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The pain tree tells stories that speak to all aspects of Jamaican life.

This much-anticipated second collection of short stories by Carol Windley captures the shimmering, mutable light of the U.S.

You will never know what really happened to Lech or any of us. We mean nothing by it, darling.

East and West, Laura Ritland's astonishing debut, is a book of visions.

Dominoes at the Crossroads maps an alternate Canada—one crisscrossed by a Caribbean diaspora seeking futures, portals to the past, and music.

The Outer Wards, Sadiqa de Meijer's new collection, explores questions of maternal love and duty--and the powerlessness that comes with the disruption of that role through illness.

The Hardness of Matter and Water fulfills a poetic odyssey Quebecois poet Pierre Nepveu began over four decades ago.

A bold experiment in autobiography, Lost Family: A Memoir is a book of sonnets that centres around the deaths of John Barton's parents and sister, but also tracks much of the poet's early

Complicated histories that parents pass on to their children.

All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been, Joe Fiorito's second collection, establishes him as the preeminent chronicler of people in extremis.

Power and sex take centre stage in Robin Richardson's formidable third collection, Sit How You Want.

A rogue moose wanders into a suburb near Quebec city, tramples lawns and gardens, stumbles in and out of a swimming pool, is tracked by three gun toting heads of family who shoot it down just as a

The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke and Brecht.

Poems about Montreal's metro stations and streets to pastoral mise-en-scènes. William Vallières' first book.

What We Carry is a profound exploration of the weight of human history at three levels: the individual, the cultural, and environmental.