A Number of Stunning Attacks
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
By: Jessi MacEachern (CA)
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
By: "Guyleigh Johnson (CA)"
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
By: Andrew DuBois (CA)
”So what if I left language by the pier. Metaphorโs a raft,” declares Andrew DuBois as he leads readers through a fractured past and present โ from “slummy memories of… Read More
By: Sue Sinclair (CA)
Sue Sinclair has been praised for her “crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings” (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who… Read More
By: "Sylvia D. Hamilton (CA)"
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
By: Sheree Fitch (CA)
During the global pandemic, Sheree Fitch shared what she calls “moments”โher first-burst warm-up writing exercises, on social media almost every day. Sometimes funny verse, other times lyrical prose or… Read More
By: Lucas Crawford (CA)
<em>Belated Bris of the Brainsick</em>ย traces 1)ย a belated and in some ways violent revelation about oneโs ancestry and oneโs past, 2)ย a resultant mental breakdown and 3)ย the pursuit of a… Read More
By: Afua Cooper (CA)
Halifaxโs Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black… Read More
By: "Maxine Tynes (CA)"
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
By: Alden Nowlan (CA)
Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind “one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive.” In an abundance… Read More
By: Douglas Walbourne-Gough (CA)
Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry AwardShortlisted, NL Reads, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster AwardLonglisted, First Nation Communities READ… Read More
By: Arielle Twist (CA)
Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers (Writers’ Trust of Canada) and the Indigenous Voices Award; finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant… Read More
By: "Guyleigh Johnson (CA)"
Expect the Unexpected is a highly charged first collection of spoken word poetry based on the lives of inner city youth. It’s deep, raw, uncut, and unflinching in telling their… Read More
By: Rita Joe, Burland Murphy
WITH THE YOUNG PERSON IN MIND, these strong, clear, and encouraging poems from Rita Joe speak directly to all of us, a testament to her hope for a better world…. Read More
By: Melanie Power (CA)
Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, this collection explores the combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Melanie Powerโs poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters โ a… Read More
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