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-- Anthology of 20th century poetry of the Eastern Townshipsc1999., Editions Triptyque : Véhicule Press ; Centre de recherche des cantons de l'est Call No: 811.54 A628 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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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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2022., Shoreline Press Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 B438c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Chaos Theories of Goodness, Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt provides insight into the true nature of gratitude and grace. Sensitive to the stress and global uncertainty accompanying the Covid-19 pandemic, she reflects on her daily life and times during the spring of 2020 and points us to where she finds essential hope and a belief in a better future. “And then, together,/ in our rickety, wonderful boat, / we’ll ride out the storm.”.
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2021., Guernica Editions Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 C166d Edition: 1st ed.. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential poets; Volume: 288Summary Note: Maria Caltabiano's poems are the result of years of ponderings and musings about life after losing her husband to cancer. They paint moments that clung to her and begged expression. Most try to work through the sadness and introspection that accompanies loss and mourning. But they also depict a healing process that imposes a new perspective as one embarks on an unknown road: the fears, the guilt, the joys. Nature figures prominently as a teacher and a source of solace. A sanctum away from a troubled world, be it the inner world, or the outer one of politics, religion, and human relationships.
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2023., Véhicule Press Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 N439f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Four-Doored House evokes two key women in Pierre Nepveu's life. First, his granddaughter Lily, who he imagines maturing into a complex world, haunted by her memory of him as he is haunted now by her projected self, navigating an era awash in uncertainty and unease. Imbued with both wonder and disquiet, it is an aging poet's celebration of childhood, as well as a meditation on his own "future absence." There follows his celebration of C, the woman with whom Nepveu shares his nights and days. These are love poems dedicated to a companion who has aided him in finding "new phrases that reformulate the impossible." The culmination of a brilliant career, translated into fluent and thrilling English by Donald Winker, The Four-Doored House is Nepveu's most enduring work yet.
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2022., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 811.6 S785h Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry seriesSummary Note: A keeper of things forgotten, a vase / for pictures made by words, a riverbed / for the stories you tell, an earthen silhouette / of a child With vivid imagery and endless compassion for subjects, Tanya Standish McIntyre's words breathe life. Her richly lyrical phrases capture both the fear and the beauty of growing up in a rural working-class community, anchored by the magical bond between a young girl and her grandfather. Way's Mills, Quebec, is the setting for these poems, although as with Mark Twain's Mississippi, place becomes a place in the heart in this elegy for lost ancestral farms. Standish McIntyre gives voice to the unspoken, shining a light into the dark corners of our collective memory to reveal an indelible past that gleams with clarity, empathy, and humanity. Taking seed in the dilapidated barns and warm sunlit rooms of Standish McIntyre's personal history, these poems weave a filigree of well-worn remembrances and time-honoured treaties of the self, half forgotten yet ever lingering. Lucid, sharp, and crisp as spring water, this collection holds a sweeping narrative power that will stay with you long after the last line.
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2016., University of Ottawa Press Call No: 819.13 S279j Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2004., Signal Editions ; Distributed in the U.S. by Independent Publishers Group Call No: QWF 811.54 N442m c.2 Availability:2 of 2 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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Ã2016., Thirty Torches Publishing Call No: QWF 811.6 K18n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: No Turning Back is a book of poetry by Michael Katz. Katz grew up in Montreal in the 1970s, during the turmoil of the separatist movement in Quebec. His childhood memories are bound to the cultural zeitgeist of the Anglo-Jewish community which, even then, had begun its exodus from Quebec. Katz left his beloved Montreal and the serene beauty of the Laurentian Mountains for the United States in 1984. No Turning Back speaks to the emotions, experiences, and identities that persist in all persons yearning for continuity with their past.
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-- Not in vain you have sent me lightBy Siré, Cora2021., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF 811.6 S619n Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential poets Volume: 287.Summary Note: "This collection vaults from the provocative - a deeply personal exposé of two lovers and their collisions and triumphs - into a high-voltage gallery depicting heroes and artists, scientists and politicians, mothers and their conflicted daughters. As the settings shift between the poet's homage to her home city of Montreal ("Sinville") to a near-drowning on a lake by a maximum security prison in New York State ("Cobalt") or calamities in the Andes of northern Argentina ("Argent"), Cora Siré draws on a colourful palette of form, lyric and metaphor to continue her exploration of identity, displacement and the cosmic powers of love and art."--
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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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2003. Call No: DVD Bio L429r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A look inside the life of Montreal poet Irving Layton, one of the most remarkable personalities in the Canadian literary scene.
![A red carpet for the sun : the life of Irving Layton [DVD] (2003). Directed by Donald Winkler](/Library/images/~imageCT80643.JPG "A red carpet for the sun : the life of Irving Layton [DVD] (2003). Directed by Donald Winkler")
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2015., Anvill Press Call No: QWF 811.6 B935r Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In her compelling debut poetry collection, shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award, Melissa Bull explores the familial, romantic, and sexual ties that bind lives to cities. Rue takes us through its alleys, parks, and kitchens with a robust lyricism and language that is at once inventive and plainspoken, compassionate and frank.In English, to rue is to regret; in French, la rue is the street Rue's poems provide the venue for moments of both recollection and motion. Punctuated with neologisms and the bilingual dialogue of Montreal, the collection explores the author's upbringing in the working-class neighbourhood of St. Henri with her artist mother, follows her travels, friendships, and loves across North America, Europe, and Russia, and recounts her journalist father's struggles with terminal brain cancer.Inspired by powerful Quebec talents like Nelly Arcan, Marie-Sissy Labrèche, playwright Annick Lefebvre, Canadians poets Elizabeth Bachinsky, Nikki Reimer and David McGimpsey, Melissa Bull brings an unflinching new feminist voice to the Canadian literary scene.
