Poetry Books from BC
Created by ABPBC on February 12, 2016Making Room
Star-studded collection of CanLit's most notable and diverse women authors to be published in Canada's oldest literary journal by and about women. Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, poetry, and essays the magazine has published since it was founded in 1975 as Room of One's Own. This collection includes poems about men not to be fallen in love with, trans w …
Capricious
Ella’s grade-eleven year was a disaster (Audacious), but as summer approaches, things are looking up.
She’s back together with her brooding boyfriend, Samir, although they both want to keep that a secret. She’s also best buddies with David and still not entirely sure about making him boyfriend number two. Though part of her wants to conform to high school norms, the temptation to be radical is just too great. Managing two secret boyfriends proves harder than Ella expected, especially when S …
Capricious
Ella’s grade-eleven year was a disaster (Audacious), but as summer approaches, things are looking up.
She’s back together with her brooding boyfriend, Samir, although they both want to keep that a secret. She’s also best buddies with David and still not entirely sure about making him boyfriend number two. Though part of her wants to conform to high school norms, the temptation to be radical is just too great. Managing two secret boyfriends proves harder than Ella expected, especially when S …
More Blueberries!
These young twins can't get enough of their favorite snack—and they aren't the only ones!
With playful rhyming text from award-winning poet Susan Musgrave and gorgeous illustrations by Esperança Melo, this exuberant board book will delight little ones and have everyone happily shouting, "More blueberries!"
Blueberry cheeks, blueberry chin
Blueberry teeth, blueberry grin
Blueberry fingers, blueberry nose
Blueberry lips, blueberry toes
Yummy! Tasty!
More blueberries!
More Blueberries!
These young twins can't get enough of their favorite snack—and they aren't the only ones!
With playful rhyming text from award-winning poet Susan Musgrave and gorgeous illustrations by Esperança Melo, this exuberant board book will delight little ones and have everyone happily shouting, "More blueberries!"
Blueberry cheeks, blueberry chin
Blueberry teeth, blueberry grin
Blueberry fingers, blueberry nose
Blueberry lips, blueberry toes
Yummy! Tasty!
More blueberries!
More Than Balloons
Balloons love the moon, and a tuba loves a tune, but these don't compare to the love we have for you.
Award-winning poet Lorna Crozier uses evocative rhyme, complemented by Rachelle Anne Miller's whimsical imagery, to provide babies and toddlers with common concepts that explain just how great love is.
Collecting Silence
The poems in Collecting Silence arc through youth, love and loss, to maturation, aging, peace. Wide travels throughout Asia, Europe and North America bring Narwani face to face with the oppressions of poverty, caste and religion, as well as the seductions of magical new beauty. The poems take the reader down the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, to Chopin's garden; a village of untouchables in India, to remnants of the Berlin Wall; from the Pietà and the Mona Lisa to Magritte's The False Mirror. Al …
Defending Darkness
In Defending Darkness, starting over is a constant theme as Pamela Porter explores what wisdom can be gained in “waiting on the heart to finish her grieving,” and then to move on — across borders, through time, even into eternity. These poems carry the adversity we all must endure with a kind of singing that is “older than praise, younger than light, cousin to regret, sister to fate,” and finally, to declare, “We were instruments of music, every one . . . we sang for a season.” Wit …