When his single-volume collected poems appeared in 2011, legendary B.C. poet Patrick Lane thought it might be his swan song. But the process of looking back on his long career seems to have reignited the poetic impulse. Lane’s brand new collection, Washita ($18.95 pa.), will appear from Harbour Publishing in October. • Poet and frequent Q&Q reviewer Stevie Howell also has a new collection out in October. [Sharps] (Goose Lane, $19.95 pa.) features a unicorn that does crochet, an ad campaign instigated by the Queen, and a “black cockroach / the size of a butterflied sausage.” • Followers of Q&Q’s Cover to Cover feature may recognize Kate Hargreaves as the talented designer of covers for Biblioasis. Hargreaves is also a fiction writer and poet; her new collection of verse is described as delightful and sickening. Leak ($18 pa., Oct.) is published by BookThug.

Following the spring release of the novella Greyling, Gillian Wigmore returns to poetry with a collection from Brick Books. The poems in Orient ($20 pa., Oct.) include examinations of human interactions and the relationship between humankind and the natural environment. • The Things I Heard About You (Nightwood, $18.95 pa., Sept.), the first collection by Vancouver’s Alex Leslie, has already been shortlisted for the 2014 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. The author of the 2012 story collection People Who Disappear turns her attention to a verse examination of what happens when narrative communication breaks down or self-destructs.

The prize for the season’s best title goes to Donato Mancini, who has already scored in the great title department with his 2012 collection, You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence. His new book, Loitersack (New Star Books, $21 pa., Sept.), takes its title from an 18th-century word for a layabout.