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“marlene cookshaw”

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  • The Whole Elephant

    by Marlene Cookshaw ...
    Shortlisted for the 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes) Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the "singing edge" between dream and waking. Hers is a quilted language at once covering and revealing our fascinating ordinariness. The long poem "In The Swim" subtly captures the desperate and humourous beauty ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Whole Elephant

    by Marlene Cookshaw ...
    Shortlisted for the 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes) Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the "singing edge" between dream and waking. Hers is a quilted language at once covering and revealing our fascinating ordinariness. The long poem "In The Swim" subtly captures the desperate and humourous beauty ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Mowing

    by Marlene Cookshaw ...
    An award-winning poet’s day-book of poems, where both bounty and loss are tenderly assigned value. Marlene Cookshaw, in her first collection of poetry in more than a decade, invites her readers to partake in a long-anticipated harvest that comes in many forms. Whether she’s haying June-high grasses, relishing a neighbour’s gift of new potatoes with her husband, logging fragments of poetry she’s ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Mowing

    by Marlene Cookshaw ...
    An award-winning poet’s day-book of poems, where both bounty and loss are tenderly assigned value. Marlene Cookshaw, in her first collection of poetry in more than a decade, invites her readers to partake in a long-anticipated harvest that comes in many forms. Whether she’s haying June-high grasses, relishing a neighbour’s gift of new potatoes with her husband, logging fragments of poetry she’s ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • A Possible Landscape

    by Maureen Harris ...
    Maureen Harris’s first volume of poetry evokes “a possible landscape,” where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent’s “green quiver,” his “sibilant caress,” where a snake tires of his lover “wearing/the same skin day-out, day-in.” The poems in the first section of this book are sharp new takes on old stories, at once ... Read more

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  • Zarf: An Oddly Specific Collection of Poems for a Tiny Niche Audience

    by Carla Coles ...
    ZARFan oddly specific collection of poems for a tiny niche audienceA zarf (plural: zarfs, zuruuf, zarves) is a holder, usually of ornamental metal, for a coffee cup without a handle… Also, the cardboard ones you wrap around your Americano-to-go because we don't want you to burn your fingers…. ... Read more

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  • Little Wildheart

    by Micheline Maylor ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor’s poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love that has passed, the interplay between the animal world and human thought, and the myths we append to ourselves and others. An expansive, conversational voice underscores the poet’s technical mastery as her subjects turn from love ... Read more

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  • Notebook of Roses and Civilization

    by Nicole Brossard ...
    Translated by Robert Majzels ...
    Shortlisted for the 2008 Griffin Poetry PrizeShortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Award for TranslationThe heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a shoulder blade in the poems of Nicole Brossard these concrete, quotidian things move languorously through the senses to find a place beyond language. Taken together, they ... Read more

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  • House Made of Rain

    by Pamela Porter ...
    In this breathtaking collection of poems, Pamela Porter invokes the twin mysteries of love and loss to illumine the heart burdened by grief, yet comforted and renewed by the beauty of the natural world. In the long poem “Atonement,” Porter takes us into a human drama, rich with astonishments: “There was no snow, but you could say the snow buried everything, and you’d be right.” In simple language ... Read more

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  • Generations of Love

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    by Lisa Williamson ...
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    A poetry collection about daughters, mothers and grandmothers. The love and heartache that comes from being a woman is found strongly in our relationships to our mothers, daughters and grandmothers. In this collection delve into feelings dealing with family. The photos in this collection are from private life. Images of family and the world around us all.. ... Read more

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  • Twoism

    by Ali Blythe ...
    Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry PrizePart roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body's limits and its trickery, you are always in disguise. Sometimes you're Leda; sometimes the swan. The rooms are haunted with gendered injuries of the past . . . but messengers arrive to guide you.In this ... Read more

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