Milton Acorn remains one of the most important Canadian poets of the twentieth century. This new volume of his Selected Poems solidifies Acorn’s reputation and confirms his place in Canadian literature. As James Deahl, the book’s editor asserts in his Introduction, “Milton Acorn’s poetry stands among the most challenging work produced during the last half of the twentieth century. His ability to see connections between a strange assortment of things is striking. And the reader is called up to be as agile as the poet in jumping from one idea to another.” Acorn remains a conundrum for many. He was both a communist and a traditional conservative, not at different times, but at the same time. This volume has been masterly arranged and edited by James Deahl, Acorn’s long-time friend, an accomplished poet, essayist, and publisher in his own right.

In a Springtime Instant: The Selected Poems of Milton Acorn

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Mosaic Press

Even This Land Was Born of Light

Moonstone Press

Tamaracks is national in scope and presents the work of 113 Canadian poets from Halifax (Brian Purdy) to Vancouver (Daniela Elza). It also contains detailed biographical and bibliographical information on these important writers. And it is a collaboration between James Deahl (editor and Canadian) and Lummox Press (RD Armstrong, CEO and American)...a co-adventure (surprising in these times of closing borders and tariffs on goods).

Tamaracks: Canadian Poetry in the 21st Century

Lummox Press

This new updated and expanded Sixth Edition of Poetry Markets for Canadians is an essential tool for poets, providing not only exhaustive listings of world-wide English language poetry markets, but useful information on contracts. advice about copyright, dealing with editors, and how to prepare for performing poetry for the public.

Poetry Markets for Canadians

Mercury Press, The

Red Haws to Light the Field is wide-ranging in subject matter: love, eroticism, war, death, and the nature of poetic endeavour. Red Haws also contains poems inspired by or dedicated to the great masters and fellow poets: Li Po, Tu Fu, Federico García Lorca, Czes?aw Mi?osz, Raymond Souster, Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, James Wright, William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Gilbert, Jean Joubert, W.S. Merwin, Gerry Shikatani, Ted Plantos, Sam Hamill, Gerald Stern, Emily Dickinson, and Katherine L. Gordon

Red Haws to Light the Field (243) (Essential Poets series)

Guernica Editions

The Confederation Poets: The Founding of a Canadian Poetry, 1880 to the First World War is a study of poets born between 1850 and 1866, focusing on the work they produced up until the end of World War I. Through this investigation, the climate of opinion that animated Canadian society following Confederation is brought to light. Poets covered range from the famous (Lampman, Roberts, Crawford, Carman) to the less well-known, but still important (Cameron, Herbin, Coleman, Wetherald). 55 Confederation poems, many hard to find today, are quoted in full.

The Confederation Poets: The Founding of a Canadian Poetry, 1880 to the First World War (79) (Essential Essays Series)

History & Criticism

Here is the definitive book of prose-poems, destined to be a classic of the genre on every reference shelf. A new adventure in the evolving presentation of Canadian poetry, a welcome innovation of compact vision, allowing many threads of existence to wind together on a brief, powerful page. The lyricism, the heart-tug of common human experience, is strongly present, just as the emotional highs we have come to expect of great poetry. James Deahl’s prose-poem form allows the freedom of disparate experiences to be gathered with meaningful connection into the paragraphs poetically linked. The form is not limited to a single insight, but has the sweeping vibrancy to allow geography, time, season, and circumstance to flow together, like a stony riverbed, ever changing, ever the same, as we imprint personal events onto the backdrop. A story unfolds and surprises inside each prose-poem here, enhanced by natural setting, a history straddling the tides of our memories and experiences in cities and towns that have watchfully witnessed our arrivals and departures. Unbroken Lines heralds a welcome new experience in poetic expression, leaves you hungry for more. The introductory poem, “Damp Stones,” encapsulates the hammer power of compact lines, shadowing myth, beauty, fear, desire, old yearnings caught in knots of the woods in all our subconscious minds. Deahl’s poem “The Meadow” expresses these revelations searingly: “only the realm of indestructible forms remains, a realm outside the tarnished world of matter, like a meadow of endless spring living in the imagination of a child.”

Unbroken Lines: Collected Poetic Prose 1990-2015

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