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Pronounced / Workable
In Pronounced/Workable many of the poems draw from pre-hospital care medical protocols, standards and legislative acts as well as colloquial quotes of patients, literary reference, graffiti, signage and other texts. It hopes to mimic the fast paced collage and varied tonality that a 12 hour shift in the city produces. Food, opportunistic creatures, tragedy and apathy are recurring themes, as well as many Toronto-specific landmarks. Some later poems reflect on the medicalization of the poets own female body through the use of personal medical reports as source texts.
The COVID Journals
Early in the pandemic, medical personnel were our front lines. What was that like? Through stories, art, and poetry, Canadian health-care workers from across the country recount their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributors to The COVID Journals share the determination and fear they felt as they watched the crisis unfold, giving us an inside view of their lives at a time when care itself was redefined from moment to moment. Their narratives, at turns tender, angry, curious, and sometimes even joyful, highlight challenges and satisfactions that people will continue to explore and make sense of for years to come. Contributors: Ewan Affleck, Sarah-Taïssir Bencharif, Manisha Bhar...
Small Planes and the Dead Fathers of Lovers
Candace de Taeye's debut full-length collection of poetry, Small Planes and the Dead Fathers of Lovers, explores with wit and sincerity ideas of family, relationship, and home. Beginning with poems of movement and travel, the book develops diverse and wide-ranging meditations on what it means to be at home in a place, to grow into it, and then also eventually to leave it. The poetry itself makes full use of the physical page, occupying each corner and making itself comfortable there, visually paralleling the process of being at home that it describes. The imagery moves by pairing seemingly disconnected ideas, strangers to one another, and then coaxing their more subtle connections into visibility, mirroring the way that the collection represents human relationships. The result is a book that provokes reflection on our uncertain contemporary experience of home and relationship in ways that readers will find both emotionally and intellectually compelling.
Rhapsody 2017
RHAPSODY is an annual collection of poetry presented by Friends of Vocamus Press, a non-profit community organization that supports literary culture in Guelph, Ontario. The anthology is a celebration of Guelph, Ontario writing that includes both authors who are well established in their craft and those who are published here for the first time, reflecting the writers and writing that formed the literary communities of Guelph during the year 2016 / 2017.
Good Want
What if poetry and prayer are the same: intimate and inconclusive, hopeful and useless, a private communion that hooks you to the thrashing, imperfect world? Good Want entertains the notion that perhaps virtue is a myth that’s outgrown its uses. Exploring the value and shame ascribed to our desires both silly and serious – artistic, superficial, spiritual, relational – these poems grapple with deeply rooted questions: How can there be a relationship between goodness and godliness, if god is a character with shifting allegiances and priorities? Is clarity worth the pain of redefining your experience of the world? Is privacy the same as secrecy the same as deceit? Each caveat becomes a p...
Xaggera 2016
XAGGERA is the new Fenylalazine (magazine of art), from Fenylalanine Publishing. This initial issue celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Ed Video Media Arts Centre. Over the course of the past many months, Fenylalanine has identified the desire for an art magazine of Guelph. This then transformed (as is always welcome at Fenylalanine) into a magazine of art with contributions from writers, poets, graphic artists, painters, doodlers and asemic conceptualists - twenty-two contributions from the local, national and international scenes.
Rhapsody 2016
The RHAPSODY anthology is an annual collection of poetry and very short prose by writers who live in and around the city of Guelph, Ontario. It is a celebration of local writing that includes both authors who are well established in their craft and those who are published here for the first time, reflecting the variety of writers and writing that formed the literary communities of Guelph during 2015 / 2016.
Gabriel's Beach
Gabriel's Beach is Neal McLeod's second book with Hagios Press. In this new book he takes on the stories of his relations and ancestors including his Grandfather's harrowing war experiences. McLeod engages in history without losing himself in it, and brings forth the power of a human voice moving story toward myth. In these intuitive, confident, and powerful poems we learn of battles and of survival, and of the ultimate scars that history has served on aboriginal people in this part of North America. Here is a poet who is not only a witness to what his family has endured but he is an artist who shows us a way to connect these stories to our own lives.
Sounding Ground
Winner of: 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts; his poetry is intelligent, musical, gritty in observation, graceful in method. His poems contain stories of ancestors, immediate family, the history embedded in his language choices as a St Lucian writer, and heroes such as Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James, Kamau Brathwaite, and a local steelbandsman. Although never overtly political, there's an oblique and often witty politics embedded in the poems, as where observing the rise of a grandfather out of rural poverty into the style of colonial respectability, he writes of the man "who eat his farine and fish / and avocado in a civilize fight between / knife and fork and etiquette on his plate." This is a collection that is alive with its conscious tensions both in subject matter and form. There's a tension between the vision of ancestors, family, and of the poet himself as being engaged in the business of acting in the world and building on the past, and a sharp awareness of the inescapability of age's frailty, the decay of memory and of death.
Blue Suitcase
In his seventh poetry collection, poet and novelist Jim Nason, delves into the lives of the eight missing and murdered men from Toronto's gay village in 2017. The disappearance of one man in particular, Selim Esen, compels Nason to search for a deeper understanding of the serial-killer murders while examining his own troubled history. What he discovers will surprise, enrage, and inspire. Cherish each day as if it were your last, Nason urges, as if you had already died and were looking back.
