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In March 2020, Lucas Crawford was quarantined at the Banff Centre for the Arts, coughing like a good fat asthmatic at high altitude, in the middle of a breakup, not knowing when or how he would get

Sid Mary is a voice to be reckoned with.

A book of poems and interruptions, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives. In their stunning debut collection, A.

Peering inside eyeballs, pondering the paradox of absent stars, and meditating on street scenes by André Kertész, these poems squint sidelong at our ways of seeing the world.

“Required reading for the untamed soul . . . reminded me how to love others and myself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed.

The Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills.

A new collection from one of Canada's finest contemporary poets.

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture.

Métis Ukrainian writer Conor Kerr's sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. Conor Kerr's poetry is in constant motion.

Lorsque les mots ne se laissent pas dompter Pas facile pour le narrateur d'avoir les deux pieds sur Terre.

First produced in Canada by Canadian Stage, Toronto, in September 2021. First produced by Theater der Welt, Dusseldorf, in June 2021.

A meditation on the wiles of depression, illuminated by queer and diasporic experience.

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp.

Direct and humorous, Baby Book stacks story upon story to explore how beliefs are first formed.

Atiku utei, « le coeur du caribou », c'est la force d'un peuple et sa grande humilité. Les Innus ont marché à travers les tempêtes de la vie.