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Continuity Errors by Catriona Wright 9781552454596
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €10.23CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care. Continuity Errors questions... -
Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City by Perry King 9781552454251
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.09From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion. For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more... -
with wax by Derek Beaulieu 9781552451182
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Quill pen, linotype, computer: does how you write affect what you write? In with wax, derek beaulieu spurns the sentence and woos the phrase, the image and the language of printing, weaving fragments... -
Not Anywhere, Just Not by Ken Sparling 9781552454640
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Boy meets Girl, Boy marries Girl, and years later Boy mysteriously disappears in this Gordon Lish–style novel.The boy and the girl have been married for decades, mostly getting along as they go about... -
Polaroids by Lillian Necakov 9781552450062
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Although firmly rooted in the real, Lillian Necakov's evocations of 'movie magic' prove irresistible in these forty poems and five collages. Ranging across dozens of films -- from Wim Wender's Wings... -
Whelmed by Nicole Markotic 9781552453261
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Dulge, rageous, couth, chalant-we think of prefixes as a few letters that change a word, but what if a word is lost without one? Each prose poem in Whelmed features a word that has been unhinged from... -
Little Beast by Julie DeMers 9781552453667
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552453667Author Julie DeMersFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint < -
Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists by Mike Hoolboom 9781552452004
Booksplease Price: €29.89'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.' -- Man Ray What if there were movies made the same way as suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person? Not... -
Indian Winter by Kazim Ali 9781552454657
Booksplease Price: €16.90CBC BOOKS: 2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present. "I am leaving for the winter – I have to... -
All You Can Kill Pasha Malla 9781552454862
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76White Lotus meets Shaun of the Dead in this absurdist take on the wellness retreat.Our narrator and his accidental companion, K. Sohail, inadvertently find themselves on an island wellness retreat... -
Things a Bright Boy Can Do 9781552454978
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552454978Format PaperbackImprint Coach House BooksPublisher Coach House Books -
Eunoia: The Upgraded Edition by Christian Boek 9781552452257
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.79The word 'eunoia,' which literally means 'beautiful thinking,' is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l'Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle), a... -
The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader by B.P. Nichol 9781552451878
Booksplease Price: €17.35A member of the sound-poetry collective, The Four Horsemen, winner of a Governor General's Award for Poetry and writer of Fraggle Rock, bpNichol was one of Canada's most important poets. All of... -
Slows: Twice by T. Liem 9781552454619
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023Backward and forward: a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms.This is a book of slow hours, days, and... -
Disturbances of Progress by Lise Downe 9781552451120
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02If the expression 'Two steps forward, one step back' describes the conventional attitude toward hesitation and uncertainty, Disturbances of Progress takes those steps and turns them into a dance. In... -
Spiral Agitator by Steve Venright 9781552450666
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.89Steve Venright, the true heir to the literary legacy of Henri Michau, Christopher Dewdney and Jorge Luis Borges, is the only surrealist ever to come from Sarnia, Ontario. Spiral Agitator, his fourth... -
Born 9781552455005
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552455005Format PaperbackImprint Coach House BooksPublisher Coach House Books -
Circumtrauma by Jumoke Verissimo 9781552455128
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.12From one of Africa’s most acclaimed writers, poetry about the Nigerian-Biafra warEveryone carries a piece of the war within them: what happens when we neglect to consider each individual’s story? The... -
When Water Became Blue by Anas Barbeau-Lavalette 9781552455098
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.72Annie Ernaux meets Annie Dillard in this sultry story of a woman’s obsession with a painter — and a river. A woman is on an artists’ retreat on an island in the St. Lawrence Seaway, taking time away... -
Unsun by Andrew Zawacki 9781552454008
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.99Poetry that aspires 'to conjugate in a future imperfect,' but a future nonetheless. In his fifth poetry volume, American poet Andrew Zawacki expands his inquiry into the possibilities and... -
The Second Substance Anne Lardeux 9781552454398
