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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! My Grief, the Sun House of Anansi Press	The highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani. In Sanna Wani’s poems, each verse is ode and elegy. The body is the page, time is a friend, and every voice, a soul. …	Sanna Wani	112	2022	View
NEW! Orion Sweeping Brick Books	22 Debut Canadian poetry collections to read, CBC 2022 Anne Marie Todkill’s debut recalibrates the anxiety of the present. It gives doubt a hearing, finding resilience in fragility and …	Anne Marie Todkill	88	2022	View
NEW! Plenitude Poems Book*hug Press	A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state’s boardroom walls. The …	Daniel Sarah Karasik	96	2022	View
NEW! Queers Like Me Book*hug Press	Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. In these poems, …	Michael V. Smith	149	2023	View
NEW! Rank Songbirds The Porcupine's Quill	Leon Rooke’s Rank Songbirds delves into the drama and humour of love and desire, politics and the passing of time, celebrating humanity’s resilience and its inherent frailty. In Rank …	Leon Rooke	84	2022	View
Ritual Lights Goose Lane Editions	On "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould": "The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the …	Joelle Barron	88	2018	View
NEW! Selvage Invisible Publishing	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 …	Kate Siklosi	105	2023	View
Smaller Hours Goose Lane Editions	Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks …	Kevin Shaw	80	2017	View
Soft Power Goose Lane Editions	Lyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in Soft Power are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet …	Stewart Cole	88	2019	View
Stranger Véhicule Press	In Stranger, Nyla Matuk’s provocative, unabashedly sensual voice leads us to revelations about how our lives are increasingly disembodied by social media’s flattened, outward identity …	Nyla Matuk	90	2016	View
NEW! Sunny Ways Invisible Publishing		Ryan Fitzpatrick	106	2023	View
The Bones are There Book*hug Press	Zigzagging across the globe, Kate Sutherland’s fourth book is poetry by way of collage: pieced-together excerpts from travellers’ journals, ships’ logs, textbooks and manuals, …	Kate Sutherland	112	2020	View
The Glassblowers Goose Lane Editions	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 …	George Sipos	104	2010	View
The Knowing Animals Brick Books	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 …	Emily Skov-Nielsen	104	2020	View
The Suicide’s Son Véhicule Press	“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, …	James Arthur	89	2019	View
These are not the potatoes of my youth Goose Lane Editions	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 …	Matthew Walsh	96	2019	View