When “the weather outside is frightful,” warm up with some winter poetry from the library’s eBook Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is a selection of poetry books for you to browse. If you’re off campus, you will be required to log in using your MyWCC account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Each poem herein<\/a> as Botts wanders memory and weaves tapestries of word worlds, reveals a true and original voice in modern poetry: allowing light to conquer darkness; darkness to defy the estate of the sun, and colors mixed in ways only an artist of the pen could fathom.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Captures<\/a> in poems, six days spent in the tiny community of Igloolik in the Arctic winter of January 2006. Ice-locked to the Melville Peninsula, Igloolik lies west of Baffin Island. … The poems weave women’s igloo art, a community’s grief for teenage suicides, the immensity of landscape, and the tension between the Elder’s intuition and the outsiders’ science. Shifting between mythic tale-telling and the vibrancy of town life, these poems will speak to those for whom body, soul, and naming are not divisible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Although relatively few First Nations joined<\/a> the 1885 M\u00e9tis insurgence, the Canadian government reacted punitively, instituting draconian ‘Indian’ policies whose ill-effects continue to resonate today. The Winter Count<\/em> traces these developments alongside another narrative–the debate over the sanity of M\u00e9tis leader Louis Riel. Dilys Leman weaves original poems and reconstituted archival texts, including medical reports, diaries, treaties, recipes, even a phrenological analysis, to create a montage that both presents and disrupts official history.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n …offers<\/a> a selection from Barks’s seven previously published books combined with a group of new poems. Barks’s open-hearted, free verse … poems spring directly from experience and engage with subjects such as the elation and struggle of having and raising children, grief over the deaths of loved ones, the transition from parent to grandparent, or the changing nature and intensity of desire.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Woman Who Went to the Moon: Poems of Igloolik by Rosemary Clewes (2017)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Winter Count by Dilys Leman (2014)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Winter Sky: New and Selected Poems, 1968-2008 by Coleman Barks (2008)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Elk in Winter by Robert Pack (2004)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n