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 ...

Wider Boundaries of Daring

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...