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Series:
First
Paperback
Arleen Paré
9781771315425
$22.95
POETRY
May 01, 2021
2022 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Shortlist Governor General's Award?winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost first friend. They conjure the subtle layers of meaning in that early friendship to riff on to a search for how we might possibly understand the primal First: the beginnings of the cosmos that contains our own particular lives, beginnings and longings. This layered evocatio...
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Series:
The Blue Moth of Morning
Paperback
P. C. Vandall
9780889844339
$16.95
POETRY
May 01, 2020
In The Blue Moth of Morning, P. C. Vandall by turns acknowledges, embraces and subverts clichés of female relationships, emotions and bodies, exposing the inner tumult women often try to conceal under a thin veneer of aplomb.
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Series:
Grey All Over
Paperback
Andrea Actis
9781771315395
$22.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2021
2022 ReLit Awards Longlist "Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment?" Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So began her passage through grief, self-reckoning, and graduate school in Providence, Rhode Island, where the poetics she studied (and sometimes repudiated) became integral to her gradual reconstruction of wholeness. An assemblage of "evidence" recovered from emails about paranormal encounters sent and r...
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
The Path of Loneliness
Paperback
Candice James
9781771337618
$18.95
POETRY
Aug 30, 2020
The Path of Loneliness explores separateness and the many facets of love, desire, grief and loss that we experience during our life journey. Although we walk with others, some closely, some casually, ultimately, we all walk alone. Love makes the path less lonely and comes in many forms, real and surreal, requited and unrequited ghostly and mysterious. Though lovers walk love's pathway together, there is always a small loneliness nestled inside each heart and soul that remains separate. This book opens up the secret world of emotion and spirit s...
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Series:
Duct-Taped Roses
Paperback
Billeh Nickerson
9781771666909
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 15, 2021
In Duct-Taped Roses, Billeh Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss. As a bush pilot, Nickerson's father would duct-tape his planes to keep them flying. The poignancy of his relationship with his father is celebrated here in the long poem "Skies." Other poems reminisce about love and the complex resiliency of gay men. Through his signature irreverence, honesty and wit, Nickerson explores what can be repaired, what must be celebrated, and what—inevitably—is lost to time.
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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:
Nostalgia for Moving Parts
Paperback
Diane Tucker
9780888017277
$17.00
POETRY
Apr 15, 2021
Poised between thoughts of mortality and an exquisite taste for the most tender, small details of life, the poems in Nostalgia for Moving Parts are whimsical, quirky, and resonant with memory. Deeply grounded in the rainy mists and green reeds of the Canadian west coast, solitude becomes a spiritual practice transmuting loneliness and loss into grand appreciations for the gift of childhood and the untravelled road ahead.
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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 ...
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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:
Moldovan Hotel
Paperback
Leah Horlick
9781771315456
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 01, 2021
2022 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist * 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Shortlist Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism to neofascisms, Europe to the Americas to the Middle East, typhus to HIV/AIDS, genocide in Romania to land grabs in Palestine, women's lives in far...
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Series: Crow Said Poetry
Coconut
Paperback
Nisha Patel
9781774390238
$19.95
POETRY
Mar 30, 2021
In her debut collection, Canadian National Slam Champion Nisha Patel commands her formidable insight and youthful, engaged voice to relay experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and love. These are vitally political, feminist poems for young women of colour, with bold portrayals of confession, hurt, and healing.Coconut rises fiercely like the sun. These poems bestow light and warmth and the ability to witness the world, but they ask for more than basking; they ask readers to grow and warn that they can be burnt. Above all, Nisha P...
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Series:
Ex Nihilo
Hardcover
J. R. Léveillé
9781988168470
$22.95
POETRY
Apr 29, 2021
A bilingual collection of renga poetry by two of Canada's most celebrated poets in English and in French, each writing in his respective language in response to the other. A project of discourse itself, shared in dialogue between two poets, as they explore Novalis' definition of poetry as "the truly absolute real." The poetic act is world-changing, the agglomeration of atoms as they fall through space - a sort of "elective affinity", or state of grace - to constitute Being. If Lao Tzu reminds us that the Dao that can be named is not the eternal...
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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...
