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{"id":6818431369275,"title":"Pigeon","handle":"pigeon","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaren Solie launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/em\u003e (2001), finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of many other awards and citations. She continued her upward trajectory with \u003cem\u003eModern and Normal\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), and is now considered one of Canada's best poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePigeon is yet another leap forward for this singer of existential bewilderment. These poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, creeping catastrophe, love, and the eros of danger. Once again, Solie shows that her ear is impeccable, her poetic intelligence rare and razor-sharp.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-30T09:06:30-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-29T16:19:34-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Solie Karen","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2009-04-01"],"price":1695,"price_min":1695,"price_max":1999,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40234025943099,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887848230","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Pigeon - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780887848230","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40234035478587,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780887849022","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Pigeon - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9780887849022","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":40234038755387,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770897328","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Pigeon - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770897328","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7639fc48-36e1-4e3c-811f-9cc149b5b0ab.jpg?v=1655699609"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7639fc48-36e1-4e3c-811f-9cc149b5b0ab.jpg?v=1655699609","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22245185617979,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2551,"width":1651,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7639fc48-36e1-4e3c-811f-9cc149b5b0ab.jpg?v=1655699609"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2551,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_7639fc48-36e1-4e3c-811f-9cc149b5b0ab.jpg?v=1655699609","width":1651}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eKaren Solie launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/em\u003e (2001), finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of many other awards and citations. She continued her upward trajectory with \u003cem\u003eModern and Normal\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), and is now considered one of Canada's best poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePigeon is yet another leap forward for this singer of existential bewilderment. These poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, creeping catastrophe, love, and the eros of danger. Once again, Solie shows that her ear is impeccable, her poetic intelligence rare and razor-sharp.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Solie provides all three.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Karen Solie looks at the most mundane details of the commercialized landscape and, with a few twists, turns them to gold.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"NUVO","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Karen Solie has established herself as one of Canada's best lyric poets ... \u003cem\u003ePigeon\u003c\/em\u003e deals out fearlessness, humour, and raw experience, one killing line after another ... Among the arts, poetry has the most human of values, and among poets, few are as deeply human as Solie. Her poems respond to the many ways a day can come to us, while seeming to discover and name new constants of the heart.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNUVO\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"Lyrical but gritty, intellectual but tough-talking, colloquial yet elegant ... As she delves deeper into the social and geological bedrock of our civilization. This is [Solie's] strongest book yet.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Paul Vermeersch","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePigeon \u003c\/em\u003e… shows why [Solie] has become one of the most admired Canadian poets of her generation.\" — \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Vermeersch, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Richard Greene","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"Solie has found a technique that others could only envy.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeName_0":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of the Year","PrizeName_1":"Griffin Poetry Prize","PrizeName_2":"Pat Lowther Memorial Award","PrizeName_3":"Pat Lowther Memorial Award","PrizeName_4":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeYear_0":"2009","PrizeYear_1":"2010","PrizeYear_2":"2010","PrizeYear_3":"2010","PrizeYear_4":"2010","ProductFormDescription":"mobi","PublicationDate":"2009-04-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.","Width":"5.63","WidthCode":"in"}
Pigeon
Karen Solie's poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, and creeping catastrophe.
