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  • Tunnel Jumping

    Poems

    by Denis Stokes ...
    A compelling native voice from Ontario, Canada, Denis Stokes remembers the province and the city of Toronto in verses. His verses portray an age, a city, a province, and the people inhabiting them.Though the author's childhood was unlike mine, all the same these poems resonate, drawing me backward into my own. The poems are tightly crafted, but gently, rooted in the area where he grew up, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blackstock Children

    by Denis Stokes ...
    Another poem collection from Denis Stokes, a poet that surprises at every turn.The poems involve an engagement between Canada and Ireland/England/Scotland/Wales.Part One involves family background, first experiences.Part Two is a meditation on child poverty through the fictionalized imagining of the writing of the Christmas Carol. It is a protest poem about the lack of effort directed towards ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blackstock Children

    Poems

    by Denis Stokes ...
    Another poem collection from Denis Stokes, a poet that surprises at every turn.The poems involve an engagement between Canada and Ireland/England/Scotland/Wales.Part One involves family background, first experiences.Part Two is a meditation on child poverty through the fictionalized imagining of the writing of the Christmas Carol. It is a protest poem about the lack of effort directed towards ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tunnel Jumping

    by Denis Stokes ...
    A compelling native voice from Ontario, Canada, Denis Stokes remembers the province and the city of Toronto in verses. His verses portray an age, a city, a province, and the people inhabiting them.Though the author's childhood was unlike mine, all the same these poems resonate, drawing me backward into my own. The poems are tightly crafted, but gently, rooted in the area where he grew up, and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Selected Poems, 1968–2014

    by Paul Muldoon ...
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  • Staying Alive

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    by Neil Astley ...
    Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. The Staying Alive trilogy of anthologies have introduced many ... Read more

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  • The Zebra Stood in the Night

    by Kerry Hardie ...
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    the sequel to Staying Alive

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  • Nigh-No-Place

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    Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. The language of Jen Hadfield's poetry is one of incantation and secular praise. Her first book, Almana, was a traveller's litany, featuring a road movie in poems set in the north of Scotland. Nigh-No-Place is the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world.Hadfield began her new book on the hoof, travelling across Canada, hungry for new landscapes. She ... Read more

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