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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...
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Metonymy Press
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2021-09-21
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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...
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Metonymy Press
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2021-09-21
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Poet-critic Jim Johnstone has described Kevin Heslop's the correct fury of your why is a mountain as among “the most promising poetic projects to come out of Canada in recent years.” This debut collection communicates Heslop’s sense of balance as a visual artist,...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2021-09-07
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In [SQUELCH PROCEDURES], MLA Chernoff contemplates the ways that trauma, poverty, and strict gender norms rupture the concept of childhood. The tension of multiple meanings in the word “squelch” acts as a guide to Chernoff’s unique voice, which uses language to swaddle...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2021-09-07
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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...
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Radiant Press
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2021-04-15
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Longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, 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...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2021-03-31
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The Garden by A. F. Moritz is a passionate denunciation of injustice, especially as seen in the violent injustice directed to the African diaspora in North America. Comprised of a long poem, “The Garden in the Midst”, and an in-depth essay, “The Poet’s Garden,” the book...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2021-03-31
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Shortlisted for Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Trillium Award for Poetry, and winner of the Raymond Souster Award, try Award winning book with Gordon Hill Press, Roxanna Bennett's The Untranslatable I builds on Roxanna's acute sense of form and cripping of...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2021-03-31
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In Paradise, God’s favored new creations—Adam and Eve—live in bliss, untainted by sin.In another realm, Satan and his banished rebel angels collude to destroy God’s tranquil new design. Into this idyll called Earth, and the confidence of Adam and Eve, Satan will...
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ClassicBooks by KTHTK
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2020-11-20
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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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Radiant Press
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2020-10-13
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In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning “man-woman” or “transgender” in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a...
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Metonymy Press
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2020-09-10
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In Saturn Peach, Lily Wang establishes a distinctive voice that is part heartbreak and part wise witness chronicling the strangeness of a technologized world. When asked to describe her book, Wang answered in her quintessential way, “There are things I never want to...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2020-09-01
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?Shortlisted for the 2021 Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize, M. Travis Lane’s Keeping Count begins in the poet’s favourite terrain: short, condensed lyric that focuses on the natural world. “But pull a thread: music turns” Lane writes, and the book progressively...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2020-09-01
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While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the...
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KTHTK
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2020-05-01
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Night Lunch is a shapeshifting sonnet sequence set in the cold waters off the North Coast of Labrador. Reflecting Chaulk’s own experience, the speaker—a young deckhand on a freight and passenger ferry servicing isolated communities—endures long irregular work hours,...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2020-04-01
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Winner of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta's Emerging Artist Award, and shortlisted for the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, resides in the intersection...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2020-04-01
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In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture of...
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Big Cheese Books
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2019-11-28
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Winner of the 2020 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2020 Raymond Souster Award, Unmeaningable welcomes you to the freak show, where the monster on display is a culture that stigmatizes sickness and a system that shames the sufferer. Behold the wonder of the ages,...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2019-09-01
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In A Cemetery for Holes, poetic language bends and breaks, resists and reforms under the stress of family trauma. Consensual reality shifts with nonconsensual harm. It is this history of violence which is ultimately, confronted, fought against, and overcome. While...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2019-09-01
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The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran.The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is...
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The Classics
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2019-06-05
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