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Series:
The Muse Sings
Hardcover
Dennis Cooley
9781988168364
$24.95
POETRY
Sep 30, 2020
The Muse Sings and the poet sings songs of love and longing from states of joy, self-doubt, vexation, curiosity, affection, observation, mock-indignation...The poems speak for themselves and sometimes "they talk all at once." In seductive acts of language itself, they invoke and embrace the Muses as much as they do the writers who would become muses, from ancient Homer and Shakespeare to poets of contemporary time.These poems are the seasoned work of a trickster poet in his prime with a crow's eye trained on the world. No silent words on the pa...
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Series:
Postmodern Weather Report
Paperback
Kristian Enright
9780888016973
$21.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2023
In today's world, space is at a premium to accommodate humans, nature, and ideas, but what, exactly, occupies the vast psychic space of the Prairie landscape? In Postmodern Weather Report, Kristian Enright expertly weaves critical theory with playful poetics to suffuse this space with reflections on science, semantics, pop culture, philosophy, and a blossoming emergence into new cultural awareness for a contemporary age.
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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:
Lost Cafeteria, The
Paperback
Joel Robert Ferguson
9781773240640
$17.95
POETRY
Grade (US) from 10 - 12
Apr 01, 2020
Taking cues from the 20th century life writing of Robin Blaser, Frank O'Hara, William Everson, Sylvia Plath and Alden Nowlan, The Lost Cafeteria is a stylistically shapeshifting bildungsroman in verse set between the author's evangelical upbringing and peripatetic adulthood. Exploring the shape of the "I-within-history," Ferguson mixes confessional lyric poetry with experimental détournements of advertising and human resources ideolects to visit (and revisit) themes of labour, family (biological and chosen), class, travel, religion, and the mea...
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Series: TreeTalk
TreeTalk
Hardcover
Ariel Gordon
9781988168272
$19.95
POETRY
Sep 29, 2020
During the heatwave of July 2017, Ariel Gordon spent two days sitting on the patio of downtown Winnipeg's Tallest Poppy, writing snippets of poems which she hung from the boulevard tree using paper and string. Passersby were invited to TreeTalk too -- their secrets / one-liners / meditations / haiku were also hung from the tree. By the end of the weekend, the elm had a second temporary canopy of leaves: 234 poems, 111 written by Gordon, 107 written by passersby, and 16 from other sources.Gordon has assembled all these voices into a long/found p...
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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...
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Series:
Permanent Carnival Time
Paperback
Colin Smith
9781927886458
$18.00
POETRY
Apr 08, 2021
?I?d rather have a transorbital lobotomy / Than a transnational economy.? In his new book of poetry, Colin Smith?s droll humour and meticulous control of language are metered out to explore the stakes of pain and the pain of folly. Language plays throughout the text, bringing a blithe tone to dark matters, and evoking fruitful tensions for the reader. Scattered topics of climate change, labour disputes, war, and massive inequities within cities are encountered by a voice that seems to scorn humanity as much as it delights in human language. P...
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Series:
Death Becomes Us
Paperback
Kristen Wittman
9780888017321
$17.00
POETRY
Sep 15, 2021
Beginning with halcyon days cast in soft light and cool dew, onward through veiled years of diagnosis and environmental damage, Death Becomes Us captures, with masterful grace and restraint, the intensity of absence and the importance of grief. Within the darkest moments of personal and ecological loss, Kristen Wittman's second collection fashions a garden of love poems from memories of soft kisses and falling towers, a broken Eden where pain nurtures tender, blooming petals, and the ceaseless heartbeat of Mother Nature pulses underfoot, bringi...
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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...
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Series:
Burning in This Midnight Dream
Paperback
Louise B. Halfe
9781771315517
$20.00
POETRY
May 01, 2021
A deeply scouring poetic account of the residential school experience, and a deeply important indictment of colonialism in Canada. Many of the poems in Louise Halfe's Burning in This Midnight Dream were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares that arose in her as the Truth and Reconciliation process unfolded. In heart-wrenching detail, Halfe recalls the damage done to her parents, her family, herself. With fearlessly wrought verse, Halfe describes how the experience of the residential schools continues ...
