Poetry

  • The Blue Clerk

    Dionne Brand

    Dionne Brand, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection Ossuaries, returns with a startlingly original work about the act of writing itself.

    Genre: Poetry
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  • Tonguebreaker

    Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

    In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire.

    Genre: Poetry
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  • Ossuaries

    Dionne Brand

    Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem – her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found.

    Genre: Poetry
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  • Disintegrate / Dissociate

    In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis.

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  • NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes From The Field

    In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt writes using the modes of accusation and interrogation.

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  • Fireweed

    Fireweed is a collection of poetry that explores the rawness, trauma, and realities of adolescence compounded with the experience of being a young, Indigenous, and two-spirit intergenerational residential school survivor.

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  • Honeybee

    You will meet people in your lifetime who demand to have poems written about them. It’s not something they say. It’s something about their hands, the shape of their mouths, the way they look walking away from you.

    Genre: Fiction Poetry
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