Product Description: A poetic masterclass from a writer at the height of his craftKenneth Sherman’s work has always displayed a vibrant lyricism, so it’s no surprise that his powerful new collection contains a number of poems with musical motifs. In such pieces as “Clarinet,” “Transistor Sister,” and the book’s titular poem, Sherman ponders our human transience while searching for “a voice to stand time’s test...read more

Product Description: "Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication. Without metaphor, there is no art." Lost Originals, the latest collection of poetry from writer and scholar David Goldstein, explores the potential of metaphoric translation to contribute to a conversation about originality, the power of objects, and the boundaries of poetry and language...read more

Product Description: The poems in The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses teem with delightful and confusing life, from workhorses and dinosaurs to wolves and kings. Alternately spare and lush, surreal and precise, these poems work their way under the skin and sing gorgeous songs to your heart...read more

Product Description: Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Tenth Anniversary Edition. THE EMILY VALENTINE POEMS, Zoe Whittall's second collection of poetry, challenges the impossible notions of femininity that permeate our culture. The texts within include self–portraits, prose poems, fake fan letters, and confessional lyric snapshots...read more

Product Description: Love is complicated, and Chris Pannell has captured the sharp pain and deep affection of a son for his parents as they age and slip away from him. In lines that are clear, honest and specific, he unpacks the family histories that bind him to his past...read more

Product Description: Things Seen and Unseen, comes from the Apostles' Creed in the Catholic Church. The poems in this book are about observation of one's self, surrounding environment and the wider world. It looks closely at what can be seen and also to be attentive to that which cannot - those people who are, for one reason or another, rendered invisible; feelings that appear fleetingly, then disappear...read more

Product Description: The poems of Hyaena Season examine, with narrative and lyric intensity, the intimacies of a wide range of human experience from the killing grounds of Rwanda and DR Congo, to more familiar Canadian settings. But no matter the topics - whether memories of parents, children, lovers or the even more challenging stories of physical and emotional conflict at home or away, the focus is intensely personal as the poems grapple with the tensions between the darker undercurrents and tender epiphanies that make up human experience...read more

Product Description: In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend her previous meditations on colonial barbarism and ecocide, on spiritual catastrophe and transformation...read more

Product Description: Painter, Poet, Mountain: After Cezanne re-enacts a journey to Aix-en-Provence in 2013, where the poet found herself in a "heart-soul-mind-clench" with the post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne. Her book traces how the artist from Aix-en-Provence accompanied her home to the Fraser Valley outside Fort Langley, British Columbia where she gazed through his eyes to see afresh the trees and landscapes near her home...read more

Product Description: You've seen him on stage, but have you really heard the man behind the microphone? America's Got Talent 2013 semi-finalist John Wing is a comedian who shares his jokes on stage and shares his emotions and experiences through poetry...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Pamela Porter says of this new collection—her fifth with Ronsdale Press—"I knew then what was required—that I must carry the rest of the story." In DEFENDING DARKNESS, starting over is a constant theme as she explores what wisdom can be gained in "waiting on the heart to finish her grieving," and then to move on—across borders, through time, even into eternity...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Women's Studies. This collection of both narrative and lyrical poetry moves between two strong voices that resonate with and against one another, a woman and a man, focusing on family relationships in all their intersections and differences...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Environmental Studies. HOW TO DRAW A RHINOCERNOS, the first book of poems by Canadian writer, scholar, and lawyer Kate Sutherland, mines centuries of rhinoceros representations in art and literature to document the history of European and North American encounters with the animal—from the elephant- rhinoceros battles staged by monarchs in the Middle Ages; the rhinomania that took hold in France and later in Italy in response to the European travels of Clara the 'Dutch' Rhinoceros in the mid-1700s; the menageries and circuses of the Victorian era; the exploits of celebrated twentieth-century hunters like Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway; and the trade in rhinoceros horn artefacts that thrives online today...read more

Product Description: Elise Partridge, who was born in the United States but spent her adult years in Canada, wrote three books of poetry that were widely admired for their meticulous, glittering craft and scrupulous truth-to-life. A poet of family and friends, of nature, of the daily round, of illness, who documented an early bout with and treatment for cancer with an unsparing but stoic clarity, Partridge was, as Rosanna Warren has said, “a poet of brilliant precisions...read more

Product Description: A handful of young, Candian writers venture across the Atlantic ocean and discover themselves at La Roche d'Hys, an art farm in Burgundy. Saying Yes is a collection of their voices, weaving the tale of their journey through elegant poetry and stories.

Product Description: Poetry. Women's Studies. The rich and varied poems in UKRAINIAN DAUGHTER'S DANCE speak to the heart as they document a woman's life journey, as a Ukrainian-Canadian, and as a prairie woman, and her voyage of self-discovery. Her story can be anyone's story...read more

Product Description: A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with a person who has frontotemporal dementia. "Selah, " from Psalms and Habakkuk -- to praise, to lift up, to weigh in the balances, to pause, or a purely musical notation...read more

Product Description: In this, her debut collection, Ingrid Ruthig records the flux of the individual through the past, present and future of our collective world. Ruthig's concerns are with our very skin, and our separation from one another — separations that are at once familial, intimate, interconnected...read more

Product Description: This former nun and teacher saw poetry as the means to create lasting images beyond the headlines concerning school shootings in the U.S., forced marriages in Pakistan, racism, pestilence, solitary confinement, missing Aboriginal women, terrorism, and the like...read more

Product Description: A mix of mind-bending genre poems and stories that sidle up to your spirit, so that you say to yourself, "Hmm! This looks like just the sort of unconventional book I've been looking for!" These are stories and poems. You are a grown person. Why not do the sensible thing?