Douglas Lochhead
In the spring of 2001, Douglas Lochhead received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts from the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Member of the Order of Canada, the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities, Professor Emeritus at Mount Allison University, Senior Fellow and Founding Librarian at Massey College, University of Toronto, and a life member of the League of Canadian Poets. After beginning his career as an advertising copywriter, he became a librarian, a professor of English, a specialist in typography and fine hand printing, and a bibliographer, scholar, and editor — indeed, he has characterized himself as “an unrepentant generalist.” At Mount Allison University, he was a founder and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies, and he held the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies.
Breakfast at Mel's
Never has Douglas Lochhead’s work been so focused on life’s physicality. Exultant or downcast, playful or meditative, the poems in Breakfast at Mel’s and Other Poems of Love and Places grasp and hold what is real to the senses. This zest for life, along with the technical brilliance readers have come to expect of Lochhead’s work, makes Brea …
Cape Enrage
Cape Enrage is a brilliant collection from a long-respected figure in the Canadian literary landscape. Focussed on the Cape itself, the poetry is full of meditations both personal and natural.
Coastlines
Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region’s finest poets in a volume that will whet appetites for more. The earlier poetry renaissance began in 1945, with the establishment of The Fiddlehead magazine …
High Marsh Road
High Marsh Road, a finalist for the 1980 Governor Generals Award and a beautiful example of bookmaking, is now back in print. High Marsh Road is a signficant step in the century-long artistic tradition of the Tantramar region, begun by Charles G.D. Roberts and continued by Alex Colville, John Thompson, and Lochhead himself. The book consists of 1 …
Homage to Henry Alline and Other Poems
Homage to Henri Alline and Other Poems marks a new stage in the long career of this renowned poet. The book consists of two long poems flanking a collection of related short poems. At once austere and rich, this book is a vintage offering from a poet at the height of his powers.
Midgic
Midgic is a small community on the edge of New Brunswick's Tantramar marshes, thought by historian William Francis Ganong to have been named for a Mi'kmaq descriptive for "a point of highland into a marsh." In this new suite of poems, Douglas Lochhead displays the sure, grid-laying eye of the archeologist, mapping each small detail in his concise l …
The Panic Field
In the opening title sequence of The Panic Field, Lochhead explores the ways of men, caught up in the sprawling net of the army, during war: In a Winter Apartment,&148 which follows, is an extended love poem; the collection ends with a series of reflective prose poems.
Tiger in The Skull
Tiger in the Skull makes available for the first time in a single volume the range, substance, and variety of Lochheads work.
Upper Cape Poems
Upper Cape Poems testifies to Lochheads continuing fascination with the Tantramar Marsh region. In these poems, the winds, waters, birds, trees, and speaking places of Tantramar insistently draw upon Lochheads imagination, offering him opportunities to meditate upon statues in Palermo, to revisit the Gatineau, to remember an Edinburgh square, t …
Weathers
Douglas Lochhead is one of Canadas finest poets. In celebration of his eightieth birthday, Goose Lane Editions is releasing Weathers: Poems New and Selected, a collection of the best of Lochheads work from the last fifteen years. Douglas Lochhead&146s poetic imagination receives its greatest stimulus from what his senses tell him about nature a …
Yes Yes Yes
A suite of 50 poems in the memorable lyric shorthand Lochhead coined in High Marsh Road and Midgic.