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The King of Terrors
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What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?
Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living ...
Mahabharata
A contemporary dramatic take on a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic that is foundational to Indian culture.
Why Not Theatre’s large-scale, once-in-a-generation retelling of Mahabharata brings together a ...
Tumbling for Amateurs
A reimagining of an instructional text on tumbling supports poems about the amateurishness of being human.
Tumbling for Amateurs is a reimagining of James Tayloe Gwathmey’s 1910 book of the same name, ...
Love Language
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In his follow-up to SKY WRI TEI NGS, Nasser Hussain tackles the absurdity of the English language through a modern take love poems
The term ...
To the Forest
CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023
49th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023
When a family is forced to return to the mother’s childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ...
Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys
CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023
THE TORONTO STAR 'MUST READ, HANDS DOWN BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR'
‘Cat Person’ meets Station Eleven in this apocalyptic depiction ...
Not Anywhere, Just Not
Boy meets Girl, Boy marries Girl, and years later Boy mysteriously disappears in this Gordon Lish–style novel.
The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about ...
Continuity Errors
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Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.
Continuity Errors questions ...
The Animal in the Room
Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.
Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking about subjectivity, language, the body — really, ...
Slows: Twice
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Backward and forward: a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms.
This is a book of slow hours, days, and years – ...