Uncharted
Sabyasachi Nag ISBN 9781771262484 $17.00 CDN/USA 94 pages Moving through geographies; through everyday bric-a-brac; through apparitions inherited and invented; through matters of flesh and make-believe this collection weaves portraits of violence, despair and bewilderment, generating a range of new relationships and meaning. Informed equally by circumstances of race, history and politics, each poem in the […]
Recovery Community
Conor Mc Donnell ISBN 9781771262606 $17.00 CDN/USA 84 pages Recovery Community explores intimate connections between deftly-layered moments of trauma illness and loss. This collection of poems, shot through with personal and professional experiences from physician-poet Conor Mc Donnell, recruits actors addicts and artists to a Greek-chorus rallying call: first-time experimenters are serenaded by the drugs […]
This is About Angels, Women, and Men
Chantel Lavoie ISBN 9781771262446 $17.00 CDN/USA 100 pages This Is About Angels, Women, and Men separates women and men from the angels, even as it suggests they are one and the same. In sections titled Brothers, Sisters, Consorts, Offspring, and Refuse, Chantel Lavoie intimates that the familial can be more foreign than familiar. These relationships, […]
Love and Other Failed Religions
Dane Swan ISBN 9781771262682 $17.00 CDN/USA 118 pages “There is no messiah here.” The most popular religion on earth was founded by a Jewish man who travelled the Roman Empire. He allegedly challenged religious leaders while preaching the importance of love. He was persecuted in his time, but eventually his preachings flourished. Centuries later (in […]
Each Blossom Makes Horses Tremble
Glen Downie ISBN: 9781771262521 $17.00 CDN/USA 98 Pages You can understand this by breathing on a mirror. What are these writings? Aphorisms? Cryptic telegrams? The sound of one hand clapping? Perhaps all the above. In Each Blossom Makes Horses Tremble, his second collection working with the given, Glen Downie presents fractured versions of success in human […]
