Reading List
Get a head start on the V125PC by checking out these fine books that are available for sale at People’s Co-op Bookstore on Commercial Drive.
In most cases we have listed each author’s two most recent books.
Mother Time: Poems New & Selected (Ronsdale / LPG, 2007)
Steepy Mountain: love poetry (Kegedonce / LPG, 2004)
The Islands: a translation co-written with Louis Cotnoir (Walsak & Wynn, 2011)
Expeditions of a Chimæra, co-written with Erín Moure (BookThug, 2009)
feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008)
Methodist Hatchet (Anansi, 2011)
Airstream Land Yacht (Anansi, 2006)
God of Missed Connections (Nightwood, 2009)
Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood, 2006)
The Id Kid (Vehicule, 2011)
The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar Press, 2009)
The Obvious Flap, co-written with Gary Barwin (BookThug, 2011)
Eunoia (Coach House, 2001)
Crystallography (Coach House, 1994)
A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth (Brick Books, 2011)
Pavilion (McClelland & Stewart, 2002)
declining America (BookThug, 2009)
Finding Ft. George (Caitlin Press, 2007)
The Irrationalist (Carnarium, 2010)
Past Imperfect (Anansi, 2005)
The Only Poetry that Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (Arsenal Pulp, 2011)
The Benjamin Sonnets (BookThug, 2009)
i-ROBOT (Tesseract/EDGE, 2006)
Canada Post (Snare, 2006)
On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010)
Anarchive (New Star, 2005)
After Canaan (Arsena Pulp, 2010)
The 49th Parallel Psalm (Arsena Pulp, 2002)
The Good Life (Nightwood, 2002)
The Inquisition Yours (Coach House, 2010)
Hagiography (Coach House, 2008)
Windstorm (Nightwood, 2009)
Flux (Nightwood, 2003)
Transnational Muscle Cars (Talonbooks, 2003)
Dwell (Talonbooks, 1993)
Cartography and Walking (Brick Books, 2002)
Kingdom, Phylum (Brick Books, 2006)
Crabwise to the Hounds (Coach House, 2008)
FAQ (Ahsahta Press, 2009)
Dead Ahead (Fence Books, 2010)
Oriflamme (Ahsahta Press, 2005)
Chora (Ahsahta Press, 2010)
Basmati Brown (Nightwood, 2000)
Ragas from the Periphery (Arsenal Pulp, 1995)
The Trouble Ball (Norton, 2011)
Alabanza: New and Selected Poems (1982–2002) (Norton, 2004)
Indexical Elegies (Coach House, 2010)
Stripmalling (ECW, 2009)
A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People (Coach House, 2011)
outskirts (Brick Books, 2011)
The True Names of Birds (Brick Books, 1998)
Undone (Brick Books, 2004)
What If Red Ran Out (Goose Lane, 2008)
Match (Coach House, 2011)
Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007)
Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004)
Patient Frame (Anansi, 2010)
Address Book (Anansi, 2004)
Hydrologos (Pedlar, 2011 [forthcoming])
Come and See: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)
The Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2007)
On the Ground (Graywolf Press, 2004)
Selected Poems (University of California Press, 2000)
Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon (Nightwood, 2010)
Anthropy (Nightwood, 2004)
Other People’s Lives (Brick Books, 2009)
Unfamiliar Weather (Muses’ Company, 2005)
Red Nest (Nightwood, 2009)
N 49 19. 47 – W 123 8. 11 (PILLS, 2008)
Courage, My Love (Line Books, 2006)
Killarnoe (M&S, 2007)
A Strange Relief (M&S, 2001)
Automaton Biographies (Arsenal Pulp, 2009)
sybil unrest, co-written with Rita Wong(LINEBooks, 2008)
Intimate Distances (Nightwood, 2002)
Enter the Chrysanthemum (Caitlin, 2009)
Living Under Plastic (Oolichan, 2010)
Treble (Raincoast, 2006)
Counterfeit (Capilano University Editions, 2008)
Bloom (Anansi, 2010)
Buffet World (New Star, 2011)
Æthel (New Star, 2007)
Sitcom (Coach House, 2007)
Hamburger Valley California (ECW, 2001)
Strike/Slip (M&S, 2006)
Another Gravity (M&S, 2000)
Embouchure (Nightwood, 2011)
esp : accumulation sonnets (BookThug, 2009)
Other Poems (Nightwood, 2010)
9 Freight (LINEbooks 2007)
Thresh (Snare Books 2009)
Discovery Passages (Talonbooks, 2011)
After Jack (Talonbooks, 2010)
Death in Vancouver (Talonbooks, 2009)
Rebuild (Talonbooks, 2011)
Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks, 2008)
Glimpse (ECW, 2010)
The Rush to Here (Nightwood, 2007)
Triage (Talonbooks, 2011)
Domain (Anansi, 2007)
The Gladys Elegies (Coteau, 1997)
McPoems (Arsenal Pulp, 2009)
The Asthmatic Glassblower (Arsenal Pulp, 2000)
Chameleon Hours (University of Chicago, 2008)
Fielder’s Choice (Vehicule, 2002)
Curious Masonry (Gaspereau, 2011)
Ox (Vehicule, 2008)
Harbour (Oolichan, 2009)
The Aviary (Oolichan, 2006)
Inventory (Anvil, 2009)
Anatomy of Keys (Brick Books, 2006)
Recipes from the Red Planet (BookThug 2010)
Nightmarker (NeWest 2008)
Matter (BookThug 2008)
A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno (Anansi, 2011)
Living Things (Nightwood, 2008)
Voyager (University of California, 2011)
Facts for Visitors (University of California, 2004)
[sic] (Frontenac House, 2010)
Err (Nightwood, 2011)
The Bindery (NeWest, 2007)
Notes on Arrival and Departure (M&S, 2009)
Giving My Body to Science (MQUP, 1999)
Blert (Coach House, 2008)
Silt (New Star, 2005)
Inter Alia (Brick Books, 2005)
Deepwater Vee (M&S, 2010)
Breaker (Brick Books, 2008)
The Drunken Lovely Bird (Goose Lane Editions, 2005)
This Way Out (Gaspereau, 2009)
The New Canon (Vehicule, 2005)
A Lover’s Quarrel (Porcupine’s Quill, 2004)
Light Sweet Crude, co-written with Nancy Shaw (LINEBooks, 2008)
Busted (Coach House, 2001)
language is not the only thing that breaks (Arsenal Pulp, 2011)
In Our Own Voices: Learning and Teaching Toward Decolonisation (Larkuma Press, Winnipeg, 2006).
The Human Shore (Harbour, 2006)
House Built of Rain (Harbour, 2003)
Earworm (Nightwood, 2011)
Every Inadequate Name (Insomniac Press, 2006)
Ogress Oblige (Krupskaya, 2001)
Seven into Even (ECW, 2006)
Careful (ECW, 2003)
Kingsway (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Company Town (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Hard Feelings (Snare, 2010)
Update, co-written with Bill Kennedy (Snare, 2011)
the tapeworm foundry (Anansi, 2000)
NICHOLODEON: a book of lowerglyphs (Coach House, 1998)
soft geography (Caitlin, 2007)
Autopsy of a Turvy World (Frontenac House, 2008)
Re:Zoom (Frontenac House, 2005)
The Chimney Stone (Nightwood, 2010)
Muybridge’s Horse (Nightwood, 2007)
sybil unrest, co-written with Larissa Lai (LineBooks, 2008)
forage (Nightwood, 2007)
Come on All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon, 2010)
The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006)
American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002)
