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Fire Cider Rain

Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and … 104 View

For it is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe

New and Selected Poems

For thirty-five years, award-winning poet Gary Barwin has been opening up new ways of being in poetry. In this long-awaited new and selected collection, For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to … 256 View
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Harbour Grids

Poems

Harbour Grids is a long poem in four parts that investigates ideas of community and belonging. Beginning as a meditation on the surface of New York Harbor, the poem radiates outward through … 145 View
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Hard Ticket

New Writing Made in Newfoundland

hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. Hard Ticket showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by … 232 View

Hear and Foretell

Hear and Foretell is a compelling poetry collection with a spotlight on urban Aboriginal life in Canada. The poems illustrate deep spiritual transformations and understandings of the ever-present … 96 View

Heart on Fist

Essays and Reviews, 1970-2016

An award-winning poet, M. Travis Lane has also been one of Canada’s most productive literary critics over the past fifty years, having contributed several hundred reviews to Canadian … 296 View
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Heating the Outdoors

Irreverent and transcendent, lyrical and slang, Heating the Outdoors is an endlessly surprising new work from award-winning poet Marie-Andrée Gill. In these micropoems, writing and love are … ; 99 View

Holy Wild

In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans woman in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a … 144 View
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How to Hold a Pebble

poems

How do we scale up our imagination of the human? How does one live one’s life in the Anthropocene? How to Hold a Pebble—Jaspreet Singh’s second collection of poems—locates humans in the … 104 View
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Hsin

22 Debut Canadian poetry collections to read, CBC 2022 Nanci Lee’s debut explores 4th Century Su Hui’s palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, … 88 View

Hustling Verse

An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry

In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience through the … ; 214 View

Hymnswitch

Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Four years ago, Ali Blythe arrived with Twoism, a remarkable debut collection, every line shimmering with life and shivering with erotically charged … 72 View

I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me?

Intimate, nostalgic, and surprising, the poems in I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? spark connections that alter trajectory and carry lasting resonance. Encounters across phone lines, over drinks, … 89 View

I Hope We Choose Love

A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of … 156 View
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If I Didn’t Love the River

Poems

In this virtuoso display of sonnets, free verse, prose poems, villanelles, ghazals, and aphorisms, People’s Poet Robert Priest makes it clear why the Pacific Rim Review has called him … 137 View
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Imminent Domains: Reckoning With The Anthropocene

Essais Series No. 14

Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and … 273 View