Ontario Literature

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Devil in the Woods Brick Books	A collection of letter and prayer poems in which an Indigenous speaker engages with non-Indigenous famous Canadians. D.A. Lockhart’s stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, …	D. A. Lockhart	80	2019	View
Don’t Honk Twice A Prince Edward County Anthology Invisible Publishing	Prince Edward County is a place of stories—of farming equipment gone awry, Horn Trips, unruly vineyards, Meat Rolls, and more. These are the stories you’re likely to hear over a beer …	Leigh Nash; Tanya Finestone	185	2019	View
NEW! Her First Palestinian House of Anansi Press	Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink. Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories …	Saeed Teebi	256	2022	View
Hot Town and Other Stories At Bay Press	The small town is a haven in an unruly world. There is much reassurance in the familiar. Shirley at the post office knows everybody’s name. Bingo is every Wednesday night at the Legion. The …	Janet Trull	196	2016	View
Is This Scary? Poems ECW Press	A challenging exploration of mental illness and disability from Governor General’s Award winner Jacob Scheier. Is This Scary? digs deep into internal landscapes of suffering, including depression …	Jacob Scheier	88	2021	View
Mobile Book*hug Press	Mobile is an uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women …	Tanis MacDonald	121	2019	View
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! Nought Book*hug Press	Nought, a new collection of poetry from Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Julie Joosten, explores the intersections of body, identity, and love. These poems, in all their passions, …	Julie Joosten	148	2020	View
NEW! Poetry Is Queer Palimpsest Press	Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word …	Kirby	231	2021	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
Shared Universe New and Selected Poems 1995-2020 ECW Press	“An invaluable aid in this time of troubled spirits, muddled truths, and convoluted thinking.” — Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo Paul Vermeersch has reinvented the “new and …	Paul Vermeersch	244	2020	View
NEW! tend poems Book*hug Press	Visceral and playful, tend reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. Hargreaves’ latest collection explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; …	Kate Hargreaves	94	2022	View
The Unpublished City Volume I: Anthology Book*hug Press	Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents:	Dionne Brand	73	2017	View
The Unpublished City Volume II: The Lived City, The Imagined City Book*hug Press	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 …	Canisia Lubrin; Dionne Brand; Phoebe Wang	89	2018	View
This Ramshackle Tabernacle Breakwater Books	This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken lives of …	Samuel Martin	216	2010	View
NEW! Took You So Long The Porcupine's Quill	Took You So Long presents emotionally resonant stories about challenging relationships and deeply flawed characters mired in the circumstances of their everyday lives. Often out of sight and …	C. I. Matthews	188	2022	View