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Divided

 Looking deeply into humanity’s interactions with the animal world, Linda Frank considers our fascination with and fear of nature, as well as our exploitation of all species. These … 104 View
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Dream of Me as Water

Poems

 A stunning sophomore collection from Mythical Man author David Ly. Moving beyond the themes of race, identity, and personhood navigated in Mythical Man, David Ly’s second book of poetry, Dream of … 80 View

East and West

 East and West, Laura Ritland’s astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world … 99 View

Ekke

Poems

 Multilingually inflected, Klara du Plessis’ first collection of poetry explores the multiplicity of self through language, occupying a liminal space between South Africa and Canada. A … 88 View

Fauxccasional Poems

 In Fauxccasional Poems, Daniel Scott Tysdal imagines himself into poetic voices not his own, writing to commemorate events that never occurred, for the posterity of alternative universes — … 98 View

For it is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe

New and Selected Poems

 For thirty-five years, award-winning poet Gary Barwin has been opening up new ways of being in poetry. In this long-awaited new and selected collection, For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to … 256 View
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Frost & Pollen

 Frost & Pollen is a poetry collection in two acts: “Bloom & Martyr” is a sensuous walk through a menacing garden of flowers and desire, while “Foliage” retells the … 137 View
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Granted

Poems of Metaphor

 In Granted, Jeffery Donaldson explores ‘a universe of potential relation’, providing a master class in the art of metaphor by exploring in verse the complexities of identity, … 116 View
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Harbour Grids

Poems

 Harbour Grids is a long poem in four parts that investigates ideas of community and belonging. Beginning as a meditation on the surface of New York Harbor, the poem radiates outward through … 145 View

Has The World Ended Yet?

Stories

 In Has the World Ended Yet? we start with retired superheroes living in a soulless suburbia where everyone gets lost trying to get home. Then the angels start to fall from the sky. Is it … 312 View
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Hell Light Flesh

 In her second collection of poetry, Hell Light Flesh, Klara du Plessis returns with a Dantesque trilogy on family, punishment, and the ferocity and brilliance of creation. Hell Light Flesh drops … 120 View
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Humanimus

poems

 David Huebert’s Humanimus presents a world of soiled nature, of compromised ecology, of toxic transcendence. Raising environmental precarity to the level of mythos, this book implicates … 104 View
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Imminent Domains: Reckoning With The Anthropocene

Essais Series No. 14

 Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and … 273 View
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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Stories

 Featured on CBC’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers The debut collection from PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and ‘propulsive storyteller’ (NYT Book Review), with stories that … 186 View
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Let the World Have You

Poems

 The new collection from RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award winner Mikko Harvey. Mikko Harvey’s new collection invites readers into a world that is and is not the world we know. In poems at … 96 View

Life on Mars

 Long-Shortlisted, 2018 Relit Award (Short Story Category) Shortlisted, 2017 Danuta Gleed Literary Award A 49th Shelf Top Fiction Book of 2017 A middle-aged sportswriter gets a new lease on life … 296 View