Enciphered in a bacterium, The Xenotext is the world's first living poem.

'Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on V...

A cultural planner's modest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change...

Recite your poem to your aunt.I threw myself to the ground.Where were you in the night?In a schoo...

A phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world...

A revolutionary anthology of essays and dramatic works by contemporary disabled theatre artists

Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Annihilation in this poetic space-age fable of proletari...

Contemporary responses to biblical texts offer hope and guidance in difficult times.

A Mad Libs-style project contends with poetry from Turtle Island and Palestinian writers and asks...

A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The ...

Women, Walking

A twenty-first-century reconsideration of the occasional poem by contemporary writers.

An irreverent, laugh-out-loud pastiche of free verse, hallmark card, bad truism, picture book, ad...

Interstellar via Invisible Cities: spec-fic translated from Spanish imagines a utopian way of lif...

Poems that look at our little world from space

CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023

Gulliver's Travels meets The Underground Railroad: a road trip through the countryside - and the ...

From Homer to Starbucks, a look at sirens and mermaids and feminism and consumerism.

Mouthpiece is an exploration of contemporary feminism: following one woman, for one day, as she t...

'What happens to identity when we're obsessed with self-surveillance and devalued words? Now that...

'A queer writer travelling through India can't escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ...

The debut collection of visceral short fiction from notorious Toronto writer, editor, indie comme...

Closer

Kicking ass and taking notes-what it's like to be a woman in the ring.

Pompoms, blackberries and Value Village: Take a stroll through the thoughts of one of Canada's mo...

Home is where the heart is, or, in the case of The Sink House, home is what the heart is. Sequest...

Drama. Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada's most intriguin...

A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live.

Fiction. Translation. Playful, innovative and subversive, Nicole Brossard's writings have profoun...

An unflinchingly subversive, aversive, conversive poetic look at the underbelly of Canadian settl...

From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its diss...

Poems chronicling the contemporary self's fluctuating desire between near-obliterating connectedn...

Desire and dieffenbachias: new poems from the award-winning author of Otter.

'A sardonic, feminist reimagining of the story of Mary Toft, infamous rabbit-birthing hoaxer.'

'From translator Saskia Vogel and one of Sweden's most loved authors, an essayistic memoir about ...

'From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations of h...

Eschewing prevailing poetic fashion, 'Sooner' reimagines poetry as a kind of cubist fascination, ...

'Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist.' – Eye Weekly

Poems that borrow from the lexicon of filmmaking to let us find some solace in our facades.

With its words planted firmly in cheek, Throaty Wipes does surprising things — like write a poem ...

As meditative practices focus on the axis of breath, these poems focus on the moment of action, o...

Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tells us...

If the expression 'Two steps forward, one step back' describes the conventional attitude toward h...

Selected as the 2012 Title for One Book Toronto

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it.

Drama. Illustrated by Jason Logan. Set in a northern mining town between Misery Junction and Griz...

Journey Prize–winning author returns with a kaleidoscope of off-kilter short stories about parent...

Bartleby the Scrivener meets Catch-22 in this charmingly sardonic tale of love, war, and fertilizer.