2019
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Mobile |
Mobile is an uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women … | Tanis MacDonald | 121 | 2019 | View |
Moving TargetsWriting with Intent, 1982-2004 |
The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood’s work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent … | Margaret Atwood | 438 | 2019 | View |
New And Collected Poems |
For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, … | Tom Dawe | 396 | 2019 | View |
Nitisanak |
Jas M. Morgan’s nîtisânak honours blood and chosen kin with equal care. A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, it is woven around grief over the … | Jas M. Morgan | 202 | 2019 | View |
Re-Origin of SpeciesPoems |
From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as … | Alessandra Naccarato | 98 | 2019 | View |
Send More Tourists, The Last Ones Were Delicious |
With birth, death, contemplation, and close calls, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious explores how we respond to the weight of social expectations. From the hidden pressures … | Tracey Waddleton | 258 | 2019 | View |
Shut Up You’re PrettyStories |
In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of … | Téa Mutonji | 138 | 2019 | View |
Soft Power |
Lyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in Soft Power are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet … | Stewart Cole | 88 | 2019 | View |
Sotto Voce |
Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city’s afflicted … | Maureen Hynes | 120 | 2019 | View |
The Essential Douglas LePanPoems |
The Essential Douglas LePan presents a wide-ranging collection of poetry—from tense verses on the fog of war to homoerotic love poems to lyrics in praise of the natural world, all in … | Douglas LePan; John Barton | 64 | 2019 | View |
The Forbidden Purple City |
Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019 A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely … | Philip Huynh | 264 | 2019 | View |
The Mean Game |
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 Nothing That IsEssays on Art, Literature and Being |
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 Suicide’s Son |
“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 |
These are not the potatoes of my youth |
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 |
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 |