A debut short story collection you won't want to miss, poetry poetry poetry, crime fiction gone portable, and three fantastic Granta books
UP UP UP
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Julie BookerA radiant debut collection from Canada's freshest new voice in fiction. Up Up Up heralds the arrival of a writer of astonishing range, compassion and acuity. In this taut collection of twenty short, sharp stories Julie Booker grabs the reins from writers like Lydia Millet and Miranda July and takes off at full speed, and in directions all her own.
Advance reviews of Up Up Up:"
Up Up Up is a stunning, fresh debut collection from an author who is worth watching." --
Walrus Magazine"
Up Up Up doesn't read like a debut: this is a writer who has clearly been honing her craft for quite some time." --
Quill & Quire"With
Up Up Up, Julie Booker has served up a first book that's hilarious and heartbreaking, merry and sombre. It's an irresistible mix." --
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METHODIST HATCHET
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Ken BabstockThe eagerly anticipated fourth collection from one of Canada's finest poets, acclaimed by Time magazine as "one of the best things to happen to poetry in Canada." Here is the exhilarating new collection from one of our most important and talented poets, a finalist for the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award and winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference,
Methodist Hatchet gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken Babstock's playful, fierce, intelligent book.
Advance reviews of Methodist Hatchet:". . . just call [Ken Babstock] what he is: the best Canadian poet of his generation."
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Walrus Magazine 
A DOCTOR PEDALLED HER BICYCLE OVER THE RIVER ARNO
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Matt Rader"Rader has quickly gone from being a poet to watch to one of the poets to watch." -- Zachariah Wells, ARC A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader's first two collections but ascends, also, to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized realm of the human. This is an astounding collection from a thrilling voice in poetry.
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OYAMA PINK SHALE
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Sharon ThesenThe latest collection from Governor General's Literary Award finalist and celebrated poet Sharon Thesen. Governor General's Literary Award finalist Sharon Thesen's latest poetry collection,
Oyama Pink Shale, is a sly, self-directed, yet joyously emancipatory work. By animating and voicing various moments and selves -- indebted adult friend to artists, cold documentarian of a haunted sanitarium, engaged contemporary ticking off beauties, among others -- Thesen's poems show the transience of the earthly moment while convincing us of the thread of spirit that links all our lost bits and makes them possible.
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WHAT IS POETRY?
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Lawrence Ferlinghettiart by Frederic Amat
The extraordinary collection from legendary poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- one of North America's most respected and well-known poets. Described as a "sublime distillation of an author's lifework,"
What is Poetry? is a brilliant, soulful, and life-affirming collection of aphorisms in free verse by one of our most important contemporary poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. This spectacular hardcover limited edition features stunning full-colour artwork by acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker Frederic Amat. This is a unique and timeless collector's edition that Ferlinghetti fans and all lovers of poetry will want to have on their shelves.
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Elena ForbesNow available in mass market paperback with a new series look, the first and second installments in Elena Forbes's highly acclaimed Mark Tartaglia mystery series.FROM GRANTA
