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Activist press publishing literary and academic books for 29 years. Non-fiction, poetry, and fiction with an emphasis on critical leftist political analysis of contemporary issues. Based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1. arpbooks.org
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ARP Books @arpbooks.bsky.social · Apr 30
This fall we are deeply honoured to be publishing A Year On the Abyss of Genocide written by poet & curator Mahmoud Al-Shaer, documenting a year of his psychological states while displaced in Gaza 2024-5. Foreword by Nasrin Himada, afterword Fadi Ennab, & editor's note by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Book cover: Cover artwork is a painting by Ibrahim Abusitta, “Head Space 13” that features the yellow silhouette of a head in profile, surrounded by abstract shapes in patterns of rich reds, oranges, blues, and purples. Some of these shapes loom over the figure, while others create a ladder-like background.
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On the heels of the federal government's jaw-dropping new war budget, we are eager to announce the March 2026 publication of Owen Schalk's latest book,

Canada and NATO: The Myth of a Global Peacekeeper
Book cover features a black and white collage of imagery of NATO troops and destruction. Canada & NATO in large font at centre. Backdrop has similar imagery in red and pink, along with a portion of the NATO symbol. Cover design by Bret Parenteau.
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This brilliant new collection of poetry from Cam Scott (@vanishingsigns.bsky.social) launches TONIGHT Wednesday Nov 5 at 7pm. Scott will be joined by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social launching his own collection, No Depression in Heaven (@talonbooks.bsky.social).

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arpbooks.bsky.social ARP Books @arpbooks.bsky.social · Feb 18
We're excited to announce Cam Scott's sequel of politically-inflected personal collage and city poems, MANOR's RANSOM—the second installment of a life-poem that began with the Lambda-nominated ROMANS SNOWMARE (2019).
Book cover with title MANOR’S RANSOM split between top left and bottom right of page, with Cam Scott at centre bottom. Cover image is a black and white semi-abstract copy collage of repeating elements by Bret Parenteau, featuring a single repeating paved step along a roadway, and a cascading vine shape down the centre
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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On Wednesday November 5 at 7pm, join Cam Scott (MANOR's RANSOM) and ryan fitzpatrick (No Depression in Heaven) for the dual launch of their new poetry books. - mailchi.mp/grant/scott-...

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Cam Scott & ryan fitzpatrick celebrate a dual poetry launch
It’s a poetry launch for music lovers! Help celebrate the release of MANOR’s RANSOM by Cam Scott (ARP Books) and No Depression in Heaven by ryan fitzpatrick (Talonbooks).
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October 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Palestinians demand a life free from Zionism, including the structures of colonization and occupation that recreate the conditions for more violence and genocides.
October 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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This month, for Bookshelf subscribers outside of the US, we’re glad to include as an additional extra Mahmoud Al-Shaer’s 𝘈 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘺𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦, which collects the entries from his fundraising campaign www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-ma...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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ualbertapress.bsky.social
Two of our marvellous poets have been recognized on the Nelson Ball Prize longlist:
Margaret Christakos, THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE
Dawn Macdonald, NORTHERNY
Congratulations to all!
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Nelson Ball Prize 2025 Long List
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October 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🪶 Islands of Decolonial Love by @biidaasamose.bsky.social (@arpbooks.bsky.social)

An unforgettable debut collection of short stories that weave together love, decolonization, and Indigenous resurgence.

alllitup.ca/books/island...

#lpg50 #canlit #alu #indigenousreads
A 50 Books for 50 Years graphic featuring the cover of Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Handwritten text fills the cover’s background. Right-aligned in the centre of the page, there is an illustration of a stylized, orange-hued bird with elongated legs and beak. On the left side of the cover, there are thin orange lines mimicking beadwork that run from the top to bottom. The title is centred in the middle of the cover in a large serif font, with the author’s name in smaller text underneath. The text reads: “Literary Press Group of Canada, Celebrating 50 Years Supporting Literature. ARP Books.”
August 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A war of annihilation is unfolding in Gaza, but you wouldn’t know it from Canada’s establishment media.

