This third book of Susan Glickman extends and deepens the vision developed in her highly-successful Complicity and The Power to Move. A prolific critic as well as reviewer, Glickman is one of Canada’s brightest poets. Continue reading
Visions Fugitive is Ralph Gustafson’s last book of poetry completed not long before his death in North Hatley, Quebec, in May 1995. In a writing career that spanned sixty years he published many volumes of poetry and edited the influential Penguin Book of Canadian Verse. Fire on Stone, published in 1974, won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and Configurations at Midnight received the 1993 QSPELL A.M. Klein Poetry Prize. Continue reading
This is a collection of poems, stories, and prayers straight from the heart of Roy K Hall, a cowboy who has seen it all. The pain of love lost, the joy of a grandchild’s discovery, the thrill of the hunt. Roy shares these and many more experiences of his life with gentle humour, startling honesty, and pure wonder. Roy’s stories are vignettes of his life’s journey; his prayers are heartfelt and spoken as if to a friend. His poetry is written with both tenderness and clarity. Every reader will relate to the joy he finds in his children and grandchildren, the sadness he feels when he finds himself alone, his orneriness when he plays practical jokes on his buddies. Roy’s straightforward, simple style will envelop you, the clarity of his voice will lift you up. Everyone has a little cowboy in them; these poems, stories, and prayers are sure to help you find yours! Continue reading
New & Selected Poems Author: Michael Harris | ISBN: 1550650297 : 9781550650297 | Format: Paperback | Size: 155x230mm | Pages: 204 | Weight: .326 Kg. | Published: IPG (Véhicule Press) … Continue reading
Peter Jailall teacher, storyteller and poet expresses great passion for the English language and for the quality of life of all Canadians. With this, his first published volume of poetry, he takes a much-deserved place alongside Canada’s most significant writers of colour. With this collection Peter Jailall’s writings can now be enjoyed by the public. Continue reading
These peoms are written with a piercing clarity and a profound intensity of emotion. Kalbasi’s ability to preserve the integrity and poetical sensibility of the work is evident in her mastery of language, editing, and translation. “Seven Valleys of Love” is a vibrant celebration of extraordinary women’s voices. The colourful and lively verses in this dazzling collection emerge as small, quiet explosions out of the shadows of hopelessness and seek to inspire and restore peace, hope, and harmony in its people. This stunning anthology of love and loss bears witness to a passionate and sorrowful longing, a deep plaintiveness for the ageless plight of expression. Continue reading
These poems reveal some of the darkly humourous as well as volatile, elements of growing up in an oppressive religious environment. This is a dazzling collection of lively and luminous poems, many of which resonate with a song-like quality that reflect a passion for music. Continue reading
The apparently wry, engaging surface of these poems is undercut by an incisive look at human habits and foibles. Articulate, quiet humour is belied by something ineffable and much darker. This tension carries throughout the book informing the casual, bantering speech of the poetry itself. Continue reading
A series of lucid and engaging “postcard” sonnets written as letters to the poet’s wife from temporary residences in Greence and in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Although David Solway makes Montreal his home, he lives in the Greek islands when he can; Modern Marriage is one of the results of his living in these two worlds. Continue reading
Winner of the Governor-General’s Award in 1979. Born in Montreal in 1947, Robert Melancon studied at the University de Montreal and in Tours where he wrote his doctorate on French baroque poetry. He has published three books of poems including Inscriptions, Peinture aveugle, which won the Governor General’s Award in 1979, and Territoire. Continue reading