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Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a ...
Notes to Belonging
Now in its first American edition, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influentia...
A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers estab...
A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision course. This compact tour de force affirms Dionne B...
Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics
Brand turns her clear, unflinching eye to issues of sex and sexism: male violence toward women; how Black women learn the erotic; the vulnerability of...
New and Collected Poems
An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poets Spanning ...
Readings from the Wreck
One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024 Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her...
In 1824, on the island of Trinidad, Marie Ursule, queen of a secret society of militant slaves, plots a mass suicide—a quiet, passionate act of revo...
Tuyen is an aspiring artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who've never recovered from losing one of their children while in the rush to flee ...
The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this...coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted...
Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones a...
The Poetry of Dionne Brand
The selections in "Fierce Departures," drawn from Dionne Brand s work since 1997, delineate with searing eloquence how history marks and dislocates pe...
In Dionne Brand’s incantatory, deeply engaged, beautifully crafted long poem, the question is asked, What would an inventory of the tumultuous early...
From our acclaimed poet and novelist: a gem of a novel that sizzles about love—between lovers, between friends, and for the places we live in—and ...
Presents a collection of poems that explores the sights and sounds of the world of the Caribbean....
&, Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia
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Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet’s accumulated left-hand pages—the unwritten, the ...
And Other Stories
Eleven stories deal with rape, humiliation, Caribbean life, childhood, teachers, American football, and war....
A joyful, imagistic discovery of woman as speaker and subject. As a woman, a black, and a lesbian, Brand arrives at a rigorous and nakedly ruthless re...
This is a poem about the city. About a man who has visions, hovering on the edge but hating it, restless and at war with the world but wanting the pea...
A Novel
“They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.” What We All Long For follows the overlapping stories of a close circle of second-generati...
Poetry and Prose
Claire Harris, M. Nourbese Philip and Dionne Brand are among Canada's most powerful writers. Grammar of Dissent highlights the uniqueness of each auth...
Lesbians & Representation
Fernie situates eight Toronto artists in the context of Toronto and the debates surrounding sexuality, representation and censorship, also providing a...
Speaking of Racism
Rivers have Sources is an oral record of racism experienced in employment, the educational system, and everyday life, selected from over one hundred i...
This extraordinary illustrated collection of poems was inspired by the poet's childhood in Trinidad....
Early Works
One of Canada’s most distinguished poets, Dionne Brand explores and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular the lives of those ...
A gorgeous, performative object translating Dyson's liberatory art into book form In her multidisciplinary practice guided by her working philosophy o...
The Jazz Photography of Thomas King
Poems
A collection of twenty poems celebrates the sounds, smells, spirit, and culture of the Caribbean and its multiracial people through a tour of its mark...
the first anthology of Black poetry and prose in Canada