A haiku, an ode, a sonnet, a limerick, an elegy ... more poetry,please.
Poetry Books
Goose Lane Editions Poems New and Selected
Book Synopsis
£8.07
Goose Lane Editions The Sicknesses of Hats
Book SynopsisThe Sickness of Hats is an early collection by a member of the writing ensemble Pain Not Bread.
£7.46
Goose Lane Editions Charge
Book Synopsis
£6.22
Goose Lane Editions The M Poems
Book Synopsis
£8.07
Goose Lane Editions Unsnarling String
Book SynopsisA tour de force of comic ingenuity, Unsnarling String features the infamous Everett Coogler poem series.
£7.46
Goose Lane Editions Word Woman and Place Poems 19711985
Book SynopsisWord, Woman and Place is McCarthy''s fourth collection of poetry. Selections from his earlier works are gathered together with recent poems into this powerful new book which demonstrates McCarthy''s range and achievement.
£8.07
Goose Lane Editions Behind the Orchestra Poems and AntiPoems
Book SynopsisThis book presents the revelatory nature of Trujillo''s English poetry. In the simplicity of these lines unfolds the mood and emotion divined by one who sees this country-made-home with the eyes and memory of one from away.
£8.07
Goose Lane Editions Tiger in The Skull
Book SynopsisTiger in the Skull makes available for the first time in a single volume the range, substance, and variety of Lochhead''s work.
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions A Hinge of Spring Butterworths Perspectives on
Book Synopsis
£8.07
Goose Lane Editions Landscape Turned Sideways
Book SynopsisPoems from Trainer''s three previously published collections are gathered with recent poems in a single volume representing her work over the past decade. She makes the lives of obscure people shine forth with simple eloquence and is particularly skilled at capturing the attentive mind of a child confronting adult ambiguities.
£11.39
Goose Lane Editions Planet Harbor
Book SynopsisBartlett has put together a collection of poems with a strong narrative line which draws upon experiences as diverse as a bus driver''s salute, the dreams of a forty-year-old batboy, a bus ride in Jerusalem, or a performance by Canuck fiddlers in Nagasaki.
£8.07
Goose Lane Editions The Outlines of Our Warm Bodies
Book Synopsis
£7.99
Goose Lane Editions Homage to Henry Alline and Other Poems
Book SynopsisHomage to Henri Alline and Other Poems marks a new stage in the long career of this renowned poet. The book consists of two long poems flanking a collection of related short poems. At once austere and rich, this book is a vintage offering from a poet at the height of his powers.
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions Echoes in Silence Pacific Maritime Studies 9
Book Synopsis
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions Underwater Carpentry
Book SynopsisBartlett takes his readers on a meditative journey in which he encapsulates the complexity of human experience. Delighting in humour and the play of words, he induces his readers to take a new look at historical events, the natural world, and a full range of emotions.
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions John Thompson
Book SynopsisDuring John Thompson''s sadly attenuated lifetime, he completed only two volumes of poetry. At the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets and Stilt Jack (published posthumously), but seldom has such a slim oeuvre supported such a large reputation. When John Thompson: Collected Poems and Translations was first published in 1995, the reasons for Thompson''s stature became clear, and in the twenty years since then, his influence has only grown larger. Thompson seeks out the darkest places of the heart, then floods them with light. These remarkable poems evoke the deep woods, the relentless turning of seasons that churn life into death, and back again to life. They unflinchingly examine his relationships, drawing out the pain and joys of domesticity. Confessionally raw, but oblique and beautiful, Thompson''s poetry and in particular, his experiments in Stilt Jack with adapting the ghazal, a poetic form with origins in Arabia has influenced Trade Review"John Thompson searched deeply among humanity's most hidden places and brought back to us poems of remarkable beauty. The uncollected poems and translations only add to the greatness of his gift. No one who reads his life's work can go away unchanged." -- Patrick Lane"what lasts, words like hooks to catch trout, love that got away" -- D.G. Jones
£17.99
Goose Lane Editions Resisting the Anomie
Book Synopsis
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions Temporary Shelter Poems 19861990 Writing West
Book Synopsis
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions The Conception of Winter
Book SynopsisPowerful yet serene, The Conception of Winter is about women, their friendships, loyalties, and pain. But most of all it about physical, mental, and spiritual healing.Trade Review"One of the best poets in the English language in Canada." * Canadian Woman Studies *
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions Knowledge in the Hands
Book SynopsisHeather Browne''s first collection is the work of a mature poet in full control of her metier. Her poetry is sensuous, delicate, full of gesture, evocative of dance -- and at the same time sense and compelling.
