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A captivating search through one family's history, All Wrong Horses on Fire that Go Away in the Rainis a stunning examination of intergenerational trauma and its effect on Indigenous voices. Aftershocks and fragmented memories ricochet through this collection, bringing with them strength,...

In their second poetry collection, Tawahum Bige explores belonging and voice of a Two-Spirit Dene youth. These poems are a stark plunge--an answer to how voice emerges for a young Two Spirit growing up in so-called "Surrey, BC," far from his Łutselk'e Dene territories. The fundamental...

procession: a line of people moving in the same direction; a formal ceremony or celebration, as in a wedding, a funeral, a religious parade. Bestselling novelist and Governor General's Award-winning poet katherena vermette's third collection presents a series of poems reaching into what it means...

New poems from award-winning storyteller and poet Joseph Dandurand. Prolific Kwantlen writer Joseph Dandurand offers his latest poetry collection, following The Punishment and The East Side of It All, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. Building on his legacy as...

Named a Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2025 by CBC Books Daring and vulnerable, this is the highly anticipated new collection from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt. In The Idea of An Entire Life, Belcourt delivers an intimate examination of twenty...

Chief Stacey Laforme, an esteemed Indigenous leader and storyteller, breathes life into every poem and story, drawing upon his deep cultural roots. Rich with the essence of his soul, the poems in Beneath the Surface capture the moments and emotions that have shaped him, offering a poignant...

a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales, mythology, and a self-divinized female rage. Divided into three parts, the book examines Indigenous grief, trans identity, and frustrated desires in ways that reject perception. Gone is the soft, kind,...

ONE OF CBC's BEST CANADIAN POETRY BOOKS OF 2025 Something for the Dark centres Indigenous knowledge to probe the limits of what we know, confront the unknown, and reckon with our place in the world. Randy Lundy's newest collection of...

"Calling Down the Sky" is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1950's when thousands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their...

Homecoming is a poetry collection that reflects our human journey as we grow and learn, and author's personal journey through childhood, marriage, divorce, parenthood, and parents' old age, as well as the author's quest to reclaim and celebrate her Native heritage. The poems in Homecoming are...

In nature, rewilding restores biodiversity and ecosystems. In this new collection from award-winning poet Shannon Webb-Campbell, it is a form of Indigenous resurgence and pleasure. Drawing upon ecology, traditional knowledge, and sexuality, Re: Wild Her is a personal and poetic...

This is a book about grief, death and longing. It's about the gristle that lodges itself deep into one's gums, between incisors and canines. Teeth details not only the symptoms of colonization, but also the foundational and constitutive asymmetries that allow for it to proliferate and...

Winner of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation, Prix des libraires, the Indigenous Voices award, the Prix littéraire des enseignant.e.s de Français, and the Coup de Coeur Renaud-Bray, and finalist for the Prix Alain-Grandbois. Dual-language edition The poems in...

To describe the writing of Marilyn Dumont is to call her a poet of reclamation and resurgence. Some thirty-five years ago she set about documenting her life as a young Métis woman and telling the story of her people, the Red River Métis, and, in the process, she has become a principal...

In these poems, E. McGregor combines the lore of family history with personal memory, vividly parsing patterns of inheritance, particularly through the maternal line. What Fills Your House Like Smoke begins and ends at the deathbed of the writer's Metis grandmother. In...

The Secwépemc term le estcwicwéy̓ (the missing) was given by Secwépemc elders who dedicated their knowledge and time to guide the community through the hell they were forced to endure in May 2021. Garry Gottfriedson's The Flesh of Ice picks up the thread of his 2021 collection, Bent...

A nuanced, relational, and community-minded new book from one of Canada's preeminent poets. South Side of a Kinless River wrestles with concepts of Métis identity in a nation and territory that would rather erase it. Métis identity, land loss, sexual relationships between...

Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards (Poetry) Shortlisted, E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Prize Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ "Canada rejected our applications for enrolment in the Qalipu First Nation....