2011 Grand Prize Winner in the Quebec Graphic Design Competition Grafika.It's October 1944. During a brief respite from the aerial bombardment of London, Sebastian Wigrum absconds from his small flat
Marie-Louise Painchaud has worked for thirty-five years at the post office in Lovely, Ontario, a small French Canadian village where she now knows every client whose mail she handles. In this one-woma
My TWP Plays presents five plays written while Jack Winter was resident playwright at Toronto Workshop Productions. These plays from the 1960s and '70s take a carnivalesque approach that reflects the
Falling through endless days at an office desk, the disillusioned, aptly named Mr. Mann wins tickets to see Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. By no means a theater-goer, Mann nevertheless attends the pla
The Place of Scraps explores the relationship between First Nations cultures and ethnography. Marius Barbeau?an early-twentieth-century ethnographer who studied First Nations cultures, including Jorda
Singed Wings peers into the interior world of Camille Claudel (Auguste Rodin's lover) whose intimate understanding of her subjects, from young girl to old woman, captured quite a different power. Lola
The poetic language in Internodes traverses decades at the speed of a search query. In this twenty-first-century evolution of Marshall McLuhan's coinage that "the medium is the message," Ken Belford's
Disturbed by the death of his religious, overbearing mother, Edgar, an asocial yet complex man, witnesses the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" brutally rape a young woman. He bears the unconscious vi
While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a Native American boarding school. Desperate to hear him acknowledg
"MacLeod has a wonderful ear and eye for the everyday details."—Calgary HeraldInspired by the 2007 Tasering death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport, The Valley dramatizes the volatile rela
Orbiting the writing of Gertrude Stein, these delicate, agile poems seduce readers away from representation and toward sound, texture, and absence. Here, a sentence is no longer a sentence, but "a wor
Catriona Strang expertly "fabricates her own reality" in these poems that explore the female condition and respond to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. In a powerful display of poetic ingenuity,
In this quick-witted collection of poems, Nikki Reimer borrows the language of new media?hashtags, YouTube comments?to defamiliarize the very substance of modern life: the constellation of social idea
In the North Arm of British Columbia's Fraser River lies an uninhabited island. Guarded by water from the city of New Westminster's bustling industrial district, Poplar Island is lush and unspoken, bu
"Farrant has a lightness of touch, and . . . the formats she chooses are refreshing: at her best, it feels as if she is getting at the heart of something that takes other writers much longer to lead u
A Matter of Gravity is a playful and touching treatment of illness and tragedy, in which an enigmatic manuscript brings together two disparate male characters. Black humor and compassion brilliantly i
"When a final analysis is made of twentieth-century Canadian theater, the most significant political playwright will undoubtedly be David Fennario."—Canadian Book ReviewThis powerful drama gives a voi
