Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters With the Uncanny by Mike Barnes
A poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination.
Month: December 2023
Decolonizing Sport by Janice Forsyth and Others
Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize.
A Spirit in the Material World: Cold, by Drew Hayden Taylor
A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.
Anna Lee-Popham: Empires of the Everyday
An ambitious and wholly original poetry collection that examines the ways that life is confined and sometimes defined by the city and the ubiquity and invisibility of state violence.
The Untimely Resurrection of John Alexander MacNeil by Lesley Choyce
In his 103rd book, acclaimed author of The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil takes the reader through another beautiful adventure about time and love. Lesley Choyce tackles topics like dementia, elder sexuality and assisted dying with humour and grace.
This is How You Start to Disappear by Astrid Blodgett
This Is How You Start to Disappear shows all the heartbreaking ways we evolve when coping with change or trauma. A TMR Star Review!
Absence of Wings by Arleen Paré
Absence of Wings depicts the extraordinary and tragically foreshortened life of A.—Paré’s niece, Brazilian, adopted, racialized, and living with multiple mental health diagnoses.
Mastercraft Thinking: Alternator by Chris Banks
Alternator blends catastrophe and consciousness, modern living and past transgressions, off-kilter imagery and the “hidden room” of the unsayable to construct a polyphonic triumph.
World’s End, by rob mclennan
Through eight extended poem-sections, World’s End, sits beyond the city’s gates, from relocating to an Ottawa suburb after a quarter century in Centretown, to the birth of the author’s third child.
EXCERPT: Zulaikha by Niloufar-Lily Soltani
An excerpt from the novel “Zulaikha” by Niloufar-Lily Soltani.
Immortal North Two by Tom Stewart
The “achingly beautiful” story of Immortal North concludes in this stunning sequel, an unflinching meditation on the triumph of human resolve.
Gold’s Rounds: Medicine, McGill, and Growing Up Jewish in Montreal by Phil Gold
By turns funny, wise, and heartrending, Gold’s memoir of a life well lived will be cherished by both medical professionals and general readers.
A Whale Watcher’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Lewis Evans
A Whale Watcher’s Guide to the Apocalypse recounts
one man’s endeavour to regain control of his dreary life
by setting out for a new “frontier.”
My Brother Was a Poet: Poems by Mark Bohnen
The poems in this collection are drawn from a black vinyl binder containing verses handwritten on lined loose-leaf paper. The binder has been virtually untouched since 1987 when the poet died at the age of 36.
Ultramarine by Harry Thurston
The poems in Ultramarine explore our relationship with the passage of time, both as individuals and as a species.
