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• Best Canadian Poetry, 2023

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  This year's anthology offers 50 poems that will expand the reader's sense of the power and possibility of Canadian poetry - a great place to start for those interested in Canadian poetry but unsure of where to start.

• Dream of No One but Myself

  Bradford, David (Poet),

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  Bradford's impressive debut collection combines experimentation with an urgent voice, assembling and disassembling an account of intergenerational traumas, inheritance, and what can't be resolved. Challenging and one you won't be able to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• H of H Playbook

  a Tragedy of Euripides First Performed 416 BC

  Carson, Anne, 1950-

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  Classicist and poet Carson has created a scrapbook-like rendering of the lesser-known Greek tragedy Herakles, about the war hero who can't adapt to a life of peacetime domesticity and commits an egregious act of violence. A unique…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Quiet in Me

  Poems

  Lane, Patrick,

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  Lane's final collection reveals striking truths hidden within beautiful motifs. A lyrical entanglement of beauty and pain reflecting an appreciation for the natural world.

• The Junta of Happenstance

  Oloruntoba, Tolu, 1985 -

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  In Oloruntoba's first collection, language travels through history and myth to speak to themes of dis-ease, family conflict, (im)migrant experience, and social injustice. An assured debut and winner of the 2021 Governor General's Literary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exculpatory Lilies

  Musgrave, Susan,

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  Musgrave's most recent collection explores marriage, addiction, death, and grief, with her characteristic wit and startling metaphors drawn from nature and everyday living. A beautifully conveyed expression of loss.

• Hail, the Invisible Watchman

  Oliver, Alexandra, 1970-

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  Oliver's use of centuries old traditions to explore contemporary alienation is clever and skilled, and her social observations chillingly accurate. One of Canada's best English-language poets.

• Where the Sea Kuniks the Land

  a Collection of Poetry

  Qilavaq-Savard, Ashley,

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  A "kunik" is a traditional Inuit greeting, in which a person places their nose on another's cheek and breathes them in. Qilavaq-Savard extends this gesture to the Arctic landscape in poems that explore the importance of land and themes of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scars & Stars

  Thistle, Jesse,

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  From the bestselling author of the memoir From the Ashes, Scars & Stars is a collection of poems and prose that further charts Thistle's own history and experiences with addiction, recovery, and family. It will delight his many readers and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Icarus, Falling of Birds

  a Poem

  Thurston, Harry, 1950-

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  A moving elegy to the birds who perished during a flare accident in St. John, N.B., in 2013. Thurston's poems are paired with photographs by Thaddeus Holownia, creating a moving meditation on the tragic effects humanity can have on nature.