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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
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 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! 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
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 Body Poems & 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