'This is not another book about Louis Riel. It is much better.'

We continue celebrating National Poetry Month with an excerpt Patrick Grace’s poem “Therefore”, which you can find in his staggering new collection, Deviant, published by University of Alberta Press and available wherever books are sold.

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'There has always been a sonic quality to Christakos’ poetics... and this work takes that to a further intensity.' Thanks, Wanda Praamsma & Toronto Star, for this excellent profile of Margaret Christakos and THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE.
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“DEVIANT deftly and with heartbreaking tenderness explores the beauty, yearning, grief, and boundless cycles of discovery involved in queer realization.” Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin
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Tomorrow is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! Check out your local indie on Saturday, April 27.
It is always an adventure to walk through those doors. Plus, you're advocating for independent businesses and investing in Canadian culture.
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#CIBD @wereadab

Our PhD intern says, 'My interesting time at University of Alberta Press has come to an end. Goodbye is hard to say! But I am not leaving the world of publishing, editing, and writing behind. That, I can say, is a permanent destiny!'
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We are incredibly pleased to have published two selected titles in the AUPresses 📚 Book, Jacket, & Journal Show. Congratulations to our own Alan Brownoff as well as cover designers Michel Vrana & Natalie Olsen. And thanks to the AUPresses Design jurors.

Patrick Grace’s DEVIANT makes important contributions to queer coming-of-age and intimate partner violence narratives.
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Poetry Foundation River Street Writing #cdnlit

INDIGENOUS LEGALITIES, PIPELINE VISCOSITIES examines the friction that Wet’suwet’en territorial claims have presented to settler extractivism, specifically focusing on the struggle over the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project.
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#envhum Gender, Place and Culture

In THE RIEL PROBLEM, Albert Braz discusses how the former “rebel” Riel was translated into a “Canadian” figure in the years since the Second World War through key artistic representations and details the stories behind them.
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BACS #Métis

Check out the books being honoured in the 2024 Atlantic Book Awards! 49thshelf.com/Lists/Members/… Nimbus Publishing Goose Lane Editions UAlberta Press Brick Books ECW Press Atlantic Books Today Atlantic Book Awards

hey! im hosting the UAlberta Press zoom poetry launch tonight! full-length poetry debuts by Patrick Grace + Dawn Macdonald, + a new title by Margaret Christakos! you should join us! 5pm MT/7pm ET / League of Canadian Poets Griffin Poetry Prize Academy of American Poets poetry in canada ;
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Out now: DEVIANT, Patrick Grace’s debut poetry collection, explores aspects of love, fear, and trauma that represent a personal queer identity.
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#queer #canlit #poetry #canadianpoetry #PoetryMonth

THE CANCER PLOT will appeal to humanities scholars, especially cultural and literary theorists and health humanities scholars, as well as to avid comic book readers.
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AFMC Bellevue Literary Review The BMJ Lochlann Jain #superheroes #comics

THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE by Margaret Christakos is an intriguing and probing work of sound-illuminated poems.
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#ecocriticism #contemporary #feminisms #experimental #lyric Margaret Christakos

“Are you listening? I was still a boy.” – in Patrick Grace’s debut collection DEVIANT, dreamlike poems embrace adolescent queer love and connection to temper the fear and cruelty of gay relationships.
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Virtual reading April 24: bit.ly/3TMX0Id

The poems in NORTHERNY respond to the question: Who decides what counts as Northern art? And must it involve a moose?
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#canadianpoetry #Arctic #Subarctic Up Here Magazine @reviewnorthern

Saturday afternoon, April 27, come to the Local Publishers Spotlight featuring editors from UAlberta Press, The Bolo Tie Collective, Funicular Magazine, and hungryzine.

Readings, Q&A with editors, and snacks!
Part of Edmonton Poetry Festival 2024.
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Michelle Lobkowicz

Patrick Grace, managing editor for @plenitudemag, releases his first full-length collection: DEVIANT, a #queer trajectory of fear, love, grief, and violence among gay men. Get your copy today.
30% off with code iP24.
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#poetry #yvrauthor #PoetryMonth

Woo hoo! NORTHERNY is on the move on Amazon.
#14 in Nature Poems
#25 in Canadian Poetry (Books)
#65 in Poetry by Women

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