POETRY
She Falls Again
The Sky Woman has returned to bring down the patriarchy!
This book is about a poet who may or may not be going crazy, who is just trying to survive in Winnipeg, where Indigenous people, especially women, ...
Some Lines of Poetry
For bpNichol’s 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an astounding trove of never-before-seen work.
One of Canada’s most beloved poets, bpNichol (1944–1988), left a huge ...
The Sky is a Sky in the Sky
The sky’s the limit in these funny and sad head-in-the-clouds poems.
The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky is a laboratory of poetic approaches and experiments. It mines the personal and imaginary lives of Stuart ...
Good Want
What if poetry and prayer are the same: intimate and inconclusive, hopeful and useless, a private communion that hooks you to the thrashing, imperfect world?
Good Want entertains the notion that perhaps ...
I Will Get Up Off Of
Overthinking simple actions leads to overwhelming poems about what one can lean on if promised help doesn’t help
I Will Get Up Off Of is a book about trying to leave a chair. How does anyone ever leave ...
Lossless
Tech-inspired sonnets and prose poems that decode a life through the experience of loss
Tierney’s new collection takes its title from lossless data compression algorithms. It positions the sonnet as ...
The King of Terrors
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What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?
Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living ...
Tumbling for Amateurs
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 FIDDLEHEAD POETRY BOOK PRIZE
A reimagining of an instructional text on tumbling supports poems about the amateurishness of being human.
Tumbling for Amateurs is a reimagining of ...
Love Language
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In his follow-up to SKY WRI TEI NGS, Nasser Hussain tackles the absurdity of the English language through a modern take love poems
The term ...
Continuity Errors
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Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.
Continuity Errors questions ...