What they produce isn’t coverage—it’s a cover-up.

The Breach is publishing a new book, a call for truth-telling in journalism.

Order it here: breachmedia.ca/when-genocid...
When Genocide Wasn't News ⋆ The Breach
When Genocide Wasn't NewsHow Canadian media covered up the destruction of GazaEdited by Martin Lukacs, Dania Majid and Jason ToneyAs Canadians bear witness to live-streamed ho
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June 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Donate to Aid for Mahmoud's Family Amidst Ongoing War, organized by Mahmoud Alshaer
Dear Friends and Supporters, My name is Mahmoud Al Shaer. I’m currentl… Mahmoud Alshaer needs your support for Aid for Mahmoud's Family Amidst Ongoing War
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May 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
arpbooks.bsky.social
This fall we are deeply honoured to be publishing A Year On the Abyss of Genocide written by poet & curator Mahmoud Al-Shaer, documenting a year of his psychological states while displaced in Gaza 2024-5. Foreword by Nasrin Himada, afterword Fadi Ennab, & editor's note by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Book cover: Cover artwork is a painting by Ibrahim Abusitta, “Head Space 13” that features the yellow silhouette of a head in profile, surrounded by abstract shapes in patterns of rich reds, oranges, blues, and purples. Some of these shapes loom over the figure, while others create a ladder-like background.
April 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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bookstoprisoners.bsky.social
"It is troubling that people in prison have to rely on us, a small group of volunteers with no funding or official status, for their basic information needs. This dependence points to a broader systemic information blackout in prisons..."

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Everyone should have a right to information, including people who are behind bars
People in Canadian prisons are barred from using the internet or email, and printed materials are limited and hard to come by. Most prisons have a library, but access can be heavily restricted due to ...
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April 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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tninstitute.bsky.social
The world is breaking- and being remade 💥
Join TNI's Fractures: 8 weeks of radical teach-ins on empire, climate, capitalism & resistance.
A space for activists, organisers, and critical thinkers.
✨ More info & registration: www.tni.org/en/event/fra...
April 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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important work: Idil Abdillahi
arpbooks.bsky.social ARP Books @arpbooks.bsky.social · Mar 3
Spotlight on Idil Abdillahi for the significant contributions found in her book, Black Women Under State:
Surveillance, Poverty & the Violence of Social Assistance, at the Canadian Assc. of Elizabeth Fry Societies
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Headshot of professor Abdillahi wearing dark-rimmed glasses and a black shirt, with accompanying text: “As Black History Month wraps up today, the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) is proud to spotlight our friend and co-conspirator, Dr. Idil Abdillahi and her significant contributions found in her book, BLACK WOMEN UNDER STATE: Surveillance, Poverty & the Violence of Social Assistance” Book cover of Black Women Under State with accompanying text overlapping: “Dr. Abdillahi explains how social services and the prison system work together in ways that harm Black women. She calls this "carceral care," which means that even programs designed to help can end up controlling and punishing Black women instead.”
April 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Very hard to read about Dakota pipeline oil spill this morning (!) after reading @nicke.bsky.social book Our History is the Future from @haymarketbooks.org. These protestors were always correct.
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
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April 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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alllitupcanada.bsky.social
"The man the landlords
pay to cut our lawn insists
on mulching Allison’s dahlias
with the mower."

We read "Establish a Perimeter" from Ben Robinson's AS IS (@arpbooks.bsky.social), which considers what it means to be connected to a place as a settler.

