Mobility of Light

By Nicole Brossard
Edited by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

“On strands of light I am hanging poetry like garlands.”
These first words of poetry from Nicole Brossard anticipate the vast body of work she has published in the last four decades. The poems in Mobility ...

Fierce Departures

By Dionne Brand
Edited by Leslie C. Sanders
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The selections in Fierce Departures, drawn from Dionne Brand’s work since 1997, delineate with searing eloquence how history marks and dislocates peoples of the African diaspora, how nations, concretely a ...

Blues and Bliss

By George Elliott Clarke
Edited by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best wor ...

All These Roads

By Louis Dudek
Edited by Karis Shearer
Afterword by Frank Davey
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

A passionate believer in the power of art—and especially poetry—to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his med ...

The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand

By M. Travis Lane
Edited by Jeanette Lynes
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace ...

The Last Effort of Dreams

Edited by Francesco Loriggio
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

When Pier Giorgio Di Cicco first appeared on the Canadian literary scene in the early 1980s, he was immediately recognized as one of the most compelling voices of his generation. The Last Effort of Dreams ...

Earthly Pages

By Don Domanski
Edited by Brian Bartlett
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, ...

By Word of Mouth

By Dennis Cooley
Edited by Nicole Markotic
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian p ...

Children of the Outer Dark

By Christopher Dewdney
Edited by Karl E. Jirgens
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining o ...

Desire Never Leaves

Edited by Alison Calder
By Tim Lilburn
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The selected poems in Desire Never Leaves span Tim Lilburn’s career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation’s premier writers. This edition of ...