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Compiled to celebrate ten years worth of limited edition chapbooks and broadsides, The Anstruther Reader tracks the evolution of Anstruther Press, one of Canada's most prominent micropresses. Featuring notable authors such as Klara du Plessis, Tolu Oloruntoba, David Ly, Rebecca Salazar, David Barrick, Fawn Parker, and T. Liem, The Anstruther Reader makes a case for the press's reputation as a launching pad for emerging and established poets alike, and spotlights its mandate to publish poetry that both pushes against and expands the boundaries of Canadian literature.

"Truthfully I can only tell you what's missing" writes the heartbroken protagonist at the beginning of Victoria Mbabazi's The Siren in the Twelfth House. But this isn't a book that succumbs to grief. Mbabazi's poems are siren songs, reclaiming love from pain, and rediscovering joy through the destruction and eventual rebuilding of astrological houses. Prepare to slow dance through this profound and powerful debut.

"Recording the event say, I am the event." The event represents the lyrical, but an attempt at defining the event endlessly defers meaning--poetry readings, death, belonging, the digital and-- Post-Mortem of the Event is a cyclical archive that twists back to recorded readings of Klara du Plessis's earlier Hell Light Flesh and leans forward to invoke a still unwritten manuscript. Here poetic composition encompasses audiovisual media, transcription, wave form visualization, and digital humanities and interdisciplinary methods. With the maturity of three previous collections, Du Plessis presents a brilliant expansion of her musical yet essayistic poetics.

Amanda Merpaw (she/her) is a writer, editor, and educator. She is the author of the chapbook Put the Ghosts Down Between Us (2021), and her poetry, playwriting, and nonfiction have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, carte blanche, CV2, Grain, Prairie Fire, Plenitude, with Playwrights Canada Press, and elsewhere. Amanda was a finalist for Arc Poetry Magazine's 2022 Poem of the Year Contest. She is currently a contributing editor at Arc Poetry Magazine and a member of the editorial board at Anstruther Press. Most of All the Wanting is her first full-length collection.

Em Dial is a writer born and raised in the Bay Area of California, currently living in Toronto. Em is a Kundiman Fellow and recipient of the 2020 PEN Canada New Voices Award and 2019 Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award. Their work can be found in the Literary Review of Canada, Arc Poetry Magazine, GASHER, and elsewhere. In the Key of Decay is their first book.