2024 Poetry Collection

Gay Girl Prayers
by Emily Austin

With sass, reverence, and affirmation, this books uplifts queer, feminist, and trans realities, inviting readers into a giddy celebration of difference and a tender appreciation of life.

impact statement
by Jody Chan

As poet Cecily Nicholson says, through its questions around what is care, what is madness, and what is grief, “This book is reaching for you.”

Dayo
by Marc Perez

This book asks what curiosity, tenaciousness, and belonging mean for a wandering spirit. “…Great poetry re-creates the world,” poet Wayde Compton says, “and Perez’s world is here.”

South Side of a Kinless River
by Marilyn Dumont

Poems delving into the contributions and wisdoms of Indigenous women while exploring Métis identity, land loss, sexual relationships between Indigenous women and European men, and midwifery by Indigenous women of nascent settler communities. A not-to-be-missed new collection from the author of A Really Good Brown Girl.

Heliotropia
by Manahil Bandukwala

“Love is worth loving,” say the poems in Heliotropia, worth turning toward as a sunflower turns to the sun, worth meditating on in earthly times of upheaval. As poet Mikko Harvey says, “these poems are curious, heartfelt, joy-filled expeditions.”

echolalia echolalia
by Jane Shi

Author Rebecca Salazar says it beautifully: echolalia echolalia is “an anthem for the chronically ill and chronically online.” Here are playful and transformative narratives of friendship and estrangement, survival and self-forgiveness.

DADDY
by Jake Byrne

A powerful look at patriarchy, intergenerational trauma, and queer desire.