Faceless

Genni Gunn

In Faceless, Genni Gun explores "the impulse for the edge," a magnetic field between the gloss of the topside world and the grit of the world beneath. The countless faces that Gunn confronts on the streets of the city or behind closed doors make her important new book such a compelling readâ??as does the "delicious anxiety" she sees hanging in ecstatic, sometimes terrifying suspense in the liminal spaces between. >>

Flicker

Rob Budde

Flicker is a collection of micro-fiction, that odd combination of prose and poetry, flickering from a young man's experiences in the northern Alberta bush to the magic realist funeral of a mysterious clockmaker without missing a beat. >>

Heron Cliff

Margo Button

In Heron Cliff, the heart moves house and finds a home once more in the world. This collection includes poems about the giving up of a beloved home where a son had taken his own life, poems about Button's own childhood, and poems about the larger upheavals and passions of the world. She articulates a vision of life where the darkest grief has a place alongside the most profound joy. >>

Ignite

Rona Shaffran

Ignite's unflinchingly honest poems tell the story of a broken relationship between a man and a woman, healed by a very physical process of self-discovery which is sparked by the woman's recovery of desire. Speaking a language we understand, yet taking us to deeper levels of understanding, the poems use language sparingly with imagist clarity; individually they startle, and evoke primal recognitions. >>

Imaginary Maps

Darrell Epp

In his startling debut collection, Darrell Epp brings us a city haunted by monsters and movie stars, where hope and rage, sacred and carnal, mundane and surreal are uneasy neighbours. >>

Latent Heat

Catherine Hunter

Hunter's work is startling in its ability to capture both ephemeral beauty, humour and horrifying reality—from a rain-washed day at the lake to a dismissal of a former lover to a murder committed in rush-hour traffic in broad daylight. >>

Learning to Love a River

Michael Minor

Navigating through tragedy with sincere inquiry, Learning to Love a River explores unlikely existences in and of Thunder Bay, a small northern Ontario city rife with stereotypes and misconceptions. >>

Made Beautiful by Use

Sean Horlor

Sean Horlor tackles issues of belief by questioning whether it is possible for anyone to be conscious, compassionate, and ethical in a twenty-first century world. He questions what constitutes faith in a time when too many have stopped believing. >>