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{"id":6813803937851,"title":"Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit","handle":"unstable-neighbourhood-rabbit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to sufficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut poetry collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bomb and a raindrop make small talk as they fall through the air; a visit to the phlebotomist evolves into a nightmarish party; a boy notices himself turning into a piano key. Reading \u003ci\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/i\u003e is like spending the day at a strange amusement park. At first the rides appear familiar—then you realize they possess the power to not only thrill and terrify, but destabilize your very notion of amusement. These poems veer sharply away from what’s normally expected of poetry, instead bringing readers to that darkened, awkward, interior space where we are free to be most ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:45-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:24:27-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Harvey Mikko","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2018-04-03"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40205722091579,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003609","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":120,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487003609","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5e10f02a-0a82-4747-8877-75b833523e50.jpg?v=1705996438"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5e10f02a-0a82-4747-8877-75b833523e50.jpg?v=1705996438","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24126693474363,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5e10f02a-0a82-4747-8877-75b833523e50.jpg?v=1705996438"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5e10f02a-0a82-4747-8877-75b833523e50.jpg?v=1705996438","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to sufficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut poetry collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bomb and a raindrop make small talk as they fall through the air; a visit to the phlebotomist evolves into a nightmarish party; a boy notices himself turning into a piano key. Reading \u003ci\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/i\u003e is like spending the day at a strange amusement park. At first the rides appear familiar—then you realize they possess the power to not only thrill and terrify, but destabilize your very notion of amusement. These poems veer sharply away from what’s normally expected of poetry, instead bringing readers to that darkened, awkward, interior space where we are free to be most ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887847455","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781770893672","BASICMainSubject":"POE005010","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ American \/ General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMIKKO HARVEY\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eUnstable Neighbourhood Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e (House of Anansi, 2018), which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His poems appear in such places as \u003cem\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaisonneuve\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019\u003c\/em\u003e. A graduate of Vassar College and Ohio State University, he has received the 2017 RBC\/PEN Canada New Voices Award and the 2019 Salt Hill Philip Booth Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. 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And this book is saying to words (like “nature”) die! *gently* die! And be born again: babies, children, reindeer. So, don't read this book if you don’t want to think like a child (and don’t read it if you don't think childthought is absolutely magnified). Don’t read this book if you don’t want to lose your I. Don’t read this book if you don’t want to cry.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Darcie Dennigan, author of Madame X and Palace of Subatomic Bliss","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWELL ESTABLISHED IN THE U.S. POETRY WORLD\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMikko is embedded and well regarded in the U.S. poetry world; he’s been involved in publishing poems, reviews, and interviews with acclaimed poets. He’s also served as a poetry editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (Ohio State University) and \u003cem\u003eFairy Tale Review\u003c\/em\u003e (Wayne State University Press). He has received various distinctions, including features in \u003cem\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, and fellowships from establishments such as MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCESSIBLE! NOT THE POETRY THEY MADE YOU STUDY IN HIGH SCHOOL\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe poems in this collection appeal to readers who don’t usually like poetry: they are accessible, funny, creepy — and not like the poems they made you study in high school.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEBUT COLLECTION\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIndividual poems from the book have appeared widely in the U.S., but this will be his exciting debut collection.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUTOBIOGRAPHY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bomb and the raindrop overlap briefly.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eNice night, says the drop.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eWhere you headed? says the bomb.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eDon't know, says the drop.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eWell goodbye, says the bomb.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eThe bomb thinks, I am too heavy to make friends. Then he touches\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003ethe mudbrick building.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eShortly after, landing in debris, the drop thinks, O.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Bizarre but compelling, Harvey’s poetic “playground” is fascinating territory.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"Lively, sometimes intense, and linguistically inventive.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill \u0026amp; Quire","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Oneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. 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Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit
Oneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to sufficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut.
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{"id":6817702936635,"title":"Poems for All the Annettes","handle":"poems-for-all-the-annettes","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, \u003cem\u003ePoems for All the Annettes\u003c\/em\u003e stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy’s career. So many beloved poems are here—\"At Roblin Lake,\" \"At the Quinte Hotel\"—but also so many undiscovered gems and treasures. It is at once the perfect introduction to this remarkable poet’s work and a collection rich and deep enough to satisfy even the experienced Purdy fan. This edition reproduces the final, expanded text of the 1972 edition, and features a brilliant new introduction by poet and novelist Steven Heighton, who knew Purdy well.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:30-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:20:56-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Poetry","By (author) Purdy Al","Introduction by Heighton Steven","pub date: 2012-10-13"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220013428795,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892606","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Poems for All the Annettes - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":163,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892606","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d5554bc-3b36-463b-b35a-59fdc31be3c2.jpg?v=1668328465"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d5554bc-3b36-463b-b35a-59fdc31be3c2.jpg?v=1668328465","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22926477295675,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d5554bc-3b36-463b-b35a-59fdc31be3c2.jpg?v=1668328465"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9d5554bc-3b36-463b-b35a-59fdc31be3c2.jpg?v=1668328465","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Contact Press in 1962, then later by House of Anansi in 1967, and again in a revised, expanded edition in 1972, \u003cem\u003ePoems for All the Annettes\u003c\/em\u003e stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy’s career. So many beloved poems are here—\"At Roblin Lake,\" \"At the Quinte Hotel\"—but also so many undiscovered gems and treasures. It is at once the perfect introduction to this remarkable poet’s work and a collection rich and deep enough to satisfy even the experienced Purdy fan. This edition reproduces the final, expanded text of the 1972 edition, and features a brilliant new introduction by poet and novelist Steven Heighton, who knew Purdy well.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Poems for All the Annettes
Poems for All the Annettes stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy’s career.
