Palimpsest Press
Showing results 1-16 of 69
Filter Results OPEN +
Most of All the Wanting
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293733
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
How do we speak what feels unspeakable?Exploring the landscape of grief in the wake of divorce, Most of All the Wanting is a treatise on intimacy in the face of change. Throughout, Amanda Merpaw’s...
In the Key of Decay
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293719
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Triangulated against the backdrop of a deteriorating world, In the Key of Decay pushes past borders both real and imagined to attend to those failed by history. Attuned to scientific racism, systemic...
Ghost Work
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293627
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
How do we redefine the self when memory begins to deteriorate?
This question is at the heart of Ghost Work, a suite of poems that explores a son?s gradual loss of his father from dementia. In compassionate, well-crafted pantoums, triolets, ghazals, and sonnets, Rob Colman probes family connection, digging into the liminal space memory preserves between our natural and built environments. Ghost Work is at once a tribute to a lost family member, and a testament to the fragility of the human condition.
Precedented Parroting
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293641
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian. Praised as ?lively and intelligent? and ?lyrically delicious,? Barbara Tran?s poetry offers us both the keen eye and grace of a hawk, ?red-tailed gliding / on time.?
Anomia
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293757
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
In Euphoria, a small, fictional town that feels displaced in time and space, an affluent but isolated couple have vanished from their suburban home. Their estranged friend, Fir, a local video store...
Apples on a Windowsill
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293665
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Apples on the Windowsill is a series of meditations on still life, photography, beauty, and marriage. Full of personal reflections, charming anecdotes, and the history behind the art of still lifes, this lyrical memoir takes us from Edmonton to Rome to museums all over North America as Lemay discusses the craft of writing, the ups and downs of being married to a painter, and her focus on living a life in art and in beauty. A must read for fans of The Flower Can Always Be Changing, Everything Affects Everyone, and Rumi and the Red Handbag.
Sacrifice of the Sisters Lot
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293566
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
In 1988, 12-year-old Emery is looking forward to spending the summer cooling off in the sprinkler, escaping the boredom of church, and begging her parents for a kitten. Instead, she discovers a powerful entity lurking within the walls of the familys home. The eerie vibrations in the wall grant Emery and her three sisters whatever they desire; from fresh lipstick and new boyfriends, to revenge against a local predator. All the while, her parents impose an increasingly bizarre set of rules and rituals intended to keep the sisters safe. After the disappearance of their parents, the sisterss uncle, a disgraced TV faith healer, and domineering grandmother move in, forcing the girls to create real miracles, unaware of the apocalyptic threat posed to the entire town. An exploration of the powerful bonds of sisterhood, The Sacrifice of the Sisters Lot is a riveting tale of love, betrayal and sacrifice.
The Blood of Five Rivers
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293580
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
The Blood of Five Rivers tells the story of a young man named Kaka, born and raised in a small, rural farming village in the Indian province of Punjab. Seizing on a unique opportunity to leave India, and to seek his fortunes abroad, Kaka is catapulted into a journey in which he becomes an unwitting witness to some of the most significant historical events in the latter half of the 20th century, many of which leave an indelible mark on him.
Book of Benjamin
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293603
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Like an obsessive baby name book with only one entry, The Book of Benjamin establishes links between identity, birth, and grief. Braiding the story of his stillborn sister with the Biblical account of Benjamin to explore how names and their etymologies might shape our self-understanding, Benjamin Robinson resists the traditional individual focus of the memoir, while also investigating new forms of masculinity. The Book of Benjamin is the testament of both a son and a father, contrasting genealogy with larger communal narratives.
Soft Inheritance
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293528
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory. Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Soft Inheritance follows the poet's rapidly evolving reality where kindness is a scar, though not all scar-makers are kind. ," Both a treatise on the sick body and the state of "afterpost-caretaking, post-breakup, post-moving, and post-deaththese poems question what is inherited, and ask what can safely be left behind. A diamond ring? A cancerous gene? Soft Inheritance is a finely crafted love letter to the people and places that imprint on a life.
G
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293542
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
G is a sound. Phonetically, it is represented as [?]and corresponds to ? in the Arabic alphabeta guttural resonance shared between Afrikaans and Persian. Hinging on this mutual fricative sonically prominent in their respective languages, and a playful inclusion of homonyms across English, Afrikaans, and Persian, Klara du Plessis and Khashayar Kess Mohammadi composed G collaboratively in a shared Google document, an act of hospitality into their languages. Amplifying common etymologies, but centering communication beyond the delimitation of verbal systems, this work stages a conceptual project of human interconnection through the metaphors of tongue, speech, and poetry as sound. G builds on both poets? earlier translingual and translation work, including du Plessis? award-winning Ekke and Mohammadis Me, You, Then Snow.
Fire Monster
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781990293375
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Set in a fictional version of the real Main-à-Dieu, Nova Scotia, where a 1976 wildfire caused catastrophic devastation, The Fire Monster, tells the tale of a skilled oil sands worker who returns to the Cape Breton fishing village where, as a child, he was blamed for causing the fire that tore through the local community, consuming bush, trees, houses, boats, cars, animals and the century-old gothic church.
Discipline n.v.
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781990293498
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Discipline n. v. is a lyric memoir that fuses poetry and academic theory, speaking to the metaphorical power of humanities scholarship.
The Suspect We
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781990293405
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
In The Suspect We, Roxanna Bennett and Shane Neilson collaborate to make a documentary poetics concerning pandemic conditions for the mad, neurodivergent, and disabled.
