Good Want

By Domenica Martinello
Categories: Poetry

What if poetry and prayer are the same: intimate and inconclusive, hopeful and useless, a private communion that hooks you to the thrashing, imperfect world?

Good Want entertains the notion that perhaps ...

I Will Get Up Off Of

By Simina Banu
Categories: Poetry

Overthinking simple actions leads to overwhelming poems about what one can lean on if promised help doesn’t help

I Will Get Up Off Of is a book about trying to leave a chair. How does anyone ever leave ...

Martyrology Book 6

By bp Nichol
Categories: Poetry

'All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology ...

POP

By Simina Banu
Categories: Poetry

Softening concrete poetry with humour and tenderness, POP takes an uncommon perspective on modern poetic traditions, combining deft lyricism with visual poems for a playful romp.

POP rummages through the ...

Pet, Pet, Slap

By Andrew Battershill
Categories: Fiction

Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue.

Having recently undergone an ethical awakening, Pillow has converted ...

Pillow

By Andrew Battershill
Categories: Fiction

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE

Most of the things Pillow really liked to do were obviously morally wrong. He wasn't an idiot; clearly ...

Stroll

By Shawn Micallef
Illustrated by Marlena Zuber
Categories: Social Science

What is the 'Toronto look'? Glass skyscrapers rise beside Victorian homes, and Brutalist apartment buildings often mark the edge of leafy ravines, creating a city of contrasts whose architectural look ...