An immense achievement comprising a decadeslong career new and collected poetry from one of Canadas most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades Dionne Brands poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other possibly future time and place Brands ongoing labours of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds their enclosures and their violences.Nomenclature New and Collected Poems begins with a new long poem the titular Nomenclature for the Time Being in which Dionne Brands diaspora consciousness dismantles our quotidian disasters. In addition to this searing new work Nomenclature collects eight volumes of Brands poetry published between 1982 and 2010 and includes a critical introduction by the literary scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe.Nomenclature New and Collected Poems features the searching and centering cantos of Primitive Offensive the sharp musical conversations of Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia the documentary losses of revolutions in Chronicles of the Hostile Sun in which The street was emptywith all of us standing there. No Language Is Neutral connects language coloniality and sexuality. Land to Light On explores intimacies and disaffections with nationality and the nationstate while in thirsty a coldeyed flneur surveys the workings of the city. In Inventory written during the Gulf Wars the poet is the wars last and late night witness her job not to soothe but to revise and revise this bristling listhourly. Ossuaries futurist speaker rounds out the collection and threads multiple temporal worlds past present and future.This masterwork displays Dionne Brands ongoing body of thought trenchant lyrical absonant discordant and meaningmaking. Nomenclature New and Collected Poems is classic and living a record of one of the great writers of our age.