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In a wonderful and unconventional poetic meditation on living, Wakan muses on everything from understanding the physics of the universe to ageing, preparing for death and dealing with cancer in often entertaining yet pointed verse.

Like a sculptor finding the image trapped within the stone, Glen Downie shapes the shards of history and humanity into arresting poetry in his newest colelction.

With a poet's turn of phrase and an artist's eye for detail, Noteboom captures the joys and sorrows of her daughter's first year in The Mongoose Diaries.

Susan Stenson understands death. She knows the importance of grief and the difficulty of finding words to say the final goodbye. Stenson offers beautifully shaped poems that show the living how to find space for the dead in their own lives. The poems in this collection are strong, honest, gentle and at times, surprisingly funny, there is more compassion in them than in a hundred sympathy cards.

Raymond Knister was a rising Canadian literary star when he died mysteriously of drowning in 1932. In this debut collection Micheline Maylor considers the circumstances surrounding Knister's sudden death and deftly captures the voices of those caught up in the tragedy. Treading gently through innuendo and rumour, Maylor draws the reader into the story with finely etched portraits of the characters and their imagined emotions.

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In her second collection, Erin Noteboom draws on the Bible to create vivid and thought-provoking poetry. Fearlessly, Noteboom considers the psalms, proverbs, the traditional stories of the Bible, and other ideas of religion. Always, she writes from the unexpected point-of-view. She writes of Leah's experience, and Cain's --rather than Jacob's and Abel's. The psalms contain praise of dishwater, and Noteboom doesn't hesitate to comment on more e...

(alive): poems selected and new, " is a volume of distilled grace. Twenty years of Rhea Tregebov's poetry have been collected in this work along with several new poems. This volume charts the course of a poetic career which has seen Tregebov consistently praised for her elegant writing, carefully shaped lines, and strong poetic voice, all of which are showcased in this new collection. With this work, it is easy to see how Rhea Tregebov has bec...

Matthew Tierney's debut collection of poetry is full of trains and visions. From Japan's subtle intricacies to the harsh realities of the Trans-Mongolian Express, Tierney captures the experience of movement and the freedom and dislocation of the traveller with potent imagery and persuasive verse. Whether searching for his own history in his grandfather's past in Wales, or stumbling through a Japanese lesson, Tierney's poetry pulls you into the...

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