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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 ...

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 ...

Reclamation and Resurgence

By Marilyn Dumont
Edited by Armand Garnet Ruffo
Series: Laurier Poetry

To describe the writing of Marilyn Dumont is to call her a poet of reclamation and resurgence. Some thirty-five years ago she set about documenting her life as a young Métis woman and telling the story ...

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. ...

Speaking of Power

By Di Brandt
Edited by Tanis MacDonald
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt introduces the reader to the lyric power and political urgency of the poetry of Di Brandt, providing an overview of her poetry written during a prolific and ...

Sôhkêyihta

By Louise Bernice Halfe
Edited by David Gaertner
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Indigenous Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

“I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time”
— “The Crooked Good”
Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe’s work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...