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Avant canada
Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and supporting creative works on a representative array of Canadian, literary avant-garde movements from the past 50 years. Featuring 28 of the best writers and critics in the field, it offers an essential overview of the past, present, a...
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Black matters
Halifax’s Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences.
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Current, climate
Selected poetry of environmental and social justice activist Rita Wong. In her intertwining of poetry and political activism, she explores the meeting places of land, life, and language. Nicholas Bradley’s introduction highlights the role of the author in a time of crisis and places Wong’s poetry...
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Displace
A selection of poetry from Otiono's previous collections that engage with multiple poetic traidtions and engage with Afripolitan life in the diaspora.
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For as far as the eye can see
"I shall settle for the paradise of what I see this rectangle of twelve lines a window."
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Glad and sorry seasons
The winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award explores the extremes of joy and sorrow in a formally diverse collection.
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Groundwork
Groundwork heralds an important new poetic voice, stock to buy early and hold.
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I’ll get right on it
Poetry by and for working people making a living under conditions of climate disaster.
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Make the world new
Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes in Kingston, Toronto, and London and offering exciting sounds of protest and a careful, ...
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Meeting the tormentors in safeway
"Here are brilliantly contemporary poems in traditional forms, the work of a stunning new voice."Charles Martin
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Milton acorn
When Canadian icon and original Canadian People’s Poet Milton Acorn was passed over for the Governor General’s Award for his 1969 collection I’ve Tasted My Blood, several of his peers, including Margaret Atwood, Pat Lane and Mordecai Richler, established the People’s Poetry Award, which they pres...
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More sure
A book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives. In their stunning debut collection, A. Light Zachary draws power from a vision of life―especially queer and neurodivergent life―as a journey of continuous self-...
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One big time
Lisa Fishman’s latest collection, One Big Time, is a stunning articulation of the author’s “journey-in-place” in the environs around a one-room cabin in Northeastern Ontario over a period of fourteen days in quarantine.Here is the author at her most exacting and exploratory, in poems that hew wit...
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Open air bindery
Poems as big as the sky and as small as the stars.
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Selected poems of malcolm lowry
First collection of Lowry's extensive poetic canon, including most of the Mexican verses related to his novel, Under the Volcano.
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Self-portrait without a bicycle
These poems stitch loss to memory, to colours and smells, to tastes of past and present, canvas and ink.
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Sub divo
Quasi-satirical invectives, addresses, and apostrophes from a great critic of American empire.
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The collected poems of miriam waddington
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.
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The contemporary leonard cohen
Essay collection on Leonard Cohen's work organized by the concept of “the contemporary,” which helps to explain Cohen’s staying power and existential depth. The chapters offer related but diverse perspectives—historical, artistic, spiritual—on his songs, poems, novels, and drawings, and examine h...
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The least important man
A serious-minded collection from one of Canada's foremost young poets, critics, and editors.
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The passenger
In his latest collection, Toronto-based poet Dale Martin Smith invites us into a vivid lyric landscape, a looping personal voyage of reckoning and return.In a series of spare evocative poems, framed by two lyric essays, Smith presents a search for meaning in terms of memory, the self, and nationa...
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