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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Skeletal Wand Palimpsest Press	In her finest collection of poetry to date, Ruth Roach Pierson marshals her considerable expository powers to explore personhood, paranormal phenomenon, and mortality. A Skeletal Wand reaches out …	Ruth Roach Pierson	104	2018	View
NEW! A thin fire runs through me Goose Lane Editions	How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in. Each line a strip of skin torn from me. In A thin fire runs through me, Kim Trainor interrogates what it means to exist, to …	Kim Trainor	88	2023	View
All the Gold Hurts My Mouth Goose Lane Editions	Winner, 2017 ReLit Award Katherine Leyton’s fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and …	Katherine Leyton	64	2016	View
NEW! Almost Beauty New and Selected Poems Goose Lane Editions	Sue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings" (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who "writes her …	Sue Sinclair	224	2022	View
Amateurs at Love Goose Lane Editions	Love is a boxcar going off the rails. For anyone who has experienced the highs and lows of love and wants to know they are not alone. Patricia Young’s new collection confirms her status as …	Patricia Young	104	2018	View
Anything but the Moon Goose Lane Editions	George Sipos is acutely aware that life, in its strangeness and beauty, will always elude whatever he can say about it. Exploring northern British Columbia, the mountains, harsh winters and human …	George Sipos	104	2005	View
NEW! Bear Bones & Feathers Brick Books	In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. Employing …	Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer	144	2022	View
Blowing Grass Empire Palimpsest Press	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 …	Mark Lavorato	72	2018	View
NEW! Boat Coach House Books	From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, poems culled from years of …	Lisa Robertson	177	2022	View
NEW! Cane | Fire Poems Book*hug Press	From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry. Throughout this evocative, …	Shani Mootoo	126	2022	View
NEW! Ceaseless Rain Palimpsest Press	Ceaseless Rain is a meditation on grief. It is a carnival ride where the floor drops out, it is a ghost apple, it is the bones left in the birdbath by crows. This is where the redemptive power of …	Dorothy Mahoney	64	2020	View
Certifiable Goose Lane Editions	Toronto writer Pamela Mordecai is a well-known voice in poetry of the Caribbean diaspora. She has long been a popular anthologist, a mentor to other writers, a frequent contributor to literary …	Pamela Mordecai	100	2001	View
Description of the World Wolsak and Wynn	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 …	Johanna Skibsrud	96	2016	View
Divided Wolsak and Wynn	Looking deeply into humanity’s interactions with the animal world, Linda Frank considers our fascination with and fear of nature, as well as our exploitation of all species. These …	Linda Frank	104	2018	View
NEW! Dream Rooms ESSAIS SERIES NO . 15 Book*hug Press	Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the …	River Halen	200	2022	View
East and West Véhicule Press	East and West, Laura Ritland’s astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world …	Laura Ritland	99	2018	View