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To find a poem, check the catalogue to see if the library has any collections of the poet's work. Search for the author's name:
Author's Lastname, Firstname
example: Halfe, Louise

If you're not sure who wrote the poem, or if you want to find a poem about a particular subject, use a poetry index to search by author, topic, first line or last line:

808.81016 COL The Columbia Granger's index to poetry in anthologies
819.10016 I38 Index to Canadian poetry in English
You can also try these subject searches:
Poetry
Canadian poetry
American poetry
English poetry

New poetry books:

811.54 EMER Late wife. Claudia Emerson.
On order Native guard. Natasha Trethewey.
811.54 WRIG Scar tissue. Charles Wright.
819.154 DALT Red ledger. Mary Dalton.
819.154 HILL Slow ascent. Robert Hilles.
819.154 KEEF Midnight stroll. Janice Kulyk Keefer.
819.154 LEE Yesno. Dennis Lee.
819.154 NICK Domain. Barbara Nickel.
819.16 ARMS Take us quietly. Tammy Armstrong.
819.16 CALD Wolf tree. Alison Calder.
819.16 UPPA Ontological necessities. Priscila Uppal.
819.16 VIGI The book of skeletons. Rachel Vigier.
(last updated July 2007)

Literature Resource Center - Biographies, bibliographies & criticism of writers

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Canadian Poetry Archive
Canadian Poetry
Canadian Information By Subject: Literature
Representative Poetry Online
Saskatchewan Writes! A Learning Resource Guide Contact info for Sask. authors
[Link]Verse: Poetry Anthologies & Thousands of Poems (Bartleby.com)
[Canadian Site]Who's Who in the League of Canadian Poets
[Link] PennSound - free downloadable recordings of contemporary poetry

Local Resources

100 Days, 100 Poems

Plays & Theatre

This guide was last updated December 2006.

 

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