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{"id":6817705820219,"title":"Testament","handle":"testament","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e is the summation of Dennis Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking the work published in \u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, and featuring many completely new poems, this startling collection reminds us anew of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e continues Lee’s radical and inventive use of language, shaping the familiar into the shockingly new. It is a landmark achievement, and a fitting end to one of the most ambitious projects in Canadian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:50-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:26:28-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Lee Dennis","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-03-10"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220056780859,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891111","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Testament - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":181,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770891111","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324492202043,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0b4da982-a768-4ec1-9d69-630499893464.jpg?v=1678596572","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e is the summation of Dennis Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking the work published in \u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, and featuring many completely new poems, this startling collection reminds us anew of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e continues Lee’s radical and inventive use of language, shaping the familiar into the shockingly new. It is a landmark achievement, and a fitting end to one of the most ambitious projects in Canadian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887841941","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487003029","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781770892781","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"Dennis Lee is the author of more than twenty books, including \u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Governor General's Literary Award, and \u003cem\u003eAlligator Pie\u003c\/em\u003e, the children's classic. His most recent collection of poems is \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e.","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"Dennis Lee is the author of more than twenty books, including \u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Governor General's Literary Award, and \u003cem\u003eAlligator Pie\u003c\/em\u003e, the children's classic. His most recent collection of poems is \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Lee, Dennis (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e is the summation of Dennis Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking the work published in \u003cem\u003eUn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eYesno\u003c\/em\u003e, and featuring many completely new poems, this startling collection reminds us anew of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. \u003cem\u003eTestament\u003c\/em\u003e continues Lee’s radical and inventive use of language, shaping the familiar into the shockingly new. It is a landmark achievement, and a fitting end to one of the most ambitious projects in Canadian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770891111","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770891111\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"152","OtherText_Review_0":"Testament spectacularly channels the inconceivable ... [a] great work.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Mike Landry","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Telegraph Journal","OtherText_Review_1":"... [a] stellar achievement.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Jonathan Ball","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"... vital [and] highly original ...","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"George Fetherling","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The latest collection from poetry legend Dennis Lee, and the final book in a trilogy that includes Un (Anansi, 2003) and Yesno (Anansi, 2007).","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2012-03-10","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The latest collection from poetry legend Dennis Lee, and the final book in a trilogy that includes Un (Anansi, 2003) and Yesno (Anansi, 2007).","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Testament
The latest collection from poetry legend Dennis Lee, and the final book in a trilogy that includes Un (Anansi, 2003) and Yesno (Anansi, 2007).
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{"id":6817705721915,"title":"The New Measures","handle":"the-new-measures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow up to \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A. F. Moritz's \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never extinguished -- for the perfection of a world both natural and human. \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e makes fear and grief into prophecy and joy at each turn of phrase. It is a brilliant new work from one of our greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:48-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:25:59-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-04-07"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220054814779,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770891104","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The New Measures - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":109,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770891104","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39058a22-f2dd-4e6e-84c8-2fcd6e157b27.jpg?v=1709286881"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39058a22-f2dd-4e6e-84c8-2fcd6e157b27.jpg?v=1709286881","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24253405823035,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39058a22-f2dd-4e6e-84c8-2fcd6e157b27.jpg?v=1709286881"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39058a22-f2dd-4e6e-84c8-2fcd6e157b27.jpg?v=1709286881","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow up to \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A. F. Moritz's \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never extinguished -- for the perfection of a world both natural and human. \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e makes fear and grief into prophecy and joy at each turn of phrase. It is a brilliant new work from one of our greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887847578","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9780887847950","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770893191","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA. F. MORITZ\u003c\/strong\u003e’s entire post-education life has been spent in Toronto; he was the city’s poet laureate 2019-2023. He has written twenty-two books of poetry. His works with Anansi, since 2004, have received the Griffin Poetry Prize, the ReLit Award, the Beth Hokin Prize, and the Raymond Souster Award, and were finalists for the Governor General’s Award (twice) and the Trillium Award. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, and the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA. F. MORITZ\u003c\/strong\u003e’s entire post-education life has been spent in Toronto; he was the city’s poet laureate 2019-2023. He has written twenty-two books of poetry. His works with Anansi, since 2004, have received the Griffin Poetry Prize, the ReLit Award, the Beth Hokin Prize, and the Raymond Souster Award, and were finalists for the Governor General’s Award (twice) and the Trillium Award. