Ontario Literature
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! A Devil Every Day |
Through a kaleidoscope of philosophy, critical theory, and folk theology, A Devil Every Day surveys the terrain where white Western culture blends into pure evil. Twisting into aphorisms, inner … | John Nyman | 88 | 2023 | View |
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! GrantedPoems of Metaphor |
In Granted, Jeffery Donaldson explores ‘a universe of potential relation’, providing a master class in the art of metaphor by exploring in verse the complexities of identity, … | Jeffery Donaldson | 116 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Her Body Among Animals |
In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture, and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world “among … | Paola Ferrante | 265 | 2023 | 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 |
NEW! Queers Like Me |
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 |
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 |
NEW! Selvage |
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 |
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 |