05 – Poetry

These Are the Words

‘These Are the Words’ is one of Canada’s finest double author collections with George Elliott Clarke and John B. Lee. Their work is outstanding.

a seed within

You will grow if you read this book as slowly as it was intended to be read. Don’t be in a hurry. Enjoy the gentle rain of these poems.

The Silence Before the Whisper Comes

                The Silence Before the Whisper Comes Author – Bruce Kauffman Publisher – Hidden Brook Press   ISBN – 978-1-897475-98-0 Page Count = 112 Suggested Retail Price: $17.95   These quiet meditations offer lovely moments of clarity and expansion that “sew / history to future / with the fine needle of...

ZenRiver: Poems and Haibun

                  ZenRiver Poems & Haibun Chris Faiers Hidden brook Press (www.hiddenbrookpress.com) 2008 ISBN: 978-1-897475- 25-6 perfectbound, English language, $15.95 CDA     Shaving his head and donning the robes of a Zen monk, Matsuo Basho and his travelling companion and fellow monk, Sora, set out on a...

A Small Payback: An Ode to Victoria Lake

        Title – A Small Payback: An Ode to Victoria Lake Author – Richard M. Grove Genre – Photography – FULL Colour / Poetry / Canadian ISBN – 978-1-927725-31-3 Pages – 120 Binding – Hardcover / Case Bound / Full colour every page. Retail Price – $32.95 Distributors – CND – Hidden Brook Distribution Free Shipping    ...

Fruit Wedge Moon

‘Fruit Wedge Moon’ is Zap, grackle, pop! East meets west in these contemporary urban micro poems. Whether exploring haikai forms or improvising jazz renku pops, these poems swing and bop!

Island on the Wind-Breathed Edge of the Sea

        Author: John B. Lee Title: Island on the Wind-Breathed Edge of the Sea ISBN: 978-1-897475-19-5 Trade Paperback: 86 pages Suggested Retail: $16.95 E-Stores: Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, Indigo and other e-stores worldwide.  (Check each e-store for the best price on book and shipping as prices tend to vary from store to store.)    ...

More Naked Than Ever

More Naked Than Ever is the first full collection of poetry by Gary Rasberry. This collection will not let you down.

The Iron Shoes

The Iron Shoes is a fine collection of poems inspired by Kingston’s streets and haunted houses. Elizabeth Greene also journeys through her past, invoking and laying to rest some of her old ghosts.

In the Café du Monde

In the Café du Monde, may very well challenge the reader but don=t hesitate to trust it even if you are a new poetry lover.

The Second Language of Birds

                          There is a sureness here, a confidence, that seduces the reader. The language flows as naturally as the rivers her mother lived beside… The main things that make these poems so moving are the highly developed sense of empathy and ability to invoke the ineffable with the...

A Breeze You Whisper

Poems in A Breeze You Whisper speak of love – earthy and sensual. This collection of Kathryn MacDonald’s poems explores nature and relationships, many reflecting on the universal experience of change. Her passion for the spirit of place like the wind over sun-warmed rocks is deepened by the myths she lives by.

Bitches with Problems

Bitches With Problems interrogates with wisdom, joy, and a true sense of how to create self-preservation within a poetic memoir form. Ranging from engaging poetry to direct tell-all memories of past escapades, Bridget Ryan takes her reader on a ride they will never forget.

byzantine

Byzantium was the polyglot, culturally Hellenic Roman world, which strattled continents and worldviews. byzantium uses multiple voices and dialects, trespassing generations, exploring the heritage and memory of a single mind.

Window Fishing: The night we caught Beatlemania – Third Edition

‘Window Fishing: The Night we caught Beatlemania’ is so populare it is now in the third edition with new stories, poems and essays. It will be cherished by anyone that lived in the Beatles eara or wants to understand the significance of the pop fanomenon called Beatlemania.

In This We Hear The Light

‘In This We Hear the Light’, is an exceptional collection of Cuba theme poetry by award winning poet, John B. Lee, – without a doubt some of his most outstanding work, juxtaposed with an equally splendid assembly of Cuba theme photography by Richard M. Grove (Tai). The poems and photographs represent the inspiration from many years of travelling in Cuba.

A Mad Bent Diva

Like a semi-autobiographical novel in over forty chapters, the stories that make up ‘A Mad Bent Diva’ range from intimate portraits of a queer childhood, to lengthy narratives about a group of friends who engage in annual holidays at a favourite beach property where ‘bitchiness’ prevails, carnal knowledge raises its frequently campy head, and life affirming camaraderie reigns supreme.

Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders brings you a splendid collection of poetry and micro-prose from an eclectic assembly of authors. Cross the sands of time and swim in the ocean of this impressive work. You will not be let down.

And With Thy Spirit

In her new book, And With Thy Spirit, award-winning poet and mystic, April Bulmer, speaks in the tongues of many women based on her visions of past lives. Even her favourite tree is a familiar old soul and “bows his stiff knees/ to weather.”

Looking For Light

Looking for Light ponders how to create beauty and meaning in our troubled world, considering the arts, spirituality, even particle physics, and life’s ultimate transformation.

They Have To Take You In

“We are reading our way out of sadness.” So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, “Paper Stairs.” And as our relationship with home and family is a complicated and varied one, Ursula Pflug’s Hidden Brook Press anthology They Have to Take You In, provides the reader with ample evidence of the profound complexity of blood and clan.

