Today, we are celebrating the release of Laila Malik’s stunning debut poetry collection, archipelago! A ‘Most Anticipated’ Spring 2023 Poetry pick from CBC Books and 49th Shelf, archipelago meditates on girlhood, loss, and love as they play out across different continents and shifting emotional and political terrains. Quill and Quire writes, in archipelago “home is constantly in a state of flux. It exists in a […]
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Today’s book playlist was made by Laila Malik to complement her debut poetry collection, archipelago. The poems in archipelago intertwine histories of exile and ecological devastation. Beginning with a coming of age in the 80s and 90s between Canada, the Arabian Gulf, East Africa and Kashmir, they subvert conventions of lineage, instead drawing on the truths of […]
Continue readingNext up in our Spring 2023 Preview Series comes archipelago, Laila Malik’s lyrical debut poetry collection, which traces fragments of family, becoming and unbecoming against the shifting shorelines of loss, multigenerational migration, and (un)belonging. Malik’s lyrical poems intertwine histories of exile and ecological devastation. Beginning with a coming of age in the 80s and 90s between […]
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Happy New Year! Today, we are revealing our Spring 2023 lineup, featuring seven remarkable fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles! Read on for all the details, including on sale dates and pre-order information, plus an announcement about FREE SHIPPING on website orders! Spring 2023 Fiction Places Like These by Lauren Carter Literary Fiction | […]
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