Place as Character

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	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	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 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
NEW! Entre Rive and Shore Goose Lane Editions	“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 Coach House Books	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 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
NEW! Hard Ticket New Writing Made in Newfoundland Breakwater Books	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 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
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
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! MONUMENT Brick Books	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 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