Palimpsest Press

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Start to Figure Fugitive Essays, Selected Reviews	In this wide-ranging collection, Andrew DuBois rounds up some 200 reviews of contemporary Canadian poets (from Jordan Abel to Jan Zwicky); American poets, memoirists, and novelists; and …	Andrew DuBois	352	2020	View
NEW! Swans	Michelle Brown’s second book of poetry, Swans, begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age …	Michelle Brown	80	2023	View
The Book of Festus	Festus wakes inside a myth—on a wharf in Halifax, Nova Scotia— and recalls nothing but a bicycle. As he looks for it, he thinks the city’s thoughts. Upon a sidewalk over a …	John Wall Barger	112	2015	View
The Flower Can Always Be Changing Poems	From the bestselling author of Rumi and the Red Handbag comes a new collection of brief essays about the intersection of poetry, painting, photography and beauty. Inspired by the words of …	Shawna Lemay	136	2018	View
The Mean Game	The Mean Game—John Wall Barger’s fourth book-length entry in what might be called, collectively, a savage comedy—bristles with allegories that explore human cruelty and …	John Wall Barger	92	2019	View
The Next Wave An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry	Mercurial and modern, The Next Wave is an output-based anthology of 21st century Canadian poetry. Curated by Jim Johnstone, it features 40 early-to-mid-career Canadian writers selected from a …	Jim Johnstone	304	2018	View
NEW! The Sunday Book	“A poignant examination of aging and loss.” In The Sunday Book, Michael Trussler uses memoir to excavate and explore a range of inner lives, all lived at different speeds. With essays touching on …	Michael Trussler	216	2022	View
NEW! The Suspect We	In The Suspect We, Roxanna Bennett and Shane Neilson collaborate to make a documentary poetics concerning pandemic conditions for the mad, neurodivergent, and disabled. Written while the world …	Roxanna Bennett; Shane Neilson	256	2023	View
thicket	Melanie Janisse-Barlow’s second book of poetry, Thicket, is a treatise on risk and the uncertainties of language in the modern world. In poems that gather and collect force page after page, …	Melanie Janisse-Barlow	104	2019	View
Weathervane	As unpredictable as the seasons that guide it, Weathervane is part eco-tourism, part domestic nocturne, and part tempest. In a shifting world, Mark Sampson resounds like a modern Zeus, advising …	Mark Sampson	80	2016	View
From "facing his world" From: All Manner of Tackle Preview	For Sure the Kittiwake: Naming, Nature, and P. K. Page – A Long Fall for Poetry: Reflections on Poetry in the Public Eye and the Private Realm through the Last Months of 1994, Including …	Brian Bartlett	85	2017	$8.50 Add
From "Not Your Father’s Playboy" From: Search Box Bed Preview	Search String – Porn – The Extinction – Post Rape – Nipple Clips on Amazon – Cam Girl Signs Off – Unposted – Sexting – Loves Kids and Animals …	Darryl Whetter	21	2017	$2.10 Add
From 1 From: Autobiographical Fictions Preview	The Impassioned Ex-Formalist Pulitzer Prize-Winning Womanizing Alcoholic Jumps Off a Bridge – Autobiographical Fictions – Six Kilometres – The King of Pop – Her Name …	Maurice Mierau	38	2015	$3.80 Add
From 1 From: Blowing Grass Empire Preview	Blowing Grass Empire (i) – This Is a Poem – Clothesline – Loralee – Washing Dishes – After the Stroke – Hell – Small-town Prostitutes – Orbital …	Mark Lavorato	23	2018	$2.30 Add
From 1 From: Control Suppress Delete Preview	Waterbearer – Ashes, Downtown Vancouver – Location Location Location – Give me – Bandages – Mark Zuckerberg – “I don’t dream NY or Central park …	Angela Hibbs	20	2017	$2.00 Add
From 1 From: Maunder Preview	Your First Love, a Vacant Siding – The Observer Effect – Keeping Track, Keeping Pace	Claire Kelly	13	2017	$1.30 Add