60 Books Featured
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...
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
“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 of a novel. Set in present-day and 1950s Vancouver, The Given begins...
Trade Paperback | 136 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-5458-7 (0-7710-5458-0)
March 18, 2008 | $17.99
“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 of a novel. Set in present-day and 1950s Vancouver, The Given begins...
The New Layman's Almanac
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-5407-5 (0-7710-5407-6)
March 18, 2008 | $17.99
Deft and dazzling, brash and boyish, Jacob McArthur Mooney makes his debut on the poetry scene with a rare combination of verbal pyrotechnics and honest emotion. Using manic word-charm and an open heart, Mooney invents a prosody for the twenty-first century. With a passionate wisdom about the frustrations of how humans...
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-5407-5 (0-7710-5407-6)
March 18, 2008 | $17.99
Deft and dazzling, brash and boyish, Jacob McArthur Mooney makes his debut on the poetry scene with a rare combination of verbal pyrotechnics and honest emotion. Using manic word-charm and an open heart, Mooney invents a prosody for the twenty-first century. With a passionate wisdom about the frustrations of how humans...
Orphic Politics
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-4636-0 (0-7710-4636-7)
March 18, 2008 | $17.99
A new collection by the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
Tim Lilburn’s award-winning work has observed the natural world with an intensity of seeing and a reverence that shifts the way we understand our lives. Now, in his brilliant new collection of poems, Lilburn has turned his meticulous...
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-4636-0 (0-7710-4636-7)
March 18, 2008 | $17.99
A new collection by the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
Tim Lilburn’s award-winning work has observed the natural world with an intensity of seeing and a reverence that shifts the way we understand our lives. Now, in his brilliant new collection of poems, Lilburn has turned his meticulous...
The Door
Hardcover | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-0880-1 (0-7710-0880-5)
September 11, 2007 | $22.99
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...
Hardcover | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-0880-1 (0-7710-0880-5)
September 11, 2007 | $22.99
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...
That Night We Were Ravenous
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-8266-5 (0-7710-8266-5)
September 11, 2007 | $17.99
A beautiful new edition of the award-winning collection from Canada’s new Poet Laureate.
Newfoundland-born poet John Steffler is one of this country’s most accomplished writers. Recently named Canada’s national poet, he is the author of The Grey Islands (poems) and the award-winning novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright, both of which have...
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-8266-5 (0-7710-8266-5)
September 11, 2007 | $17.99
A beautiful new edition of the award-winning collection from Canada’s new Poet Laureate.
Newfoundland-born poet John Steffler is one of this country’s most accomplished writers. Recently named Canada’s national poet, he is the author of The Grey Islands (poems) and the award-winning novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright, both of which have...
Skin Divers
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-5907-0 (0-7710-5907-8)
September 4, 2007 | $17.99
Skin Divers is award-winning writer Anne Michaels’ dazzling third book of poems. These poems develop the concern with love, transience, and memory evident in her earlier work, and at the same time signal a definitive turning point towards a new thematic landscape.
Michaels is a writer whose thoughts take shape in sensuous...
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-5907-0 (0-7710-5907-8)
September 4, 2007 | $17.99
Skin Divers is award-winning writer Anne Michaels’ dazzling third book of poems. These poems develop the concern with love, transience, and memory evident in her earlier work, and at the same time signal a definitive turning point towards a new thematic landscape.
Michaels is a writer whose thoughts take shape in sensuous...
Killarnoe
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-0677-7 (0-7710-0677-2)
April 10, 2007 | $17.99
With its razzle-dazzle wordplay and kaleidoscope of subjects, Sonnet L’Abbé’s second collection of poems is a tour-de-force. L’Abbé invents her own unique poetics, coupling a glittering variety of patterns with tumbling rhythms and rhymes. And with this refreshed language, she reconsiders all the rules for twenty-first-century life. The poems work like...
Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-0677-7 (0-7710-0677-2)
April 10, 2007 | $17.99
With its razzle-dazzle wordplay and kaleidoscope of subjects, Sonnet L’Abbé’s second collection of poems is a tour-de-force. L’Abbé invents her own unique poetics, coupling a glittering variety of patterns with tumbling rhythms and rhymes. And with this refreshed language, she reconsiders all the rules for twenty-first-century life. The poems work like...
Quick
Trade Paperback | 120 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-8091-3 (0-7710-8091-3)
April 10, 2007 | $17.99
The human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada’s most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a...
Trade Paperback | 120 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-8091-3 (0-7710-8091-3)
April 10, 2007 | $17.99
The human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada’s most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a...
The Blue Hour of the Day
Trade Paperback | 264 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-2468-9 (0-7710-2468-1)
April 10, 2007 | $22.99
Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Now, in this definitive selection of poems, which draws on...
Trade Paperback | 264 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-2468-9 (0-7710-2468-1)
April 10, 2007 | $22.99
Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Now, in this definitive selection of poems, which draws on...
Book of Longing
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-2229-6 (0-7710-2229-8)
March 27, 2007 | $21.00
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-2229-6 (0-7710-2229-8)
March 27, 2007 | $21.00
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-2236-4 (0-7710-2236-0)
June 27, 2006 | $17.99
Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, Leonard Cohen’s first published book contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Now new generations of readers will rediscover not only the early, though no less accomplished and passionate, work of one of our most beloved writers, but poetry that resonates loudly...
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-2236-4 (0-7710-2236-0)
June 27, 2006 | $17.99
Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, Leonard Cohen’s first published book contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Now new generations of readers will rediscover not only the early, though no less accomplished and passionate, work of one of our most beloved writers, but poetry that resonates loudly...
Book of Longing
Hardcover | 240 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-2234-0 (0-7710-2234-4)
April 25, 2006 | $32.99
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller...
Hardcover | 240 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-2234-0 (0-7710-2234-4)
April 25, 2006 | $32.99
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Inventory
Trade Paperback | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-1662-2 (0-7710-1662-X)
March 28, 2006 | $17.99
In Dionne Brand’s incantatory, deeply engaged, beautifully crafted long poem, the question is asked, What would an inventory of the tumultuous early years of this new century have to account for? Alert to the upheavals that mark those years, Brand bears powerful witness to the seemingly unending wars, the ascendance of...
Trade Paperback | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-1662-2 (0-7710-1662-X)
March 28, 2006 | $17.99
In Dionne Brand’s incantatory, deeply engaged, beautifully crafted long poem, the question is asked, What would an inventory of the tumultuous early years of this new century have to account for? Alert to the upheavals that mark those years, Brand bears powerful witness to the seemingly unending wars, the ascendance of...
Point No Point
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-6678-8 (0-7710-6678-3)
March 7, 2006 | $17.99
Point No Point’s title comes from a landform — an actual point on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which seems, when approached from the other side, to be no point at all — and it alerts us to the fact that Jane Munro’s poems are situated in a deep sense...
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-6678-8 (0-7710-6678-3)
March 7, 2006 | $17.99
Point No Point’s title comes from a landform — an actual point on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which seems, when approached from the other side, to be no point at all — and it alerts us to the fact that Jane Munro’s poems are situated in a deep sense...
