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Red Obsidian
A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephen Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands. Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time for reflection in the northwest wild lands of the Canadian and American Wests, Stephen Torre returns to the literary world with his usual descriptive and lyric intensity. Comprised of new and selected poems, Red Obsidian explores the necessary tensions that arise between genders and the pain and grief of environmental loss. Inspired and influenced by a diverse array of literary influences--Indigenous oral poets and English pastoral poets, T'ang Dynasty Chinese poets and Latin American poets, Ame...
Blackbird Song
Blackbird Song is preoccupied with memory and loss, with life's various traumas, and with the solace that might be possible in relationships with other people and our non-human relations.
The Long Walk
Poet and philosopher Jan Zwicky bears passionate witness to the leading edge of environmental cataclysm.
Synaptic
Award-winning poet Alison Calder attempts to map the brain's neural connections, raising fundamental questions about identity and interiority. Juxtaposed against the scientific-like footnotes, these poems ask us to think about the way we perceive--and the ways in which we seek to know ourselves and others.
Field Notes for the Self
Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul. The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles Wright, but their closest cousins may be Arvo Pärt's tintinnabulations--overlapping structures in which notes or images are rung slowly and repeatedly like bells. The goal is freedom from illusion, freedom from memory, from "the same old stories" of Lundy's violent past; and freedom, too, from the unreachable memories of the violence done to his Indigenous ancestors, which, Lundy tells us, seem to haunt his cellular biology. Rooted in exquisitely modulated observations of the natural world, the singular achievement of these poems is mind itself, suspended before interior vision like a bit of crystal twisting in the light. Praise for Randy Lundy: "Here is a poet of whom one can say--quietly, simply, with gratitude--that highest of praises: the real thing." --Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty "Randy Lundy has entered the place where the masters reside..." --Patrick Lane, author of Washita
Measures of Astonishment
Most of the essays in this volume were previously presented as lectures as part of the Anne Szumigalski lecture series.
Shifting Baseline Syndrome
"A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. In Shifting Baseline Syndrome, Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions: will the Anthropocene have a laugh track? Is it okay to marry your eighteenth cousin? How different would the world look from outside the life-frame of the human? What is it like to have an acid trip in a porta potty? Is it the end . . . of Earth? Of capitalism? Of television? Throughout Kreuter's sophomore collection, the TV remote is never far. Shifting Baseline Syndrome is both searching and searing, veering between satire and sincerity, history and prophecy, and human and non-human worlds. As the end looms, Kreuter demonstrates why we'll keep doing what we've always done: hoping, for once, that the series finale will be good."--
Pitchblende
Delivers an urgent poetics of resistance and appeal for environmental justice for a Saskatchewan community "We began to dig ourselves deeper than we dreamed when we began to see metal as other than medicine, our bodies, more than mineral." At Rabbit Lake in northern Saskatchewan lies the second largest uranium mine in the western world. For decades, uranium ore and its poisonous by-products--pitchblende, a highly radioactive rock--were removed, transported and scattered across the land, forever altering the lives of plants, animals, and peoples who live there. Elise Marcella Godfrey's Pitchblende is a timely, polyvocal, exquisitely crafted poetic intervention into environmental ethics and ex...
Live Ones
"Sadie McCarney's first full-length poetry collection grapples with mourning, coming of age, and queer identity against the backdrop of rural and small-town Atlantic Canada. Ranging from pellet-gunned backyard butterflies to a chorus of encroaching ghosts, Live Ones celebrates the personal and idiosyncratic aspects of death, seeing them as intimately wedded to lives well-lived. Personal myth-making collides with grocery shopping, ancient history turns out to be alive and well in modern-day Milford, Nova Scotia, and the complexities of queer female desire call out to us from beyond the grave. In McCarney's exuberant imagination, the past, present, and future rarely stay where they're put."--
The Alchemy of Happiness
Bowering delivers poems that blend of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness.
