Books

Purchase from San or at select indie bookshops:

Sore Loser: a chronic pain and illness zine on queer disabled grief – 7 print copies left!

Poetry and a chat, with Etzali Hernández. Hard copy, or online with alt text and audio description/poetry readings.
Disability Arts Online, Brighton/Glasgow, 2021.

Sore Loser is made from four pieces of A4 paper folded in half. It has a bright yellow piece of A4 card for the cover, and is stapled together. San dipped their finger into black ink to write the title of the zine in all caps. The ink has set with various tones, darker where their finger first made contact when I replenished the ink. Underneath the title we pasted the subtitle, "a chronic pain and illness zine on queer disabled grief", printed in Arial 22-point font. Beneath that are our names, hand-written by both of us in all caps, and pasted diagonally upwards to the right.    

 

 

 

 

 

Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real – 2 print copies left!

San’s 2nd short story chapbook and 1st audiobook; additional online film-stories.
Proper Tales Press/Canada Council, Cobourg/Glasgow, 2019/2020.

A picture of the cover of Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real by Sandra Alland. The cover is blue and handwritten. The title is contained in a glass or tank or water. Below it, it says "Stories by Sandra Alland", with a small sailboat in motion drawn next to the author's name.

Naturally Speaking – print copies SOLD OUT; get in touch if interested

Poems and an essay on gender, assistance tech, and disability poetics. Winner: bpNichol Award.
Espresso, Toronto, 2012.

The cover of Naturally Speaking by Sandra Alland. The cover is red, with the title and author name encased in a white-gray frame. The book’s title is in a playful, almost hand-written font, whereas the author’s name is in a standard font.    

Blissful Times – 5 print copies left!

San’s 2nd poetry collection, featuring multimedia links and poetic translation.
Book*hug, Toronto, 2007.

The cover of Blissful Times by Sandra Alland. The cover is red with black text. On the right margin is a ruler in centimetres.

Proof of a Tongue

“…a striking first collection of poetry, displaying immense talent and skill.”
McGilligan Books, Toronto, 2004.

The cover of Proof of a Tongue by Sandra Alland. The title and author’s name are both right-aligned in white in the middle of the cover, above and below a line separating two photos. The top photo is a selfie of a person swimming under blue water, from upper torso all the way to the chin. Their face is ablve the water and therefore blurred. The photo repeats, zoomed in to the chin and blurred face, on the bottom half of the cover.