Apprehensions of Van Gogh: Selected Poems, 1960 – 2014

The settings for David Pratt’s poetry are as diverse as their content and form, including Canada, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Israel, France, Norway, Spain, and the isles of Greece. Certain themes recur: war is one of them, reflecting the poet’s childhood under German bombers in wartime England. Another theme is art and artists, celebrating the work of the Canadian Fred Varley, the Czech Jakub Schikaneder, the Norwegian Edvard Munch, and the Dutch van Gogh. Other poets and writers are memorialized: Irving Layton, Al Purdy, Isaac Babel, André Frénaud. Interspersed among these pieces are personal poems that record the heart`s journey across the decades.

redirection

From its innovative sonnet sequence on Canada’s Prime Ministers to myriad ruminations on matters local and intimate, national and universal, Way’s redirection is a Canadian book of poetry that seeks, unceasingly, to lay bare the Canadian psyche and that of the world beyond.

The Darker Edges of the Sky

The deeper subjects of these fifty-eight spare poems—minute observations over some sixteen years of a single stretch of swamp and bush, and of the self that does the observing—include the alien/ kindred lives and deaths of birds, animals and trees; the miraculous gift of light; the relationship between ourselves and the world we observe (what difference does it make that, in us, the natural realm both is and is known?); and our troubled sense of time carrying us and our world ineluctably towards the known end of death and decay, and perhaps too the unknown we always sense beyond the surface of things. These poems are to be read carefully, turned over in the mind, and savoured with a slow and complex delight.

Sweet Cuba

The most significant book of translated Cuban poetry ever published.

In the Muddy Shoes of Morning

“In the Muddy Shoes of Morning!” is a wonderful book of poems- I see here the influences of your years on the farm, and this newer influence of the lake! – Mary Ann Mulhern

A Thief of Impeccable Taste

With ‘A Thief of Impeccable Taste’ Glen Sorestad adds to his growing stature as one of Canada’s most enduring poets. A Thief of Impeccable Taste is poetry for people who may not think of themselves as poetry readers.

Grandfather, Father and Me: Memories, Poetry, and Good Food

Grandfather, Father and Me:

Memories, Poetry, and Good Food

is a perfect gift for any father or grandfather, in fact any family member.

It is a moving collection of short stories, poems and recipes about

grandfathers and fathers and men of influence. It is truly a loving tribute.

Read this warm and inviting book aloud at the dining room table with the whole family.

It will make young and old laugh and cry.

It will make a fine gift that will give joy for years to come.

It is a loving tribute to our Grandfathers and fathers for their fostering, nurturing, cherishing, for their encouragement.

Grandmother, Mother and Me: Memories, Poetry, and Good Food

Grandmother, Mother and Me

Memories, Poetry, and Good Food

is a perfect gift for any mother or grandmother. It is a touching collection of short stories, poems and recipes about grandmothers and mothers. It is truly a loving tribute.

Read this warm and inviting book aloud at the dining room table with the whole family. It will make young and old laugh and cry.

It will make a fine Christmas gift that will give joy

for years to come.

Celebrating Christmas with… Memories, Poetry, and Good Food

Celebrating Christmas with… Memories, Poetry, and Good Food is a tradition-filled book of memories in prose, poetry and recipes. Read this book aloud at the dining room table with the whole family. It will make young and old laugh and cry.

North of Belleville

Award-winning haiku poet, James Deahl, teams up with photographer Richard M. Grove (Tai) to create this striking full colour collection of haiku and photography. This noteworthy volume brings you ten haiku sequences and photographs, both celebrating the beauty of Ontario, especially Hastings and Wellington Counties – North of Belleville.

an overbearing eye

Theodore Christou’s lucid, experimental poetry collection an overbearing eye offers a mind thinking and feeling in language and a voice of distinctive tonal vulnerability and self-irony.

The Texture of Days, In Ash and Leaf

Bruce Kauffman doesn’t establish his voice as a grand authority, but rather, as a seeker, a sojourner; his is a poetry of both wisdom. The poems in this book are timeless mirrors to be read slowly with thought.

When I Think On Your Lives

Tara Kainer   ISBN: 978-1-897475-68-3 Trade Paperback: 101 pages Publication Date: June 1, 2011 Suggested Retail (Paperback): $17.95 Amazon: http://www.amazon.ca/When-I-Think-Your-Lives/dp/1897475683   Tara Kainer is a writer who pulls no punches – deeply self-examining, she takes on the natural world, love, war, and poverty, and insists on a human...

That Not Forgotten

The poetic voices in ‘That Not Forgotten’ have rallied together to paint a deeply personal portrait hand-tipped with nostalgia. The pulse of Lake Ontario’s north shore is felt on every page. Mimicking the historic and contemporary landscape, the pendulum swings from seasoned bards to freshly scratched voices worthy of an undivided eye.

Eel Pie Island Dharma

I like books that open new worlds for me. This is one. It will take you on a tour of the weird and wonderful world of hippies—not as seen by an outsider or imagined by us ordinary people, but as remembered by a genuine draft-resisting, love-making, pot-smoking 1960s hippie.

Things like that couldn’t happen today. The world has changed. I remember going to a love-in on a California beach in 1966, where the security was provided by the Hells Angels and everything went swimmingly. Even with the brutality of the Vietnam War in the background, in some ways our society was more innocent then.