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Series: lisan al'asfour Paperback natalie hanna 9781927886663 $18.00 POETRY Nov 14, 2022

Beginning, and ending, with moving invocations for acceptance, Natalie Hanna?s lisan?alsfour (bird?s tongue), introduces a personal concept of creation around loss, confirming identity, and matrilineal questions of the child of a single mother forced to immigrate to Canada from Egypt in the 1970s. Narrativistically tracing challenges to wholeness, including medicalization, childlessness, racism, loss of culture, and labouring within the law, the book then brings the reader through poems of deep mourning for the victims of Tahrir Square, Syrian ... + Read More
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Series: Lent Paperback Kate Cayley 9781771668118 $20.00 POETRY Apr 04, 2023

In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread.Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary—large and small—converges in the home, in small objects, conversations, and moments. The grotesque and the tedious, the baroque and the banal, intertwine... + Read More
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Series: Heating the Outdoors Paperback Marie-Andrée Gill 9781771668149 $20.00 POETRY Mar 07, 2023

You're the clump of blackened sprucethat lights my gasoline-soaked heartIt's just impossible you won't be backto quench yourself in my crème-sodaancestral spiritIrreverent and transcendent, lyrical and slang, Heating the Outdoors is an endlessly surprising new work from award-winning poet Marie-Andrée Gill.In these micropoems, writing and love are acts of decolonial resilience. Rooted in Nitassinan, the territory and ancestral home of the Ilnu Nation, they echo the Ilnu oral tradition in Gill's interrogation and reclamation of the language, lan... + Read More
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Series: tend Paperback Kate Hargreaves 9781771667814 $20.00 POETRY Oct 13, 2022

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; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. These poems are anchored in the body, straining the edges of spaces that bodies and language inhabit: between sealing in and digging out; restlessness and isolation; memory and planning for the future; gaps in texts and reiterations. tend is an immersive work, as validati... + Read More
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Series: Vox Humana Paperback Adebe DeRango-Adem 9781771667845 $20.00 POETRY Sep 08, 2022

Vox Humana (Latin for "human voice") is driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over others. In and through literary experiments with word and sound, utterance and song, Vox Humana considers the different ways a body can assert, recount, proclaim, thus underscoring the urgency of doing so against the de-voicing effects of racism and institutional violence. As the title also represents an organ reed that sounds like the human voice, so DeRango-Adem sha... + Read More
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Series: Umbilical Cord Paperback Hasan Namir 9781771667180 $20.00 POETRY Sep 14, 2021

Dear Child Once upon a timeYour baba fell in love with your dadWe got married and dreamt of having a babyA roller coaster of emotions and feelingsWe were always hopeful 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 husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with his husband, the complexities of the IVF surrogacy process and the first y... + Read More
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Series: Optic Nerve Paperback Matthew Hollett 9781771315999 $22.95 POETRY Apr 03, 2023

Poems using fervent whimsy and wordplay to examine photography and seeing. Peering inside eyeballs, pondering the paradox of absent stars, and meditating on street scenes by André Kertész, these poems squint sidelong at our ways of seeing the world. Through playful poems about photography and visual perception, Hollett dissects auroras and quarks, atmospheric phenomena, potatoes, bomb craters and peat bog cadavers. This darkly comic collection is shadowed by entoptic paparazzi, haunted by peripheral visions. Born of attentive walking and lookin... + Read More
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Series: Baby Book Paperback Amy Ching-Yan Lam 9781771315968 $22.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2023

"God is personal," the astrologer said. Terrifying and also personal, like a baby. Direct and humorous, Baby Book stacks story upon story to explore how beliefs are first formed. From a family vacation on a discount bus tour to a cosmogony based on cheese, these poems accumulate around principles of contingency and revelation. Amy Ching-Yan Lam describes the vivid tactility of growth and death — how everything is constantly, painfully remade — offering a vision against the stuck narratives of property and inheritance. Power is located in the se... + Read More
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Series: A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen Paperback Erin Noteboom 9781771316026 $22.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2023

A radiant collection that employs the lyric poem as a tool for scientific and emotional exploration. Erin Noteboom's A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen takes exact and exquisite measurement of what carries a voice through illness, grief, loss, and through the failures and triumphs of work and love. Various theories and hypotheses are tested in these poems: sadness is knowledge and science "is only half a turn from love." Whether Noteboom is examining the life and work of physicist Marie Curie or compressing imagistic gems from plaintive, ... + Read More
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Series: House Within a House Paperback Nicholas Dawson 9781771316071 $22.95 POETRY May 01, 2023

