Product Description: Poetry. A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times. DISTURBING THE BUDDHA, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it moves between reverence and irreverence, sincerity and irony as it grapples with love, loss, loneliness and simple lack of luck—the 'three- leaf clovers' so much more plentiful than the four...read more

Product Description: Barry Dempster copyVirtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.Invisible Dogs, Dempster’s fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to the difficult business of staying alive...read more

Product Description: The Burning Alphabet confirms and extends Barry Dempster's reputation as one of Canada's most respected poets. Underpinning these poems, as in his previous work, there lies an unswerving dedication to emotional and spiritual honesty, clear-eyed recognitions rendered without pomp...read more

Product Description: Winner of the 2005 Trillium Award for Poetry -- Because the poems in Drowning Lessons have been written over an extended period of time - and not with any particular idea in mind - I find it difficult to describe how or why they belong together...read more

Product Description: The Words Wanting Out is the first selection from one of Canada's most respected poets. In 1982 Barry Dempster landed on the short list for the Governor General's Award for Poetry for his very first book, and has since published seven more collections to high praise...read more

Product Description: Carla Hartsfield sings praises to the unusual: a rose blooming in December; an angel dancing on a cardiologist's scanner; Glenn Gould playing Brahms at Angelo's Garage. But these are common occurrences in Your Last Day on Earth, the everyday world and the metaphysical realm sharing the same ecstatic poem...read more

Product Description: Tuning a fine ear to Lawrence's letters from 1906 until his death in 1930, Barry Dempster's poems uncover the man within the myth and give voice to Lawrence's passionate mortality. Dempster's act is one of imagination and homage, a kind of lyrical readership which traces the life-and-death line in a great writer's life, with its constant illness and energy, a line "green as the vein of a young man's desire...read more

Product Description: There was someone calling his name. A strange whisper was in the wind and David woke up to find himself standing in the centre of his room.