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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Phantompains Poetry	Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, …	Therese Estacion	101	2021	View
NEW! Places Like These	A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual …	Lauren Carter	251	2023	View
NEW! Plenitude Poems	A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state’s boardroom walls. The …	Daniel Sarah Karasik	96	2022	View
NEW! Queers Like Me	Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. In these poems, …	Michael V. Smith	149	2023	View
Re-Origin of Species Poems	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
Refuse CanLit in Ruins	CanLit—the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because …	Erin Wunker; Hannah McGregor; Julie Rak	221	2018	View
NEW! Spawn Poems	Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, …	Kristen Renee Miller; Marie-Andrée Gill	89	2020	View
NEW! tend poems	Visceral and playful, tend reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. Hargreaves’ latest collection explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; …	Kate Hargreaves	94	2022	View
The Bones are There	Zigzagging across the globe, Kate Sutherland’s fourth book is poetry by way of collage: pieced-together excerpts from travellers’ journals, ships’ logs, textbooks and manuals, …	Kate Sutherland	112	2020	View
NEW! The Lightning of Possible Storms	Aleya’s world starts to unravel after a café customer leaves behind a collection of short stories. Surprised and disturbed to discover that the book has been dedicated to her, Aleya …	Jonathan Ball	202	2020	View
The Nothing That Is Essays 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 Unpublished City Volume I: Anthology	Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents:	Dionne Brand	73	2017	View
The Unpublished City Volume II: The Lived City, The Imagined City	Co-edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-fiction that offer a different, more multifarious wayfinding. In …	Canisia Lubrin; Dionne Brand; Phoebe Wang	89	2018	View
NEW! Tongues On Longing and Belonging through Language	In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and …	Ayelet Tsabari; Eufemia Fantetti; Leonarda Carranza	242	2021	View
NEW! Umbilical Cord	Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir shares a joyful collection about parenting, fatherhood, and hope. These warm, free-verse poems document the journey that he and his …	Hasan Namir	112	2021	View
Vancouver For Beginners	In Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood …	Alex Leslie	106	2019	View