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Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce – plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their a

Common Place explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power.

People who rely on stereotypes are often vilified. But really, is there a better way to classify people? There are some taxonimical difficulties, though.

With an alternating sense of wonder and detachment, Jay Ritchie's first full-length collection of poetry grapples with death, disappointment, love, emails – the large and small subjects of daily li

Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry Nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award.

Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present.

In Divide and Rule, Walid Bitar delivers a sequence of dramatic monologues, variations on the theme of power, each in rhymed quatrains.

A vital collection that interrogates the stories of the dead white men that litter our histories and landscapes.

Pan Harris is is brash, loud and damaged. Ordered into foster care, Pan is full of anger at the mother who abandoned her, and the older sister who kept her from her father.

Nominated for an Alberta Book Award. Time you had a haircut. Look like a mop. Not that skinny. Skin and bloody bone, boy. Jacob breaks the point of his pencil but makes it look like an accident.

Following the Fratellini Family of clowns, Jeramy Dodds astonishes readers and non-readers alike.

Eli has lived in Crooked River his whole life, and he knows better than anyone about that sinking number.

I'm ill-equipped for this. I sit by a fake fireplace that frames a real flame. I've been crossed by two crows today.

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002) The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels.

Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. This poem resembles urban sprawl. This poem resembles the freedom to charge a fee. The fee occurs in the gaps. It is an event.