Canadian Literature

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being Book*hug Press	Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism, settler …	Amy Fung	184	2019	View
NEW! Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Book*hug Press	Juxtaposing the diction of surrealism with Ovid, Callimachus, and popular music—punk and new wave—the poems in Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart concern themselves with various aspects …	Beatriz Hausner	112	2020	View
Best Kind New Writing Made in Newfoundland Breakwater Books	In Best Kind, editor and essayist Robert Finley introduces twelve of the most exciting essay writers currently working in Newfoundland. Highlighting a varied and electrifying range of new voices, …	Robert Finley	184	2018	View
NEW! Boat Coach House Books	From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, poems culled from years of …	Lisa Robertson	177	2022	View
NEW! Buffalo is the New Buffalo Stories Arsenal Pulp Press	Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among …	Chelsea Vowel	347	2022	View
Caribou Run Goose Lane Editions	At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured debut by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou …	Richard Kelly Kemick	96	2016	View
Charleswood Road Stories At Bay Press	The fiction and prose selections included in Charleswood Road contrast stark reality with fantasy, mortality with transcendence and explore both the mundane and pivotal choices people make in …	M. C. Joudrey	118	2014	View
NEW! Coconut Poems NeWest Press	In her debut collection, Canadian National Slam Champion Nisha Patel commands her formidable insight and youthful, engaged voice to relay experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and …	Nisha Patel	108	2021	View
Constructive Negativity Prize Culture, Evaluation, and Disability in Canadian Poetry Palimpsest Press	Constructive Negativity is a book of criticism without precedent in Canadian Literature. The result of over twenty years of participation in the nation’s poetry community, it combines Shane …	Shane Neilson	177	2019	View
day/break Book*hug Press	day/break, poet Gwen Benaway’s fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, …	Gwen Benaway	103	2019	View
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
NEW! Dominoes at the Crossroads Véhicule Press	Linked portraits from the Afro-Canadian diaspora. Dominoes at the Crossroads maps an alternate Canada—one crisscrossed by a Caribbean diaspora seeking music, futures, and portals to their …	Kaie Kellough	216	2020	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
Dust or Fire Goose Lane Editions	Is this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber’s assured début examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us …	Alyda Faber	112	2016	View
East and West Véhicule Press	East and West, Laura Ritland’s astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world …	Laura Ritland	99	2018	View
Echo Soundings Essays on Poetry and Poetics Palimpsest Press	Echo Soundings is a collection of Jeffery Donaldson’s critical writings on Canadian and American poets, including James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Strand, Richard Outram, Anne Compton, …	Jeffery Donaldson	264	2014	View