1.
Series: Crow Said Poetry
Lullabies in the Real World
Paperback
Meredith Quartermain
9781988732787
$18.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2020
Long-listed for the 2021 Raymond Souster Award!Finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Meredith Quartermain's Lullabies in the Real World is a sequence of poems about a train journey from West Coast to East Coast that invokes a patchwork of regions, voices and histories. Her language zings with train rhythms as she unfolds a complex conversation with poets such as bpNichol and Robin Blaser.This collection reflects and refracts Canada from diverse angles, and challenges colonizing literatures ...
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Series: Crow Said Poetry
Response of Weeds, The
A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies
Paperback
Bertrand Bickersteth
9781988732794
$18.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2020
Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award!Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for PoetryWinner of a 2021 High Plains Book Award for First Book!Finalist for the 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!A 2020 CBC Poetry Book of the Year!Finalist for a 2021 High Plains Book Award for PoetryBertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on often ov...
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series
Hunger Moon
Paperback
Traci Skuce
9781988732800
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 15, 2020
Finalist for the Seventh Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the Literary Fiction categoryIncludes author-curated discussion questions!Traci Skuce's Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full. Here are characters at cusp-points in their lives, attempting to shift their trajectories: to cease wrapping up their heart's desire in a pink bubble by launching it into the universe. Some turn to ESP, some to a belief in ghosts, some to the future caught inside a glass bottle, each char...
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series
In Veritas
Paperback
C.J. Lavigne
9781988732831
$21.95
FICTION
May 01, 2020
Finalist for the 2021 Crawford Award!Winner of Speculative Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Best of List for Tor.com and Every Book a DoorwayAirdrie Reads WINNING book!"Things that are and are not, she thinks, and the dog is a snake."In this fantastic and fantastical debut, C.J. Lavigne concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons. Led by her synesthesia, Verity Richards discovers a hidden world inside an old Ottawa theatre. Within the timeworn walls live people who should not ...
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5.
Series: A "Hammerhead" Jed Mystery
Rolling Thunder
Paperback
A.J. Devlin
9781988732862
$18.95
FICTION
May 15, 2020
Former pro wrestler "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead, now a fully-fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to enter a new arena: women's flat-track roller derby. When old acquaintance Stormy Daze seeks his help finding her team's missing coach, Jed discovers that the turnbuckle-and-metal-chair mayhem of the wrestling ring pales in comparison to roller derby's four-wheeled ferocity.As his search intensifies, Jed is drawn into the criminal orbit of a shady entrep...
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