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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003463","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487003814","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487008680","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487008680","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781487003463","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY\/Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMegan Gail Coles\u003c\/strong\u003e is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, the National Theatre School of Canada, and the University of British Columbia. She is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Poverty Cove Theatre Company, for which she has written numerous award-winning plays. Her debut short fiction collection, \u003cem\u003eEating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome\u003c\/em\u003e, won the BMO Winterset Award, the ReLit Award, and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and it earned her the Writers’ Trust of Canada 5×5 Prize. 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It’s opening a second bottle, letting the kids fall asleep watching movies, and getting out the hidden cigarettes to really get into it. It’s a fist in the air before it’s aimed at an appropriate eyeball. It’s an exceptional accomplishment full of lyrical strength and poetic endurance.” — \u003cstrong\u003eKatherena Vermette, author of river woman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Katherena Vermette, author of river woman","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Are you ready for poems that pierce straight to the bone? Megan Gail Coles’s \u003cem\u003eSatched\u003c\/em\u003e is a razor edge of fierce truth, grim humour, and unalloyed beauty. With sharp-eyed clarity and fearless candour, Coles slices open the veils of capitalism and colonization to reveal a landscape marked by poverty and resilience, violence, and hope. This is Newfoundland and Labrador seen through the eyes of unconditional love and furious rage. The political, the personal, and the poetic interweave seamlessly in this debut collection, adding another genre to Coles’s already impressive repertoire. \u003cem\u003eSatched\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of book we need right now, the kind that confronts the real world head-on while also teaching us how to live in it.” — \u003cstrong\u003eKai Cheng Thom, author of a place called No Homeland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Kai Cheng Thom, author of a place called No Homeland","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSatched\u003c\/em\u003e is an acerbic, bold, and wise debut that susses out the subtle and sinister ways men infringe on women’s mental and physical spaces, the horrors of the climate crisis, and the pitfalls of economic precarity. With technical mastery and an immediately infectious tone, Coles inhabits the voices of Atlantic Canada, unearths the ways grief inhabits a place, and interrogates prevailing notions of resiliency. Coles intimates both how ‘our minds are poisoned against ourselves’ and the ways in which kinship offers a path to forge through the audaciousness of capital and insidiousness of colonialism. Reading \u003cem\u003eSatched\u003c\/em\u003e is like talking to your smartest, funniest friend who wryly declares, ‘there is nothing and no one standing in your way, \/ except capitalism and global pandemics.’” — \u003cstrong\u003eCassidy McFadzean, author of Drolleries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Cassidy McFadzean, author of Drolleries","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“These poems tumble into me with a rage and beauty that is oceanic. I am satched to the core. Megan Gail Coles writes poems that ask us to reconsider historical and contemporary attitudes toward poverty, race, gender, and the environment, engaging her reader in ‘this present rowing over the past \/ to make up the future.’ Because while these poems speak deeply to intergenerational trauma, solastalgia, and the systemic ills of capitalism hidden in plain sight, they are forward-looking at heart. Satched puts forth that despite (or perhaps because of) our human frailties, we can begin again. These poems demonstrate that repair is possible, even from a rusty scaffold, if we are willing to reach beyond ourselves.” — \u003cstrong\u003eClea Roberts, author of Auguries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Clea Roberts, author of Auguries","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe first poetry collection from award-winning fiction author Megan Gail Coles.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eLike Kate Baer’s \u003cem\u003eWhat Kind of Woman \u003c\/em\u003eand Billy-Ray Belcourt’s \u003cem\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms\u003c\/em\u003e, Coles’s collection is poised to find an audience beyond regular poetry readers.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eColes’s poetry confronts powerful yet relatable themes, and audiences will appreciate her conscientious depiction of racism, misogyny, and poverty. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe first poetry collection from award-winning fiction author Megan Gail Coles.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike Kate Baer’s \u003cem\u003eWhat Kind of Woman \u003c\/em\u003eand Billy-Ray Belcourt’s \u003cem\u003eNDN Coping Mechanisms\u003c\/em\u003e, Coles’s collection is poised to find an audience beyond regular poetry readers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColes’s poetry confronts powerful yet relatable themes, and audiences will appreciate her conscientious depiction of racism, misogyny, and poverty. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“This collection trills of the [Newfoundland] region and its distinct speech … Coles creates an intimacy in \u003cem\u003eSatched\u003c\/em\u003e through her urban maritime lens and straightforward style.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSatched\u003c\/em\u003e is an acerbic, bold, and wise debut that susses out the subtle and sinister ways men infringe on women’s mental and physical spaces, the horrors of the climate crisis, and the pitfalls of economic precarity. With technical mastery and an immediately infectious tone, Coles inhabits the voices of Atlantic Canada, unearths the ways grief inhabits a place, and interrogates prevailing notions of resiliency. Coles intimates both how ‘our minds are poisoned against ourselves’ and the ways in which kinship offers a path to forge through the audaciousness of capital and insidiousness of colonialism. Reading \u003cem\u003eSatched\u003c\/em\u003e is like talking to your smartest, funniest friend who wryly declares, ‘there is nothing and no one standing in your way, \/ except capitalism and global pandemics.’” — Cassidy McFadzean, author of \u003cem\u003eDrolleries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“These poems tumble into me with a rage and beauty that is oceanic. I am satched to the core. 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Satched
Named after a local word meaning “soaked through” or “weighed down,” Satched is Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Megan Gail Coles’s debut poetry collection.
