Contemporary Canadian Literature with a Distinctly Urban Twist

Anvil Press

Swing in the Hollow

By Ryan Knighton

Swing In the Hollow is a debut collection of poetry from poet and memoirist Ryan Knighton.

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A Temporary Stranger

By Jamie Reid

A Temporary Stranger is the final manuscript that Jamie Reid was working on when he died unexpectedly in June of 2015. The book is comprised of three sections: “Homages,” “Fake Poems,” and “Recollections.”

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This Drawn & Quartered Moon

By klipschutz

This Drawn & Quartered Moon makes pre-millennial San Francisco its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam vet named Othello, a Mafia don, a drug mule en route to jail, Elvis Presley (the poet’s father was his doctor), a “Sculptor of the Lower Fillmore Head Shot,” a dying Arab king and a pre-fame Courtney Love.

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Trauma Head

By Elee Kraljii Gardiner

In 2012, poet Elee Kraljii Gardiner precipitously lost feeling in, and use of, her left side. The mini-stroke passed quickly but was symptomatic of something larger: a tear in the lining of an artery that opened an examination of mortality and crisis. This long-poem memoir tracks the author’s experiences with un/wellness and un/re-familiarity with herself.

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Trobairitz

By Catherine Owen

Twenty-first century metalheads; twelfth century troubadours and their female counterparts, the trobairitz—what could they possibly have in common?

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Under the Abdominal Wall

By Sharon McCartney

Sharon McCartney addresses difficult, emotionally straining subjects head-on with strength, wonder and passion in this fine collection.

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Unravel

By Tammy Armstrong

Unravel is Armstrong’s follow-up volume to her Governor General Award nominated debut collection, Bogman’s Music.

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Unus Mundus

By Mari-Lou Rowley

In this, her ninth collection of poetry, Mari-Lou Rowley explores how we, as a species, have moved beyond our search for a union with the cosmos—in the spiritual sense—to the desire to conquer its mysteries and exploit its resources.

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A Verse Map of Vancouver

By George McWhirter, Ed.

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Viral Suite

By Mari-Lou Rowley

Viral Suite explores our relationship with self, other, environment, space, and time. The sensual and the cerebral. How the we/here/now is evolving and mutating with each downloaded packet.

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