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Bear Bones & Feathers
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Bear Bones & Feathers

 In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. Employing … 144 View
Beast at Every Threshold
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Beast at Every Threshold

Poems

 A formidable collection of poems that deconstructs the notion of "otherness" through folklore and myth. An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial … 105 View
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

 Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism, settler … 184 View
Bi-gishkoziitwin biidaanzhed biidaabang

Bi-gishkoziitwin biidaanzhed biidaabang

 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, … 80 View
Black Matters
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Black Matters

 Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a … 80 View
Blank

Blank

Essays & Interviews

 Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada’s most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. … 349 View
Blood
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Blood

 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 … 128 View
Breaking Boundaries

Breaking Boundaries

LGBTQ2 Writers on Coming Out and Into Canada

 An anthology of stories and poetry by LGBTQ2 writers who have immigrated to Canada or who were born in Canada. 148 View
Buffalo is the New Buffalo
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Buffalo is the New Buffalo

Stories

 Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among … 347 View
Burning in This Midnight Dream
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Burning in This Midnight Dream

 Many of the poems in Louise Halfe’s Burning in This Midnight Dream were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares that arose in her as the Truth and … 104 View
calling down the sky

calling down the sky

 Calling Down the Sky is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post-generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1960’s … 80 View
Cane | Fire
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Cane | Fire

Poems

 From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry. Throughout this evocative, … 126 View
Correspondent

Correspondent

 An on-the-scene report of a childhood abroad. A child’s vision of real-world events made real (and unreal) by the presence of his father. Memories of snow falling on Quebec City’s … 96 View
Cyclettes
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Cyclettes

 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 … 219 View
day/break

day/break

 day/break, poet Gwen Benaway’s fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, … 103 View
Devil in the Woods

Devil in the Woods

 A collection of letter and prayer poems in which an Indigenous speaker engages with non-Indigenous famous Canadians. D.A. Lockhart’s stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, … 80 View