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{"id":6811307573307,"title":"The 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology","handle":"the-2020-griffin-poetry-prize-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Annually, \u003ci\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology \u003c\/i\u003efeatures the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T17:16:44-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T12:34:17-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Edited by Nguyen Hoa","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2020-10-20","The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40191008866363,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487007317","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":240,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487007317","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c1f8610f-7984-4b23-ad7f-2968534563e2.jpg?v=1654444835"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c1f8610f-7984-4b23-ad7f-2968534563e2.jpg?v=1654444835","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22170968981563,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c1f8610f-7984-4b23-ad7f-2968534563e2.jpg?v=1654444835"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c1f8610f-7984-4b23-ad7f-2968534563e2.jpg?v=1654444835","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Annually, \u003ci\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology \u003c\/i\u003efeatures the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Winner of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature nominee, she has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her writing has garnered attention from such outlets as PBS \u003cem\u003eNewsHour\u003c\/em\u003e, Granta, The Walrus Magazine, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. 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Annually, \u003ci\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology \u003c\/i\u003efeatures the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487007317","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487007317\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"poetry award; anthology; international; canadian; Kaie Kellough; Chantal Gibson; Doyali Islam; Sarah Riggs; Abigail ChabitnoySharon Olds; Natalie Scenters-Zapico; collection; contemporary poetry; billy ray belcourt; tongo eisen-martin; alice munro","NumberOfPages":"120","OtherText_Accolades_0":"I am very pleased to have been able to help with the inception of this important prize. Poetry is at the heart of language; it’s good to see it given the recognition it deserves.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Margaret Atwood on the inaugural 2001 anthology","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBUZZWORTHY ANNOUNCEMENTS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe announcement of the international and Canadian shortlists (in April, Poetry Month), the readings by the shortlisted poets (in early June), and announcement of the two $65,000 prize winners at a gala event (on the evening following the shortlist readings) generate considerable buzz around the Griffin Poetry Prize and interest in all the shortlisted poets’ work.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHIGHLY ANTICIPATED\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe release of the Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist anthology is an annual event awaited with anticipation by poetry lovers and readers.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRESTIGIOUS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe book fulfills Anansi’s mandate to display the best Canadian poets alongside the best international poets. It reinforces our position as the premier publisher of poetry in Canada.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"The world’s premier international poetry prize.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Maclean’s","OtherText_Review_1":"The Griffin Poetry Prize is a rich tribute to an art form largely and stupidly ignored by the public … an annual report on the state of the poetry nation.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"The Olympics of poetry.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Sylvia Fraser","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Toronto Life","OtherText_Review_3":"Already of the first calibre — a great shortlist, great judges, great trustees, great intent.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"National Post","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The prestigious annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-10-20","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology","ShortDescription":"The prestigious annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.","Subtitle":"A Selection of the Shortlist","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
The prestigious annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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They beam such love and the very whole of life, its essence at the very moment when her own life is receding. She asks us to lean in and listen, and though her voice may be a whisper, it can still shatter glass. Her words hold duality. They are deeply personal, profoundly universal. They are profane and sacred. She is not with us, but she is with us. The poems, each word painstakingly chosen, are polished stones fetched up on the shores of our lives. I am so grateful for this collection: to hear her voice again now, and always.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Shelagh Rogers","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Not One of These Poems Is About You is an intimate consideration of the oceanic, immense nature of endings and the tidal ever-afters left for the living. 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From intimate moments shared with a lover, to the fear and isolation of illness, these poems are Teva’s candid and generous invitation to join her on her journey from life into death. Not One of These Poems Is About You is one of the few books I can think of that makes me a little less afraid of dying, and a little less afraid of losing those I love.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Tannahill Jordan","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PREVIOUS WORK:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn-Between Days\u003c\/em\u003e, Teva’s graphic memoir, received starred reviews from \u003cem\u003ePublisher’s Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Not One of These Poems Is About You
From Teva Harrison, the award-winning author and illustrator of In-Between Days, comes a powerful work of poetry and art.