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{"id":7425232175163,"title":"The Wren","handle":"the-wren","description":"\u003cp\u003eA.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poems originated with an impulse, beginning in April 2019, to write a series of continuous poems. The first goal was to keep them short. The second was to make them separate, in the process reflecting the whole of human life, stable in moments and bodies. In \u003cem\u003eThe Wren\u003c\/em\u003e, Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given that they do not simply follow, or hook onto, or neighbour, or echo one another in a chain of resemblance that seems to have gaps and missing links that reappear later, healed? The title was chosen partly to speak to Moritz’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sparrow: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), but also because, among the many short poems of this collection, one of them asked to be central: a poem about a small bird that hops from within a thicket of stems to peer out at the poet for a second and then disappears back inside. This tiny story of a tiny fellow creature is the narrative, the “novel,” of this book: a little story that is nonetheless one of the great and ever-retold stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2025-07-21T13:30:53-04:00","created_at":"2025-07-21T13:26:41-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult New Releases","Adult Poetry","By (author) Moritz A.F.","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2026-04-07"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":42334333698107,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014049","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"The Wren - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":168,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487014049","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}},{"id":42334333829179,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487014056","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Wren - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487014056","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.","id":25594413318203,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_4c841530-c2b3-4ecd-a27a-02d25350bbf5.jpg?v=1753118822","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eA.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poems originated with an impulse, beginning in April 2019, to write a series of continuous poems. The first goal was to keep them short. The second was to make them separate, in the process reflecting the whole of human life, stable in moments and bodies. In \u003cem\u003eThe Wren\u003c\/em\u003e, Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given that they do not simply follow, or hook onto, or neighbour, or echo one another in a chain of resemblance that seems to have gaps and missing links that reappear later, healed? The title was chosen partly to speak to Moritz’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sparrow: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), but also because, among the many short poems of this collection, one of them asked to be central: a poem about a small bird that hops from within a thicket of stems to peer out at the poet for a second and then disappears back inside. This tiny story of a tiny fellow creature is the narrative, the “novel,” of this book: a little story that is nonetheless one of the great and ever-retold stories.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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The Wren
In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.
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Sharing the Light
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In the final book in the Book Uncle trilogy, Anil faces a dilemma when the city decides to build a solar panel factory on the site of a mangrove forest.
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The Jesuit Disruptor
A fresh look at a complex pope with a simple agenda: radically reforming the Catholic Church.
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Eve
A radical interrogation of the ethics and future of birth by an expert legal scholar.
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Maybe a Whale
After Grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her, kayaking along the west coast to look for the whales that he loved.
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ages 7
to 10
/ grades 2
to 5
Forever Truffle
A new graphic novel from Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, co-creators of Jane, the Fox and Me and Louis Undercover.
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A Pillow Book
A Pillow Book offers a modern response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.
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I kept reading as much for the crisp, graceful writing and complicated, human portraits as to see what would happen next.” —\u003cstrong\u003eShashi Bhat, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Most Precious Substance on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Shashi Bhat, author of The Most Precious Substance on Earth","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Private Apartments\u003c\/em\u003e invites you into the secret lives of Somali women who dare to migrate towards safety, solitude, and sometimes joy. It suggests that even across oceans, behind closed doors, and in every corner of every room, someone, somewhere, is boldly (read: messily) giving life another shot. Idman Nur Omar is cool and delicate on a prose level and generous in her belief that your neighbour is actually your friend, your sibling, your cousin, and the person you come home to. There is almost nothing private about being this intimately connected. 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The Private Apartments
Moving linked stories about the determination of Somali immigrants—despite duty, discrimination, and an ever-dissolving link to a war-torn homeland.
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Naptime
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She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Illustrated by","Contributor_0":"Baldacchino, Christine (CA)","Contributor_1":"Mok, Carmen (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this powerful story from Christine Baldacchino, author of Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, a young girl navigates social anxiety at family gatherings and works with her father to find a solution.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViolet Shrink doesn’t like parties. Or bashes, or gatherings. Lots of people and lots of noise make Violet’s tummy ache and her hands sweat. She would much rather spend time on her own, watching the birds in her backyard, reading comics or listening to music through her purple headphones. The problem is that the whole Shrink family loves parties with loud music and games and dancing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt cousin Char’s birthday party, Violet hides under a table and imagines she is a shark gliding effortlessly through the water, looking for food. And at Auntie Marlene and Uncle Leli’s anniversary bash, Violet sits alone at the top of the stairs, imagining she is a slithering snake way up in the branches. When Violet learns that the Shrink family reunion is fast approaching, she finally musters up the courage to have a talk with her dad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this thoughtful story about understanding and acceptance, Christine Baldacchino’s warm text demonstrates the role imagination often plays for children dealing with anxiety, and the power of a child expressing their feelings to a parent who is there to listen. Carmen Mok’s charming illustrations perfectly capture Violet’s emotions and the vibrancy of her imagination. 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ages 3
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Violet Shrink
In this powerful story, a young girl navigates social anxiety at family gatherings and works with her father to find a solution.
