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 […]
Winter Sport: Poems

Priscila Uppal ISBN 978-1-894469-49-4 $16.95 CDN / US 124 pp Have you ever wondered what a luge poem or snowboarding poem or hockey poem would look like? In this collection by celebrated poet Priscila Uppal, who was the poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, physical and verbal acrobatics meet […]
wipe.under.a.love

Margaret Christakos ISBN 1-894469-01-1 $12.95 CDN 120 pp Margaret Christakos’ fourth poetry collection playfully filters the refrains of domestic experience through an ever-shifting procedural sieve, rendering a series of ground-out texts which lift the vernacular to the plane of exuberant bliss. A woman’s kaleidoscopic self-image emerges where memory and culture double back on each other […]
White Ink: Poems on Mothers & Motherhood

Edited by Rishma Dunlop ISBN 978-1-55014-484-0 $39.95 CDN / US 420 pp Edited by poet Rishma Dunlop, White Ink is a unique collection of poems on mothers and motherhood, by some of the finest poets of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Unsentimental, unflinching, and edgy, White Ink registers the social and political changes, […]
What Happens at Canals

Sam Difalco ISBN 1-894469-062-2 $14.95 CDN 64 pp What Happens at Canals is Sam Difalco’s debut collection of his widely published poems. These tales of life’s complexities, banalities, and beauty are brought to life on the page through Difalco’s colourful imagery and musical overtones. They move from the lush worlds of garden parties and days […]
The Visible World

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco ISBN 1-894469-26-7 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 110 pp In language that is direct as the noon-day sun Toronto’s Poet Laureate, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco returns to the wilderness terrain of his Trillium nominated The Dark Time of Angels to ask difficult questions of an acutely examined life. The Visible World is […]
Stray Dog Embassy

Natasha Nuhanovic ISBN 978-1-894469-51-7 $16.95 CDN / US 60 pp In these deeply humanistic poems of witness and questioning, Croatian-born poet natasha nuhanovic finds beauty and hope amid brutality and the smouldering debris of landscapes both personal and geographical. In these simply stated, sometimes surreal lullabies in reverse, it is the moment of awareness that […]
Stations of the Lost

Brian Wickers ISBN 1-894469-28-3 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 88 pp Stations of the Lost is about how we seek to find places for ourselves in landscapes and situations that seem to belong to others. In language playful, extravagant, somber and meditative, yet always plainspoken and heartfelt, the quandaries of our double selves are explored—both “longing/and […]