Portfolio Category: Poetry

All Souls’

All Souls’

Bold poems of beauty and power. Bluesy, opinionated, sly, self-chastising and tender, Rhea Tregebov’s All Souls’—her first  collection since 2004—commands a range of tones wider and bolder than anything in her ...
(alive): Selected and new poems

(alive): Selected and new poems

(alive): Selected and new poems showcases twenty years of Rhea Tregebov’s poetry, along with several new poems. This volume charts the course of a poetic career which has seen Tregebov ...
The Strength of Materials

The Strength of Materials

The Strength of Materials suggests a world in which every elegy is an ode and every ode an elegy. These poems both praise and commemorate the material world in all ...
Mapping the Chaos

Mapping the Chaos

For Tregebov, writing is ‘mapping’ – tracing the outlines of what is there with humour, wonder, bemusement, and great clarity.       Sample poem: Country & Western My grandfather, absolutely ...
The Proving Grounds

The Proving Grounds

This is poetry informed by an engaging and lively sense of astonishment of all things—both the commonplace and familial, and the curious and remarkable. Tregebov’s work ranges from a heart-wrenching ...
No One We Know

No One We Know

Sample poem: Grosney’s Delicatessen The sherbet glasses in this Chinese restaurant are authentic, you know. Exactly like the ones in the delicatessen, the facets blunt, cloudy, durable. I have something. ...
Remembering History

Remembering History

Winner of the League of Canadian Poet’s Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a woman of the year, 1982             Sample ...