{"title":"Meet Our Governor General's Literary Awards Winners and Finalists!","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eWe're excited to announce that two of our books have won Governor General's Literary Awards!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e🏆 Poetry: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/i\u003e by Chimwemwe Undi \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e🏆 Young People's Literature—Illustrated Books:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Skating Wild on an Inland Sea \u003c\/em\u003eby Jean E. 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By examining kinship in broader contexts, these frank, transcendent poems expose binaries that exist inside those relationships, then inspect and tease them apart in the hope of moving toward decolonial future(s). Bird’s work is highly concerned with how outer and inner landscapes move and change within the confines of the English language, particularly the “I” of the self, a tradition of movement that has been lost for many who don’t speak their Indigenous languages or live on their homelands. By exploring the landscapes the poet does inhabit, both internally and externally, Bird’s poems seek to delve into and reflect their cultural lineages—specifically Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis—and how these transformative identities shape the person they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"trade paperback","offer_id":41136186622011,"sku":"9781487011826","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"epub","offer_id":41136228007995,"sku":"9781487011833","price":16.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3128e617-962a-401e-ab39-501f8b9d9016.jpg?v=1744826744"},{"product_id":"the-age-of-insecurity","title":"The Age of Insecurity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism—originate from a social order built on insecurity. From home ownership and education to the wellness industry and policing, many of the institutions and systems that promise to make us more secure actually undermine us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMixing social critique, memoir, history, political analysis, and philosophy, this genre-bending book rethinks both insecurity and security from the ground up. 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