Cover Collage: Lonely Hearts

It’s Valentine’s month (that’s right: now you feel surly for a whole month) and we’ve rounded up covers with everyone’s favourite Valentines-ey trope: the heart. In our defense, many of them are biology-style hearts. We’re sticking to our ventricles on this one.

This heart-wrenching (get it?) play follows characters Cara, Mortimer, and Lucas, all affected in different ways by an impending heart transplant.These two books of poetry each examine love: the first through the African diaspora from Africa to the Carribean, and the second through the city of Hamilton, Ontario.Rosen’s YA novel features Raina, a ne’er do well teen sent to live with her strict aunt, where she discovers her hidden talent: matchmaking her classmates.Set in Toronto, this story of a young woman trying to overcome the mediocrity of her daily life is beautifully illustrated by Marlena Zuber.Recently both a divorcee and empty-nester, Claire accepts a teaching position in Mexico, where the new landscape – and her new love – takes her in directions she could not have previously imagined.Greg Santos’ poetry collection defines the nostalgia – KD and other junk food, the snooze button – that Generation-Yers hold to, in the face of growing older.This is not so much a poetry collection as a collaboration with artist Kathy Hooper, where the two “compare notes” and record, in their own forms, when coincidences arise.This poetry collection examines new territory – whether it be physical or mental – in all its honesty and emotion.With raw beef heart photographs emblazoned on the cover, what could Posh Lust be but pure experimentation, pure imagination, pure fun?In this collection, poet Margaret Christakos examines our primal need to attach in the wake of an increasingly digital, and isolate, age.