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  • The Afterlife of George Cartwright

    by John Steffler, Renee Hulan ...
    In this stunning and original novel, John Steffler has recreated a lost time and place, and has given life to an enigmatic figure from Canada’s 18th-century past. Described quietly by historians as “soldier, diarist, entrepreneur,” George Cartwright emerges in Steffler’s tale as a character of overwhelming appetite and ambition. Until this time Cartwright’s greatest legacy has been the place in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Grey Islands

    by John Steffler ...
    Deluxe redesign of a seminal book by Canada’s former Parliamentary Poet Laureate.Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the second of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of The Grey Islands features a foreword by scholar Adrian Fowler and a detailed and insightful look back at the book and the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Lookout

    by John Steffler ...
    The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada’s most respected poetsThe poems in John Steffler’s new collection are enlivened by the same muscular acts of attention that characterize his earlier books. As always, his poems inhabit experience fully, senses on high alert, transmitting the abundance and turbulence of physical existence; they are charged with the raw Eros ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • And Yet

    Poems

    by John Steffler ...
    A former Poet Laureate of Canada and finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize returns with a wide-ranging new collection of poems.CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020In John Steffler's luminous collection, And Yet, dreams, memory and desire are forms of wilderness that burst into our daily lives, inspiring us to see ourselves and the world anew. Exuberant, powerful, even prescient, the poems confront the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • That Night We Were Ravenous

    by John Steffler ...
    A beautiful new edition of the award-winning collection from Canada’s new Poet Laureate.Newfoundland-born poet John Steffler is one of this country’s most accomplished writers. Recently named Canada’s national poet, he is the author of The Grey Islands (poems) and the award-winning novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright, both of which have become classics in our time.That Night We Were Ravenous ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Grey Islands

    by John Steffler ...
    Deluxe redesign of a seminal book by Canada’s former Parliamentary Poet Laureate.Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the second of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of The Grey Islands features a foreword by scholar Adrian Fowler and a detailed and insightful look back at the book and the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Forty-One Pages

    On Poetry, Language, and Wilderness

    by John Steffler ...
    Series series Oskana Poetry & Poetics
    In this series of elegant and wide-ranging meditations on language, wilderness, poetry, and technocracy, John Steffler takes us on a guided tour of one poet’s mental workshop. His focus is vividly personal, shaped by his interests and experience, and at the same time universal. What is it to be human? Steffler is not afraid to be provocative, but he is also compassionately alert to moral, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and American father are on a journey from New York City to a lake in eastern Ontario during the last hot days of August. What unfolds is a completely enveloping ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Book of Mercy

    by Leonard Cohen ...
    Popular since its original publication more than 35 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is just as relevant and compelling as ever.Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, ... Read more

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  • Selah

    by Nora Gould ...
    A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with a person who has frontotemporal dementia. Selah, from Psalms and Habakkuk -- to praise, to lift up, to weigh in the balances, to pause, or a purely musical notation. Biblical scholars debate the exact meaning. Selah, Nora Gould's second poetry collection, is a sequence of fragments written in dialogue with all of these meanings. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Where the words end and my body begins

    by Amber Dawn ...
    Award-winning novelist and memoirist Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a collection of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets such as Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich. By doing so, Dawn delves deeper into the themes of trauma, memory, and unblushing sexuality that define her work.Amber Dawn is the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Groundwork

    by Amanda Jernigan ...
    Amanda's work has appeared in Poetry twice in the last year (4 poems in total)her work has also appeared in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Poetry Daily Essentials and Air: Alphabet City (M.I.T.)developing a reputation in the U.S. and U.K., she was one of the most sought after young poets in Canadaillustrated internally with 4 etchings by her partner John Haney, this collection will be a beautiful, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD