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Trade Poetry Books: Please click thumbnails below:

Spring 2012

The Wild Weathers: a gathering of love poems. And here is love: trying to portage the bog of refusal...

2011

	The Bright Well edited by Fiona Tinwei Lam. "It's a strange relief, a remembrance, the release of tears and the return of rejoicing.
	Unearthed by Janet Marie Rogers. "...haunting and devastating—a lovely, searing collection."
	Only the Fallen Can See by Jude Neale. "A compelling journey of a mother struggling with bipolar illness."
	True by Kirsty Elliot. "Pink feather boas and spruce trees. Glitter and firelight."

Back List

	Curving the Line / Curvando la línea by Carmen Leñero. Translated by Lorna Crozier
	Falling Season by Beth Kope ... "this is a quietly stunning book"
	My Nature by Christine Lowther. "a genius for loci ... the pervading spirit of a place."
	So Large an Animal by Bibiana Tomasic. "poems of lament, tribute, reclamation and celebration."
	Flesh in the Inkwell—poems from a writer's life; an autobiography in verse by Winona Baker.

	Let Beauty Be: a Season in the Highlands, Guatemala Kit Pepper. "Simply radiant sight!"
	Huge Blue by Patrick Pilarski. "Monumental footfalls ..."
	Obituary of Light: the Sangan River Meditations by Susan Musgrave. Poems from Masset on Haida Gwaii.
	Precipitous Signs: a Rain Journal by Leanne Boschman. "Saturated with the North Coast ..."
	Looking for Lucy by Wanda Campbell. "An invigorating quest ..." Canadian Literature
	Revolutions by Joan Shillington. " ... the windows of the Romanov’s country prison..." Richard Harrison
	roughened in undercurrent by Shauna Paull. "Glimpses the common astonishments of lives lived at risk..."
	Ride Backwards on Dragon—a poet's journey through Liuhebafa by Kim Goldberg. "A lush book full of alchemy..." Out of Print
	The Discipline of Undressing by K. Louise Vincent. "I was astounded ..." Out of Print

Chapbook Catalogue

Please click thumbnails for bibliographic information, author bios,
book descriptions, media kits, reviews, and ordering information.

	Maya: poems for the summer solstice by gillian harding-russell
	Beauty and Beyond: songs of small mercies by Lorraine Gane
	if one petal falls, by Kelly Shepherd, translated to Korean by Sunhyung Kwon
	Postcards from the Sky, by Wendy Morton
	Stunned, by Patricia Young
	With Kelly and After, by Dorothy Field
	Mimic, by Adrienne Gruber
	A Monk's Fine Robes: a haiku sequence from Cambodia, by Terry Ann Carter
	Paper Birds, by Lasqueti Island Winter Poets
	Landscapes and Home: ghazals, by Yvonne Blomer
	blackberries, by Allan Brown
	Self Storage, by John Pass
	The Earth's Kitchen, by Rhona McAdam
	The Canonical Hours, by Eugene McNamara
	Those Early Days, Hopeful by Mary Ann Moore
	This Awakening to Light, by Pamela Porter
	Hay Day Canticle, by David Zieroth
	Cedar Cottage Suite, by Sandy Shreve
	Momenti by Tina Biello
	The Octopus Hunter, by Janna Wilson
	The Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales, by Yi-Mei Tsiang

	Chapbook Backlist Catalogue (2002-2008)

Monday's Poem
by Linda Crosfield

Congratualtions to
Kirsty Elliot: True is shortlisted for the 2012 Gerald Lampert Award.

We have a call for poems for a proposed anthology about newborns (publication date Spring 2014). Click here
for the guidelines.

Announcing the
Love Poems Anthology

The Wild Weathers:
a gathering of love poems

Janet Vickers:"... lift the essential image from nature to the page, and let the last line whack you in the chest ..." Read her review of Winona Baker’s Flesh in the Inkwell in The Canadian Unitarian, page 34.

An amazing interview on Sheryl MacKay's CBC program North by Northwest: Fiona Tinwei Lam, Elise Partridge, Miranda Pearson, and Betsy Warland share their stories and read from poems in The Bright Well, Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer. Listen here.

That's some potent cup of coffee! Toronto's Black Coffee Poet interviewed Janet Marie Rogers. Read it here. And the book review here.

Congratulations to Janet Marie Rogers ... the radio documentary Bring Your Drum, which she hosted and co-produced, won the Best Radio award at the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Festival in Toronto—an international festival that celebrates indigenous film makers and media works. Click here to listen.

Rob Taylor interviews Fiona Tinwei Lam about
The Bright Well

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Awards

Kirsty Elliot's True was shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets 2012 Gerald Lampert Award.

Tina Biello was shortlisted for the Bressani Prize at the Vancouver Italian Cultural Centre for Momenti.

Susan Musgrave and Leanne Boschman were nominated for the ReLit Awards for their Leaf titles.

Susan Musgrave's Obituary of Light has been short-listed for the CAA Award for Poetry.

K. Louise Vincent's The Discipline of Undressing longlisted for the ReLit Awards

Kim Goldberg's Ride Backwards on Dragon shortlisted for Gerald Lampert Award

Links

Salish Artist Chris Paul,
our logo designer
www.chrispaul.ca

League of Canadian Poets

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Columbia Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts in our book publishing program.

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