{"title":"Trillium Book Award Finalists 2023","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"cobalt","title":"Cobalt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tale of the early-twentieth-century mining rush at Cobalt has been told as a settler’s adventure, but Indigenous people had already been trading in metals from the region for two thousand years. And the events that happened here — the theft of Indigenous lands, the exploitation of a multicultural workforce, and the destruction of the natural environment — established a template for resource extraction that has been exported around the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharlie Angus reframes the complex and intersectional history of Cobalt within a broader international frame — from the conquistadores to the Western gold rush to the struggles in the Democratic Republic of Congo today. He demonstrates how Cobalt set Canada on its path to become the world’s dominant mining superpower.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"trade paperback","offer_id":40190645436475,"sku":"9781487009496","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"epub","offer_id":40190645567547,"sku":"9781487009502","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ccdef39e-58b4-411f-8c20-f167fc509278.jpg?v=1711254488"},{"product_id":"my-grief-the-sun","title":"My Grief, the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2023 Trillium Book Award for Poetry \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award\u003cbr\u003e\nThe highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Sanna Wani’s poems, each verse is ode and elegy. The body is the page, time is a friend, and every voice, a soul. Sharply political and frequently magical, these often-intimate poems reach for everything from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 film \u003cem\u003ePrincess Mononoke \u003c\/em\u003eto German Orientalist scholarship on early Islam. From concrete to confessional, exegesis to erasure, the Missinnihe river in Canada to the Zabarwan mountains in Kashmir, \u003cem\u003eMy Grief, the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e undoes genre, listens carefully to the planet’s breathing, addresses an endless and ineffable you, and promises enough joy and sorrow to keep growing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"trade paperback","offer_id":40780552732731,"sku":"9781487010843","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"epub","offer_id":40780553420859,"sku":"9781487010850","price":16.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a33c88e1-bdb9-4d50-a024-25dc1833934e.jpg?v=1721967007"}],"url":"https:\/\/houseofanansi.pro\/collections\/trillium-book-award-finalists-2023.oembed","provider":"House of Anansi Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}