Nightwood Editions

09/11/2026

We are days away from the publication date of WELíK'T by Kalli Van Stone 🎉 Join Kalli in Kelowna on September 28 for the launch of her first collection of poems. Hosted by the Okanagan Regional Library, the launch takes place at 5 pm and is free to attend. More details here: https://orl.libcal.com/event/4051742
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One of CBC Books anticipated poetry collections, WELíK'T is available to preorder now through our website, local booksellers or online retailers!
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09/11/2026

"In Kelowna,
I learnt that the world will end by fire"
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Chronicling the devastating effects of the 2023 Kelowna wildfire, these poems capture the personal experience of climate disaster.
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“Wildfire Verses reminds us that the postures of terror and joy share an overwhelming source. What terrible balm, what brilliant anguish to hear Adebayo singing to us through the blaze.” — Matt Rader, author of Fine

“What’s one voice to a wildfire? What’s one voice to the colonial death cult? But hope lives in testament, in witnessing, in giving voice to our culture of devastation, where only its ‘calculus of displacement remains the same.’ These are poems with a great passion for change, as our future becomes an inferno at our doorstep.” — Michael V. Smith, author of Soundtrack: a lyric memoir

“This work is a necessary reckoning. It is a haunting political manifesto on our shared negligence and the fragile environment that sustains our very existence.” — Jumoke Verissimo, author of Circumtrauma
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Available for order NOW! Order from your local indie bookstore, major retailers and our website.

09/10/2026

From the spiny trees and wildflowers on farmland in Jalisco to the breezy Yucateca coast, rural Mexico is at the heart of HALLELUJAH ANYHOW.
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"In the face of the harshest and disparate parts of the human condition, López Smith writes, ‘Let there be grace and manure.’ This is hope in spite of devastation. This is beauty in spite of ugliness, and a poetry of perseverance.”
—Joseph Rios, author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations

"Through vivid encounters with the natural world—mushrooms, trees, animals and this tender planet—these poems consider humanity’s place within a fragile ecosystem shaped by memory, migration and survival.” —Tim Z. Hernandez, author of They Call You Back

"These are poems that stand up and look the ogre of contemporary ideals dead in the eye, calling out its monstrosity. But they are also poems that seek beauty, solidarity and peace in the margins of the unspeakable.” —George Murray, author of Problematica: New and Selected Poems
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Available for order NOW! Order from your local indie bookstore, major retailers and our website.

09/10/2026

🎉 Jess Housty's HOW TO NOURISH A CANNIBAL is #1 on the BC Bestseller List for the week ending September 5, 2026 🎉

Check out Odette Auger's recent review of How to Nourish a Cannibal in the Autumn 2026 issue of BC BookLook: "In their second poetry collection, How to Nourish a Cannibal, ‘Cúagilákv Jess Housty deepens and widens the lush spiritual and land-based poetics readers first encountered in their debut Crushed Wild Mint."

https://bcbooklook.com/when-you-hear-the-whistles-in-the-forest/

09/04/2026

"my language is not endangered /
it is immortal"
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One of CBC Books' anticipated poetry collections, WELíK'T is available through our website, local booksellers and online retailers now!
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"Kalli Van Stone has woven a truly astounding book of poems, giving our people a rightful seat alongside the greats of this art form." —Julian Brave NoiseCat, author of We Survived the Night

"This book is a nuanced and irresistible prayer that will leave you feeling grounded and enriched." —Jess Housty, author of Crushed Wild Mint

"'To find out what forever means,' the reader must be willing to take a fearless journey in this provocative and brilliantly written book of poetry." —Garry Gottfriedson, author of Bent Back Tongue

09/03/2026

Already # 2 on the BC Bestseller list, HOW TO NOURISH A CANNIBAL is hitting bookstores now!

You may even find some signed copies at Boundless Books Ladysmith, Volume One Bookstore, Munro's Books, Bolen Books, Massy Books, Iron Dog Books & more!

"Jess Housty guides us through different eyes." —David Suzuki

"How to Nourish a Cannibal will change how you see, feel and breathe in the world." —Angela Sterritt, author of Unbroken and host of CBC's Land Back

07/10/2026

We couldn't possibily be more excited about our Fall 2026 books!
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Swipe through to see what's out soon.
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Pre-orders for all titles are available NOW. Go get 'em!

06/11/2026

A great review of Betty Baxter's Outspoken is up on rabble.ca. Tom Sandborn called Outspoken "a love letter to the strenuous joys of competitive sport, and to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community that has emerged around the world in [Baxter's] lifetime, courageously confronting the kind of prejudice that drove her from her first love, coaching and playing competitively, and into the arena of public political advocacy."

Pick up a copy of Outspoken wherever books are sold! ✨📖

"Outspoken" is an autobiography of Betty Baxter chronicling her life and pioneering work in advocating for q***r athletes.

06/08/2026

🐸 Pipa:m̓: The Touch of the Frog is out now! 🐸

In the Kwantlen village, Tsa’kwi’ah tries her best to help the other children gather wood, mend nets and stoke the fires, but she’s small and can’t keep up. Then she finds a green frog.

The newest instalment in award-winning storyteller Joseph Dandurand’s Kwantlen Stories Then and Now series, this book for children ages 6–8 explores the healing power of the frog with stunning illustrations by Elinor Atkins ()

Look for Pipa:m̓ where books are sold! 📚