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Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960
Selected by Brian Trehearne

Hardcover | 488 pages | New Canadian Library | Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-8631-1 (0-7710-8631-8)

March 30, 2010 | $36.95

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Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960
Selected by Brian Trehearne

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771086311
Our Price: $36.95
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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...

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Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960
Selected by Brian Trehearne

Trade Paperback | 488 pages | New Canadian Library | Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-8634-2 (0-7710-8634-2)

March 30, 2010 | $26.95

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Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960
Selected by Brian Trehearne

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771086342
Our Price: $26.95
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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...

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Deepwater Vee
Written by Melanie Siebert

Trade Paperback | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8033-3 (0-7710-8033-6)

March 30, 2010 | $18.99

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Deepwater Vee
Written by Melanie Siebert

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771080333
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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...

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Ossuaries
Written by Dionne Brand

Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-1734-6 (0-7710-1734-0)

March 30, 2010 | $18.99

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Ossuaries
Written by Dionne Brand

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771017346
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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...

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Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War

Trade Paperback | 464 pages | New Canadian Library | Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry
978-0-7710-9364-7 (0-7710-9364-0)

March 16, 2010 | $21.95

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Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War
Edited by Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771093647
Our Price: $21.95
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This is the only anthology to present a full history of Canadian poetry — from the early 1600s through the expansiveness of poetic activity during the 18th and 19th centuries and into the flourishing first decades of the 20th century. The editors have compiled works from over 50 poets, including the...


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Lookout
Written by John Steffler

Trade Paperback | 120 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8267-2 (0-7710-8267-3)

March 16, 2010 | $18.99

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Lookout
Written by John Steffler

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771082672
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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...

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The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Written by Paul Vermeersch

Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8743-1 (0-7710-8743-8)

March 16, 2010 | $18.99

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The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Written by Paul Vermeersch

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771087431
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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...

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Book of Mercy
Written by Leonard Cohen

Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Single Author; Poetry
978-0-7710-2187-9 (0-7710-2187-9)

March 2, 2010 | $18.99

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Book of Mercy
Written by Leonard Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771021879
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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...

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The Door
Written by Margaret Atwood

Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-0847-4 (0-7710-0847-3)

September 8, 2009 | $17.99

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The Door
Written by Margaret Atwood

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771008474
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A stunning lyrical achievement and Atwood’s first collection of new poems in over a decade.

The Door is Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since the award-winning Morning in the Burned House (1995). Its fifty lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in...

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Morning in the Burned House
Written by Margaret Atwood

Trade Paperback | 140 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-0833-7 (0-7710-0833-3)

September 8, 2009 | $17.99

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Morning in the Burned House
Written by Margaret Atwood

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771008337
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These beautifully crafted poems–by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender and intimate–come together as Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering of poems to date, “setting foot on the middle ground/between body and word.” Some draw on history, and on myth, both classical and popular. Other, more personal poems concern themselves with...

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Listening
Written by Margaret Avison

Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-0886-3 (0-7710-0886-4)

March 31, 2009 | $17.99

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Listening
Written by Margaret Avison

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771008863
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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...


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The Second Blush
Written by Molly Peacock

Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-6962-8 (0-7710-6962-6)

March 3, 2009 | $17.99

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The Second Blush
Written by Molly Peacock

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771069628
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Popular poet and author of the acclaimed memoir Paradise Piece by Piece, Molly Peacock tracks the vicissitudes of midlife marriage in her saucy, vulnerable, philosophical sixth collection, her first to be published in Canada. These lyrical, playful, moving poems focus on illuminating the territory of relationships, while always revolving around the...


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A Night Out with Robert Burns
Written by Robert Burns and Andrew O'Hagan

Hardcover | 256 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Poetry - Single Author - British & Irish
978-0-7710-1742-1 (0-7710-1742-1)

January 6, 2009 | $29.99

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A Night Out with Robert Burns
Written by Robert Burns and Andrew O'Hagan

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771017421
Our Price: $29.99
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January 25, 2009, marks the 250th anniversary of Burns’s birth. It will be a huge event around the world, not least across Canada. And we have the book!

Robert Burns (1759-1796) is part of your life. If you’ve ever given or received a romantic red rose, or talked about a "do...

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The Dream World
Written by Alison Pick

Trade Paperback | 80 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-7046-4 (0-7710-7046-2)

March 18, 2008 | $17.99

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The Dream World
Written by Alison Pick

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771070464
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In her elegant new collection, Alison Pick, a brilliant poet of sensuous moods, atmospheres, and dreams, explores the mystery concealed within the world we know and recognize. Always evocative, always alluring, her poems are not interested in mere events, but in the fabric inside the emotions that events can provoke. She...

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The Given
Written by Daphne Marlatt

Trade Paperback | 136 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-5458-7 (0-7710-5458-0)

March 18, 2008 | $17.99

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The Given
Written by Daphne Marlatt

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771054587
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Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poery Prize
Finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award



“You remember — what is it you remember? / the feel of home, that moment of coming into your body. . . ”

So begins Daphne Marlatt’s haunting and multi-layered long poem, which reads with all the urgency and depth...

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