Indigenous Poetry
Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight Series
Our Winter 2019 Indigenous authors spotlight, timed to help celebrate First Voices Week at Concordia, shines on poets. The list features contemporary works, including Griffin Poetry Prize winners for 2017 and 2018, older favourites and more contentious choices, long form poems and anthologies; the poetry covers topics such as representation, revolution, racism, and love.
Injun
A long poem about racism and the representation of Indigenous peoples.
Full-metal Indigiqueer: Poems
This poetry collection focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer trickster character named Zoa.
Refuse: CanLit in Ruins
This collection features poems and stories by Gwen Benaway, Chelsea Vowel, Joshua Whitehead, and Alicia Elliot.
it was never going to be ok
Explores the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness.
This Wound is a World: Poems
Part manifesto, part memoir; his poems and essays upset genre and play with form.
Nature Poem
A book-length poem about Teebs, a young, queer, Indigenous man.
Collected poems and selected prose
Published nine decades after her death, this is the first complete collection of Pauline Johnson's known poems.
Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology
Brings together the poetry of less publicized authors alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets.
Talking to the Diaspora
Poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Lee Maracle is beloved and revered.
Indigenous Poetics in Canada
Embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place.
Poems for a New World
These are poems of revolution, of love, of inspiration.
Breath Tracks
Tracks with words the lives, pain and resilience of Native peoples and their long memoried past.
My Heart Soars
Collection of memories, life stories, wisdom and poetry from Chief Dan George.
Fire Power
Eloquent words are Chrystos's tool for survival and her weapon in fighting for social justice.
A Night for the Lady
Each poem arises from conversations with poets, colleagues and intimate friends.
Thank you to Donna Langille for her valuable assistance in putting together this collection.
About the Series
The Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight Series aims to support and promote Indigenous authors and artists by featuring some of the Library's materials with Indigenous content, specifically focusing on works by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit authors and artists.