Books
The Response of Weeds
A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies
The Response of Weeds explores what it means to be Black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. This collection of evocative poems was the winner of multiple awards.
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Books Featuring Bertrand
Best Canadian Poetry 2025
Selected by Aislinn Hunter
Selected by editor Aislinn Hunter, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2023.
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Featuring:
Hollie Adams • George Amabile • Erin Bedford • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Bertrand Bickersteth • Elisabeth Blair • Molly Cross-Blanchard • Lorna Crozier • Sue Goyette • Evelyn Lau • Y. S. Lee • David Martin • Erín Moure • Tolu Oloruntoba • Jaeyun Yoo and more...
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Best Canadian Poetry 2023
Guest Editor: John Barton
Series Editor: Anita Lahey
In selecting this year’s edition of Best Canadian Poetry, Barton brings the same catholic spirit to his survey of Canadian poems published by magazines and journals in 2021. From new work by Canadian favourites to exciting new talents, this year’s anthology offers fifty poems to challenge and enlarge your sense of the power and possibility of Canadian poetry.
Featuring:
Leslie Joy Ahenda • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Bertrand Bickersteth • Tawahum Bige • Moni Brar • Helen Cho • Conyer Clayton • Louise Bernice Halfe-Skydancer • Mobólúwajídìde D. Joseph • Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang • Eric Wang • Tom Wayman • Jan Zwicky and more...
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AfriCANthology
Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets
Edited by A. Gregory Frankson
Brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Read More
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The Black Prairie Archives
An Anthology
Edited by Karina Vernon
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century.
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