Amy Dennis ISBN 9781771262804 $18.00 CDN/USA 124 pages The Sleep Orchard is a collection of poetry written in response to the life and artwork of Arshile Gorky. By mapping the differences as well as the deepening intersections between Gorky and the author, these poems highlight the complexities inherent in attempting to understand another’s life and art […]
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Pronounced / Workable
Candice de Taeye ISBN 9781771262644 $18.00 CDN/USA 118 pages Candace de Taeye’s Pronounced/Workable bears witness to life, a fast-paced every day of a woman, mother, and paramedic working through the pandemic. Here, poetry is drawn into a crown of sonnets, from Toronto cityscapes, and in relation to patients, people, and protocols. Poetry that pulls […]
Ghost Walk
Anton Pooles ISBN 9781771262842 $18.00 CDN/USA 64 pages In Ghost Walk, Anton Pooles develops a mythology of self in order to give substance to his undetermined origins. He does so through the lens of parable in poems that present strange creatures and uncanny phenomena, positing that “all children know the orphanage is alive.” Both […]
Immune to the Sacred
Stephen Brockwell ISBN 9781771262811 $18.00 CDN/USA 92 pages Nick Lowe wrote, “There stands the naked ape in a monkey suit.” If he hadn’t, Stephen Brockwell might have. Immune to the Sacred is loaded with the poet’s trademark intelligence and dark humour. These poems, both artful and direct, strive to find sense in this stupid […]
Essays in the Face of Uncertainties
rob mclennan ISBN 9781771262835 $18.00 CDN/USA 176 pages This suite of pandemic essays exist within those first one hundred days of original lockdown, marking time through moments, anxieties and the elasticity of time itself. What are days, weeks, months? In this stunning collection of deeply personal essays, Ottawa writer rob mclennan wanders through literature, parenting, family, the […]
Mouthful of Bees
Shannon Quinn ISBN 9781771262712 $18.00 CDN/USA 90 pages Mouthful of Bees comes from Quinn’s own experience as someone who both provides and uses mental health and addiction services. The collection moves between personal, communal and mythical experiences of madness to obliterate the idea that recovery is a tidy or linear event. These pieces ask us […]
Blue Suitcase — Documentary Poetics
Jim Nason ISBN 9781771262798 Now 40% off $18.00 $10.80 CDN/USA 116 pages In his seventh poetry collection, poet and novelist Jim Nason, delves into the lives of the eight missing and murdered men from Toronto’s gay village in 2017. The disappearance of one man in particular, Selim Esen, compels Nason to search for a deeper […]
Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah
Michael Trussler ISBN 9781771262743 $18.00 CDN/USA 94 pages In Rare Sighting of a Guillotine on the Savannah, Michael Trussler engages with the beauty and violence manifested in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The poems here blur online reality with Zen Buddhism (relating the Japanese female anthropomorph Hatsune Miku to Basho), and explore humanity’s changing relationship […]
A Nihilist Walks Into A Bar
Brianna Ferguson ISBN 9781771262750 $18.00 CDN/USA 102 pages A Nihilist Walks Into A Bar is the frustrated, fierce, and funny first book of a woman for whom all the old expectations of life have fallen apart. Railing against careers, religion, sex, drinking, and all the usual signposts on the road to self-fulfillment, Ferguson strips away […]
Your Turn
Carole Glasser Langille ISBN 9781771262729 $18.00 CDN/USA 92 pages There are poems in Your Turn that are political, outward-looking, recording inequities; others revisit literary and visual artists and other sections contain more intimate, personal poems whose theme might be summarized as the double self. Whether poems speak to those no longer here or the poet’s […]