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, and the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Moritz, A.F. (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe follow up to \u003cem\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A. F. Moritz's \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never extinguished -- for the perfection of a world both natural and human. \u003cem\u003eThe New Measures\u003c\/em\u003e makes fear and grief into prophecy and joy at each turn of phrase. It is a brilliant new work from one of our greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770891104","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770891104\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.6","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"88","OtherText_Review_0":"The New Measures articulates with great artistry its author's profound concern and abiding love for the human race.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Mark Callanan","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"Moritz’s work isn’t light reading, its polished turns of phrase and fluid cadences notwithstanding. But taking the time to let these subtle, far-reaching poems sink in is itself spiritually revitalizing.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_2":"By their mysteriousness and mythic quality... we are invited to see ourselves and our society in those imagined. The New Measures is a book of stand-alone poems that enrich one another through proximity. Moritz’s vision builds not just within but also between poems—between those of societal ruin, and those that dream longingly of paradise.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Sue Sinclair","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Arc Poetry Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A bold collection from Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General's Literary Award winner poet A.F. Moritz.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry","PrizeName_1":"League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster Award","PrizeYear_0":"2012","PrizeYear_1":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2012-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A bold collection from Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General's Literary Award winner poet A.F. Moritz.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The New Measures
A bold collection from Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General's Literary Award winner poet A.F. Moritz.
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{"id":6817705656379,"title":"Chaser","handle":"chaser","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChaser\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of poems that grows from the troubling premise that each of us lives in a state of pre-diagnosis. Our bodies are never under our control, and when illness strikes we must redraw the boundary between the well and the unwell, interacting with the world differently. In these poems, the experience of illness is applied to individuals, communities, economic systems, and travel between nations. In bracing, electric language and form, the book’s three threads — one following a group of patients and a character known as Invalid, one examining a scientist’s study of tuberculosis, and a third examining the language of manic economy — explore different notions of consumption, wellness, discovery, and growth.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:42-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:25:51-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Knight Erin","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2012-04-07"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220054028347,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770890114","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Chaser - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770890114","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_093d53a7-7779-4e7f-8dd2-b67ebb417324.jpg?v=1678596532"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_093d53a7-7779-4e7f-8dd2-b67ebb417324.jpg?v=1678596532","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324490956859,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_093d53a7-7779-4e7f-8dd2-b67ebb417324.jpg?v=1678596532"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_093d53a7-7779-4e7f-8dd2-b67ebb417324.jpg?v=1678596532","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChaser\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of poems that grows from the troubling premise that each of us lives in a state of pre-diagnosis. Our bodies are never under our control, and when illness strikes we must redraw the boundary between the well and the unwell, interacting with the world differently. In these poems, the experience of illness is applied to individuals, communities, economic systems, and travel between nations. In bracing, electric language and form, the book’s three threads — one following a group of patients and a character known as Invalid, one examining a scientist’s study of tuberculosis, and a third examining the language of manic economy — explore different notions of consumption, wellness, discovery, and growth.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003814","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487005962","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487007843","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"Erin Knight is the critically acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sweet Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and longlisted for the ReLit Award in 2008. She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"Erin Knight is the critically acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sweet Fuels\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and longlisted for the ReLit Award in 2008. She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Knight, Erin (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChaser\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of poems that grows from the troubling premise that each of us lives in a state of pre-diagnosis. Our bodies are never under our control, and when illness strikes we must redraw the boundary between the well and the unwell, interacting with the world differently. In these poems, the experience of illness is applied to individuals, communities, economic systems, and travel between nations. In bracing, electric language and form, the book’s three threads — one following a group of patients and a character known as Invalid, one examining a scientist’s study of tuberculosis, and a third examining the language of manic economy — explore different notions of consumption, wellness, discovery, and growth.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770890114","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770890114\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.75","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"104","OtherText_Review_0":"Knight strikes a strong balance between the intellectual and the imagistic.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Jonathan Ball","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An exciting and provocative collection from one of the most promising young voices in Canadian poetry.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2012-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An exciting and provocative collection from one of the most promising young voices in Canadian poetry.","Width":"5.75","WidthCode":"in"}
Chaser
An exciting and provocative collection from one of the most promising young voices in Canadian poetry.
