Western Literature

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Swollening
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Swollening

A tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope. Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at … 113 View
The Sunday Book
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The Sunday Book

“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 … 216 View
These are not the potatoes of my youth

These are not the potatoes of my youth

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 … 96 View
Trailer Park Shakes
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Trailer Park Shakes

These poems, while dreamlike and playful, bear unflinching witness to the workings of injustice — how violence is channeled through institutions and refracted intimately between people, … 99 View
Vancouver For Beginners

Vancouver For Beginners

In Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood … 106 View
We All Need to Eat

We All Need to Eat

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We All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, … 186 View
Write Across Canada

Write Across Canada

An Anthology of Emerging Writers

The stories and poems gathered in Write Across Canada showcase a mere sampling of emerging writers working in Canada today. Selected by their mentors working in creative writing programs from … ; 112 View
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On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood – A Poem in the Arms of Tyrannosaurus Rex – Gone – This Son of York – The World Made New – Slinky – Now is … 19 $1.90 Add
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From: Avalanche

This chapter contains the short story "This Is the Way" 5 $0.50 Add
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British Columbia

From: Write Across Canada

Memories from Milk Crates – Granny ; 6 $0.60 Add
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Enter by the rivers or inlet

Enter by the rivers or inlet

From: Vancouver For Beginners

Rainforest Paradise – Mouth of The Fraser River – Forest Fire Season – Barter – Inlet Echocardiogram – Lovers –Postcard Home From English Bay – Marpole … 17 $1.70 Add
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From: Otolith

Pre-dawn Walk – In the Forest I Found an Organ – Directions to Crabapples – Float House b. 1919 – Fog – Float House – A Geologist Conducts an Aerial Survey of … 18 $1.80 Add
Love Story Medicine

Love Story Medicine

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Love Story Medicine

From: Nitisanak

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From: East and West

Summer Parties – First Houses – Tasks – Doorknob Talk – Vincent, In the Dream of Zundert – Introduction to Mystery – Arrival at the New College – Norway … 13 $1.30 Add
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Out Of Body

From: Kingdom

Ratio – Hinge – Earliest Memory – Duet – Subdivision – Find – The Promise – Church Girls – Prayer – Dear Diary: February 22, 1995 – … 24 $2.40 Add