Poetry, Canadian
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Robin and Daisy Play in the Spring
by Mark Tadros
The stove light shining on stars The linoleum dance floor Singing into a wooden spoon An audience of bubbling cauldrons Epic moves too great for public eyes A celebration of simple pleasures and the everyday, Robin and Daisy Play in the Spring is...
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Remnants of Our Life with Your Dementia
A Poetic Memoir by David R. Topper
A poignant account in poetic verse of one man’s journey with his wife, into the all-encompassing realm of her dementia.
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the bee and the fleur de lis
love poems for the broken hearted and unrequited by D R Kendel
Love is primal…and heartbreak? Inevitable. the bee and the fleur de lis is a collection of deeply personal poetry born of hopeless romanticism and truly heartbreaking experiences. Through both free verse and rhyming poetry, D R Kendel plays with...
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Winter Wonderland?
Poetic Form in Service of the Modern Experience by Kevin Girard
A fairy tale that does unfold a red carpet, on which we are actors trying to live other people’s lives. It is meaning that we are losing as we try to just survive. Madness of the medicated, it’s all a violation of the question, “What is it to be...
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Notes from Oblivion
by Gary Russo
Notes from Oblivion will appeal to an adult readership that enjoys hard-hitting, thought-provoking poetry. Themes explored include unsophisticated populism, media saturation, freedom and censorship, isolation, and the angst of love. They are...
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Collected Poems
by Raymond Fraser
Poetry is a universal language, and Raymond Fraser used it to speak to his readers about what life is—and what it can be. Over his impressive fifty-year career, Raymond wrote eight poetry collections, using deft insight and a masterful command of...
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Lucid Wake
Equitable Narratives by Duresameen Ashraf
IN A LANDSCAPE OF NARRATIVES, our knowledge is impacted by media, institutions, and governments. Information, language, and data act as drivers of programming in AI and social systems, the systemic outcome being reflective of the intents and...
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Reminiscence Armada
selected poems by J.L. Jubert
The walls begin to crack, fissures running along The beams of its back, the pipes of its veins. It can no longer support the emptiness of its weight, The void of its rooms, the deafening sound of no one. (“Dusk Is When I Think of You Most”)...
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Making Sense From Nonsense
by Daniel Fuller
For war Correct and normal posture is: Scoliotic spine fixed in alignment with adopted language Shoulders slouching under symbolic statistics Head forward neck perfect for pain Not standing up against the costs Sitting down like a desk worker...
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Inside Dreamlands
by James C. MacDonald
Unfolding through diverse, colourful narratives of real-world situations, these poems incorporate observations of a vivid waking life with the intense emotions and often surreal images of dreamland. Many poems deal with all the existential...
