
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551527987
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who “speaks things into being,” Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. Christmas draws a circle around the things she calls “holy”: the family line that cannot find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken and broken and new again; the lover lost, the friend lost, and the loss itself; and the hands that hold them all with brilliant, tender care. Expansive and beautiful, these poems allow readers to swim in Jillian Christmas’s mother-tongue and to dream at her shores. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Author: Al Rempel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781896949697
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Undiscovered Countryis filled with soulful accomplished writing in a variety of lyrical modes, including the long poem. When someone we love dies, what we miss are their presences and particulars. In this new book Rempel journeys through the grieving process, exploring death and loss, and the "dark night of the soul"; through the filters of the geographies and seasons of northern BC. What he finds is an "undiscovered country." Even the bright clouds in spring or the colours of fall, or an afternoon with his daughter, offer an opportunity for the poet to contemplate his existence and rework his worldview. In this new country, he finds a measure of hope, even in the darkest night; like a moon, illuminating a road by the river.
Author: John La Greca
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771712750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Tom Dawe
Publisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781550817553
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***2020 RELIT AWARDS: LONG SHORTLIST*** For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, reprinting each of Dawe's published collections while gathering previously uncollected poems along with a stunning body of new work. This volume stands as a testament to a monumental achievement for readers both at home and abroad.
