Philosopher C.S. Morrissey adapts Hesiod’s two great works, Theogony and Works and Days, taking into account the poet’s essential meditative insights that paved the way for the subsequent achievements
Specially edited, updated, revised and rewritten by the author, and for the first time complete in one volume, Great Lakes Suite includes A Trip Around Lake Ontario, first published in 1988, as well a
In one of his most daring theatrical achievements, Michel Tremblay presents the story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life. The older Albertines warn the younger ones of what i
It’s a splendid moon-filled night at Coley’s Point in August, 1926. Eighteen-year-old Jacob Mercer has returned from Toronto to the tiny Newfoundland outport, hoping to win back his former sweetheart,
Mary Meigs is one of the eight women who portray themselves in the film The Company of Strangers, a "semi-documentary" National film Board production, released in 1990 to overwhelming critical and pop
Germaine Lauzon has won a million trading stamps from a department store. Her head swimming with dreams of refurbishing and redecorating her working-class home from top to bottom with catalogue select
A long poem that blends and bends the lyric, procedural poetry, the travelogue and extended forms, Dwell lives in, or dwells on, the interaction of a restless subjectivity with the seemingly transpar
It is the spring of 1963. The young Quebec author, Marie-Claire Blais, has just won a coveted Guggenheim fellowship. She chooses Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the place where she will begin her writer
Waiting for the Parade is John Murrell's play, set in Calgary during Word War II, in which five women gather to work for the war effort while their men are away. Waiting for the Parade was first perf
It is the glorious second day of May, 1942. The sun is drawing the damp from earth still heavy with the end of a long Quebec winter, the budding branches of the trees along rue Fabre and in Parc Lafon
Jason Pierce, a 31-year-old Canadian half-Native man, is packing up his urban apartment to leave it all behind for his romanticized vision of a return to life on the reserve where he grew up. As he's
Included for the first time in this new and expanded edition of Daniel MacIvor's popular drama, Marion Bridge, is the screenplay which arose out of the original stage play. A foreword by the author o
A vital collection of writings about First Nations people and culture as it existed on the inland coast of the Depression-era Pacific Northwest and originally published in the pages of Victoria’
These brief but concentrated pieces of literary work seem at first simple in their approach and straightforward in their intent: designed to be read easily and then to be carried away in our memories
George Bowering has always maintained many of his poems are germinated in secret ways?secrets he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself. In suddenly giving most of those secrets away, Vermeer’s L
Charles Olson was one of the most influential of the “New American Poets” published by Grove Press in the mid-twentieth century.?Synthesizing the experimental avant-garde of Black Mountain College wit
This book of poems is a sustained adoration of the beloved which recalls the work of Dante?what the Vita Nuova might have been had Dante lived on the bare watered rock of Newfoundland, rather than in
The eponymous first part of mclennan’s new book consists of fifty ?gifts” each centred around words, phrases, or ?glyphs” of language that initiate and replicate their own fractal transformations: som
Garry Thomas Morse deploys his prodigious classical repertoire to compose the edgy new voices that reflect the cultural simultaneity of our everyday?a transnational, ahistoric cosmopolitanism: an idea
