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Series: Occasionally Petty Paperback Michelle Lietz 9781988168593 $24.95 POETRY Apr 21, 2022

Like lyrics from a rock and roll album, this debut collection of poetry unfolds page-by-page to reveal a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Michelle Lietz grew up listening to the songs of Tom Petty. When the news of his passing was announced, the poet felt a piece of her past break away. Her beautiful poetry takes lyrics from Petty's songs to launch her exploration on themes of nostalgia, adolescence, and the poet's mixed Yaqui, European and Middle Eastern identity.
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Series: The Day-Breakers Paperback Michael Fraser 9781771964838 $19.95 POETRY Apr 05, 2022

Longlisted for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize • A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022 Saturated with locutions lifted from the late 19th century, The Day-Breakers deeply conceives of what African Canadian soldiers experienced before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War. "It is not wise to waste the life / Against a stubborn will. / Yet would we die as some have done. / Beating a way for the rising sun wrote Arna Bontemps. In The Day-Breakers, poet Michael Fraser imagines the selflessness of Black soldiers who fought for the Unio... + Read More
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Series: Plenitude Paperback Daniel Sarah Karasik 9781771667357 $20.00 POETRY Apr 07, 2022

A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state's boardroom walls. The insurrectionary tactics of mass social movements spread, like a secret handshake, from Chile to Hong Kong to Toronto. Shaped by Daniel Sarah Karasik's experience of grassroots social and political advocacy, these poems are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world—and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory meanings of those struggles.... + Read More
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Series: Trente poèmes pour enfants Paperback Jawdat Fakhreddine 9781772311600 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Nov 15, 2021

Avec des images vivantes et une utilisation attrayante des mesures et des rimes arabes, les poèmes explorent la nature, la famille, l'école, le jeu et le monde illimité de l'imagination. Les thèmes variés du livre cultivent les sens cognitifs et contemplatifs des enfants, tout comme la mise en page et les dessins uniques du livre. Les 30 poèmes de ce livre promeuvent un message éducatif important à travers un langage simple, mais captivant, et encouragent la réflexion créative des enfants par les sens et l'imagination.
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Series: Land of the Rock Talamh an Carraig Paperback Heather Nolan 9781550819250 $19.95 POETRY Mar 07, 2022

A poetic exploration of place and belonging, a quest that takes the speaker across the ocean in search of identity and origin. The speaker in the poems that form Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig travels through Newfoundland and Ireland looking for meaning in words, places, and behaviour. Whether the subject is tourists on Fogo Island, conversations on Inis Oírr, flora and fauna of the Burren, or accents in Waterford, Nolan translates this sensory data into a narrative of someone seeking a sense of belonging in a lost ancestral culture. In L... + 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: Hsin Paperback Nanci Lee 9781771315722 $21.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2022

Nanci Lee's debut explores 4th Century Su Hui's palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, less a set of moral standards than an appeal to tune. Heart-mind and nothingness are fair English translations of Hsin, but their tidiness risks losing some of the sharper, wider sides of absence and appetite. As a historical process, according to Hang Thaddeus T'ui-Chieh, Hsin frustrates, "the psychological fragmentation and compartmentalization of the West." Born to a Syrian father and a Chinese mother, who gave her u... + Read More
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Series: Lot Paperback Sarah de Leeuw 9781773860763 $20.00 POETRY Feb 11, 2022

In Lot, award-winning poet Sarah de Leeuw considers the ways in which words and languages form and embolden coloniality and create unequal imaginings of--and power in--place.In Lot, award-winning poet and essayist Sarah de Leeuw returns to the landscape of her early girlhood to consider the racial complexities of colonial violence in those spaces. Following loosely as a companion to Skeena (Caitlin Press, 2015), Lot is written entirely of couplets, mirroring the two main islands of Haida Gwaii, and draws on lyric traditions, assemblage, and inv... + Read More
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Series: Heady Bloom Paperback Andrew Faulkner 9781552454435 $21.95 POETRY Apr 05, 2022

A buddy-cop dramedy starring a bottle of Advil and a headache that won’t quit Imagine you’re standing in a room, and someone on the other side of the door won’t stop knocking – ever. Welcome to Andrew Faulkner’s world of the never-ending, low-grade headache, a medical issue resolved only by striking up a committed relationship with the slippery miracle that is Advil. Through direct address, sideways glances, lyrical interludes and deep consideration of what it means to overcome a condition when living is a part of the condition itself, these po... + Read More
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Series: Who We Thought We Were As We Fell Paperback Michael Lithgow 9781770866072 $18.95 POETRY Apr 10, 2021

In this second poetry collection by Michael Lithgow, intimations of something numinous and larger than life jostle with the material demands of the everyday, sparking an uncertainty about what lurks at the edges of things, if anything at all. The poems drift in the tension between a pleasing suburban life simply lived and unsettling moments that pull against it, intrusions of the surreal. Civic uncertainty in the wilderness gives way to more intimate modes of circumspection, a working-through of different kinds of grieving – for a parent who w... + 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: Quiet Night Think Poems & Essays Paperback Gillian Sze 9781770416253 $21.95 POETRY Apr 05, 2022

