Place as Character
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl |
In poems that could double as paintings, M. Travis Lane harnesses the brush strokes of language to form a bridge between the artist and natural world in A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl. This is … | M. Travis Lane | 88 | 2019 | View |
![]() An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife |
Katie Vautour’s extraordinary debut collection is an eclectic examination of the space where humans and animals meet, where migratory patterns encounter commercial flights, and birds appear … | Katie Vautour | 84 | 2019 | View |
![]() Blowing Grass Empire |
A storyteller above all else, Mark Lavorato’s poems are penned in a clear, poignant, and relatable voice. His mostly narrative vignettes choose to hide things in plain sight, and are buoyed … | Mark Lavorato | 72 | 2018 | View |
![]() Dear Current OccupantA Memoir |
Dear Current Occupant is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays … | Chelene Knight | 133 | 2018 | 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! Dream of Me as WaterPoems |
A stunning sophomore collection from Mythical Man author David Ly. Moving beyond the themes of race, identity, and personhood navigated in Mythical Man, David Ly’s second book of poetry, Dream of … | David Ly | 80 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! Entre Rive and Shore |
“I used to think this was a book about a disguise, but now I know that it’s a book about translation.” According to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison … | Dominique Bernier-Cormier | 104 | 2023 | View |
![]() NEW! Fire Cider Rain |
Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and … | Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin | 104 | 2022 | View |
![]() Full Circle |
Full Circle brings together poetry written across decades by one of Newfoundland’s best-loved writers. Balanced on the sharpest edge of life, yet caught in the ruthless pull of aging and … | Helen Fogwill Porter | 80 | 2018 | View |
![]() NEW! Hard TicketNew Writing Made in Newfoundland |
hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. Hard Ticket showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by … | Lisa Moore | 232 | 2022 | View |
![]() how the gods pour tea |
This new collection by Lynn Davies, her first in eight years, abounds in departures: words and communities die, trout-lilies and passengers vanish, even the King and Queen of Fairies disappear. … | Lynn Davies | 88 | 2013 | View |
![]() NEW! If I Didn’t Love the RiverPoems |
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 |
![]() Lands and Forests |
Escaping government-sanctioned flooding, obsessing over camera-equipped drones, violently mourning a lost brother, discovering a new passion in fencing, watching a wildfire consume a whole town: … | Andrew Forbes | 225 | 2019 | View |
![]() NEW! MONUMENT |
MONUMENT is a conversation with Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal, which moves her legacy beyond the Taj Mahal. MONUMENT upturns notions of love, monumentalisation, and empire by exploring buried … | Manahil Bandukwala | 104 | 2022 | 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 |