70 Books Featured
Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960
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
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...
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
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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960
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
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...
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
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...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Deepwater Vee
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8033-3 (0-7710-8033-6)
March 30, 2010 | $18.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8033-3 (0-7710-8033-6)
March 30, 2010 | $18.99
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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Ossuaries
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-1734-6 (0-7710-1734-0)
March 30, 2010 | $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...
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-1734-6 (0-7710-1734-0)
March 30, 2010 | $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...
Also available as an
eBook.
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
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...
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
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...
Lookout
Trade Paperback | 120 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8267-2 (0-7710-8267-3)
March 16, 2010 | $18.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 120 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8267-2 (0-7710-8267-3)
March 16, 2010 | $18.99
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...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8743-1 (0-7710-8743-8)
March 16, 2010 | $18.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8743-1 (0-7710-8743-8)
March 16, 2010 | $18.99
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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Book of Mercy
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Single Author; Poetry
978-0-7710-2187-9 (0-7710-2187-9)
March 2, 2010 | $18.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Single Author; Poetry
978-0-7710-2187-9 (0-7710-2187-9)
March 2, 2010 | $18.99
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...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Door
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-0847-4 (0-7710-0847-3)
September 8, 2009 | $17.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-0847-4 (0-7710-0847-3)
September 8, 2009 | $17.99
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...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Morning in the Burned House
Trade Paperback | 140 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-0833-7 (0-7710-0833-3)
September 8, 2009 | $17.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 140 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-0833-7 (0-7710-0833-3)
September 8, 2009 | $17.99
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...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Listening
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-0886-3 (0-7710-0886-4)
March 31, 2009 | $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...
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-0886-3 (0-7710-0886-4)
March 31, 2009 | $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...
The Second Blush
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-6962-8 (0-7710-6962-6)
March 3, 2009 | $17.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-6962-8 (0-7710-6962-6)
March 3, 2009 | $17.99
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...
A Night Out with Robert Burns
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
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...
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
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...
The Dream World
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-7046-4 (0-7710-7046-2)
March 18, 2008 | $17.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-7046-4 (0-7710-7046-2)
March 18, 2008 | $17.99
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...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Given
Trade Paperback | 136 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-5458-7 (0-7710-5458-0)
March 18, 2008 | $17.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 136 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-5458-7 (0-7710-5458-0)
March 18, 2008 | $17.99
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...
Also available as an
eBook.
