In this debut poetry collection, Samantha Nock redefines where and what “home” is. A Family of Dreamers delves into the complexities of growing up in rural northeast British Columbia and the love and grief that bloom there. In this debut poetry collection, Samantha Nock redefines where and what “home” is,…
$18.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2023
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ISBN 13: 9781772015478
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When one person writes “this is what happened, this is what I know,” any reader stands in for the absent “I” or “eye” of that text. This inescapable process of language, preoccupies Kearns in these brief but concentrated pieces.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2007
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| Bisac: POE023000
ISBN 13: 9780889225589
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A Future Perfect operates, like a zoetrope, on the logic of the persistence of vision, joining the successive repetition of absence and presence. Like the sound of rain on a surreal windowpane, these poems constellate between the symbolic order of dreams and the imaginative space of figurative meaning – yet…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772013658
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A History of the Theories of Rain explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, approaching the unfolding climate catastrophe through its dissolution of the categories of “man-made” and “natural.” How do we go on with our daily lives while a disastrous…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE023030
ISBN 13: 9781772012880
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A kaleidoscopic net woven of words A Net of Momentary Sapphire offers three closely related poetic sequences, random rearrangements of a poignant but obsessively recurrent source text – streams of consciousness in which no stable self can be elucidated. A broken long poem, this singular net is an interrogation of…
$21.95 | 176 pages | Pub. Date: 2023
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772015188
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Not merely an homage to Jack Spicer, but also a tribute to his Orphic conception of the serial poem, After Jack is a palimpsestuous attempt to achieve the dark art of nekuia, to encourage the means of poetic transmission and to divine the polyphony of both Federico García Lorca and Jack Spicer as their voices interweave, transform and become inexorably entangled with a fresh and undeniably peculiar, disturbingly profane authorial voice.
$19.95 | 184 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226302
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All Is Flesh collects in one volume Hugh Hazelton’s English translations of Yannick Renaud’s brilliant first two books of poems, Taxidermy and The Disappearance of Ideas, first published by Éditions Les Herbes rouges in Montreal.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
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ISBN 13: 9780889226722
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Joint winner 2009 One of the Best Books of 2009 (About.com)
Mashing up the lexicon of war with post-industrial consumerism, haute cuisine, couture, language, Eros and desire, Karasick’s sixth book is at once dark and satirical, exuberant and amorously rigorous.
$19.95 | 108 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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ISBN 13: 9780889226043
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Essays on poetic theory written by Canadian poets from the late 19th century to 1918.
$29.95 | 320 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226135
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Short-listed 2018 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
An Honest Woman by Jónína Kirton confronts us with beauty and ugliness in the wholesome riot that is sex, love, and marriage. From the perspective of a mixed-race woman, Kirton engages with Simone de Beauvoir and Donald Trump to unravel the norms of femininity and sexuality that continue to adhere…
$16.95 | 104 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
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| Bisac: POE015000
ISBN 13: 9781772011449
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Another Order gathers the dynamic and previously inaccessible works of Judith Copithorne, the boundary-pushing writer, artist, community worker, and outspoken feminist who has been a key figure in Vancouver’s literary scene since the 1960s. Including poetry, fiction, visual art, comics, and life writing, Another Order captures Copithorne’s “embodied approach to…
$34.95 | 400 pages | Pub. Date:
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772015539
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Composed like a dark novel-in-verse, Asian Skies is the unsettling story of the deficiencies of love that have produced our commodified and globalized world—a perhaps not-so-divine comedy of those who don’t love enough—steeped in a clash of cultures wherein the third world seems willingly, even perversely, to offer itself up as a simulacrum of the first, while its otherness remains hidden, inaccessible.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226333
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Even though we spend a third of our lives asleep, the behaviour remains largely a mystery. Sandra Huber’s first book, Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep, assumes that any attempt to solve this mystery requires new modes of experimentation. What happens when the line of a Berger’s wave (an electroencephalography recording of brainwaves in sleep) turns into a line of poetry, an act of focused consciousness?
$24.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229105
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Sharon Thesen’s poems express the pleasure and magic of a language fully engaging the world, rewarding the reader with daily moments transformed into visions of grace.
$15.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 1995
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889104716
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