Place as Character
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 New And Collected Poems |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
 NEW! Pistachios in My Pocket |
Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family’s escape from Iran, detailing … | Sareh Farmand | 144 | 2022 | View |
 Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names |
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 |
 NEW! Rafael Has Pretty EyesStories |
"You go through life convinced you’re going to get diabetes like your old man and one day you choke to death on chicken gristle, and the autopsy shows your blood sugars were … | Elaine McCluskey | 254 | 2022 | View |
 NEW! Rank Songbirds |
Leon Rooke’s Rank Songbirds delves into the drama and humour of love and desire, politics and the passing of time, celebrating humanity’s resilience and its inherent frailty. In Rank … | Leon Rooke | 84 | 2022 | View |
 NEW! RivenPoems |
In 2010, Catherine Owen’s 29-year-old spouse died of a drug addiction. A year later, she relocated to an apartment by the Fraser River in Vancouver, B.C. As she moved beyond the initial … | Catherine Owen | 90 | 2020 | View |
 River Woman |
Award-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of … | Katherena Vermette | 114 | 2018 | View |
 Running the Whale’s BackStories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada |
In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale’s Back presents a host of Eastern Canada’s brightest literary talents, all putting pens to paper to … | Andrew Atkinson | 304 | 2013 | View |
 NEW! Selvage |
Selvage is a work of salvaging and selving, of salvaging a self from disparate elements. Fragments from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the language of trees talking to one another … | Kate Siklosi | 105 | 2023 | View |
 NEW! Smog Mother |
The strongest collection yet from a poet writing at the height of his powers. In Smog Mother, John Wall Barger asks: What is a poet without a home? Over and over he finds answers in the joy of … | John Wall Barger | 104 | 2022 | View |
 NEW! Something’s Burning |
Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed first collection Hot Town and Other Stories, an examination of relationships within communities continues in this new collection of short … | Janet Trull | 352 | 2022 | View |
 NEW! Sunny Ways |
Ryan Fitzpatrick | 106 | 2023 | View | |
 The Book of Festus |
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 |
