Kasia Jaronczyk ISBN 978-1-77126-140-1 $20.00 CDN/USA 134 pages In the linked stories of Kasia Jaronczyk’s Lemons, the lives of Basia and her family are seen through a kaleidoscopic lens that follows them over twenty years from communist Poland, to their new home in Canada, then back to Poland, to make sense of everything that has happened […]
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Whatever, Iceberg
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk ISBN 978-1-77126-137-1 $17.00 CDN/USA 88 pages “What if love existed but you didn’t have your notification settings turned on?” This is the first question Tara-Michelle Ziniuk asks in Whatever, Iceberg. The answer is a raucous portrait of love gone wrong (and sometimes right) in the Internet age. These are poems that capture the nervous […]
Glutton for Punishment
ISBN 978-1-77126-148-7 $17.00 CDN/USA 96 pages In Glutton for Punishment, Christopher Doda updates an ancient poetic form for the 21st century. The glosa is an old metrical form from the royal Spanish court system where a poet takes four lines from another poet and uses them to create a new forty-line poem (four ten-line stanzas where […]
Spit on the Devil
Samantha Bernstein ISBN 978-1-77126-144-9 $17.00 CDN/USA 104 pages How do the words we use shape our thoughts and actions? Can poems disrupt passivity, or is art one of its conduits? Spit on the Devil is a lyrical evocation of these questions and a searing interrogation of progressive sentiments during a time of regressive politics. Combining outrage […]
Yes or Nope
Meaghan Strimas ISBN 978-1-77126-125-8 $17.00 CDN/USA 64 pages Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2017) Funny and frank, playful and unpredictable, frequently outrageous and undeniably smart—Meaghan Strimas’s poems explore the lives of girls, women, and a few bad men who maybe wish they were a little better. Strimas tackles the darkest and most disturbing […]
All Of Us Reticent, Here, Together
Stephen Brockwell ISBN 978-1-77126-129-6 $17.00 CDN/USA 96 pages Families guard the unsaid. Neighbours listen over the fence and whisper. Technobabble, journalese, and the relentless sloganeering of politics strip-mine our last great cultural resource: words. Amid the detritus of that site, Stephen Brockwell’s All of Us Reticent, Here, Together stakes out a reclamation zone, prospecting for an […]
My Life Without Me
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco ISBN 978-1-77126-133-3 $17.00 CDN/USA 80 pages In My Life Without Me, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco has created a kind of spiritual autobiography abstracted from its environment. It is a lyrical and philosophic exploration of the world and a deep meditation on the cultural distinctions we subscribe to and which we try to […]
Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines
Jason Heroux ISBN 978-1-77126-117-3 $17.00 CDN/USA 104 pages Jason Heroux’s fourth collection of poems finds him in the laboratory. Working in free verse, more formal structures, and the prose poem, Heroux’s image-rich lines explore loss, death, angst—but with wit, an empathetic gentleness, and magic. And Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines culminates with several long poems […]
Shiner
Eva H.D. ISBN 978-1-77126-121-0 $17.00 CDN/USA 108 pages Shiner is Eva H.D.’s powerful successor to her critically acclaimed debut, Rotten Perfect Mouth, and includes the Montreal International Poetry Prize–winning “38 Michigans.” This is lyrical poetry that is as beautiful as it is angry, bracing in the sharpness of its observations. Whether noting the emotional effects […]
Book of Short Sentences
Alice Burdick ISBN 978-1-77126-109-8 $17.00 CDN/USA 128 pages In her ground-breaking fourth collection, Alice Burdick’s playful and challenging—and often surreal—poems are deeply imbued with the landscape of Nova Scotia’s south shore, as well as her own inner landscape, and the landscape of family. Her poems explore, too, the human vessel in which we carry […]
