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 […]
At the Gates of the Theme Park
Peter Norman ISBN 978-1-894469-46-3 $16.95 CDN / US 70 pp In Peter Norman’s exciting debut collection, the poet stands, awed and perhaps a tad scared, at the brink of a loud, swirling, thrilling world. Its mysteries and its upheavals spark amusement, sadness and occasionally anger. Whether navigating love and loss, facing the trauma of modern […]
Among Ruins
Christopher Doda ISBN 1-894469-04-6 $14.95 CDN 72 pp “Among Ruins is an intriguing mixture of the fantastic and the frighteningly real. These poems, tinged with the irony of life and politics, convey a dark and powerful mythic undertone that speaks not only to the reader but to the reader’s soul. This is a haunting and […]
A Love Supreme
Kent Nussey ISBN 1-894469-11-9 Omar Snow is a struggling musicologist trying to finish a book of jazz biographies about Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. When he reaches the Coltrane section strange things start happening around him and to him. Coltrane’s music, or some other new urgency in Omar’s life, triggers a series of […]
A Beggar’s Loom
Matt Santataresa ISBN 1-894469-07-0 $14.95 CDN 56 pp In the poems of A Beggar’s Loom, Matt Santateresa reaches deeply into place and time to bring us stories from the past: General Wolfe scaling the ramparts of Quebec City gives way to Baudelaire writing to his mulatto lover, Jeanne Duvall. One hundred years later, Shoemaker and […]
