A Number of Stunning Attacks
A raw and intimate testimony of the spatial and emotional difficulty of facing the self and the other A Number of Stunning Attacks contributes to the… Read More
By: Jessi MacEachern (CA)
A raw and intimate testimony of the spatial and emotional difficulty of facing the self and the other A Number of Stunning Attacks contributes to the… Read More
By: Andrew DuBois (CA)
”So what if I left language by the pier. Metaphorโs a raft,” declares Andrew DuBois as he leads readers through a fractured past and present โ from “slummy memories of… Read More
By: Sue Sinclair (CA)
Sue Sinclair has been praised for her “crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings” (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who… Read More
By: "Sylvia D. Hamilton (CA)"
The settlement of African peoples in Nova Scotia is a richly layered story encompassing many waves of settlement and diverse circumstances?from captives to ?freedom runners? who sailed north from the… Read More
By: "Maxine Tynes (CA)"
Maxine Tynes is a writer who has lived, studied, and worked all of her life in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her heritage goes back to the time of the Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia. Maxine is a graduate of Dalhousie… Read More
By: Alden Nowlan (CA)
Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind “one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive.” In an abundance… Read More
By: Douglas Walbourne-Gough (CA)
Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry AwardShortlisted, NL Reads, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster AwardLonglisted, First Nation Communities READ… Read More
By: Rita Joe, Burland Murphy
WITH THE YOUNG PERSON IN MIND, these strong, clear, and encouraging poems from Rita Joe speak directly to all of us, a testament to her hope for a better world…. Read More
By: Shalan Joudry (CA)
Each generation must make their own journey through a thick terrain starts. Generations Remerging a collection of poems which explores the complex tangle of inter-generational relationships… Read More
By: Ali Blythe (CA)
Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry PrizeStanding in the granite of his own voice.Remembering your gathering body.Hello, My… Read More
By: Sรญle Englert (CA)
In this timely and powerful debut, Sรญle Englert explores what it is to feel othered in a world where everything is connected. Moving through time and memory โ from childhood… Read More
By: "George Elliott Clarke (CA)"
These poems range from a personal evocation of Black Nova Scotian history to an intense, intimate response to world events in the last thirty years. All are “fugitive poems” evolving from 1979 to… Read More
By: Annick MacAskill (CA)
<en>Murmurations</en> is a collection of love poems that explores how intimacy tests the capacity of language?how music is also noise and the prospect for miscommunication abounds. Populating her… Read More
By: Triny Finlay (CA)
Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) and J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry AwardLeaving a drawer open in hereis like leaving your fly undone… Read More
By: Wade Kearley (CA)
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIRAMICHI READER’S ‘THE VERY BEST!’ POETRY AWARD** In Narrow… Read More
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