David W. McFadden ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-62-3 $19.95 CDN/US 150 pp The often outrageous and always wise follow-up to 2008’s Governor General’s Award–nominated Be Calm, Honey shows David W. McFadden at his most inquisitive and provocative. Here you’ll find ninety-nine poems full of surprises by a Canadian long-distance poet in his sixth decade of writing, a [...]
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Sympathy Loophole
Jaime Forsythe ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-74-6 $16.95 CDN/US 62 pp This lively first collection, often both creepy and hilarious, serves up an image-laden universe — the sideshow we call home — where contortionists, womanizing ventriloquist dummies, and pickled sharks compete with the everyday for the mark’s hard-earned buck. Jaime Forsythe’s poetry is loaded with wit, mystery, [...]
Holler
Alice Burdick ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-70-8 $16.95 CDN/US 80 pp In her follow-up to 2008’s Flutter, former big-city-dweller Alice Burdick explores nature and the small town, taking a cue from children learning their voices: “All I see are trucks, / trucks and ducks.” With a blend of playful narrative and an Ashberyesque collage approach, Burdick paints [...]
In This Thin Rain
Nelson Ball ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-66-1 $16.95 CDN/US 82 pp In his first full-length poetry collection since 2004, Nelson Ball, Canada’s most renowned minimalist, offers up compressed meditations — ranging from the whimsical to the mournful — on clouds, birds, insects, trees live and dead, water-stained walls, crumbling windmills, and hyphenation. Ball’s poems are meticulously polished gems that move through [...]
The Crystal Palace
Carey Toane ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-57-9 $16.95 CDN/US 96 pp Carey Toane’s much-anticipated first collection of poetry starts at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. Through this early world’s fair, Toane examines our current relationship to our man-made and natural environments. This eclectic, adventurous work, blurring the lines of two centuries of human folly and achievement, [...]
Hooligans
Lillian Necakov ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-586 $16.95 CAN/US 78 pp Hooligans is the fifth full-length poetry book by Toronto writer Lillian Necakov. It is a collection about genocide, hope, regret, and a man who ate his shoe; about a discarded subway token, curbside anticipation, the power of fire, divided memories; about the symptoms and shenanigans of [...]
Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems
Rishma Dunlop ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-56-2 $19.95 168 pp Rishma Dunlop’s Lover Through Departure features new and selected work from a lyric poet who has staked her poetic landscape in the sensual territory of love in the urban environment. Here are poems by a diasporic persona about encounters in cities around the world, in hotels, motels, [...]
How I Wrote Certain Of My Books
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 [...]
