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The Grace of Private Passage.

By: Mulhallen, Karen.

Price: $5.40

Publisher: Windsor, Ontario., Black Moss Press.: 2000

Seller ID: 9399

ISBN: 088753340X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 23 x 15.5 cm.; 93 pp. Mulhallen's 8th book of poetry. She is the award winning editor of Descant, a premiere Canadian literary journal. Black remainder mark on the text block head and some very minor shelf wear on the cover edges.
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The Embalmer's Art: Selected Poems, 1970-1991.

By: Musgrave, Susan.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Exile Editions.: 1991

Seller ID: 18370

ISBN: 1550960113

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xii - 169 pp. The selections have been made from previously published works as follows: Songs of the Sea Witch (1970), Entrance of the Celebrant (1972), Grave-Dirt and Selected Strawberries (1973), The Impstone (1973), Becky Swan's Book (1977), A Man To Marry A Man To Bury (1979), Cocktails at the Mausoleum (1985), and Receiving End of Love: New Poems. The spine is a tad faded and the covers show mild edge / shelf wear.
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Because You Loved Being a Stranger; 55 Poets Celebrate Patrick Lane.

By: Musgrave, Susan. (editor).

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada., Harbour Publishing.: 1994

Seller ID: 29377

ISBN: 1550171011

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; 127 pp. Patrick Lane is an award-winning Canadian poet and teacher who has been influential in the lives of many other poets and many have dedicated poems to him over the years. This collection was brought together to celebrate Lane's 55th birthday. A clean, sturdy copy.
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Homilies in Verse. Poems for Living.

By: Nearing, Rev. Peter.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Antigonish, Nova Scotia., Eastwind Publications.: 1982

Seller ID: 33014

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; Unpaginated with 128 pp. One-Hundred and fourteen poems / homilies in all, each one based on a verse from Scripture. Minor shelf wear to the covers and the cover margins are lightly tanned or browned. Otherwise clean with a sound binding.
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Predictable Conditions.

By: Norman, Colin.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Kingston, Ontario., Quarry Press.: 1976

Seller ID: 29923

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 22.5 x 15.5 cm.; 56 pp. Printed on a light cream-coloured woven paper. Mild wear to the cover edges and the bottom fore corner of the front cover has a dog-eareed crease. Otherwise clean and tight.
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Divine Whispers, Poems.

By: O'Keefe, Ken.

Price: $6.40

Publisher: Hyde Park, New York., New City Press.: 2005

Seller ID: 23778

ISBN: 1565482239

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 80 pp. Ken O'Keefe is a Basilian priest now resident at Brescia College at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Signed and dated with an inscription by the author on the first (half-title) page.; Signed by Author
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The Vicinity.

By: O'Meara, David.

Price: $6.80

Publisher: London, Ontario., Brick Books: 2004

Seller ID: 16214

ISBN: 1894078306

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; 73 - pp. A collection of 37 poems in 2 cycles; A Civic Gesture, and Walking Around. Signed, inscribed and dated by the author on the half title page. The covers show some very mild scuffing best seen in reflected light.; Signed by Author
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Dans le Sombre, suivi de Le Poeme et le Poetique

By: Ouellette, Fernand

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Montreal, Canada, Editions de l'Hexagone.: 1967

Seller ID: 25366

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

12mo - 19 x 14 cm.; 91 pp. Text is in French. Ouellette is a French-Canadia n poet. A collection of his poems plus a short essay. Card stock cover is sunned with light soiling and light edgewear; binding sturdy, text pages clean.
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The River & the Lake. Poetry and Drawings.

By: Page, Joanne.

Price: $5.85

Publisher: Kingston, Ontario., Quarry Press.: 1993

Seller ID: 29394

ISBN: 1550820907

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 82 pp. One of the titles from the "New Canadian Poets Series" from Quarry Press of Kingston. Illustrated with 17 black and white drawings (quite beautiful by the way) by the author. Very minor wear to the fore corners of the covers, otherwise clean with a tight binding.
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The River & the Lake. Poetry and Drawings.

By: Page, Joanne.

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Kingston, Ontario., Quarry Press.: 1993

Seller ID: 29397

ISBN: 1550820907

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Du Temps qu J'Aime.

By: Perrier, Luc

Price: $11.20

Publisher: Montreal, Quebec., Editions de l'Hexagone: 1963

Seller ID: 16899

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo - 19.5 x 13.5 cm.; Unpaginated with 48 pages. The text is in French. A poetry collection with a long dedication written on the first page by a son of the author. Light soiling, minor edgewear on cover.
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Thoughts By the Way.

