Atlantic Books
Atlantic Books
This new collection of poems tells the story of 150 years as a country, recreating historical events through the vivid, concrete, human element of our poets’ responses to them. Judy Gaudet has collected poems… Read More
It was night, It was winter In the heavy window frost I saw falling angels splinter In this collection of deeply personal poetry, David… Read More
A raw and intimate testimony of the spatial and emotional difficulty of facing the self and the other A Number of Stunning Attacks contributes to the… Read More
Through prose and poetry, Guyleigh Johnson tells the story of sixteen-year-old Kahlua Thomas. With a hard life at home, on the streets, and in school she finds an escape during her grade ten history class through… Read More
On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111 plunged into the sea near the mouth of St. Margaret’s Bay in Nova Scotia, killing all 229 on board. Thousands of people responded immediately: emergency personnel,… Read More
”So what if I left language by the pier. Metaphor’s a raft,” declares Andrew DuBois as he leads readers through a fractured past and present — from “slummy memories of… Read More
Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry)Sue Sinclair has been praised for her “crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings”… Read More
Katie Vatour’s extraordinary debut collection is an eclectic examination of the space where humans and animals meet, where migratory patterns encounter commercial flights, and birds appear as fishermen, security… Read More
The settlement of African peoples in Nova Scotia is a richly layered story encompassing many waves of settlement and diverse circumstances?from captives to ?freedom runners? who sailed north from the… Read More
Brent MacLaine’s elegant, capacious, and finely crafted fourth collection, Athena Becomes a Swallow, contains twenty-seven monologues spoken by characters that appear in Homer’s… Read More
During the global pandemic, Sheree Fitch shared what she calls “moments”—her first-burst warm-up writing exercises, on social media almost every day. Sometimes funny verse, other times lyrical prose or… Read More
<em>Belated Bris of the Brainsick</em> traces 1) a belated and in some ways violent revelation about one’s ancestry and one’s past, 2) a resultant mental breakdown and 3) the pursuit of a… Read More
Halifax’s Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black… Read More
Maxine Tynes is a writer who has lived, studied, and worked all of her life in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her heritage goes back to the time of the Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia. Maxine is a graduate of Dalhousie… Read More
In Zanzibar, in 2008, George Elliott Clarke began to write his “Canticles,” an epic poem treating the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Imperial and colonial conquest, and the resistance to all these… Read More
