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  • Too Bad

    Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait

    by Robert Kroetsch ...
    Series series cuRRents
    A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much-from whimsy and scorn through desire, longing, lust, love, and serenity-these sketches mark a candid walk through the tortuous corridors of the poet's remembering, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Hornbooks of Rita K

    by Robert Kroetsch ...
    Series series cuRRents
    The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Where has Rita gone and who is reconstructing her oeuvre? Written with wit and playfulness, Hornbooks is a welcome new work from one of Canada's best writers. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Heaven's Thieves

    by Sue Sinclair ...
    Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions -- What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? What is the point of art? -- and the urgent ones -- how to live in a shattered ecology, what to do about grief, illness, betrayal. Sinclair turns her attention to these questions with fearless curiosity, economy, and an ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Autobiography of Red

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Smart Aleck Chronicles Ii

    by Mike Robertson ...
    The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. As noted in the preface to that volume, it had neither plot or identifiable structure, its intended purpose being to present a series of entertainments on a wide range of ridiculous activities that constitute everyday life. Whether it was faithful to that lofty purpose remains a mystery, even to the author that ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Morning In The Burned House

    Poems

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    The renowned poet and author of The Handmaid’s Tale “brings a swift, powerful energy” to this “intimate and immediate” poetry collection (Publishers Weekly).These beautifully crafted poems, by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate, are some of Margaret Atwood’s most accomplished and versatile works. Some draw on history and some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Order in Which We Do Things

    The Poetry of Tom Wayman

    by Tom Wayman ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
    Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too. His recurring themes—work, mortality, love, lust, friendship, the natural world—make his work a poetry of ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something

    by Paul Vermeersch ...
    Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas, erasures, text collage, and other forms to imagine a post-apocalyptic literature built, or rebuilt, from the rubble of the texts that came before. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BALLADS OF A BOHEMIAN

    by ROBERT W. SERVICE ...
    In "Ballads of a Bohemian," Service captures the spirit of adventure, freedom, and unconventional living that characterized the bohemian lifestyle. The poems often portray colorful characters, depict lively scenes, and evoke a sense of wanderlust. Service's writing style is known for its rhythmic meter, storytelling quality, and use of vivid imagery. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Growing Through the Gate-Second E-Book Edition

    by Mark Trudeau ...
    This is a collection of poems, lyrics. short stories and sketches by Mark Trudeau. The subject matter is a times very serious and then whimsical, political and then existential. Many of these pieces relate to Mark's work as guitarist, vocalist and song writer for Crawling Quiet. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading The Bible Backwards

    by Robert Priest ...
    Reverse engineering the word, meme splicing, morpheme replacement therapy, phonetic modifications: these are some of the techniques in play throughout Reading the Bible Backwards , the lyrical thought experiments that make up this eagerly anticipated new collection of poems by Robert Priest. By throwing the Bible and other cultural narratives on the turntable and spinning them backwards, Priest ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Really Good Brown Girl

    by Marilyn Dumont ...
    On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fourth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of A Really Good Brown Girl features a new Introduction by Lee Maracle, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First published in 1996, A Really Good Brown Girl is a ... Read more

    $9.89 USD