A meditation on the wiles of depression, illuminated by queer and diasporic experience. "We, nosotros, nosotras: somos sobrevivientes." Weaving prose poetry, essay, autobiography and photography in mutual contamination, Nicholas Dawson relates his own deep depression, a state never fully gone, always cohabitant. Amidst this persistence, "the body and the pen bring a plural syntax of alternative knowledges into being, one which allows us to know the world better, to know ourselves better, to better love daybreak and this sun obstinately piercing... + Read More
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Series: Why I Was Late Paperback Charlie Petch 9781771315579 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2021

Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places. Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, brings a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing—Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a p... + Read More
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Series: awâsis — kinky and dishevelled Paperback Louise B. Halfe 9781771315487 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

Winner of the 2022 SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski * 2022 High Plains Book Awards Finalist * 2022 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist * 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Longlist * 2022/2023 First Nation Communities Read Awards Longlist A gender-fluid trickster character leaps from Cree stories to inhabit this racous and rebellious new work by award-winning poet Louise Bernice Halfe. There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through shape-shifting, adopting different genders, exp... + Read More
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Series: Invisible Sea Paperback Kevin Bushell 9781927599570 $19.95 POETRY Apr 08, 2022

Joseph Campbell: "The airplane has replaced the bird in the imagination as the symbol of the release of spirit from the bonds of earth." Hence, Invisible Sea. Part critique, part celebration of technology, these poems explore the symbolic and mythical associations of the historical moment when human beings took flight and, in a sense, became Godlike. The opening section is in the voice of Wilbur Wright as he unlocks the mysteries of human flight and, consequently, pays a heavy price. The next section examines the stories of other early aeronaut... + Read More
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Series: Pandemic Love Poems Paperback Salimah Valiani 9781990263538 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2022

Love Pandemic was largely written during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The last poem in the collection was written at the start of the second wave in Africa. Most were circulated through What's App voice notes, an intimate way of keeping distance while reaching out to touch
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series 29 leads to love Paperback Salimah Valiani 9781771338752 $18.95 POETRY Jun 24, 2021

In a world barely beginning to recognize itself as dazzlingly multihued, the erupting ecocide is teaching that while no accounting of complexity is complete, change is true and the sky, singular.We are of parts fundamentally interconnected and overlapping.If we choose it, this overlapping can become a continuum. A continuum of movement combined with still-ness, individuality reaching for the whole, loss and surrender, abandon and opening.And of falling: an ever-falling, toward the intensive care that is love.
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Circle Tour Paperback Eva Tihanyi 9781771338936 $18.95 POETRY May 02, 2023

Circle Tour, Eva Tihanyi?s ninth poetry collection, seeks and celebrates beauty in the face of despondency. Its three sectionsOuter Circle, Inner Circle, Centredraw us in as we move from the "outside" world of politics, culture, and art to the "inside" world of relationships with family, friends, and lovers, to the "core" world of the self.The book begins with a stark announcement of hope: "If you?re reading this, / you?re still here." It then moves to engagement with (among other things) the pandemic, feminism, and artists such as Marina Abr... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Essential Ingredients Paperback Carol Rose GoldenEagle 9781771338875 $18.95 POETRY Oct 29, 2021

Parenthood is a journey with no roadmap, and it is the children who most often steer the ship. There are times in a parent's life when they ask, "Why am I doing this? It's so hard..." That is, until the moment of magic happen-and they always do. In Essential Ingredients, Carol Rose GoldenEagle recalls when Creator's blessings have truly been bestowed in a parent's shared life with their children. These poems examine hardship and struggle, the triumph of spirit and joy, and serve as a reminder to all parents that childhood is fleeting.
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Series: Good Morning Poems a start to the day from famous English-language poets Paperback George Bowering 9781774390658 $20.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Apr 01, 2023

Canadian literary legend George Bowering lays bare his process as reader and lover of poetry in this curated collection of poems to be read in the morning.In a series of deeply astute and conversational essays, two-time Governor General's Award winner and inaugural Parlimentary Poet Laureate of Canada George Bowering travels through five hundred years, give or take, of English-language literature, adding historical, political, feminist, socio-economic, anecdotal, and literary context to each poem and poet. His selection of poems ranges from the... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry How to Hold a Pebble Paperback Jaspreet Singh 9781774390535 $20.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2022

