A Fierce and Tumultuous Joy
It was night, It was winter In the heavy window frost I saw falling angels splinter In this collection of deeply personal poetry, David… Read More
By: David Adams Richards (CA)
It was night, It was winter In the heavy window frost I saw falling angels splinter In this collection of deeply personal poetry, David… Read More
By: Guyleigh Johnson (CA)
Through prose and poetry, Guyleigh Johnson tells the story of sixteen-year-old Kahlua Thomas. With a hard life at home, on the streets, and in school she finds an escape during her grade ten history class through… Read More
By: Fiona Steele (CA)
In this collection, Fiona Steele writes about the journey of coming home — to P.E.I. after moving away and to the Island identity she is rooted in. It is organized… Read More
By: Guyleigh Johnson (CA)
Expect the Unexpected is a highly charged first collection of spoken word poetry based on the lives of inner city youth. It’s deep, raw, uncut, and unflinching in telling their… Read More
By: Melanie Power (CA)
Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, this collection explores the combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Melanie Power’s poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters – a… Read More
By: Roderick MacDonald (CA)
Inspired by the places, people and sounds around his home town of Morell, Prince Edward Island, Roderick MacDonald pens lycrical poetry that nourishes his reflective nature. Especially inspired by the shore line,… Read More
By: Kathy Mac (CA)
“Kathy Mac sees inside language-as-propaganda, identifying all the twists and turns that facts suffer as they become half-truths or false justifications for evils. She knows and shows that the rhetoric of… Read More
By: Deborah Banks (CA)
Here is the long awaited second book by the author of While Crossing the Field. In these transforming times, where do our longings take us? We strain for connection,… Read More
By: Lesley Choyce (CA)
“Controlled, fluid, wry and passionate.” —Halifax Daily News
A generous serving of new and selected poems. Lesley Choyce was declared “a national treasure” by the Ottawa Citizen and “Nova Scotia’s answer… Read More
By: Christopher Heide (CA)
”These poems were first written from many different places, different views outside windows, different earth underfoot. Most are from the East Coast of Canada: Mahone Bay, where I have lived… Read More
By: M. Travis Lane (CA)
Keeping Count, M. Travis Lane’s 18th collection of poetry, begins in the poet’s favourite terrain: short, condensed lyric that focuses on the natural world. “But pull a… Read More
By: Brent MacLaine
In his new collection of poems, Prometheus Reconsiders Fire, PEI poet Brent MacLaine undertakes an exploration of fire. The prefatory title poem establishes Prometheus as the poet’s persona,… Read More
By: Shannon Webb-Campbell (CA)
EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust OUT IN PRINT Literary Award Winner! Shannon Webb-Campbell’s Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within… Read More
By: Rita Joe (CA)
With over 100 of her best poems plus George Elliott Clarke’s essay on the achievement of Rita Joe, The Blind Man’s Eyes confirms Joe’s place in Canadian literature. From a… Read More
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