Cathedral/Grove by Susan Glickman Vehicule Press 80 pages $20 In her newest poetry collection, Susan Glickman provides the reader with a reconstructed world—that is, Cathedral/Grove is a collection full of complex images and themes that contrast and build upon each...
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...
Room and Augur put together our Utopia issue in a world where dystopia is always happening somewhere, as Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki wrote for Uncanny in 2022. Rewriting the future is critical work. It also happens in the living rooms, public buses, bomb shelters,...
With ROOM issue 47.1 UTOPIA open for submissions, some of our editorial team for this issue sat down to discuss our thoughts on utopias and what they mean to us. But utopia(s) are nebulous, contested subjects, realms, times.
The call for submissions for Utopia issue 47.1 is now open! Our editorial team from both Room Magazine and Augur Magazine sat down across time zones to delve into our thoughts on utopias and what we’re looking for in the issue.