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Daryl Hine's first wholly new collection of poetry in almost twenty years is a series of some three-hundred, ten-line lyric poems, linked by and flowing through the ampersand, which gives the book its title. The poems flit from thought to thought, from the philosophical to the mundane. They are autobiographical without ever being confessional, in w …

Jeremy Stewart's first book, '(flood basement', is a young poet's search for and discovery of his place in the local landscape. The poet is haunted by the legacy of colonialism and propelled by the struggles of a community seeking its own identity. '(flood basement' is the raw, shocking and innocent journey of an emerging artist in a seemingly infl …

In 14 Tractors, Gerald Hill’s latest poetry collection, tractors pull versions of story, poetic form, landscape, light, and family history into summer air, offering themselves as vehicles for looking and remembering. Accompanying Shelley Sopher’s visual material, Hill’s poems ride tractors to the edge of personal and cultural fields. Hop aboa …

This collection now reaches back to include E.J. Pratt, A.M. Klein, F.R. Scott, Miriam Waddington, and Ralph Gustafson, and forward to include a representative sampling of the best writing of Anne Szumigalski, Robrt Kroetsch, Bronwen Wallace, Robert Bringhurst, and Robyn Sarah. (A selection ofGary Geddes's own work is also included.) There are not …

"In these ‘poems and texts’ Gerry Shikatani ranges ‘far and wee,’ to use e.e.cummings phrase, exploring and inventing, each poetic situation a challenge. But whether as language games or acts of devotion, these little reality probes are full of life and, at odd moments, amazing grace."? Phyllis Webb

20th Century Poetry and Poetics is considered the most important teaching anthology published in Canada for poetry courses at the college and university market. The greatly anticipated fourth edition of the anthology was published in the Spring of 1996 and the number of poets included wasexpanded by more than fifty per cent. The twenty-five poets n …

For his tenth collection, 36 Cornelian Avenue, Christopher Wiseman returns to his wartime childhood in England and revisits the streets, shore, and woods that belonged to the resort town of Scarborough where, his father away fighting, he and his mother lived. In clear, quick-moving colloquial poetry, Wiseman explores how the Second World War affect …

40 dayz is Motion's eagerly anticipated second book of poetry. An entrancing journey through challenge, discovery, and transformation, this new collection is topical, sensual, sometimes provocative, often beautiful, and always engagingly rhythmic. The poems all allude to or explore the theme of "40 dayz," reflecting the literary side of Motion's ar …