Black Authors

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Autowar Brick Books	A visceral, vital, unblinking debut collection of poems exploring kinesthetic memory and longing, inherited violence, and the body as a geographical site. We’re often told that we are given …	Assiyah Jamilla Touré	62	2021	View
NEW! Black Matters Fernwood Publishing	Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a …	Aufa Cooper	80	2020	View
Blank Essays & Interviews Book*hug Press	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
Certifiable Goose Lane Editions	Toronto writer Pamela Mordecai is a well-known voice in poetry of the Caribbean diaspora. She has long been a popular anthologist, a mentor to other writers, a frequent contributor to literary …	Pamela Mordecai	100	2001	View
Dear Current Occupant A Memoir Book*hug Press	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
Shut Up You’re Pretty Stories Arsenal Pulp Press	In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of …	Téa Mutonji	138	2019	View
NEW! The Quest for a "National" Nationalism E.J. Pratt's Epic Ambition, "Race" Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity Breakwater Books	In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic …	George Elliott Clarke	64	2021	View
Things Are Good Now Stories House of Anansi Press	Set in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S., Things Are Good Now examines the weight of the migrant experience on the human psyche. In Djamila Ibrahim’s powerful story …	Djamila Ibrahim	258	2018	View
Write Across Canada An Anthology of Emerging Writers Book*hug Press	The stories and poems gathered in Write Across Canada showcase a mere sampling of emerging writers working in Canada today. Selected by their mentors working in creative writing programs from …	Geoffrey Taylor; Joseph Kertes	112	2019	View
From Jammin’ Still From: Blank View Collection: Immigration in Canadian Short Fiction and Poetry Book*hug Press		M. NoubeSe Philip	26	2017	$2.60 Add
From Little Copper Bullets From: Things Are Good Now View House of Anansi Press	Readings from this book by Djamila Ibrahim follow men, women, and children who’ve crossed continents in search of a better life find themselves struggling with the chaos of displacement and …	Djamila Ibrahim	36	2018	$3.60 Add
From NEW! Part One From: Autowar View Brick Books	beckoning – wishing is not the same as wanting – acidfield – nocturnal – idolatry – practice – bloodthirst – an empty space	Assiyah Jamilla Touré	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Part One From: Black Matters View Fernwood Publishing	John Ware: Magician Cowboy – Fugitive – Jupiter Wise – Uncles	Aufa Cooper	19	2020	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Pound and Frye From: The Quest for a "National" Nationalism View Breakwater Books		George Elliott Clarke	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From Prologue From: Dear Current Occupant View Collection: Urban Canadian Short Fiction and Poetry Book*hug Press	I think about all the houses — This is for the teachers — Grade six — Waiting out front of the school to be picked up was torture — When the smoke cleared — Mama	Chelene Knight	11	2018	$1.10 Add
From Tits for Cigs From: Shut Up You're Pretty View Collection: Death and Dying in Canadian Short Fiction and Poetry Arsenal Pulp Press	The narrator describes her childhood and her relationship with her friend Jolie.	Téa Mutonji	6	2019	$0.60 Add