Canada rights to Billy-Ray Belcourt’s IDEALISM AND DESPAIR

Griffin Prize-winning poet, scholar, and creative writing professor Billy-Ray Belcourt’s IDEALISM AND DESPAIR, a nuanced study of desire and intimacy following a lonely writer who befriends a queer Cree couple who’ve reached old age together, then finds himself in a love triangle with an enigmatic crush and a closeted conservative politician, to David Ross at Hamish Hamilton Canada, for publication in August 2027, by Cody Caetano at CookeMcDermid (Canada).