By: Petrie, Mrs. L. D. (Laura).

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Robert M. Logan.: 1975

Seller ID: 32726

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 86 pp. Copy # 296. A collection of poems arranged and published by author's nephew. Petrie was born Laura Marshall in Pictou County, Nova Scotia in 1885. She has signed this copy on the first blank page. Minor edgewear and light soiling on paper wraps. ; Signed by Author
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Iron-On Constellations: Poems.

By: Pohl-Weary, Emily

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Tightrope Books.: 2005

Seller ID: 19182

ISBN: 0973864508

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

16mo - 15.5 x 15.5 cm.; [6] - 54 - [6] pp. Signed by the author with an inscription on the first (half title) page. The cover edges show very mild wear.
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The Speck.

By: Pomeroy, Marnie.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Ladysmith, Quebec., Ladysmith Press.: 1972

Seller ID: 31492

ISBN: 0919556159

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

8vo - 21 x 16 cm.; 131 pp. A poetry collection. Library markings consist of a stamp on title page, remnants of an attachment on last page and a thinning of the verso of back cover from the removal of an attachment. Binding sturdy, text pages otherwise clean.
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baggage.

By: porter, dh.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Coach House Press: 1974

Seller ID: 15389

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

4to - 25.5 x 14 cm.; Unpaginated with 36 pages. One single sewn signature with light green end papers. Light grey linen over boards with a textured green cloth (imitation leather) on spine. Green lettering (title only) on front board. Tipped in coloured frontis photo of the shadow of a man reaching for his baggage - a hobo's stick and cloth bag or sack tied onto the end. One page of text with an 'explanation' of the photos that follow. 42 photographs in all with 12 in colour. The first six colour photos are on the rectos with digressions in b/w on the facing versos and the last six colour phot...
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Day Hunt.

By: Pratt, Charles.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Ladysmith, Quebec., Ladysmith Press.: 1971

Seller ID: 31495

ISBN: 0919556108

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21 x 16 cm.; 34 pp. A poetry collection. Library markings consist of a stamp on title page, remnants of an attachment on last page and verso of back cover, front cover sunned. Binding sturdy, text pages otherwise clean.
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The Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Second Edition.

By: Pratt, E. J. (edited by Northrop Frye).

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Macmillan.: 1958

Seller ID: 24743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 14 cm.; xxviii - 395 pp. Gray cloth over boards with white and yellow lettering on the spine and both boards. Northrop Frye has written a 16 page introduction for this, the revised edition. From the dust jacket: "This second edition of the collected poems of Canada's foremost poet includes "Behind the Log", "Towards the Last Spike" and other important pieces not in the first edition published in 1944, and now out of print. Some poems which appeared previously have now been omitted: what remains is all the poet wishes to preserve, published in one handsome volume ...
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Pronuncia i nomi / Say the Names.

By: Purdy, Al.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Ravenna, Italy., Longo Editore.: 1999

Seller ID: 24577

ISBN: 8880632205

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 207 pp. introduction by Branko Gorjup of York University along with prefatory remarks by Margaret Atwood, Anna Cascella, Dennis Lee, Sam Solecki, Frazer Sutherland, and Giuseppe Zigaina. These seven pieces are billingual, English - Italian, as are the poems and the printing is such so that English is on the verso (left hand pages) and Italian on the rectos (right hand pages). The translations are by Laura Forconi, Caterine Ricciardi and Francescda Valente. The cover show only a trace of shelf wear while the interior is clean and the binding is tight.
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Dream Surgeon.

By: Rappaport, Henry.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Vancouver, BC., Intermedia Press.: 1975

Seller ID: 29405

ISBN: 0889560013

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

8vo - 20.5 x 13.5 cm.; (9) - 66 - (3) pp. First published in harcover in 1974, this is the soft cover edition from the following year. Previous owner's name on the first page and the covers show moderate wear to the edges and general though mild scuffing. Otherwise clean with a solid binding.
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Blue Mind's Flower.

By: Read, Janet.

Price: $6.30

Publisher: Goderich, Ontario., Moonstone Press.: 1992

Seller ID: 29427

ISBN: 0920259413

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo - 22 x 12.5 cm.; 96 pp. Some of the poems have been previously published in "The New Quarterly" and "Other Voices". Cover art by Brenda Clark. Printed on a cream-coloured laid paper. Minor wear to the top fore corners of the front and back covers, else fine.
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Category: Canadian Literature - Poetry