National Poetry Month

Happy Poetry Month! This month is the 17th annual, nation-wide celebration of poetry and its vital place in Canadian culture.

To celebrate, we’re offering an online sale with 30% off all poetry titles in the Hugh Maclennan Series, named in honour of the late Hugh MacLennan, acclaimed Canadian novelist and a poet in his own right. This offer is available throughout the month of April. Click here for details

We’ll also bring you a daily poem from one of our poetry titles on Tumblr, beginning with today’s selection from Sarah Tolmie’s recently released collection, Trio. Check it out here.

Newest poetry titles included in the Poetry Month Sale:

TRIO
By Sarah Tolmie

One woman. Two lovers. It’s a complicated dance.

A collection of 120 sonnets in eight parts, Trio reveals, frame by frame, a married fortysomething female narrator in love with two younger men – an intellectual and a dancer – and torn between the claims of body and mind.

Through a singular feminist revision of a traditional poetic form, Sarah Tolmie’s poems tell the story of a strong protagonist and the predicament she’s in.

TABLATURE
By Bruce Whiteman

Dazzling poems about landscape, music, and the course of love that go straight to the heart.

From the “rubble [that] is the order of the day” in the opening poem to the longing for a “radiant happy ending” in the book’s final line, Tablature is a book of poems that traverses a great swath of the heart’s experience in compelling and lucid poetic language.

Bruce Whiteman’s first book of poems in traditional lined form in thirty years is by turns learned and allusive, and emotionally expressive and despairing. The poems capture readers with their singular music and their bright and unblinking takes on the quotidian challenges of living a life.