Moure, Erin

O Cadoiro: Poems

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Museum of Bone and Water

Notebook of Roses and Civilization

The heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a shoulder blade – in the poems of Nicole Brossard these concrete, quotidian things move languorously through the senses to find a place beyond language. Taken together, they create an audacious new architecture of meaning.

Nicole Brossard, one of the world’s foremost literary innovators, is known for her experiments with language and her groundbreaking treatment of desire and gender. This dextrous translation by the award-winning poets and translators Erín Moure (Little Theatres) and Robert Majzels (Apikoros Sleuth) brings into English, with great verve and sensitivity, Brossard’s remarkable syntax and sensuality.

‘[Brossard’s] use of elliptical formulations and syntactical hijackings creates tensions between the image and the statement that result in a style that is unmistakably hers.’ –La Presse

Praise for Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon:

‘A new work by Brossard is an event ... Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon is not merely experimental. It’s radical.’ – The Globe and Mail

Little Theatres: Poems

Wanted Alive (House of Anansi Poetry Series)

Mouré's second collection is written with passion and intelligence, and language that is always on target. The poems range from Vancouver to Greece, from Prairie weddings to Rocky Mountain train stops, from the Toronto subway system to Dostoyevsky's Russia. The cast includes angels, close friends, ancestors, the heart, the body, and the fettered soul burning for transfiguration.

West South West

Pillage Laud

Pillage Laud is a major long poem that selects from computer-generated sentences (using the program MacProse created by Charles O. Hartman) to produce "lesbo sex poems." The basic compositional unit of Pillage Laud is therefore not the word but the sentence. These individual sentences are breathtakingly devoid of clichs; they open up meaning and sensation. On the "macro" level, Mour assembles lines to produce a larger reading through successive, repetitive contextualizations. In Pillage Laud, Erin Mour has taken the mad risk of surrendering intention and authorship to language; the result is the thwack of utopian pleasure through which both she and the reader emerge forever restructured and entwined.

A Frame of the Book

The Green Word: Selected Poems

This first "selected" collection of poetry by the well-known Governor-General's Literary Award winner covers 20 years of work and traces the development of her powerful and disquieting feminist style. It charts the razor sharp edges her poetry continues to travel, along the boundaries where meaning is constructed. The body, women's bodies in particular, and language intersect to dislocate expectation and reinvent the world.