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From critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated poet Canisia Lubrin comes her highly anticipated new collection, Bright Machine.In Bright Machine, Canisia Lubrin gives poetic scrutiny to the legacy of human intelligence put in service of ruin. Using the fragmented music of Morse code, this poem tussles with the evolution of warcraft and the possibility for cohabitation. The result is a book of chimeric monologues using an invented form Lubrin calls the tesseract—a poem of sixteen lines, shaped in the logic of the mathematical cube—four stanzas: 4 lines + 5 lines + 6 lines + 1 line.Addressing the myth of the developed world and its heirs and casualties, the poet names key weapons that guarantee(d) the rise and successes of ancient and modern empires. Lubrin reckons with the saga of civilization as the story of weapons history and its emissaries’ expansive appetites for recasting conquest and mass killing. Bright Machine is, all at once, heartening, urgent poetry for a turbulent world.

Winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature • Winner of the Raymound Souster Award • Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry • Named a Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2025 by CBC Books • Longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award “How incandescent the language is, each line emitting light through the membrane of time and anticipated grief. The work has a rigorousness, the poet pushing through the ache of experience from the first to the last word.”—Dionne Brand In her signature epic vision, Canisia Lubrin distills a radiant elegy for her mother along an interwoven and unresolvable axis of astonishment, belonging as much to history as to today. Grief, tender and searing, is the channel through which the poet refracts the realm of contemporary life to reveal the blistering paradox of its private and public entanglements. This is poetry of haunting gravity and resonance, with meditations on love, time, and loss, at once meticulously far-seeing, interior, and inexpressible.woman from fine-print time, disclose to the world:        the forecast of our noontime births outdoors; how I distrustevery form of authority, chiefly my own astonishment        this poisoned wish is why I love, I bow to deserts,these claychildren of forests everywhere          I love the rain, this is no secret, I love the solar wind;  hold their elliptical life in the wasteland of our third mouths        where flowers are invisible and bones are sanded and amusing,and every heliopause cloud senses our head, how we astonish        our memories vining where no shade is enough,since many who’ll feed me will refuse me their names,        and good, who knows what bargains I would makewith their meanings, more bundles of thyme . . .        tournaments of family recipes with you at my question,

This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by celebrating the best emerging Black writers in the country, as selected by a jury comprising internationally acclaimed, award-winning writers David Chariandy, Esi Edugyan, and Canisia Lubrin.  An eagle-eyed mother and a hungry child contend with the aftereffects of an unusual multi-course meal. Both the debts of the past and the promise of the future hover over two siblings as they debate what to do with an unexpected windfall. A pesky but beloved baboon looms large in the memory of a daughter whose family has been forced to move to a new town. Unclear boundaries and cheerful hypocrisy dominate a woman’s whirlwind romance with a photographer. A schoolgirl contends with complicated emotions as she awaits the return of her long-absent mother. News of a hunter’s death reverberates throughout his family, travelling across oceans and phonelines to trouble his cousin’s already-shaky relationship. An office worker joins a lost grandmother on an unexpected pilgrimage. After years away, a woman journeys back to Jamaica—and back to the sister who refused to leave with her—stirring up insecurities, laughter, and wounds unhealed by time. All the instructions in the world cannot protect a family from the impacts of grief. The only Black girls in school experiment with what it means to be a lady when you’re not yet a woman.

Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas. The fourth annual ALCHEMY LECTURE features award-winning fiction writers, a lauded scholar, and a prize-winning musician in an astonishing, immersive investigation of the meaning of sound in this moment in the world's soundtrack.Sound—at the Interregnum asks: What are the sounds you make? What are the sounds you want to make? What are the sounds you need to make? What are the sounds you need to leave to a world on the cusp of becoming something else?    At the interregnum we meet oligarchs and fascists and manufactured crises of housing, ongoing genocides and displacements, extraordinary renditions, the takeover of universities and a deepening anti-intellectualism, the militarization of public space, the shrinking of the commons, the use of sonic weapons (LRADs-Long Range Acoustic Device), the complicit silences of mainstream media, and the refusal by those who have taken power to make a world in which everyone’s needs are met. Their sounds of avarice, capital accumulation, and immiseration do not enter the world uncontested. Sound is also key to life. There are the sounds of protest, of living and witness, of anthems and ululation, of chants and keening, noise of all kinds, blue notes, ghost notes, high notes—which also take us over as vibration, energy, atmosphere, and breath itself.     Alchemists Glen Coulthard (political theorist), Canisia Lubrin (poet), Madeleine Thien (novelist), and Immanuel Wilkins (saxophonist) are acclaimed thinkers, fiction writers, poets, and musicians who in these pages have produced, reproduced, blown out, and made something counter to the sounds of the world at this interregnum--this period of great danger, and also great possibility.

