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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! archipelago	The islands of an archipelago are isolated above sea level but attached underwater; connected yet separate. archipelago, the debut poetry collection from Laila Malik, traces fragments of family, …	Laila Malik	91	2023	View
Are The Rivers in Your Poems Real	Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality, and the insidious freight of abstraction, these poems embody the necessity for the critical, the communal, the real. Are …	Moez Surani	104	2019	View
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being	Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism, settler …	Amy Fung	184	2019	View
NEW! Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart	Juxtaposing the diction of surrealism with Ovid, Callimachus, and popular music—punk and new wave—the poems in Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart concern themselves with various aspects …	Beatriz Hausner	112	2020	View
Blank Essays & Interviews	Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada’s most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. …	M. NoubeSe Philip	349	2017	View
NEW! Cane | Fire Poems	From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry. Throughout this evocative, …	Shani Mootoo	126	2022	View
Coconut Dreams	Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various …	Derek Mascarenhas	273	2019	View
NEW! Cyclettes	Cyclettes is an original, insightful artifact of modern life. What does it mean to be happy, to be sated, to live a meaningful life? Is wanderlust curable? Is depression? Echoing the sensation of …	Tree Abraham	219	2022	View
day/break	day/break, poet Gwen Benaway’s fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, …	Gwen Benaway	103	2019	View
Dear Current Occupant A Memoir	Dear Current Occupant is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays …	Chelene Knight	133	2018	View
NEW! Dissonance Engine	Dissonance Engine is an exploration of time, cognition and loss; the intersection of dream and alternate reality amidst myriad systems of control. The collection probes these themes through a …	David Dowker	99	2022	View
NEW! Dream Rooms ESSAIS SERIES NO . 15	Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the …	River Halen	200	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
NEW! Erase and Rewind	An assault survivor realizes she can rewind time and relives the experience in order to erase it. A teen athlete wonders why she isn’t more afraid of death when the plane carrying her team …	Meghan Bell	221	2021	View
Florine Stettheimer New Directions in Multimodal Modernism	Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was Modernism’s great “outlier”—a highly original artist with a boldly interdisciplinary aesthetic that attracted such luminaries as Marcel …	Irene Gammel; Suzanne Zelazo	328	2019	View
NEW! Good Mom on Paper Writers on Creativity and Motherhood	The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt …	Jen Sookfong Lee; Stacey May Fowles	226	2022	View