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Cover Collage: Pool Party

Suffering a bit of that summertime sadness? Turn those frowns upside down with this bluesy cover collage that we’re channeling big pool party energy with. Grab your favourite pair of sunnies and any one of these rad reads to brighten your day and ramp up your summer vibes.

July 21 2020

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Talking to a Portrait: Tales of an Art Curator by Rosalind Pepall (Véhicule Press)A Diary in the Age of Water by Nina Munteanu (Inanna Publications)Speed Dating for Sperm Donors by Natalie Meisner (Playwrights Canada Press)On Nostalgia by Dave Berry (Coach House Books)Devolution by Kim Goldberg (Caitlin Press)Little Russia by Francis Desharnais (Pow Pow Press)Mysterious Dreams of the Dead by Terry Watada (Anvil Press)Fortune of Wolves by Ryan Griffith (Playwrights Canada Press)Nought by Julie Joosten (Book*hug Press)The Art of the Fall by Véronique Coté & Jean-Philippe Joubert (Baraka Books)A Song from Faraway by Deni Béchard (Goose Lane Editions)Pluviophile by Yusuf Saadi (Nightwood Editions)Postmark Berlin by Anne Emery (ECW Press)The Imperilled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea by Laura Trethewey (Goose Lane Editions)The Neptune Roomby Bertrand Laverdure, translated by Oana Avasilichiaeoi (Book*hug Press)The Eyelid by S.D.Crostowska (Coach House Books)

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