by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
Buzzkill Clamshell Amber DawnPublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Book Description As a novelist, memoirist, and poet, Amber Dawn regularly lays her heart bare in work that is fiery, raw, and intensely personal. In Buzzkill Clamshell, her third poetry collection, Amber Dawn...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
Devotional Forensics Joseph KidneyPublisher: icehouse poetry/Gooselane Editions Book Description With dazzling wit and brittle tenderness, multi-award-winning poet Joseph Kidney catches all in his highly anticipated debut collection. Kidney’s rich, innovative imagery...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
Boxing in the Bone Orchard Bruce McRaePublisher: Frontenac House Ltd. Book Description A paean to life, death, and everything in between, Boxing in the Bone Orchard is a sly, black-humoured take on post-modern absurdities. Peppered with surreal abstractions, McRae’s...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
The Book of Z Rahat KurdPublisher: Talonbooks Book Description The Book of Z reconsiders mystical possibilities – above all, longing for divine union – found by poets within scriptural language. For a thousand years the story of Zulaykha – “the wife of Aziz” in the...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2026
The Inferno Lorna GoodisonPublisher: Véhicule Press Book Description “Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state.” So begins Lorna Goodison’s astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once described...