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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems
The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave.
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Congratulations, Rhododendrons
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.
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{"id":6983133659195,"title":"Passengers","handle":"passengers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEclectic, unpredictable, and strange, \u003cem\u003ePassengers\u003c\/em\u003e follows Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer on an imagined circumnavigation of Newfoundland; traces the island escapades of Lucifer from the time of his arrival as a stowaway in the Middle Ages; and wanders the pre-pandemic cities of Europe, touching down in Stockholm’s ABBA museum, the Belfast Public Library, Austria’s plague cemeteries, and the Czech Republic’s Punkva Caves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWidely considered “one of Canada's finest writers” (\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e), Crummey is noted for the immediacy and emotional impact of his poetry and fiction and for his ability to raise the vernacular to planes of “exquisite beauty.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart travelogue, part archeological dig, \u003cem\u003ePassengers\u003c\/em\u003e is an eccentric guide to the wild geography, folklore, and misbegotten history of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-09-13T13:44:45-04:00","created_at":"2022-09-13T13:38:17-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Crummey Michael","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2022-08-02"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"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":40780122259515,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011253","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passengers - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":227,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011253","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40780122325051,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011260","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Passengers - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011260","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_204bc19d-daf4-41dd-ab05-0221301719d3.jpg?v=1720924383"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_204bc19d-daf4-41dd-ab05-0221301719d3.jpg?v=1720924383","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24691459096635,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_204bc19d-daf4-41dd-ab05-0221301719d3.jpg?v=1720924383"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_204bc19d-daf4-41dd-ab05-0221301719d3.jpg?v=1720924383","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEclectic, unpredictable, and strange, \u003cem\u003ePassengers\u003c\/em\u003e follows Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer on an imagined circumnavigation of Newfoundland; traces the island escapades of Lucifer from the time of his arrival as a stowaway in the Middle Ages; and wanders the pre-pandemic cities of Europe, touching down in Stockholm’s ABBA museum, the Belfast Public Library, Austria’s plague cemeteries, and the Czech Republic’s Punkva Caves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWidely considered “one of Canada's finest writers” (\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e), Crummey is noted for the immediacy and emotional impact of his poetry and fiction and for his ability to raise the vernacular to planes of “exquisite beauty.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart travelogue, part archeological dig, \u003cem\u003ePassengers\u003c\/em\u003e is an eccentric guide to the wild geography, folklore, and misbegotten history of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Passengers
The sixth and, on the surface, most peculiar poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.
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{"id":6817702740027,"title":"Civil Elegies","handle":"civil-elegies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called \u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 1972. This edition features a new introduction by noted academic Nick Mount, who places this important collection in the context of Canadian literature and Lee’s career.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-28T16:54:27-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-28T14:20:15-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","Adult Award Winning","Adult Poetry","By (author) Lee Dennis","Introduction by Mount Nick","pub date: 2012-10-13"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40220009365563,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770892491","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Civil Elegies - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1495,"weight":100,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781770892491","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cfbe0c57-e2bd-4362-ac36-cef606da992f.jpg?v=1678596531"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cfbe0c57-e2bd-4362-ac36-cef606da992f.jpg?v=1678596531","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324490924091,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"width":400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cfbe0c57-e2bd-4362-ac36-cef606da992f.jpg?v=1678596531"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":618,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cfbe0c57-e2bd-4362-ac36-cef606da992f.jpg?v=1678596531","width":400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called \u003cem\u003eCivil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 1972. This edition features a new introduction by noted academic Nick Mount, who places this important collection in the context of Canadian literature and Lee’s career.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A List edition of Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies, with an introduction by Nick Mount.