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Squatters at a rural gas station try to find freedom and build something new on the ashes of our petrocivilization in this sensual novel. A community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas... -
Hayflick Limit by Matthew Tierney 9781552452172
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award for Poetry! To be human is to cope with knowing. In the early sixties, Leonard Hayflick determined that healthy cells can divide only a finite number of... -
Clockfire by Jonathan Ball 9781552452363
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.71Shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards in the category of Most Promising Writer Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be... -
Inkblot Record by Dan Farrell 9781552450536
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Dan Farrell's second volume of poetry is an examination of a discourse that everyone knows about but few people have examined in detail: the response of people to Rorschach inkblot patterns. By turns... -
Raising Eyebrows by Gary Barwin 9781552450949
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.58The surrealist antics of Gary Barwin will run the predictability of your universe through a particle accelerator. Watch as your right eyebrow turns into you as a child. Watch Jeff connect the mower... -
Broom Broom by Brecken Rose Hancock 9781552452882
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.09Nothing slips by Brecken Hancock's deft ear as she seductively plumbs the depths of the evolution of bathing, doppelgangers, the Kraken, and the minutiae of family with all its tragic misgivings. The... -
Big Mall by Kate Black 9781552454725
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76A phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, is shopping what makes life worth living?In less than a century, the shopping... -
Pet, Pet, Slap by Andrew Battershill 9781552454763
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue. Having recently undergone an ethical awakening, Pillow has... -
Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon by Nicole Brossard 9781552451502
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.28Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of... -
On Occasion: Poems for the People by Sina Queyras 9781552455227
Booksplease Price: €17.40A twenty-first-century reconsideration of the occasional poem by contemporary writers.On Occasion is a collection rooted in the tradition of the poem as an act of love, an act of protest, an act of... -
Night Became Years by Jason Stefanik
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Night Became Years is poetry in the sauntering tradition of the fl neur. Stefanik loafers his way over sacred geography and explores his own mixed heritage through the lexicon of Elizabethan canting... -
Moby Jane by Gerry Gilbert 9781552451410
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28Why, it's a whale of a book! Here comes Moby Jane - again! Originally published in 1987 and long out of print, Moby Jane contains ten years' worth of Gilbert, poem by poem, that literally spill out... -
dyslexicon by Stephen Cain 9781552450277
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.20A double-lunged bong hit of mid-Eighties post-punk college rock, Gertrude Stein, art films, and the comedic legacy of Laurel and Hardy (including such great standup teams as HD and Ezra Pound, Jesus... -
sensory deprivation by Damian Lopes 9781552450208
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €5.81At long last, this double-barrelled collection of visual poetry, sensory deprivation and dream poetics, by damian lopes is now in print. Considered visual essays by the author, sensory deprivation... -
Janey's Arcadia Syd Zolf 9781552452950
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Blurbs from Joan Retallack, Kevin Killian and CA Conrad A brash and brazen use of misread historical texts to highlight the violence of the treatment of North America's first people Zolf identifies... -
Hello Serotonin by Jon Paul Fiorentino 9781552451366
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €3.20Contemporary Canadian poetry got you down? Well, we'd like to prescribe a little Hello Serotonin, the latest in mood-enhancing poetry anti-depressants. This new book of poems from Jon Paul... -
When Fenelon Falls by Dorothy Ellen Palmer 9781552452394
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.78A spaceship hurtles towards the moon, hippies gather at Woodstock, Charles Manson leads a cult into murder and a Kennedy drives off a Chappaquiddick dock: it's the summer of 1969. And as mankind... -
Yesterdays by Harold Sonny Ladoo 9781552454787
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02A rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head.Originally published in 1974, Yesterdays is nominally the story of one man’s attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to... -
The Woman Who Falls Out of the Sky Again Rosanna Deerchild 9781552454879
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76The Sky Woman has returned to bring down the patriarchy! This book is about a poet who may or may not be going crazy, who is just trying to survive in Winnipeg, where Indigenous people, especially... -
Diamond Snow by Kristjana Gunnars 9781552455081
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76From an innovator of autofiction comes a meditation on grief, care, Buddhism, and artmaking. 'This is a story. It is a story about someone accompanying another to the last gate.'Years ago, Kristjana...