Atlantic Literature

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Rafael Has Pretty Eyes Stories Goose Lane Editions	"You go through life convinced you’re going to get diabetes like your old man and one day you choke to death on chicken gristle, and the autopsy shows your blood sugars were …	Elaine McCluskey	254	2022	View
Running the Whale’s Back Stories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada Goose Lane Editions	In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale’s Back presents a host of Eastern Canada’s brightest literary talents, all putting pens to paper to …	Andrew Atkinson	304	2013	View
Soak Breakwater Books	This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in …	Kerri Cull	64	2012	View
Something for Everyone Stories House of Anansi Press	Internationally celebrated as one of literature’s most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden …	Lisa Moore	313	2018	View
The Book of Festus Palimpsest Press	Festus wakes inside a myth—on a wharf in Halifax, Nova Scotia— and recalls nothing but a bicycle. As he looks for it, he thinks the city’s thoughts. Upon a sidewalk over a …	John Wall Barger	112	2015	View
The Cuffer Anthology, Volume VII A Collection of Short Stories from Newfoundland and Labrador Breakwater Books	Now in its eighth year, the Cuffer Prize is sponsored by The Telegram and Creative Book Publishing in St. John’s. It showcases some of the best short fiction from Newfoundland and Labrador …	Pam Frampton	152	2015	View
The Drunken, Lovely Bird Goose Lane Editions	Winner, American Independent Publishers Poetry Prize Sue Sinclair writes in a lyrical tradition that subverts the stereotype of "Canadian women’s" poetry while still playing with …	Sue Sinclair	92	2004	View
The Essential Charles Bruce Selected by Carmine Starnino The Porcupine's Quill	The Essential Charles Bruce introduces the poet’s work, long out of print, to modern audiences with a selection of his straightforward yet stirring verses that take as their subject the …	Charles Bruce	68	2018	View
The Essential Travis Lane The Porcupine's Quill	The Essential Travis Lane presents a selection of poems by a Canadian poet who combines exquisite observations of the natural world with profound thoughts about time and mortality. Inspired by …	Travis Lane	68	2015	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
NEW! The Love Olympics Breakwater Books	Characters weave their way in and out of The Love Olympics, a collection of short fiction set in St. John’s. The book is about various forms of love—the ways love grips us, shakes us, …	Claire Wilkshire	240	2021	View
NEW! The Running Trees Stories Goose Lane Editions	A striking original, deftly humorous collection of stories that considers the quest for truth: how we come to it or alternatively avoid it. A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads …	Amber McMillan	220	2021	View
NEW! The Suspect We Palimpsest Press	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 …	Roxanna Bennett; Shane Neilson	256	2023	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
NEW! This is How it is Breakwater Books	Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell’s This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the …	Sharon King-Campbell	80	2021	View
To Live and Die in Scoudouc Goose Lane Editions	First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson’s poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh …	Herménégilde Chiasson	96	2018	View