This evocative new poetry collection speaks with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poet's life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the strug
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Author:Bouvier, Rita
Summary:Genre: Canadian poetry, Indigenous materials
Author:Gudgeon, Christopher
,Gudgeon, Tavish
,Mauro, Joey
,Saadi, Yusuf
Summary:A hilarious self-help book for recovering Leafs fans everywhere. We’ve all heard it. The sound of one team sucking. Our team. The Leafs.
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Author:Zweig, Eric
Summary:A complete history of the Toronto Maple Leafs, as told by the players, coaches, and reporters. On December 19, 1917, the Toronto Arenas took to the ice for the first NHL game ever played.
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Author:Brown, Jeremiah
Summary:Improbable, heart-wrenching, and uplifting, Jeremiah Brown’s journey from novice rower to Olympic silver medallist in under four years is a story about chasing a goal with everything you’ve got.
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Author:Bowering, Marilyn
Summary:In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees
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Author:Friesen, Victor Carl
Summary:Memories of farming in the 1940s conjure up images of horse-drawn farm machinery, grain stooks in fields, hay meadows, free-range chickens and cords of wood strategically placed for fuelling the ki
Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Frutkin, Mark
Summary:Of one of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry."
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Author:Pearson, Miranda
Summary:In Prime, Miranda Pearsons first collection of poetry, the narratives of female identity, the white wedding, and the enshrined position of the mother are interrogated, using the lyric as a form of
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Author:Folkart, Barbara
Summary:In this Ottawa writer's first volume of verse, there are trees, of course—catalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel, nameless species in whose bare branches the winter sols
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Author:Hodgins, Bruce W.
,Jennings, John
,Small, Doreen
Summary:The canoe is a symbol unique to Canada. One of the greatest gifts of First Peoples to all those who came after, the canoe is Canada’s most powerful icon.
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Author:Cooper, Afua
Summary:Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, ide
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Author:Nero, Robert W.
Summary:Naturalist, ornithologist, avocational archaeologist and poet, Winnipeg’s Dr. Robert W. Nero has authored nine books dealing with his amazing spectrum of interests.
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Author:Smith, Douglas Burnet
Summary:Actress Mae West once said "I’ve been things and seen places." Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast.
Genre: Canadian poetry, Travel writingAvailable Formats:
Author:Plante, Raymond
,Konieczny, Vladimir
Summary:Jacque Plante, the first National Hockey League goalie to regularly wear protective facemask, was known for roving out of his net.
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Author:Deval, Gord
,Quarrington, Paul
Summary:Author Gord Deval is the grand "old guy" of sport fishing in Canada. Few anglers can match him when it comes to his familiarity with trout and fly fishing.
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