Emerging Authors

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Pistachios in My Pocket At Bay Press	Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family’s escape from Iran, detailing …	Sareh Farmand	144	2022	View
Players Palimpsest Press	Staged in an urban dreamscape, Players fuses popular culture with narratives about hand-to-hand combat, how to hustle, and high art. Taking lyrical cues from hip-hop, Nyman’s poetry bends …	John Nyman	96	2016	View
Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names Goose Lane Editions	In this artfully crafted collection, Soraya Mariam Peerbaye leaps onto the stage with aplomb. She examines how naming expresses our relationship with each other and the natural world and how …	Soraya Peerbaye	99	2009	View
NEW! Queer Little Nightmares An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry Arsenal Pulp Press	The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster …	Daniel Zomparelli; David Ly	215	2022	View
NEW! Quiet Night Think Poems & Essays ECW Press	“Quiet Night Think is a stunning work.” — Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing “One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and …	Gillian Sze	101	2022	View
Racket New Writing Made in Newfoundland Breakwater Books	In Racket, editor and acclaimed fiction writer Lisa Moore introduces us to ten of the most exciting new writers currently at work in Newfoundland. Featuring a diverse range of previously …	Lisa Moore	184	2015	View
River Woman House of Anansi Press	Award-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of …	Katherena Vermette	114	2018	View
NEW! Roguelike Poems House of Anansi Press	Mathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection. Mathew Henderson’s Roguelike, the …	Mathew Henderson	88	2020	View
Safe Words Palimpsest Press	From a student’s confrontation with a teenage streaker, to a company man’s complete undoing at his summer party, Michelle Brown’s Safe Words finds rich darkness in happy …	Michelle Brown	72	2018	View
NEW! Selvage Invisible Publishing	Selvage is a work of salvaging and selving, of salvaging a self from disparate elements. Fragments from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the language of trees talking to one another …	Kate Siklosi	105	2023	View
NEW! Send Me Into the Woods Alone Essays on Motherhood Invisible Publishing	Dispatches from modern motherhood by a reluctant suburbanite Send Me Into The Woods Alone is an honest, heartfelt, and often hilarious collection of essays on the joys, struggles, and …	Erin Pepler	194	2022	View
Send More Tourists, The Last Ones Were Delicious Breakwater Books	With birth, death, contemplation, and close calls, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious explores how we respond to the weight of social expectations. From the hidden pressures …	Tracey Waddleton	258	2019	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! Smog Mother Palimpsest Press	The strongest collection yet from a poet writing at the height of his powers. In Smog Mother, John Wall Barger asks: What is a poet without a home? Over and over he finds answers in the joy of …	John Wall Barger	104	2022	View
Soak Breakwater Books	This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in …	Kerri Cull	64	2012	View
Soft Power Goose Lane Editions	Lyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in Soft Power are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet …	Stewart Cole	88	2019	View