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  • act normal

    by nancy davis halifax ...
    Series series The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
    i might never be no-one that shiny / the beauty of a sequin’d self / what was stitched into heaven’s dropThe poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy.act normal starts in an institution where children categorized and constructed as intellectually inferior are ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • hook

    by nancy davis halifax ...
    Series series The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
    See her? / Steadfast and firm her / branches graze the mantle of quiet clouds / as she elaborates her claimHaunted by indifference toward systemic violences and the disregard endured by those people labelled as "problems," nancy viva davis halifax’s poems articulate the constraints of discredited lives.Conveying her experiences witnessing homelessness, poverty, disability, and chronic illness on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    by Vivek Shraya ...
    Vivek Shraya's debut collection of poetry is a bold and timely interrogation of skin-its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words, rendering it visible, tangible and undeniable.Vivek Shraya is a writer, ... Read more

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  • Admission Requirements

    by Phoebe Wang ...
    **A Globe and Mail Best BookA debut collection from a startling new voice in Canadian poetry.**The poems in Admission Requirements attempt to discover what is required of us when we cut across our material and psychic geographies. Simultaneously full and empty of its origins, the self is continually taxed of any certainties and ways of being. The speaker in these poems is engaged in a kind of ... Read more

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  • Dear Divination

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    Dear Divination is a collection of poetry exploring young love, burgeoning sexuality, and the naivety of youth. Written between 1996 and 2002, this collection is at once exuberant and desperate. ... Read more

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  • Hacker Packer

    by Cassidy McFadzean ...
    A playfully inventive and invigorating debut collection of poetry from a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize and The Walrus Poetry Prize.With settings ranging from the ancient sites and lavish museums of Europe to the inner-city neighbourhood in North Central Regina where the poet grew up, the poems in Cassidy McFadzean’s startling first collection embrace myth and metaphysics and explore the ... Read more

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  • Touch to Affliction

    by Nathalie Stephens ...
    From the ruins of poetry, fiction and philosophy comes Touch To Affliction, a meditation on the notion of homeland, on patrie and the inhumanity that arises from it.This is a text obsessed with ruins: the ruins of genre, of language, of the city, of the body. The history of the twentieth century is a history of barbarism, and Stephens walks, like a flâneur, through its midst, experiencing through ... Read more

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  • Complicity

    by Adam Sol ...
    A dazzling and exhilarating new collection of poetry from an award-winning Canadian poet. For fans of Ken Babstock, A.F. Moritz, and Karen Solie.Award-winning poet Adam Sol's fourth collection is a meditation on complicity. By turns intimate and lyrical, experimental and outlandish, the collection focuses us on how we cannot escape the troubling structures that determine our lives. How do we ... Read more

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  • The Refrigerator Memory

    by Shannon Bramer ...
    The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness.With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, ... Read more

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  • Little Theatres

    by Erin Moure ...
    Erin Moure is one of the most consistently innovative, radically imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure seeks to re-create writing from the ground up. Little Theatres appears at a pressing historical crossroads, when we most need our language to be made restive again. Like the agua ... Read more

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  • Human Resources

    by Syd Zolf ...
    Winner of the 2008 Trillium Book Award for PoetryWrite for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and ‘plain language’ collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources. Here at the intersection of creation and repackaging, we experience the visceral and psychic cost of selling things with depleted words. Pilfered rhetorics fed into ... Read more

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  • The Second Blush

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    by Molly Peacock ...
    Acclaimed poet Molly Peacock tracks the vicissitudes of midlife marriage in her saucy, vulnerable, philosophical sixth collection.Demonstrating once again her "luxuriantly sensual imagination" (Washington Post), Molly Peacock celebrates marriage and a two-track life with the man who became her husband. As teenage sweethearts separated by other obligations, they found each other again at midlife. ... Read more

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