Contemporary Canadian Literature with a Distinctly Urban Twist

Anvil Press

Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960

By John Belshaw & Diane Purvey

It was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and restrictions. Vancouver Noir provides a fascinating insight into life in the Terminal City, noir-style.

Lavishly illustrated with black & white archival photographs.

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Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award

Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival

By Caroline Adderson et al.

Based on the popular Facebook Page, Vancouver Vanishes is a collection of essays and photographs that together form a lament for, and celebration of, the vanishing character homes and apartments in the city.

Vancouver Vanishes includes essays from Caroline Adderson, Kerry Gold, John Atkin, Elise & Stephen Partridge, John Mackie, and Eve Lazarus as well as poems from Evelyn Lau and Bren Simmers. Introduction by Michael Kluckner.

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A Verse Map of Vancouver

By George McWhirter, Ed.

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Viral Suite

By Mari-Lou Rowley

Viral Suite explores our relationship with self, other, environment, space, and time. The sensual and the cerebral. How the we/here/now is evolving and mutating with each downloaded packet.

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Vs. (Finalist, Acorn-Plantos Award)

By Kerry Ryan

Throughout the collection the author reflects on what it means to be a woman and a fighter, as well as a poet and a fighter. But, ultimately, Vs. is about the fights we all face: brain vs. body, intention vs. action, perception vs. identity, who we are vs. who we want to be.

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What It Feels Like for a Girl

By Jennica Harper

What It Feels Like for a Girl is a book-length series of poems that tell the story of two teenage girls as they delve into the big, strange world of sex.

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Where Words Like Monarchs Fly: A cross-generational anthology of Mexican poets in translation

By George McWhirter

Where Words Like Monarchs Fly brings Mexican poetry to the fullness of its senses in English with all the music of the meaning, richness of metaphor and humour. It introduces Jose Emilio Pacheco, Gabriel Zaid, Homero Aridjis and Elsa Cross—born in the thirties and the forties—along with the fifties generation they have inspired.

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White Lie

By Clint Burnham

Part travelogue, part autofiction, part record of living under Western regimes that torture, kidnap, and murder its own citizens and those who wish to cross its borders, White Lie is a collection of super-short fictions.

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White Lung

By Grant Buday

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Whitetail Shooting Gallery

By Annette Lapointe

Whitetail Shooting Gallery, a new novel from award-winning author and Giller Prize nominee, Annette Lapointe, is set in the outer urban, often desolate, landscape of the Saskatchewan prairie.

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