75 Books Featured
Assiniboia
Trade Paperback | 104 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-5008-4 (0-7710-5008-9)
March 27, 2012 | $18.99
From Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a new collection of poetry of great scope and ambition.
Assiniboia is a richly textured imagining of a Western Canada that could have been. Theatrical, operatic -- a masque and a pair of choral performances -- the book breaks new formal ground in...
Trade Paperback | 104 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-5008-4 (0-7710-5008-9)
March 27, 2012 | $18.99
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From Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a new collection of poetry of great scope and ambition.
Assiniboia is a richly textured imagining of a Western Canada that could have been. Theatrical, operatic -- a masque and a pair of choral performances -- the book breaks new formal ground in...
Paradoxides
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-5509-6 (0-7710-5509-9)
March 20, 2012 | $18.99
Multi-award-winning poet Don McKay returns with a startling collection of new poems, his first since his Griffin Poetry Prize winning book, Strike/Slip
Don McKay is known, among other things, as Canada's foremost poet of the natural world. Readers have come to expect a playful extravagance in his poetry. Most recently, he has...
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-5509-6 (0-7710-5509-9)
March 20, 2012 | $18.99
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Multi-award-winning poet Don McKay returns with a startling collection of new poems, his first since his Griffin Poetry Prize winning book, Strike/Slip
Don McKay is known, among other things, as Canada's foremost poet of the natural world. Readers have come to expect a playful extravagance in his poetry. Most recently, he has...
Rain; road; an open boat
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-1298-3 (0-7710-1298-5)
March 20, 2012 | $18.99
The first new collection of poetry from Roo Borson since her highly acclaimed collection Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of three major prizes, including the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Roo Borson's new collection continues the exploration of form, tone, musicality, and content begun in her widely acclaimed previous collection. Here, co-existing peacefully...
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-1298-3 (0-7710-1298-5)
March 20, 2012 | $18.99
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The first new collection of poetry from Roo Borson since her highly acclaimed collection Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of three major prizes, including the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Roo Borson's new collection continues the exploration of form, tone, musicality, and content begun in her widely acclaimed previous collection. Here, co-existing peacefully...
Folk
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-5939-1 (0-7710-5939-6)
March 29, 2011 | $18.99
The two sections in Jacob McArthur Mooney’s virtuoso collection – one rural in orientation, one urban – open an intricate conversation. Taking as its inciting incident the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia, before moving to the neighbourhoods around Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Folk is...
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-5939-1 (0-7710-5939-6)
March 29, 2011 | $18.99
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The two sections in Jacob McArthur Mooney’s virtuoso collection – one rural in orientation, one urban – open an intricate conversation. Taking as its inciting incident the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia, before moving to the neighbourhoods around Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Folk is...
Is
Trade Paperback | 104 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-8051-7 (0-7710-8051-4)
March 29, 2011 | $18.99
Trade Paperback | 104 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-8051-7 (0-7710-8051-4)
March 29, 2011 | $18.99
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A stunning new book of poems from the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Loop.
A cell is a world within a world within a world. In this remarkable new collection, Anne Simpson finds form and inspiration in the cell – as it divides and multiplies, expanding beyond its borders. As these poems...
Origami Dove
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-6522-4 (0-7710-6522-1)
March 29, 2011 | $18.99
The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada's most vibrant and original writers.
With her first major collection in ten years, Susan Musgrave displays a range of form and expression that may surprise even her most faithful readers. The quiet, lapidary elegies of “Obituary of...
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-6522-4 (0-7710-6522-1)
March 29, 2011 | $18.99
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The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada's most vibrant and original writers.
With her first major collection in ten years, Susan Musgrave displays a range of form and expression that may surprise even her most faithful readers. The quiet, lapidary elegies of “Obituary of...
Small Mechanics
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-2329-3 (0-7710-2329-4)
March 29, 2011 | $18.99
A radiant collection of new poems from one of Canada's most renowned and well-read poets.
The poems in Lorna Crozier's rich and wide-ranging new collection, a modern bestiary and a book of mourning, are both shadowed and illuminated by the passing of time, the small mechanics of the body as it ages...
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-2329-3 (0-7710-2329-4)
March 29, 2011 | $18.99
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A radiant collection of new poems from one of Canada's most renowned and well-read poets.
The poems in Lorna Crozier's rich and wide-ranging new collection, a modern bestiary and a book of mourning, are both shadowed and illuminated by the passing of time, the small mechanics of the body as it ages...
A Night Out with Robert Burns
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Poetry - Single Author - British & Irish
978-0-7710-1741-4 (0-7710-1741-3)
December 21, 2010 | $19.99
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...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Poetry - Single Author - British & Irish
978-0-7710-1741-4 (0-7710-1741-3)
December 21, 2010 | $19.99
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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...
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
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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...
Also available as an
eBook and 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
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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...
Deepwater Vee
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
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 - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-8033-3 (0-7710-8033-6)
March 30, 2010 | $18.99
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Ossuaries
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
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 - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-1734-6 (0-7710-1734-0)
March 30, 2010 | $18.99
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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...
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
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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...
Lookout
Trade Paperback | 120 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
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 - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-8267-2 (0-7710-8267-3)
March 16, 2010 | $18.99
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Canadian; Poetry
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 - Canadian; Poetry
978-0-7710-8743-1 (0-7710-8743-8)
March 16, 2010 | $18.99
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
