Women Authors

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Places Like These
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Places Like These

 A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual … 251 View
Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

 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 … 99 View
Poisonous If Eaten Raw
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Poisonous If Eaten Raw

 In this experimental long poem sequence, Alyda Faber transforms the portrait poem into runic shapes, ice shelved, sculpted, louvered on a winter shoreline. Twenty years after her mother’s … 104 View
Quiet Night Think
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Quiet Night Think

Poems & Essays

 “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 … 101 View
Racket

Racket

New Writing Made in Newfoundland

 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 … 184 View
Rafael Has Pretty Eyes
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Rafael Has Pretty Eyes

Stories

 "You go through life convinced you’re going to get diabetes like your old man and one day you choke to death on chicken gristle, and the autopsy shows your blood sugars were … 254 View
Re-Origin of Species

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 … 98 View
Realignment

Realignment

 “For the fortunate reader of Ruth Roach Pierson’s book, her “realignments” are all enlargements – of working vocabulary, as words such as “brindled,” … 88 View
Refuse

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 … ; ; 221 View
Riven
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Riven

Poems

 In 2010, Catherine Owen’s 29-year-old spouse died of a drug addiction. A year later, she relocated to an apartment by the Fraser River in Vancouver, B.C. As she moved beyond the initial … 90 View
River Woman

River Woman

 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 … 114 View
Rump + Flank
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Rump + Flank

 rump + flank explores the body in nature’s many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what … 96 View
Safe Words

Safe Words

 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 … 72 View
Selvage
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Selvage

 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 … 105 View
Send Me Into the Woods Alone
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Send Me Into the Woods Alone

Essays on Motherhood

 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 … 194 View
Send More Tourists, The Last Ones Were Delicious

Send More Tourists, The Last Ones Were Delicious

 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 … 258 View