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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
The Mean Game Palimpsest Press	The Mean Game—John Wall Barger’s fourth book-length entry in what might be called, collectively, a savage comedy—bristles with allegories that explore human cruelty and …	John Wall Barger	92	2019	View
The Pig Headed Soul Essays and Reviews on Poetry and Culture The Porcupine's Quill	The Pigheaded Soul presents a series of witty, intelligent, and sometimes controversial essays in which talented newcomers and avowed masters alike find themselves within the literary crosshairs …	Jason Guriel	276	2013	View
NEW! The Razor’s Edge The Porcupine's Quill	A collection of linked short stories that hopscotches between time and space to explore the haunting hunger that reaches beyond the physical and into the spiritual—for love, for …	Karl Jirgens	156	2022	View
NEW! The Running Trees Stories Goose Lane Editions	A striking original, deftly humorous collection of stories that considers the quest for truth: how we come to it or alternatively avoid it. A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads …	Amber McMillan	220	2021	View
The Suicide’s Son Véhicule Press	“I believe in the power of original sin,” writes James Arthur, “in the wound/ that keeps on wounding.” Set against a backdrop of political turmoil in the United States, …	James Arthur	89	2019	View
The Terracotta Army Goose Lane Editions	In 1985, Gary Geddes won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region, for The Terracotta Army, a brilliant sequence of his Chinese sonnets. The nine-couplet poems were inspired by his 1981 …	Gary Geddes	61	2010	View
Too Unspeakable For Words Stories Breakwater Books	Nancy comes of age in a British colonial school in 1950s St. John’s; Georgina discovers women’s liberation in a humorous evocation of the 1960s; Jamie returns to the resettled outport …	Rosalind Gill	160	2017	View
NEW! Trailer Park Shakes Brick Books	These poems, while dreamlike and playful, bear unflinching witness to the workings of injustice — how violence is channeled through institutions and refracted intimately between people, …	Justene Dion-Glowa	99	2022	View
Twoism Goose Lane Editions	Part roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body’s limits and its trickery, you are …	Ali Blythe	72	2015	View
NEW! Vixen Book*hug Press	Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence. …	Sandra Riley	81	2023	View
NEW! Wet Dream Brick Books	Wet Dream is an expansive book of ecological thinking for living on a wet planet on fire. Erotic and political, vibrating with pleasures, medicines, and unrest, these poems metabolize toxic …	Erin Robinsong	130	2022	View
What We Carry Véhicule Press	What We Carry is a profound exploration of the weight of human history at three levels: the individual, the cultural, and environmental. From her brilliant “Extinction …	Susan Glickman	92	2019	View
Write Across Canada An Anthology of Emerging Writers Book*hug Press	The stories and poems gathered in Write Across Canada showcase a mere sampling of emerging writers working in Canada today. Selected by their mentors working in creative writing programs from …	Geoffrey Taylor; Joseph Kertes	112	2019	View
From NEW! 0 From: The Fool View Goose Lane Editions	1 – Itinerants	Jesse Jones	3	2020	$0.30 Add
From 1 From: Stranger View Véhicule Press	Appentites – Modernity – Then and Now – I Declared my Ethnicity – Mimes – Beach Spleen – Notes on a Middle Aged Poet – Resolve – The Vireo – …	Nyla Matuk	13	2016	$1.30 Add