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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." - Robertson Davies

Poetry

Chronological List

Pratt, E.J. The Fable of the Goats, 1937

Leslie, Kenneth. By Stubborn Stars, 1938

Bourinot, Arthur S. Under the Sun, 1939

Pratt, E. J. Brebeuf and His Brethren, 1940

Marriott, Anne. Calling Adventurers, 1941

Birney, Earle. David and Other Poems, 1942

Smith, A.J.M. News of the Phoenix, 1943

Livesay, Dorothy. Day and Night, 1944

Birney, Earle. Now in Time, 1945

Finch, Robert. Poems, 1946

Livesay, Dorothy. Poems for People, 1947

Klein, A.M. The Rocking Chair and Other Poems, 1948

Reaney, James. The Red Heart, 1949

Wreford, James. Of Time and the Lover, 1950

Bruce, Charles. The Mulgrave Road, 1951

Pratt, E.J. Towards the Last Spike, 1952

LePan, Douglas. The Net and the Sword, 1953

Page, P.K. The Metal and the Flower, 1954

Watson, Wilfred. Friday’s Child, 1955

Ford, Robert A.D. A Window on the North, 1956

Macpherson, Jay. The Boatman, 1957

Reaney, James. The Suit of Nettles, 1958

Layton, Irving. Red Carpet for the Sun, 1959

Avison, Margaret. Winter Sun, 1960

Finch, Robert. Acis in Oxford, 1961

Reaney, James. Twelve Letters to a Small Town, 1962

Souster, Raymond. The Colour for the Times, 1964

Purdy, Alfred. The Cariboo Horses, 1965

Atwood, Margaret. The Circle Game, 1966

Mandel, Eli. An Idiot Joy, 1967

Nowlan, Alden. Bread, Wine and Salt, 1967

Cohen, Leonard. Selected Poems 1956-68, 1969

Bowering, George. The Gang of Kosmos, 1969

Bowering, George. Rocky Mountain Foot, 1969

MacEwan, Gwendolyn. The Shadow-Maker, 1969

Nichol, bp. Still Water, 1970

Nichol, bp. The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, 1970

Nichol, bp. Beach Head, 1970

Nichol, bp. The Cosmic Chef: An Evening of Concrete, 1970

Ondaatje, Michael. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, 1970

Glassco, John. Selected Poems, 1971

Lee, Dennis. Civil Elegies and Other Poems, 1972

Mandel, Miriam. Lions at Her Face, 1973

Gustafson, Ralph. Fire on Stone, 1974

Acorn, Milton. The Island Means Minago, 1975

Rosenblatt, Joe. Top Soil, 1976

Jones, D.G. Under the Thunder of Flowers, 1977

Lane, Patrick. Poems New and Selected, 1978

Ondaatje, Michael. There’s a Trick With a Knife I’m Learning to Do, 1979

Scobie, Stephen. McAlmon’s Chinese Opera, 1980

Scott, F.R. The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott, 1981

Webb, Phyllis. The Vision Tree: Selected Poems, 1982

Donnell, David. Settlements, 1983

Jiles, Paulette. Celestial Navigation, 1984

Wah, Fred. Waiting for Saskatchewan, 1985

Purdy, Alfred. The Collected Poems of Al Purdy, 1986

MacEwen, Gwendolyn. Afterworlds, 1987

Moure, Erin. Furious, 1988

Spears, Heather. The Word for Sand, 1989

Avison, Margaret. No Time, 1990

McKay, Don. Night Field, 1991

Crozier, Lorna. Inventing the Hawk, 1992

Coles, Don. Forests of the Medieval World, 1993

Hilles, Robert. Cantos from a Small Room, 1994

Szumigalski, Anne. Voice, 1995

Blodgett, E.D. Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano, 1996

Brand, Dionne. Land to Light On, 1997

Bolster, Stephanie. White Stone: The Alice Poems, 1998

Zwicky, Jan. Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, 1999

McKay, Don. Another Gravity, 2000

Clarke, George Elliott. Execution Poems, 2001

Miki, Roy. Surrender, 2002

Lilburn, Tim. Kill-Site, 2003

Borson, Roo. Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, 2004

Compton, Anne. Processional, 2005

Pass, John. Stumbling in the Bloom, 2006

Domanski, Don. All Our Wonder Unavenged, 2007

Scheier, Jacob. More to Keep Us Warm, 2008

Zieroth, David. The Fly in Autumn, 2009

Greene, Richard. Boxing the Compass, 2010

Hall, Phil. Killdeer. 2011