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions Dipped in Shadow Goose Lane Editions Poetry Books
Book Synopsis
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions The Sun the Wind the Summer Field Goose Lane
Book Synopsis
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions High Marsh Road
Book SynopsisHigh Marsh Road, a finalist for the 1980 Governor General''s Award and a beautiful example of bookmaking, is now back in print. High Marsh Road is a signficant step in the century-long artistic tradition of the Tantramar region, begun by Charles G.D. Roberts and continued by Alex Colville, John Thompson, and Lochhead himself. The book consists of 122 poems marking daily walks over the windblown marsh. Along with minute particulars of the marsh itself, its weather, and its birds and animals, High Marsh Road is an intimate account of a man''s exploration of nature and the self.Trade Review"His most outstanding poetry ever . . . a very daring book." * Dalhousie Review *"A book to read and re-read with pleasure." * Canadian Literature *
£11.39
Goose Lane Editions Sharps
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardEmergencies, faith, truancy, and poverty intersect in this wry debut that volunteers a transfusion of the unpredictable for those who yearn to transition beyond a muralized Olive Garden world. Stevie Howell''s [Sharps] takes its cue from an Egyptian hieroglyph used interchangeably to represent waters, the letter N, and all prepositions within a sentence. Similarly, [Sharps] alters its structure and functionality from page to page. The Queen launches an advertising campaign to procure our envy. The last unicorn crochets a sweater out of the sisal cords of the books. The falsity of Billy Joel''s New York propaganda is grounds for libel. We discover the one thing you can do With a sawed-off rifle, a low IQ, and curiosity/about human biology. From certain angles, [Sharps] embraces the possibilities of poetry from others, it engages in a protracted street fight with language.Trade Review"Howell's stunning debut ... Her ear is impeccable." -- Michael Lista * National Post *"These poems are coded emergency and emergent code: hail, cut glass, cathedrals, systems, skeletons, and scorched earth. Stevie Howell has found a fault line underwriting Reality and turned this fissure, this terrible brokenness, into a lens. She sees the queasy, exact particular and can phase from its contours into metaphysics and back before we sense the ground shifting. An astonishing debut. An astonishing collection, full stop." -- Ken Babstock
£14.39
Goose Lane Editions Angular Unconformity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is as compassionate as it is essential. Essential at the very least because it collects poetry that has been out of print and thus difficult to access for readers, teachers, and students. Further, this book of collected poems is essential because McKay has been a significant voice in Canadian poetry for the past three decades." * Canadian Literature *
£999.99
Goose Lane Editions Climates
Book SynopsisClimates is suffused with the single-minded desire to fully inhabit, and be inhabited by, a place: Acadie. The political push-and-pull of being Acadian is a constant, even when the mutability of personal life is in the foreground. The four sections of Climates each correspond to a season, and each is marked by unity of tone, atmosphere, and form.
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions Cutting the Devils Throat
Book SynopsisTo play cutting the devil''s throat, hold a round stone as if you were going to skip it across the water, but throw it straight up into the air. If you do it right, the stone drops into the water without a splash, making only a sound like a gulp. The poems in Cutting the Devil''s Throat create the persona of a young man cutting through darkness to light, finding a way to live a sane, useful life through modest yet deliberate daily action. In ghazal suites, short lyrics, and longer narrative poems, Steeves uses clean, precise language to open loopholes of vision in what is, for a young husband and father, a confusing, even threatening world.
