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As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re looking back at all the titles in our Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series we’re proud to have published over the last twelve months. Launched in 1998, the series is named in honour of the late Hugh MacLennan, acclaimed Canadian novelist and a poet in his own right.
Knots
By Edward Carson
(July 2016)
Full of philosophical digressions, questions, and answers, Knots forms a series of cyclical narrations, a kind of verbal asymmetry or mathematician’s knot, continuously mirroring its ideas and subject matter in a play of language and contrasting points of view. Read More >
Small Fires
By Kelly Norah Drukker
(July 2016)
In detailed and musical language, the poems in Small Fires highlight aspects of landscape and culture in regions that are haunted by marginal and silenced histories. Read More >
Small Fires was the winner of the 2016 Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M Klein Prize for Poetry, the winner of the 2016 Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book Prize, and a finalist for the 2016 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal.
The Rules of the Kingdom
By Julie Paul
(January 2017)
Offering a particular history, an intimate vantage point from within the various kingdoms we inhabit, Julie Paul’s The Rules of the Kingdom is an exploration of this struggle on a personal level and a universal one. Read More >
Where We Live
By John Reibetanz
(March 2016)
Where We Live contains poems that focus on our relationships with the places we inhabit and that inhabit us. This collection works as a kind of long poem, its three parts interconnected, each presenting a particular interpretation of the process of possession, loss, and recovery. Read More >
Dust Blown Side of the Journey
By Eleonore Schönmaier
(April 2017)
At times apocalyptic and other times passionate and intimate, the poems in Eleonore Schönmaier’s Dust Blown Side of the Journey show the beauty of the lived and natural world in both wilderness and urban settings. Read More >
The Unlit Path Behind the House
By Margo Wheaton
(March 2016)
Sensuous, atmospheric, and spare, The Unlit Path Behind the House collects poems that seek light in difficult places. Deeply informed by the natural world, Wheaton’s writing is marked by great meditative depth; while passionately engaged, these poems evoke a field of mystery and stillness. Read More >
The Unlit Path Behind the House is a finalist for two 2017 awards: the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia J.M. Abraham Poetry Award.
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