George Bowering ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-55-5 $19.95 CAN/US 168 pp How I Wrote Certain of My Books takes its name from a volume of the same title by French Surrealist Raymond Roussel. George Bowering borrows Roussel’s conceit and expands it into a non-chronological memoir—a colourful, illuminating, occasionally scandalous journey through the writing of nearly 30 of […]
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Winter Sport: Poems
Priscila Uppal ISBN 978-1-894469-49-4 $16.95 CDN / US 124 pp Have you ever wondered what a luge poem or snowboarding poem or hockey poem would look like? In this collection by celebrated poet Priscila Uppal, who was the poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, physical and verbal acrobatics meet […]
wipe.under.a.love
Margaret Christakos ISBN 1-894469-01-1 $12.95 CDN 120 pp Margaret Christakos’ fourth poetry collection playfully filters the refrains of domestic experience through an ever-shifting procedural sieve, rendering a series of ground-out texts which lift the vernacular to the plane of exuberant bliss. A woman’s kaleidoscopic self-image emerges where memory and culture double back on each other […]
White Ink: Poems on Mothers & Motherhood
Edited by Rishma Dunlop ISBN 978-1-55014-484-0 $39.95 CDN / US 420 pp Edited by poet Rishma Dunlop, White Ink is a unique collection of poems on mothers and motherhood, by some of the finest poets of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Unsentimental, unflinching, and edgy, White Ink registers the social and political changes, […]
What Happens at Canals
Sam Difalco ISBN 1-894469-062-2 $14.95 CDN 64 pp What Happens at Canals is Sam Difalco’s debut collection of his widely published poems. These tales of life’s complexities, banalities, and beauty are brought to life on the page through Difalco’s colourful imagery and musical overtones. They move from the lush worlds of garden parties and days […]
The Visible World
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco ISBN 1-894469-26-7 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 110 pp In language that is direct as the noon-day sun Toronto’s Poet Laureate, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco returns to the wilderness terrain of his Trillium nominated The Dark Time of Angels to ask difficult questions of an acutely examined life. The Visible World is […]
Stray Dog Embassy
Natasha Nuhanovic ISBN 978-1-894469-51-7 $16.95 CDN / US 60 pp In these deeply humanistic poems of witness and questioning, Croatian-born poet natasha nuhanovic finds beauty and hope amid brutality and the smouldering debris of landscapes both personal and geographical. In these simply stated, sometimes surreal lullabies in reverse, it is the moment of awareness that […]
Stations of the Lost
Brian Wickers ISBN 1-894469-28-3 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 88 pp Stations of the Lost is about how we seek to find places for ourselves in landscapes and situations that seem to belong to others. In language playful, extravagant, somber and meditative, yet always plainspoken and heartfelt, the quandaries of our double selves are explored—both “longing/and […]
Souls in Plain Clothes
Corrado Paina ISBN 978-1-894469-37-1 $16.95 CDN / US 72 pp In a world grown weary of noisy narcissism and the cacophony of the crowd, Corrado Paina’s poetry is an exquisite and welcome reminder of the lost art of reflection.” – Christopher Hume “Mid-life, for poets – like anyone else – is a time of existential […]
Something Burned Along the Southern Border
Robert Earl Stewart ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-44-9 $16.95 CDN 128 pp The poems in Robert Earl Stewart’s debut collection, Something Burned Along the Southern Border, are both thoughtful and audacious. They have something to say about coyotes that go on a crime spree in the city, about how Detroit looks from across the river on a […]
