Metonymy Press

02/22/2025

See you this afternoon 📚

02/18/2025

In a strong statement of solidarity, eleven cultural organizations in Montreal have officially endorsed or reasserted their endorsement of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), highlighting their commitment to the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The organizations supporting this initiative are joining a growing global movement of artists, academics, and cultural workers committed to supporting the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation and self-determination. These organizations hope that more groups will adopt PACBI across Quebec and Canada.

To date, the following organizations have united their efforts to support or reaffirm their commitments to PACBI: Ada X, articule, Atelier La Coulée, Céline Bureau, Centre Clark, Centre des arts actuels SKOL, Dazibao, Metonymy Press, Oboro, PME-ART, and Vidéographe.

01/15/2025

Hear Grace Kwan read a few poems from their collection THE SACRED HEART MOTEL and talk about their process 🔑
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-43-north-by-northwest/clip/16120487-poet-grace-kwans-sacred-heart-motel

CBC Radio host Margaret Gallagher meets creative people from all around the province. Hear about their passions and inspirations. You'll visit artists and in their studios, musicians and performers backstage, writers at their keyboards and chefs at the cooktop. There's great conversation and a lot o...

01/14/2025

Best Q***r Books of 2024! Thanks to Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian and Autostraddle for including THE SACRED HEART MOTEL and EL GHOURABAA on this excellent list.

There are so many damn good q***r books being published these days.

12/20/2024

Thanks to Briarpatch Magazine and Serena Bhandar for this list ❤️

12/18/2024

For anyone local (Montreal) we’re having a last-minute drop-in book sale at our office this Thursday (10am to 1pm and 4 to 7pm). There will be snacks! And deals! And, c/o you know who, we won’t charge you GST. Gay books make for gayer holidays. Also, solidarity 4ever w CUPW / eff you Canada Post and anti-union governments! Accessibility note: our space is on the second floor but we will gladly meet you at street level with books to peruse.

📍635 Beaumont, near Acadie metro

12/08/2024

Grace Kwan continues their mini book tour this evening in Toronto at Another Story Bookshop. If you wanna learn more about the collection, you can read/watch more about the process behind The Sacred Heart Motel in this Pancouver interview.

Many poets fall in love with their artform in childhood or as teens. Kwan, on the other hand, started writing poetry in grad school at SFU.

12/04/2024

Read Palestine Week is coming to a close. In case you haven't heard, during this week, Publishers for Palestine is encouraging people around the world to read fiction and poetry by Palestinian and Palestinian diaspora authors, as well as nonfiction about Palestinians and Palestinian history, politics, arts, culture, and life, and other books about organizing, resistance, and solidarity for a Free Palestine. We read – publicly and in community – as part of the global resistance to genocide.

A number of events have been taking place across the week, and there's a reading list that's being made available for free throughout the week. The Free Palestine Reading List will be available til December 5; all titles are available through links on the Publishers for Palestine website. Metonymy has one book available, and there are so many more! Check out the books and publishers, and let's continue to read, resist, and rise up

12/03/2024

Poet Grace Kwan is in Montreal and Toronto this weekend, with events surrounding their debut collection The Sacred Heart Motel:

💘Friday, December 6 at Co-op Agenda, 7 pm (mtl)
💘Saturday, December 7 signing at the Metonymy table at 12:30 at the Read Quebec Book Fair (Casa D'Italia, mtl)
💘Sunday, December 8 at Another Story Bookshop (TO)

Please join them! Books will be available.

11/26/2024

It's the season of neverending book fairs - the next one is the giant international Salon du livre de Montréal, where some Metonymy books will be available at the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec kiosk, #401. If you're hanging out at Bonaventure metro, join the throngs this week/end and come grab a book 📚

11/20/2024

Solidarity with Canada Post workers currently on strike! Just a quick note to say that our web orders to destinations within so-called Canada are usually transported by CUPW employees and we therefore won’t be shipping any out so long as the strike is ongoing. We appreciate your patience and understanding! If you live in the Montreal area, local pickup is always an option. Plus we’ll be tabling and the bookfair over the next three weeks. AND now is a great time to get your books directly from your favourite indie store.



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11/15/2024

Thanks Carlos A. Pittella and Montreal Review of Books for this gem of a review of THE SACRED HEART MOTEL:

One of the sheer brilliances of Kwan’s book is turning migration into a love poem and love into a migration.

11/13/2024

Toronto, do you want to meet the presses? We'll be one of them! Come find us Sunday afternoon at Cecil Centre.

11/13/2024

Vancouver, come through! Grace Kwan's hometown launch of their debut collection, The Sacred Heart Motel, is happening Thursday, November 14. Expect minibar snacks, guest readers, and an excellent book that you can bring home yourself

11/05/2024

It's a very important day today: the release date of THE SACRED HEART MOTEL, Grace Kwan's debut poetry collection. Here's a great review, thanks to the British Columbia Review and Marguerite Pigeon.

Events to celebrate the book are coming up November 14 in Vancouver, and early December in Toronto and Montreal.

Marguerite Pigeon reviews The Sacred Heart Motel, by Grace Kwan (Montreal: Metonymy Press, 2024) $18.95 / 9781998898169

10/30/2024

Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kaveh Akbar, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, Téa Obreht, Peter Carey, Jericho Brown, Natalie Diaz, Mary Gaitskill, Hari Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, J…