Bren Simmers: If, When
The poems in If, When link the author’s contemporary experiences while living in Squamish, British Columbia, with those of her great-grandparents, who lived in the nearby mining town of Britannia a century earlier.
Carrie Jenkins: Victoria Sees It
A queer psychological thriller from a beguiling, fresh new voice. Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she’s the only one who seems to care: there are clues all over Cambridge, but Deb is nowhere to be found–and the harder Victoria looks, the less she sees.
Rob Taylor: Strangers
A book about the songlines of memory and language and the ways in which they connect us to other human beings, to read Strangers is to become part of the lineages (literary, artistic, familial) that it braids together—to become, as Richard Outram puts it, an “unspoken / Stranger no longer.”
Molly Cross-Blanchard: Exhibitionist
Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchard’s poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism.
Sara de Waal: 48 Grasshopper Estates
With a diverse cast of characters brought to life by illustrator Erika Medina, Sara de Waal’s whimsical debut emphasizes the power of imagination and finding companionship where you least expect it.
Terence Young: Smithereens
More than any of his previous books, though, Smithereens features poems that are playful, in which language is often associative, surprising and fun.
Elena Johnson: Notes de terrain pour la toundra alpine
The French translation of Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra. In 2008, Elena Johnson was invited to be the writer-in-residence at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon’s Ruby Range mountains. For several weeks she lived in the alpine tundra, working alongside a team of biologists whose research interests ranged from plants to marmots and ptarmigan.
Brent van Staalduinen: Nothing But Life
During a sweltering summer, Dills must come to terms with a horrific crime and the parent he loves who committed it. Dills and his mom have returned to Hamilton, her hometown, hoping to leave the horrors of Windsor behind. But it’s impossible to escape the echoes of tragedy, and trouble always follows trouble.
Kallie George: The Secret Fawn
Gorgeous cut-paper art illuminates this sweet, heartfelt picture book about how special being little can be. For fans of Finding Wild and Little Fox in the Forest.
Owen Laukkanen: The Wild
A girl is sent against her will to a remote wilderness boot camp where things aren’t what they seem in this riveting and twisty thriller.