POETRY

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Burning in This Midnight Dream

A deeply scouring poetic account of the residential school experience, and a deeply important indictment of colonialism in Canada.

Many of the poems in Louise Halfe's Burning in This Midnight Dream were ...

awâsis--kinky and dishevelled

Par (auteur) Louise B. Halfe
Catégories: Poésie

There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through shapeshifting, adopting different genders, exploring the English language with merriment, and ...

Moldovan Hotel

Par (auteur) Leah Horlick
Catégories: La Shoah

In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism to neofascisms, ...

Our Farm in the City

Catégories: Jeunesse et scolaire

A child and her mother find great beauty and adventures on an experimental farm right in the middle of the city of Ottawa With her mother, she explores the arboretum, the amazing gardens, the fields of ...

DR SAD

Par (auteur) David Bateman
Catégories: Littérature générale
Séries: ISSN

DR SAD is a cross-country, cross-campus tragicomedy of manners. Leaping between queer Toronto and small-town BC, this novel interrogates art, aging, teaching, and how we create ourselves within an ever-changing ...

Black Matters

Par (auteur) Afua Cooper
Par (photographe) Wilfried Raussert
Catégories: Poésie

Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and ...

I Am Still Your Negro

Par (auteur) Valerie Mason-John
Catégories: Poésie
Séries: Robert Kroetsch Series

Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the African Diaspora to the story ...

Resisting Canada

Édité par Nyla Matuk
Catégories: Poetry

Resisting Canada addresses, among other things, Indigenous agency, cultural belonging, environmental anxieties, and racial privilege. These poems ask us to judge and resist a statecraft that refuses to ...

Love of the Salish Sea Islands

Édité par Mona Fertig
Présentation par Gail Sjuberg
Catégories: Poésie

This important anthology of previously unpublished memoirs, essays, and poems gathers together forty skilled and award-winning writers from 26 islands for the first time. A kaleidoscope of short, brilliant ...

Casting Shadows

Par (auteur) Troy Harkin
Catégories: Poésie

Casting Shadows collects for the first time the twisted poetry of Troy Harkin, wherein you will find yourself among scalpers, neck bags, and nocturnal sheep that hate you. Clive Thompson (Smarter Than ...