National Poetry Month (April 2024) - Canadian PoetsUnpublished

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Key Selling Points The author is well known for his anti-bullying poem "To This Day" which has over 24 million views on YouTube. Inconvenient Skin has been nominated for the CODE Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature.

A posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier. In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies--the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river-...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and...

An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career--new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poets. Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, Winner Toronto Book Award, Shortlist Spanning almost four decades,...

Hope Matters, written by multiple award-winner Lee Maracle, in collaboration with her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, focuses on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation. Maracle states that the book, "is also about the journey of...

In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe - Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. Employing Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts,...

Fans of Jesse Thistle's extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout this bestselling memoir. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart. Charting his own...

Set against a backdrop of shifting weather and a blasted, mysteriouslandscape, Cactus Gardens explores the complexity and intensity ofpersonal relationships. The narrator drifts through a variety oflocales, from a hospital ward to a lakefront hotel, a downtown condo,and restaurant patios, depicting...

Award-winning poet Sarah de Leeuw considers the ways in which words and languages form and embolden coloniality and create unequal imaginings of--and power in--place. In Lot, award-winning poet and essayist Sarah de Leeuw returns to the landscape of her early...

Shortlisted for the 2023 J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award * Winner of the 2021 Confederation Poets Prize * One of The Times' Best Poetry Books of 2022 * A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022 * Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Poetry "...a trans-mystical work of love and change..."--Ali...

Lorna Goodison's first poetry collection to be published in Canada in over nine years, Mother Muse heralds the return of a major voice. The poems in Goodison's new book move boldly and range widely; here are praise songs alongside laments; autobiography shares pages with the collective...

Each One a Furnace explores (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and the abundant variety, of finches. The often-migratory birds in these poems typify the unrest, and inability to rest, that animate the lives of billions in the modern world. Out of the...

Standing in a River of Time merges poetry and lyrical memoir on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on a Métis family. Kirton does not shy away from hard realities, meeting them head on, but always treating them with respect and the love stemming from a lifetime of...

A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. Nature isn't dying it's simply revising its target audience In Shifting Baseline Syndrome, Aaron...

"A compassionate meditation on the transformative power of relationships, Soft Shelters examines what it is to become home for another person, how to shelter those we love without losing ourselves in the process. These poems ask us to consider the gifts left by dear ones who drop into--and...