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Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry Award Shortlisted, NL Reads Shortlisted, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Shortlisted, Raymond Souster Award Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Award From the author: I cannot let the story of Crow Gulch -- the...

Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry Award Shortlisted, NL Reads Shortlisted, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Shortlisted, Raymond Souster AwardLonglisted, First Nation Communities READ Award From the author: I cannot let the story of Crow Gulch-- the story of my family...

Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards (Poetry) Shortlisted, E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Prize Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ "Canada rejected our applications for enrolment in the Qalipu First Nation....

Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards (Poetry) Shortlisted, E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Prize Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ "Canada rejected our applications for enrolment in the Qalipu First Nation....

A raw, beautifully-composed collection exploring addiction, trauma, poverty, and the journey toward recovery and spirituality through the vernacular and iconography of the popular roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Total Party Kill (TPK): tabletop roleplaying slang for the situation of...

***2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Winner*** This semi-autobiographical collection of poetry offers an historical snapshot of domestic life that views women's labour, relationships, and sexuality through a feminist lens. Chores is about families and the...

***2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Winner*** This semi-autobiographical collection of poetry offers an historical snapshot of domestic life that views women's labour, relationships, and sexuality through a feminist lens. Chores is about families and the...

Twenty years after the publication of his debut, Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems brings together selections from Michael Crummey's first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection, Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know him to be, but...

The sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey. Eclectic, unpredictable, and strange, Passengers follows Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer on an imagined circumnavigation of Newfoundland; traces the island escapades...

The brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore. Michael Crummey's first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery...

Named after a local word meaning "soaked through" or "weighed down," Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Megan Gail Coles's debut poetry collection, Satched, is a vivid portrait of intergenerational trauma, ecological grief, and late-stage capitalism from the perspective of a woman of rural-remote,...

Guest editor Rob Taylor, author of the widely acclaimed collection The News, brings a passionate ear for rhythm, an eye for narrative compression, an appetite for vital subject matter, and an affinity for warmth and wit to his selections for Best Canadian Poetry 2019. The fifty ruggedly...

A poetic exploration of place and belonging, a quest that takes the speaker across the ocean in search of identity and origin. The speaker in the poems that form Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig travels through Newfoundland and Ireland looking for meaning in words, places, and behaviour...

Finalist for the 2022 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry * Shortlisted for the 2023 E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award Set against the backdrop of a post-moratorium St. John's, Newfoundland, The Debt explores tensions between tradition and...

These poems are what happens when you stay out on the dance floor instead, dancing the staggers. The full moon rises from the ocean and you lurch with astonishment that we live on a rocky sphere whirling in space. Or the bird in your hand - a pipit or a storm petrel - conveys the exquisite frailty...

***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, POETRY: LONGLIST*** Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell's This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way...

***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, POETRY: LONGLIST*** Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell's This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 JM ABRAHAM POETRY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD Poems using fervent whimsy and wordplay to examine photography and seeing. Peering inside eyeballs, pondering the paradox of absent stars, and meditating on...

As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. By harboring and honoring such fraught tensions, Warner has built a taut and original body of work. In Octopus...

In this series of elegant and wide-ranging meditations on language, wilderness, poetry, and technocracy, John Steffler takes us on a guided tour of one poet's mental workshop. His focus is vividly personal, shaped by his interests and experience, and at the same time universal. What is it to be...

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry * Longlisted for the 2023 E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award A CBC Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2021 Drawing on Arthurian myth, the Romantic poets, the ill-fated "Great War" efforts of the Newfoundland Regiment, modern parenthood, 16...

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) Third Prize Winner, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Poetry) Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Sue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings" (Globe and...

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) Third Prize Winner, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Poetry) Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Sue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings" (Globe and...

In nature, rewilding restores biodiversity and ecosystems. In this new collection from award-winning poet Shannon Webb-Campbell, it is a form of Indigenous resurgence and pleasure. Drawing upon ecology, traditional knowledge, and sexuality, Re: Wild Her is a personal and poetic...

EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust OUT IN PRINT Literary Award Winner! Shannon Webb-Campbell's Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within the self. Patient, searching, questioning, and at times heartbreaking--these poems reveal the deep past within the...

EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust OUT IN PRINT Literary Award Winner! Shannon Webb-Campbell's Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within the self. Patient, searching, questioning, and at times heartbreaking--these poems reveal the deep past within the...