Poetry

Lasso the Wind

By: George Elliott Clarke (CA)

George Elliot Clarke started writing poems for his daughter the day she was born.
Tooke, a three-time winner of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration, aprroached Clarke (Regarding their… Read More

Save the World for Me

By: "Maxine Tynes (CA)"

Maxine Tynes is a poet who has lived all her life in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She is the author of ‘Borrowed Beauty’ and ‘Woman Talking Woman’. In 1988, Maxine was named the Milton Acorn People’s Poet of Canada for her… Read More

So Imagine Me

By: Lynn Davies (CA)

From award-winning poet Lynn Davies comes her first collection for children. And there’s a twist: each of the poems in So Imagine Me has a secret.
The lyrical and playful… Read More

The City Speaks in Drums

By: "Shauntay Grant (CA)"

Available for the first time in paperback, the award-winning The City Speaks in Drums follows two boys from North End Halifax as they explore their neighbourhood and the city beyond, finding music… Read More

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