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"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm.

Traditional poetry continues to hold its place in contemporary literature, in part, because of the emergence of women whose writing is informed by tradition but whose subject matter crystalizes in

"A perfect sequel to the beloved classic From Anna. Just as Anna is about to enter a new school, she hears news on Papa's radio -- Canada is at war with Germany.

Un jour, un garçon très contrarié entre dans une bibliothèque pour tenter de se calmer. Il s'empare d'un livre et se met à le lire.

In their second poetry collection, Tawahum Bige explores belonging and voice of a Two-Spirit Dene youth.

With Here, award-winning poet Colin Browne offers a book of luminous encounters, contradictions, collisions, and meditations on art, nature, justice, historical memory, and territorial occupation.

In trademark lyric prose, accompanied by the images depicting the sights and sounds of nature, Warland's roving observations in and around Vancouver's Lost Lagoon offer insights into natu

Hastings–Sunrise is a love letter to a fleeting place and time. Bren Simmers's second collection captures her old East Vancouver neighbourhood in the midst of upheaval.

BC Book Prize, Poetry: Cecily Nicholson, From the Poplars (Winner). In the North Arm of British Columbia's Fraser River lies an uninhabited island.

Written amid wildfires and atmospheric rivers, The Middle extends Stephen Collis's investigation of threatened climate futures into a poetics of displacement and wandering.

Allostatic load navigates the racialized interplay of chronic wear and tear during tumultuous years marked by global racial tensions, the commodification of care, and the burden of systemic injusti

Investigating whose safety really matters in the most expensive city in the nation, cop city swagger conducts a threat assessment of Vancouver's police.

Crowd Source parallels the daily migration of crows who, aside from fledgling season, journey across metro Vancouver every day at dawn and dusk.

eat salt | gaze at the ocean explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives, using the Haitian (original) zombie as a metaphor for the condition and treatment of Bla

In this new and masterful collection, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jane Munro balances her signature themes—dream life, the visual arts, the mysteries of the natural world—with an urgent, more direc