Urban Literature

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Above Discovery Invisible Publishing	A couple coping with a recent loss are tasked with taking stock of a late biology enthusiast’s hoard. A support worker dedicated to rehabilitating young women suffering from, among other …	Jennifer Falkner	121	2023	View
NEW! All the Shining People Stories House of Anansi Press	Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home. All the Shining People explores migration, diaspora, and belonging within …	Kathy Friedman	256	2022	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
Bi-gishkoziitwin biidaanzhed biidaabang Bookland Press	Bi-gishkoziitwin Biidaanzhed Biidaabang, an Ojibwa translation of Rising with a Distant Dawn, is a powerful and moving poetry collection which stretches across the boundaries of skin colour, …	David Groulx	80	2015	View
NEW! Blood Brick Books	Conceived in the same world as their acclaimed debut, Bones, Tyler Pennock’s Blood centres around a protagonist who at first has difficulty knowing the difference between connection and …	Tyler Pennock	128	2022	View
NEW! Cyclettes Book*hug Press	Cyclettes is an original, insightful artifact of modern life. What does it mean to be happy, to be sated, to live a meaningful life? Is wanderlust curable? Is depression? Echoing the sensation of …	Tree Abraham	219	2022	View
NEW! Democratically Applied Machine Palimpsest Press	Robert Colman’s third book of poetry, Democratically Applied Machine, is a back-to-basics approach to creation. In poems that inhabit both industrial and domestic landscapes, Colman traces …	Robert Colman	80	2020	View
NEW! Harbour Grids Poems Invisible Publishing	Harbour Grids is a long poem in four parts that investigates ideas of community and belonging. Beginning as a meditation on the surface of New York Harbor, the poem radiates outward through …	Zane Koss	145	2022	View
Hear and Foretell Bookland Press	Hear and Foretell is a compelling poetry collection with a spotlight on urban Aboriginal life in Canada. The poems illustrate deep spiritual transformations and understandings of the ever-present …	Joseph A. Dandurand	96	2015	View
NEW! Horrible Dance Brick Books	A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and …	Avery Lake	72	2022	View
NEW! Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century Stories Coach House Books	Featured on CBC’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers The debut collection from PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and ‘propulsive storyteller’ (NYT Book Review), with stories that …	Kim Fu	186	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
NEW! Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth Stories House of Anansi Press	In stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life. The president of a holistic dog food company is haunted by a pop song from her …	Christopher Evans	248	2022	View
Players Palimpsest Press	Staged in an urban dreamscape, Players fuses popular culture with narratives about hand-to-hand combat, how to hustle, and high art. Taking lyrical cues from hip-hop, Nyman’s poetry bends …	John Nyman	96	2016	View
NEW! Rafael Has Pretty Eyes Stories Goose Lane Editions	"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
Safe Words Palimpsest Press	From a student’s confrontation with a teenage streaker, to a company man’s complete undoing at his summer party, Michelle Brown’s Safe Words finds rich darkness in happy …	Michelle Brown	72	2018	View