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Poetry please!: 100 popular poems from the BBC Radio 4 programme
By Charles Causley. 1985
Poems, new & selected
By Patrick Lane. 1978
Poems and sketches of E.B. White
By E. B White. 1981
Collection of poems, essays, satires, and other occasional short pieces which display the author's characteristic wit, craft, and whim, most…
originally published in such magazines as the "New Yorker", "Harper's", and the "Atlantic". Several of the works have never been published before. 1981.Le mal du Nord (Passages Ser.)
By Pierre Perrault. 1999
A l'occasion d'un voyage de Québec à la terre de Baffin, effectué en 1991 à bord du brise-glace Pierre-Radisson, l'auteur…
a tenu un journal de bord destiné à la radio, qu'il a par la suite remanié et qui prend aujourd'hui allure de texte testamentaire. On retrouvera dans ce livre, placé sous l'égide de René Richard à qui il doit son titre, les grands thèmes qui ont habité toute son oeuvre, et au premier chef le Saint-Laurent et la nature sauvage du Grand Nord. Prix du Gouverneur général 1999, catégorie études et essais francophones. 1999.Planet Middle School
By Nikki Grimes. 2011
Planet earth: poems selected and new
By P. K Page, Eric L Ormsby. 2002
The title of this book is taken from Page's poem, `Planet Earth', which was chosen by the United Nations in…
2000 for their celebratory program Year of Dialogue among Civilizations. A selection of the best of Page's poems from previous volumes, with a few newer ones contributed by the author. 2002.Pig girl
By Colleen Murphy. 2015
At 4:00 a.m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as…
her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue her. Winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Drama. 2015.Personals: poems
By Ian Williams, Robyn Read, Owen Percy. 2012
A collection of poems voiced through a variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting…
with others, often to no avail. The author writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets. He also invents his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don’t end. 2012.Personal effects: poems
By Ronna Bloom. 2000
A collection of poems by Ronna Bloom, some of which have previously been published in different versions elsewhere. Many of…
the poems deal with the themes of truth, reconciliation and love. 2000.Pigeon: poems
By Karen Solie. 2009
Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
By Peter Shaffer. 1981
A play inspired by music and death revolves around the bitter jealousy of Antonio Salieri, the court composer who played…
second fiddle to the more brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Some strong language. c1981. Uniform title: AmadeusLe bal des absentes: essai (L'ouvroir)
By Julie Boulanger, Amélie Paquet. 2017
Né du constat que les oeuvres rédigées par les femmes occupent une place marginale dans les corpus littéraires, Le bal…
des absentes propose de découvrir et de commenter différents titres d'auteures d'ici et d'ailleurs. Dans ce recueil de textes issus du blogue du même nom, Julie Boulanger et Amélie Paquet, deux professeurs de littérature au cégep, désirent mettre en valeur le travail des écrivaines, et offrir aux enseignant.e.s des alternatives aux oeuvres qui font autorité. Pieds de nez aux discours blasés et au cynisme ambiant, les textes célèbrent les femmes et leur littérature, le monde de l'enseignement, ainsi que les étudiants et les étudiantes qui découvrent, sous le regard conquis de leurs professeures, le pouvoir infini de la littérature. 2017.Peace pipe dreams: the truth about lies about Indians
By Darrell Dennis. 2014
Employing pop culture examples, personal anecdote and a cutting wit, Dennis deftly weaves history with current events to entertain, inform…
and provide a convincing, readable overview of First Nations issues and why they matter today. Winner of First Nation Communities Read 2015 - 2016. 2014.Pearls in vinegar: the pillow book of Heather Mallick
By Heather Mallick. 2004
Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick provides commentary on one hundred and sixty diverse subjects, including Things That Make You…
Appreciate Men, Poetic Subjects, Hateful Things, Adorable Things, Things That Fall from the Sky, and Different Ways of Speaking. An itemized collection of essays, short lists, long lists, comforts, toxicities, things you should be ashamed to laugh at but do anyway, and many small privacies. Includes essays about such topics as the quirks of German cannibalism, the weirdness of all workplaces, and the advantages of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Some descriptions of violence and explicit strong language. 2004.People of the pines: the warriors and the legacy of Oka
By Geoffrey York, Loreen Pindera. 1991
During the summer of 1990, the Canadian media focussed on an armed standoff in Oka, Quebec. The Mohawk warriors were…
on one side, and police and the military were on the other in a confrontation over land rights. This is a portrait of the Mohawk Warrior Society, and of the dramatic final weeks of the military siege. 1991Paroles de paix en terre autochtone: culture, valeurs et traditions mohawks
By Guylaine Cliche. 2016
Vibrant plaidoyer en faveur d'un monde meilleur, ce livre nous fait découvrir un univers riche en traditions et en spiritualité.…
Pendant plus d'une année, Guylaine Cliche a côtoyé les gens du Conseil traditionnel mohawk de Kahnawake afin de transmettre leur message. Fidèle à la structure du cercle de parole, ce livre permet à 15 personnes de 9 souches différentes de partager autant leur histoire bien personnelle que des enseignements issus de la tradition orale. Parmi ceux-ci, l'enseignement de la Lune est primordial. Il nous révèle l'importance de la femme, source de la Création, au sein de notre société moderne. Formant une nation matrilinéaire, les Mohawks proclament l'urgence de redonner le pouvoir aux femmes. Leur message de paix nous invite également à renouer avec nos racines et à agir concrètement pour honorer et respecter notre Terre-Mère avant qu'il ne soit trop tard. 2016.Passage
By Gwen Benaway. 2016
In her second collection of poetry, Benaway examines what it means to experience violence and speaks to the burden of…
survival. Travelling to Northern Ontario and across the Great Lakes, "Passage" is a poetic voyage through divorce, family violence, legacy of colonization and the affirmation of anew sexuality and gender. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Paris notebooks: essays & reviews
By Mavis Gallant. 1986
This collection includes an essay about the 1968 student revolt in Paris of which Gallant was a concerned observer. "Immortal…
Gattito" is the tragic story of a teacher-pupil love affair which ends in disgrace, imprisonment, madness and death. 1986.Pathmarks
By Martin Heidegger, William McNeill. 1998
This text includes the fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger. It features new translations of key essays such as: 'On the…
essence of ground'; 'On the question of being'; and 'Hegel and the Greeks'. The essays provide an essential resource for all students of Heidegger, whether they work in philosophy, literary theory, religious studies or intellectual history. 1998. Uniform title: Wegmarken.Partial accounts: new and selected poems
By William Meredith. 1987