U Girl
By Meredith Quartermain

Award-winning author Meredith Quartermain’s second novel and seventh book, U Girl, is a coming-of-age story set in Vancouver in 1972, a city crossed between love-in hip and forest-corp square.

Uiesh / Somewhere
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff
By Joséphine Bacon

Vital bilingual poetry by Innu Elder Joséphine Bacon Uiesh / Somewhere consists of short poems that speak directly to the reader, without artifice or pretension. They arise from Joséphine Bacon’s experience as an Innu woman, whose life has taken her from the nomadic ways of her Ancestors in the northern…

Un
By Ivan Drury

Against a backdrop of moderate gains and terrible defeats, Un laments socialism’s failure to deliver formerly colonized peoples out of imperialism’s terrible grasp. Drawing on the US War on Terror and the disappearances of people extrajudicially apprehended from the Middle East and North Africa, this collection of poetry interrogates the…

Un/inhabited
By Jordan Abel
Contributions by Kathleen Ritter & Tracy Stefanucci

This is the second edition of award-winning Nisg̱a’a poet Jordan Abel’s second collection of poetry, Un/inhabited, which maps the terrain of the public domain to create a layered investigation of the interconnections between language and land. Abel constructed the book’s source text by compiling ninety-one complete western novels found on…

Unfuckable Lardass
By Catriona Strang

Unfuckable Lardass reverts the patriarchy’s gaze. It began as an attempt to refract and undercut an outrageous insult allegedly lobbed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel – an egregious demonstration of the framing of women in reductive and sexualized terms ignoring their existence as subjects of their own complex histories. As…

Unity (1918)
By Kevin Kerr

In 1918, the dreaded “spanish” flu fills the town of Unity with paranoia. Cast of 6 women and 3 men.

Untimely Passages
By Jerry Zaslove

These essays emerge from years of reading, writing, and teaching through the exemplary controversies, commitments, and atmosphere of the crises of modernism that accompany the author’s reading of European literature as a world literature. The author imagines the collection through the image of the Colporteur, who appears along the streets…