Canadian Identity

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Mother Goose Letters At Bay Press	The Mother Goose Letters comprises the annotated correspondence between Mother Goose and her cohorts in Britain concerning migration to the Canadian Prairies. The letters reveal both her attempts …	Karen Clavelle	125	2018	View
My Conversations with Canadians Book*hug Press	On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. …	Lee Maracle	170	2017	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
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
Refuse CanLit in Ruins Book*hug Press	CanLit—the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because …	Erin Wunker; Hannah McGregor; Julie Rak	221	2018	View
NEW! Riven Poems ECW Press	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
Running the Whale’s Back Stories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada Goose Lane Editions	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 Invisible Publishing	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
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
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
Sotto Voce Brick Books	Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city’s afflicted …	Maureen Hynes	120	2019	View
The Drunken, Lovely Bird Goose Lane Editions	Winner, American Independent Publishers Poetry Prize Sue Sinclair writes in a lyrical tradition that subverts the stereotype of "Canadian women’s" poetry while still playing with …	Sue Sinclair	92	2004	View
The Glassblowers Goose Lane Editions	George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, the wet leaves of fall are described in language …	George Sipos	104	2010	View
NEW! The Invisible World Is in Decline Book IX ECW Press	The stunning conclusion to a 40-year poetic project In the tradition of earlier modernist long poems like Ezra Pound’s Cantos and bp Nichol’s The Martyrology, The Invisible World Is …	Bruce Whiteman	98	2022	View
NEW! The Quest for a "National" Nationalism E.J. Pratt's Epic Ambition, "Race" Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity Breakwater Books	In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic …	George Elliott Clarke	64	2021	View
NEW! This is How it is Breakwater Books	Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell’s This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the …	Sharon King-Campbell	80	2021	View