Verse-like fiction and/or novelistic lyrics, a seminal poet’s latest book dazzles our reviewer: “It’s a dream of touching people. Everyone. And the world. Which is a person, too. Even bill’s drawings are touch. His paintings are made out of gentle finger strokes on canvas. Through touch, bill makes a world.” —Harold Rhenisch reviews th book uv lost passwords 1, by bill bissett (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2025) $24.95 / 9781772016932
A poet’s pensive and playful debut volume is also “probing, inventive, clever, fun, provocative, and challenging.” —Steven Ross Smith reviews [about]ness, by Eimear Laffan (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2023) $19.95 / 9780228019022
An exuberant experimental novel with some “lustrous little thought diamonds” also features abundant and frustrating “anarchy in sentences.” —Peter Babiak reviews The Apple in the Orchard, by Brian Dedora (Gananoque: Guernica Editions, 2024) $22.95 / 9781771838603