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Tracie carefully elucidates how poetry gives us a fuller perspective of the region.

Coconut is an exploration of my place in the universe as told through stories of the author's experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and love.

Micheline Maylor's The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage.

Deriving explores infertility, motherhood, and family, while troubling the colonial legacies of the English language and Canadian identity.

Shortlisted, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster Award. Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Award.

In Mi'kmaw, three similarly shaped words have drastically different meanings: kesalul means "I love you"; kesa'lul means "I hurt you"; and ke'sa'lul means "I put you into the fire." Spoken word art

I take Liberties-poetic-and take license to relate her story in her voice, to tell history. Who she was-as I hear her say or sing.

On nage dans les profondeurs des déblais, noyé, emmuré, enterré, suivant la lueur lointaine d'une vie sans blessure, une vie au-dessus et au-delà, une sorte de conjuration de la mort par l'appel de

Suie, pleurs, étoiles, neiges et quelques floraisons, le poème n'est-il pas, comme les cendres, ce que l'on recueille avant la dispersion?

La langue française, c’est tout un zoo ! Surtout lorsqu’elle raconte les bêtes et les bestioles.

An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide.

Exosquelette : Appareil fixé sur le corps pour lui redonner sa mobilité. La poésie est l’exosquelette de Chloé LaDuchesse : «Mes os sont toujours creux, il n’y a rien à faire.

From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance—paired with

Carol Harvey Steski's tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump + flank, explores the body in nature's many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical.

A dual-language poem for newborns by well known First Nations writer Richard Van Camp accompanied by photographs. In English and Plains Cree.