How do we scale up our imagination of the human? How does one live one's life in the Anthropocene?How to Hold a Pebble--Jaspreet Singh's second collection of poems--locates humans in the Anthropocene, while also warning against the danger of a single story. These pages present intimate engagements with memory, place, language, migration; with enchantment, uncanniness, uneven climate change and everyday decolonization; with entangled human/non-human relationships and deep anxieties about essential/non-essential economic activities. The poems exp... + Read More
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Series: it is what it is, what is it Paperback Spencer Butt 9781989689493 $14.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2023

Here's some poems for when you're confused or pretending you're not. Poems for when you want to laugh or cry or laugh until you cry or cry until you laugh. Poems for when you're fine or "fine" or when you yell FINE and walk away. Here's some poems for you to come back to and some poems you can take with you. Poems about life and ghouls and parenting and love and regret and freaking out. Here's some poems with question marks and exclamation points. Poems about a long time ago and tomorrow and the sci-fi future. Poems to turn shrugs into hugs and... + Read More
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Series: Granted Poems of Metaphor Paperback Jeffery Donaldson 9780889844544 $16.95 POETRY Dec 15, 2022

In Granted, Jeffery Donaldson explores `a universe of potential relation', providing a master class in the art of metaphor by exploring in verse the complexities of identity, perception, and meaning.
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Series: Rank Songbirds Paperback Leon Rooke 9780889844483 $16.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2022

Leon Rooke's Rank Songbirds delves into dramatic and intense relationships, politics and the quirks of society, celebrating humanity's resilience in spite of-or perhaps because of-its flaws.
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Series: Remedies For Chiron Paperback m. patchwork monoceros 9781989274880 $20.00 POETRY Apr 14, 2023

In the astrological tradition, Chiron represents our deepest wound, and our lifelong efforts to heal it. Remedies for Chiron is a collection of poems that journey through the days of a young, queer, Black, and newly disabled poet trying to find a place to root and exist in the entirety of those intersections. Moving between cycles of grief and self-discovery, Remedies tells the story of a prismatic existence while also offering a balm for the hurts we all experience and the humility that comes with healing.
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Series: Rebellion Box Paperback Hollay Ghadery 9781989274910 $20.00 POETRY Apr 14, 2023

This explosive debut collection pushes against the limitations of gender roles, race, bodies andminds, and explores our insignificance and impotence in the universe. The concept of otherness afforded by a marginalized and neurodivergent perspective is brilliantly represented in this book.
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Series: Go Paperback Shelley Leedahl 9781989274675 $20.00 POETRY Apr 26, 2022

With awe and wonder leading the way, Leedahl's poems chronicle a journey that speaks of resilience, of joy experienced in simple things, and of the solace in discovering--finally, and late in life--exactly where one belongs. Leedahl's fifth poetry collection lyrically documents major life transitions and reveals how loneliness--the other contemporary epidemic--compels one to keep moving. .
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Series: This Side of Light Selected Poems (1995-2020) Paperback Carolyn Marie Souaid 9781773241173 $19.95 POETRY Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Oct 15, 2022

This Side of Light is Carolyn Marie Souaid's ninth book of poetry. Selected and introduced by Governor General award-winning poet Arleen Pare, this timely volume celebrates the evolution and scope of Souaid's work over a 25-year period--from the early titles focused on human connectedness and the difficult bridging of worlds, to more recent ones exploring themes of aging, loss, letting go, and the vulnerability of life. Praised for her bold experiments with the long poem, Souaid is known for her evocative imagery, "surprising lyric twists" (Eve... + Read More
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Series: Accidents Paperback Genni Gunn 9781773240985 $17.95 POETRY Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Apr 15, 2022

In Accidents, her third collection of poems, Genni Gunn takes us on a roller coaster ride through past and present in different continents, to explore the various upheavals that alter our lives. From her birthplace in Trieste, where she attempts to unravel the mysterious lives of her parents; to Vancouver with its urban alienation and attraction; to Burma, where disruptions are a way of life under the Generals. Along the way, she treats us to a sardonic and sometimes appalling history of masks, and of spontaneous combustion. Poem by poem, Gunn ... + Read More
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Series: The Trailer Paperback James Scoles 9781773240879 $17.95 POETRY Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Apr 15, 2021