£9.49
Goose Lane Editions She
Book SynopsisShe is a complex novel in poetry and prose poetry, crafted with visual form and eloquent language. Penelope-Marie Lancet, an immigrant from Trinidad who lives in Calgary, yearns for a child to the point of obsession. She sees a child as her salvation. Her fervour results in a false pregnancy and in her denial she forms a belief that the child has been spirited away from her. As she formulates and executes a plan to retrieve her child, her personality fragments to the point of disintegration. Penelope''s fixation begins with a tragedy that occurred when she was a little girl: her one-year-old sister lurched out of her arms and plunged to her death. Penelope never forgives herself and searches constantly for the lost baby that would make her whole. Hearing of a black baby adopted by a rich white couple, she concludes that this is her stolen child, and she steals him back. Little by little, her already fragile self fragments into at least six personalities, all of whom cTrade Review"From academic English to various Caribbean dialects and patois, from ragged prose to surgically precise and playful verse, Harris displays startling versatility in both voice and form. Ambitious and pulled off with heartbreaking flair, She is a virtuioso performance from a player who has earned her place in the spotlight." * Quill & Quire *
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions Certifiable
Book SynopsisToronto writer Pamela Mordecai is a well-known voice in poetry of the Caribbean diaspora. She has long been a popular anthologist, a mentor to other writers, a frequent contributor to literary journals, and a vital link between the literary worlds of Canada and Jamaica; Certifiable presents a maturing vision of women's lives in both of her homes. Certifiable celebrates experience shot through with affection, family attachment, and madness.The poems in the first section, "Just a Likl Loving," explore the truths hidden beneath the ideal of love: love as comfort, love as currency, love as deathtrap. "Sister Sequence" embraces the fullness of sisterhood, from the conceptual "sister muse" as a power in the world to the ambivalent love among flesh-and-blood sisters. "Certifiable," the final section, springs from intimacy with little and big madnesses.The rhythms and rhymes of the creole soundscape crackle through Certifiab
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions Coastlines
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wonderful... an enormously valuable resource for readers and teachers of Canadian poetry... A balanced roster of established and emerging poetic voices that reflects both the diversity and the intensity of the region's poetry... Instructive and exciting... Coastlines is a book that will foster much pleasure and a deeper understanding of Canadian poetry for many years to come." * University of Toronto Quarterly *
£16.19
Goose Lane Editions Weathers
Book SynopsisDouglas Lochhead is one of Canada''s finest poets. In celebration of his eightieth birthday, Goose Lane Editions is releasing Weathers: Poems New and Selected, a collection of the best of Lochhead''s work from the last fifteen years. Douglas Lochhead''s poetic imagination receives its greatest stimulus from what his senses tell him about nature and other people, and his poetry overflows with energy. Sharp observation of detail anchors his passionate sense of place; subtle irony and masterful form barely contain his uncompromising honesty and strong emotions; and his command of the poet''s craft guides his attacks on the boundaries of meaning. The contrast he achieves between tightly controlled form and constantly moving, dynamic imagery yields the clean, precise poetry that his readers have valued so highly over his more than 50-year career. Lochhead began his career in the 1940s, publishing his poems in literary journals. His first book, The Heart is on Fire
£17.99
Goose Lane Editions Karenin Sings the Blues
Book SynopsisKarenin Sings the Blues is a meditation sparked by the actors in Tolstoy''s 19th-century masterpiece, Anna Karenina. Entering this famous saga of derailed love, McCartney explores the repercussions and unintended consequences of Anna and Vronsky''s passion. Here, Anna Karenina''s cuckolded husband sings the blues, but Count Vronsky, too, bemoans his disappointed expectations. McCartney imagines the anxieties of Anna''s children, the self-absorption of busybodies and in-laws, the ambivalence of servants and friends sucked into Anna''s romantic vortex. Set at the height of the industrial age, the roar of the train and the pounding rhythm and flying soot of the steam locomotive epitomize the vigour of McCartney''s poems. The same vigour and clear vision characterize the California poems, which deal with McCartney''s youth in urban southern California. Domestic chaos amid cultural inanity creates turmoil and fear. How is it possible to love a distant mother, a father off somewhere with a t
