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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
Blank Essays & 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/break poems	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 Occupant A 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 Body Poems & 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 Killjoy Essays 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 Species Poems	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
Refuse CanLit 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
Spawn Poems	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 Is Essays 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