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Ana Historic
A CanLit classic, here is the A List edition of Daphne Marlatt’s utterly original novel about rescuing a forgotten woman from obscurity.
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{"id":7425236369467,"title":"Temporary Palaces","handle":"temporary-palaces","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A plainspoken, punk-rock hymn … This is a book that will pick you up off the floor of a mosh pit and wrap you in its arms.\" —Sean Michaels\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the fevered summer of 2001, charismatic activist Rob and his collective set up a squat in an abandoned house. His bandmate and lover, Ben, watches anxiously as his own plans are threatened by Rob’s choice of radical politics over music. Meanwhile, photographer Alex finds herself torn between documenting the chaos of the scene and saving the friendship that binds them together. When the police break up the squat, Rob vanishes, and the dream dies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTen years later, Alex and Ben find each other again—she’s conquering Montreal’s contemporary art world, he’s running a thriving restaurant in Ottawa. But their success feels hollow. 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A beautifully told story about the formative power of people and places, even and especially those that are flawed and crumbling into the dirt below.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eNiko Stratis, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTemporary Palaces\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting ode to youthful idealism and art-making that tracks its protagonists’ grinding pivot to the career-building and long-term relationships of adulthood. 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Everything is temporary.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Alex Edkins, METZ and Weird Nightmare \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTemporary Palaces\u003c\/em\u003e is a fierce and tender portrait of young people chasing their dreams. Years pass, lives change, the dreams get tattered and remade along the way—but Jeff Miller's fine writing testifies to the ties that remain. This is a lovely and memorable debut by a writer to watch.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Alix Ohlin, author of \u003cem\u003eInside\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWe Want What We Want \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Jeff Miller’s debut novel is like a plainspoken, punk-rock hymn, singing praise and gratitude to the lovers, fighters, artists, and burnouts whose bands, art projects, friendships, and political movements were torn to pieces—but endured somehow, all the same. 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Temporary Palaces
For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill comes a blazing debut novel set in the DIY music and arts scene of the early 2000s
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Pitiful
Part self-interrogation, part hospital diary, these heartbreakingly frank poems detail the author’s struggles with eating disorders and depression.
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Welcome to the Neighbourhood
In Clea Young’s arresting sophomore collection of stories, friendships fail, families stumble, and neighbours know each other’s business.
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Jump at Home: Grade 6
Give your child the tools and the confidence to master math with John Mighton's revolutionary JUMP at Home Math workbook for Grade 6.
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Disembark
Award–winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life.
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Invisible Lines
An indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel.
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The Fury of Beijing
AVA LEE IS OUT FOR REVENGE IN THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF IAN HAMILTON’S BESTSELLING THRILLER SERIES
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Trinity Street
Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from acclaimed poet Jen Currin.
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Rochdale
The fascinating story of Rochdale's rise and fall is told in this well-researched, entertaining book.
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Beyond Fate
In her 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Visser examines why, in spite of modern ideals and freedoms, people often feel fatalistic.