£14.39
Goose Lane Editions These Fields Were Rivers
Book SynopsisBrent MacLaine''s poems, like the poet himself, are rooted in the history and landscape of Prince Edward Island. Yet, MacLaine possesses a remarkable ability to graft rural values to contemporary culture, with its urban habits and popular entertainments, its scientific theories and technological mythologies. MacLaine belongs to the first generation of Islanders not farming the land, and his poems explore his uneasy relationship with the patch of earth where he lives. He follows the island contours in an expansive sweep across the fields and into the woods; he also shares an islander''s sense of confinement, bound into a small place by the sea and the red cliffs. The island before human existence, the coming of European settlers, or the stubbled ground tilled by his father are as readily available to his fertile imagination as meteorological patterns, modern art, or The Odyssey. Using his Maritime home as template for larger universal concerns, MacLaine offers clear-headed insight into
£14.39
Goose Lane Editions What You Used to Wear
Book SynopsisCharmaine Cadeau''s intensely imagined poems captivate everyone who experiences them. Delving beneath the gleaming surfaces of satellite dishes, wagon-wheels, rain-barrel planters, and suburban sprawl, she reveals a luminous spirituality. The encroachment that turns rural Ontario into cottage country becomes Cadeau''s unsentimental locus of truth and beauty. With skill that even experienced poets seldom possess, Cadeau evokes the intangibility of perception, its flickering contingencies. In What You Used to Wear, Charmaine Cadeau has achieved what all young poets wish for but almost none attain. Her poetry is so impressive that her first book appears unheralded, untested by journal publication, and with few of the other supports usually so essential to first collections. Ross Leckie, Goose Lane''s poetry editor and Cadeau''s former creative writing professor at the University of New Brunswick, says, This is very much a surprise book. I threw the manuscript into the mix
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions The Drunken Lovely Bird
Book SynopsisWinner, American Independent Publishers Poetry PrizeSue Sinclair writes in a lyrical tradition that subverts the stereotype of Canadian women''s poetry while still playing with some, if not all, of the same poetic vocabulary. The Drunken Lovely Bird, her accomplished third book of poetry, confirms her reputation as one of Canada''s most original young poets. A keen observer of the material world, from the Newfoundland coast to the streets of Toronto, she has a rare gift for epiphany, for exposing the numinous in the commonplace. Her poems speak from that precise place where our perception of the world and our capacity for language meet and embrace, where our sense of experience goes to get sharpened and refreshed. That experience might involve the inner lives of clouds, the flourishing and passing of a tulip, the evocative scent of wolf willow, or the intricate arts of Bach and Virginia Woolf. Sinclair''s poems are deft, musical, and quick in the moment, alive to the sensuous su
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions The Stunted Strong
Book SynopsisThe Stunted Strong is a new edition of the first book published by Fiddlehead Poetry Books, the company that became Goose Lane Editions. Fred Cogswell, its author, was also the company''s founder. The Stunted Strong is a sixteen-sonnet chapbook. The first and last poems create a context for the fourteen inner sonnets, each of which is a vivid sketch of an inhabitant of a rural community in the St. John River valley. The sequence portrays country people confined by frustration, obsession, and small victories, and it expresses in their characters the illimitable dreams and thwarting limitations of the human condition. The publication of the second edition of The Stunted Strong marks Goose Lane''s 50th anniversary and commemorates Fred Cogswell''s lifelong devotion to poetry. The text is introduced by Robert Gibbs, Cogswell''s friend, colleague, and fellow poet. Designed and printed by Gaspereau Press, the new edition of The Stunted Strong is a work of art in its own right.
