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By Pompidou. 1961
By Richard De Bessonet. 1987
La poésie et le poète, comme la publication même de ce recueil, sont à la fois québécois et créoles, natif…
et métisse, un mélange de soleil et de neige, une collaboration entre le Québec et la Louisiane. Richard deBessonnet, enfant d'un père québécois et d'une mère louisianaise, est chez lui au Québec, mais il arrive aussi vers la fin de ce recueil à fouiller un peu dans ses tiroirs matriarcaux. 1987.By Barry Dempster. 2017
By Claudia Emerson. 2005
A woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and…
her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years. She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence. Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks to her new husband, whose first wife died from lung cancer. Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, 2005.By Dionne Brand. 1997
Brand writes about Canada as it is seen by an outsider and about the outsiders who have come here over…
and settled over the years, uncomfortable with the land and its people, uncomfortable sometimes with themselves. Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English poetry.By Arleen Paré. 2014
Arleen Paré's second poetry collection is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network…
of relationships around a lake. It maps, probes and applauds the riparian region of central Canadian geography that lies between the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence Rivers. The poems portray this territory, its contested human presences and natural history: the 1990 Oka Crisis, Pleistocene shifts and dislocations, the feather-shaped Ile Cadieux, a Trappist monastery on the lake's northern shore. As we are drawn into experience of the lake and its environs, we also enter an intricate interleaving of landscape and memory, a reflection on how a place comes to inhabit us even as we inhabit it. Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. 2014.By Magali Wiéner. 2002
By Jacques Prévert. 1998
By Jacques Prévert. 1984
Histoires en vers et en prose. Par le plus populaire transfuge du surréalisme, tendre et gouailleur, qui met la fantaisie,…
les énumérations les plus imprévues et une conscience sociale toujours en éveil au service de la poésie d'humour et de fraternité. 1984.By Cameron Anstee. 2018
This debut collection from small press editor and publisher Cameron Anstee deploys a number of minimalist strategies--including erasure, found, lyric,…
haiku, one-line, one-word, concrete/visual, cento, restricted vocabularies, and lists--to question how small a poem can be made, and how can a small poem be made expansive? Engaging with contemporary and historical modes of minimalism, "Book of Annotations" is a dialogue in shorthand with work by H.D., Nelson Ball, Lorine Niedecker, Aram Saroyan, Phyllis Webb, Robert Lax, and dozens of others. 2018.By Jane Munro. 2014
Award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A…
beloved partner's crossing into Alzheimer's is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and wakefulness, Eastern and Western poetic traditions. Rich in both pathos and sharp shards of insight, Munro's wisdom here is deeply embedded, shot through with moments of wit and candour. In the tradition of Taoist poets like Wang Wei and Po-Chu-i, her sixth book opens a wide poetic space, and renders difficult conditions with the lightest of touches. Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. 2014.By Phil Hall. 2011
Poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes, essays that are not out to persuade so…
much as ruminate, invite, accrue. Includes memories of, and homages to Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones. Hall writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the concept of home. Winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2011.By Margaret Avison. 2002
By Catherine Clinton. 2010
By Colette DeDonato. 2004
An anthology of poetry which celebrates the 10th anniversary of WritersCorps workshops, which bring creative writing instruction to low-income kids.…
More than 150 young people from ages 9 to 23 write about their lives and the state of the world. Includes poems about family, freedom, violence, inner peace, self-identity, and the writing process. Senior High. 2004.By Bronwen Wallace. 1991
One set of these poems is dedicated to Emmylou Harris, because they were sparked by a song on one of…
her albums. Another group of poems includes reflections on "everyday science." Some strong language. 1991.By Paul Fleischman. 1988
By Roxane Orgill. 2017
When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a…
crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn't own a good camera, didn't know if any musicians would show up, and insisted on setting up the shoot in front of a Harlem brownstone. Could he pull it off? In these poems, Roxane Orgill steps into the frame of Harlem 1958, bringing to life the musicians' mischief and quirks, their memorable style, and the vivacious atmosphere of a Harlem block full of kids on a hot summer's day. Grades 3-6. 2017.By Dennis Lee. 1983
By Rosanna Deerchild. 2015
A poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in…
the 1950's, when thousands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their parents' wishes. Many were forbidden to speak their language and practice their own culture. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools problem has been felt throughout generations and has contributed to social problems that continue to exist today. 2015.