Wellwater by Karen Solie House of Anansi Press 112 pages $23 Sardonic, perceptive, and unrelenting, the poems in Karen Solie’s Wellwater carry the same attention to the materiality of everyday life that define much of her earlier works. This timely sixth collection...
Blockade by Christine Lowther Caitlin Press 210 pages $26 “The title of the book in your hands is meant as a verb,” declares poet and activist Christine Lowther of her recent memoir, Blockade. In this, her second memoir, Lowther details her experiences with the...
Naomi's Houses by Rosalie I. Tennison Heritage House 288 pages $27 Naomi’s Houses, the first full-length publication by agricultural journalist Rosalie I. Tennison, reads as a clear-eyed love letter to her mother, the eponymous Naomi. The story opens during the...
Buzzkill Clamshell by Amber Dawn Arsenal Pulp Press 128 pages $20 Amber Dawn’s third poetry collection, Buzzkill Clamshell, is a raw and hypnotic excavation of queer desire, memory, and chronic pain. Lush with bodily imagery and shifting temporalities, the collection...
Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens by Lynn Hutchinson Lee Stelliform Press 197 pages $20 “We invent or erase histories, tell the old fairytales and myths and come up with new ones.” Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s dreamlike debut novella, Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens, opens...