£11.39
Goose Lane Editions The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat Goose Lane
Book SynopsisIn this sensuously defiant collection of new poems, the winner of the 2004 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal expands and deepens a poetic ruse. In his critically acclaimed collections Saracen Island and Companion, David Solway took on the voice of a fictitious Greek poet named Andreas Karavis. The poems of these earlier two books were so artful and refreshingly immediate that many readers were convinced that they were authentic translations from the Greek. For The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat, a new book of ostensible translations, Solway adopts the persona of Karavis''s spurned lover, Turkish Cypriot poet Nesmine Rifat and explores the aftermath of one of Karavis''s love affairs. Lushly sexual and sparkling with wit and intelligence, these passionate lyrics take the form of undelivered letters, written by Rifat in the wake of Karavis''s desertion and his eventual marriage to her rival Anna Zoumi. Solway portrays, with subtlety and sensitivity, a powerful woman and gifted poet undergoing a turbulent emotional journey. Moving from wrath and arrogant disdain, through bitterness and grief, to an acceptance of the love she cannot subdue, his female poet grows in both strength and art. As an intimate record of one woman''s anguish, The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat is a remarkable achievement -- even more so when one recalls that the author is actually a man.
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions Anything but the Moon Goose Lane Editions Poetry
Book SynopsisGeorge Sipos is acutely aware that life, in its strangeness and beauty, will always elude whatever he can say about it. Exploring northern British Columbia, the mountains, harsh winters and human isolation, the tension between the humble recognition that words are inadequate and the insistent urge to capture what he sees and feels gives Anything but the Moon its blend of quiet reverence and meditative urgency. Anything but the Moon is George Sipos''s first collection, but his poetry is richly mature. Exploring how alien nature can feel and yet how familiar it is as well, Sipos writes lush lyric poems about driving his truck or listening to the sounds of a henhouse, reflecting upon how everyday experiences slip through our fingers, never to be fully understood or completely articulated. Revealing a doubleness of sight, Sipos shows a fine-grained attention to the sensuous details of what he sees and experiences, yet simultaneously maintains a broader, philosophical view of the mysterious whole. Even as he celebrates place and the difficulties and preciousness of human relationships, he portrays the sense of something vanishing. The result is a collection of highly reverent and contemplative poems which demand that readers slow down, look and think.Trade Review"The marriage of linguistic dexterity and felt intensity, their lyric alchemy... makes these poems remarkable." * The Globe and Mail *
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions how the gods pour tea
Book SynopsisTrade Review"These simple, elemental words and phrases... and many more... will vibrate in your mind, in your cells, long after you reluctantly turn over the last page." * Bookgaga *"It's to Davies's credit that she leaves us wanting more, leaves us with images at times haunting, at times healing." * Canadian Poetries *"These are poems that will cast spells in their own sweet time." * Pickle Me This *"The voice in Lynn Davies's stunning new collection exudes a sense of someone speaking from the beyond, from a place where ‘time as I once knew it was gone;’ yet Davies' poetic voice is far from distanced or aloof; rather, it is witty, wise, and often funny. The ‘field crackling with sound’ that she portrays in ‘Winding Down’ could well describe this entire collection — a gorgeous lyric tour de force." -- Jeanette Lynes
£14.39
Goose Lane Editions Jonas in Frames an epic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Imagine a twenty-first-century Frankenstein built from the corpses of John Berryman and Elizabeth Smart and jolted alive by an electricity that is uniquely Chris Hutchinson. Now imagine this as a creature endowed with smart paranoia and queasy wit, who short-order-cooks, pill-pops, cubicle-hops, and jump-cuts its way through parallel realities and past lives, other selves in other times — gradually facing ‘the impossibility of our research ever coming to an end’ — and you've got the marvellous monster named Jonas in Frames." -- Alayna Munce
£14.39
Goose Lane Editions Tacoma Narrows
Book SynopsisIn Tacoma Narrows, Mitchell Parry reflects on the nature of disasters, both public and private. A reflection on things lost, Parry allows himself to feel deeply, to ask what went wrong and to ruminate tragic moments with humility and romantic sensibility. Acutely aware of the nature that surrounds him, Parry embraces things like the wind howling at his window, an elk in the backyard or an orange sunset, and attaches them to memories. A deep mediation in three parts, Tacoma Narrows is a consideration on how we weather storms, the currents, turmoil, vortices of life and recognizing that one is still learning to let lost things stay lost. The result is a courageous, moving and deeply personal collection that asks us to realise that letting things go is the hardest thing disasters of all kinds demand of us, but it''s also perhaps the most important lesson they can teach us.
