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The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English

Anita Lahey,Molly Peacock
The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English Book PDF

Author : Anita Lahey,Molly Peacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1988040345

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The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English by Anita Lahey,Molly Peacock Pdf

The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English takes the pulse of the last decade of Canadian poetry with ninety superb poems that have excelled--twice--at the test of "the best." With poems chosen from the first nine volumes of this landmark series, this special tenth-anniversary edition highlights a vibrant variety of subjects from romance and family to ecology and the economy--not to mention blizzards and bears. Ranging from iconic poets Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, George Elliott Clarke, and P.K. Page to notable upstarts, the anthology includes an index for readers, notes from the poets, an illuminating analysis of Canadian poetics by series editor Molly Peacock, and provocative excerpts from past introductions by guest editors Stephanie Bolster, A.F. Moritz, Lorna Crozier, Priscila Uppal, Carmine Starnino, Sue Goyette, Sonnet L'Abbé, Jacob McArthur Mooney, and Helen Humphreys.

Best Canadian Poetry 2020

Marilyn Dumont
Best Canadian Poetry 2020 Book PDF

Author : Marilyn Dumont
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771963657

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Best Canadian Poetry 2020 by Marilyn Dumont Pdf

"A best poem fulfills the promise set out in its first syllable, word, syntax, line break, and soundscape to its reader/listener." “What is a best poem?” asks Best Canadian Poetry 2020 guest editor Marilyn Dumont, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of four poetry collections. “A best poem fulfills the promise set out in its first syllable, word, syntax, line break, and soundscape to its reader/listener. The work required to complete a poem takes risk, skill, and practice, and the poems selected for this anthology all exhibit such attributes.” In precise language that exposes the attitudes inherent in English, innovative forms that illuminate their content, and mastery of music akin to a composer’s score, the fifty poems collected here fulfill their promises and, in doing so, demonstrate the country’s rich diversity and talent for invention—and the promises it might fulfill as well. Featuring introductions by series editor Anita Lahey and advisory editor Amanda Jernigan, and poems by: Kazim Ali • Amber Dawn • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Brandi Bird • Selina Boan • Margret Bollerup • Rita Bouvier • Tim Bowling • Frances Boyle • Di Brandt • Rob Budde • Mugabi Byenkya • Dell Catherall • Margaret Christakos Ivan Coyote • Barry Dempster • Kyle Flemmer • Susan Haldane • Louise Bernice Halfe–Sky Dancer • Jane Eaton Hamilton • Maureen Scott Harris • Dallas Hunt • Ashley Hynd • Babo Kamel • Conor Kerr • Don Kerr • Fiona Tinwei Lam • Natalie Lim • Tanis MacDonald • Nyla Matuk • Sadie McCarney • Tara McGowan-Ross • Erín Moure • Roger Nash • Samantha Nock • Erin Noteboom • Abby Paige • Geoff Pevlin • Alycia Pirmohamed • Jana Prikryl • Jason Purcell • Armand Garnet Ruffo • Rebecca Salazar • Robyn Sarah • Erin Soros • Kevin Spenst • John Elizabeth Stintzi • Andrea Thompson • Sanna Wani • Adele Wiseman

Best Canadian Poetry 2019

Amanda Jernigan,Anita Lahey
Best Canadian Poetry 2019 Book PDF

Author : Amanda Jernigan,Anita Lahey
Publisher : Best Canadian
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1771963301

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Best Canadian Poetry 2019 by Amanda Jernigan,Anita Lahey Pdf

A must-read for anyone with a stake in contemporary Canadian literature, or with curiosity about poetry on the world stage.

Best Canadian Poetry 2021

Souvankham Thammavongsa
Best Canadian Poetry 2021 Book PDF

Author : Souvankham Thammavongsa
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781771964401

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Best Canadian Poetry 2021 by Souvankham Thammavongsa Pdf

“This is a book,” writes guest editor Souvankham Thammavongsa, “about what I saw and read and loved, and want you to see and read and love.” Selected from work published by Canadian poets in magazines and journals in 2020, Best Canadian Poetry 2021 gathers the poems Thammavongsa loved most over a year’s worth of reading, and draws together voices that “got in and out quickly, that said unusual things, that were clear, spare, and plain, that made [her] laugh out loud … the voices that barely ever survive to make it onto the page.” From new work by Canadian icons to thrilling emerging talents, this year’s anthology offers fifty poems for you to fall in love with as well. Featuring: Margaret Atwood Ken Babstock Manahil Bandukwala Courtney Bates-Hardy Roxanna Bennett Ronna Bloom Louise Carson Kate Cayley Kitty Cheung Dani Couture Kayla Czaga Šari Dale Unnati Desai Tina Do Andrew DuBois Paola Ferrante Beth Goobie Nina Philomena Honorat Liz Howard Maureen Hynes George K Ilsley Eve Joseph Ian Keteku Judith Krause M Travis Lane Mary Dean Lee Canisia Lubrin Randy Lundy David Ly Yohani Mendis Pamela Mosher Susan Musgrave Téa Mutonji Barbara Nickel Ottavia Paluch Kirsten Pendreigh Emily Pohl-Weary David Romanda Matthew Rooney Zoe Imani Sharpe Sue Sinclair John Steffler Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Arielle Twist David Ezra Wang Phoebe Wang Hayden Ward Elana Wolff Eugenia Zuroski Jan Zwicky

