Palimpsest Press

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! A Devil Every Day	Through a kaleidoscope of philosophy, critical theory, and folk theology, A Devil Every Day surveys the terrain where white Western culture blends into pure evil. Twisting into aphorisms, inner …	John Nyman	88	2023	View
NEW! A Friend Sails in on a Poem	A charming, psychologically wise, and metaphorically piquant look at navigating craft and creativity. For the last forty-five years, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have …	Molly Peacock	168	2022	View
A Skeletal Wand	In her finest collection of poetry to date, Ruth Roach Pierson marshals her considerable expository powers to explore personhood, paranormal phenomenon, and mortality. A Skeletal Wand reaches out …	Ruth Roach Pierson	104	2018	View
A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl	In poems that could double as paintings, M. Travis Lane harnesses the brush strokes of language to form a bridge between the artist and natural world in A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl. This is …	M. Travis Lane	88	2019	View
After Birth	A poetic primer on mothering and motherhood, After Birth is unflinching in its celebration of new life. Proffering poems that are both alchemical and personal, Elizabeth Ross taps into …	Elizabeth Ross	88	2018	View
All Manner of Tackle	All Manner of Tackle brings together a selection of Brian Bartlett’s literary prose from the past three decades. One of Atlantic Canada’s finest poets, Bartlett has published …	Brian Bartlett	308	2017	View
Autobiographical Fictions	As much poet as paparazzo, Maurice Mierau fixes his sights on the complexities of popular culture. Autobiographical Fictions is both questioning and confident, a book that explores delusion as a …	Maurice Mierau	72	2015	View
Blowing Grass Empire	A storyteller above all else, Mark Lavorato’s poems are penned in a clear, poignant, and relatable voice. His mostly narrative vignettes choose to hide things in plain sight, and are buoyed …	Mark Lavorato	72	2018	View
NEW! Ceaseless Rain	Ceaseless Rain is a meditation on grief. It is a carnival ride where the floor drops out, it is a ghost apple, it is the bones left in the birdbath by crows. This is where the redemptive power of …	Dorothy Mahoney	64	2020	View
Constructive Negativity Prize Culture, Evaluation, and Disability in Canadian Poetry	Constructive Negativity is a book of criticism without precedent in Canadian Literature. The result of over twenty years of participation in the nation’s poetry community, it combines Shane …	Shane Neilson	177	2019	View
Control Suppress Delete	Control Suppress Delete troubles received ideas. Interested in rules and randomness and in finding the randomness in rules, Angela Hibbs writes poetry that questions the human condition and finds …	Angela Hibbs	80	2017	View
NEW! Democratically Applied Machine	Robert Colman’s third book of poetry, Democratically Applied Machine, is a back-to-basics approach to creation. In poems that inhabit both industrial and domestic landscapes, Colman traces …	Robert Colman	80	2020	View
Dividing the Wayside	The liminal strip that divides the highway from the surrounding land is called a wayside. Often thick with wildflowers and insects, it’s a natural space that coexists with traffic and …	Jenny Haysom	96	2018	View
NEW! Dream of Me as Water Poems	A stunning sophomore collection from Mythical Man author David Ly. Moving beyond the themes of race, identity, and personhood navigated in Mythical Man, David Ly’s second book of poetry, Dream of …	David Ly	80	2022	View
Echo Soundings Essays on Poetry and Poetics	Echo Soundings is a collection of Jeffery Donaldson’s critical writings on Canadian and American poets, including James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Strand, Richard Outram, Anne Compton, …	Jeffery Donaldson	264	2014	View
Edge Essays, Reviews, Interviews	Edge collects thirty years of essays, reviews, and interviews by celebrated Newfoundland poet Mary Dalton. Driven by a need to reconfigure how the margin is seen in literature, culture and …	Mary Dalton	344	2015	View