Metaphor
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Lost Animal Club |
Winner of Best Book Cover at the 2017 Alberta Book Publishing Awards! In his debut story collection, Kevin A. Couture creates a world where the veneer of humanness stretches thin and often cracks … | Kevin A. Couture | 168 | 2016 | View |
Maunder |
Maundering is both a physical and verbal process. One can walk in a maundering, aimless fashion and one can verbosely maunder on. Claire Kelly’s debut collection, Maunder, contains poems … | Claire Kelly | 96 | 2017 | View |
NEW! Mere ExtinctionPoems |
In Evie Christie’s third book mothers nurse babies as the world comes to an end, fathers hustle or drift, the pastoral and the present collide, violence, love, and death gently fill the … | Evie Christie | 61 | 2021 | View |
NEW! MiscreationsPoems |
Miscreations, the second collection by Grant Loveys, mulls over the metaphorical concept of miscreation — how people, objects, and relationships are imperfectly designed by their various … | Grant Loveys | 88 | 2020 | View |
NEW! My Grief, the Sun |
The highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani. In Sanna Wani’s poems, each verse is ode and elegy. The body is the page, time is a friend, and every voice, a soul. … | Sanna Wani | 112 | 2022 | 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 |
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 |
Re-Origin of SpeciesPoems |
From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as … | Alessandra Naccarato | 98 | 2019 | View |
NEW! Selvage |
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 |
Soak |
This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in … | Kerri Cull | 64 | 2012 | View |
NEW! Sunny Ways |
- | Ryan Fitzpatrick | 106 | 2023 | View |
NEW! Swans |
Michelle Brown’s second book of poetry, Swans, begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age … | Michelle Brown | 80 | 2023 | View |
NEW! Swollening |
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! Text MessagesOr How I Found Myself Time Travelling |
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 |
The Essential Douglas LePanPoems |
The Essential Douglas LePan presents a wide-ranging collection of poetry—from tense verses on the fog of war to homoerotic love poems to lyrics in praise of the natural world, all in … | Douglas LePan; John Barton | 64 | 2019 | View |
NEW! The Fool |
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 |