With enormous care and unquenchable daring, Rhona McAdam explores our relationship to the living world and challenges the constraints of contemporary poetry in her latest collection, Larder. Lovely review of it in the British Columbia Review. The Tyee recommended it this...

Rhona McAdam’s sixth collection of poems, Ex-ville, reflects upon what we leave behind: the people, places and journeys that shape our lives. One reviewer remarked “Whether it is on a bus, in a tired airport or a European city we’ve...

A small (11 poem) chapbook of food poems, part of the 2011 Gesture series. The poems address food and water in rants, recipe poems and food biographies. Contents include: Cheese; Fish Sticks; Cutlet; Lake Lenore Whitefish; Dry Ribs; Bananas; Chicken...

A limited edition collaboration with Calgary artist Colleen Philippi. Each poem is presented in a different, whimsical format. Contents: Boston School of Cooking Cookbook; Coffee; Croutons; Gravy; Implements; Jello; Parma; Salad.

In Cartography, her fifth collection of poetry, Rhona McAdam weaves an imaginative passage through the territories of love, work, family and aging. One reviewer found “These poems cover the gamut of concerns... in an Anne Tyler sort of way. There...

This letterpress collection was hand-set, printed and bound by Carole Wyse Peters. It brings together a half dozen favourite poems covering the droll hilarity of soap operas and the tenderness of family cookbooks.

“Her cadences are regular, her language polished and trustworthy as old silver, her metaphors rich as aged port. These are beautiful, sad poems, well-wrought and solid as a pewter beer-mug.”

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In Creating the Country, “Rhona McAdam writes poems that are simultaneously delicate, lyrical, sharp-edged, and satiric. There is often something deadly serious and intensely engaging under what appears to be a light surface.” (Prairie Fire)

Cover art: Colleen Philippi

Winner of the Alberta Poetry Award for 1987. “McAdam’s work is rich with textured ambiguity. She charts both the phenomena of the natural world and the subtle filigree of social relations with an unusual organic imagery that is laced with...