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Everything You Hold Dear

From 2007 to 2016, Jamie Sharpe led an itinerant life, throughout British Columbia and the Yukon, in Sechelt, Prince George, Dawson, Salmon Arm, Whitehorse, Galiano, and Texada Island. When … 74 View

How a Poem Moves

A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry

Developed from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these … 216 View
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If I Didn’t Love the River

Poems

In this virtuoso display of sonnets, free verse, prose poems, villanelles, ghazals, and aphorisms, People’s Poet Robert Priest makes it clear why the Pacific Rim Review has called him … 137 View

Is This Scary?

Poems

A challenging exploration of mental illness and disability from Governor General’s Award winner Jacob Scheier. Is This Scary? digs deep into internal landscapes of suffering, including depression … 88 View
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Mere Extinction

Poems

In Evie Christie’s third book mothers nurse babies as the world comes to an end, fathers hustle or drift, the pastoral and the present collide, violence, love, and death gently fill the … 61 View
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Miscreations

Poems

Miscreations, the second collection by Grant Loveys, mulls over the metaphorical concept of miscreation — how people, objects, and relationships are imperfectly designed by their various … 88 View
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Problematica

New and Selected Poems, 1995-2020

A best-of collection from one of Canada’s most ambitious poets Problematica — a scientific term used to describe species that defy classification. See unidentifiable. George Murray is … 218 View
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Quiet Night Think

Poems & Essays

“Quiet Night Think is a stunning work.” — Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing “One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and … 101 View
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Riven

Poems

In 2010, Catherine Owen’s 29-year-old spouse died of a drug addiction. A year later, she relocated to an apartment by the Fraser River in Vancouver, B.C. As she moved beyond the initial … 90 View

Shared Universe

New and Selected Poems 1995-2020

“An invaluable aid in this time of troubled spirits, muddled truths, and convoluted thinking.” — Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo Paul Vermeersch has reinvented the “new and … 244 View
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The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “real” in a poem, a … 153 View
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The Invisible World Is in Decline

Book IX

The stunning conclusion to a 40-year poetic project In the tradition of earlier modernist long poems like Ezra Pound’s Cantos and bp Nichol’s The Martyrology, The Invisible World Is … 98 View
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The Most Charming Creatures

Poems

With uncanny wit, inventive beauty, and numinous surprise, The Most Charming Creatures explores the contemporary and its language, considering our wonder, sorrow, bewilderment, anxiety, and … 128 View
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Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Feelings

Sadie McCarney’s Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking is a buoyant second collection that playfully navigates the turbulent waters of life with mental illness and … 92 View
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From: Riven

Thirty-Six Sentences on the Fraser River that Could Serve as a Very Small Nest – Nature Writing 101 – Beseech – To the Artist of Twenty-First Century Canadian Nature Painting … 26 $2.60 Add
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From: Everything You Hold Dear

Turning the Alphabet Into a Band-Aid – Moved – Find a Strong, Tall Mast – Each Snowfall’s Apocalypse – Bootstraps And Where Best to Purchase Them – Semaphored … 22 $2.20 Add