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Presents poems and stories that find their laughs in different quarters: in the wry, the slapstick, the satiric, and the dark. As odd, off-putting, and hilarious as that may be…
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Jon Paul Fiorentino
Contemporary Canadian poetry got you down? This book of poems operates within the constraints of what the author terms ‘synaptic syntax’ - poetry that performs the very nature of neuronal…
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Drawing on texts ranging from Thorstein Veblen’s groundbreaking The Theory of the Leisure Class to Star Wars (the nerd Bible) for inspiration, this suite of poems documents the tribulations and…
Jon Paul Fiorentino’s new collection is a whip-smart poetic investigation of anxiety in all its many manifestations.
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The irreverent poetry of report cards, lesson plans, city mottos, invigilation guides, and, of course, Michel Foucault …
transcona fragments is Jon Paul Fiorentino’s second collection of poems. The book’s point of departure is the suburban community of Transcona, a railway town that has been stitched to the…
Stripmalling is the story of one young man’s embarrassing and hilarious journey to literary awareness. Jonny lives and works in a strip mall in suburban Winnipeg. For some people, this…
Twenty-five authors come together in this groundbreaking collection to recreate prairie poetry, as it was known in the 20th century.
George Elliott Clarke
Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet - these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of…