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{"id":6817702936635,"title":"Poems for All the Annettes","handle":"poems-for-all-the-annettes","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, \u003cem\u003ePoems for All the Annettes\u003c\/em\u003e stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy’s career. So many beloved poems are here—\"At Roblin Lake,\" \"At the Quinte Hotel\"—but also so many undiscovered gems and treasures. It is at once the perfect introduction to this remarkable poet’s work and a collection rich and deep enough to satisfy even the experienced Purdy fan. This edition reproduces the final, expanded text of the 1972 edition, and features a brilliant new introduction by poet and novelist Steven Heighton, who knew Purdy well.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:30-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:20:56-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Purdy Al","Introduction by Heighton Steven","pub date: 2012-10-13"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220013428795,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892606","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Poems for All the Annettes - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892606","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d5554bc-3b36-463b-b35a-59fdc31be3c2.jpg?v=1668328465"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d5554bc-3b36-463b-b35a-59fdc31be3c2.jpg?v=1668328465","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22926477295675,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d5554bc-3b36-463b-b35a-59fdc31be3c2.jpg?v=1668328465"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d5554bc-3b36-463b-b35a-59fdc31be3c2.jpg?v=1668328465","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, \u003cem\u003ePoems for All the Annettes\u003c\/em\u003e stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy’s career. So many beloved poems are here—\"At Roblin Lake,\" \"At the Quinte Hotel\"—but also so many undiscovered gems and treasures. It is at once the perfect introduction to this remarkable poet’s work and a collection rich and deep enough to satisfy even the experienced Purdy fan. This edition reproduces the final, expanded text of the 1972 edition, and features a brilliant new introduction by poet and novelist Steven Heighton, who knew Purdy well.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6817702740027,"title":"Civil Elegies","handle":"civil-elegies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called \u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 1972. This edition features a new introduction by noted academic Nick Mount, who places this important collection in the context of Canadian literature and Lee’s career.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:27-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:20:15-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Lee Dennis","Introduction by Mount Nick","pub date: 2012-10-13"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220009365563,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892491","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Civil Elegies - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":100,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892491","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cfbe0c57-e2bd-4362-ac36-cef606da992f.jpg?v=1678596531"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cfbe0c57-e2bd-4362-ac36-cef606da992f.jpg?v=1678596531","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324490924091,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cfbe0c57-e2bd-4362-ac36-cef606da992f.jpg?v=1678596531"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cfbe0c57-e2bd-4362-ac36-cef606da992f.jpg?v=1678596531","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called \u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 1972. This edition features a new introduction by noted academic Nick Mount, who places this important collection in the context of Canadian literature and Lee’s career.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6817702608955,"title":"The Circle Game","handle":"the-circle-game","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a part of the launch of the new A List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Literary Award–winning \u003cem\u003eThe Circle Game\u003c\/em\u003e, with an introduction by Suzanne Buffam.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works, such as \u003cem\u003ePower Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBodily Harm\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAlias Grace\u003c\/em\u003e. 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The Circle Game
A-List series edition of Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Award–winning The Circle Game, with an introduction by Suzanne Buffam.
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{"id":6816230408251,"title":"Under the Keel","handle":"under-the-keel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eGalore\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n \u003cp\u003eMichael Crummey’s first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin. \u003cem\u003eUnder the Keel\u003c\/em\u003e affirms Crummey’s place as one of our necessary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T16:28:17-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T14:37:59-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Crummey Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2013-03-23"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213757395003,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892699","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Under the Keel - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892699","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3b02fb99-f6c9-48a7-845d-8a1647b19be2.jpg?v=1653882487"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3b02fb99-f6c9-48a7-845d-8a1647b19be2.jpg?v=1653882487","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140939141179,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.654,"height":612,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3b02fb99-f6c9-48a7-845d-8a1647b19be2.jpg?v=1653882487"},"aspect_ratio":0.654,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3b02fb99-f6c9-48a7-845d-8a1647b19be2.jpg?v=1653882487","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThe brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eGalore\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n \r\n \u003cp\u003eMichael Crummey’s first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin. \u003cem\u003eUnder the Keel\u003c\/em\u003e affirms Crummey’s place as one of our necessary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Under the Keel
A brilliant collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore.
