Asking For It
By Ellie Moon

Two plays from rising Canadian theatre star Ellie Moon. Asking For It looks at gender roles and sexual consent in the wake of the Ghomeshi scandal, and considers the various ways in which sexual consent is understood personally, culturally, and legally. In this documentary play, Moon speaks with people of…

charger
By Margaret Christakos

A brilliant poetic examination of the hypermediatized self.

Cissy
By Dave Deveau

Cissy is a timely collection of three moving and thought-provoking plays on gender and young LGBTQ+ folk by the acclaimed playwright Dave Deveau, hailed as “one of Vancouver’s brightest up-and-coming playwrights” (Vancouver Magazine).

Desire Path
By Taryn Hubbard

A debut poetry collection that grows from the impulse to explore home in the suburb – in the intersections, overlaps, and gaps between urban and rural. These are walking poems and driving poems. In growing suburbs across the country, there is a push to urbanize, to rethink this sprawling space;…

Earle Street
By Arleen Paré

One of the finest explorations of the local in poetry to be found.

eat salt | gaze at the ocean
By Junie Désil

eat salt | gaze at the ocean explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives, using the original Haitian zombie as a metaphor for the condition and treatment of Black bodies. Interspersed with textual representations of zombies, Haitian society, and historical policies is the author’s personal narrative…

Here
By Colin Browne

With Here, award-winning poet Colin Browne offers a book of luminous encounters, contradictions, collisions, and meditations on art, nature, justice, historical memory, and territorial occupation. Browne’s texts mine the harrowing destinies and densities of place – in this case, of the North American Northwest Coast. The work’s seven movements are…

Impurity
By Larry Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman

An existential thriller that philosophically explores the purity of love. Russian-doll narrative, with self-referential loops and reflections on the literary medium.

Iron Peggy
By Marie Clements

Interplay of Indigenous characters from different historical periods (modern vs. First World War), different cultural groups (Cree, Coast Salish …). Suited for younger and young-adult audiences. Introduction to Indigenous Peoples in Canadian history.

Mégantic
By Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny
Translated by W. Donald Wilson

In this exhaustively researched work of investigative journalism, Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny examines the causes and after-effects of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. When a driverless, out-of-control train carrying highly volatile crude oil decimated the downtown area of the picturesque town of Lac-Mégantic, it immediately killed forty-seven people and lead to the…

Music at the Heart of Thinking
By Fred Wah

The music of thinking. The thinking of music. Music at the Heart of Thinking is a poetry that works through language as the true practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens to and notates thinking. From jazz, the unpredictable ad lib driving itself from itself. From a…

my yt mama
By Mercedes Eng

The follow up to Eng’s BC Book Prize-winning Prison Industrial Complex Explodes.

Orwell in Cuba
By Frédérick Lavoie
Translated by Donald Winkler

Orwell in Cuba chronicles journalist Frédérick Lavoie’s attempts to unravel the motives behind the mysterious appearance of a new translation of George Orwell’s 1984, formerly taboo in Cuba, just ahead of the country’s twenty-fifth International Book Fair. Lavoie works to make sense of how Cubans feel about the past, present, and future of their island – and how the political regime is adapting, or not, to life in the twenty-first century. His intertwined quests give readers the unique experience of following a suspenseful trail while at the same time becoming increasingly familiar with Cubans’ relationship to the regime and their strategies for coping with the island’s often challenging living conditions.

TENDER
By Laiwan

Within the contours of TENDER lie field notes from a life lived across multiple affinities, kinships, and desires. Equally visual and textual, TENDER is a beautifully complex collection spanning thirty years of curious inquiry into our shared human–animal condition. Laiwan traverses diverse terrains – the body, land, language – which are rooted in her courageous and uncompromising history of activism and in experiences of building community across and beyond difference. TENDER offers a radical and decolonizing cleansing of all that oppresses and alienates.

The Diary of Dukesang Wong
By Dukesang Wong
Edited by David McIlwraith
Translated by Wanda Joy Hoe

The Diary of Dukesang Wong restores a lost central voice to a foundational episode in Canadian history – one that changes our understanding of the history it recounts. Dukesang Wong’s remarkable diary tells of the appalling conditions, the punishing work, the camaraderie, the sickness and starvation, the encounters with Indigenous…

They Write Their Dream on the Rock Forever
By Annie York & Richard Daly & Chris Arnett

In They Write Their Dream on the Rock Forever, Nlaka’pamux Elder Annie York explains the red-ochre inscriptions written on the rocks and cliffs of the lower Stein Valley in British Columbia. This is perhaps the first time that an Indigenous Elder has presented a detailed and comprehensive explanation of rock-art…

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

This is the second edition of award-winning Nisga’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…

Wanting Everything
By Gladys Hindmarch
Edited by Deanna Fong & Karis Shearer

Makes available for the first time the collected works of this significant feminist, experimental prose writer and member of the renowned TISH group.