Chamber Music

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

Ley Lines

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

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: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry, Indigenous Studies
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: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
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, ...

Writing Surfaces

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

John Riddell is best known for “H” and “Pope Leo, El ELoPE,” a pair of graphic fictions written in collaboration with, or dedicated to, bpNichol, but his work moves well beyond comic strips into ...

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 ...

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: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

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 ...