After Stonewall, 370 Bank St near Gilmour, is back in business, rebooting as a bookstore plus pottery, visual art, crafty glassware, etc. By volume it’s 3/4 not-books but books display tighter than votives.
The poetry section is one shelf, but if you haven’t got Shane Rhodes’ Err, Marcus McCann’s The Hard Return, or Phyllis Webb’s The Vision Tree, there’s a spot to get it. I believe I saw a copy of Gregory Scofield’s Louis: The Heretic Poems (Nightwood Editions/The Gabriel Dumont Institute).
There’s all kinds of queer short stories, novels, non-fiction and a suggestion sheet to add what you think they should stock.
It was good to hear that on the 26th, “our grand opening at Ottawa’s After Stonewall was a major success with very little standing room.” The artisan gift shop area includes things like wine cups and recycled rubber wallets and notebooks. There’s some beautiful inlay cheese trays with bird’s eye maple cheese knife that caught my eye. And chocolates from Prince Edward County. Harwood Estate Vineyard from Prince Edward County will be pouring wine for a tasting the evening of February 23rd. Browse around.