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Before the First Word

By Lorna Crozier
Edited by Catherine Hunter
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Lorna Crozier’s radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada’s most popular poets. Before the First Word: ...

(Re)Generation

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Edited by Dallas Hunt
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm exploring a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous intimate ...

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. ...

A Different Species of Breathing

Afterword by Erin Wunker
By Sue Goyette
Edited by Bart Vautour
Series: Laurier Poetry

What can it look like for poetry to bear witness? What might it feel like for a poem to keep company? A Different Species of Breathing: The Poetry of Sue Goyette offers an introduction to the work of ...

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 ...

By Word of Mouth

By Dennis Cooley
Edited by Nicole Markotic
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other ...

Barking & Biting

By Sina Queyras
Edited by Erin Wunker
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras’s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Her influential ...

DisPlace

Afterword by Chris Dunton
By Nduka Otiono
Edited by Peter Midgley
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions ...

Deportment

By Alice Burdick
Edited by Alessandro Porco
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

Deportment is a selection of poems – surreal, cerebral, and defiant – by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving ...

Earthly Pages

By Don Domanski
Edited by Brian Bartlett
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, ...