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions Take Us Quietly
Book SynopsisIn Take Us Quietly, Armstrong explores life, sickness, death and the importance of paying attention to the wider world, filtered through her own unique sensibility. Nothing is taken for granted in this new collection. Whether travelling through Spain, mining a memory from a rural New Brunswick childhood, or exposing the concessions of love in a long-term relationship, Armstrong creates poems that leap from thought to thought, from one emotional tone to another, propelled by torque and tension. Startlingly beautiful with unexpected intensity, Take Us Quietly draws us into the mind''s deepest truths. By turns nightmarish, erotic and full of delight, her third collection of poems drills through the surface into the artesian well of memory.
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions Transformations
Book SynopsisJohn Reibetanz captures the ordinary details of life -- family and friendship, birth and death -- and transforms them into the extraordinary. His seventh book of poetry is a masterful collection, finely crafted with wit, warmth and affection. Transformations is divided into four parts, each providing a different perspective on the main theme. Choosing not to confront but to explore, he allows for subtle revelations of a deeper truth which hover just beneath the surface, turning the world upside down and right side up again with his poetic transformations. The result is nothing short of magical.
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions Bit Parts for Fools
Book SynopsisShortlisted, Archibald Lampman AwardIn this lush collection of linguistic concatenations, Peter Richardson lines up the quotidian and the metaphysical, the personal and the fictional, and assigns equal standing to their rich complications. Whether his cast members take the ironic stance of an apostate jazz pianist or the hardball approach of a recovering stand-up comic, they invite us on an exuberant exploration of self that rewards multiple readings. Ranging from a literate vernacular to high diction, the language of Bit Parts for Fools hints at a new hunger driving the poet's quirky observations and confirms once again that Richardson is a fine craftsman — all confidence and mischief, "whistling from scuffmark to scuffmark."
£14.39
Goose Lane Editions The Sweet Fuels
Book SynopsisWith a supple, meditative approach, Erin Knight explores the complexity of beauty in this first collection by an astonishing new talent. The Sweet Fuels also reflects on the notion of orientation -- whether in terms of magnetic north or street signs, the entrails of an animal or the vowels in a name -- as a task of translation. Of the more than four dozen poems in the book, some are written in English, others are rendered from Spanish. Still others perform a high-wire act -- written in English, converted to Spanish, and then back into English. The practise of translation allows for a direction that does not try to reorder or simplify the world, but rather emphasizes the promise of continuous engagement with our points of reference.
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions Drawing Down a Daughter
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Harris is, as always, a compelling writer; the prose sections in particular are stunning. Of equal delight are Harris's witty and titillating deconstruction of our assumptions about factuality and fiction — an investigation Borges himself would have delighted in... Brilliant and highly crafted poetry... Harris's book (like Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion) should be read for the sheer beauty of the writing." * Quill & Quire *
£13.29
Goose Lane Editions The Watchmakers Table
Book Synopsis
£13.49
Goose Lane Editions I I
Book SynopsisShortlisted, Acorn-Plantos Award for People''s Poetry and Dartmouth Book AwardIn the Boogie Nights era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the fog-anchored grime of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to sunburnt Corpus Christi, Texas, and back -- meeting tragedy and bloodshed along the way. I & I smoulders with love, lust, violence, and the excruciating repercussions of racism, sexism, and disgust. Rastafarian for you and me, I & I expresses the oneness of God and man, the oneness of two people or the distinction between body and spirit. In George Elliott Clarke''s hands, this existential aesthetic crystallizes in a love story of Gothic grit. The narrative gives this verse novel shape; the poetry makes it sing, straddling folk ballad, soul, and pop music, all the while moaning the blues.
£17.99
