Collection:
Poetry
In the Hollow of the Wave
Magnolia
Nebulous Vertigo
A Dress of Locusts
Florida Water
My Dream Job
Sōseki Natsume's Collected Haiku
For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse
Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece
Cowboy
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
Arsenic Flower
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Sing a Black Girl’s Song
A Savage Turn
Lines of Desire
Daughters of Latin America
Where Everything is Music
I am a Bird from Paradise
Serenity's Song
Hekate
Tunui | Comet
Just Another Epic Love Poem
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
Classical Poems by Arab Women
You Are Here
A River Dies of Thirst
The Essential June Jordan
The Fiction of Flying
a body more tolerable
i cut my tongue on a broken country
Bathypelagia
Joss: A History
Not Telling
Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob)
Razzle Dazzle
The Flame of Love
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
New and Collected Hell
I Can't Even Think Straight
Hermosa
The Black Unicorn
Songs of My Grandmother
Stuff I’m (Not) Sorry For
KUMI: New-Generation African Poets
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, crafting workshops, book launches, and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less diverse books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.