Canadian Literature

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! The Fool Goose Lane Editions	In tarot, the Fool represents continual beginnings, not being able to see or think past the excitement and potential of a new start. The Fool is also associated with zero — a literal loop. …	Jesse Jones	96	2020	View
The Glassblowers Goose Lane Editions	George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, the wet leaves of fall are described in language …	George Sipos	104	2010	View
NEW! The Invisible World Is in Decline Book IX ECW Press	The stunning conclusion to a 40-year poetic project In the tradition of earlier modernist long poems like Ezra Pound’s Cantos and bp Nichol’s The Martyrology, The Invisible World Is …	Bruce Whiteman	98	2022	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 Lightning of Possible Storms Book*hug Press	Aleya’s world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that the book has been dedicated to her, Aleya …	Jonathan Ball	202	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 Muse Sings At Bay Press	The Muse Sings and the poet sings songs of love and longing from states of joy, self-doubt, vexation, curiosity, affection, observation, mock-indignation… The poems speak for themselves and …	Dennis Cooley	168	2020	View
NEW! The Quest for a "National" Nationalism E.J. Pratt's Epic Ambition, "Race" Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity Breakwater Books	In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic …	George Elliott Clarke	64	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 Sunday Book Palimpsest Press	“A poignant examination of aging and loss.” In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on …	Michael Trussler	216	2022	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
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
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
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