The Trailer explores the subtle art of balancing life on the edge of a city--indeed, perched precariously, metaphorically on the fringe of society--not exactly following a script for keeping up with the Joneses. The experiences of love and loss while living on that (not exactly) sharp edge build the foundation in this collection. Stylistically, the poems vary as they dig through the detritus daily to reveal the joy, beauty, and humour within the world of thin tin-walled hope and melamine dreams of a mobile home, of a live lived lagging just a l... + Read More
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Series: Primal Sketches Paperback Caroline Wong 9781773240862 $17.95 POETRY Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Apr 15, 2021

Fueled by our perpetual need to find meaning and purpose in our lives, Primal Sketches is a book that considers how our actions profoundly effect the lives of fellow humans as well as the natural world around us. How our desire to connect, care, and empathize, are constantly interrupted by feelings of insecurity and growing anxiety of our uncertain future in a world that is continually bombarded by global conflicts and environmental crises. However, our determination to carry on provides glimpses of hope amid brutal and unthinkable actions and ... + Read More
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Series: Searching for Signal Paperback Lori Cayer 9781773240916 $17.95 POETRY Grade (US) from 10 - 12 Apr 15, 2021

Searching for Signal is a long poem that bears witness to the quotidian, disorienting shifts of grief as a father makes his way toward his death over 3 seasons. This is mourning conducted in situ, the gift of observing one man quietly taking his leave and the impacted hole it leaves behind. The language is mix of narrative lyric and fragmentary breath-spaced verse; the silences are his private silences, alluding to memory, family trauma and shame. The hunter, the gatherer who never stopped trying for epiphanies, a daughter engaged in the same e... + Read More
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Series: Sweetest Dance On Earth, The New and Selected Paperback Di Brandt 9780888017352 $19.00 POETRY Sep 30, 2022

Since her debut in 1987 with questions I asked my mother, Di Brandt has remained curious, still asking questions and pushing poetic bounds. Now for the first time, the best work of this Griffin Award winning poet has been gathered together in one place. Distilled into one collection is Di Brandt's insatiable desire to understand, question and show the world in a new light. From her feminist work to her eco poetics, readers will get a chance to see the breathtaking career of one of Canada's most influential poets.
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Series: Cattail Skyline Paperback Joanne Epp 9780888017239 $17.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2021

In her second poetry collection, Joanne Epp ventures from open prairie roads into little creek beds, down onto the warm earth of strawberry patches and far afield to the busy markets of Cambodia to examine the intimate ways we come to know and experience place. With vivid detail and a sense of quiet reverence, Cattail Skyline captures a myriad of landscapes where every change of season and slant of light reveals something previously unnoticed, and where even the most well- trodden paths hold the potential for new discovery.
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Series: Little Housewolf Paperback Medrie Purdham 9781550655674 $17.95 POETRY May 05, 2021

Medrie Purdham's Little Housewolf delves deeply into the world of domestic miniatures, a realm where thimbles, baby teeth, push pins, keyholes, teacups, and wedding rings become meticulously realized scale models of one's terrors and joys. Purdham uses the fine-grained signatures of her poetry--close observation, exact detail, precise sounds--not only to examine childhood and its fascination with size and scale, but also to measure herself against the larger, untamed landscapes she feels increasingly alienated from ("It is all anachronism, / gr... + Read More
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Series: Signal Editions Mother Muse Paperback Lorna Goodison 9781550655988 $19.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2022

Lorna Goodison's first poetry collection to be published in Canada in over nine years, Mother Muse heralds the return of a major voice. The poems in Goodison's new book move boldly and range widely; here are praise songs alongside laments; autobiography shares pages with the collective past. In her exquisitely lyrical evocations of Jamaican lore and tradition, Goodison has always shown another side of history. While celebrating a wide cross-section of women--from Mahalia Jackson to Sandra Bland--Mother Muse focuses on two under-regarded "mother... + Read More
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Series: Durable Goods Paperback James Pollock 9781550656107 $19.95 POETRY Sep 14, 2022

Durable Goods is a book of a sharply imagined poems about everyday technology. Writing in the Dinggedicht or thing-poem tradition of poets like Rilke, Ponge, and Marianne Moore, James Pollock calls to surprising life everything from microwaves to kettles, sprinklers to umbrellas, with a precision both unerring and effortless. By conjuring the essential spirit of each object, the poet reveals the tools and appliances that surround us as both sympathetic reflections of ourselves--our fear, love, rage, hope and grief--and strange beings with inner... + Read More