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Series:
Blue Marrow
Newly redesigned edition, published by Kegedonce Press, with an interview with the author as a new A
Paperback
Louise Halfe
9781928120254
$16.50
POETRY
Mar 01, 2021
The voices of Blue Marrow sing out from the past and the present. They are the voices of the Grandmothers, both personal and legendary. They share their wisdom, their lives, their dreams. They proclaim the injustice of colonialism, the violence of proselytism, and the horrors of the residential school system with an honesty that cuts to the marrow. Speaking in both English and Cree, these are voices of hopefulness, strength, and survivance. Blue Marrow is a tribute to the indomitable power of Indigenous women of the past and of the present day....
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Series:
Crooked Good, The
Fully redesigned with a new foreword by Kimberley Anderson and artwork by Kevin Peeace.
Paperback
Louise Halfe
9781928120261
$16.50
POETRY
Jul 23, 2021
Poetic tales that unfold through the voice of ê-kwêskît, Turn-Around Woman--tales imbued with vital themes of Indigenous experience: culture, language, colonialism, residential schools and more. The poems of The Crooked Good are threaded throughout with names, phrases, and verses in Cree; its personal stories framed within the fireside tales of Rolling Head Woman, who is both nightmare and culture hero. Evocative, moving, and powerful poetry from a master poet.
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Series:
Crooked at the Far End
Paperback
Gerald Hill
9781989274415
$20.00
POETRY
Oct 12, 2020
Crooked at the Far End, the latest book of poems in a series called The Man From Saskatchewan, travels, plays, and has a look around. Voices emanate from celebrities who inhabit cabins at Emma Lake, an old man sitting on a bench in Portugal, and the patrons of a fictional pub among others, all taking stock of the world we inhabit. A poet laureate details the incredible events that occurred during his tenure, "we saw industries of hope and growth/ and visitors from other lands sing/ in their own voices who they are/ We saw ourselves in a land al...
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Series:
Kitotam: He Speaks to it
Paperback
John McDonald
9781989274507
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 13, 2021
The Neyhiyawak (Plains Cree) word "Kitotam" translates into English as, "He Speaks to It." This is a collection of free-verse poetry by Indigenous poet and artist John McDonald. Written in two parts, these poems chronicle John's life and experiences as an urban Indigenous youth during the 1980s. The second half of the book is a look into the inspirations and events, that shaped John's career as an internationally known spoken word artist, beat poet, monologist and performance artist.
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Series:
Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy
Hardcover
Christian McPherson
9781988168401
$24.95
POETRY
Oct 27, 2020
Over the course of a lifetime, we all experience catch-of-breath moments that stir exquisite awareness of life's transience. Such fleeting moments we share with poet Christian McPherson and his space-suited avatar negotiating bumpy terrain. In this collection the meandering, often self-deprecating poet considers and records moments of truth and insight common to us all as he registers his joys and regrets, and raises rants in postured outrage. A refreshing and often humorous honesty prevails. As the dedication promises, these poems are for thos...
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Series:
Thimbles
Paperback
Vanessa Shields
9781989287767
$19.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2021
In this heart-wrenching collection, Vanessa Shields chronicles the life of her Nonna, Maria, from her origins as a seamstress in Italy to her eventual death from dementia. These raw, prosaic poems thread together grief, memory, loss, and love into a conversation that speaks across pages, years, and oceans. Shields bravely interrogates her own feelings of guilt, grief, and curiosity with unflinching precision. As she attempts to navigate and accept Nonna's decline, Shields takes on the role of witness as she excavates the larger narrative that i...
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Series:
Dear Birch
Paperback
Margaret Christakos
9781989287682
$19.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2021
?Attachment is the puzzle." Three years after her mother?s death and on the brink of a break up, a bisexual writer sits in the company of an urban birch tree, auditing the odds of new loves entering her future. So begins Dear Birch, an intimate poem cycle that improvises within the permutability of grief, wind, reading, refusal and desire, listening for an ethos of ongoingness. Synthesizing memoir, votive and epistle, Margaret Christakos displays her trademark fidelity to writing as attentive process, imbuing her work with the polyamory of tend...
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Festival of All Souls
Paperback
Jean Eng
9781771338219
$18.95
POETRY
Oct 30, 2020
Festival of All Souls explores the experience of an Asian woman born in Canada. Although neither fully rooted in one or the other, the influence of two different cultures allows heritage, gender and values to nonetheless, enrich a personal vision. The title refers to an Asian ceremony whereby families visit ancestral gravesites in the spring to pay their respects to the departed. During this observance of tribute and commemoration, time is also provided for contemplation and the acknowledgement of renewal that is in harmony with the season. Th...
