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Kapusta
In Kapusta poetry flourishes as a book "beyond the book," in a space of performance that starts and stops time.
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{"id":6815466291259,"title":"The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps","handle":"the-first-little-bastard-to-call-me-gramps","description":"\u003cp\u003eBill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock medal for humour and former CBC Radio personality, delivers a “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their frank and witty delivery, Richardson’s illustrated retirement rhymes for the hoary-headed do not just playfully reveal the inevitable weakening that afflicts the mind and body as the years wear on, they also cast light on the ageless, exuberant spirit that too often remains hidden inside. From retirement homes, cruises, and grandchildren to liver spots, memory problems, and geriatric sex, Richardson’s candid reflections on the trials, tribulations, and humiliations of growing old are funny, sharp, and irreverent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff, \u003cem\u003eThe First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential companion to the graces, and disgraces, of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T17:43:35-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T14:32:20-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Humor","Adult Poetry","By (author) Richardson Bill","House of Anansi Press","Illustrated by Bikadoroff Roxanna","pub date: 2015-10-10"],"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":40209980981307,"title":"hardcover","option1":"hardcover","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000547","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps - hardcover","public_title":"hardcover","options":["hardcover"],"price":1995,"weight":299,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000547","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22517051850811,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":563,"width":361,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399"},"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":563,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c8a8837-8d74-44b0-a834-3f94c1c40358.jpg?v=1660539399","width":361}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eBill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock medal for humour and former CBC Radio personality, delivers a “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their frank and witty delivery, Richardson’s illustrated retirement rhymes for the hoary-headed do not just playfully reveal the inevitable weakening that afflicts the mind and body as the years wear on, they also cast light on the ageless, exuberant spirit that too often remains hidden inside. From retirement homes, cruises, and grandchildren to liver spots, memory problems, and geriatric sex, Richardson’s candid reflections on the trials, tribulations, and humiliations of growing old are funny, sharp, and irreverent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff, \u003cem\u003eThe First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential companion to the graces, and disgraces, of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps
A “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.
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{"id":6814264197179,"title":"Xiphoid Process","handle":"xiphoid-process","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNine years in the making, award-winning poet Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is public poetry? In an age of tweets and trolls, what should it even try to be? Through revision, redaction, ventriloquism, homage, self-sabotage, and outright plunder, the poems in Connolly’s \u003ci\u003eXiphoid Process\u003c\/i\u003e interrogate the alleged futility and alleged insight of mid-life. Are we who we are simply because we’d otherwise be nothing? Or are we (more hopefully) something parked, for a time, in time, trying to make something useful out of the experience? Walt Whitman, Tom Petty, Alec Baldwin, Doug Stanhope, Journey, Judd Nelson, Billy Ripken, Johnny Weissmuller, Don Felder, Lindsay Lohan, Shiprock, NM, the police blotter at Point Reyes Station, California, and the moons of Saturn are all poised to make their case in the poet’s latest deliberations.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:39:49-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:28:11-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Adult Starred Reviews","By (author) Connolly Kevin","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2017-04-08"],"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":40206696316987,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487001865","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Xiphoid Process - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":160,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487001865","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a0c46dfe-febc-43a2-87ca-107123b927d6.jpg?v=1678601587"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a0c46dfe-febc-43a2-87ca-107123b927d6.jpg?v=1678601587","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561801275,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a0c46dfe-febc-43a2-87ca-107123b927d6.jpg?v=1678601587"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_a0c46dfe-febc-43a2-87ca-107123b927d6.jpg?v=1678601587","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNine years in the making, award-winning poet Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is public poetry? In an age of tweets and trolls, what should it even try to be? Through revision, redaction, ventriloquism, homage, self-sabotage, and outright plunder, the poems in Connolly’s \u003ci\u003eXiphoid Process\u003c\/i\u003e interrogate the alleged futility and alleged insight of mid-life. Are we who we are simply because we’d otherwise be nothing? Or are we (more hopefully) something parked, for a time, in time, trying to make something useful out of the experience? Walt Whitman, Tom Petty, Alec Baldwin, Doug Stanhope, Journey, Judd Nelson, Billy Ripken, Johnny Weissmuller, Don Felder, Lindsay Lohan, Shiprock, NM, the police blotter at Point Reyes Station, California, and the moons of Saturn are all poised to make their case in the poet’s latest deliberations.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Xiphoid Process
Award-winning Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity.
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Twitch Force
A stunning volume of brave and original lyric poetry concerned with love and loss, despair and hope, aging and timelessness.
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This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Michael Crummey's poetry collection Under the Keel is limited to 50 copies.
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The 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2026
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry published in English from the shortlist of the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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{"id":7349185216571,"title":"The Elements","handle":"the-elements","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/i\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-02-21T10:04:36-05:00","created_at":"2025-02-21T09:58:33-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Moure Erín","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2019-04-09"],"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":42025479176251,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003722","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Elements - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003722","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"This image is in shades of black and white. A statue on a cliff looks out over the ruins of an old city. The statue resembles a man with short curly hair. It has one arm out and is has a draped cloak around it. The ruins of the city are mainly rubble and stone walls with window openings. The buildings are densely packed together. Text: Erín Moure. The Elements. (Nam:Loz).","id":25137104126011,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_854a08b2-d04e-41ab-9e03-bf213fa438e6.jpg?v=1740149935","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe new collection from Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/i\u003e is a family book, a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Award winning poet and translator Erín Moure's collection is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction.
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An exciting and provocative collection from one of the most promising young voices in Canadian poetry.
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Twitch Force special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Michael Redhill's poetry collection Twitch Force is limited to 50 copies.
