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This toad is looking for work! Want a free way to enhance the vibes of your shop? Look no further! The Wandering Poem Dispensary is available and doesn't require much space, or vacation days.

We're looking for local businesses to partner with and folks interested in having us attend their events. Literary festivals/bookshops/vintage shops/ cafes/art galleries/ tattoo shops/book launches... There's really no bad place for a poem.

DM me if you're interested! We would love to add some whimsy and poetry to your space.
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Our very first Creative Non-Fiction Contest longlist is here!! Congratulations to these 10 writers! Stay tuned for the shortlist and winners next week along with the Issue 58 cover reveal (you get a sneak peak of the back cover here!) with art by Alena Weber and design by Graham Blair!

CNF CONTEST LONGLIST:
“From the hip” A-E Best
“My dog in sobriety” Berni Stapleton
“Distances” Safa Abu Sa
“Shredder” Francois Van Zyl
“Body of Water” Mieke DeVries
“Hiking Section 7 of the Lebanon Mountain Trail: A Guide” Luc Faris
“protostar” jael jean
“Remind me again” Molly Clarke
“Distance” Julia Wright
“Rosanna” Sally Cunningham

Artwork: Alena Webber, Virus (2025), digital illustration, 6in x 6in

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Small presses our customers are loving rn! 🌼

Multiple of our recent sales had books from:
@versobooks
@semiotexte
@repeaterbooks
@creaturepublishing
@ecwpress

Go check them out!! 💗

Plus, scroll to see some of their titles that we’ve recently sold. Click through to purchase them at 15% off 🥰📚

#indiebookstore #bookstagram #onlinebookstore

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July is Disability Pride Month! There is a rich world within disability poetics, and we are here with a few recommendations so you can dive in:

📖 Antibody (McClelland and Stewart) - Rebecca Salazar

📖 Attic Rain (NeWest Press) - Samantha Jones

📖 Bad Weather Mammals (ECW Press) - Ashley-Elizabeth Best

📖 Echolalia Echolalia (Brick Books) - Jane Shi

📖 Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press) - Courtney Bates-Hardy

Alt text: Slides 1-5 feature a hand holding the books listed in the caption one at a time with the covers visible in front of the poetry section at Perfect Books.

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The book chatter of the moment is all about the Chicago Sun-Times Summer Reading list. If you haven’t seen the news, the list turns out to be created by AI and includes mostly books that don’t exist. There’s fiction and then there’s fiction!

So here’s our Summer Reading List of Canadian titles, new and classic, that we promise exist, are worthy of your consideration, and are on our shelves waiting for you.

Margaret Atwood THE HANDMAID’S TALE and THE TESTAMENTS

Ashley-Elizabeth Best BAD WEATHER MAMMALS, POEMS

Brent Butt HUGE

Adrianna Chartrand AN ORDINARY VIOLENCE

Michael Christie GREENWOOD

Michael Crummey SWEETLAND

Nick Cutter THE TROOP

Marian Engel BEAR

Carley Fortune ONE GOLDEN SUMMER

Amal El-Mohtar THE RIVER HAS ROOTS

Mary Lawson CROW LAKE

Emily St. John Mandel STATION ELEVEN

Louise Penny STILL LIFE

Heather Smith TIG

Katie Tallo DARK AUGUST

Drew Hayden Taylor COLD.

Madeleine Thien THE BOOK OF RECORDS

Richard Wagamese MEDICINE WALK

Zoe Whittall NO CREDIT RIVER

#summerreadinglist

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All framed up: Our second season of broadsides designed by @mlstepanic & printed by @rabarbarpress!

If you missed picking one of these up at any of our events, you can find them for sale at the @agatha_press table at @oddbirdfair on May 9-11!

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Kingston! This'll be a great one! Please join us! Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Michael e. Casteels and me (channelling Dag T. Straumsvåg) together again for the very first time!

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March reading wrap up!!! 28 books!!! The most I’ve ever read in a month 🤩🫡

Clearly, with an average rating of 4.55, I had an incredible month of reading. I love books and I love the book community and I love all of y’all!!!!! That “I’ve lived a thousand lives through reading” quote is so true 🥹

Thank you to the tagged publishers for the gifted books and to the tagged authors for WRITING THESE MASTERPIECES 🥰🥰

#bookstagram #booklove

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These are the books I’ve read in the past week, minus a few ebooks, and I enjoyed each and every one of them 🥹‼️

In general, I’m pretty good at only picking up titles I’m confident I’ll enjoy reading. I think my average rating on GR is like 4.3 out of 5 stars 😅😭. I hope the abundance of positive reviews on my page doesn’t make me come off as ingenuine!

Thank you to the tagged publishers for the gifted copies 💗

I also read Feebleminded by @arianaharwiczw on Kobo+ and liked it a lot!!!!

Total count for the @transrightsreadathon as of right now: 3 books, all shown in this stack 🥰🏳️‍⚧️

#transrightsreadathon #bookstack #bookstagram #bookphotography

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February 2025 books read / audiobooks listened to! More Ishiguro, more poetry, more weird strange CanLit
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#embroidery #bookshelf #february2025

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Happy March! We hope you’re enjoying this lovely afternoon & will also join us in just over a week to enjoy a wonderful evening of poetry☀️ Please join us on Wednesday, March 19 from 7-8:30PM at Landon Library in Wortley Village as we welcome the incredible Ashley-Elizabeth Best (@capitatelikeahead) & Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang (@sarah_yi_mei) with local opener Michelle Owusu-Ansah (@mittypoems) 📚 Additional details & poet bios can be found on our website (link in bio)—we look forward to seeing you all there!

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I'm stoked for the next @antlerriverpoetry event on Wed March 19th, 2025 featuring poets @capitatelikeahead and @sarah_yi_mei, along with local opener @mittypoems! Come to Landon @londonlibrary (167 Wortley Road) at 7:00pm for a great evening of poetry!

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