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
The poems in “Wind and Root” emerge from two powerful and sometimes contradictory forces in the poet’s life: one, the rural traditions, landscapes and seascapes of his native province, and the other, a profound desire to move and see beyond those boundaries. Brent MacLaine’s work displays a range of poetical responses – lyrical, tragic, dramatic, realistic, ironic, humourous – from an imagination that swings between the experiences of there and away – of wind – and the experiences of here and home – of root. The power and craft of these poems belie that this is the author’s first book. Continue reading
In Breaking the Drought, poetic sensibility bubbles forth in its native voice. Working less with patients, Stephen can go back to his starting place as a writer, with time to fine tune what emerges. These 81 poems exquisitely express a life well spent in quest of wisdom, openness, spirituality, and humanity… and deliver Levine’s ‘healing’ in a new mode. Continue reading
Continuation II Author: Louis Dudek | ISBN: 155065005X : 9781550650051 | Format: Paperback | Size: 155x230mm | Pages: 116 | Weight: .202 Kg. | Published: IPG (Véhicule Press) – January … Continue reading
In this collection, which includes ‘Fire and Ice,’ winner of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Norbert Krapf returns to the settings and themes of his highly regarded Somewhere in Southern Indiana. A writer for whom place has been a major inspiration, Krapf continues his exploration of family history, relationships between people of different ethnic backgrounds, nature, and the passage of time. He extends his meditations on the Holocaust that conclude Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany to the treatment of the Miami Indians of his native region and a racial incident from his college years. Continue reading