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
NEW! Dream of Me as Water Poems Palimpsest Press	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
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
how the gods pour tea Goose Lane Editions	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
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! My Grief, the Sun House of Anansi Press	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
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	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
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
NEW! Passengers House of Anansi Press	The sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey. Eclectic, unpredictable, and strange, Passengers follows Swedish poet Tomas …	Michael Crummey	128	2022	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