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What is the measure of a woman? She is immeasurable. She is strong. She is a double force to reckon with. Jagjeet Sharma's "journalistic poetry" continues in this new poetry collection, Measure of a Wo/man. Poems in this collection are about the Wo/man. The Hindu God Shiva's ardhanishvara, a concept that she is both half man and half woman. Lord Shiva, one of the Hindu gods is referred to as the ultimate man, but one form of Shiva is also a fully...
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Through a kaleidoscope of philosophy, critical theory, and folk theology, A Devil Every Day surveys the terrain where white Western culture blends into pure evil. Twisting into aphorisms, inner dialogues, and incantations, John Nyman's poems are caught between complacency and a disquieting agnosticism, contemplating the problematic pleasures and unremarkable monstrosities of the contemporary West. Ultimately, A Devil Every Day asks: what hope is there...
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Au milieu des eaux, une île, un phare. Là habitent, seuls avec les oiseaux, une fille, son père et sa mère. Un marin survient. Il a fait naufrage la veille. Entre lui et la fille débute une étrange histoire d'amour, expression du besoin profond qu'a la jeune femme de s'émanciper de sa famille, de cette île isolée. Au cœur de la rose est une fable mystérieuse sur les rapports des hommes et des femmes à la construction du pays, sur l'impatience...
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Now part of Cambridge, Ontario, the village of Hespeler has produced some amazing artists. Renowned Canadian painter Frank Panabaker is well-known to art fans. He was born in Hespeler and started his long career there.Less known is the work of Vera Rosenberger. She was a teacher for over 40 years and retired in 1960. People still remember the elaborate works of art she effortlessly drew on the chalkboard.Shirley (Cox) Brent, was the first artist to...
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Freedom: A Mixtape is a soulful artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, spoken-word pieces, and musical instrumentation from folks living in Ontario's Niagara Region. A community conversation about our complicated relationship with emancipation and the human right to be free, Freedom: A Mixtape is a compilation album that is part protest and...
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In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the 'edge of the woods'-a space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, they engaged in a survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land as a method of restor(y)ing treaty relationships.
Retreating to Re-Treat documents both their artistic...
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The poetic mind by John Samurai is an epic chapbook of wonderous mini stories that will enchant you and leave you wanting for more. You will find in every poem in this collection something new and entertaining. The use of words is a true sign a of a master craftsman. You will enjoy the read be it a morning wake up with a cup of tea or coffee, or be it an evening read before sleep. Excitement awaits you among the poems on the pages of this book. Make...
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Jean-Pierre Fabien est né à Montréal en 1955. Il est biologiste et a enseigné l'écologie au secondaire pendant 25 ans tout en favorisant l'approche terrain avec ses élèves afin d'établir un réel contact avec la nature. En 2005, il quitte l'enseignement afin d'offrir son soutien aux écoles d'éducation internationale à titre de professionnel. En 1990, il devient cofondateur du CORDEM, un club d'ornithologie dont le siège social est situé...
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In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory. Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Soft Inheritance follows the poet's rapidly evolving reality where "kindness is a scar," though "not all scar-makers are kind." Both a treatise on the sick body and the state of "after"-post-caretaking, post-breakup, post-moving, and post-death-these poems...
10) Swans
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Michelle Brown's second book of poetry, Swans, begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age fable by closing time. In between, memory shifts and poems shuffle like songs on a jukebox, detailing fraught female friendship, sexual awakening, alcohol abuse and abandon in the dying days of a decade of decadence. Swans is a whip-smart collection from one of Canada's catchiest...
11) G: Fricatives
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G is a sound. Phonetically, it is represented as [χ]-and corresponds to خ in the Arabic alphabet-a guttural resonance shared between Afrikaans and Persian. Hinging on this mutual fricative sonically prominent in their respective languages, and a playful inclusion of homonyms across English, Afrikaans, and Persian, Klara du Plessis and Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi composed G collaboratively in a shared Google document, an act of hospitality into their...
