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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() NEW! Pistachios in My Pocket |
Poet Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution. In this brave first collection of poems and prose a narrative arc details her family’s escape from Iran, detailing … | Sareh Farmand | 144 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! Places Like These |
A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual … | Lauren Carter | 251 | 2023 | View |
![]() NEW! PlenitudePoems |
A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state’s boardroom walls. The … | Daniel Sarah Karasik | 96 | 2022 | View |
![]() Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names |
In this artfully crafted collection, Soraya Mariam Peerbaye leaps onto the stage with aplomb. She examines how naming expresses our relationship with each other and the natural world and how … | Soraya Peerbaye | 99 | 2009 | View |
![]() NEW! Poetry Is Queer |
Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word … | Kirby | 231 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Poisonous If Eaten Raw |
In this experimental long poem sequence, Alyda Faber transforms the portrait poem into runic shapes, ice shelved, sculpted, louvered on a winter shoreline. Twenty years after her mother’s … | Alyda Faber | 104 | 2021 | View |
![]() Polari |
"Polari," from the Italian "polare" ("to talk") is a coded language, originating in the UK and dating as far back as the 16th century. Overheard in outdoor markets, … | John Barton | 128 | 2014 | View |
![]() NEW! Queer Little NightmaresAn Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry |
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster … | Daniel Zomparelli; David Ly | 215 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! Queers Like Me |
Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. In these poems, … | Michael V. Smith | 149 | 2023 | View |
![]() NEW! Quiet Night ThinkPoems & Essays |
“Quiet Night Think is a stunning work.” — Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing “One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and … | Gillian Sze | 101 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! Rafael Has Pretty EyesStories |
"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 |
![]() NEW! Rank Songbirds |
Leon Rooke’s Rank Songbirds delves into the drama and humour of love and desire, politics and the passing of time, celebrating humanity’s resilience and its inherent frailty. In Rank … | Leon Rooke | 84 | 2022 | View |
![]() RefuseCanLit in Ruins |
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 |
![]() Ritual Lights |
On "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould": "The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the … | Joelle Barron | 88 | 2018 | View |
![]() NEW! RivenPoems |
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 |
![]() River Woman |
Award-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of … | Katherena Vermette | 114 | 2018 | View |


















