Poetry

Poems selected by the Canadian poet from her six collections record her development as an increasingly acclaimed poet and the complexity of her sensibility and vision.

"The value of his work is not that it is narrowly "relevant" to topical fashions or news events . . . But that it is written out of a fully orchestrated consciousness which takes as its frame of referance the entire panorama of what we have been and are becoming." -George Amabile.

An impressive collection of poems by a master in the field. Many of the poems in the collection have been anthologized in many different books and journals.

The first book of an enormously talented and award-winning author and songwriter.

A sequence of elegiac poems by the least recognized major poet in Canada, celebrating place all the way to glory.

And as for Louis Dudek's Epigrams, well, why not? A neglected form in the hands of a master and including such gems as "Fame is mainly the privilege of being pestered by strangers" and "If you don't want an enemy to know what you think of him, don't tell your friends."

Under the Eaves of a Forgotten Village is unique – it is the first anthology of contemporary Bulgarian poetry to be translated into English. Here are sixty poems by leading writers in Bulgaria today – from Dora Gabe, now in her eighties, to Vladomir Bashev, who died tragically in 1967 at the age of thirty-two. Biographical notes and comments on …

The Ledger is a foundational book-length poem in the Field Notes series that Canada's top literary bullshitter has now declared Completed. Be that as it may, The Ledger has been in continuous demand since its first publication in 1972. This documentary long poem about pioneering in Bruce County, Ontario makes the debit-credit form of accounting int …