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Like an obsessive baby name book with only one entry, The Book of Benjamin establishes links between identity, birth, and grief. Braiding the story of his stillborn sister with the Biblical account of Benjamin to explore how names and their etymologies might shape our self-understanding, Benjamin Robinson resists the traditional individual focus of the memoir, while also investigating new forms of masculinity. The Book of Benjamin is the testament...
13) The Suspect We
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In The Suspect We, Roxanna Bennett and Shane Neilson collaborate to make a documentary poetics concerning pandemic conditions for the mad, neurodivergent, and disabled. Written while the world huddled indoors, The Suspect W is the product of a poetic friendship as well as a reaction to it. Throughout, Bennett and Neilson query CanLit politics and care deficiencies as mutually dependent while also taking care of one another through their own work and...
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Piéger l'éternité, de Mélanie Noël, se présente comme un ensible de clins d'œil poétiques pris sur le vif : entre tendresse et humour, ces poèmes illustrent, en quelques images révélatrices le plus souvent, l'existence de fimes et d'hommes comme on en croise au hasard des rencontres ou dont on entend parler au fil de conversations qui émaillent le quotidien de tous et chacun.
Dans un texte liminaire, Mélanie Noël explique sa démarche...
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La poésie de Julie Stanton propose une exploration détaillée de l'Histoire et de la condition humaines par le biais d'un questionnement sans concession sur les questions fondamentales qui traversent notre temps. Érudite, mais accessible; directe et lucide, cette parole s'inscrit dans le cours des réflexions actuelles les plus pertinentes.
Lauréate, en 2020, du Prix littéraire des Écrivains francophones d'Amériques pour L'ultime lettre d'amour...
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Embarquez dans un voyage poignant au cœur de l'Afrique et de l'essence de l'humanité avec "QUELQUE CHOSE À DIRE" - une collection captivante de poésie s'étendant sur deux décennies. Ce livre n'est pas seulement une œuvre littéraire ; c'est un récipient portant la passion et la patience d'une vie en harmonie et en dissonance avec le monde.
Des chemins nostalgiques de Danané aux salles académiques de Trois-Rivières, en passant par le décor...
17) In extremis
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Viens, ne crains rien, dit-il, je suis celui qui t'aidera à traverser toutes les frontières que tu portes en toi. Approche, n'aie pas peur, je te permettrai d'atteindre ces destinations dont tu rêves depuis toujours, ces édens illicites o les serpents se nourrissent du lait des vierges, charmés par les langues de lumière dont s'illuminent les bouches enténébrées des derniers prophètes.
In extremis est le récit d'une guerre intime que le...
18) L'entrée rouge
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À l'occasion de son sixième recueil aux Écrits des Forges, Cristina Montescu nous fait une fois de plus la démonstration de la puissance de l'écriture comme instrument de survie, comme extraction à pratiquer sur les souffrances d'un passé destructeur. Le titre, Manger son âme, recèle à lui seul un essentiel poétique et un projet de vie : transcender cette souffrance, ramasser les morceaux de soi qui se délabrent dans l'horreur d'un élan...
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La certitude du lilas, de Ginette Andrée Poirier, prend la forme d'une lente complainte qui chante la perte d'un être cher :
dans le flou de l'abat-jour
ton visage tombe du cté de la lune
tes os rouillent sans rien saisir de l'instant
seules dieurent une plainte venue du ventre
et un peu de pluie
Dans ce priier recueil de poésie, la poète propose égalient au lecteur une méditation sur le tips qui passe mais ne réussit pas...
20) Bramah's Quest
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The ambitious second instalment of Renée Sarojini Saklikar's epic fantasy saga in verse, The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns (THOT J BAP).
This book-length poem features the time-travelling demigoddess Bramah, a locksmith and the saga's hero. In Bramah's Quest, the year is 2087 and Bramah is back on a planet Earth ravaged by climate change and global inequality. Bramah is on a quest to find her people, including the little boy Raphael,...
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