RUMI at the age of thirty-seven meets SHAMS TABRIZI (the sun of Tabriz) "a weird figure wrapped in coarse black felt, who flits across the stage fo...

"We're not exactly scene-stealers, so you don't hear much from us shy folk-and that's usually how we like it." -Elizabeth Zotova, "My Dear X" The p...

What is the soul of poetry? The most influential answer was probably given in Aristotle's Poetics, but even within that tradition which claimed the...

In 2006, the posthumously-published works of little known poet Jason Silver caused a minor sensation on the Adelaide literary scene. His surreal, i...

This is a retrospective selection of poems by Governor General's Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie. Arranged in chronological order from 1965 right...

What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clari...

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. In this wide-ranging collection, Andrew DuBois rounds up some 200 reviews of contemporary Canadian poets (from Jordan ...

This is fluent, well crafted poetry but it is not always comfortable as Leah Kaminsky takes us on a journey with her father fleeing from Poland to ...

To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...

A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...

A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...

Walt Whitman, whose Leaves of Grass was called "the secular Scripture of the United States" by Harold Bloom, is a source of contemporary inspiratio...

She is a hunter of women brown eyes dilated, I watch her gracefully pouring tea. She smells of the chase, her blood-smeared nails assault you in th...

Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy mor...

First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and af...

This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episod...

Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, ...

The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Whe...

This edition answers the needs of both beginning and advanced students: It features the text of Marlowe's play with modern spelling and punctuation...

This book has been published in celebration of the poet and scholar Dick Davis, dubbed our pre-eminent translator from Persian by The Washington Po...

A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1980. This reliable text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in ...

This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart -– the poems in Persian and English on facing pages -– is a unique and captivating collection ...

In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstone...

Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of a...

This study views the early work of William Wordsworth as partaking in a general Western European cultural movement in which the realm of the numino...

A new poetry collection by Canberra poet, Lizz Murphy. Share in Lizz Murphy's experiences on the shop floor, her frustrations with today's supermar...

Like travellers from fabled lands, voices come telling tales, sometimes shocking, sometimes familiar, sometimes magnetic, like echoes, like ultra s...

Journey along Vancouver's colourful city streets, past its landmarks, through the sounds and smells of Chinatown. Ramble along the seawall on Engli...

Where did Walt Whitman get his religious ideas? This book follows in detail the similarities of the religious beliefs of the American writer/humani...

Renowned poet and editor John Barton collects his most provocative essays, public lectures, and reviews produced over the past twenty-five years. B...

This is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice. Andy Weaver explores the boundaries of the poetic form to create a playful ...

"Wild Strawberries" collects fifty-nine new poems previously published in three dozen plus literary journals such as Backwards City Review, The Cal...

Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and priv...

In this unique book, Ray McGinnis offers us a new, deeper, and more meaningful way to explore and understand the Psalms. Vividly connecting us with...