Glass Bookshop

The staff & custie picks gleaming like jewels in the light. 😍 Come check out what we’re obsessed with and add your own pick to the table. Ask us how!

Photo 1: stacks of books lined up on a white table with white staff or custie picks sheets peeking out of the top of them.

Photo 2: a photo of How to Lose the Time War, a light turquoise cover with a red cardinal on it, with a staff picks sheet from Moriah and Makda peeping out that reads: “the actual embodiment of ‘be gay, do crime,’ … but with time travel!”

Photo 3: Emily Riddle’s The Big Melt, with its green and purple cover, between stacks of books with red and orange covers.

Photo 4: One of Julie’s staff picks, Worn, nestled among other titles, with a staff picks sheet tucked inside that reads, “will change the way you think about clothing forever.”

Photo 5: A copy of The Shade Tree with a custie pick sheet from Sadie tucked in, who writes, “it’s a really good book & my mom wrote it!”

Join us and our friends at .harm.reduction on Thursday, December 7 at 7 pmfor another naloxone training session hosted by 4B! We will be collecting cold-weather gear for 4B to distribute to community members as well as cash donations to support the work of 4B. Please come out! Use the link in our bio to register.

ID: a teal graphic featuring an illustration of four people gathering and greeting one another. The text reads: Naloxone training and info night. We will be collecting cold-weather gear for 4B to distribute to community members. Please bring new mittens, hats, etc. With 4B Harm Reduction Society, Thursday, December 7 at 7 pm.

Come by the shop on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 at 6 pm to celebrate and the launch of THE ALL + FLESH! We’ll have a cozy little reading and book signing in shop that you won’t want to miss.

Brandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection, THE ALL + FLESH, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands. 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.

BRANDI BIRD is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis writer and editor from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples. Bird’s poems have been published in Catapult, The Puritan, Room Magazine, and others. They are a fourth year BFA student at the University of British Columbia, but their heart is always yearning for the prairies.

ID: a photo of Brandi Bird, with long dark hair and bangs wearing a black shirt and a black leather jacket giving a peace sign in front of a building with a painted mural. The text reads: Brandi Bird, the all + flesh, Friday, December 1, 6 pm, Glass Bookshop.