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The Autobiography of Red
Written by Anne Carson
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
National book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje
"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in... Read more >
Written by Anne Carson
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
National book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje
"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in... Read more >
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Red Doc>
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names.
To...
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Paradoxides
Written by Don McKay
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $18.99
Multi-award-winning poet Don McKay returns with a startling collection of new poems, his first since his Griffin Poetry Prize winning book, Strike/Slip
Don McKay is known, among other things, as Canada's foremost poet of the natural world. Readers have come to expect a playful extravagance in his poetry. Most recently, he has... Read more >
Written by Don McKay
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $18.99
Multi-award-winning poet Don McKay returns with a startling collection of new poems, his first since his Griffin Poetry Prize winning book, Strike/Slip
Don McKay is known, among other things, as Canada's foremost poet of the natural world. Readers have come to expect a playful extravagance in his poetry. Most recently, he has... Read more >
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Rain; road; an open boat
Written by Roo Borson
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $18.99
The first new collection of poetry from Roo Borson since her highly acclaimed collection Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of three major prizes, including the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Roo Borson's new collection continues the exploration of form, tone, musicality, and content begun in her widely acclaimed previous collection. Here, co-existing peacefully... Read more >
Written by Roo Borson
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $18.99
The first new collection of poetry from Roo Borson since her highly acclaimed collection Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of three major prizes, including the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Roo Borson's new collection continues the exploration of form, tone, musicality, and content begun in her widely acclaimed previous collection. Here, co-existing peacefully... Read more >
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The Cinnamon Peeler
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
Michael Ondaatje’s selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist. Read more >
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
Michael Ondaatje’s selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist. Read more >
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Handwriting
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --Newsday
Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes... Read more >
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --Newsday
Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Stranger Music
Selected Poems and Songs
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2011
Price: $11.99
For the first time in paperback--the selected work of the legendary singer, poet, and performer. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including 11 previously unpublished poems--and demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Selected Poems and Songs
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2011
Price: $11.99
For the first time in paperback--the selected work of the legendary singer, poet, and performer. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including 11 previously unpublished poems--and demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Folk
Written by Jacob McArthur Mooney
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $18.99
The two sections in Jacob McArthur Mooney’s virtuoso collection – one rural in orientation, one urban – open an intricate conversation. Taking as its inciting incident the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia, before moving to the neighbourhoods around Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Folk is... Read more >
Written by Jacob McArthur Mooney
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $18.99
The two sections in Jacob McArthur Mooney’s virtuoso collection – one rural in orientation, one urban – open an intricate conversation. Taking as its inciting incident the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia, before moving to the neighbourhoods around Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Folk is... Read more >
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Is
Written by Anne Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 104 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $18.99
Written by Anne Simpson
Format: Trade Paperback, 104 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $18.99
A stunning new book of poems from the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Loop.
A cell is a world within a world within a world. In this remarkable new collection, Anne Simpson finds form and inspiration in the cell – as it divides and multiplies, expanding beyond its borders. As these poems...
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Small Mechanics
Written by Lorna Crozier
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $18.99
A radiant collection of new poems from one of Canada's most renowned and well-read poets.
The poems in Lorna Crozier's rich and wide-ranging new collection, a modern bestiary and a book of mourning, are both shadowed and illuminated by the passing of time, the small mechanics of the body as it ages... Read more >
Written by Lorna Crozier
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $18.99
A radiant collection of new poems from one of Canada's most renowned and well-read poets.
The poems in Lorna Crozier's rich and wide-ranging new collection, a modern bestiary and a book of mourning, are both shadowed and illuminated by the passing of time, the small mechanics of the body as it ages... Read more >
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The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Written by Paul Vermeersch
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 30, 2010
Price: $11.99
Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a... Read more >
Written by Paul Vermeersch
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 30, 2010
Price: $11.99
Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a... Read more >
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Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960
Selected by Brian Trehearne
Format: eBook, 460 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $18.99
The best in four decades of exceptional Canadian poetry, now in a limited hardcover edition.
The poets in this anthology, all of whom matured creatively between 1920 and 1960, considered it one of their primary obligations to modernize Canadian writing, to bring the country's poetry out of late Romantic stasis after the... Read more >
Selected by Brian Trehearne
Format: eBook, 460 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $18.99
The best in four decades of exceptional Canadian poetry, now in a limited hardcover edition.
The poets in this anthology, all of whom matured creatively between 1920 and 1960, considered it one of their primary obligations to modernize Canadian writing, to bring the country's poetry out of late Romantic stasis after the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960
Selected by Brian Trehearne
Format: Trade Paperback, 488 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $24.95
The best in four decades of exceptional Canadian poetry, now in a limited hardcover edition.
The poets in this anthology, all of whom matured creatively between 1920 and 1960, considered it one of their primary obligations to modernize Canadian writing, to bring the country's poetry out of late Romantic stasis after the... Read more >
Selected by Brian Trehearne
Format: Trade Paperback, 488 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $24.95
The best in four decades of exceptional Canadian poetry, now in a limited hardcover edition.
