Please, No More Poetry

By derek beaulieu & Kit Dobson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Since the beginning of his poetic career in the 1990s, derek beaulieu has created works that have challenged readers to understand in new ways the possibilities of poetry. With nine books currently to ...

William Wilfred Campbell

Edited by Laurel Boone
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918).
Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are ...

Plans Deranged by Time

By George Fetherling
Edited by A.F. Moritz
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans ...

Chronicles

By Dionne Brand
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

One of Canada’s most distinguished poets, Dionne Brand explores and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular the lives of those ruptured and scattered by New World slaveries and modern c ...

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground

By F.R. Scott
Edited by Laura Moss
Afterword by George Elliott Clarke
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground contains thirty-five of F.R. Scott’s poems from across the five decades of his career. Scott’s artistic responses to a litany of social problems, as well as his emp ...

From Room to Room

By Eli Mandel
Edited by Peter Webb
Afterword by Andrew Stubbs
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret A ...

Verse and Worse

By Steve McCaffery
Edited by Darren Wershler
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. ...

The False Laws of Narrative

By Fred Wah
Edited by Louis Cabri
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of Tish magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and innovative ...

Wider Boundaries of Daring

Edited by Di Brandt & Barbara Godard
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry

Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution ...

Open Wide a Wilderness

Edited by Nancy Holmes
By Don McKay
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Environmental Humanities

The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada’s regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the n ...