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Old hat
Par Rob Winger. 2014
While rich with advice to "Keep your personal longings with you at all times", "Old Hat" is also generous, incisive,…
boisterous, and funny, a collection of poems about place, but also about understanding and situation. Spoken through clichés, vernacular, and jargon, it is just as familiar as it is odd, just as comforting as disquieting, an exceptional meditation on what it means to think about writing. 2014.November (Picador poetry)
Par Sean O'Brien. 2011
Poems haunted by the missing and the missed, the vanished and the uncounted, and the uncountable lost: sleep, connections, muses,…
books, the ghosts and gardens of childhood. Includes strong language. 2011.Night witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
Par Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.Night errands: how poets use dreams
Par Rod Townley. 1998
Twenty-six poets reflect on the "generative relationship" between dreams and poetry. Most quote complete works or fragments of poems in…
their essays. Writers include Laurel Blossom, Edward Hirsch, David Ignatow, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Paul Mariani, Joyce Carol Oates, and Richard Wilbur, among others. 1998.Night field: poems
Par Don McKay. 1991
Night
Par David Harsent. 2011
Poems in which the sureties of daylight become uncertain: dark, unsettling narratives about what wakes in us when we escape…
our day-lit selves to visit a place where the dream-like and the nightmarish are never far apart. Culminates in 'Elsewhere', a noirish, labyrinthine quest-poem in which the protagonist is drawn ever onward through a series of encounters and reflections like an after-hours Orpheus, hard-bitten and harried by memory. Includes sex, strong language and violence. c2011.My shoes are killing me: poems
Par Robyn Sarah, Eric L Ormsby. 2015
Poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on…
the “hazardous … treasurehouse” that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada’s most well-regarded poets. Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. 2015.New selected poems, 1966-1987
Par Seamus Heaney. 1990
Selections from Heaney's first 25 years of published translations and poems. He writes of the myths that are part of…
his culture and of the political turmoil, exposing his Irish humour and his sense of guilt. 1990. Uniform title: Poems.My Ariel
Par Sylvia Plath, Sina Queyras. 2017
A poem-by-poem engagement with Sylvia Plath's 'Ariel' and the towering mythology surrounding it. Where were you when you first read…
Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In 'My Ariel', Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century, with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women. Winner of the 2018 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.My dog may be a genius: selected poems
Par Jack Prelutsky. 2008
Have you ever encountered an underwater marching band, a pig in a bathing suit, a pet orangutan, or a witch…
in a hardware store? You will have, once you read "My dog may be a genius". Grades K-3. 2008. Uniform title: My dog may be a genius.Murder in the dark: short fictions and prose poems
Par Margaret Atwood. 1983
Mother: a cradle to hold me
Par Maya Angelou. 2006
Poet Maya Angelou celebrates the first woman she ever knew: her mother. From the beginning of their relationship, through teenage…
rebellion and adulthood, Angelou praises her patience, knowledge, and compassion. 2006.Morning in the burned house
Par Margaret Atwood. 1995
Moon-bells and other poems
Par Ted Hughes. 1986
This is a book of powerful and compelling images. Ted Hughes rightly makes no concessions to his young audience but…
leads the reader to an understanding with magnificent descriptions of wild animals, eerie images of the lunar landscape and its inhabitants, and imaginative flights of pure fantasy. Grades 4-7. 1986.Methodist hatchet: poems
Par Ken Babstock. 2011
“Carolinian forest” echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline, “Second Life” returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the…
poem itself - the idea of a poem - as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing. Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, these poems gaze upon the objects of their attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. Some strong language. 2011.Listen before transmit
Par Dani Couture. 2018
Dani Couture's latest poems are transmissions that travel across the cosmos and the spaces we live in, as well as…
within the more intimate distances we navigate between one another. Distances we hope to bridge with contact, often to profound or disastrous effects. With language rooted in science, sociology, memoir and aesthetics, she questions the limits of our bodies, both human and celestial. Like the subtle cues we lend one another and the hopeful messages we send into deep space, these poems broadcast our greatest aspirations and vulnerabilities. 2018.Little wildheart (Robert Kroetsch series)
Par Micheline Maylor. 2017
Micheline Maylor's poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love…
that has passed, the interplay between the animal world and human thought, and the myths we append to ourselves and others. An expansive, conversational voice underscores the poet's technical mastery as her subjects turn from love to hope to fearlessness. Maylor asks readers to perceive how we inhabit our selves, how words construct us. By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, these poems reflect the moods of existence. Little Wildheart is rich with challenge and surprise. 2017.Little Poems for Tiny Ears
Par Lin Oliver, Tomie DePaola. 2014
A collection of original poems celebrates the everyday things that enthrall little ones, such as playing peekaboo, banging pots and…
pans, splashing at bath time, and cuddling at bedtime. Introduces young children to the sound of poetry. Grades P-2. 2014. Uniform title: Poems.Like a straw bird it follows me and other poems (A Margellos world republic of letters book)
Par Fady Joudah, Ghassān Zaqṭān. 2012
This inspired translation brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important and original Palestinian poets…
of our time. Winner of the 2013 Griffin International Poetry Prize. c2012. Uniform title: Ka-ṭayr min al-qashsh yatbaʻunī.Let's marry said the cherry, and other nonsense poems
Par N. M Bodecker. 1974