Collection:
Poetry
Take Care
More Salt Than Diamond
Refractive Africa
New Names for Lost Things
Serenity
Borderless
In the Roar of the Machine
Arelhekenhe Angkentye: Women's Talk
Bush Mary
Knotted Grief
Pebbles, Eggs, and the Fence
Revenants
Sergius Seeks Bacchus
it seems that i'm depressed
Unraveling
Postcolonial Love Poem
Vulnerable AF
IC3
Selected Poems
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Poems that Do Not Sleep
Sista, Stanap Strong!
Rangikura
The Votive Pen
Killernova
blackbirds don't mate with starlings
Quiet
All the Flowers Kneeling
It's Fine, It's Fine, It's Fine (It's Not)
Just Us
Selected Poems
Echidna
Lost Posessions
Obit
False Claims of Colonial thieves
Nganajungu Yagu
Guwayu, For All Times
Honeybee
Living on Stolen Land
The Poet X
Clap When You Land
Turbulence
Time is a Mother
Lost Lake
Theory of Colours
Only on the Weekends
Through Old Eyes
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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.