Western Literature

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! A thin fire runs through me Goose Lane Editions	How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in. Each line a strip of skin torn from me. In A thin fire runs through me, Kim Trainor interrogates what it means to exist, to …	Kim Trainor	88	2023	View
Anything but the Moon Goose Lane Editions	George Sipos is acutely aware that life, in its strangeness and beauty, will always elude whatever he can say about it. Exploring northern British Columbia, the mountains, harsh winters and human …	George Sipos	104	2005	View
NEW! Avalanche Invisible Publishing	A middle-class, white Canadian echo of The White Lotus, the stories in Avalanche combine humour with an earnest examination and indictment of white entitlement, guilt, shame, and …	Jessica Westhead	161	2023	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
Echolocation Stories NeWest Press	In this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous …	Karen Hofmann	256	2019	View
NEW! Everyone at This Party Goose Lane Editions	In Tanja Bartel’s riveting poetry debut, the bucolic Vancouver suburbs clash with the interpersonal. The reader dips into the lives of individuals whose day-to-day is anything but peaceful, …	Tanja Bartel	80	2020	View
Gatecrasher Invisible Publishing	The poems in Gatecrasher reimagine social and familial relationships, personal and collective failures, and false nostalgias. Part surreal autobiography, and part observation of how physical and …	Susan Buis	74	2019	View
NEW! God Isn’t Here Today Invisible Publishing	For fans of Chuck Palahniuk, Joyce Carol Oates, and Karen Russell, the stories in Francine Cunningham’s debut collection God Isn’t Here Today ricochet between form and genre, taking …	Francine Cunningham	249	2022	View
NEW! How to Hold a Pebble poems NeWest Press	How do we scale up our imagination of the human? How does one live one’s life in the Anthropocene? How to Hold a Pebble—Jaspreet Singh’s second collection of poems—locates humans in the …	Jaspreet Singh	104	2022	View
NEW! If I Didn’t Love the River Poems ECW Press	In this virtuoso display of sonnets, free verse, prose poems, villanelles, ghazals, and aphorisms, People’s Poet Robert Priest makes it clear why the Pacific Rim Review has called him …	Robert Priest	137	2022	View
NEW! Imminent Domains: Reckoning With The Anthropocene Essais Series No. 14 Book*hug Press	Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and …	Alessandra Naccarato	273	2022	View
Kingdom Palimpsest Press	Kingdom is a collection of poems that asks questions and argues with the answers. Although confessional, they do not repent. Both comedic or sombre, these poems search for the meaning found in …	Elizabeth Ross	80	2015	View
Lost Animal Club NeWest Press	Winner of Best Book Cover at the 2017 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! In his debut story collection, Kevin A. Couture creates a world where the veneer of humanness stretches thin and often cracks …	Kevin A. Couture	168	2016	View
Nitisanak Metonymy Press	Jas M. Morgan’s nîtisânak honours blood and chosen kin with equal care. A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, it is woven around grief over the …	Jas M. Morgan	202	2019	View
On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood Wolsak and Wynn	The great Alberta flood of 2013 slides through Richard Harrison’s latest collection, its rising waters pulling his books of poetry off their shelves, washing the ink from letters kept in …	Richard Harrison	96	2016	View
Otolith Goose Lane Editions	Otolith — the ear stone — is a series of bones that help us to orient ourselves in space. In Otolith, Emily Nilsen attempts a similar feat in poetry: to turn the reader’s …	Emily Nilsen	96	2018	View