You wake in the middle of the night with a terrible pain radiating from your lower side up to your chest. An ambulance is called, and you're ration...

This book takes the everyday and transforms it into something fine and precious and enduring. With an unsparing attention, Emma Neale creates shape...

Emily Carr recorded the experience of the West Coast soul in her living landscapes and her portraits of BC's towering firs. Kate Braid, in To This ...

This book contains the very best poetry of reclusive poet t. kilgore splake.

Tongues of Ash stands out and stands firm because almost all the poems are embedded in, but also arise from, specific places in the landscape. They...

A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Os...

This is a landmark collection of poems by the legendary literary activist, poet/editor Glenna Luschei. In her mature later poems, Glenna Luschei jo...

In the tradition of Dickinson’s letter to the world, Julie Waugh has dedicated herself to the poet’s scrupulous custom of reflection and self-exami...

Traditions is a collection of poems that combine humour and sensitivity from a feminist perspective.

Award winning poet, translator and international multi-media artist Kerry Shawn Keys presents his most recent collection of poetry -- "Transporting...

This new collection by widely published poet Eric Greinke demonstrates the power of poetry to expand consciousness. Greinke is a poet of great rang...

The breath held or expelled in wonder, frustration or delight energises Emma Neale's writing. Poems in The Truth Garden take risks because they nee...

This is the first full-length collection of poems by Heather O'Neill, a writer and performer living in Montreal. two eyes are you sleeping is a lin...

Diana Bridge’s subjects are reflected through a range of cultural lenses. To engagement with Western and New Zealand literature should be added her...

An exploration of Heisenberg's "physics of poetry" and his "uncertainty principle" via the poetic medium.

This book explores the meeting of the natural, suburban and inner-city experiences of Prince George. These poems look beneath the daily observation...

Angela Szczepaniak's debut poetry collection sutures swatches of fiction, poetry, etiquette advice, slapstick legal antics, and gruesomely illustra...

A tour de force of comic ingenuity, Unsnarling String features the infamous Everett Coogler poem series.

Memorials and the yearning to re-create the past permeate "Valley Sutra", award-winning poet Kuldip Gill's new collection. The voices of East India...

In this late-modern period of slackened meaning, G P Lainsbury's "Versions of North" attempts to locate poetic consciousness in the drifting concep...

The voice of poet John Tynan has a natural beauty all its own that is both an innate gift and a moral, as well as technical, achievement: fresh, un...

Prose writers have had it their own way for too long. At last, here is an anthology of poetry from New Zealand that captures the essence of science...

Concetta Principe's deeply intimate "Walking" explores religious difference and secular politics, God and promises through the meditative lens of p...

Alan Catlin’s latest collection of poetry reflects both the humanistic concerns of his previous work as well as the expanded tone and vision of a w...

Eloquent, engaging, sometimes unsettling poetic examination of the changes that time imposes on our personal as well as national histories.

"Shore's mind is awake, always, to the lyrical potential of an ordinary moment and the consolations of memory and old friendships, awake to the sat...

How does a writer translate war? And when the war is over, how does the individual reconstruct his world from the ruins? Bajraj lives in Mexico, in...

This is the first volume of poetry by this 30-year veteran of the National Park Service, where he worked as a Senior Planner at the Interpretive De...

Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question--"Where do we fit in the ...

Jenna Butler draws on her own experiences of her grandmother's disappearance into senile dementia to reassemble a sensual world in longpoem form th...

In 1922, Wharton Esherick showed a copy Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk, which he had illustrated with woodcut prints, to Harold Mason, owner of the Ce...

A strange and compelling world is revealed in What Can Be Proven, and yet reading it is like returning to familiar things that we have forgotten. O...

In this audio book selected from BN Oakman's latest poetry collections, In Defense of Hawaiian Shirts and Second Thoughts, we have brilliant readin...

'His voice was as thick as pine resin when he began to read and as the words travelled down my spine.' Mary Barnes has identified beauty in subtlet...

The poems in Ben Murray' s debut collection, What We' re Left With, reflect on disconnection as a feature of contemporary urban experience. Murray'...

These poems offer readers a sometimes humorous, sometimes unsmiling view of the joys and disenchantments of married as well as unmarried love. The ...