news | Friday September 4, 2026

Two Talonbooks Titles on CBC Books's List of Most Anticipated Fall Poetry Collection

Wonderful to see Grace of Centuries by Hope Anderson and A Child’s Seance by Weyman Chan in CBC Books’s article about Canadian poetry collections to look forward to this fall.

Grace of Centuries is an act of redress. Beginning with the African presence in the Bible and travelling through inheritances both collective and personal, Hope Anderson celebrates Black voices across centuries and continents.

A Child’s Seance opens with a brother and sister attempting to contact their dead mother with a Ouija board. From there, it unfolds into a witty, grieving, surreal, astral travelogue that looks at loss, mental health, sexual misfires, and the threat of alien abduction.

If you’re looking to dive into some great verse, see all of CBC Books’s recommendations here.