Our Bookshelf
Browse and shop the growing collection of award-winning books that have been presented with us since 2022.
Parramisha by Frances Roberts-Reilly
Parramisha challenges the reader to reconstruct a new image as a life affirming narrative of our wholeness as a Romani identity.
Wait, What? by Richard-Yves Sitoski
Wait, What? is the 2nd place winner of the 2022 Don Gutteridge Award for a full-length poetry manuscript. It's a harrowing, humorous and surreal trip into a psych ward and out the other side. If you can lose your head while all about you are keeping theirs, this book is for you.
archipelago by Laila Malik
The islands of an archipelago are isolated above sea level but attached underwater; connected yet separate. archipelago, the debut poetry collection from Laila Malik, traces fragments of family, becoming and unbecoming against the shifting shorelines of loss, multigenerational migration, and (un)belonging.
Sweetgrass & Cigarettes by Aleria McKay
In her second poetry collection, writer and playwright Aleria Mckay explores themes of identity, trauma, and family, through the life, love, and the loss of her father.
Circle Tour by Eva Tihanyi
Its three sections—Outer Circle, Inner Circle, Centre—draw us in as we move from the “outside” world of politics, culture, and art to the “inside” world of relationships with family, friends, and lovers, to the “core” world of the self.
Streams that Lead Somewhere by Fareh Malik
Fareh Malik’s debut collection aims to explore the intersection between mental illness and social racialization. The poet dives deep into his long history with Islamophobia, racism, and other forms of discrimination.
Emptying the Ocean by Kim Fahner
Rooted firmly in Irish myth and lore, with references to strong female figures who shapeshift and move between dimensions, there are Atlantic echoes of both Ireland and Newfoundland at work in these poems.
Danger Flower by Jaclyn Desforges
Jaclyn Desforges leads enlightened witnesses through a wild garden where archetypal tales are treated with tongue-in-cheek irreverence.
Night Lunch by Mike Chaulk
Night Lunch is a shapeshifting sonnet sequence set in the cold waters off the North Coast of Labrador.