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-- Tout ce qu'il fautBy Cimon, Anne2002., Borealis P. Call No: 811.54 C573al Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2017., General, The University of Alberta Press Call No: 811.6 M379b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Robert Kroetsch series.Summary Note: Lisa Martin's new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy and sorrow. Here readers will find a range of moods, tones, and subjects, as well as both traditional and contemporary forms - from sonnets to prose poems. A collection imbued with the light of an enduring, if troubled, faith. With its focus on spirit, ethics, and how to live well, Believing is not the same as Being Saved offers a tender meditation on the moments that make a life. "There's a way of speaking as if the difference matters, as if the road home is finite / everything begins and ends somewhere, like your hand in mine, or how last light fractures in the limbs of pine / while beyond my window, a coyote follows a trail into the dusk that only it can see."-- from "Map for the road home." Poet, essayist, and editor Lisa Martin is the author of One Crow Sorrow (2008) and co-editor of How to Expect What You're Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Loss (2013). She teaches literature and creative writing at Concordia University of Edmonton.
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2017., General, MisFit, an imprint of ECW Press Call No: QWF 811.54 D535b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele's Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through elegy and acts of translation of text and of self. The collection opens with a kind of hymn to life on the planet, sung from the peak of that urban island, Montreal - an attempt to see beyond death. The book moves into a sequence of poems described by Sharon Thesen as the poet "envisioning the passage of time under the 'full and waning' moon of Mount Royal's beacon cross, recalling her Italian immigrant parents in Toronto and her current life in Montreal [. . .] a sort of Decameron." Thesen's description is apt for the collection as a whole, which moves into the poet's autobiography - in search of catharsis through literature - and pays tributes to poets who have been part of the literary landscape di Michele now inhabits. Bicycle Thieves is poetry as time machine, transcending the borders between life and death, language and culture. Mary di Michele, born in Lanciano, Italy, is an Italian-Canadian poet and author. She immigrated to Toronto with her family in 1955. She is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal where she teaches in creative writing.
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2014., Adult, Boblioasis Call No: QWF 811.6 C455g Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The second full-length collection from sonneteer and formalist poet Catherine Chandler, Glad and Sorry Seasons brings together new suites of poemson grief, recovery, the deadly sins, and the virtues of faith, hope, and loveto meditate on those polarities of light and dark, joy and sorrow, that illuminate and cloud our lives by turn. With subjects ranging from Alzheimerœs to Edward Hopperœs Automat, in handsomely crafted stanzas and metres, and including translations from Québecois and Latin American poets, Glad and Sorry Seasons is a stunning and learned offering from a poet unmistakably committed to form.
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2020., Invisible Publishing Call No: 811.6 C147g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the Klondike to an all-girls summer camp to out space, Gold Rush explores what it means to be a settler woman in the wilderness. Whether they're trekking the Chilkoot Trail, exploring the frontiers of their own bodies and desires, or navigating an unstable, unfamiliar climate, the girls and women in these poems are pioneers--in all the complexities contained by the term.
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2018., Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Call No: IND 819.12 D186h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inanna poetry & fiction series.Summary Note: Hiraeth is about women supporting and lending strength and clarity to other women so they know that moving forward is always possible-- and always necessary. It documents a journey of struggle that pertains to a dark point in Canadian history that few talk about and of which even fewer seem aware. Poems speak to the 1960's "scoop up" of children and how this affected the lives of (one or thousands) of First Nations and Métis girls-- girls who later grew to be women with questions, women with wounds, women who felt like they had no place to call home. That is, until they allowed themselves to be open to the courage others have lived and shared. "Hiraeth" is a word that is Celtic in origin and it means looking for a place to belong that never existed. But this place does exist--in the heart.
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2018., Book*hug Call No: IND 811.6 B456h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In her third collection of poetry, Holy wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans woman in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. A confessional poet, Benaway narrates her sexual and romantic intimacies with partners as well as her work to navigate the daily burden of transphobia and violence. She examines the intersections of Indigenous and trans experience through autobiographical poems and continues to speak to the legacy of abuse, violence, and colonial erasure that defines Canada. Her sparse lines, interwoven with English and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), illustrate the wonder and power of Indigenous trans womanhood in motion"--from back cover.
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2015., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: IND 811.54 H848i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In Liz Howard's wild, scintillating debut, the mechanisms we use to make sense of our worlds -- even our direct intimate experiences of it -- come under constant scrutiny and a pressure that feels like love. What Howard can accomplish with language strikes us as electric, a kind of alchemy of perception and catastrophe, fidelity and apocalypse. The waters of Northern Ontario shield country are the toxic origin and an image of potential. A subject, a woman, a consumer, a polluter; an erotic force, a confused brilliance, a very necessary form of urgency -- all are loosely tethered together and made somehow to resonate with our own devotions and fears; made "to be small and dreaming parallel / to ceremony and decay." Liz Howard was born and raised in northern Ontario. Her poetry has appeared in The Capilano Review, The Puritan, and Matrix Magazine. She works as a Research Officer in cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto"--Provided by publisher.
