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  • Methodist Hatchet

    by Ken Babstock ...
    Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Book AwardMarooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in Methodist Hatchet cling to what’s necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. ... Read more

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  • Mean

    by Ken Babstock ...
    Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives. In this collection, the pastoral collides with the concrete terrain of motorbikes, prisons, and chainlink to capture our constructed isolation and our buried, yet resonant, connection to the land and seascapes that surround us.Ken Babstock's poetic voice is wholly ... Read more

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  • Airstream Land Yacht

    by Ken Babstock ...
    In his brilliant third collection, award-winning and critically-acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship as the speaker attempts to ... Read more

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  • Days Into Flatspin

    by Ken Babstock ...
    Days into Flatspin is Ken Babstock's extraordinary second collection and it reveals a poet in full flight, fearless and technically brilliant.Diving into and then beyond what is seen or the coma of looking as one poem calls it, Babstock veers into the inner core of things, animals, and places through portals that exist all around us -- clothing, banisters, marshes, locks, wounds. And these are ... Read more

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  • On Malice

    by Ken Babstock ...
    One of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014The fairground screamed. The mountainsand valley were gone. The fire was gonetoo. The hanging ‘because’was gone too. The men were awayand my heart already deadand the fairground monkey dead in my mouth.A spectre haunts a derelictNSA surveillance station on a hill in Berlin. Our posthumous selves cry to us from the Cloud. We’ve internalized ... Read more

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  • Ramblings of a Broken Heart Poetry to Hurt With Volume 1

    by Jade Elliot ...
    Poetry to commiserate with when your heart is breaking ... Read more

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  • To the Barricades

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    In To the Barricades we move back and forth between historical and contemporary scenes of revolt, from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-first-century occupations and street marches, shifting along the active seam between poetry and revolution. At once elegy (poems dedicated “to” past revolutionary figures and scenes) and a call for renewed struggle in the here and now, this ... Read more

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    by Fred Wah ...
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    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 innovative poets of the 1960s and was at the forefront of the exploration of racial hybridity, multiculturalism, and transnational family roots in poetry. The selection emphasizes his innovative poetic ... Read more

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  • The Book of Marvels

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    by Lorna Crozier ...
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