Ontario Literature
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Devil in the Woods |
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 TwiceA Prince Edward County Anthology |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 UniverseNew and Selected Poems 1995-2020 |
“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! tendpoems |
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 CityVolume I: Anthology |
Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents: | Dionne Brand | 73 | 2017 | View |
![]() The Unpublished CityVolume II: The Lived City, The Imagined City |
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 |
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 |
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 |