"A Serious Call" is a quiet, beautifully rendered story of our relationships to objects, books, and the people around them. Don Coles’s sixteenth book, "A Serious Call", is, among other things, an homage to memory, books, and the... Read More

This collection is striking in the way each individual piece feels essential to the whole, allowing for discovery, rediscovery, and the crafting of a new home for the soul. "Teratology" is a dynamic and beautifully hewn collection of... Read More

Angela Davis. Billie Jean King. Carol Burnett. The first three women in this fantastic ABC book set the tone for what’s to come: visionary, bold, diverse role models for an array of children today. Each page, with a modern... Read More

The tropes that appear in Birney’s poetry are both quietly political and overtly sincere, experimental and traditionally sound. The poems in "The Essential Earle Birney" represent the spirited work of a poet’s career stretching from... Read More

With smartly arranged variety, this is a worthy introduction to Wilkinson’s work. "The Essential Anne Wilkinson" is an elegant volume featuring Ingrid Ruthig’s selections of the Canadian modernist poet’s work. Against the odds of... Read More

The raw honesty and power of sixteenth century poet shines through in Zwicky’s translations. Jan Zwicky presents her translations of ten sonnets from Vittoria Colonna’s Rime Spirituali, accompanied by stunning photographs by Robert... Read More

Don’t think we’ve forgotten the young’uns. Luke Pearson’s newest addition to the Hilda series, "Hilda and the Black Hound", is the perfect book to get kids hooked on comics. Blue-haired Hilda is back in a fabulously imaginative... Read More

Certain poets harness inhuman powers of observation, as if they were closer kin to hawks, dogs, and heavenly angels in the ability to see, hear, and intuit their surroundings. Rarely such poets complement these observation skills with... Read More