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  • Airstream Land Yacht

    by Ken Babstock ...
    In his brilliant third collection, award-winning and critically-acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship as the speaker attempts to ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mean

    by Ken Babstock ...
    Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives. In this collection, the pastoral collides with the concrete terrain of motorbikes, prisons, and chainlink to capture our constructed isolation and our buried, yet resonant, connection to the land and seascapes that surround us.Ken Babstock's poetic voice is wholly ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Methodist Hatchet

    by Ken Babstock ...
    Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Book AwardMarooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in Methodist Hatchet cling to what’s necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Days Into Flatspin

    by Ken Babstock ...
    Days into Flatspin is Ken Babstock's extraordinary second collection and it reveals a poet in full flight, fearless and technically brilliant.Diving into and then beyond what is seen or the coma of looking as one poem calls it, Babstock veers into the inner core of things, animals, and places through portals that exist all around us -- clothing, banisters, marshes, locks, wounds. And these are ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swivelmount

    by Ken Babstock ...
    Poems to read in the small hours before dawn, when the sirens start up again.Swivelmount’s concerns – the collapse of subject and world, eros and law, knowledge and bafflement – gain new urgency as Babstock fiercely reimagines and reassembles the remnants into a viable order. At the core of their kinetic imagery is a freefall into mourning, but also a faith in others: a Babstock poem is the voice ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • On Malice

    by Ken Babstock ...
    One of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014The fairground screamed. The mountainsand valley were gone. The fire was gonetoo. The hanging ‘because’was gone too. The men were awayand my heart already deadand the fairground monkey dead in my mouth.A spectre haunts a derelictNSA surveillance station on a hill in Berlin. Our posthumous selves cry to us from the Cloud. We’ve internalized ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

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  • The Names

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    by Tim Lilburn ...
    From Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a collection of poetry of great scope and ambition.The Names is personal and familial archaeology, an extemporal dig giving spectres back to their bodies. With its lines sped up and dazzlingly associative, Tim Lilburn’s cocktail of obsessions—confession, ontology, mystical theology, humour and extreme, fleet, apt weirdness—marches ... Read more

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  • That Night We Were Ravenous

    by John Steffler ...
    A beautiful new edition of the award-winning collection from Canada’s new Poet Laureate.Newfoundland-born poet John Steffler is one of this country’s most accomplished writers. Recently named Canada’s national poet, he is the author of The Grey Islands (poems) and the award-winning novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright, both of which have become classics in our time.That Night We Were Ravenous ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Of Mutability

    by Jo Shapcott ...
    Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Portable Altamont

    When We Arrested James SpaderIt was the saddest thing I’d seen. How he kept thinking he was a cat and he wouldn’t get out of that filthy litter box.And then, in the back of the cruiser, meowing for his cat brothers to save him.Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and ... Read more

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  • Dear World & Everyone In It

    new poetry in the UK

    Dear World & Everyone In It is a ground-breaking new poetry anthology presenting the work of over 60 of the most talented and interesting young poets currently writing in the UK. Chosen by one of the country's leading young poetry editors, inspired by American precedents, and growing out of The Rialto's recent series of young poets features curated by Nathan Hamilton, it is the first British ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Universal Home Doctor

    As the title implies, Simon Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and engaged, the poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against the ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. Equally, the body politic comes into question, ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD