Book*hug Press
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() 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 |
![]() BlankEssays & 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 |
![]() 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 |
![]() 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 OccupantA 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! 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 StettheimerNew 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 |
![]() Holy Wild |
In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans woman in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a … | Gwen Benaway | 144 | 2018 | View |
![]() Hope Matters |
Throughout their youth, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter wrote poetry with their mother, award-winning author Lee Maracle. The three always dreamed that one day they would write a book together. … | Columpa Bobb; Lee Maracle; Tania Carter | 177 | 2019 | View |
![]() NEW! Iceland Is Melting and So Are You |
The urgency of the climate emergency is explored in this latest collection by award-winning poet Talya Rubin. It offers recognition of, and salve for, the vast mysteries of the natural world, our … | Talya Rubin | 92 | 2021 | View |
![]() It Begins With the BodyPoems & Illustrations |
It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi’s poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, … | Hana Shafi | 112 | 2018 | View |
![]() Just Pervs |
Two sex addicts meet and fall in love. A woman catches her husband cheating on her with their dog and escapes to her sister’s horse farm. Four friends—fellow pervs—grow up and … | Jess Taylor | 211 | 2019 | View |
![]() 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 |