Take the Compass by Maureen Hynes
A strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. Rich and nuanced poems that lead the reader to rivers, city outskirts, pandemic-closed cafés, forests, dream landscapes, daily treasures, and losses.
April is Poetry Month
While Supplies Last by Anita Lahey
In While Supplies Last, her first collection in eleven years, Lahey throws herself on the mercy of a changing climate, takes refuge in art and revels in everyday wonders.
Church Grammar by Bruce Meyer
This latest book of poetry by Canadian master Bruce Meyer is one of his very best in a long and successful writing career.
Antecedent by Juleta Severson-Baker
Antecedent, Severson-Baker’s second collection, is a ferocious and candid outcry from the West.
Indie Rock by Joe Bishop
Indie Rock candidly focuses on a queer poet/musician’s life in Newfoundland and his personal struggles with addiction, OCD, and trauma.
Nightlight by David Barrick
Patterned on a series of dream states, David Barrick’s Nightlight delves into the surreal nature of the human imagination, even at its most unconscious.
Theophylline: A Poetic Migration by Erin Moure
Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage.
Tender by Sylvia D. Hamilton
The poems in Tender chronicle the experiences of Black people, especially of Black women, in their quest for self- determination and their desire to live full, complex, unencumbered lives.
Tonight We Sleep with the Window Open: Poems and Drawings from Belleisle Bay Melanie Craig-Hansford
Melanie Craig-Hansford spent her childhood summers and holidays in the Belleisle Bay area on the Kingston Peninsula in southern New Brunswick; it is the place that called her back after a long absence.
Hard Bargain Road by Susan Haldane
Hard Bargain Road is a book of skillfully crafted, richly textured poems about contemporary rural life from the point of view of one woman who knows and lives that life intimately, inside and out.
Knife on Snow by Alice Major
What portents must you divine when a knife falls from the sky into your snow covered yard? With Knife on Snow, Alice Major employs history, myth, and science to understand a world ablaze.
Lent by Kate Cayley
Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis, and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary—large and small—converges in the home, in small objects, conversations, moments.
Problematica: New and Selected Poems 1995–2020 by George Murray
A best-of collection from one of Canada’s most ambitious poets.
The Choice Is Real by Jayson Keery
Winner of The Metatron Prize for Rising Authors (Poetry), The Choice is Real is a romp through millennial media landscapes and an interrogation of their power as systems of early childhood gender programming.
