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Can’t Help Falling: A Long Road to Motherhood by Tarah Schwartz

August 24, 2022February 14, 2022 by Joanne Gallant
Can’t Help Falling: A Long Road to Motherhood by Tarah Schwartz, is about one woman’s perilous journey toward motherhood—toward mothering her son.
Categories Memoirs, Non-Fiction Tags Grief, loss, Memoirs, miscarriage, motherhood

Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk

June 17, 2022January 3, 2022 by Pearl Pirie
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.
Categories First Book, Poetry Tags death, debut collection, family, Grief, loss, poetry

I Am the Big Heart: Poems by by Sarah Venart

June 2, 2022November 29, 2021 by Zoe Shaw
Sarah Venart's "I Am the Big Heart" is a love story to the emotional self--this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite.
Categories Poetry Tags loss, motherhood, poetry

A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

August 24, 2022September 4, 2021 by Joanne Gallant
A Town Called Solace is a masterful, suspenseful, darkly funny and deeply humane novel by one of our great storytellers.
Categories Fiction Tags Booker Longlisted, Grief, loss, redemption

The Crooked Thing: Stories by Mary MacDonald

July 8, 2021 by Ian Colford
The Crooked Thing is a collection of intense and emotional stories, there are traumas and betrayals, loves and losses, missed opportunities and discoveries, and above all, hope.
Categories Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories Tags loss, love, memory, short fiction, short stories

Boy With a Problem by Chris Benjamin

November 23, 2020 by Gemma Marr

How does a teenager deal with grief? Where do you turn in the aftermath of tragedy? What can ease the shame of a dark secret? Who can help when things feel helpless? In sparse but emotive prose, Chris Benjamin’s collection … Continue reading

Categories Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories Tags acceptance, failure, loss, love, short fiction

The Only Card In A Deck of Knives by Lauren Turner

September 3, 2020 by Chris Banks

her debut collection The Only Card In A Deck of Knives out with Wolsak &Wynn publishers, the poet Lauren Turner takes us “to the edge of something” as she writes in the first line of her poem “If You Haven’t … Continue reading

Categories Poetry Tags death, Grief, loss, poems, poetry, sickness

The Place of Us by Karen Draper

April 24, 2020April 21, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Karen Draper and her husband are ecstatic to welcome Preston, their first child, into their lives. Joyful anticipation turns to fear when they are told they must prepare to lose him.

We’ve all lost someone. It hurts. Horribly. Most often … Continue reading

Categories Memoirs, Non-Fiction Tags coping, courage, death, loss, love

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