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A bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furniture Distraught and hopeless, an eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life...

Our narrator and his accidental companion, K. Sohail, inadvertently find themselves on an island wellness retreat impersonating a couple, the Dhaliwals, who have probably been killed in a helicopter...

With Canada / US relations in the proverbial toilet (American Standard, of course), Stephen Cain's third book blenderizes 'pop' culture, politics and poetry to befuddle the border.From the Howl-like...

From one of Sweden's most loved authors, an essayistic memoir about women and food, translated by Saskia Vogel.Bread and Milk traces a life through food, from a bag of tangerines devoured in one...

Shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards in the category of Most Promising WriterTalented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be...

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.Continuity Errors questions...

Now that we've sold ourselves to ourselves, shuffling letters and sounds around to hide the pain, how do we represent the uncanny valley in which we've set up shop? In lèse-majesté, Jason Christie...

Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and "natural" spaces as landscapes charged with...

Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakeningSteacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made...

Challenges the ableism of fairy tales and offers new ways to celebrate the magic of all bodies. In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm - as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After...

Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban UtopiasAuthor: John LorincPublisher: Coach House BooksPublication Date: Aug 23, 2022Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage:...

A daily ritual to write a single sestet per day generates peeled back poems that consider what it means to be good Good Want irreverently posits that perhaps virtue is a myth that's outgrown its uses...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 'I just don't believe that man is made of flesh and blood.' - Jack Johnson, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Pain was Joe Grim's...

Her acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in Jen Currin's new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark...

Overthinking simple actions leads to overwhelming poems about what one can lean on if promised help doesn't helpI Will Get Up Off Of is a book about trying to leave a chair. How does anyone ever...

A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past nor the impending ruin of his present. "I am leaving for the winter - I have to get away from this small town and all its...

It's 1944, and a little village in rural Quebec sits quietly beside an aging mountain and an angry river. The air tastes of kelp, and the wind keeps knocking over the cross. Beside that river an...

How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems. From sidewalks to the climate crisis, Living Disability...

Living Things is a literary eco-thriller, a punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, and heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction...

A science-inspired sequence that positions poems as technology Tierney's new collection, which takes its title from lossless data compression algorithms, positions the sonnet as a piece of...

Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late CapitalismAuthor: Daphne B.Publisher: Coach House BooksPublication Date: Oct 19, 2021Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

When a mad dentist steals people's teeth, Miss Lamp comes to town.Miss Lamp, a young and savvy lawyer, is holed up in Room 32 of the Peachland Hotel, waiting for a perfect grilled cheese sandwich and...

A stolen sign, 'No Jews Live Here, ' kept John Lorinc's Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations...

Boy meets Girl, Boy marries Girl, and years later Boy mysteriously disappears in this Gordon Lish-style novel. People are disappearing. And when they return, they can't say where they've been: "I was...

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it.Author: David BerryPublisher: Coach House BooksPublication Date: July 21, 2020Number of Pages: 140 pagesLanguage:...

LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBER'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ LITERATURE49th SHELF TOP 22 BOOKS OF 2022Is love real if the beloved isn't? Girl, Interrupted meets Rebecca in this taut tale of love and madness...

Dickinson after her death: the story of the trio of women who brought the first collection of Emily Dickinson's poems out of the shadows Grieving the loss of her sister and alone in a big house,...

LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBER'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ LITERATURETHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023A novel about Berlin: a city for artists and libertines, a perfect place to find...

Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue. Having recently undergone an ethical awakening, Pillow has...