Poetry. Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes
In a kind of Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus, Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, sha
Fiction. Translated from the French by JC Sutcliffe. Written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, MAMA'S BOY recounts the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother af
The Toronto subway system functions like a mirror, you see what you want to see; sometimes acts of inexpressible kindness and beauty, and often just that cold paralyzing indifference that exists betwe
Poetry. MACHINE LANGUAGE delves the delic, from the pataphysical conjunction of antique paper tape code, a fragment of Sappho and the Gorgon (apparatus) to the writing through (over under sideways aro
Harkening back to her first book tour at the age of 26 (for the autobiographical novel Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel), and touching down upon a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nati
In October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next fo
Poetry. The third book in a trilogy that explores the limits of individual expression, HONESTLY is an intimate, quiet, and unresolved little book about talking and listening. It begins with research i
Poetry. Mallory Tater's THIS WILL BE GOOD tells the story of a young woman's burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal thems
Poetry. Translated by Donald Winkler. Winner of the 2016 Prix des Libraires. Winner of the 2016 Quebecor Prize for the Trois-Rivières Poetry Festival. Carole David's THE YEAR OF MY DISAPPEARANCE is a
I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell explores poetic responsibility and accountability, and frames poetry as a form of revisioning. In these poems, Webb-Campbell returns to her own text Who To
Poetry. THE BENJAMIN SONNETS is a series of poems created through a process of "homophonic" translation from German writings by Walter Benjamin. They are ridiculous, but only in the sense th
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and fe
Poetry. What if words evolved in species and genera just like birds and dinosaurs? What if you classified them in kingdoms and families? Made a phylogenetic tree with orders of Space, Matter, or Intel
Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol. 1 Illus. Ed. dares to go where no book of Canadian poetry has gone before deep into the heart of darkness epitomized by the idea of the Great White North. Excep
Poetry. LEDI, the second book by Vancouver poet Kim Trainor, describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Along with the woman's carefully
The figure of the father occupies a particularly significant place in Québécoise literature--there's a real fascination with fathers, and this recurring persona populates fiction, films, and the stori
We sit, hunched over the words that appear on our smartphone screens, altogether unaware of the story of our lives that is going on around us, even as we focus on the minutiae of our social media &quo
Fiction. Who hasn't, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire? Following on the critical success of his novel POLYAMOROUS LOVE SONG (BookThug, 2014), Montreal-based writer and performe
Poetry. THE RITUALITES is Michael Nardone's book-length poem--the first in a series of planned works--on the sonic topography of North America. Composed at sites all across the continent--from Far Roc
