Poetry, Subjects & Themes, Places
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Toronto Anthology
by Tania D'Amico
Toronto is arguably one of the biggest cities in Canada. One can argue that Toronto is one of the biggest cities in the world and is forever growing on an international scale when it comes to recognition and familiarity. Toronto is home to many...
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Embers
by Howard Giskin
I have sat at the feet of teachers, who have sat at the feet of masters, so I have touched enlightenment thrice removed, which has the feeling of a handsome baseball glove in a shop window that I have not the money to buy. I know this feeling...
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Reflections
by Robert W. White and Rosemary M. Kanigan
That broken old buggy down by the well If it could talk it would have a story to tell Of horses and sleighs and bygone days Pull up a stump and hear what it says. Reflections is a collection of rhyming poetry that shares a snapshot of a life that...
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In Circles
A memoir in vignettes - Poems written in 40 countries by Basil Dillon-Malone
In Circles is the follow-up publication to the author’s widely-acclaimed parody novel, The Last Smoker on Earth and the End of Literature [Friesen Press, Vancouver, 2021]. The poems were composed in 40 countries around the world. The collection...
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FEAST: The Second Serving
Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized by Broms The Poet
Scripts, quips, quotes, and soul grown feel-osophies make up the full course spread of FEAST: The Second Serving’s succinct and deeply relatable musings. This earnest and intimate collection explores life, love, addiction, and the human condition...
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Hungarian Poetry (Folk, Classical and Modern) in English
1000 years by Frank Veszely
An accomplished poet and the author of Canadian Hungarian Literature (1897 - 2017), Frank Veszely brings to the English reader the rich treasure-house of folk, classical, and modern Hungarian poetry (1000 - 2020). The translations read as if they...
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Sun, Sky, Sea, and Sometimes Mud!
by Joan Lavern Marshall Wilkinson and Verlyne V Forde
For Joan L. Marshall, there are powerful metaphors buried in the word “mud.” Not just the natural material that squelches under a child’s bare feet when playing at the beach, but complex memories of coming of age in her native Barbados. Sun, Sky,...
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There's a Fractal in My Soup
by James C. MacDonald
These poems engage the reader in a playful and entertaining journey encompassing all the elements of comedy, irony, tragedy, and romance. Enhanced by startling images and capricious humour, they reveal patterns often found in myth, dreams, and...
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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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Wolves on the Road
Words of Land, Love and Loss by Ulrich Wendt
The phone rings and it is our neighbour to the east of us. There are wolves on the road again, heading our way. When we hurry to look, there they are–three wolves, bigger than you’d expect, trotting confidently on the packed snow in the middle. A...
