The End is in the Middle: MAD fold-in poems by Daniel Scott Tysdal
Taking inspiration from Al Jaffee’s illustrated fold-ins in MAD magazine, Tysdal explores living with mental illness through a new kind of poetry: the fold-in poem.
Pearl Pirie
Broken Dawn Blessings: Poems by Adam Sol
These poems showcase Sol’s trademark blend of humor and lyric virtuosity, and display his familiarity with Jewish texts and traditions, but add a new intimacy and urgency that break new ground for one of Canada’s most respected poets. It is his most risky and most accomplished collection to date.
Love Pandemic by Salimah Valiani
Love Pandemic by Salina Valiani packs a lot of food for thought inside its slim 34 pages.
Tilling the Darkness by Susan Braley
In Susan Braley’s debut poetry collection, Tilling the Darkness, a young woman born into a family of eleven navigates the inequities of gender roles on the farm and in the church.
If I didn’t Love the River: Poems by Robert Priest
In this virtuoso display of sonnets, free verse, prose poems, villanelles, ghazals, and aphorisms, People’s Poet Robert Priest makes it clear why the Pacific Rim Review has called him “surely the most imaginatively inventive poet in the country.”
The Last Unsuitable Man by Louise Carson
The Last Unsuitable Man is a slow-burn thriller filled with twists that no one–least of all the victim–could see coming.
Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder, by William Shatner with Joshua Brandon
The beloved star of Star Trek, recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy that comes from exploration in this inspiring, revelatory, and exhilarating collection of essays.
29 Leads to Love by Salimah Valiani
Salimah Valiani’s 29 Leads to Love expands on and extends the focus of her 2009 collection, Letter Out: Letter In, with the Sufi notion of love as a kind of attention which unifies.
Context & Content: The Memoir of a Fortunate Architect by A.J. Diamond
A deeply personal memoir from one of Canada’s most celebrated architects.
oems: poems by Matthew Tomkinson
oems is a collection of thirty-six lipogrammatic poems composed entirely of flat words such as “sunrise” or “unconsciousness,” which contain no ascending or descending letters. Proceeding from the author’s lived experience of OCD, the book leans into obsessive-compulsive tendencies, attempting to exorcise them through overuse.
Never the Less: Walking Poems by Gillian Jerome
In Nevertheless, a collection about love, grief, friendship, aging, neighbours and neighbourhoods, Jerome roams into ordinary places inside and outside of the city of Vancouver to find beings and states of being to sing about.
Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk
Antonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuk’s poetry debut, addresses a harrowing subject: the loss of the poet’s mother to addiction. Deploying a range of forms and techniques astonishing in a first collection, Boychuk creates unsparing scenes of their complicated life together.
Creeland by Dallas Hunt
Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances.