Rural Literature

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Amateurs at Love Goose Lane Editions	Love is a boxcar going off the rails. For anyone who has experienced the highs and lows of love and wants to know they are not alone. Patricia Young’s new collection confirms her status as …	Patricia Young	104	2018	View
Anything but the Moon Goose Lane Editions	George Sipos is acutely aware that life, in its strangeness and beauty, will always elude whatever he can say about it. Exploring northern British Columbia, the mountains, harsh winters and human …	George Sipos	104	2005	View
NEW! awâsis – kinky and dishevelled Brick Books	There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through shapeshifting, adopting different genders, exploring the English language with …	Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer	88	2021	View
Be Scared of Everything Horror Essays Invisible Publishing	Horror essays that read like Chuck Klosterman filtered through H. P. Lovecraft. Slinging ectoplasm, tombstones, and chainsaws with aplomb, Be Scared of Everything is a frighteningly smart …	Peter Counter	202	2020	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! 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
Hot Town and Other Stories At Bay Press	The small town is a haven in an unruly world. There is much reassurance in the familiar. Shirley at the post office knows everybody’s name. Bingo is every Wednesday night at the Legion. The …	Janet Trull	196	2016	View
I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game Breakwater Books	Richly imagined and evocative, I’d Write the Sea like a Parlour Game explores the diversity and resilience that inhabit life at the margins, from tuckamore trails to the streets of a …	Alison Dyer	75	2017	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
Lost Animal Club NeWest Press	Winner of Best Book Cover at the 2017 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! In his debut story collection, Kevin A. Couture creates a world where the veneer of humanness stretches thin and often cracks …	Kevin A. Couture	168	2016	View
NEW! Night Watch The Vet Suite Invisible Publishing	Full of humour and compassion, Night Watch collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians. Wigmore’s vets struggle to stay awake during unending calving seasons, …	Gillian Wigmore	154	2021	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
On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood Wolsak and Wynn	The great Alberta flood of 2013 slides through Richard Harrison’s latest collection, its rising waters pulling his books of poetry off their shelves, washing the ink from letters kept in …	Richard Harrison	96	2016	View
River Woman House of Anansi Press	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
NEW! Something’s Burning At Bay Press	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! Swollening Arsenal Pulp Press	A tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope. Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at …	Jason Purcell	113	2022	View