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{"id":6815266963515,"title":"A Pillow Book","handle":"a-pillow-book","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. The miscellaneous memoranda, minutiae, dreamscapes, and lists that comprise this book-length poem disclose a prismatic meditation on the price of privilege; the petty grievances of marriage, motherhood, art, and office politics; the indignities of age; and the putative properties of dreams, among other themes, set in the dead of winter in a Midwestern townhouse on the eve of the end of geohistory. Feather-light in its touch, quixotic in its turns, and resolutely deadpan in its delivery, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e offers a twenty-first-century response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-15T08:49:50-05:00","created_at":"2022-03-24T09:48:47-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","By (author) Buffam Suzanne","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2016-04-09"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40209203232827,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487000264","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Pillow Book - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487000264","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_03f008fa-9b12-46c3-9c89-9d5d426c3c19.jpg?v=1678601503"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_03f008fa-9b12-46c3-9c89-9d5d426c3c19.jpg?v=1678601503","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324561571899,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":2400,"width":1763,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_03f008fa-9b12-46c3-9c89-9d5d426c3c19.jpg?v=1678601503"},"aspect_ratio":0.735,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_03f008fa-9b12-46c3-9c89-9d5d426c3c19.jpg?v=1678601503","width":1763}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eNot a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. The miscellaneous memoranda, minutiae, dreamscapes, and lists that comprise this book-length poem disclose a prismatic meditation on the price of privilege; the petty grievances of marriage, motherhood, art, and office politics; the indignities of age; and the putative properties of dreams, among other themes, set in the dead of winter in a Midwestern townhouse on the eve of the end of geohistory. Feather-light in its touch, quixotic in its turns, and resolutely deadpan in its delivery, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e offers a twenty-first-century response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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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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{"id":6811314061371,"title":"Roguelike","handle":"roguelike","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMathew Henderson’s \u003ci\u003eRoguelike\u003c\/i\u003e, the much-anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed 2012 debut \u003ci\u003eThe Lease\u003c\/i\u003e, melds the unique online vocabulary, culture, and logic of video games with family and addiction narratives, specifically the poet’s relationship with his mother and her struggle with narcotics. 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There is a fierce independence to the poems, yet they warp-tunnel towards an achingly beautiful bedrock of existence.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Jeff Latosik, award-winning author of Dreampad","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCLAIMED UP-AND-COMING POET:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMathew Henderson’s 2012 debut collection, The Lease, received strong reviews from both the New York Times and the Millions. It was a finalist for two of the most prestigious Canadian poetry awards — the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. His follow-up collection is sure to receive even more great attention!\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCROSSOVER SUBJECT MATTER:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoguelike\u003c\/em\u003e examines video games from all angles: the culture, the mythology, the language. Fans of video games who might not otherwise read poetry can be drawn in by this subject matter.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Striking and evocative . . . At the heart of this powerful book is a longing to gain perspective and move on from a difficult past.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"The best poetry combines robust language use and meaning, not one at the expense of the other. Roguelike, the sophomore collection from Toronto poet Mathew Henderson, delivers both . . . Henderson is a master craftsman who loads his poems with elegant turns of phrase and meaning . . . Impossible to internalize at one sitting, Roguelike is worthy of multiple readings not just for the story, but for the skill with which the author manipulates energy and storytelling. Roguelike is a hand grenade that never stops exploding.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_2":"Henderson has a talent for the strong image, a sharp setup … Throughout the work, games provide a way to cope, a way to center shifting narratives of shelter and escape … This is a collection about loss and mourning, storytelling and mythmaking; about how we cope and how the externalities we use to do so bleed together to form accepted but ultimately shaky notions of the truth.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Temz Review","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Mathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeName_0":"ReLit Award for Poetry","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Mathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Roguelike
Mathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection.
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Challenging, heartbreaking, soaring, and powerfully new, the poems in \u003ci\u003eJunebat\u003c\/i\u003e demolish false walls and pull the reader to the dark edges of the mind, showing us how identity doesn’t have to be rigid or static but can be defined by confusion and contradiction, possibility and a metamorphosis that never ends.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887842900","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487004774","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770898073","BASICMainSubject":"POE021000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ LGBTQ+","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI\u003c\/strong\u003e is a non-binary writer who was raised on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario. They are the author of two previous chapbooks of poetry, and their poems have been awarded the 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and the Long Poem Prize from the \u003cem\u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e. Their poetry and fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in venues throughout the United States and Canada including the \u003cem\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e. 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The care shown toward the authorial self, the past, and those within Stintzi’s emotional sphere is like coming up for air from a culture ruled by nihilism. Case in point: ‘I am trying to personalize \/ myself to my melancholy, don’t want to be neighbour \/ to my own narrative anymore.’ To the poetics of the queer everyday Stintzi adds their ‘Junebat,’ a multitudinous concept of such explanatory power I’m certain it’ll endure in the collective memory of Canadian writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Billy-Ray Belcourt, award-winning author of This Wound is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJunebat\u003c\/em\u003e is a piercing examination of body, self, and the miraculous yet painful process of becoming. In this emotionally intimate, technically brilliant debut collection, Stintzi both opens a window to their soul and holds a mirror to the reader’s. 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Their poetry and fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in venues throughout the United States and Canada including the \u003cem\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLGBTQ+ THEMES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJohn’s poetry speaks to both LGBTQ+ and non-binary audiences as they grapple and embrace their gender identity through poetry and poetic devices.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A powerful debut collection of poetry.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Ms. Magazine","OtherText_Review_1":"Lively and electric.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeName_0":"Raymond Souster Award","PrizeYear_0":"2020","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-07","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.
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Museum of Bone and Water
A provocative investigation of the human body — our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire.
