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    ISBN: 9781772012866 | Paperback

    88 pages | Pub. Date: 20210315
    6 W × 9 H × .237 D inches
    Frontlist | Poetry | Bisac: POE011000
    Rights: WORLD

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From the talented multidisciplinary artist, musician, and writer Leanne Dunic comes the lyric memoir One and Half of You. In sinuous language, with candour, openness, and surprising humour, Dunic explores sibling and romantic love and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another.

Including links to three songs written and performed for the book by tidepools.

“With vulnerability and surprising humour, Dunic reflects upon [...] her search for completion and love.”
Shrapnel Magazine

“In One and Half of You maps reify the inhabited milieux of a biracial body ... Dunic’s poems witness the events of permanent closures, rent increases, and fading photographs on the walls of restaurants. Against the ever-gentrifying calligraphy of Chinatown’s streets, Dunic’s poetry acts as a “love letter” to a place at once past and present.”
—Isabella Wang, the Capilano Review

One and Half of You explores the tensions of boundaries, belonging, and identities through an innovative multimedia experience; it is a hybrid form of poetry and prose … [It] ultimately is a love story, a love story to Chinatown and to biracial and bisexual identity, a love story to the brother and also the narrator’s lover, and a self-love story to the narrator, accepting the complexity of crossing boundaries and navigating mixed identities.”
—Julie Jeanell Leung, Sundress Publications

“"Leanne Dunic’s One and Half of You performs a difficult mathematics of the self. Dunic’s poems expressively ask, to whom do the ghosts belong? Who should be privy to the heartbeat?"
Canadian Literature

news | 2022-08-30
Leanne Dunic Selected for Poetry in Transit 2022!

…2022 is Leanne Dunic! A piece from her collection One and Half of You will be traveling around a city near you! …


news | 2022-06-23
Pride Month Reading List!

…Moving the Centre: Two Plays by Andrew Kushnir 3. One and Half of You by Leanne Dunic 4. still by Anahita Jamali Rad 5. …


news | 2022-03-08
International Women's Day

…de Kerangal and translated by Jessica Moore. One and Half of You by Leanne Dunic. Then Now by Daphne Marlatt. …


news | 2021-12-10
One and Half of You, a CBC Top Pick

…We are proud to announce that One and Half of You by Leanne Dunic has been picked by the CBC as one … and writer Leanne Dunic comes the lyric memoir One and Half of You. In sinuous language, with candour, openness, and …


news | 2021-04-26
CBC Books' Spring Poetry List

…of the Theories of Rain , Leanne Dunic’s One and Half of You , Anahita Jamali Rad’s still , and Daphne …


news | 2021-04-08
You’re invited to our Spring Launch on April 15!

…her book Then Now , Leanne Dunic reading from One and Half of You , M.A.C. Farrant reading from One Good Thing , …


news | 2021-03-04
Leanne Dunic’s One and Half of You is hot off the presses!

…We are so pleased to welcome Leanne Dunic’s One and Half of You ! One and Half of You is a memoir that begins … recordings of three songs. Pick up your copy of One and Half of You today! …