2023 Governor General's Award for Poetry Finalist* Longlisted 2024 Gerald Lampert Award"God is personal," the astrologer said. Terrifying and also personal, like a baby.Direct and humorous, Baby Book stacks story upon story to explore how beliefs are...

Delirium, an intuitive and original interpretation of the poet Arthur Rimbaud’s life and genius, brings into close focus the crucial period of 1873, when Rimbaud left school and the provinces and lived his “season in hell.”Jeremy Reed brings his own...

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art...

WINNER OF THE 2020/2021 ALCUIN SOCIETY BOOK DESIGN AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE ROBERT KROETSCH CITY OF EDMONTON BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2023 STEPHAN G. STEPHANSSON AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE DAYNE...

A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous book Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in...

A new collection of poetry from the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. . . we are fixed to perpetrate the species—I meant perpetuate—as if our dutywere coupled with our terror. As if beautyitself were but a syllabus of errors.Troy...

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A series of poems and prose passages recreating the last nine months of Hannah Senesh, who was executed at the age of 23 for her efforts to liberate Hungary and save its Jewish population from the Nazis. A chapter on the historical background, written by...

Winner of the 2023 HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARDThe first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and...

Unlike other biographical portraits of Ezra Pound, John Tytell's brilliant and ambitious work offers an interpretive study that boldly confronts the emotional truths and psychological drama that formed this complex and controversial American poet...

WINNER of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant LiteratureFinalist for the Firecracker Award for Poetry!A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood...

A spirited collection of poems inspired by the Zen practice of one of America's most celebrated authors, Jim Harrison, a New York Times best-selling author.The popular novels of Jim Harrison (1937–2016) represent only part of his literary output—he was...

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An entertaining anthology of more than two hundred fifty verses by some eighty authors ranges from satire to nonsense and from Shakespeare to Philip Larkin

"Needlework, as this brilliant book makes plain, has been trivialized and dismissed as mere "women's work." The poems here, however, present the powerful counterpoint that work with the needle, from the flame-stitch to embroidery, is both a skill and a...