When he first hiked the Don Valley trails / all he heard was river as he strode / beside its glitter of smashing glassGrounded in the local and immediate - from Toronto's rivers and ravines to its highways and skyscrapers - Metromorphoses explores some of the radical changes that have taken place in the city during the course of its history.
Art in Words is a book of poetry and watercolor paintings that reflect the feelings and experiences of the author during the continued COVID-19 pandemic.
Darlene Machtan masterfully controls and creates a complex collection of personal stories and reflections, poems, and recipes speaking of relationships, pleasures, and intimate snapshots of life.
Ces nouveaux poèmes sont un pas en avant dans la mesure où ils se rapprochent d’un vécu personnel incarné sur notre planète et un pas en arrière puisqu’ils puisent leur inspiration dans les terres de l’enfance.
A little book of poetry about love; more an exploration of the physical, mental, and emotional effects sometimes attributed to this particular human condition.
Bright Skies, Long Shadows is a collection of poems about love, loss, family, trauma, life, death, chaos and hope, as viewed and lived through the lens of someone living with serious mental illness.
Ranging across art and poetry, the past and the present, homelands and far-off lands, Six Different Windows meditates on childhood, riffs on mythology, and draws on the familiar.
It can be difficult to find the right words to say thank you to someone who has either uplifted you in an hour of need or unwaveringly supported you throughout your life.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NBCC AWARD IN POETRYA taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.
Épeler le miracle expose la vie sous toutes ses formes, et tourne autour du temps qui passe, avec ses moments de mélancolie et de colère, mais aussi de bonheur et d’espoir.
Written during thefirst three Covid Years, For Now, We Have Been Spared is a collectionof complex sequences and carefully constructed shorter poems that reflect theuncertainty of living through a pandemicnot only in terms of the immediatethreats to the body, but also the tectonic shifts in how we perceive the natureof existence itself.
Después de vivir la Pandemia (el Estado de Alarma, el Confinamiento y sus fases — trabajando en una residencia de personas con discapacidad—, los repuntes, la nevada llamada Filomena…), la autora de este poemario se dio cuenta de lo sano y necesario que es hablar de los duelos, de las pérdidas, de la muerte.
Youth and maturity, love and infatuation, memory, music, loss, landscape, Peter Rose exposes the human experience in poems that are gorgeously lucid and often profound.
Face à une route je la prendrai ou non le temps me porte pas le mouvement Douces, pertinentes et énigmatiques, les fenêtres de ce recueil sont nées dans un espace créatif intérieur tel qu’ont pu le conceptualiser le philosophe Jean François Billeter ou l’écrivain Jacques Lusseyran.
Un viaje desde el pasado al presente de alguien que, mediante recuerdos que agradecen la infancia, el pasaje a la adultez brutal y la aceptación de la muerte, cree en la poesía como descanso de lo banal y áspero del mundo exterior.
In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson's unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making.
