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{"id":7371423350843,"title":"Procession","handle":"procession","description":"\u003cp\u003eyou are only here\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e to learn from those who came before\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand make space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e for those who come after\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProcession: a line of people moving in the same direction; a formal ceremony or celebration, as in a wedding, a funeral, a religious parade. Bestseller and Governor General’s Award–winner Katherena Vermette’s third collection presents a series of poems reaching into what it means to be at once a descendant and a future ancestor, exploring the connections we have with one another and ourselves, amongst friends, and within families and Nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn frank, heartfelt poems that move through body sovereignty and ancestral dreams, and from ’80s childhood nostalgia to welcoming one’s own babies, Vermette unreels the story of a child, a parent, and soon, an elder, living in a prairie place that has always existed, though looks much different to her now. This book is about being one small part of a large genealogy. 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Bestseller and Governor General’s Award–winner Katherena Vermette’s third collection presents a series of poems reaching into what it means to be at once a descendant and a future ancestor, exploring the connections we have with one another and ourselves, amongst friends, and within families and Nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn frank, heartfelt poems that move through body sovereignty and ancestral dreams, and from ’80s childhood nostalgia to welcoming one’s own babies, Vermette unreels the story of a child, a parent, and soon, an elder, living in a prairie place that has always existed, though looks much different to her now. This book is about being one small part of a large genealogy. 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Procession
At once descendants and future ancestors, Procession explores the connections we have with ourselves, with friends, and within families and Nations.
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{"id":7349209038907,"title":"One Foot on the Platform","handle":"one-foot-on-the-platform","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe final word from one of popular music's greatest critics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2020, acclaimed music critic and journalist Peter Goddard began work on a new book that would take readers on a journey back through his fifty-plus years spent writing professionally about rock music and the musical styles circling it—everything from blues and jazz to country and classical. His plan was to revisit his old haunts and their habitués, scenes and figures he first wrote about starting in the mid-1960s when he became Canada’s first on-staff popular music critic, to show how ongoing revisions continually reframe first impressions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTragically, Goddard died in 2022 before work on the manuscript was complete. But many of the core essays—on Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Who, k.d. lang, David Bowie, Liza Minelli, The Band, Neil Diamond, and others—are here. Accompanying these new essays is a collection of some of the best writing of Goddard’s career—ranging from interviews with B. B. King, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, and Janis Joplin to reviews of classic albums by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Neil Young, to close readings of Leonard Cohen, Anne Murray, Led Zeppelin, and Gordon Lightfoot. 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He was freelance music critic for the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e in the late sixties and joined the full-time staff of the \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e in 1972, where he remained for over thirty years. During this latter period, he contributed music columns to \u003cem\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as cultural pieces to \u003cem\u003eSaturday Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e. In 1982, he won a National Newspaper Award for criticism, the first Canadian critic of popular culture to do so. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoddard wrote about a wide range of pop and rock acts. \u003cem\u003eRonnie Hawkins: Last of the Good Ol’ Boys\u003c\/em\u003e was cowritten with Hawkins in 1989. 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Crying Dress
Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological.
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The 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist.
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Intruder
In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.
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The Riveter
For readers of The English Patient and All the Light We Cannot See comes a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe in WWII.
