POETRY
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995–2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin.
Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past – its ideas, its ...
The Laundromat Essay
A difference between us bridged my fondness for a street that ran through the kitchen. It was evenly lined with the trees that line those kinds of streets. That autumn we had to gather the leaves from ...
Crabwise to the Hounds
Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award.
With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships and Carl Linnaeus, these ...
What Stirs
Shortlisted for the 2009 Pat Lowther Award
Surreptitious breasts of the brain's inside, crammed with
reptilian lights, uv or incandescent, zoom lens for the purpose of
petalled heights. Sherry-Mary saw ...
Blert
You monsoon across the alphabet, croon turbulence, and whisper:
A is for alligator, against the Mississippi marooned on
my gums. Gumbo thrums from lips and you drizzle glossary,
soak into S like your ...
Hagiography
Jen Currin’s acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in her new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark ...
Troubled
People fall in love with their therapists all the time. It's called transference.
Troubled is brutally honest and erotically frank, a no-holds-barred confession of a patient/psychiatrist relationship gone ...
The Alphabet Game
A member of the sound-poetry collective, The Four Horsemen, winner of a Governor General's Award for Poetry and writer of Fraggle Rock, bpNichol was one of Canada's most important poets.
All of Nichol's ...
Sitcom
Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpsey’s Sitcom is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry ...
The Work of Days
With the prisms of varied vocabularies refracting detail and language, Sarah Lang illuminates the intricacies of communication, of the moments and gaps between action and reaction, and, as she does, announces ...