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Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

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 … 184 View
Bi-gishkoziitwin biidaanzhed biidaabang

Bi-gishkoziitwin biidaanzhed biidaabang

 Bi-gishkoziitwin Biidaanzhed Biidaabang, an Ojibwa translation of Rising with a Distant Dawn, is a powerful and moving poetry collection which stretches across the boundaries of skin colour, … 80 View
Blank

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. … 349 View
Blowing Grass Empire

Blowing Grass Empire

 A storyteller above all else, Mark Lavorato’s poems are penned in a clear, poignant, and relatable voice. His mostly narrative vignettes choose to hide things in plain sight, and are buoyed … 72 View
Breaking Boundaries

Breaking Boundaries

LGBTQ2 Writers on Coming Out and Into Canada

 An anthology of stories and poetry by LGBTQ2 writers who have immigrated to Canada or who were born in Canada. 148 View
calling down the sky

calling down the sky

 Calling Down the Sky is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post-generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1960’s … 80 View
Caribou Run

Caribou Run

 At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured debut by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou … 96 View
Charleswood Road Stories

Charleswood Road Stories

 The fiction and prose selections included in Charleswood Road contrast stark reality with fantasy, mortality with transcendence and explore both the mundane and pivotal choices people make in … 118 View
Coconut Dreams

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 … 273 View
Constructive Negativity

Constructive Negativity

Prize Culture, Evaluation, and Disability in Canadian Poetry

 Constructive Negativity is a book of criticism without precedent in Canadian Literature. The result of over twenty years of participation in the nation’s poetry community, it combines Shane … 177 View
Control Suppress Delete

Control Suppress Delete

 Control Suppress Delete troubles received ideas. Interested in rules and randomness and in finding the randomness in rules, Angela Hibbs writes poetry that questions the human condition and finds … 80 View
Correspondent

Correspondent

 An on-the-scene report of a childhood abroad. A child’s vision of real-world events made real (and unreal) by the presence of his father. Memories of snow falling on Quebec City’s … 96 View
day/break

day/break

 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, … 103 View
Dear Current Occupant

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 … 133 View
Description of the World

Description of the World

 A new poetry collection from the Giller Prize–winning author of The Sentimentalists and Quartet for the End of Time. In The Description of the World Johanna Skibsrud brings us to the edges … 96 View
Devil in the Woods

Devil in the Woods

 A collection of letter and prayer poems in which an Indigenous speaker engages with non-Indigenous famous Canadians. D.A. Lockhart’s stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, … 80 View