Shacks, Value Village, Vancouver fountains, scaffolding, suburbia, synthetics and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry: delectably incongruous subjects find stirring cross-contamination in the
Finalist for the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award in DramaIn a world where hilarity and heartbreak are next-door neighbours, minor complications inevitably arise. In this first collection of pla
Glenn Gould captured the imagination of a worldwide audience, becoming an instant celebrity with his eccentric performance style and his definitive renderings of Bach. David Young has used Gould's ear
With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships, and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are astonishing for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness. There's an elegance here that
Winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry!A finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Prize and the Lambda Literary Award!In her ambitious follow-up to Hagiography, acclaimed poet Jen Currin continues
Longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize!Shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award!Lemon has three mothers: a biological one she’s never met, her adopted father’s suicidal ex, and Drew, a sc
This is the story of Isobel and Emile.They wake up beside each other one morning, and they slowly get out of bed. It is the last time that they will sleep together. They know it. They do not want it t
Reading is slow, and writing is slower. Words are old-fashioned. Why not consider the communication of the future? In 1837, Sir Isaac Pitman began a sixty-year obsession with producing a system of Sho
Louise Bak's second book, Tulpa (in Buddhist mysticism, a magical entity created by intensely concentrated thought), continues her challenging exploration of a broad range of themes and uses of the gl
Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and "natural" spaces as landscapes charged with possible
Since 2010 Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured
In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don't—th
Winner of the The Believer Book Award (2012)Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award (2013)'Maidenhead is a mesmerizing and important novel, lying somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone
"Tierney accomplishes certain Albert Goldbarthian feats, weaving whiz-bang with philosophical insights that will break your heart."—American Literary Review "Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad bo
Winner of the 2013 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry (Manitoba Book Awards)If Lisa Robertson were to collide with David Lynch in a dark alley, the result would be a lot like The Politics of Knives
Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013)Shortlisted for the Gerard Lampert Award (2013)Inspired largely by the poet's experiences as a young man working in the Saskatchewan oilfields,
"A great novel that captures the loneliness and absurdity of the 1990s suburban experience. Dense and imaginative writing that often borders on the uncomfortable, but the edge of your seat is the best
A finalist for the 36th annual Amazon.ca First Novel Award!Five siblings, all haunted by the death of a brother in their youth. One winter day, when another of them will be taken by cancer.Guddy is st
"The empire's missing links are found deep in this poet's ever-astonishing states of multiple consciousness—astutely attuned to the pressured, violent, mass conformities forced upon us—brilliantly for
2007 Winner of the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary AwardAs meditative practices focus on the axis of breath, these poems focus on the moment of action, of thought, on the flux of speech.This i
