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{"id":7425232175163,"title":"The Wren","handle":"the-wren","description":"\u003cp\u003eA.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poems originated with an impulse, beginning in April 2019, to write a series of continuous poems. The first goal was to keep them short. The second was to make them separate, in the process reflecting the whole of human life, stable in moments and bodies. In \u003cem\u003eThe Wren\u003c\/em\u003e, Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given that they do not simply follow, or hook onto, or neighbour, or echo one another in a chain of resemblance that seems to have gaps and missing links that reappear later, healed? The title was chosen partly to speak to Moritz’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sparrow: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), but also because, among the many short poems of this collection, one of them asked to be central: a poem about a small bird that hops from within a thicket of stems to peer out at the poet for a second and then disappears back inside. This tiny story of a tiny fellow creature is the narrative, the “novel,” of this book: a little story that is nonetheless one of the great and ever-retold stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-07-21T13:30:53-04:00","created_at":"2025-07-21T13:26:41-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult New Releases","Adult Poetry","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2026-04-07"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":42334333698107,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014049","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Wren - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":168,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487014049","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":42334333829179,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014056","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Wren - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487014056","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.","id":25594413318203,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poems originated with an impulse, beginning in April 2019, to write a series of continuous poems. The first goal was to keep them short. The second was to make them separate, in the process reflecting the whole of human life, stable in moments and bodies. In \u003cem\u003eThe Wren\u003c\/em\u003e, Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given that they do not simply follow, or hook onto, or neighbour, or echo one another in a chain of resemblance that seems to have gaps and missing links that reappear later, healed? The title was chosen partly to speak to Moritz’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sparrow: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), but also because, among the many short poems of this collection, one of them asked to be central: a poem about a small bird that hops from within a thicket of stems to peer out at the poet for a second and then disappears back inside. This tiny story of a tiny fellow creature is the narrative, the “novel,” of this book: a little story that is nonetheless one of the great and ever-retold stories.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Wren
In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.
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{"id":6811233878075,"title":"Congratulations, Rhododendrons","handle":"congratulations-rhododendrons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn her debut collection, \u003ci\u003eCongratulations, Rhododendrons\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as much as they admire roses and the moon, Germaine surfs the confluence of artificial and natural environments, technology, and our small but consequential feelings about them. At turns devotional and suspicious, these poems toe the boundaries of intimacy, responsibility, and reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn anxious times, anything can be taken as a sign; a crow, a talking coin, and a news report are all sources of information whose truth (or “fake-ness”) demand investigation. 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At turns devotional and suspicious, these poems toe the boundaries of intimacy, responsibility, and reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn anxious times, anything can be taken as a sign; a crow, a talking coin, and a news report are all sources of information whose truth (or “fake-ness”) demand investigation. Germaine’s poems scroll from a shrine in Lourdes to an augmented-reality sandbox, from a mall filled with loitering ex–love interests to a fairy-tale ending where all the men turn out to be chairs. Funny, provocative, sly, and melancholic, \u003ci\u003eCongratulations, Rhododendrons \u003c\/i\u003emakes a case for the hope that every apparent disaster of social investment might in the end be redeemed as meaningful, genuine, or at least in some way helpful.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Congratulations, Rhododendrons
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.
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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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The All + Flesh
Brandi Bird's frank, transcendent poetry explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory in this long-anticipated debut collection.
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Moritz’s twentieth collection of poems, begins with two sections entitled “Terrorism” and “Poetry.” The book unfolds in six movements, yet it revolves around and agonizes over the struggle between these two catalyzing concepts, in all the forms they might take, eventually arguing they are the unavoidable conditions and quandaries of human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten and organized chronologically around before and after the poet’s serious illness and heart surgery in 2014, these gorgeously unguarded poems plumb and deepen the reader’s understanding of Moritz’s primary and ongoing obsessions: beauty, impermanence, history, social conscience and responsibility, and, always and most urgently, love. 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As Far As You Know
From one of the defining poets of his generation, a collection that plumbs the depth of beauty, history, responsibility, and love.
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{"id":6818979020859,"title":"The Address Book","handle":"the-address-book","description":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T15:33:47-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-30T14:20:38-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Heighton Steven","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2004-02-23"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"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":40249494700091,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887846984","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Address Book - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1895,"weight":127,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887846984","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22140950118459,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805"},"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":608,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d63597b8-c44a-4c40-a898-8f22f17b7bd5.jpg?v=1653882805","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eGovernor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into \"This whim \/ against what drifts to dark.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions — comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781770891029","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781770892491","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770893573","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVEN HEIGHTON\u003c\/strong\u003e (1961-2022)’s most recent books were the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Comes Late \u003c\/em\u003e(House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eReaching Mithymna\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He was also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel was optioned for film by Pall Grimsson. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Heighton was also a fiction reviewer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lived in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records released an album of his songs, \u003cem\u003eThe Devil’s Share\u003c\/em\u003e. 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He was also the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eAfterlands\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published in six countries, was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e Editor’s Choice, and was a “best of year” selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel was optioned for film by Pall Grimsson. His other poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThe Ecstasy of Skeptics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Address Book\u003c\/em\u003e. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eIndependent, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest American Mystery Stories\u003c\/em\u003e; and have won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders’ Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain’s W. H. Smith Award. 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The Address Book
A collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress.
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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems
The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave.
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Ken Babstock's award-winning debut collection captures our isolation and reconnects us.
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She was a regular commentator on CBC Radio, in the \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, and she appeared on programs including \u003cem\u003eCanada AM\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Agenda with Steve Paikin\u003c\/em\u003e, Space TV’s \u003cem\u003eInnerSpace\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Morning Show\u003c\/em\u003e, and in \u003cem\u003eMaclean’s\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e, and Rabble.ca. 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Holding fast to the great love of her life, while preparing to leave him behind. Contemplating who she was before cancer, and who she is now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarkly honest and wholly profound, \u003ci\u003eNot One of These Poems Is About You\u003c\/i\u003e distills life to its essence. 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They beam such love and the very whole of life, its essence at the very moment when her own life is receding. She asks us to lean in and listen, and though her voice may be a whisper, it can still shatter glass. Her words hold duality. They are deeply personal, profoundly universal. They are profane and sacred. She is not with us, but she is with us. The poems, each word painstakingly chosen, are polished stones fetched up on the shores of our lives. I am so grateful for this collection: to hear her voice again now, and always.” — \u003cstrong\u003eShelagh Rogers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Shelagh Rogers","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Not One of These Poems Is About You is an intimate consideration of the oceanic, immense nature of endings and the tidal ever-afters left for the living. Passionate and defiant in the face of metastatic cancer, Harrison’s poems ‘stand\/alone\/with [their] own truths, acute\/supercharged.’ These poems shine as she did: with fierce lucidity and everyday magic.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDani Couture\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Dani Couture","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Not One of These Poems Is About You is a radical act of witness — a testimony to being alive with terminal cancer. Teva Harrison’s rawness and vulnerability, her lucid eye and tired body become, here, vital sites of reckoning. This is her offering — to say, it was like this, to say, live, to say, remember. Buy this book. Gift it to others. 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Not One of These Poems Is About You
From Teva Harrison, the award-winning author and illustrator of In-Between Days, comes a powerful work of poetry and art.
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Xanax Cowboy
This edgy, often darkly comedic long poem considers the romanticization of addiction and mental illness via the romanticization of the Wild West.
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Revolver
The poems of Revolver are a daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and explosive imagination.
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Museum of Bone and Water
A provocative investigation of the human body — our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire.
