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1. Vernon Postmus

From My Heart to Yours

1. Vernon Postmus

From My Heart to Yours

1. Geoffrey , Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems

"The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems" by Geoffrey Chaucer is a seminal work in English literature, offering a vivid portrayal of 14th-century English society through a series of stories told by a diverse group of pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The collection, edited by D. Laing Purves, includes a variety of tales that range from chivalric romances to bawdy comedies, reflecting the wide spectrum of human experience and social classes of the time. Chaucer's work is noteworthy for its use of the English vernacular, which helped to elevate the status of English as a literary language. The tales are framed by a narrative in which the pilgrims engage in a storytelling contest, with each tale offering insights into the characters' personalities and the societal norms of the period. The edition also includes a selection of Chaucer's minor poems, providing a broader view of his literary contributions. The preface and notes by Purves aim to make Chaucer's work accessible to modern readers by updating the spelling and providing explanations for obsolete terms and references. This edition underscores Chaucer's role as a pioneer in English literature, whose works continue to be studied for their artistic merit and historical significance.

1. Michael Lista

Barfly

Praise for Barfly "At once hilarious and raw, Barfly uses Byronic rhymes and Auden's meters to discuss twenty-first century topics."—CBC Books Best Canadian Poetry of 2024 "The language is punchy, it can be raunchy, benefits from being read aloud, and when you do, like a Hole song, it’s full of bravado and vulnerability."—Deborah Dundas, Toronto Star "Lista's poems . . . are fun, completely miserable, and almost certainly bad for you. Barfly should be affixed with a Health Canada warning. You must be nineteen or older to purchase this product. Not safe in any amount. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."—Nicholas Bradley, The Walrus "With liquid refreshment, firehose, and fire escape, besotted Barfly is a sobering experience."—The Seaboard Review "Exquisitely raw and vulnerable."—Tara Henley, Lean Out "With his own distinctive style of cadence, rhythm, word driven imagery, and emotional reach, the poems comprising Michael Lista's last volume of verse is an extraordinary, memorable, and unreservedly recommended."—Midwest Book Review "After a ten-year hiatus from poetry—and out of nowhere—Michael Lista has dropped an instant classic. The poems in this book are profane, pugilistic, and moving, with wickedly funny rhymes to boot. Barfly is an uncompromising, messed-up masterpiece. I fucking love it." —Jason Guriel, author of The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles "Like supremely eloquent graffiti written on the wall of a magnificent palace, except the palace is the world, and the world is on fire."—Stephen Marche, author of On Writing and Failure Praise for Michael Lista "Provocative and profound but eminently readable, Strike Anywhere demonstrates a critic of high order, unrestrained. It's great fun watching Lista play with matches."—Foreword Reviews "There aren't many Canadian books of poetry that are anticipated with quite so much excitement as Michael Lista's debut, which has been the talk of the town for some time. But the book outpaces the expectations even of those kindly disposed to it.”—Quill and Quire “Bloom is all one might hope for in a book of poetry: an unencumbered, nervy fusion of imagination and form.” —Winnipeg Free Press "Lista has here brought together potent ingredients, at once harmonious and dissonant, in a container with metal enough to withstand blasts from poems being split apart and reincarnated."—Globe and Mail “A brilliant, erudite new voice."—Montreal Gazette

1. Angelique Zobitz

Seraphim

"Angelique Zobitz’s Seraphim radiates with flames and fierceness. Steeped in survival and salvation, devastation and affirmation, incantation and citation, Seraphim is a tribute to revolutions, delivering homage to an array of Black women including bell hooks, Roberta Flack, Megan Thee Stallion, and “Black Barbies backlit by gas station fluorescence / stunning—singing holy, holy, holy.” In Seraphim’s choral and volcanic world, Zobitz alchemizes terror into courage. In doing so, she “expose[s] what’s damaged to scrutiny and light,” inviting the reader toward their own revolution and revelation as she reminds us to “let sing, every word.”

1. Kurt , Scharf

Achtung

In gewohnter, niemals gewöhnlicher, Strenge und Sanftmut erscheinen diese Gedichte.Dem Erinnern folgt das Besinnen: immer auf das Wesentliche; so trägt die Zukunft sch ein.