This year, for the first time since the prize was established in 2000, the prize's Canadian and international categories have merged. The 10-book longlist is for a single prize instead of two prizes of $65,000.
POETRY Exculpatory Lilies Susan Musgrave McClelland & Stewart, Sept. This new collection from the award-winning poet deals with grief: her partner, Stephen Reid, died in 2018, and their daughter Sophie in 2021 of an accidental overdose. But Musgrave’s sensibility imbues these poems with more – wit and the natural world serve as counterpoints in her
The fall always provides an embarrassment of book riches, with hundreds of titles released throughout the season, many of them in this first week of September.