Sarah Burgoyne ISBN 978-1-77126-113-5 $20.00 CDN/USA 172 pages Saint Twin is a collection of story poems, short lyrics, long walks, tiny chapters, and fake psalms. This startlingly original debut by Sarah Burgoyne explores absurdity, loss, and wonder, leaping intuitively from speaker to speaker, scene to scene, and sometimes (but not always) hunting for a holy […]
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Chewing Water
Nelson Ball ISBN 978-1-77126-105-0 $17.00 CDN/USA 120 pages Chewing Water continues Nelson Ball’s fascinating forays into the social, into communities of humans, after spending decades writing primarily about nature. While mourning, loss, and decay are featuring more heavily than ever in his poetry, friendship, hope, and love are gaining on those themes. Nelson’s poems concentrate […]
Live From The Underground
Corinne Wasilewski ISBN 978-1-77126-089-3 $20.00 CDN/USA 232 pages Teenagers Darek Dąbrowski and Eleanor Hanson come from two different worlds. In Communist Poland, Darek is consumed with the idea of a one-way ticket to America and its Levi Strauss jeans and Adidas sneakers. He wants to get away from the country that jailed his father, […]
Mean Season
Salvatore Difalco ISBN 978-1-77126-085-5 $20.00 CDN/USA 250 pages It is 1980. The buildings and storefronts at Barton Street and Sherman Avenue are dilapidated remnants of Hamilton’s once-thriving steel industry. The corner is also the nexus of a violent street gang that has left citizens terrorized and police impotent. Mean Season chronicles the random beatings, arson, […]
Abnormal Brain Sonnets
David W. McFadden ISBN 978-1-77126-097-8 $17.00 CDN/USA 120 pages In James Whale’s 1931 film Frankenstein, the doctors clumsy assistant, Fritz, reaches for the jar marked “Normal Brain.” When he drops that one, he turns to the jar marked “Abnormal Brain.” In Abnormal Brain Sonnets, Griffin Prize-winning poet David W. McFadden, now in his sixth decade […]
Last Stop, Lonesome Town
Tara Azzopardi ISBN 978-1-77126-101-2 $17.00 CDN/USA 96 pages In this quirky and beautiful vaudevillian debut, Tara Azzopardi employs sharp social observation and a pop-culture universe from the past and present to explore the struggles we face in constructing our own identities, both public and private. Whether she’s dating Caspar the Friendly Ghost, observing Agatha Christie […]
Love Me Tender
Nick Papaxanthos ISBN 978-1-77126-093-0 $17.00 CDN/USA 96 pages Award-winning poet Nick Papaxanthos’s first collection is a rollicking, fast-frame, strobe-light-illuminated tour through the surrealism of the ordinary. These poems, composed while getting a haircut or investigating the contents of a sandwich, peer through the windows of the mundane into a world of fractured wonder. The reader […]
Rotten Perfect Mouth
Eva H.D. ISBN 978-1-77126-081-7 $17.00 CDN/USA 72 pages Rotten Perfect Mouth is a wonderfully fresh first book by a writer with an intuitive ear for colourful, musical language. These poems are loose enough for the reader to flop down inside and stay awhile. They are plangent, personal, confessional, noisy, nostalgic, and maybe a little bit broken. […]
My Planet of Kites
Marie-Ève Comtois ISBN 978-1-77126-061-9 $12.00 CDN/USA 64 pages My Planet of Kites is a rich suite of prose poems that document an intimate universe, mixing personal and pop-culture references in language colourful, painful and humorous. The narrator’s reflections on the thrilling—but usually mundane—aspects of everyday life will resonate with anyone who seeks shared dreams of travel, […]
punchlines
Aaron Tucker ISBN 978-1-77126-077-0 $17.00 CDN/USA 98 pages punchlines is a lyric long poem that probes the poetic tensions in the everyday languages of computer-user collaboration. Within the narrative structure of a Canadian couple’s drive down the West Coast of the United States, the poems set this exploration between the call (poem title) and response […]
