Davie Street TranslationsFront Cover
Davie Street Translations
By Daniel Zomparelli

To the street that is a village, Daniel Zomparelli conveys a liveliness and wit that rhetorically towel-flicks its way from the sardonic bathhouse banter of ancient Rome to the cinematic musical machismo of the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, with each poem “translating” another chapter in his documentary of gay male culture in Vancouver, demonstrating, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, that the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.


$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2012 | Edition # 1
6 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE021000
ISBN 13: 9780889226838 | Rights: WORLD

DecompositionsFront Cover
Decompositions
By Ken Belford

Short-listed 2011 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

If language is an index of belonging, then these poems are the writing of an exile, a tribe of one.


$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
6.00 W × 9.00 H × .25 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226319 | Rights: WORLD

Desire PathFront Cover
Desire Path
By Taryn Hubbard

A debut poetry collection that grows from the impulse to explore home in the suburb – in the intersections, overlaps, and gaps between urban and rural. These are walking poems and driving poems. In growing suburbs across the country, there is a push to urbanize, to rethink this sprawling space;…


$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
8.5 W × 5.5 H × 0.75 D inches
Poetry | Frontlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012637 | Rights: WORLD

Discovery PassagesFront Cover
Discovery Passages
By Garry Thomas Morse

Short-listed 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry

Short-listed 2012 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Joint winner 2011 One of the Top Ten Poetry Collections (Globe and Mail)

Joint winner 2012 One of the Best Ten Aboriginal Books from the past decade CBC - 8th Fire

With breathtaking virtuosity, Garry Thomas Morse sets out to recover the appropriated, stolen and scattered world of his ancestral people.


$17.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226609 | Rights: WORLD

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Dominican Moon
By Ken Norris

Composed like a dark novel-in-verse, the second book in Norris’s travel trilogy is an unsettling story of the deficiencies of love steeped in a clash of cultures between the third world and the first.


$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225268 | Rights: WORLD

Down TimeFront Cover
Down Time
By Jeff Derksen

Winner 1991 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Proposes a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in without returning to a garrison mentality.


$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1990
5.00 W × 8.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
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ISBN 13: 9780889222786 | Rights: WORLD

DOWNVERSEFront Cover
DOWNVERSE
By Nikki Reimer

In this quick-witted collection of poems, Nikki Reimer mines the language of new media – hashtags, YouTube comments, Twitter updates – to defamiliarize the very substance of modern life: the constellation of media-enforced ideals that barrage our newsfeeds, daily commutes to #work, and (mostly online) excursions to the (Apple) store. In its shifty way, Reimer’s text alternates between the voices of Vancouver’s youth- and consumer-driven populace, asking the question, “What happens when the Market is the Way, the Truth, and the Life?”


$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2013
8.5 W × 6 H × .25 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889228542 | Rights: WORLD

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dream / arteries
By Phinder Dulai

In his third poetry collection, soul/journ , Phinder Dulai connects 376 passengers on the Komagata Maru with other New World settler migrants who traveled on the same ship throughout its 36-year history. By drawing on ship records, nautical maps, and passenger manifests, Dulai demonstrates how the 1914 incident encapsulates a broader narrative of migration throughout the New World.


$19.95 | 136 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
5.75 W × 8.75 H × 1 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229136 | Rights: WORLD

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Dream Pool Essays
By Gil McElroy

Short-listed 2002 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

An active multiple streaming of apparently disparate sources: astronomy; theoretical cosmology and quantum physics; and the literary and visual arts.


$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2001
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224544 | Rights: WORLD

DuetsFront Cover
Duets
By Edward Byrne

A translation of the sonnets of Louise Labé, who lived and wrote in sixteenth-century Lyon, and those of the thirteenth-century Florentine, Guido Cavalcanti.


$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .75 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772011999 | Rights: WORLD

DwellFront Cover
Dwell
By Jeff Derksen

Short-listed 1994 Alberta Writer's Guild Award

This long poem blends and bends the lyric, procedural poetry, the travelogue and extended forms. Dwell lives in, or dwells on, the interaction of a restless subjectivity with the seemingly transparent, yet identifiable, social codes that encase us.


$15.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
5.00 W × 8.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223288 | Rights: WORLD

Dyssemia SleazeFront Cover
Dyssemia Sleaze
By Adeena Karasick

Winner 2000 Bumbershoot Most Adventurous Award

Cf. SEMA, unit of meaning: i.e. Dyssemia: (flawed information reception) Sleaze / sli:z/ v. Rough with projecting fibres.


$24.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2000
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
Poetry | Backlist | Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224346 | Rights: WORLD