Increasingly known as the "poet's poet," Governor General's Award-winner Phil Hall has long been a constructor of intricate sequences, collecting and arranging lines and phrases, artifacts, and small revelations. He writes on influences, literary and local; he writes of rural Ontario, attempting to comprehend a deeply personal family violence; he stitches together lines and tall tales and fables from his life and the stories that float around the ethos of his variety of Ontario wilds. Hall's isn't a poetry carved into perfect diamond form but a poetry whittled from scores of found...
Increasingly known as the "poet's poet," Governor General's Award-winner Phil Hall has long been a constructor of intricate sequences, collecting a...
This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Her influential blog-turned-literary-magazine, Lemon Hound, published up-and-coming writers as well as work by established literary figures in Canada and abroad.
The title, Barking & Biting, makes reference to the tagline of Lemon Hound: more bark than bite. Erin Wunker s introduction situates Queyras s poetry within ongoing debates around genre and gender. It suggests that Queyras...
This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of ...
Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry. She plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing humour to serious themes that range from childhood and children to women in contemporary techno-capitalist society to feminist literary theory, and so much more. Gregory Betts introduction to the collection highlights her formal diversity and her unique combination of feminist and avant-garde affinities. He connects the...
Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes v...
Sohkeyihta includes poems written across the expanse of Louise Bernice Halfe's career, from 1990 to the present, illustrating the breadth of her engagement with key issues confronted by Indigenous peoples living in Canada, including residential schools, church and state apologies, the fur trade, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Sohkeyihta includes poems written across the expanse of Louise Bernice Halfe's career, from 1990 to the present, illustrating the breadth of her engag...