Please, No More Poetry

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

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 ...

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground

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

From Room to Room

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

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 ...

Mobility of Light

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

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 ...

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 ...

All These Roads

Afterword by Frank Davey
By Louis Dudek
Edited by Karis Shearer
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 ...