A Devil Every Day
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781990293467
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Through a kaleidoscope of philosophy, critical theory, and folk theology, A Devil Every Day, surveys the terrain where white Western culture blends into pure evil. Twisting into aphorisms, inner dialogues, and incantations, John Nyman:s poems are caught between complacency and a disquieting agnosticism, contemplating the problematic pleasures and unremarkable monstrosities of the contemporary West. Ultimately, A Devil Every Day asks: what hope is there for personal integrity in a radically moralizing future?
Swans
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781990293436
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Michelle Brown&146;s second book of poetry, Swans, begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age fable by closing time.
Most of All the Wanting
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293733
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
In the Key of Decay
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293719
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Ghost Work
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293627
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
How do we redefine the self when memory begins to deteriorate?
This question is at the heart of Ghost Work, a suite of poems that explores a son?s gradual loss of his father from dementia. In compassionate, well-crafted pantoums, triolets, ghazals, and sonnets, Rob Colman probes family connection, digging into the liminal space memory preserves between our natural and built environments. Ghost Work is at once a tribute to a lost family member, and a testament to the fragility of the human condition.
Precedented Parroting
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293641
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian. Praised as ?lively and intelligent? and ?lyrically delicious,? Barbara Tran?s poetry offers us both the keen eye and grace of a hawk, ?red-tailed gliding / on time.?
Anomia
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293757
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Apples on a Windowsill
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293665
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Apples on the Windowsill is a series of meditations on still life, photography, beauty, and marriage. Full of personal reflections, charming anecdotes, and the history behind the art of still lifes, this lyrical memoir takes us from Edmonton to Rome to museums all over North America as Lemay discusses the craft of writing, the ups and downs of being married to a painter, and her focus on living a life in art and in beauty. A must read for fans of The Flower Can Always Be Changing, Everything Affects Everyone, and Rumi and the Red Handbag.
Sacrifice of the Sisters Lot
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293566
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
In 1988, 12-year-old Emery is looking forward to spending the summer cooling off in the sprinkler, escaping the boredom of church, and begging her parents for a kitten. Instead, she discovers a powerful entity lurking within the walls of the familys home. The eerie vibrations in the wall grant Emery and her three sisters whatever they desire; from fresh lipstick and new boyfriends, to revenge against a local predator. All the while, her parents impose an increasingly bizarre set of rules and rituals intended to keep the sisters safe. After the disappearance of their parents, the sisterss uncle, a disgraced TV faith healer, and domineering grandmother move in, forcing the girls to create real miracles, unaware of the apocalyptic threat posed to the entire town. An exploration of the powerful bonds of sisterhood, The Sacrifice of the Sisters Lot is a riveting tale of love, betrayal and sacrifice.
The Blood of Five Rivers
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293580
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
The Blood of Five Rivers tells the story of a young man named Kaka, born and raised in a small, rural farming village in the Indian province of Punjab. Seizing on a unique opportunity to leave India, and to seek his fortunes abroad, Kaka is catapulted into a journey in which he becomes an unwitting witness to some of the most significant historical events in the latter half of the 20th century, many of which leave an indelible mark on him.
Book of Benjamin
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293603
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Like an obsessive baby name book with only one entry, The Book of Benjamin establishes links between identity, birth, and grief. Braiding the story of his stillborn sister with the Biblical account of Benjamin to explore how names and their etymologies might shape our self-understanding, Benjamin Robinson resists the traditional individual focus of the memoir, while also investigating new forms of masculinity. The Book of Benjamin is the testament of both a son and a father, contrasting genealogy with larger communal narratives.
Soft Inheritance
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293528
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory. Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Soft Inheritance follows the poet's rapidly evolving reality where kindness is a scar, though not all scar-makers are kind. ," Both a treatise on the sick body and the state of "afterpost-caretaking, post-breakup, post-moving, and post-deaththese poems question what is inherited, and ask what can safely be left behind. A diamond ring? A cancerous gene? Soft Inheritance is a finely crafted love letter to the people and places that imprint on a life.
G
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781990293542
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
G is a sound. Phonetically, it is represented as [?]and corresponds to ? in the Arabic alphabeta guttural resonance shared between Afrikaans and Persian. Hinging on this mutual fricative sonically prominent in their respective languages, and a playful inclusion of homonyms across English, Afrikaans, and Persian, Klara du Plessis and Khashayar Kess Mohammadi composed G collaboratively in a shared Google document, an act of hospitality into their languages. Amplifying common etymologies, but centering communication beyond the delimitation of verbal systems, this work stages a conceptual project of human interconnection through the metaphors of tongue, speech, and poetry as sound. G builds on both poets? earlier translingual and translation work, including du Plessis? award-winning Ekke and Mohammadis Me, You, Then Snow.
Fire Monster
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781990293375
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Set in a fictional version of the real Main-à-Dieu, Nova Scotia, where a 1976 wildfire caused catastrophic devastation, The Fire Monster, tells the tale of a skilled oil sands worker who returns to the Cape Breton fishing village where, as a child, he was blamed for causing the fire that tore through the local community, consuming bush, trees, houses, boats, cars, animals and the century-old gothic church.
Discipline n.v.
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781990293498
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Discipline n. v. is a lyric memoir that fuses poetry and academic theory, speaking to the metaphorical power of humanities scholarship.
The Suspect We
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781990293405
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
In The Suspect We, Roxanna Bennett and Shane Neilson collaborate to make a documentary poetics concerning pandemic conditions for the mad, neurodivergent, and disabled.
A Devil Every Day
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781990293467
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Swans
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781990293436
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Palimpsest Press
Michelle Brown&146;s second book of poetry, Swans, begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age fable by closing time.