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.
Essays
Best Canadian Essays and Poetry 2024 from Biblioasis
A combined review of Biblioasis’ Best Canadian Essays and Poetry 2024.
Off the Record Edited by John Metcalf
In Off the Record, John Metcalf encourages six writers to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how they became writers instead of radio announcers or cabinet makers.
Exclusive Memory: A Perceptual History of the Future
Exclusive Memory: A Perceptual History of the Future is a compendium of descriptive, speculative prose and text-images by the Governor General’s Award-winning artist, Tom Sherman.
If It Gets Quiet Later on, I Will Make a Display by Nick Thran
Nick Thran’s volume of essays, stories and poems is a quietly powerful meditation on a life of reading, writing and bookselling.
Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works (editor, Bianca Lakoseljac)
The anthology, Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works, compiled and edited by Bianca Lakoseljac, examines Wiebe’s works and his achievements as an author, editor, professor and mentor who helped shape successful authors and encouraged a passion for Canadian literature.
Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists by Christl Verduyn
Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form.
Discipline N.V. by Concetta Principe
Discipline n. v. is a lyric memoir that fuses poetry and academic theory, speaking to the metaphorical power of humanities scholarship.
On Class by Deborah Dundas
“Dundas peels back the ways we think about poverty, the definitions of class, the way class intersects with the other –
‘isms,'”
Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures by Lorna Goodison
In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism and social justice, authenticity, and the enduring power of friendship.
The Wisdom Found in Hen’s Teeth by Jules Torti
If you’re looking for an entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking read, The Wisdom Found in Hen’s Teeth just might fill the bill.
Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books – edited by Jason Camlot and J.A. Weingarten
Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is a set of essays dealing with the different kinds of personal libraries, split into two sections: the private libraries which have transformed into more public collections, and the personal libraries and what they reveal about their owners.
Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female by Tanis MacDonald
Tanis MacDonald walks the reader down many paths, pointing out the sights, exclaiming over birds, sharing stories and asking questions about who gets to walk freely through our cities, parks and wilderness.
Best Canadian Essays 2023, Edited by Mireille Silcoff
Selected by editor Mireille Silcoff, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2021.
Excerpt: The Swirl In My Burl by Miriam Edelson
An excerpt from “The Swirl in My Burl” a collection of essays by Miriam Edelson
