Place as Character

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl Palimpsest Press	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 Breakwater Books	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 Palimpsest Press	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 Occupant A Memoir Book*hug Press	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 Brick Books	D.A. Lockhart’s stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, thoughts, and experiences of an Anishinaabe guy from Central Ontario and the manner in which he interacts with …	D. A. Lockhart	80	2019	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
Full Circle Breakwater Books	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
Lands and Forests Invisible Publishing	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 And Collected Poems Breakwater Books	For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, …	Tom Dawe	396	2019	View
Nitisanak Metonymy Press	Lindsay Nixon’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 …	Lindsay Nixon	202	2019	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
Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names Goose Lane Editions	In this artfully crafted collection, Soraya Mariam Peerbaye leaps onto the stage with aplomb. She examines how naming expresses our relationship with each other and the natural world and how …	Soraya Peerbaye	99	2009	View
River Woman House of Anansi Press	Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature — its …	Katherena Vermette	114	2018	View
The Book of Festus Palimpsest Press	Festus wakes inside a myth—on a wharf in Halifax, Nova Scotia— and recalls nothing but a bicycle. As he looks for it, he thinks the city’s thoughts. Upon a sidewalk over a …	John Wall Barger	112	2015	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