Best Canadian Stories 2018

Russell Smith
Best Canadian Stories 2018 Book PDF

Author : Russell Smith
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771962506

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Best Canadian Stories 2018 by Russell Smith Pdf

Now in its 48th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Selected by guest editor Russell Smith, the 2018 edition draws together both newer and established writers to shape an engaging and luminous mosaic of writing in this country today—a continuation of not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. Best Canadian Stories 2018 features work by: Shashi Bhat, Tom Thor Buchanan, Lynn Coady, Deirdre Simon Dore, Alicia Elliott, Bill Gaston, Liz Harmer, Brad Hartle, David Huebert, Reg Johanson, Amy Jones, Michael LaPointe, Stephen Marche, Lisa Moore, Kathy Page, and Alex Pugsley.

The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English

Margaret Atwood
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English Book PDF

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984-04-01
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 0195404505

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The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English by Margaret Atwood Pdf

An impressive selection of some of the best work of Canadian poets and Atwood's brilliant introductory survey of Canadian poetry make this an excellent textbook choice.

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018

Amanda Jernigan,Anita Lahey,Hoa Nguyen
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 Book PDF

Author : Amanda Jernigan,Anita Lahey,Hoa Nguyen
Publisher : Best Canadian Poetry in Englis
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1988040442

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The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018 by Amanda Jernigan,Anita Lahey,Hoa Nguyen Pdf

The 2018 edition of Canada's go-to yearly anthology, guest edited by Hoa Nguyen, ushers readers into the heart of the vibrant Canadian poetry scene. The Best Canadian Poetry Series annually features the fifty finest Canadian poems published in periodicals during the previous year. A must-read for anyone with a stake in contemporary Canadian literature, or with curiosity about poetry and its engagement with the world today.

Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960

Anonim
Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960 Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780771086335

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Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960 by Anonim Pdf

The best in four decades of exceptional Canadian poetry, now in a limited hardcover edition. The poets in this anthology, all of whom matured creatively between 1920 and 1960, considered it one of their primary obligations to modernize Canadian writing, to bring the country's poetry out of late Romantic stasis after the Great War into a fertile and combative response to the cultural, political, technological, philosophical, religious, and economic conditions of the modern era. In their common reaction against Romanticism, and in their commitments to modern poetry's possibilities of profound newness, the poets in this volume make up one great movement in Canada's cultural history. The anthology includes: • 250 poems by 44 poets • Regionally diverse voices from Newfoundland, the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies, and B.C. • Extensive selections of the work of major poets • An afterword and biographical headnotes provide important historical and literary context The poets included in Canadian Poetry from 1920 to 1960 are: Frank Oliver Call; Louise Morey Bowman; Raymond Knister; Joe Wallace; E.J. Pratt; W.W. E. Ross; F.R. Scott; A.J.M. Smith; Charles Bruce; Earle Birney; A.M. Klein; Dorothy Livesay; Leo Kennedy; Audrey Alexandra Brown; Kenneth Leslie; Robert Finch; Floris Clark McLaren; L.A. Mackay; Anne Marriott; Bertram Warr; Patrick Anderson; P.K. Page; Kay Smith; Miriam Waddington; Margaret Avison; A.G. Bailey; Louis Dudek; John Glassco; Ralph Gustafson; Raymond Souster; Irving Layton; Roy Daniells; Douglas LePan; George Whalley; James Reaney; Elizabeth Brewster; George Johnston; Goodridge MacDonald; Jay MacPherson; Anne Wilkinson; Phyllis Webb; Wilfred Watson; R.A.D. Ford; Eldon Grier.

