{"title":"Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry that resonates. A curated selection of collections that explore identity, language, and emotion with clarity and intention. For readers who love work that distills experience into something sharp, memorable, and true.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9781988784380","title":"I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA funny and sweet—but not saccharine—jaunt through the back alleys of queer love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIntimate, nostalgic, and surprising, the poems in \u003ci\u003eI Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me?\u003c\/i\u003e spark connections that alter trajectory and carry lasting resonance. Encounters across phone lines, over drinks, through walkie-talkies, and unspoken recognitions between queer bodies fill this collection with explorations of what it means to be seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe micro-narratives in \u003ci\u003eI Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me?\u003c\/i\u003e both celebrate and grieve the connections they illuminate. Nolan Natasha’s poetry is plainspoken but lyrical, sweet but frank, nostalgic but unromanticized, combining the atmosphere of Eileen Myles with the musical insight of Helen Humphreys. These poems bring an unflinching examination and a keen sense of humour to moments of human connection and self-exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nolan Natasha's writing is so clear-eyed, funny, tender, and absorbing. 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In heart-wrenching detail, Halfe recalls the damage done to her parents, her family, herself. With fearlessly wrought verse, Halfe describes how the experience of the residential schools continues to haunt those who survive, and how the effects pass like a virus from one generation to the next. She asks us to consider the damage done to children taken from their families, to families mourning their children; damage done to entire communities and to ancient cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHalfe's poetic voice soars in this incredibly moving collection as she digs deep to discover the root of her pain. Her images, created from the natural world, reveal the spiritual strength of her culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 2016 by Coteau Books, \u003ci\u003eBurning in This Midnight Dream\u003c\/i\u003e won the Indigenous Peoples' Publishing Award, the Rasmussen, Ramussen \u0026amp; Charowsky Indigenous Peoples' Writing Award, the Saskatchewan Arts Board Poetry Award, the League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award, and the High Plains Book Award for Indigenous Writers. It was also the 2017 WILLA Literacy Award Finalist in Poetry. This new edition includes a new Afterword by Halfe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louise B. 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Written in the years following a head injury, this book traces the connections experienced in the fiercely embodied act of swimming with a chronically ill body. Paired with tender watercolour illustrations of the source garbage by award-winning artist April White, these poems refuse to conform to an illness-and-cure narrative and instead become a vibrant archive of the process of piecing a voice together from fragments, an urgent study of the deeply political nature of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Swanson (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43104531185731,"sku":"9781771316613","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/3523\/2323\/files\/BNCImageAPI_296fef74-cbc5-47c4-b387-1c65fb20db1c.jpg?v=1775099640"},{"product_id":"9781771316439","title":"In Your Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that show us a world in which precedent for gender transition is everywhere if you know how to look.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I delete my history \/ badly,\" writes Estlin McPhee in this searing, witty, lyrical, and elegiac debut collection of poems about intersections of trans identity, magic, myth, family, and religion. The line refers at once to a young person's browser data that reveals an interest in gender transition; an adult's efforts to reconcile complicated relationships; a culture's campaign to erase queerness and transness from the historical record; and a religion's attempt to pretend that its own particular brand of miraculous transformation is distinct from the kind found in folktales or real life. Populated by transmasculine werewolves, homoerotic Jesuses, adolescent epiphanies, dutiful sisters, boy bands, witches, mothers who speak in tongues, and nonnas who cross the sea, this is a book in which relational and narrative continuity exists, paradoxically, as a series of ruptures with the known.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Estlin McPhee (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43104531284035,"sku":"9781771316439","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/3523\/2323\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6fad61ea-fcac-4155-a118-74cf4c87822e.jpg?v=1775099704"},{"product_id":"9781771316521","title":"Ring of Dust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poem sequence that embraces the ruptures a lyrical turn makes possible.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRing of Dust\u003c\/i\u003e, Quebec poet Louise Marois delights in poetic feints, temporal leaps, asides, tangents, sleights of hand, call-backs and echoes. This ambitious collection of sequences populates plural dialogues between then and now, family and entourage, lover and nature, mother and death, work-person and artist, fables and confidences, limits and new reaches, home and escape, city and field, queer life and a blood red world. It's a proposition that enters the mess of memory in hopes of reconciling, one disharmony at a time, the many voices who inhabit what keepsakes remain. This book is past and present at war with each other; it's also the future emerging from the page-by-page bout, all born anew in an exuberant translation by D.M. 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Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing—Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a performer\/player of the musical saw, the work is survival. Heroes are found in unexpected places, elevated by both large and small gestures of kindness, accountability and acceptance. No subject—grief, disability, kink, sexuality, gender politics, violence—is off limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poet so good at drag they had everyone convinced that they were a woman for the first forty years of their life, Petch has somehow brought the stage and its attendant thrills into the book. Better late than. And better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Charlie Petch's \u003cem\u003eWhy I Was Late \u003c\/em\u003eis a poetic debut with the wisdom of a sage and the emotional range of an expert comedian. Do yourself a favor and read this book. 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