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These are not the potatoes of my youth

These are not the potatoes of my youth

 Shortlisted, Trillium Book Award for Poetry and Gerald Lampert Memorial Award In this confessional debut collection, Matthew Walsh meanders through their childhood in rural Nova Scotia, later … 96 View
thicket

thicket

 Melanie Janisse-Barlow’s second book of poetry, Thicket, is a treatise on risk and the uncertainties of language in the modern world. In poems that gather and collect force page after page, … 104 View
Things Are Good Now

Things Are Good Now

Stories

 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 … 258 View
This Accident of Being Lost

This Accident of Being Lost

Songs and Stories

 A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out … 138 View
This Ramshackle Tabernacle

This Ramshackle Tabernacle

 This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken lives of … 216 View
Tonguebreaker

Tonguebreaker

poems and performance texts

 In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and … 142 View
Too Unspeakable For Words

Too Unspeakable For Words

Stories

 Nancy comes of age in a British colonial school in 1950s St. John’s; Georgina discovers women’s liberation in a humorous evocation of the 1960s; Jamie returns to the resettled outport … 160 View
Treaty#

Treaty#

 A treaty is a contract. A treaty is enduring. A treaty is an act of faith. A treaty at its best is justice. It is a document and an undertaking. It is connected to place, people and self. It is … 112 View
Tsi Niió:re Tenkarakhwaráhseke’

Tsi Niió:re Tenkarakhwaráhseke’

Mohawk Edition

 As Long as the Sun Shines creatively reveals the beautiful and bitter essences of the world from a distinctive Indigenous female voice. Inspired by her recent global travels, experiences, … 126 View
Two-Man-Tent

Two-Man-Tent

 In Two-Man Tent, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, Robert Chafe, offers his long-awaited collection of short fiction. The individual stories are thematically linked by an interwoven, … 216 View
Twoism

Twoism

 Part roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body’s limits and its trickery, you are … 72 View
Vancouver For Beginners

Vancouver For Beginners

 In Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood … 106 View
waniskātot kā pē wāpahk

waniskātot kā pē wāpahk

 waniskātota kā pē wāpahk, a Cree translation of Rising with a Distant Dawn, is a powerful poetry collection which stretches across the boundaries to give a voice to the lives … 82 View
War / Torn

War / Torn

 Lambda Literary Award-winner Hasan Namir’s debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of … 115 View
We All Need to Eat

We All Need to Eat

stories

 We All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, … 186 View
Weathervane

Weathervane

 As unpredictable as the seasons that guide it, Weathervane is part eco-tourism, part domestic nocturne, and part tempest. In a shifting world, Mark Sampson resounds like a modern Zeus, advising … 80 View