Seventh Town of Ghosts by Faith Arkorful
These poems offer humour, irony, despair, anger, joy, persistence, and strength for the journey.
Susan Wismer
40 Days and 40 Hikes: Loving the Bruce Trail One Loop at a Time by Nicola Ross
This book gives hikers concise one-page summaries of each loop, including maps, technical information about trail requirements, entrances and exits, interesting plants and animals to look for along the way. The accompanying text offers a well-researched recounting of the history, present circumstances and possible futures of the snake spine of land that rises through South-Central Ontario and is the Niagara Escarpment and of the Bruce Trail that follows it.
She and Poetry is Queer by Kirby
In the world I inhabit much of what is commonly understood about mutual attraction continues to be based on cis-gendered heterosexual and patriarchal ideas of what “sex” is, of what we understand to be “male” or “female” to be. Anything else is queer, as in othered.
She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner
Beatriz Hausner combines poetry and poetic prose, fiction and non-fiction and her own remarkable presence into a work of creative imagination. This book moves with cohesion and depth across a set of mysteries that have endured for over seventeen centuries.
Richard-Yves Sitoski, Wait, What?
Wait, What? is a spare book of rigorously chosen words and white space.
Imagining Imagining by Gary Barwin
There is an intimacy to walking with my dog at night”, says Gary Barwin, in this small book of wonder tales.
A Fierce and Tumultuous Joy by David Adams Richards
In this collection of deeply personal poetry, David Adams Richards offers readers both his searing observations of and profound sympathy for those he writes of, be they his own family or animals.
Beast Body Epic by Amanda Earl
“Beast Body Epic is for anyone who’s circled the drain or knows someone who has. The book is about having the shit kicked out of you & surviving.”
Seas Move Away by Joanne Leow
Joanne Leow’s Seas Move Away is a book that was over two decades in the making. And indeed, this slim volume has the weighty feel of much careful self-examination and reflection.
Tonight We Sleep with the Window Open: Poems and Drawings from Belleisle Bay Melanie Craig-Hansford
Melanie Craig-Hansford spent her childhood summers and holidays in the Belleisle Bay area on the Kingston Peninsula in southern New Brunswick; it is the place that called her back after a long absence.
Hard Bargain Road by Susan Haldane
Hard Bargain Road is a book of skillfully crafted, richly textured poems about contemporary rural life from the point of view of one woman who knows and lives that life intimately, inside and out.
Moving Upstream by Mary Barnes
Moving Upstream is strong, confident, loving and tender. In this second collection, Mary Barnes takes us with her on an exploration and affirmation of her Ojibwe roots.
Dream Rooms by River Halen
Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities.
Battered Luggage: Celebrating Jack Kerouac, Ronda Wicks Eller, ed.
Canadian Beat Poets & Friends Celebrating Kerouac’s 100th Anniversary.
