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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
NEW! Text Messages Or How I Found Myself Time Travelling Fernwood Publishing	Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman. Composed entirely on a smartphone during air …	Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman	200	2020	View
NEW! The Book of Grief and Hamburgers ECW Press	A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “real” in a poem, a …	Stuart Ross	153	2022	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 Flower Can Always Be Changing Poems Palimpsest Press	From the bestselling author of Rumi and the Red Handbag comes a new collection of brief essays about the intersection of poetry, painting, photography and beauty. Inspired by the words of …	Shawna Lemay	136	2018	View
NEW! The Fool Goose Lane Editions	In tarot, the Fool represents continual beginnings, not being able to see or think past the excitement and potential of a new start. The Fool is also associated with zero — a literal loop. …	Jesse Jones	96	2020	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 Good Arabs Poems Metonymy Press	Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing …	Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch	120	2021	View
The High-Rise in Fort Fierce Goose Lane Editions	Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019 Long-Shortlisted, 2019 Relit Award (Short Story Category) Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in …	Paul Carlucci	224	2018	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
The Knowing Animals Brick Books	Shortlisted for the 2020 New Brunswick Book Award/Fiddlehead Poetry Prize Short/Longlisted for the 2021 Relit Award for Poetry Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being …	Emily Skov-Nielsen	104	2020	View
NEW! The Lightning of Possible Storms Book*hug Press	Aleya’s world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that the book has been dedicated to her, Aleya …	Jonathan Ball	202	2020	View
NEW! The Lost Time Accidents Goose Lane Editions	In this timely and powerful debut, Síle Englert explores what it is to feel othered in a world where everything is connected. Moving through time and memory — from childhood to …	Síle Englert	97	2021	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
The Rumour Bookland Press	The Rumour is a poetry collection that brings a new perspective to the poignant truths and human experiences within Indigenous communities. Through powerful emotions, the poems explore …	Joseph A. Dandurand	80	2018	View