women & roosters by Fenn Stewart Book*hug Press 80 pages $23 Fenn Stewart’s second collection of poetry, women & roosters, unfolds as a single long poem that circles around themes of climate change, loneliness, and our relationships with one another and the...

To Place a Rabbit by Madhur Anand Knopf Canada 240 pages $33 The phrase “to place a rabbit”—poser un lapin—translates as “to commit to doing something but not show up for it.” Doubling as the title of Madhur Anand’s debut novel, the expression at once captures the...

Here by Heidi Wicks Breakwater Books 232 pages $23 In Heidi Wicks’ Here, home is not a person; it is the legacy of those who once inhabited the spaces that shape us, even if we’ve never met them. From a twentieth-century aristocratic couple to a COVID-19-era dance...

The Midnight Project by Christy Climenhage Wolsak & Wynn 294 pages $24 The genetic engineers in Christy Climenhage’s speculative novel The Midnight Project carry enormous guilt over the unintended consequences of their earlier work. Formerly employed in the...

Birdology by Carolyne Van Der Meer Cactus Press 26 pages $10 Comprising 14 works of flash essays and poems, Birdology is Montreal poet Carolyne Van Der Meer’s fifth collection. Using sparrows and their folklore as a starting point, Van Der Meer connects the lives of...