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Swans

 Michelle Brown’s second book of poetry, Swans, begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age … 80 View
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Swollening

 A tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope. Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at … 113 View
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Test Piece

 Ways of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems Though they started from Sheryda Warrener’s impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems in Test Piece ended up … 82 View
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The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

 A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “real” in a poem, a … 153 View

The Flower Can Always Be Changing

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 From the bestselling author of Rumi and the Red Handbag comes a new collection of brief essays about the intersection of poetry, painting, photography and beauty. Inspired by the words of … 136 View

The High-Rise in Fort Fierce

 Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019 Long-Shortlisted, 2019 Relit Award (Short Story Category) Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in … 224 View

The Iron Bridge

 Shortlisted, Danuta Gleed Literary Award In a bold, brilliant collection of stories, Dora Award-winning playwright Anton Piatigorsky delivers a superbly inspired inquiry into the early lives of … 272 View
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The Sunday Book

 “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 … 216 View
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The Suspect We

 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 … ; 256 View

thicket

 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, … 104 View
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This is How it is

 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 … 80 View
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Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones

 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 … 128 View
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Touch Anywhere to Begin

 From acclaimed author Mark Anthony Jarman comes Touch Anywhere to Begin, his first book of travel writing since the publication of the critically acclaimed Ireland’s Eye in 2002. In 18 unusual, … 256 View
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Trailer Park Shakes

 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, … 99 View

True Concessions

 Winner, Archibald Lampman Poetry Award and Ottawa Book Award These poems chart moments where the beauty of life is glimpsed like a carnival through a crack in a fence. The verse is full of living … 76 View

War / Torn

 Lambda Literary Award-winner Hasan Namir’s debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of … 115 View