The Canadian Shields: Stories and Essays by Carol Shields, edited by Nora Foster Stovel
Her estate has recently emptied the cupboards with a release of Shields’s previously unpublished and/or uncollected stories and essays.
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Songbook: The Music and Lyrics of Steven Heighton
To really understand the words in this book, it’s pretty much mandatory that you track down the CD or go to the website mentioned in the book so you can hear for yourself the range of Heighton’s songs.
Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems by Catherine Graham
On any number of levels Graham is a poet who explores the world around us, as well as in-between states, and her dialectic of flint and fire results in passionate lyrics, profound observation, and startling insights.
The Sparrow: Selected Poems by A.F. Moritz
he Sparrow is a career-spanning selection that reveals how A. F. Moritz’s dynamic, ever-exploratory work is also a vast, singular poem.
Good Morning Poems By George Bowering
Canadian literary legend George Bowering lays bare his process as reader and lover of poetry in this curated collection of poems to be read in the morning.
The Sweetest Dance on Earth: New and Selected Poems by Di Brandt
Distilled into one collection is Di Brandt’s insatiable desire to understand, question and show the world in a new light.
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand
In addition to searing new work, Nomenclature collects eight volumes of Brand’s poetry published between 1982 and 2010 and includes a critical introduction by the literary scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe.
The Essential Elizabeth Brewster as selected by Ingrid Ruthig
In The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, questioning, conversational poetry melds the private and the collective, exploring the challenges of constructing selfhood and voicing historically silenced female perspectives.