“Quiet Night Think is a stunning work.” — Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing “One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time,” writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition. During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze’s new maternal role urges her to contemplate her own origins, both familial and artistic. Comprised of six personal essays, poems, and a concluding long po... + Read More
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Series: Me, You, Then Snow Paperback Khashayar Mohammadi 9781774220146 $20.00 POETRY Feb 01, 2021

Me, You, Then Snow by Khashayar Mohammadi is a collection of poetry woven from dreams, memories and deep-seeded longing, a collection of poetry that ranges from ambiguously addressed love-letters, to ekphrastic poems for arthouse cinema, to pieces written near midnight when the day?s experiences rush back into view. Though working in diverse forms and styles, the poetry manifests as a profoundly unified desire to experience and communicate the world.
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Series: Essential Poets Series Gigglepuss Paperback Carlie Blume 9781771837002 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2022

Exposing and reworking the dark corners of past traumas. Gigglepuss delves into a past pock marked with loss, broken family dynamics, and the looming shadow of familial mental illness. These poems touch on sexual abuse, lost relationships, the influence of pop culture, and the intensity of motherhood set against the at times humorous backdrop of stark self-awareness, irony and even absurdity. Bucking against a patriarchal society, this collection is a provocative, reflective and at times confrontational portrayal of our human need for connectio... + 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: 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: Go Down Odawa Way Paperback Daniel Lockhart 9781928120315 $17.95 POETRY Dec 31, 2021

Go Down Odawa Way is a poetry collection that explores the physical, historical, and cultural spaces that make up the southwestern traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy. This is the region currently inhabited by southwestern Ontario and southeastern Michigan. Individual poems and sections of this collection explore the documented villages, history, and mythologies of the Odawa, Ojibway, Huron/Wendat, and Pottawatomi nations that were lost to the process of colonization and relocation. The project speaks to the history of the regi... + Read More
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Series: Gold Pours Paperback Aurore Gatwenzi 9781988989372 $20.00 POETRY Oct 16, 2021

In this debut collection by emerging poet Aurore Gatwenzi, a stunning new voice emerges as she shares the experience of being young and Black in northern Ontario. Gold Pours is a collection of poems that talk about God, identity, heartbreak and passion. Gatwenzi's honest approach to writing exposes readers to humility, surrender and lessons learned from courageous acts of vulnerability.
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Series: In the Bowl of My Eye Paperback Keith Garebian 9781774150696 $20.95 POETRY May 01, 2022

In his ninth collection of poetry, Keith Garebian pays attention to inner and outer realities of place and psyche, turning conventional landscape poetry inside-out. Focusing on the Lakeshore Road area of Mississauga/Etobicoke, Garebian explores small and large things, creating a space in which inner and outer landscapes meet, resulting in a striking poetic vessel of cognition, perception, and sensitivity. Meditatively alert, these poems open up perceptions of a sentient world within a specific geography, history, and sociology, while providing ... + Read More
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Series: Good Arabs, The Paperback Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch 9781999058890 $17.95 POETRY Sep 21, 2021

Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on the city bus. The collection is an interlocking and rich offering of the speaker's communities, geographical surroundings both expansive and precise, and family both biological and chosen. The Good Arabs gifts the reader with insight into cycles and repetition in ourselves and our b... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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Series: AfriCANthology AfriCANthology Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets Paperback A. Gregory Frankson 9781990086090 $25.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 01, 2022

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by Greg Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic path... + Read More
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Series: Refuge of Tales, A Paperback Lynne Sargent 9781987963977 $15.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2020

What does it mean to make a home inside a story? Stories are safe, comfortable, familiar. Fairytales and myths, these stories we all know and grew up with are even more so. A Refuge of Tales takes everyday tropes and asks: safe for who? This is a collection of poems for anyone who has ever felt outside of the myth. With language both sharp and lyrical, Lynne Sargent weaves a treatise on the power of stories, and how those who have been left behind can take up that power and use it to build a new, better world.
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Series: Big Sky Falling Paperback Kelsey Andrews 9781553806592 $17.95 POETRY Nov 30, 2021

In her first book, Kelsey Andrews moves from the big skies of Grande Prairie, Alberta and her family home, to the smaller skies hemmed in by mountains and skyscrapers of Vancouver. As she tries to adjust from a thirsty countryside filled with little wonders, to a lush cityscape with fewer miracles, the sky falls in as depression comes on. The weight of loneliness and past secrets that remain unsayable are a driving force, yet these poems fill the lonely places for the reader. She finds a way to befriend rather than beat depression with the hel... + Read More
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Series: Text Messages Or How I Found Myself Time Travelling Paperback Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman 9781773632964 $27.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman. Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Narcy’s writing speaks of the existential crises experienced by diasporic children of war before and during imperialism in the age of the Internet. Narcy’s verses span the space between hip-hop and manifesto, portraying a crumbling, end-stage capitalist society, visions for a new reality, and the myth of mult... + 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: 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: barangay an offshore poem Paperback Adrian De Leon 9781989496367 $18.00 POETRY Nov 09, 2021

As beautiful and varied as an archipelago, barangay is an elegant new collection of poetry from Adrian De Leon that gathers in and arranges the difficult pieces of a scattered history. While mourning the loss of his grandmother who "lived, loved and grieved in three languages," De Leon skips his barangay, which is both a boat and an administrative unit in the Philippine government, over the history of both his family and a nation. In these poems De Leon considers the deadly impact of colonialism, the far-reaching effects of the diaspora from th... + Read More