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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Autowar	A visceral, vital, unblinking debut collection of poems exploring kinesthetic memory and longing, inherited violence, and the body as a geographical site. We’re often told that we are given …	Assiyah Jamilla Touré	62	2021	View
NEW! awâsis – kinky and dishevelled	There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through shapeshifting, adopting different genders, exploring the English language with …	Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer	88	2021	View
NEW! Bear Bones & Feathers	In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. Employing …	Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer	144	2022	View
NEW! Blood	Conceived in the same world as their acclaimed debut, Bones, Tyler Pennock’s Blood centres around a protagonist who at first has difficulty knowing the difference between connection and …	Tyler Pennock	128	2022	View
NEW! Burning in This Midnight Dream	Many of the poems in Louise Halfe’s Burning in This Midnight Dream were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares that arose in her as the Truth and …	Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer	104	2021	View
Devil in the Woods	D.A. Lockhart’s stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, thoughts, and experiences of an Anishinaabe guy from Central Ontario and the manner in which he interacts with …	D. A. Lockhart	80	2019	View
NEW! Fetishes of the Floating World	Governor General’s Award–winning poet Don Domanski’s posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, …	Don Domanski	87	2021	View
NEW! First	The poems in First, Arleen Paré’s seventh collection, search for a long-lost first friend. They conjure the subtle layers of meaning in that early friendship to riff on to a search for …	Arleen Paré	144	2020	View
NEW! Grey All Over	Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So began her passage through grief, self-reckoning, and graduate …	Andrea Actis	176	2021	View
NEW! Horrible Dance	A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and …	Avery Lake	72	2022	View
NEW! Hsin	22 Debut Canadian poetry collections to read, CBC 2022 Nanci Lee’s debut explores 4th Century Su Hui’s palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, …	Nanci Lee	88	2022	View
NEW! I am the Big Heart	What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How does being a parent stretch it further? How does a heart …	Sarah Venart	112	2020	View
NEW! Moldovan Hotel	In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism …	Leah Horlick	72	2021	View
NEW! Orion Sweeping	22 Debut Canadian poetry collections to read, CBC 2022 Anne Marie Todkill’s debut recalibrates the anxiety of the present. It gives doubt a hearing, finding resilience in fragility and …	Anne Marie Todkill	88	2022	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
NEW! Tell poems for a girlhood	A collection of poems partially based on the Reena Virk murder case. Virk was an Asian adolescent whose drowned body was found in the Gorge Waterway in a Victoria, BC suburb, in 1997. Some of the …	Soraya Peerbaye	112	2021	View