Veteran YA author’s captivating novel features ghosts and villains and a network of caves (not to mention “a good dash of mystery and a wee bit of romance—just the right amount”). —Alison Acheson reviews Cave-In, by Pam Withers (Winnipeg: Great Plains Press, 2024) $18.95 / 9781773371245
Couplets driven by narrative (or prose with poetic DNA), an extravagantly told book relates a 24-hour period in a city with inhabitants under the yoke of capitalism. —Joe Enns reviews Kingdom of the Clock, by Daniel Cowper (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025) $24.95 / 9780228023715
Characterized by “portraits of the hard side of urban life,” “sparse lines and raw subject matter,” and a “steady current of hopelessness and aimlessness,” a novelist’s sophomore volume of poetry seems apropos for uncertain and accelerated times. —Kelly Shepherd reviews After Sunstone, by Dustin Cole (St. Louis: Farthest Heaven, 2025) $15.00 / 9798990692527
Debut poems and capitalist criticism in the form of “intricate napkin doodles,” they are “spectacular gestures but not always particularly easy or comfortable reads.” —Harold Rhenisch reviews Tomorrow is a Holiday, by Hamish Ballantyne (Vancouver: New Star Books, 2024) $16.00 / 9781554202089