‘How incandescent the language is, each line emitting light through the membrane of time and anticipated grief. The work has a rigorousness, the poet pushing through the ache of experience from the first to the last word.’ Dionne BrandIn her signature epic vision, Canisia Lubrin distills a radiant elegy for her mother along an interwoven and unresolvable axis of astonishment, belonging as much to history as to today. Grief, tender and searing, is the channel through which the poet refracts the realm of contemporary life to reveal the paradox of its private and public entanglements. This is poetry of haunting gravity and resonance, with meditations on love, time, and loss, at once meticulously far-seeing, interior and inexpressible.

'A revelation... Lubrin is one of the finest writers and thinkers of our time.' Maaza Mengiste'Code Noir is storytelling at its deepest and most intimate.' Dionne Brand* Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize * A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024 ***A dazzling political tour de force from multi-award-winning author Canisia LubrinThe original Code Noir was an infamous set of fifty-nine decrees passed by King Louis XIV. The Code enforced strict rules governing the lives of slaves in the French colonies for over a hundred years. Canisia Lubrin's stunning debut brings together fifty-nine linked fictions, riffing on the historical to take an electrifying new look at the present day.Interspersed with original black-and-white drawings by acclaimed visual artist Torkwase Dyson, this inventive, shape-shifting braid of narratives ranges from contemporary reality to unexpected dystopia, futuristic fantasy to historical adventure. Linked by the determination of individuals to look beyond official decrees, beyond the ruins of the past, and to create meaning – and freedom – for themselves, the fictions of Code Noir combine immense literary and political force in unforgettable, multi-layered fragments.

Winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction * Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers'' Trust Fiction Prize * A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024 Groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from an award-winning poet, perfect for fans of Ocean Vuong and Tommy Orange ''Code Noir'': an infamous set of real historical decrees passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France, defining the conditions of slavery in the French empire. The original code had fifty-nine articles; Canisia Lubrin''s stunning debut brings together fifty-nine linked fictions in a rare and highly original work of art that riffs on its historical antecedent. Complemented by line-drawings by renowned visual artist Torkwase Dyson, Code Noir has taken the Canadian literary world by storm and won multiple awards. Ranging from contemporary realism to dystopian literature, futuristic fantasy to historical adventure, these stories are all linked by their characters'' determination to live beyond the enclosure of official decrees, beyond the ruins of the past. ''A revelation... Lubrin is one of the finest writers and thinkers of our time.'' Maaza Mengiste ''Code Noir is storytelling at its deepest and most intimate.'' Dionne Brand

In Bright Machine, international award-winning poet Canisia Lubrin re-frames the history of civilisation as one of arms race, where human ingenuity is put in service of destruction and intelligence is weaponised against life.Adopting the fragmented rhythms of Morse Code to score this book-length poem, and forging a new poetic form called ‘the tesseract’, Lubrin uses the music and geometry of industrial modernity to reckon with the myths of the developed world, its instruments of ruin, its heirs and casualties. In doing so, she echoes the famous William Carlos Williams adage, ‘a poem is a small (or large) machine made of words’.Written during the years where major armed conflicts ignited in Sudan, Ukraine, Palestine, Venezuela and Iran, Bright Machine is a lightning rod for all that is elided from the triumphant narrative of empires and asks if we can imagine another way of co-habitation. Epic and dazzling in scale, tender and urgent in voice, Bright Machine is the collection for our turbulent times, a song pulled from the noise.