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Hugh Thomas, Jangle Straw

This brief collection of mistranslations could only happen in Montreal. It has something of the city in it, I can’t quite put my finger on it.

Cover of Hugh Thomas's Jangle Straw, a chapbook of mistranslations of poems by Olav H. Hauge. Turret House Press, 2023.
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Pearl Pirie, A Couple Sumerians

These poems are domestic, full of love, adoration, and humanity, yet brief, soft, and lightning-sharp, with a recurring motif of eye contact. Intimate.

Cover art of Pearl Pirie's poetry chapbook A Couple Sumerians
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John Metcalf, What Is A Canadian Literature?

What Is A Canadian Literature? is a thought-provoking work bearing a perspicacity utterly alien to the nimbyist pricks lording over CanLit.

A worn cover of a second-hand copy of What Is A Canadian Literature? by John Metcalf
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