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Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Award for Poetry Winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry In My Shoes are Killing Me, p...

As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely...

Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal...

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in Ja...

In this compelling whodunnit, Elaine Dewar reads the science, follows the money, and connects the geopolitical interests to the spin. When the firs...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Eight months before he became a suicide bomber, Prin went ...

In his debut collection of short stories, David Huebert brings us an assortment of wounded wanderers who remind us that we are all marooned on the ...

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book A CBC Best Nonfiction Book of 2...

As the sickly boy dreams in bed, the shadows beneath his parlor curtain are stirring, taking shapes inexpressible even in a child's dreams. Real ke...

Two crystalline novellas linked by one devastating crime: Say This is an immersive meditation on the interplay between memory, trauma, and narrativ...

The collection, which began as a response to Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing, metamorphosed into witty, poetic responses to famous epigraphs ...

A CBC Books' Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024I wanted a good bewildering, / down deep, / as the keep of a castle.With a voice as ungov...

WINNER OF THE 2021 RELIT AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION A sea witch, a bossy Virgin Mary, and a lesbian widows wifein ghost formwalk into a short story ...

It makes no sense. You would be strangers / if not for this. In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a mo...

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, the latest collection by Bosnian expat Goran Simic, is as much a departure as it is a continuance. In this book...

[Metcalfs] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.Washington PostIn Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in let...

ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023  ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club PickIf books are important to you because you're a reader or a wri...

[Eleanor's] sense of respect, her tact, her utter lack of obsequiousness ...and her uncanny ability to ask difficult questions ...have endeared her...

[This] series of Christmas ghost stories, miniature books chosen and illustrated by the cartoonist Seth [offers] chillsand charm.New York Times Bo...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022.Peter Wood enters a charming antiques shop owned by two young women on...

An antique collector hears of an ancient woman with a large collection of china. Hoping to complete a particular set, the collector pays a visit to...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022. The dead sleep peacefullyuntil a railway is built near their cemetery...

While engrossed in an account of the death of a student obsessed with his own hair, a man leans down to absently pet his dog--oblivious of the true...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021. When the Lady Gwendolen, age six, drops her doll down a staircase, ...