Sleeping in Tall Grass By Richard TherrienPublisher: University of Alberta Press Book Description A cycle of poems, Sleeping in Tall Grass takes an unsparing look at a painful, sometimes abusive, yet strangely redemptive family story enfolded within the body of the...
poemw By Anne FlemingPublisher: Pedlar Press Book Description In poemw, the third finger of the left hand hits ‘w’ instead of ‘s’ and makes up a new kind of poem, the sort-of poem, the approxi-lyric, the poem that doesn’t want to claim poemness. Poemw are about daily...
The News By Rob TaylorPublisher: Gaspereau Press Book Description The news can mean many things, but first and foremost in this collection the news is We’re having a baby! Starting in the fifth week of his wife’s pregnancy, Rob Taylor wrote a poem every week as they...
100 Days By Juliane Okot BitekPublisher: University of Alberta Press Book Description For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem – each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot...
If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You By Adèle BarclayPublisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You is a collection that travels through both time and place, liminally occupying the chasm between Canadiana and Americana...
