To Place a Rabbit
ONE OF THE GLOBE AND MAIL'S 37 NEW BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ IN SPRING 2025
A witty, irresistible debut novel from award-winning poet Madhur Anand about entangled desire in books, life and love.
This delightfully clever, artfully layered novel begins when the author of a popular science book attends a literary festival, where she strikes up a friendship with a charismatic novelist. This novelist's recent book is an experiment: a novella that was written in English but published only in French translation—a language the novelist herself cannot read or understand. Moreover, the novelist has lost her original manuscript of the work. The scientist, who is fluent in French, impulsively offers to re-translate the novella back into English for the…
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May 13, 2025
MADHUR ANAND's debut book of prose This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, named one of 10 all-time "trailblazing" poetry collections by the CBC, and received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was published to international acclaim, named a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, and a "top pick" for Spring poetry by the CBC. She is a professor of ecology and sustainability at the University of Guelph, where she was appointed the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.
To Place a Rabbit
Madhur Anand
Parasitic Oscillations
Madhur Anand
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
Madhur Anand