Assembly Press – serie

A lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear.In Relative to Wind, Phoebe Wang delivers a poetic rendering of her decade-long journey of learning to sail and a deep dive into what it means to be a newcomer to an old tradition. From working along­side crewmates in tempestuous conditions to becoming an avid racer and organizer to drafting a wistful love letter to a Wayfarer dinghy—while examining the loose tether between sailing and a creative life—Wang delivers a book for sailors and would-be sailors that is thoughtful and surprising at every tack."A thoughtful, illuminating look at life away from land."—Kirkus

Shortlisted for the 2026 Lansdowne Prize for PoetryWinner of the 2026 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book PrizePoems that retrace unconscious lines of thought and flight to write a new history of the tar sandsTracing words the way a tracker moves across land,Goose collects hand-copied details from Northland Trails, abook of self-illustrated short stories, poems, and essays about theAthabasca region authored by “father of the tar sands” S. C. Ells.At turns cheeky, sharp-witted, and grave, Melanie Dennis Unrau’spoems explore extraction and the relationship between humans, non-humans, and the land, resulting in an act of irreverent, deconstructiveliterary criticism.

A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetryDo It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity.It’s a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do the counter-intuitive thing, to embrace the weird.It's a guidebook designed to bring poets together, to question our assumptions, and to move past the “business as usual” educational models into the new, the strange, and the “wrong.”And it's a playful, purposeful contribution toward the building of stronger, more resilient writing communities.For readers of Beth Pickens’s Make Your Art No Matter What and Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, Derek Beaulieu distills 20 years of experience teaching creative writing into a joyfully mischievous manifesto on how to write and teach poetry with meaning.

Experimental visual and prose poems that reimagine Greco-Roman mythology through a feminist lens. The poems in Whispering Gallery explore the tensions between analog and digital poetics, language, and materiality. Each poem, first typed on a typewriter and then digitally manipulated, is named for a female or feminine figure (wives, daughters, monsters, mothers, muses) stalled, subdued, or caught in moments of suspension rather than heroic resolution. Paired prose poems translate these mythic figures into contemporary, intimate registers, tracing the quiet violences, care, and survival that shape lived experience. Drawing on personal and domestic ephemera (thread, spice, old print artifacts), the collection explores repetition, distortion, and persistence as formal and thematic tools. Equal parts intimate diary, scholarly engagement, and playful experimentation, Whispering Gallery offers myth as a site of shared vulnerability, radical care, and connection.