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The Poet's Point of View

Meet the poets! Grame Bezanson, Brandi Bird, and A.F. Moritz discuss their new poetry collections in this special Poetry Month blog post.

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Cover: The Wren by A. F. Moritz. An illustration of a wren perches on a branch, leaning forward and looking upward, over a beige background. The text appears in a serif font, with the title in a medium brown and the author's name in black.

The Wren

In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts.

Cover: Ultra Blue by Graeme Bezanson. The text appears in thick yellow brush strokes over a red background, with

Ultra Blue

Ultra Blue is a sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary masculinity.

Cover: Pitiful by Brandi Bird. The text is white over a back backgound, with

Pitiful

Part self-interrogation, part hospital diary, these heartbreakingly frank poems detail the author’s struggles with eating disorders and depression.

Cover: Inheritance, a novel, by Jane Park. A silver eunjangdo (Korean ornamental knife in a sheath) with a blue tassel and a yellow crysanthemum over a background illustration of a prairie grassland. The title Inheritance is set in the top third of the cover and the author's name at the bottom.

Inheritance

A Korean Canadian woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her childhood and confronts a haunting guilt.

Cover: Definitely Thriving, a novel, by Kerry Clare. An illustration of an upside-down green clawfoot bathtub full of bubbles is at the top of the frame, with a multicoloured stack of books at each end of the tub. A woman with light skin tone and dark hair in a messy top-knot reclines in the tub, reading. The title and author’s name are in dark blue brushstroke font set slanted on a yellow background with a few scattered open books and bubbles falling to the bottom of the frame.

Definitely Thriving

The heartening and hilarious story of a woman who doesn’t have it all figured out just yet.

Together by the Sea

Together by the Sea

In the tenth and final instalment of the legendary Soifs cycle, Marie-Claire Blais invites all the agonies and joys of humanity to a party by the sea.

Seven Heavens Away: A Novel by Ashraf Zaghal. The title and author name appear in bold red, green, and cream letters to evoke the colours of the Palestinian flag. The background features stylized clouds, stars, a crescent moon, and the Jerusalem skyline.

Seven Heavens Away

A Palestinian teenager finds his footing amid escalating violence across Jerusalem in this taut debut novel.

Cover: A Love Affair with the Unknown: Leaning into the Uncertainty of Modern Life by Gill Deacon. A painting by the author of a woman in a black bathing suit jumping off a green cliff into the water below against a cloudy sky. The title is stacked over this background with the author's name below it.

A Love Affair with the Unknown

A refreshing look at the inevitability of uncertainty to help make the hard parts of life more manageable.

Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith, featuring a colourful, beaded floral pattern with a hummingbird at the centre and a glowing yellow and orange background.

Sharing the Light

Uplifting stories, vignettes, and reflections to inspire gratitude, love, joy, and hope in navigating life in a changing, challenging world.

Cover: Planet Earth: Stories by Nicholas Ruddock. The title and author name fill the cover in block capital letters over a background of an abstract painting of a forest fire. The dark shapes of pine trees are distinguishable and there is a swath of red across the middle of the image.

Planet Earth

International award–winning stories of life and love in the midst of planetary decline

On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters. The cover features abstract, colourful artwork against a brown background. Organic shapes, some humanlike, and swirling lines reminiscent of waterways and galaxies flow out of a dark hole with red blood dripping from its bottom edge. The hole is flanked by two bears and two thunderbirds on either side.

On Wholeness

A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation

Cover: As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, edited by Terese Mason Pierre. Features a stylized, colourful bee illustration on a dark background.

As the Earth Dreams

A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.

Cover: I Make My Own Fun: A Novel by Hannah Beer. A martini glass filled with blood has a single barbie arm sticking out of the blood and is set on a bright pink background. The title appears in bold gold lettering above the glass.

I Make My Own Fun

An unhinged romp through fame, obsession, and fandom

Cover: John Candy: A Life in Comedy, by Paul Myers. Foreword by Dan Aykroyd. A black and white photograph of the comedian and actor John Candy, shown from the chest up, wearing a tuxedo, and looking directly into the camera, with just the hint of a smile. The main title and author’s name appear in large, pink block letters. The sub-title appears in a white, handwritten typeface. The foreword attribution appears in the same block letters as the title, but smaller and in white.

John Candy

The definitive biography of film legend John Candy—a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy’s most beloved and enduring stars.

Cover: procession by katherena vermette. The title and author's name all appear in white text, stylized in lower case. The backdrop is a close-up image of a beaded quilt, vibrant and detailed, with flowers, paisley, and more designs appearing. The edge of the quilt is beaded in red, and a yellow surface beneath the quilt appears at the bottom-left corner.

Procession

At once descendants and future ancestors, Procession explores the connections we have with ourselves, with friends, and within families and Nations.

Cover: Letters to Kafka, a novel by Christine Estima. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a woman with dark hair lying on her side, her face in three-quarter profile and her eyes looking up at the viewer. The bottom left corner of a windowpane is visible behind her.

Letters to Kafka

A sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská’s torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.

Cover: CBC Massey Lectures. Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World by Alex Neve. The entire cover is framed in a white box according to the CBC Massey Lectures series look. Within the frame is an abstract illustration of several faces created from a collage of multicoloured fragments. The author's name and the title are set in the lower half of the cover against this background.

