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...
Room Magazine unequivocally condemns the unjust U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and Canada’s complicity and cowardice. As a feminist organization, Room Magazine is especially concerned with the February 28, 2026 attack, wherein the U.S., using Tomahawk missiles, bombed...
Canadian exceptionalism. “Canlit.” “Cancon.” For Room 49.3 “No Canada,” we are looking for poetry, prose, and art that offers a critical or alternate lens in this time of sentimental patriotism. For local stories, national anxieties, mixed feelings, and alienated...
Every Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we republish brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room's past issues, to live on our site in perpetuity. This week, we’re sitting with Danielle Douez's "obsidian...
The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel Book*hug Press 362 pages $25 This spring, at the start of my maternity leave, I had the pleasure of reading Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s second novel, The Fun Times Brigade. It wasn’t my first baby, but I’d somehow forgotten so...
Crohnic by Jason Purcell Arsenal Pulp Press 104 pages $20 In Jason Purcell’s sophomore poetry collection, Crohnic, we are invited into an intimate exploration of the author’s treatment for Crohn’s disease (reflected in the collection’s clever title), alongside...
Parade of Storms by Evelyn Lau Anvil Press 76 pages $18 In her tenth poetry collection, former Vancouver poet laureate Evelyn Lau places weather at the forefront, interweaving reflections on grief, illness, and mortality. Divided into five sections, Lau’s work...
Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community by Maggie Helwig Coach House Books 176 pages $25 In Encampment, a hard-hitting, soft-spoken melee of memoir, homily, and exposé, Maggie Helwig lays bare Toronto’s homelessness crisis and the systems underpinning...
Endsickness by Sofia Alarcon Conundrum Press 150 pages $25 The cover of Endsickness, Sofia Alarcon’s debut collection of graphic stories, pays homage to Frida Kahlo’s 1938 painting What the Water Gave Me, often considered to be her first surrealist work. In Kahlo’s...
This Black History/Black Futures Month, In the wake of the current iteration of political violence(s) that define our cultural, social, and political realities, we would be remiss not to draw links between our now and what has come before: the legacies of...
ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE
I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.
ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?
In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.
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