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010

Lorna Crozier,Molly Peacock
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010 Book PDF

Author : Lorna Crozier,Molly Peacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1926639162

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The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010 by Lorna Crozier,Molly Peacock Pdf

"The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010 proudly continues a series that kicked off with a bang in 2008 under the stewardship of esteemed series editor, Molly Peacock, and inaugural guest editor, award-winning poet Stephanie Bolster. The 2009 edition was expertly curated by A.F. Moritz, winner of the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize. And this year, Lorna Crozier has chosen the fifty best Canadian poems published in Canadian literary journals and magazines in the preceding year. With this anthology, readers, often baffled by proliferating poems and poets, will be able to tap into the remarkable and vibrant Canadian poetry scene, checking out the currents, and cross currents, of poetry in a volume distilled by a round robin of distinguished editorial tast. Featuring work from Ken Babstock, John Barton, Anne Compton, Allan Cooper, Mary dalton, Barry Dempster, Kildare Dobbs, Don Domanski, Glen Downie, Sue Goyette, Rosemary Griebel, Adrienne Gruber, Jamella Hagen, Steven Heighton, Warren Heiti, M.G.R. Hickman-Barr, Maureen Hynes, Michael Johnson, Jim Johnstone, Sonett L'Abbe, Evelyn Lau, Katherine Lawrence, Ross Leckie, Tim Lilbum, Dave Margoshes, Jim Nason, Catherine Owen, P.K. Page, Rebecca Leah Papucaru, Marilyn Gear Pilling, Leonore and Beth Rowntree, Armand Garnett Ruffo, Lori Saint-Martin, Peter Sanger, Robyn Sarah, Eleonore Schonmaier, David Seymour, Melanie Siebert, Sue Sinclair, Karen Solie, Nick Thran, Carey Toane, Anne-Marie Turza, Paul Tyler, Patrick Warner, Zachariah Wells, Patricia Young, David Zieroth, and Jan Zwicky."--Publisher's description.

The Journey Prize Stories 31

Anonim
The Journey Prize Stories 31 Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771050824

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The Journey Prize Stories 31 by Anonim Pdf

For more than thirty years, this celebrated anthology has introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. With settings ranging from a Saskatchewan wheat field marked by crop circles to a dystopian metropolis where people are under constant surveillance, the twelve stories in this collection represent the year's best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging voices. An aspiring artist looking for inspiration in the "aliveness of the desert" gets less--and more--than she bargained for when she signs up for a residency at a roadside motel. After years of toiling to pay off a debt that has devastated his family, a young Chinese fisherman makes a magical catch that will change the course of his life. As a populist candidate stands poised to triumph at a political convention, his campaign strategist and childhood best friend reflects on the dark legacy of their relationship. A brutal assault on a Toronto taxi driver leads his friend on a desperate search for answers. When troubling stories of women's encounters with aliens start to dominate the news cycle, a reporter reluctantly returns to her hometown to cover the phenomenon. A carpet collector reimagines his family's fractured history by weaving new tapestries to tell their stories. Unsure of whether his client is really dying, an end-of-life gift professional must assess the man's extravagant last wish. A Ktunaxa grandmother tells a parable of why you shouldn't speak to Kupi (owl) at night.

The 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

Souvankham Thammavongsa
The 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology Book PDF

Author : Souvankham Thammavongsa
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781487009472

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The 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology by Souvankham Thammavongsa Pdf

The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. Each year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Annually, The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections. Featuring works from shortlisted poets Victoria Chang, Changtai Bi, Joseph Dandurand, Canisia Lubrin, Valzhyna Mort, Srikanth Reddy, Yusuf Saadi, Tracy K. Smith, and Yi Lei.

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid s Tale Book PDF

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771008795

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

Undiscovered Country

Al Rempel
Undiscovered Country Book PDF

Author : Al Rempel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 189694969X

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Undiscovered Country by Al Rempel Pdf

Undiscovered Countryis filled with soulful accomplished writing in a variety of lyrical modes, including the long poem. When someone we love dies, what we miss are their presences and particulars. In this new book Rempel journeys through the grieving process, exploring death and loss, and the "dark night of the soul"; through the filters of the geographies and seasons of northern BC. What he finds is an "undiscovered country." Even the bright clouds in spring or the colours of fall, or an afternoon with his daughter, offer an opportunity for the poet to contemplate his existence and rework his worldview. In this new country, he finds a measure of hope, even in the darkest night; like a moon, illuminating a road by the river.

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2016

Helen Humphreys
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2016 Book PDF

Author : Helen Humphreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1988040108

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The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2016 by Helen Humphreys Pdf

Guest edited by Helen Humphreys, this ninth edition of Canada's vibrant yearly anthology features the fifty finest Canadian poems published during 2015. The Best Canadian Poetry series, which thrives under the stewardship of acclaimed series editor, Molly Peacock, and assistant series editor, Anita Lahey, ushers readers into the heart of the diverse Canadian poetry scene. A must-read for anyone with a stake or interest in contemporary Canadian literature.

The Great Black North

Valerie Mason-John,Kevan Anthony Cameron
The Great Black North Book PDF

Author : Valerie Mason-John,Kevan Anthony Cameron
Publisher : Frontenac House
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCBK:C097724338

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The Great Black North by Valerie Mason-John,Kevan Anthony Cameron Pdf

The Great Black North is a contemporary remix of the story of Black Canada. Told through the intertwining tapestry of poetic forms found on the page and stage, The Great Black North presents some missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that help fit together a poetic picture of the Black Canadian experience.