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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! The Most Charming Creatures Poems ECW Press	With uncanny wit, inventive beauty, and numinous surprise, The Most Charming Creatures explores the contemporary and its language, considering our wonder, sorrow, bewilderment, anxiety, and …	Gary Barwin	128	2022	View
The Nothing That Is Essays on Art, Literature and Being Book*hug Press	Rather than making “something” out of “nothing,” what follows is an endeavour to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is infinitely beyond both …	Johanna Skibsrud	134	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 Quest for a "National" Nationalism E.J. Pratt's Epic Ambition, "Race" Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity Breakwater Books	In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic …	George Elliott Clarke	64	2021	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
NEW! The Sunday Book Palimpsest Press	“A poignant examination of aging and loss.” In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on …	Michael Trussler	216	2022	View
NEW! The Suspect We Palimpsest Press	In The Suspect We, Roxanna Bennett and Shane Neilson collaborate to make a documentary poetics concerning pandemic conditions for the mad, neurodivergent, and disabled. Written while the world …	Roxanna Bennett; Shane Neilson	256	2023	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
These are not the potatoes of my youth Goose Lane Editions	Shortlisted, Trillium Book Award for Poetry and Gerald Lampert Memorial Award In this confessional debut collection, Matthew Walsh meanders through their childhood in rural Nova Scotia, later …	Matthew Walsh	96	2019	View
thicket Palimpsest Press	Melanie Janisse-Barlow’s second book of poetry, Thicket, is a treatise on risk and the uncertainties of language in the modern world. In poems that gather and collect force page after page, …	Melanie Janisse-Barlow	104	2019	View
NEW! This is How it is Breakwater Books	Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell’s This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the …	Sharon King-Campbell	80	2021	View
NEW! Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones At Bay Press	The weight of history lies on the spine of memory. That heft and delicate balance are palpable in these rich poems that echo with grief, longing, and observed beauty. From the silence and …	David Yerex Williamson	128	2022	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! Took You So Long The Porcupine's Quill	Took You So Long presents emotionally resonant stories about challenging relationships and deeply flawed characters mired in the circumstances of their everyday lives. Often out of sight and …	C. I. Matthews	188	2022	View