Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi Inanna Publications 130 pages $10 digital, $19 print Gentle and delicate, Eva Tihanyi’s ninth poetry collection, Circle Tour, offers nature- and art-focused poetry without shying away from the difficulties of our current reality. As the...
Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty Nightwood Editions 121 pages $20 Crushed Wild Mint is a volume of poetry about inheritance. Not just the inheritance of blood, traditions, values, and skills allocated by older relatives, but also the inheritance of the land. Jess...
Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante Book*hug Press 264 pages $23 Paola Ferrante’s debut short story collection, Her Body Among Animals, blends genres and fantastical worlds that further the reader’s experience of what it means to be a woman and to be alive today....
To the Forest by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (translated by Rhonda Mullins) Coach House Books 194 pages $24 Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s autobiographical novel, To the Forest, is one of the few good things to come out of COVID-19. The narrator flees Montreal with her...
Chores by Maggie Burton Breakwater Books 64 pages $20 In the world of Maggie Burton's Chores, the tedious task can become something deep and fascinating. Chores is a collection of semi autobiographical freeverse poetry from multidisciplinary artist Maggie Burton....
Mercy Gene: The Man-Made Making of a Mad Woman by JD Derbyshire Goose Lane Editions 224 pages $24 In Mercy Gene: The Man-Made Making of a Mad Woman, Vancouver-based artist-activist JD Derbyshire shares stories based on their own life, focalizing experiences of the...
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki Drawn & Quarterly 444 pages $40 Cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, the award-winning dynamic duo behind Skim and This One Summer, have teamed up again to explore the in-between space of adolescence and adulthood....
Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante Arsenal Pulp Press 288 pages $23 Any Other City, the second novel from Vancouverite Hazel Jane Plante, doesn’t look like a novel. It looks like a memoir—the memoir of transgender rock star, Tracy St. Cyr. Over her memoir’s A and B...
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt Greystone Books 312 pages $35 The weight of Angela Sterritt’s new memoir, Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls, will sit...
When My Ghost Sings by Tara Sidhoo Fraser Arsenal Pulp Press 184 pages $23 Memoir, by definition, is a genre of literature based on memory. So, what happens when a writer’s memories, their primary source material, are erased? In When My Ghost Sings, writer Tara Sidhoo...
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ROOM 49.3 NO CANADA
In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?
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ROOM 49.2 Science
Welcome to the Science issue of Room Magazine, where we privilege questions: questions about how to construct better worlds; questions about how to destroy hyper-capitalistic, necropolitical systems; questions that beget questions and new questions.
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