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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip Coach House Books	Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995–2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin. Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past – …	Lisa Robertson	103	2009	View
Listen Before Transmit Wolsak and Wynn	Dani Couture’s latest poems are transmissions that travel across the cosmos and the spaces we live in, as well as within the more intimate distances we navigate between one another. …	Dani Couture	80	2018	View
Lost Animal Club NeWest Press	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
Love in the Chthulucene (Cthulhucene) Wolsak and Wynn	In a collection grappling with #MeToo, climate change and political turmoil, Natalee Caple strives to discover a way forward in charged times. These poems look to acknowledge struggle, to …	Natalee Caple	113	2019	View
Maunder Palimpsest Press	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
Maze Invisible Publishing	Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world—subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multilingual airplane safety instructions, …	Hugh Thomas	98	2019	View
NEW! Mere Extinction Poems ECW Press	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! Miscreations Poems ECW Press	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
Mother Goose Letters At Bay Press	The Mother Goose Letters comprises the annotated correspondence between Mother Goose and her cohorts in Britain concerning migration to the Canadian Prairies. The letters reveal both her attempts …	Karen Clavelle	125	2018	View
NEW! My Grief, the Sun House of Anansi Press	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! Night Watch The Vet Suite Invisible Publishing	Full of humour and compassion, Night Watch collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians. Wigmore’s vets struggle to stay awake during unending calving seasons, …	Gillian Wigmore	154	2021	View
NEW! No One Knows About Us Breakwater Books	Award-winning author Bridget Canning returns with an incisive and unsettling collection that considers what it means to be good—or to be a villain—in our relationships with others. No …	Bridget Canning	280	2022	View
NEW! Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth Stories House of Anansi Press	In stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life. The president of a holistic dog food company is haunted by a pop song from her …	Christopher Evans	248	2022	View
NEW! Passengers House of Anansi Press	The sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey. Eclectic, unpredictable, and strange, Passengers follows Swedish poet Tomas …	Michael Crummey	128	2022	View
NEW! Poisonous If Eaten Raw Goose Lane Editions	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 Nightmares An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry Arsenal Pulp Press	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