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c2011., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Toe Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Irma Voth entangles love, longing and dark family secrets. The stifling, reclusive Mennonite life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth - newly married and newly deserted and as unforgettable a character as Nomi Nickel in 'A Complicated Kindness'- is irrevocably changed when a film crew moves in to make a movie about the community. She embraces the absurdity, creative passion and warmth of their world but her intractable and domineering father is determined to keep her from it at all costs. The confrontation between them sets her on an irrevocable path towards something that feels like freedom as she and her young sister, Aggie, wise beyond her teenage years, flee to the city, upheld only by their love for each other and their smart wit, even as they begin to understand the tragedy that has their family in its grip. Irma Voth delves into the complicated factors that set us on the road to self-discovery and how we can sometimes find the strength to endure the really hard things that happen. And as Gustavo, a taxi driver, says, you go on, you live and you laugh and you are compassionate toward others. It also asks that most difficult of questions: How do we forgive? And most importantly, how do we forgive ourselves?"--Publisher.
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2014., General, Brick Books Call No: 811.6 P227l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory. Lake of Two Mountains, Arleen Paré's second poetry collection, is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network of relationships around a lake. It maps, probes and applauds the riparian region of central Canadian geography that lies between the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence Rivers. The poems portray this territory, its contested human presences and natural history: the 1990 Oka Crisis, Pleistocene shifts and dislocations, the feather-shaped Ile Cadieux, a Trappist monastery on the lake's northern shore. As we are drawn into experience of the lake and its environs, we also enter an intricate interleaving of landscape and memory, a reflection on how a place comes to inhabit us even as we inhabit it. Arleen Paré is a poet and novelist, author of two previous books. Originally from Montreal, she lived for many years in Vancouver, where she worked as a social worker and administrator to provide community housing for people with mental illnesses. She now lives in Victoria"--Provided by publisher.
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By Kaur, Rupi2015., General, Andrews McMeel Publishing, LCC Call No: 811.54 K21m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of beautifully illustrated poetry and prose about survival, about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look. Rupi Kaur (RupiKaur.com) is a poet, writer and photographer based in Toronto. She studied rhetoric and professional writing at the University of Waterloo. Throughout her poetry, photography and illustrations she engages with themes of femininity, love, loss, trauma, and healing. She uses Instagram (Instagram.com/rupikaur_) post her poetry, performs spoken word poetry and hosts writing workshops.
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2018., Coach House Books Call No: QWF IND 811.6 L719o Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Can poems mourn the unmourned? Obits is a collection of prose poems in which a speaker attempts and fails to write obituaries for women and others whose memorials are missing, or who are represented only as statistics. To honour by elegy: she considers victims of mass deaths, fictional characters like Laura Palmer, her aunt (a woman who she knows less about than any of the people she researches), and her own Indonesian heritage"--
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2015., Blurb Call No: Bio B813p Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This 2015 collection of poems, paintings and stories by Montreal art activist and cancer survivor, CHERYL BRAGANZA, will make a beautiful addition to your bedside or coffee table. Written in touching prose, her life story covering several continents, weaves delicate threads of color, music, poetry, human rights and survival together into a unique fabric guaranteed to inspire. A real collector's item.
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2022., Adult, ECW Press Call No: NEW QWF 818.54 S997q Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: ""One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time," writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition. During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze's new maternal role urges her to contemplate her own origins, both familial and artistic. Comprised of six personal essays, poems, and a concluding long poem, Quiet Night Think takes its title from a direct translation of an eighth-century Chinese poem by Li Bai, the subject of the opening essay. Sze's memory of reading Li Bai's poem as a child marks the beginning of an unshakable encounter with poetry. What follows is an intimate anatomization of her particular entanglement with languages and cultures. In her most generically diverse book yet, Sze moves between poetry and prose, mother and writer, the lyrical and the autobiographical, all the while inviting readers to meditate with her on questions of emergence and transformation: What are you trying to be? Where does a word break off? What calls to us throughout the night?"-- Provided by publisher.
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2013., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: 811.54 C321r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from Autobiography of Red, now called "G," into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover "Sad" (short for Sad But Great), a haunted war veteran; and with Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the somber housewhere G's mother must face her death. Haunted by Proust, juxtaposing the hunger for flight with the longing for family and home, this deeply powerful verse picaresque invites readers on an extraordinary journey of intellect, imagination, and soul.
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By Lahey, Anitac2011., Adult, Signal Editions, Véhicule Press Call No: 811.6 L183s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2015]., Adult, Breakwater Call No: IND 811.6 C192s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Shannon Webb-Campbell's Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within the self. Patient, searching, questioning, and at times heartbreaking -- these poems reveal the deep past within the present tense and the interrelations that make our lives somehow both whole and unfinished. And though Webb-Campbell is political at times, this is not politics for the sake of politics: here, it's a matter of the human heart. Ranging from reflective to angry, from sensual to humourous, her poetry inhabits that mercurial space between the public and the private -- a remarkably accomplished debut collection. Shannon Webb-Campbell is a poet, writer, and journalist of mixed Aboriginal ancestry. This is her first collection of poems. She lives in Halifax"--Provided by publisher.