Universal

The 2025 Massey Lectures delivered by human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve.

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My Mom Is Like a Kite illustrator Nathalie Dion invites us on a tour of her studio!

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New Releases

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend. Written by Sara O’Leary and illustrated by Qin Leng. A group of fifteen children of various skin tones perch and swing playfully from the branches of a tree.

A Friend Is a Friend Is a Friend

In this companion to best-selling titles A Family Is a Family Is a Family and A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid, a child explores how to make a friend.

My Mom Is Like a Kite. Written by Lisl H. Detlefsen and illustrated by Nathalie Dion. A young child with light brown skin and straight black hair leans forward on a table with her arms crossed, looking up and to the right. She wears a tan sweater. To her right, Winkie, a white cat, stands on her hind legs and paws at four kite tails that have pink, yellow, red and teal bows on them.

My Mom Is Like a Kite

A child touchingly narrates the ups and downs of living with a parent who experiences mental illness.

Fly Away Home. Written by Betty Quan and illustrated by Akin Duzakin. A young girl and a woman with their backs to us hold hands and carry backpacks. The girl has medium-light skin tone and straight black hair. The woman has medium-light skin tone and black hair tied back in a ponytail. They each clutch a full bag their arms and look out across a hilly green field with a blue sky above. A group of people also carrying bags walk in the distance. Above them a flock of white birds fly through the sky.

Fly Away Home

Driven from her nest, Little Bird crosses paths with other migrating animals, including humans, looking for a safe place to call home.

In a green border is the title is at the top in English, “My First Words in Nahuat.” On the left in Nahuat, “Tay naja nitajtaketzji achtu tik Nawat”. On the right in Spanish, “Mis primeras palabras en nahuat.” The authors’ names, Jorge Argueta and El Aleph Sanchez, are below, with “Yujyultawawasul, Poems, Poemas.” In the centre are three children with medium-dark skin tone in colourful crowns. Behind them stand two men with red skin tone, blue beards and black brows. In the background is a village.

Tay naja nitajtaketzki achtu tik Nawat / ‌Mis primeras palabras en nahuat / My First Words in Nahuat‌

A celebration of the Nahuat language and culture, presented as a collection of poems in Nahuat, Spanish and English, about growing up in the Salvadoran village of Witzapan.

One Goal: How Soccer Can Help Save the Planet. Heather Camlot and Drew Shannon. A boy with medium-dark skin tone, wearing a red soccer kit with black shorts, stands on a large green soccer field and winds up to kick the ball. Ahead of him, a girl with light skin tone and red hair in a ponytail, wearing the same uniform, runs toward the net where a goalkeeper in yellow stands. A crowd of people watch from the stands, andn image of the Earth, focused on North America and South America, hangs above them.

One Goal

A timely look at how soccer players, organizations, clubs and fans are taking action to do better for the planet.

West Coast Wild Seashore Hide and Seek. Written by Deborah Hodge and illustrated by Karen Reczuch. A watercolor illustration shows a white sandy beach at low tide with shallow tide pools scattered across the beach. Three black oystercatcher birds use their red beaks to peck around the tide pools, looking for food. A tide pool below one of the birds reveals green anemones, purple sea urchins and small rocks below.

West Coast Wild Seashore Hide and Seek

What seashore treasures can you find at low tide?

Book cover for “Every Space Between” by Naseem Hrab and John Martz. The cover is split in three sections: day, blank white space and night. On the left, a child with medium skin tone and straight black hair runs in daylight under a pale yellow sun. On the right, a white dog with black and brown spots and a red collar runs happily under a night sky filled with stars and a crescent moon. The large orange title text “EVERY SPACE BETWEEN” fills the space in the centre with the creator names below in light blue.

Every Space Between

Discover the hidden moments tucked between beginnings and endings, between actions and reactions, between you and me!

Grandma, Cho Cho and Me. By Morgan Christie and Paulica Santos. A young girl with dark skin tone and curly black hair in two buns wears a pink long-sleeve shirt with yellow dots under a blue apron. She looks up at her grandmother, who has her greying hair in a braided updo and wears a green collared long-sleeve shirt under a blue apron. Green chayote fruit and leaves fill the top of the page. The girl and her grandma have flowers in their hair and wrap hold several chayote fruit in their hands.

Grandma, Cho Cho and Me

Some families gather for big dinners, but in my house we feast at breakfast! As Grandma and I cook our favorite Jamaican dishes, I learn why that is.

The Quiet Hunt: A Poem for Young Foragers. By Jean E. Pendziwol and Risa Hugo. A young girl lays on a hill with her head in her hands, her wicker basket next to her. She has medium-light skin tone, short brown hair, brown eyes and her nails painted red. She wears a white baseball t-shirt with red sleeves, red high-top sneakers and a pink baseball cap with a smiling sun. She gazes at a cluster of mushrooms with brown rounded tops and white stems.

The Quiet Hunt

Follow the footsteps of our ancestors as they forage for food on the quiet hunt!

Taking Turns with Turtles

Taking Turns with Turtles

Follow a months-long journey and all of the human hands and hearts it takes to successfully rescue a cold-stunned turtle.

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