House of Anansi Press

Sara Peters' visionary debut collection is a book about obsessions - about desire, violence, sex, beauty, and cruelty, about how they lace through our days, leaving us changed. In these startling...

A genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness. Borrowing stylistic elements from the prose poem, faux...

Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought huge challenges for all...

Channel Of Peace: Stranded In Gander On 9/11Author: Kevin TuerffPublisher: House Of Anansi PressPublication Date: Feb 06, 2018Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Increasingly in the West, China is being characterized as a threat to the liberal international order, one that must be overcome through economic, political, technological, and even military means...

Author: Charlie AngusPublisher: House of Anansi PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 400 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1487009496ISBN-13: 9781487009496

In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world. Through poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as...

Originally published in 1967, Dave Godfrey?s debut collection features stories about hunting -- in Florida, in Africa, and in northern Ontario. They are about the interplay of gun and subway, decoy...

Die Walking: A Child?ÆS Journey Through GenocideAuthor: Michel N.Publisher: House of Anansi PressPublication Date: Oct 05, 2021Number of Pages: 184 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Arranged as a mother's survival guide to her daughter, For Tamara is a touching and inventive long poem about surviving and thriving from the author of The Work of Days. It seems simple: a long...

The eagerly awaited second collection from acclaimed poet Anne-Marie Turza. Be startled by metaphysical snails and the ghosts of footnotes in the dark. Fugue with Bedbug is part musical reference,...

"You don't live if there's no poetry: you don't live at all, or if you appear to yourself to be living, you're not. You really are living, though, even if you're dead, because you do have poetry,...

The second novel by Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michelle Winters teems with hot towel shaves and the steady thrum of female rage. Spurred by adolescent trauma, Louise adopts a life of hardcore...

Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapid social, cultural, and environmental change. Modern midlife is finding oneself halfway home but...

Now in paperback -- from surf music to hot-rod records to the sunny pop of the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, the Byrds, and the Mama's & the Papa's, Hollywood Eden captures the fresh blossom of a young...

A fun, informative guide to hosting the perfect party every time. "Every dinner party experience I've had in the last ten years at Corey's has been incredible. But practice really does make perfect...

An evocative and sweeping family saga about love, loss, and acceptance--set against the backdrop of a traditional Sikh wedding.Author: Rajinderpal PalPublisher: House of Anansi PressPublication Date:...

A taut tale of female friendship and betrayal. Set between the 1970s and 2010, I Never Said That I Was Brave examines the complicated relationship between two women as they navigate a culture vastly...

Our country is now as close to crossing the line from democracy to autocracy as it has been in our lifetimes. -- E. J. Dionne, Jr. It is the public debate of the moment: is Donald Trump precipitating...

A timely tale of ownership and loss, loneliness and connection, and a meditation on all the stuff in our lives. Home staging is an art of erasure. But in some cases--no matter how much clutter you...

Kim'S ConvenienceAuthor: Ins ChoiPublisher: House of Anansi PressPublication Date: Jul 11, 2017Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1487002238ISBN-13: 9781487002237

A national bestseller, Let the Elephants Run is the essential guidebook for anyone looking to reignite their creativity.Creativity is in everyone's DNA, not a select few. Award-winning musician and...

A daughter examines her complicated relationship with a charismatic, narcissistic mother who now lives with alcohol-related dementia. When Cassie Wolfe brings her mother, Nina, to the Albuquerque...

Lucky Dog: How Being A Veterinarian Saved My LifeAuthor: Sarah BostonPublisher: House of Anansi PressPublication Date: May 30, 2014Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt aims more of an anthropological eye at the contours of NDN and queer social worlds to spot...

The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established...

Now available in paperback, an insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade. What happens when we begin to...

Now available in a new edition with a cover designed by the author, Douglas Coupland's CBC Massey Lectures is an innovative exploration of the modern crises of our time. Five disparate people are...

A woman's coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal--set against the stark landscape of the far north. Millicent is a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse to...

Bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of social media on politics, the economy, ecology, and our humanity...