Canadian
The Salmon Shanties
Harold Rhenisch’s poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest
A collection of shanties (songs) laid out in couplets that move between English and Chinook ...
Into the Continent
Emily McGiffin’s poems examine imperial violence and colonialism in South Africa and Canada.
Multifaceted and multi-voiced, Emily McGiffin’s poems explore the ongoing violence, destruction, and loss ...
Wrack Line
The powerful debut from author and poet M.W. Jaeggle.
Like the coastal zone where high tides deposit organic materials and other debris, M.W. Jaeggle’s Wrack Line traces loss, guilt, and subsequent loneliness, ...
The History Forest
A vivid, sensory collection of poems from an award-winning author.
Exploring what it means to be alive in this increasingly contradictory, unjust, and frightening era in human history, award-winning poet ...
Synaptic
An award-winning poet attempts to map the brain’s neural connections, raising fundamental questions about identity and interiority.
This intricate, yearning work from award-winning poet Alison Calder ...
Shifting Baseline Syndrome
A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time.
Nature isn’t dying
it’s simply revising
its target audience
In Shifting Baseline Syndrome, Aaron ...
Pitchblende
“We began to dig ourselves
deeper than we dreamed
when we began to see
metal as other than medicine,
our bodies, more than mineral. ”
From an emerging environmental voice comes an evocative, ...
Red Obsidian
A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephan Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands.
Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time for ...
Field Notes for the Self
Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul. The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles Wright, ...
Live Ones
“With the prismatic eye of a witch-blessed Alden Nowlan, Sadie McCarney sculpts a hard-won beauty into the passion of her lines. ” —Marilyn Bowering, author of Threshold and The Alchemy of Happiness ...