The poets in this anthology, all of whom matured creatively between 1920 and 1960, considered it one of their primary obligations to modernize Canadian writing, to bring the country's poetry out of late Romantic stasis after the... Read more >
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Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960
Selected by Brian Trehearne
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $32.95
The best in four decades of exceptional Canadian poetry, now in a limited hardcover edition.
The poets in this anthology, all of whom matured creatively between 1920 and 1960, considered it one of their primary obligations to modernize Canadian writing, to bring the country's poetry out of late Romantic stasis after the... Read more >
Selected by Brian Trehearne
Format: Hardcover, 488 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $32.95
The best in four decades of exceptional Canadian poetry, now in a limited hardcover edition.
The poets in this anthology, all of whom matured creatively between 1920 and 1960, considered it one of their primary obligations to modernize Canadian writing, to bring the country's poetry out of late Romantic stasis after the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Deepwater Vee
Written by Melanie Siebert
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $15.50
Melanie Siebert’s stunning debut collection travels remote northern rivers, as well as two of Canada’s most threatened rivers, the Athabasca and the North Saskatchewan. These rivers push the poems into a contemplation of loss and into the terrain of Alexander Mackenzie’s dreams, a busker’s broken-down street riffs, and the borderland wanderings... Read more >
Written by Melanie Siebert
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $15.50
Melanie Siebert’s stunning debut collection travels remote northern rivers, as well as two of Canada’s most threatened rivers, the Athabasca and the North Saskatchewan. These rivers push the poems into a contemplation of loss and into the terrain of Alexander Mackenzie’s dreams, a busker’s broken-down street riffs, and the borderland wanderings... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Deepwater Vee
Written by Melanie Siebert
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $11.99
Melanie Siebert’s stunning debut collection travels remote northern rivers, as well as two of Canada’s most threatened rivers, the Athabasca and the North Saskatchewan. These rivers push the poems into a contemplation of loss and into the terrain of Alexander Mackenzie’s dreams, a busker’s broken-down street riffs, and the borderland wanderings... Read more >
Written by Melanie Siebert
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $11.99
Melanie Siebert’s stunning debut collection travels remote northern rivers, as well as two of Canada’s most threatened rivers, the Athabasca and the North Saskatchewan. These rivers push the poems into a contemplation of loss and into the terrain of Alexander Mackenzie’s dreams, a busker’s broken-down street riffs, and the borderland wanderings... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Ossuaries
Written by Dionne Brand
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $18.99
Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem – her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life... Read more >
Written by Dionne Brand
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $18.99
Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem – her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Ossuaries
Written by Dionne Brand
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $13.99
Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem – her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life... Read more >
Written by Dionne Brand
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $13.99
Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem – her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Lookout
Written by John Steffler
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $15.50
The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada’s most respected poets
The poems in John Steffler’s new collection are enlivened by the same muscular acts of attention that characterize his earlier books. As always, his poems inhabit experience fully, senses on high alert, transmitting the... Read more >
Written by John Steffler
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $15.50
The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada’s most respected poets
The poems in John Steffler’s new collection are enlivened by the same muscular acts of attention that characterize his earlier books. As always, his poems inhabit experience fully, senses on high alert, transmitting the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Lookout
Written by John Steffler
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $11.99
The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada’s most respected poets
The poems in John Steffler’s new collection are enlivened by the same muscular acts of attention that characterize his earlier books. As always, his poems inhabit experience fully, senses on high alert, transmitting the... Read more >
Written by John Steffler
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $11.99
The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada’s most respected poets
The poems in John Steffler’s new collection are enlivened by the same muscular acts of attention that characterize his earlier books. As always, his poems inhabit experience fully, senses on high alert, transmitting the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Written by Paul Vermeersch
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $15.50
Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a... Read more >
Written by Paul Vermeersch
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $15.50
Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Book of Mercy
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $16.95
Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the... Read more >
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $16.95
Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Book of Mercy
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $12.99
Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the... Read more >
Written by Leonard Cohen
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $12.99
Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Listening
The Last Poems of Margaret Avison
Written by Margaret Avison
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $17.99
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
Margaret Avison was widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s foremost poets. Taut, sublime, subtle, and crystalline, the poems in her brilliant new collection, published posthumously, showcase Avison at her best, and constitute the final chapter in an extraordinary artistic legacy that spanned more... Read more >
The Last Poems of Margaret Avison
Written by Margaret Avison
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $17.99
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
Margaret Avison was widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s foremost poets. Taut, sublime, subtle, and crystalline, the poems in her brilliant new collection, published posthumously, showcase Avison at her best, and constitute the final chapter in an extraordinary artistic legacy that spanned more... Read more >
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The Blue Hour of the Day
Selected Poems
Written by Lorna Crozier
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $13.99
Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Now, in this definitive selection of poems, which draws on... Read more >
Selected Poems
Written by Lorna Crozier
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $13.99
Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Now, in this definitive selection of poems, which draws on... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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