Chamber Music

By Jan Zwicky
Edited by Darren Bifford & Warren Heiti
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first ...

Ley Lines

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

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, ...

Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Edited by Neal McLeod
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume ...

Rivering

By Daphne Marlatt
Edited by Susan Knutson
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Opening doors, dreaming awake, tracing networks of music and meaning, Marlatt’s poetry stands out as an essential engagement with what matters to anyone writing with a social-environmental conscience. ...

The Order in Which We Do Things

By Tom Wayman
Edited by Owen Percy
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, ...

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 ...

Writing Surfaces

By John Riddell
Edited by derek beaulieu & Lori Emerson
Subjects: Fiction, Poetry

In Writing Surfaces, derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson present a collection of John Riddell’s work. Riddell’s poems and short stories are a remarkable mix of largely typewriter-based concrete poetry ...

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 ...