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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Double MelancholyArt, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man |
According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experiences, and through which they construct their own … | C.E. Gatchalian | 141 | 2019 | View |
NEW! Dream of Me as WaterPoems |
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 … | David Ly | 80 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Duct-Taped Roses |
In Duct-Taped Roses, Billeh Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss. As a bush pilot, Nickerson’s father would duct-tape … | Billeh Nickerson | 93 | 2021 | View |
Dust or Fire |
Is this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber’s assured début examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us … | Alyda Faber | 112 | 2016 | View |
EkkePoems |
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 … | Klara du Plessis | 88 | 2018 | View |
Escape Velocity |
Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry Award Carmelita McGrath’s Escape Velocity — the long awaited follow-up to her Atlantic Poetry Prize-winning collection To the New World — culls … | Carmelita McGrath | 96 | 2013 | View |
even this page is white |
As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya has, over the course of the last few years, established herself as a tour de force artist of the highest order. … | Vivek Shraya | 117 | 2016 | View |
NEW! Ezra’s Ghostsstories |
CBC Books Best Canadian Fiction of 2022! Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra’s Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, … | Darcy Tamayose | 288 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Fear the MirrorStories |
A fusion of biography and history, art and politics, told through the lives branching off one family tree. In Fear the Mirror, Cora Siré brings together thirteen stories of moments that have … | Cora Siré | 212 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Fire Cider Rain |
Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and … | Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin | 104 | 2022 | View |
Four-Letter Words |
Chad Pelley’s Four-Letter Words, his collection of award-winning short stories, presents us with characters haunted by one four-letter word or another: love, hate, lust, or loss. A father … | Chad Pelley | 168 | 2016 | View |
NEW! God Isn’t Here Today |
For fans of Chuck Palahniuk, Joyce Carol Oates, and Karen Russell, the stories in Francine Cunningham’s debut collection God Isn’t Here Today ricochet between form and genre, taking … | Francine Cunningham | 249 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Hard TicketNew Writing Made in Newfoundland |
hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. Hard Ticket showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by … | Lisa Moore | 232 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Her First Palestinian |
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink. Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories … | Saeed Teebi | 256 | 2022 | View |
NEW! How to Hold a Pebblepoems |
How do we scale up our imagination of the human? How does one live one’s life in the Anthropocene? How to Hold a Pebble—Jaspreet Singh’s second collection of poems—locates humans in the … | Jaspreet Singh | 104 | 2022 | View |
I Hope We Choose LoveA Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World |
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of … | Kai Cheng Thom | 156 | 2019 | View |