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2016., Adult, Coach House Books Call No: QWF Fic Boc Edition: First English edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A young, floundering author meets Robert 'Baloney' Lacerte, an older, marginal poet who seems to own nothing beyond his unwavering certainty. Over the course of several evenings, Lacerte recounts his unrelenting quest for poetry, which has taken him from Quebec's Boreal forests to South America to East Montreal, where he seems poised to disappear without a trace. But as the blocked writer discovers, Lacerte might just be full of it."--From publisher.
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2013., Wolsak and Wynn Call No: QWF 811.6 H855c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In The Civic-mindedness of Trees, award-winning poet Ken Howe updates the vocation of the "nature poet" for the 21st Century. These poems are witty and philosophical meditations on the haunting presence of the natural world, and on the familiar presence of humanity within it. In this book, odes to oak trees and ground squirrels renew the mysteries of plant and animal life; it is not an idealized Eden untouched by people, but a world, also, of highways that skirt the abyss and of "the great ruined jobsites of space", a world all the more strange for being real. At once playful and sublime, Ken Howe's linguistically daring investigations have updated "eco-poetry" for the information age.
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2013., Rebel Satori Press Call No: QWF 811.6 D814c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Evoking hidden worlds, summoning visions and making magic happen, Conjure: A Book Of Spells is filled with vivid images and tantalizing narrative fragments that stir the heart, mind and eye. Echoing the tone and structure of Medieval and Renaissance grimoires, Dubé's unique collection joins surrealist automatism with rigorous formal discipline and offers readers a profound and complex work.
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By Abley, Mark2013., Adult, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: QWF 811.54 A152c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Duncan Campbell Scott, known both as the architect of Canada's most destructive Aboriginal policies and as one of the nation's major poets. Who was this enigmatic figure who could compose a sonnet to an "Onondaga Madonna" one moment and promote a "final solution" to the "Indian problem" the next? In this passionate, intelligent and highly readable inquiry into the state of Canada's troubled Aboriginal relations, Abley alternates between analysis of current events and an imagined debate with the spirit of Duncan Campbell Scott, whose defense of the Indian Residential School and belief in assimilation illuminate the historical roots underlying today's First Nations' struggles. Mark Abley writes a column for the Montreal Gazette. He lives in Montreal.
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-- Days by moon light.2019., Adult, Coach House Books Call No: Fic Ale Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Almost a year to the date of his parents' death, botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents' friend Professor Morgan Bruno. Professor Bruno wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious and perhaps dead poet John Skennen. But Days By Moonlight is also a journey through an underworld that looks like southern Ontario, a journey taken during the hour of the wolf, that time of day when the sun is setting and the traveller can't tell the difference between dog and wolf, a time when the world and the imagination won't stay in their own lanes. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign language during the day and towns that hold Indigenous Parades; it is a land of house burnings, werewolves, witches, and plants with unusual properties.
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2017., DC Books Call No: QWF 811.6 V772e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "John Emil Vincent's previous books are critical. His first book, Queer Lyrics, was chosen as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. Kevin Kopelson of The University of Iowa has the following to say about the book: 'Poetry lovers should be writing love poems to John Emil Vincent and not just queer ones. For he has done something very difficult and completely necessary: performed both formalist and thematic analyses of deliberately 'difficult' modern poetry with a view to considering connections between sexual identity and poetic closure. Even readers with an aversion to such poetry will find themselves taken gently by the hand and led through this forbidding terrain by an unusually considerate yet formidably erudite critic. Let's hope this isn't Vincent's final word on the subject.' Excitement Tax is Vincent's first book of poetry."--$cProvided by publisher.
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2006, p1982., Adult, National Film Board of Canada Call No: DVD Bio S425f Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Looks at the multi-faceted career of F.R. Scott - a founder of the CCF Party, a lawyer, teacher of constitutional law and modernist poet.
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c2008., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 813.54 R134f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2015., Adult, Dundurn Press Call No: Bio L429P Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Irving Layton's last wife shares the story of her life with the acclaimed poet. While a student at Dalhousie University, Anna Pottier attended a poetry reading featuring Irving Layton. Walking out of the auditorium that night, she knew two things: she wanted more than ever to be a writer, and she wanted to be with Layton. At the age of twenty-three she became Layton's fifth and final wife; she was forty-eight years his junior. She shared the entirety of his world and was intimately involved in the writing and publication of such books as The Gucci Bag, Fortunate Exile, and Waiting for the Messiah. She accompanied Layton on his last major overseas reading tour, broke bread with Pierre Trudeau and Leonard Cohen, met other luminaries, and watched Layton write his very last poem. But slowly, Layton was changing. In 1992, a doctor put names to these changes: Parkinson's disease and early-stage Alzheimer's. Life carried on, but once-easy things grew more difficult, and then the day came in 1995, after nearly fourteen years, when Pottier had nothing left to give. Canadian poet Irving Layton (1912<U+2013>2006) was born in Romania to Jewish parents. His family moved to Montreal in 1913. Anna Pottier is a Nova Scotian Acadian writer and painter"--Provided by publisher.
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Ã2017., Melinda Cochrane International Call No: QWF 811.6 W165g Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lindsay Waldron is an educator and poet from Montreal, Quebec. She is a new and emerging writer with mciwritershouse.com and was interviewed at Bshani Radio.com to listen follow hereHer writing focus is to heal others with words. A positive energy permeates from her prose and this positivity stems from an awareness of self. Her new book Green Begets Gold speaks to a new generation of women and will remind everyone how powerful it is to love yourself first.
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2018., Bookland Press Call No: 841.54 P877h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Homesickness Is a Forgotten Art" is a compelling poetry collection that resonates with the echoes of a subtle presence. Open and attuned to what is, the poems portray complex reflections of deep human emotions and contradictions. Joël Pourbaix is curious about the world and he explores the enigma of the everyday: "I walk the line between the visible and the invisible; what more could you ask for?" The French-language edition of this book won the 2015 Governor General's Award for Poetry in the French language.
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2013., Adult, Macmillan Audio Call No: CD Fic Pen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Three Pines Volume: 9Summary Note: In Three Pines Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates the disappearance of a woman who was once one of the most famous people in the world and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.
![How the light gets in [CD] : Chief Inspector Gamache novel](/Library/images/~imageCT75977.JPG "How the light gets in [CD] : Chief Inspector Gamache novel")