Fifty
By Ken Norris

Among its widely diverse poetic forms, the book constructs odes, elegies, sonnets and long poem sequences, as Norris travels from Maine to Santo Domingo, from Phnom Penh to Montreal, and from the shorelines of the Caribbean to the banks of the Mekong River.

Five Star Planet
By David W. McFadden

The poems in this third volume of McFadden’s Terrafina Trilogy —which began with Gypsy Guitar and There’ll be Another —suggest the earth is an exotic way station, a hotel.

Floating Up to Zero
By Ken Norris

In Floating Up to Zero, Ken Norris introduces us to “a traveller from an antique land,” though in this case that traveller’s story is not Shelley’s meditation on the vanity of ancient kings, but rather the poet’s ­meditation on the here and now, on the present moment, precariously balanced between a certain frozen past and an uncertain fluid future. Meditative, incisive and light in their touch, these poems tell us: “The old star charts were perhaps a little out of date. That is, new stars had since been found, though sometimes they were only streetlights, mistaken.”

for love and autonomy
By Anahita Jamali Rad

Anahita Jamali Rad deals with the stuff of everyday life: work and sex, friendship, and love. Her critical attention to the structure of these social relationships creates a poetics of trial and failure, questioning the very “culture” responsible for its making as she forges a way for the possibility of radical resistance in language.

Fortified Castles
By Ryan Fitzpatrick

Starting with the lyric statement as a point of interrogation, Fortified Castles asks what might cause a retreat into the comforting walls of the self.

fractal economies
By derek beaulieu

beaulieu pushes the limits of poetry and poetics, challenging the status quo of the genre and the politics of language itself.

Friendly Fire
By Danielle LaFrance

Comprising experimental poetry and prose, Friendly + Fire interrogates the male subjective experience of war and the gendered implications of camaraderie or “brotherhood” while aligning the seriousness of a war target with the frivolities of gossip.

From the Poplars
By Cecily Nicholson

BC Book Prize, Poetry: Cecily Nicholson, From the Poplars (Winner) In the North Arm of British Columbia’s Fraser River lies an uninhabited island. Guarded by water from the city of New Westminster’s bustling industrial and shipping district, Poplar Island is lush and unspoken, but storied. It is the traditional territory…

full-metal indigiqueer
By Joshua Whitehead

This poetry collection focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity.