Soundin' Canaan

By Paul D.B. Watkins
Subjects: Music, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry, Social Science, Multiculturalism

Part exploration of a key group of Black Canadian poets, part literary, cultural, and musical history, Soundin’ Canaan demonstrates how music in Black Canadian poetry is not solely aesthetic, but a form ...

Molecular Cathedral

By John Lent
Edited by Jake Kennedy
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Molecular Cathedral is the first ever selection of the extraordinary poems of John Lent, renowned Okanagen-based writing instructor and poet.
Lents work is restlessly experimental and yet always approachable ...

Reclamation and Resurgence

By Marilyn Dumont
Edited by Armand Garnet Ruffo
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

To describe the writing of Marilyn Dumont is to call her a poet of reclamation and resurgence. Some thirty-five years ago she set about documenting her life as a young Métis woman and telling the story ...

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen

Edited by Kait Pinder & Joel Deshaye
Subjects: Music, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art.
The death of Leonard ...

A Possible Trust

By Ronna Bloom
Edited by Phil Hall
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

With compassion, humour and sharp-eyed irreverence, Ronna Bloom's work has made a significant impact on Canadian poetry. A Possible Trust is selected from her work to date.
Bloom writes concisely of the ...

DisPlace

By Nduka Otiono
Edited by Peter Midgley
Afterword by Chris Dunton
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions ...

(Re)Generation

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Edited by Dallas Hunt
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm exploring a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous intimate ...

Make the World New

By Lillian Allen
Edited by Ronald Cummings
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes ...

mahikan ka onot

By Duncan Mercredi
Edited by Warren Cariou
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in ...

Post-glacial

By Robert Kroetsch
Edited by David Eso
Afterword by Aritha van Herk
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch’s iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered ...