Poetry, Canadian
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Dis-Shelter of Being
Poems 1978-1984 by Bernhard Radloff
The poems collected in this volume offer personal and philosophical reflections on an age of disintegration. Written in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it is divided into three parts. The second Part arose out of the character of the author's...
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A Lifetime of Feelings
by David Edmond
This collection of free verse poetry examines the deep questions of the human condition: death and disease, love and God, and the endurance of the human spirit. Inspired by the author’s life, the poems are both unique and universal, asking...
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Bruised Fruit
by Brie Susanne
In Bruised Fruit, pride hangs from a tree like a plum, is plucked, and left to rot on the ground. A cow jumps over the moon and lands on the highway. A heart is made of glass. Blushing is “a wound / in my cheek.” A breath is an ocean wave. Love...
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The Things I've Left Unsaid
by Puneet Rangi
Here’s the diary of a soul who finally found courage to express the truths that must be told. Conveying the ways in which filth trickled by and eroded every piece of humanity left inside. Here’s a challenge to the world in all the atrocities it...
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The Comfort of Stone
New and Selected Poems by Marie Groundwater
The Comfort of Stone is a collection of finely crafted free verse and lyrical poems that trace the author’s intimate recollections of her life experience and family history. The old stories told around the kitchen table become reality as personal...
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Gypsy Muse
by Norman Bruce Ayers
We all create false mountains to climb. Gypsy Muse is a collection of free verse poetry chronicling that journey, and how we move beyond. Its subject matter strolls the depth and breadth of life: reinvention of the self later in life, the majesty...
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Cats’ Only Vice Is Destruction
by Dr Sam
All of the humans are stuck at home, and the cats have no idea what to do! Their domain has been compromised, their kingdom invaded, and they are going to show their displeasure…by scratching and destroying everything! This delightful comedic...
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Another Time & Place
A Memoir in Verse by Chris Goddard "Silverghost"
More than a book of poetry, Another Time & Place: A Memoir in Verse also serves as a memoir in which the author, Silverghost, expresses his life story—the people, places, and events he has encountered—in primarily rhyming verse. With an uncanny...
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Don't Tell My Parents
Queer Diasporic Truths by Alyy Patel
This book is my refusal to remain silent about the love that broke me. It is an unflinchingly honest collection of poetry that tells the story of how I developed a sense of self-worth through heartbreak and betrayal. It is the process of...
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Once is so Many
Springwater Poems by Robert G. Watson
This collection of spiritual poems derives mostly from the author’s years of meditation work. The result is a series of thoughtful, meditative, poetic bursts that draw on the natural world, emotion, and what it means to be in the present moment....
