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The Sparrow

Selected Poems of A.F. Moritz

by A.F. Moritz

PRAISE FOR A. F. MORITZ:
“There is something reassuring in art of this calibre; it reminds us how things matter. Moritz’s voice is unmistakable. …

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Stereoblind

by Emma Healey

PRAISE FOR BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND:
“Who needs a tightrope to stroll across Niagara Falls when you have the prose poem — pliable, surreal, inf …

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Nightlight for Children of Insomniacs

by Shannon Quinn

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Happinesswise

Poems

by Jonathan Bennett

PRAISE FOR HAPPINESSWISE

“Incisive, elegant and fierce, Bennett’s Happinesswise tackles the most illusive and illusory aspects of our culture. It r …

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Dreampad

by Jeff Latosik

Praise for Jeff Latosik's Dreampad:

"Jeff Latosik makes visible the digital 'labyrinth of looking' and clicking, where 'music seems to spy' on all of u …

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I left nothing inside on purpose

by Stevie Howell

Advance Praise for Stevie Howell's I left nothing inside on purpose:

"The sense that the world ought to be comprehensible cannot be overcome or out-tho …

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The Least You Can Do Is Be Magnificent

Selected and New Writings

by Steve Venright

"Steve Venright's work is, in turns, luminous, passionate, surreal, and absurd. While some poets cultivate small or topical terrains, Venright isn't a …

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The Truth is Told Better This Way

by Liz Worth

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Cruise Missile Liberals

by Spencer Gordon

"Spencer Gordon’s poetry debut, Cruise Missile Liberals, might be the oddball balm you need … Gordon’s poems are completely submerged in the zan …

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Prison Industrial Complex Explodes

by Mercedes Eng

“Simple – but not simplistic – lines such as ‘i think about that yellow bead a lot’ reflect Eng’s exquisite attention and make me feel in …

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Museum of Kindness

by Susan Elmslie

Susan Elmslie has written a remarkable collection. Many of these poems deal with some of the more demanding elements in the lives of women, of mothers …

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Quarry

by Catherine Graham

"...this imaginative coming-of-age tale is by turns tense, funny, painful, wondrous and all too real: a crazy, fearless dive into life's deepest myste …

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Wait

by Ned Baeck

Who, now that sadness is forbidden, dares weep, these poems pierce the psyche like spikes through our wooden heads.-- Claudio Gaudio, author of the no …

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Welcome to the Anthropocene

by Alice Major

# 1 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, March 11, 2018

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That Light Feeling Under Your Feet

by Kayla Geitzler

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Dark Woods

by Richard Sanger

Praise for Richard Sanger

“Splendidly-shaped and imagistically adroit. These are outstanding poems.”—The Globe and Mail

“[Sanger] naturalizes …

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City Poems

by Joe Fiorito

“Remarkable writing In Language that is clear, precise, and often searingly direct.” —National Post

“It is [Fiorito’s] electric imagination …

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Like

by Max Layton

Praise for In The Garden of I Am: A genuine pleasure to read. My first kick came as I realised that every poem takes off from the same line. That's so …

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creole métisse of french canada, me

by Sharron Proulx-Turner

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The Sun and Her Flowers

by Rupi Kaur

“The line drawings that accompany her poems are raw, evocative and utterly striking.”

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Irresponsible Mediums

The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp

by Aaron Tucker

Praise for Irresponsible Mediums:
"Ever since the IBM computer Deep Blue vanquished Garry Kasparov in a 1997 match, the odds of the strongest grandma …

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Landfall

by Joe Denham

“Denham’s latest is a mindful, carefully crafted book and an argument with the predicament of living. It certainly cements his reputation as a mas …

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The Eyelash and the Monochrome and Other Poems

by Tiziana La Melia

“The potentiality of interplay manifests in the exhibition title, The Eyelash and the Monochrome. The line, a cursor with connotations of femininity …

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Lances All Alike

by Suzanne Zelazo

“Zelazo's [poems are] cerebrally orgasmic, icily erotic — [her] tone, like Virginia Woolf's, is highly introspective, yet reverberates with an urg …

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Stained With the Colours of Sunday Morning

by Rayanne Haines

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Homesickness is a Forgotten Art

by Joël Pourbaix
translated by Donald Winkler

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Anatomic

by Adam Dickinson

'Adam Dickinson is a wild doctor and a Romantic scientist. With actual blood, sweat, and tears he has written an essential Anatomic poetics.' - Peter …

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Intertidal

The Collected Earlier Poems 1968–2008

by Daphne Marlatt
edited by Susan Holbrook

QUOTES OF NOTE
Liquidities
“… more recent works, read alongside the earlier ones, provide a kind of relief topography of the ways in which neo-l …

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Standing in the Flock of Connections

by Heather Cadsby

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On the Blog

Tanaz Bhathena: YA Girls Behaving Badly

By Kerry Clare

"These so-called badly behaved female protagonists had me rooting for them all the way to the end."

Notes From a Children's Librarian: Heritage and Identity

By Kerry Clare

Our Children's Librarian columnist, Julie Booker, brings us a new view from the stacks every month.

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How do family and community traditions change over time? This Grade 2 unit on heritage and ident …

Celebrating Canadian Independent Bookstores

By Kerry Clare

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is happening April 28—a day for Canadians to get out into the community and celebrate the unique intersection of art, culture, business and opportunity that bookst …

Books for Earth Day

By Kerry Clare

Fantastic books for readers of all ages and across genres, about nature, ecology, and conservation.

The Chat With Jessica Westhead

By Trevor Corkum

Jessica Westhead has an uncanny ability to combine humour and despair in her writing. In her latest collection, Things Not to Do, we meet folks at the end of their rope who still manage to unearth wry …

A slow, creeping madness...

By Kerry Clare

It seems that Canadian literature is rife with stories of isolated characters and their slow creeping madnesses. And yes, some of them do end up engaging in intimate relations with bears...

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