Place as Character

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The High-Rise in Fort Fierce

 Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019 Long-Shortlisted, 2019 Relit Award (Short Story Category) Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in … 224 View

The Unpublished City

Volume II: The Lived City, The Imagined City

 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 … ; ; 89 View

The Unpublished City

Volume I: Anthology

 Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents: 73 View

This Accident of Being Lost

Songs and Stories

 A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out … 138 View

To Live and Die in Scoudouc

 First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson’s poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh … 96 View

Too Unspeakable For Words

Stories

 Nancy comes of age in a British colonial school in 1950s St. John’s; Georgina discovers women’s liberation in a humorous evocation of the 1960s; Jamie returns to the resettled outport … 160 View
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Took You So Long

 Took You So Long presents emotionally resonant stories about challenging relationships and deeply flawed characters mired in the circumstances of their everyday lives. Often out of sight and … 188 View
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Touch Anywhere to Begin

 From acclaimed author Mark Anthony Jarman comes Touch Anywhere to Begin, his first book of travel writing since the publication of the critically acclaimed Ireland’s Eye in 2002. In 18 unusual, … 256 View

Treaty#

 A treaty is a contract. A treaty is enduring. A treaty is an act of faith. A treaty at its best is justice. It is a document and an undertaking. It is connected to place, people and self. It is … 112 View

Vancouver For Beginners

 In Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood … 106 View

We Are Not in Pakistan

 Ten years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories. Migrating from Central America to the American South, from Metro … 276 View
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From: Riven

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 Thirty-Six Sentences on the Fraser River that Could Serve as a Very Small Nest – Nature Writing 101 – Beseech – To the Artist of Twenty-First Century Canadian Nature Painting … 26 $2.60 Add
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From: An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife

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BIRD AIRCRAFT STRIKE HAZARD (B.A.S.H.) – THE OSTRICH – THE BUFFALO IS A PUZZLING CREATURE – GARGOYLE – STREET FOOD – BIRDWATCHER – THE LYREBIRD – AN … 19 $1.90 Add
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From: Devil in the Woods

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Devil in the Woods: a Preface – Offering Prayer – Letter to Harrison from Camp White Pine at Grass Lake, ON – Letter to Davies from McKecks Tap & Grill in Haliburton, ON … 27 $2.70 Add
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From: Blowing Grass Empire

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 Blowing Grass Empire (i) – This Is a Poem – Clothesline – Loralee – Washing Dishes – After the Stroke – Hell – Small-town Prostitutes – Orbital … 23 $2.30 Add
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Before the Fall

From: Full Circle

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 Circle Game – Orange Papers – The Fall of a Man – A Cure for Pessimism – Edith – Shock Treatment – Inflation – Sound Poets – Limited Liability … 21 $2.10 Add