Urban Literature

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Shut Up You’re Pretty Stories Arsenal Pulp Press	In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of …	Téa Mutonji	138	2019	View
Smaller Hours Goose Lane Editions	Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks …	Kevin Shaw	80	2017	View
Soft Power Goose Lane Editions	Lyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in Soft Power are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet …	Stewart Cole	88	2019	View
NEW! Sunny Ways Invisible Publishing	-	Ryan Fitzpatrick	106	2023	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
NEW! Test Piece Coach House Books	Ways of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems Though they started from Sheryda Warrener’s impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems in Test Piece ended up …	Sheryda Warrener	82	2022	View
The Unpublished City Volume I: Anthology Book*hug Press	Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents:	Dionne Brand	73	2017	View
The Unpublished City Volume II: The Lived City, The Imagined City Book*hug Press	Co-edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand Orient yourself in the city with these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 …	Canisia Lubrin; Dionne Brand; Phoebe Wang	89	2018	View
These are not the potatoes of my youth Goose Lane Editions	Shortlisted, Trillium Book Award for Poetry and Gerald Lampert Memorial Award In this confessional debut collection, Matthew Walsh meanders through their childhood in rural Nova Scotia, later …	Matthew Walsh	96	2019	View
Things Are Good Now Stories House of Anansi Press	Set in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S., Things Are Good Now examines the weight of the migrant experience on the human psyche. In Djamila Ibrahim’s powerful story …	Djamila Ibrahim	258	2018	View
True Concessions Goose Lane Editions	Winner, Archibald Lampman Poetry Award and Ottawa Book Award These poems chart moments where the beauty of life is glimpsed like a carnival through a crack in a fence. The verse is full of living …	Craig Poile	76	2009	View
NEW! Vox Humana Poems Book*hug Press	Vox Humana (Latin for “human voice”) is driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over …	Adebe DeRango-Adem	110	2022	View
waniskātot kā pē wāpahk Bookland Press	waniskātota kā pē wāpahk, a Cree translation of Rising with a Distant Dawn, is a powerful poetry collection which stretches across the boundaries to give a voice to the lives …	David Groulx	82	2018	View
From 1 From: Hear and Foretell Preview Bookland Press	I Belong – The Kwantlens – A Place Called Kwantlen – Simple Words – Friends Last Never – Murderous Fear – Afterthought Memories – Spring Laughing – …	Joseph A. Dandurand	19	2015	$1.90 Add
From I From: Bi-gishkoziitwin biidaanzhed biidaabang Preview Bookland Press	KWEWAG GII-AANJII-WAG – NGII-BI-KOGINIGOO AANAND DIBAAJIMOOWINAN – ANISHINAABE BINOOJIINYAG GCHI-NESEWAAD – MAA’IINGAN GNOWAABMAAN KWE DOO-NOOJIMOOWIN NGAMOWIN – …	David Groulx	17	2015	$1.70 Add
From I From: waniskātot kā pē wāpahk Preview Bookland Press	iskwēw sipwēpiciw – nikīyopikan ēpētamān acimowina – nēhiyasisak pōtacikēwak – mēstastacikan pētam iskwēw onikamowin …	David Groulx	21	2018	$2.10 Add