"Poetry was the television of yesteryear." Be drawn into a dual city/rural "otherworld," where three television stations (when it isn't snowing too badly), small, friendly creatures, assertive begetable gardens, fond memories, and the best of medicinal laughter and tears, make up this "everyman" collection of poetry and writing.

Throughout his career A.M. Klein struggled to define for himself the role of the poet in the contemporary world. Deeply rooted in the traditions of Judaism, and at the same time powerfully attracted by the freedom and scope of international modernism, he sought to reconcile past and present, community and creative individuality. Whether or not he finally achieved his own high aims, it was, in his own words, 'something merely to entertain them.' The result was a body of work immensely rich and varied in tone, language, cultural resonance.

This collection of eighty-four poems offers a...

This volume of E.J. Pratt's selected poems introduces Pratt's poems to the college and university student, to provide the kind of information needed for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen on the joint basis of representativeness and intrinsic value. This includes the major long poems, The Witches' Brew, The Iron Door, The Titanic, BrEbeuf and His Brethren, Towards the Last Spike, and important shorter lyrics including 'Newfoundland, ' 'Come Away, Death, ' and 'From Stone to...

I Was Expecting Someone Taller is actually a collection of people: working people, old people, street people, famous people from Josephine Baker to Baryshinikov, a woman "lunching out" with Jesus to a barfly. These poetic portraits are truthful, sometimes tinged with black humour, other times political. Sue Nevill s people break through the flat, artificial surfaces of typical portraits and give us colourful, three-dimensional views of their unexpected natures."

Here, in a new edition reprint of John Barton s Archibald Lampman Award-winning classic, is a portrait in verse of the venerable and eccentric Emily Carr. Barton explores the West Coast landscape that was her inspiration with its cathedrals of cedars and the swirling skies of her own imagining. With an introduction by Kate Braid, author of To This Cedar Fountain, Barton s own artistry is made available to the host of fans it garnered on its original printing and to those legions which have followed his career for the last fifteen years.

Emily Carr wrote in her journal in the early...

Sue Nevill departs with purpose from traditional verse for her second collection. Careening through utterly unique poetic territory, from urban junkets to rural backroads, her images stun the reader with the force of wind against windshield. In four sections "Rain to Dance in at Midnight," "Another Way to Saskatchewan," "Romancing the Stone" and "Forest of Daughters," Nevill moves from the interior landscape of bars and basements to the open road, celebrating the vagabond tradition that hurtles us back in time and forward through generations at once recovering the debris of earlier...