Poetry, Canadian
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Ashes of Innocence
A Poetic Journey Through Shadow & Light by MJ Bear
All our perspectives come from light and shadows. What lies in the darkness, hidden from our understanding? What might a sudden light reveal? The answers to such questions are as changeable as the seasons, but giving them voice has always been...
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Song of the Brown Man
by David Villavera
In my early years, I read and wrote to learn English as well as I could. There were moments when I had no courage to use words that were new to me. But believing no one will ever see those words I wrote, I went ahead, discovering after a while my...
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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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A Plea to Our Mother
A Poetic Journey of Childhood Incest to Resilience by Kathleen Rooney
A Plea to Our Mother is a beautiful, complex, difficult collection of autobiographical poems that chronicles one woman’s experience of childhood sexual abuse, and how the abuse suffered by other members of her family led to and complicated her...
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Are You In There?
by Conny (Whittaker) Saunders
Life is full of excitement. Life is choosing to overcome any obstacle that may arise. Life is having an imaginary mind. Life is putting yourself to a challenge. ARE YOU IN THERE?
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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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This may sound strange
by Christopher A. Taylor
“This may sound strange” is Christopher Taylor’s second collection of poetry. It brings together a wide range of poems that are always in motion - in sound and subject, in image and tone. Simple in syntax, these poems remain in the reader’s mind...
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Poetry Extravagance
by Duncan G Ewing
Mental illness, Covid protocols, and paranormal encounters are just a few of the topics explored in this genre-blending collection. Flitting between prose poems, personal essays, and fictional vignettes, Poetry Extravagance is extravagant in both...
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When a Romantic Writes Poetry
by Ashley Dawn
Poetry has long been used to give tangible form to the most intangible of thoughts and feelings, with the voice of poets speaking universal truths for us all, even when we ourselves do not have the words. And there is no intangibility more...
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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...