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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. ...

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 Contemporary Leonard Cohen

Edited by Joel Deshaye & Kait Pinder
Subjects: Poetry, Music, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art.
The death of Leonard ...

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 ...

downstream

Edited by Dorothy Christian & Rita Wong
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Creative Writing, Poetry, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building ...

Field Marks

By Don McKay
Edited by Méira Cook
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, ...

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 ...