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Series:
Phantompains
Paperback
Therese Estacion
9781771666862
$20.00
POETRY
Mar 31, 2021
Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism. Taking inspiration from Filipino horror and folk tales, Estacion incorporates some Visayan language into her work, telling stories of mermen, gnomes, and ogres that haunt childhood stories of the Philippines and, then, imaginings in her hosp...
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
Radiant Shards
Hoda's North End Poems
Paperback
Ruth Panofsky
9781771337571
$18.95
POETRY
May 01, 2020
This long, narrative poem, Radiant Shards: Hoda's North End Poems, traces the sacrifice and suffering of devoted but destitute parents, Russian immigrants who are acutely affected by the Depression and struggle relentlessly to survive in Winnipeg. More importantly, with its focus on the life experience and inner world of their tenacious daughter - and as the first poetic project to give voice to a Jewish sex worker, a figure that has been all but erased from literary history - Radiant Shards is a compassionate and humanizing work. The poem invo...
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
To the Men Who Write Goodbye Letters
Paperback
Gianna Patriarca
9781771338257
$18.95
POETRY
Oct 30, 2020
The poems in The Men Who Write Good-bye Letters deal with death and our relationship with time, making sense of the choices made when we "end" things, or when things end without our permission, whether it be the end of a life, the end of a romance, or the result of an unexpected tragedy. These poems are a poet's observation and reflection on the reasons for loss and endings, for survival and redemption, and an exploration of the poetry in the choices made. The collection also examines lives searching for clarity and value, ultimately leading to...
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Series:
sfumato
New and Selected Poems
Paperback
David Stones
9781989517529
$19.99
POETRY
Apr 06, 2021
A dead mouse reclining in a slipper; a cigarette smouldering on a motel bedside table; a woman seeing her life reflected in a deserted bird feeder. In Stones' poetic universe the images pile starkly into the complex tissue of mortal experience, an abstruse sfumato-like weave of the human soul. By turns playful, darkly meditative and beautifully transcendent, Stones ventilates a world keenly observed, acutely realized and memorably articulated.Poets show people things that they cannot see themselves. David Stones is such a poet and sfumato is hi...
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Series:
Catalogue d'oiseaux
Paperback
Aaron Tucker
9781771666947
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 13, 2021
Catalogue d’oiseaux recounts a year in the life of a couple separated by distance, carefully documenting time spent together and apart. When reunited, they embark on travels across the globe—from Toronto to Berlin, Porto to the Yukon. This expansive poem moves sensually through small, intimate spaces and the larger world alike. Traced through art, architecture, and the cultural life of various cities, this stunning celebration of love lives between geographies and chronologies as a kaleidoscopic gathering of the many fractals that make up a cou...
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Series:
Hell Light Flesh
Paperback
Klara du Plessis
9781989287521
$18.95
POETRY
Sep 01, 2020
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Series: Literature in Translation Series
Spawn
Paperback
Marie-Andree Gill
9781771665971
$18.00
POETRY
Apr 09, 2020
Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers? The poet's young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to her period on class photo day, and carves her lovers' names into every surface imaginable. Encompassing twenty-first-century imperialism, coercive assimilation, and ...
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Series:
footlights
Paperback
Pearl Pirie
9781989274323
$20.00
POETRY
Oct 12, 2020
Inside the phobic and the crushing we trudge through the wreckage, the slippage, and the comic, in our search for joy. The beauty in these poems is an amalgam, like a gathering storm, of the meteorological and political, the mundane and the distressing.
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Series:
Ghost Face
<p>In his third DC Books title, Ghost Face, Greg Santos explores what it means to have been a Cambod
Paperback
Greg Santos
9781927599518
$19.95
POETRY
Sep 15, 2020
'Greg is clearly a poet of great vision and clarity. His voice is extremely confident and strong, with each poem well-crafted and lean... If you enjoy the work of Sarah Howe or Ocean Vuong, I would recommend this book with no hesitation.' Stuart Buck, author of Become Something Frail
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Series:
Humanimus
Paperback
David Huebert
9781989287569
$18.95
POETRY
Oct 01, 2020