Poetry Month Sale

Happy National Poetry Month! This April is the 16th annual, nation-wide celebration of poetry and its vital place in Canadian culture. To mark this important month, we’re having a BIG SALE.

Receive a 30% discount on all of our poetry titles in the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, named in honour of the late Hugh MacLennan, acclaimed Canadian novelist and a poet in his own right.

These recent poetry releases are included in the sale:

Outside, Inside, by Michael Penny

“My best actions are a parrot’s / bright feathers in the dark jungle / trying to catch your eye / with the colour and flight / which says, I am here / and trying to do what’s right.”

Do we make the universe, or does it make us? In Outside, Inside, Michael Penny positions each of us at the centre of this mystery, but lightens this presumption with irony and word-play that is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking.

Some Dance, by Ricardo Sternberg

“To be able to pry apart: / this is object, this is subject / even though (confusion begins) / he can be both. Difficult then / to stand at the mirror and reflect: / I am this. This is what I am.”

A lively collection that turns towards the commonplace, classical, and strange, Some Dance masterfully balances serious thought, big ideas, and good humour through surprising, elegant, and colloquial expressions.