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{"id":6816229654587,"title":"The Polymers","handle":"the-polymers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Polymers\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold new work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds. Structured as an imaginary science project, the varied pieces in this collection investigate the intersection of poetry and chemicals, specifically plastics, attempting to understand their essential role in culture. Through various procedures, constraints, and formal mutations, the poems express the repeating structures fundamental to plastic molecules as they appear in cultural and linguistic behaviours such as arguments, anxieties, and trends.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA wildly experimental and chemically reactive work, \u003cem\u003eThe Polymers\u003c\/em\u003e thrills and provokes. You’ll never look at the world of a poem — or the world itself — in the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T16:28:11-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T14:36:49-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Dickinson Adam","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2013-04-13"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213756903483,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892170","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Polymers - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":218,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892170","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_807a0a43-0242-4c0e-ae4c-9c3044d3e215.jpg?v=1678603583"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_807a0a43-0242-4c0e-ae4c-9c3044d3e215.jpg?v=1678603583","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324577890363,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.654,"height":612,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_807a0a43-0242-4c0e-ae4c-9c3044d3e215.jpg?v=1678603583"},"aspect_ratio":0.654,"height":612,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_807a0a43-0242-4c0e-ae4c-9c3044d3e215.jpg?v=1678603583","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Polymers\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold new work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds. Structured as an imaginary science project, the varied pieces in this collection investigate the intersection of poetry and chemicals, specifically plastics, attempting to understand their essential role in culture. Through various procedures, constraints, and formal mutations, the poems express the repeating structures fundamental to plastic molecules as they appear in cultural and linguistic behaviours such as arguments, anxieties, and trends.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA wildly experimental and chemically reactive work, \u003cem\u003eThe Polymers\u003c\/em\u003e thrills and provokes. You’ll never look at the world of a poem — or the world itself — in the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Polymers
The Polymers is a bold work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds.
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{"id":6816229589051,"title":"1996","handle":"1996","description":"\u003cp\u003eSara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. \u003cem\u003e1996\u003c\/em\u003e marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:46-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T14:36:36-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Peters Sara","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2013-04-13"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213756837947,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892712","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"1996 - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":136,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892712","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8850cfc6-b0bf-42cc-b8c9-2d861a153df3.jpg?v=1678596817"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8850cfc6-b0bf-42cc-b8c9-2d861a153df3.jpg?v=1678596817","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324498886715,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8850cfc6-b0bf-42cc-b8c9-2d861a153df3.jpg?v=1678596817"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8850cfc6-b0bf-42cc-b8c9-2d861a153df3.jpg?v=1678596817","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eSara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions — about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling poems of mystery and terror, we meet remarkable characters enduring unspeakable things, confronting the raw reality of existence through fearless candor. With profound clarity, elegance, and humour, Sara Peters reminds us of the harrowing and beautiful complexity of life itself. \u003cem\u003e1996\u003c\/em\u003e marks the undeniable arrival of an essential and brave new voice. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
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1996
Sara Peters' debut collection is about obsessions — about desire, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed.
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{"id":6816114638907,"title":"The Quiet","handle":"the-quiet-1","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, \"Here one can live at any dark system's edge.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e is sinister and aerial.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-25T14:25:36-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-25T11:52:14-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Turza Anne-Marie","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2014-04-19"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40213535359035,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770894433","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Quiet - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770894433","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22834359435323,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c120e5a2-c9c0-49d7-83dc-63b5016cf3c3.jpg?v=1666590463","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eAnne-Marie Turza's formidable debut collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science: microscopic creatures, the pitcher Satchel Paige, toothed whales, a man on the back of a snow bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems test the lyric affinity between silence, imagination, and the material world. Put another way, in The Quiet, spatial and temporal distances can be measured in degrees of silence. Turza writes, \"Here one can live at any dark system's edge.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet\u003c\/em\u003e is sinister and aerial.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Quiet
Anne-Marie Turza's formidable debut poetry collection presents a landscape where anything might appear, out of myth, history, or science.
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Anne-Marie Turza's poetry collection The Quiet is limited to 50 copies.
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Prologue for the Age of Consequence
Garth Martens’ poetry debut, Prologue for the Age of Consequence, is about the tar sands and industrial projects of Alberta, and the men who work in them.
