Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) Third Prize Winner, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Poetry) Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for PoetrySue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings" (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who "writes her way to a new understanding of the world and carries her readers with her" (Journal of Canadian Poetry). Sinclair's debut collection, Secrets of Weather and Hope, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, while subsequent collections have earned a place on the Globe Top 100 list (Mortal Arguments), won the IPPY Poetry Award (The Drunken Lovely Bird), and the Pat Lowther Award (Heaven's Thieves).This collection includes an introductory essay by editor and poet Ross Leckie, over one hundred selected poems from Sinclair's twenty-year career, and new poems that consider the poet's evolving relationships with the idea of beauty and with the more-than-human world in a time of manufactured upheaval. The new poems, many never-before published, exemplify Sinclair's masterful powers of observation and her precise, arresting language.

Winner 2017 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Lyric poems built with consummate skill by a poet at the peak of her powers. Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions - What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? What is the point of art? - and the urgent ones - how to live in a shattered ecology, what to do about grief, illness, betrayal. Sinclair turns her attention to these questions with fearless curiosity, economy, and an originality born of her willingness to pursue her own line of inquiry to its limit. These poems get close and cut deep, mixing subject and object, surface and soul: "Red mud glistens / like cut fruit - or like the knife / that did the cutting, laid down." Praise for Sue Sinclair: "...a poet who looks long and hard at the world to draw existential meaning. Her studious gaze is insightful, even - dare I say it in this secular age - soulful." - Barbara Carey, The Toronto Star "...vivid, lively, crisp, and packed with delicious surprise metaphors." - Anita Lahey, Arc Poetry Magazine

Mortal Arguments is Sue Sinclair's second poetry collection. In it, she continues her extraordinary phenomenological investigation of lived experience, addressing with increasing urgency issues of profound philosophical and political importance such as consumerism, privilege, and our ability to respond to the suffering of others. Her voice combines great metaphorical brilliance with the depth one expects of a much older writer. Her poems will remind readers by turns of Rilke and Heine: urgent, sorrowing, ecstatic. This is an important book by one of Canada's finest young poets. Roses Not because it is sufficient, but because we subsist on light, and what doesn't cry out to be noticed? There's something here you might recognize, but you're not sure; still, you're willing to risk it: the loss of everything, seen and unseen, the before and the after. It doesn't depend on you but you move toward it. Because as long as there's a moment here or there, why not arrange a few roses in a jar, give thought to their listlessness, how they gather the room about them yet think nothing of it, how each thorn persists, how they have made a purpose of holding still? Then you remember the necessary and sufficient. This isn't it, but you don't know where else to begin.