Poetry. Women's Studies. A love story to the emotional self—this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite. What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How...
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Poetry. Precision-built poems that attempt CPR on their own irregular metre, on their own unreliable meaning. Vancouver poet Shaun Robinson's IF YOU DISCOVER A FIRE is a debut collection of poems that make a virtue of their failure to communicate. T...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Poems written by Cyborgs in the future, melding sci-fi and poetry, human and machine. THE CYBORG ANTHOLOGY takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs living peacefully beside Humans, but a...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Environmental Studies. Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being as an embodied, contemplative, feeling animal. In Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, THE KNOWING ANIMALS, our consciousness is interconne...
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. An extraordinary debut set in Toronto, unfurling against the backdrop of an ancient Persian love story. The story of Layla and Majnun, made immortal by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in the 12th century, has been ret...
Poetry. Griffin Poetry Prize winner returns with new poems that are spacious with interiority, alive with a hard-earned lightness. Waves carried a glass float—designed to hold up a fishing net—across the Pacific. Beached it safely. Someone's breath ...
Poetry. Native American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. BONES, Tyler Pennock's wise and arresting debut, is about the ways we process the traumas...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Environmental Studies. Marlene Cookshaw, in her first collection of poetry in more than a decade, invites her readers to partake in a long-anticipated harvest that comes in many forms. Whether she's haying June-high grasses,...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Environmental Studies. Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city's afflicted watershed, she turn...
Poetry. Native American Studies. D.A. Lockhart's stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, thoughts, and experiences of an Anishinaabe guy from Central Ontario and the manner in which he interacts with central aspects and icons o...
Poetry. Astonishingly deft poems that highlight an excess, an emptiness, and a wilderness on the other side of use. In UNIDENTIFIED POETIC OBJECT, his twelfth collection of poetry, Brian Henderson strikes from language an "alphabet of lightning," an...
Poetry. Poems that examine the creative achievements of the human hand, from cave art to contemporary photography. John Reibetanz's twelfth collection, BY HAND, begins with an epigraph from Lewis Mumford: "Until modern times, apart from the esoteric...
Poetry. Poems of serious wordplay—an affirmation and celebration of the spectacles we make of our lives. On-stage in Matthew Gwathmey's debut collection are agitated 19th century horsemen, 80s comic book beetles, plaid-clad suburban grunge enthusias...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Environmental Studies. Poems that stride bravely into the day-to-day, recovering the misdirected intensity at its core. Brenda Leifso's WILD MADDER is about way-finding—through those moments in which you no longer recognize ...
Poetry. Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint. REUNION is a parable, an origin story, a cautionary tale. It is also a time machine in which poems commune with ghosts in an attempt both to reck...