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She holds a B.A. in English and Spanish literature from Concordia University and an M.A. in literary translation from the University of Ottawa. You can read her short fiction in places like \u003cem\u003ePeach Mag\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShabby Doll House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCosmonauts Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Temz Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She translates works from French and Spanish into English. Her debut novella, \u003cem\u003eHum\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2018 by Metatron Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Bergeron, Chris (CA)","Contributor_1":"Hero, Natalia","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA genre-bending speculative look at a dark future, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e shares the story of one trans woman leading a revolution.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a mutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf our mutiny is to succeed, I must name things well, without diversion. Lacking this, you will not deviate from your certainties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere it is: I am trans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs in transgression. I have broken genres. I have removed myself from the rules. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am trans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs in translation. I have dragged the elements that make up my person from one state to another. My geometry is variable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd tonight, I am a revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\/warning: code red… fetch-query protocol enabled… transmission failed… standby\/\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2050, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever–more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. 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She has given several interviews and talks on being a trans woman in marketing. In 2020, \u003cem\u003eAdWeek\u003c\/em\u003e named her among 18 North American Champions of Diversity in the field of communications. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslation from French-language publisher Éditions XYZ.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChris is a debut author.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExperimental fiction, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e is presented as a monologue delivered by Christelle over eight hours to an Artificial Intelligence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis work is full of present-day issues: trans rights, the pandemic, ecological collapse, the fear of AI replacing human workers and decision-makers, and economic inequality. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChris Bergeron is the VP of Content Experience at the marketing firm Cosette. 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Due to its highly theoretical and philosophical nature, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e will undoubtedly find its way into many a college syllabus. However, anyone interested in queer history, theory, the evolution of feminism, and the dangers of AI will find something of interest in this novel and it is accessible and interesting enough that it could very well find a wider audience as well.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWest Trade Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"West Trade Review","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“In this intelligent and rather audacious ‘autobiographical science fiction novel,’ which pushes many boundaries and preconceptions, Chris Bergeron sensitively portrays the delicate journey of a transgender woman who tries to assert her ‘validity’ in a highly formatted universe, a dystopian world plagued by health and ecological crises that are all too easy to imagine. Canada has given us a queen of SF: Margaret Atwood. Chris Bergeron does not need to shy away from the comparison.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eL'Obs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"L'Obs","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“A superb and moving novel. \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive and didactic, esoteric and activist novel, which uses literature as a key to open up imaginations, activate empathy, and disarm preconceived ideas.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eElle France\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Elle France","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Quebec literature is fascinating, and Chris Bergeron confirms this with \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e, a delightful identity thriller.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTêtu Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Têtu Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“From self-confessions to confessions to the machine, a revolution is underway … An identity thriller written with brilliance and finesse.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublic Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Public Magazine","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Brimming with references to popular culture, from \u003cem\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e, and including Sylvie Vartan and Cirque du Soleil, and benefiting from an enlightened view of society and a formidable sense of expression, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e transports us about thirty years into the future … While [her] first novel offers a fine philosophical reflection on society, Chris Bergeron considers it more as a cry from the heart.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Devoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“A gripping identity thriller where autofiction meets science fiction … With her sharp vision, [Bergeron] imagined this dystopia set in 2045, which is chillingly realistic.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Presse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"La Presse","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Chris Bergeron signs a novel full of sensitivity about the life of a transgender woman in a dystopian world that is not so unimaginable ... It is captivating, intelligent, and necessary.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eClin d'oeil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Clin d'oeil","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA work of queer autofiction and a speculative look at our dark future, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a trans woman who leads her own revolution.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2023-11-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA work of queer autofiction and a speculative look at our dark future, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a trans woman who leads her own revolution.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Dystopian Autofiction","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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A work of queer autofiction and a speculative look at our dark future, Valid is the story of a trans woman who leads her own revolution.
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A Table Set for Sisterhood
A wholly original feminist cookbook featuring over thirty recipes, each linked to a significant woman throughout history and from across the globe.
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Glorious Frazzled Beings
In this astounding collection of stories, human and more-than-human worlds come together in places we call home.
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Payback
In her 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood delivers a wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative look at the topic of debt.
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In three movements and two interludes, the poems in \u003cem\u003eMyth\u003c\/em\u003e move symphonically from tropical islands to barren cities, from lucid dreams to the mysteries of reality, from the sea to the cosmos. A dynamic mix of speculative poetry and ecstatic lyricism, the otherworldly and the sublime, Pierre’s poems never stray too long or too far from the spell of unspoiled nature: “The palm trees nod \/ at the ocean \/ the ocean does \/ what it always does \/ trusts the moon completely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFriends ‘with benefits’ tour the wonders of Grenada’s landscapes; extraterrestrials visit the Caribbean and the locals don’t seem phased; red birds “saunter airily like tourists,” La Diablesse lures helpless suitors to their dooms. This collection asks: How can myths manifest themselves in our daily lives? What do we actually mean when we say we love ourselves and others? And how do we pursue\/create futures that honour our truths, histories and legacies?\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Myth
A CBC Best Book of 2025 The much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre.
