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Night & Ox

By (author) Jordan Scott
Categories: Poetry

bronchia think
form a bombsight
think periosteum singing
particle falconry workpiece
two lowcut hills seeking
what stone is
for body
is herd
alliterations

Night & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to ...

Baloney

By (author) Raymond Bock
Translated by Pablo Strauss
Categories: Anthologies: general

A Tristram Shandy–esque novella about failing memory and failed writing, from one of French Canada’s most exciting new voices.

A young, floundering author meets Robert ‘Baloney’ Lacerte, an older, ...

Garage Criticism

Babiak gently eviscerates and deflates cultural hot topics of our time. He deconstructs our fascination with Internet culture and its libertarian ideology, devolves the hallucinations of economics and ...

Strangers Among Us

Nineteen science fiction and fantasy authors explore the delicate balance between mental health and mental illness and how the diverse societies and cultures we live in can set us apart, or must be concealed, ...

A Second Coming

“You will lose yourself in this collection of stories by some of Canada’s most imaginative authors. Each tale takes you to a different place (physical or psychological) that is both familiar and strange. ...

Coming Here, Being Here

“Here is a shifting of borders, a redrawing of maps, a constant making and remaking of worlds in the one dwelling we have in common: language. ”Tamas Dobozy, winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust ...

Learn, Teach, Challenge

This is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America. The contributing scholars include some of the most venerable Indigenous theorists, ...

Canadian Graphic

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw ...

Nino Ricci

This book of essays examines the fictional work of Nino Ricci from a variety of critical perspectives. These perspectives include ideas about literature, culture, identity, politics, and society in terms ...

Resumption of Play, The

By (author) Gary Geddes
Categories: Poetry

The gripping title poem of The Resumption of Play, which won the 2015 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, dramatizes the traumatic experience and enduring legacy of Canada’s Indian residential schools. ...