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“michel pleau”

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  • Eternity Taking Its Time

    by Michel Pleau (author), Howard Scott (translator). ...
    In this poetry collection, Michel Pleau uses simple and moving images that go straight to the heart. He shapes words with painstaking care to give us moments of pure beauty and flashes of luminous landscape. He evokes the nostalgia of childhood in language as refreshing and bracing as the wind. With this book Michel Pleau invites us to a celebration of the marvellous. Attentive to his worlds, he ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Where the words end and my body begins

    by Amber Dawn ...
    Award-winning novelist and memoirist Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a collection of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets such as Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich. By doing so, Dawn delves deeper into the themes of trauma, memory, and unblushing sexuality that define her work.Amber Dawn is the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Order in Which We Do Things

    The Poetry of Tom Wayman

    by Tom Wayman ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
    Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too. His recurring themes—work, mortality, love, lust, friendship, the natural world—make his work a poetry of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Xenotext: Book 1

    by Christian Bok ...
    The first work of 'living poetry' in the world, by the author of the bestselling book EunoiaShortlisted for the 2016 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Alberta Literary Awards)Internationally renowned poet Christian Bok has encoded a poem (called ‘Orpheus’) into the genome of a germ so that, in reply, the cell builds a protein that encodesyet another poem (called ‘Eurydice’). After having ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Frame of the Book

    by Erin Moure ...
    In this brilliant collection, Governor General's Award-winning poet Erin Moure tests the boundaries of tenderness, grace, speech, sexual feeling, and a book's ability to frame or hold the person. With her typical wit and textual play, Moure breaks the codes of language to reveal the carnality and torsional power of words. Her lines and frames uncover shadow meanings, highlight syllables as marks, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Least Important Man

    by Alex Boyd ...
    The least important man was a boy in the 1970s. He remembers clubhouses, plastic soldiers, swimming lessons, rocket launches, a grandfather’s letters from World War I. Those days are long gone, however: now the least important man is grown up. He lives in the city. He suffers endless rush hours, he dreams of other places, he drinks cheap coffee and crosses streets and sees explosions on the TV ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Given

    by Daphne Marlatt ...
    Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poery PrizeFinalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award“You remember — what is it you remember? / the feel of home, that moment of coming into your body. . . ”So begins Daphne Marlatt’s haunting and multi-layered long poem, which reads with all the urgency and depth of a novel. Set in present-day and 1950s Vancouver, The Givenbegins with the news of a mother’s death, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Supplying Salt and Light

    by Lorna Goodison ...
    This stunning new book of poems from internationally renowned poet Lorna Goodison opens in Spain and Portugal, conjuring up a new history of the Caribbean and a new way of setting up its heritage.The title sets the tone for poems about backgrounds and outlines and shadows and sources of light. This extraordinary book—"a wide lotus on the dark waters of song"—is filled with surprises at every turn, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Love’S Peaks and Valleys

    by Reno Tibljas ...
    Reno Tibljas is like everyone else in the world: he has loved and lost. In his debut collection of poems, he reflects on the beautiful disorder of life and explores the meaning of love.Tibljas leads others down a lyrical path through the peaks and valleys of love in a variety of poems that offer a glimpse into his heart as he searches for his soul mate. While contemplating loneliness, the agony of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • For As Far as the Eye Can See

    by Robert Melançon ...
    Translated by Judith Cowan ...
    Series Book 10 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    In the 144 poems of For as Far as the Eye Can See, Robert Melançon re-imagines the sonnet as a "rectangle of twelve lines," and poetry as "a monument as fragile as the grass." Impressionistic, seasonal, allusive, in language sharp and clean, this form-driven collection is both a book of hours and a measured meditation on art, nature, and the vagaries of perception.Robert Melançon is one of Québec ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Anatomy of Clay The

    by Gillian Sze ...
    Taking off from the Promethean myth of human creation Gillian Szes second poetry collection explores the “anatomy of clay” and the individual as a sentient mystery. At times reflective instructional playful or strange the first section Quotidianus offers observational poems which recount intimate and ordinary moments often missed overlooked or forgotten. Sze tugs at the fabric of habit and amidst ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hideous Hidden

    by Sylvia Legris ...
    From the winner of the Griffin Prize, a richly lyrical collection of poems exploring the body’s minutiaeIn her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human and animal anatomy.Starting with the Greek writings of Hippocrates and the Latin language of medicine, and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD