Social Poesis

By Rachel Zolf
Edited by Heather Milne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada’s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, e ...

Deportment

By Alice Burdick
Edited by Alessandro Porco
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Deportment is a selection of poems – surreal, cerebral, and defiant – by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and a ...

Battle Lines

By Joel Baetz
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, History, Military History, Poetry, Canadian History

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period’s poetry, and booksellers w ...

Sôhkêyihta

By Louise Bernice Halfe
Edited by David Gaertner
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

“I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time”
— “The Crooked Good”
Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe’s work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences w ...

Space Between Her Lips

By Margaret Christakos
Edited by Gregory Betts
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry. ...

downstream

Edited by Dorothy Christian & Rita Wong
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Indigenous Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines, Creative Writing, Poetry
Series: Environmental Humanities

downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building ...

Certain Details

By Nelson Ball
Edited by Stuart Ross
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 1960s and 70s. Certain Details provides a major overview ...

Barking & Biting

By Sina Queyras
Edited by Erin Wunker
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras’s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Her influential b ...

Sonosyntactics

By Paul Dutton
Edited by Gary Barwin
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton’s diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps b ...

Ley Lines

Edited by H. L. Hix
Subjects: Art, Cultural Studies, Poetry

Ley lines mark alignments of sacred sites such as ridgetops and ancient megaliths and create pathways between them. This book too marks alignments and creates pathways, but its sacred sites are not monuments, ...