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The Forbidden Purple City

The Forbidden Purple City

 Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019 A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely … 264 View
The Glassblowers

The Glassblowers

 George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, the wet leaves of fall are described in language … 104 View
The High-Rise in Fort Fierce

The High-Rise in Fort Fierce

 Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019 Long-Shortlisted, 2019 Relit Award (Short Story Category) Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in … 224 View
The Invisible World Is in Decline
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The Invisible World Is in Decline

Book IX

 The stunning conclusion to a 40-year poetic project In the tradition of earlier modernist long poems like Ezra Pound’s Cantos and bp Nichol’s The Martyrology, The Invisible World Is … 98 View
The Iron Bridge

The Iron Bridge

 Shortlisted, Danuta Gleed Literary Award In a bold, brilliant collection of stories, Dora Award-winning playwright Anton Piatigorsky delivers a superbly inspired inquiry into the early lives of … 272 View
The Knowing Animals

The Knowing Animals

 Shortlisted for the 2020 New Brunswick Book Award/Fiddlehead Poetry Prize Short/Longlisted for the 2021 Relit Award for Poetry Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being … 104 View
The Most Charming Creatures
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The Most Charming Creatures

Poems

 With uncanny wit, inventive beauty, and numinous surprise, The Most Charming Creatures explores the contemporary and its language, considering our wonder, sorrow, bewilderment, anxiety, and … 128 View
The Nothing That Is

The Nothing That Is

Essays on Art, Literature and Being

 Rather than making “something” out of “nothing,” what follows is an endeavour to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is infinitely beyond both … 134 View
The Razor's Edge
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The Razor’s Edge

 A collection of linked short stories that hopscotches between time and space to explore the haunting hunger that reaches beyond the physical and into the spiritual—for love, for … 156 View
The Suicide’s Son

The Suicide’s Son

 “I believe in the power of original sin,” writes James Arthur, “in the wound/ that keeps on wounding.” Set against a backdrop of political turmoil in the United States, … 89 View
The Sunday Book
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The Sunday Book

 “A poignant examination of aging and loss.” In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on … 216 View
The Suspect We
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The Suspect We

 In The Suspect We, Roxanna Bennett and Shane Neilson collaborate to make a documentary poetics concerning pandemic conditions for the mad, neurodivergent, and disabled. Written while the world … ; 256 View
The Terracotta Army

The Terracotta Army

 In 1985, Gary Geddes won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region, for The Terracotta Army, a brilliant sequence of his Chinese sonnets. The nine-couplet poems were inspired by his 1981 … 61 View
The Unpublished City

The Unpublished City

Volume I: Anthology

 Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents: 73 View
The Unpublished City

The Unpublished City

Volume II: The Lived City, The Imagined City

 Co-edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-fiction that offer a different, more multifarious wayfinding. In … ; ; 89 View
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