Book*hug Press
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Are The Rivers in Your Poems Real |
Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality, and the insidious freight of abstraction, these poems embody the necessity for the critical, the communal, the real. Are … | Moez Surani | 104 | 2019 | View |
![]() Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being |
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism, settler … | Amy Fung | 184 | 2019 | View |
![]() BlankEssays & Interviews |
Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada’s most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. … | M. NoubeSe Philip | 349 | 2017 | View |
![]() Coconut Dreams |
Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various … | Derek Mascarenhas | 273 | 2019 | View |
![]() day/breakpoems |
day/break, poet Gwen Benaway’s fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, … | Gwen Benaway | 105 | 2019 | View |
![]() Dear Current OccupantA Memoir |
Dear Current Occupant is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays … | Chelene Knight | 133 | 2018 | View |
![]() Hope Matters |
Throughout their youth, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter wrote poetry with their mother, award-winning author Lee Maracle. The three always dreamed that one day they would write a book together. … | Columpa Bobb; Lee Maracle; Tania Carter | 177 | 2019 | View |
![]() It Begins With the BodyPoems & Illustrations |
It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi’s poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, … | Hana Shafi | 112 | 2018 | View |
![]() Just Pervs |
Two sex addicts meet and fall in love. A woman catches her husband cheating on her with their dog and escapes to her sister’s horse farm. Four friends—fellow pervs—grow up and … | Jess Taylor | 211 | 2019 | View |
![]() Mobile |
Mobile is an uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women … | Tanis MacDonald | 121 | 2019 | View |
![]() My Conversations with Canadians |
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. … | Lee Maracle | 170 | 2017 | View |
![]() Notes from a Feminist KilljoyEssays on Everyday Life |
Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept “feminist killjoy”), Wunker brings … | Erin Wunker | 217 | 2017 | View |
![]() Re-Origin of SpeciesPoems |
From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as … | Alessandra Naccarato | 98 | 2019 | View |
![]() RefuseCanLit in Ruins |
CanLit—the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because … | Erin Wunker; Hannah McGregor; Julie Rak | 221 | 2018 | View |
![]() SpawnPoems |
Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, … | Kristen Renee Miller; Marie-Andrée Gill | 89 | 2020 | View |
![]() The Nothing That IsEssays on Art, Literature and Being |
Rather than making “something” out of “nothing,” what follows is an endeavour to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is infinitely beyond both … | Johanna Skibsrud | 134 | 2019 | View |