Fighting the Good Fight Bundle

This poetry bundle includes:

Bear Bones & Feathers by Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer
In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and 2021-22 National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. This is an astonishingly vivid account of residential school experiences that every Canadian should read.

Moldovan Hotel by Leah Horlick
In 2017, Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism to neofascisms, genocide in Romania to land grabs in Palestine, women’s lives in farming villages to queer lives in the city, language to its trap doors, and love to its hidden, ancestral obligations. “A prayer for a better world, built not on burying old crimes, but on looking closely to see the truth of the past and to expose it so that it cannot poison the future.” —2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award jury citation

Tell: poems from a girlhood by Soraya Peerbaye
Harrowing and deeply empathetic, these poems trace the events surrounding the 1997 murder of teenager Reena Virk by a group of high school classmates, rendered with extraordinary care. “The true miracle of Tell is not merely its choice to sing of such things, but its ability to sing in such a way as to urge the reader to embrace painful sympathies.” — Griffin Poetry Prize jury citation