#ALUtributaries

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A photo of author Ben Robinson with an inset photo of his book, As Is. The photo shows the author's profile against a brick wall with a single window.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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“Thoroughly argued and anchored in textured critiques of capitalism, reproductive labour, and schooling as reproduction, Raveendrabose's writing is sure to challenge normative approaches to schooling and will spark a sense of possibility in the young activists he invites to take action."
—Joe Curnow
Book launch poster featuring pale green book cover with faded collage background, overlaid large lettering Wages for School Work, against poster’s crimson and grey background. Text reads: "Thoroughly argued and anchored in textured critiques of capitalism, reproductive labour, and schooling as reproduction, Raveendrabose's writing is sure to challenge normative approaches to schooling and will spark a sense of possibility in the young activists he invites to take action." —Joe Curnow, Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Manitoba BOOK LAUNCH SEMAPHORE SERIES May 24th, 1pm ARP Books Wages for School Work Shiv Raveendrabose MAY WORKS FESTIVAL OF LABOUR & THE ARTS mayworks.org Wages for School Work makes a bold case for the wide-ranging liberatory potential of student-led collective struggle, not only for young people themselves, but for a larger society and education system inadequately prepared to cultivate the relations necessary to face the climate crisisand other human-made catastrophes." -Alexandre E. Da Costa, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
April 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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progintl.bsky.social
100 children have been killed or injured in Gaza every day since March 18.
April 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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We love libraries of every shape and size! 📚🖤 If not for the work of many librarians, researchers, activists & archivists, so much important movement history would be lost.

"The Library Is a Commons" artwork is by @erikruin.bsky.social up on @justseeds.bsky.social #NationalLibraryWeek
Black and white, papercut style illustration of an open book, an apple tree sprouting out of the middle, and hands plucking fruit from the tree. A ribbon surrounds the tree that reads "THE LIBRARY IS A COMMONS"
April 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention—
"Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
Excerpt of Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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emilyvanduyne.bsky.social
Grateful to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this open letter that I wrote with my colleagues at Stockton University. Academics must refuse fascist collaboration at every turn.
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Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
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April 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
Publishers for Palestine, a global solidarity collective of nearly 600 publishers across 50 countries, has condemned the ongoing silence of the world’s largest children’s book fair on the slaughter of children in Gaza.
Publishers for Palestine condemns the Bologna Book Fair’s silence on Gaza.
Publishers for Palestine, a global solidarity collective of nearly 600 publishers across 50 countries, has condemned the ongoing silence of the world’s largest children’s book fair on t…
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April 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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breachmedia.ca
If Poilievre wins office, he’s planning a blitzkrieg of cuts and deregulation, following the model of Ontario premier Mike Harris.

In an excerpt from his new book, Martin Lukacs reveals the first details of the group plotting Poilievre’s 100 day agenda.
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‘Hard and fast from every direction’: inside the group plotting Poilievre’s blitzkrieg of cuts ⋆ The Breach
Pierre Poilievre’s first days in government would rely on ‘the Mike Harris playbook’
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April 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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mondoweiss.net
Read Susan Abulhawa’s scorching letter to the head of PEN America where she takes a blowtorch to the organization’s continued complicity with Israel's genocide in Gaza.

mondoweiss.net/2025/04/susa...

#Palestine #Israel
Susan Abulhawa’s response to PEN America’s complicity with genocide
Read Susan Abulhawa’s scorching letter to the head of PEN America where she takes a blowtorch to the organization’s continued complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
mondoweiss.net
April 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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coastaljustice.bsky.social
Available for pre-order! Loreisa Lepine and I co-authored “Calling Our Selves Home: Indigiqueer practices of homecoming” for this brilliant collection. As 2SQ coastal relations, we write about gendered notions of tradition, knowledge, and land, upholding our voice & authority in our own homelands.
arpbooks.bsky.social ARP Books @arpbooks.bsky.social · Mar 24
Bebías Into Qndaa Ke:
Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, eds. Kleo P. Skavinski & Sydney Rae Krill is a collection of queer Northern Indigenous writing, collapsing boundaries between queer Indigenous selfhood & land practices, as countering destructive colonial & capitalist forces
March 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM