March, 1963. Winter has launched its final assault on Montreal. The Fat Woman, Therese, Edouard, Pierrette, Marcel, all the star-crossed characters of Tremblay’s Chronicles of Plateau Mont-Royal are h
Lawrence and Holloman, a hapless nerd and a loquacious salesman, meet by chance. From this fleetingly irritating and insignificant encounter, the viciously murderous and incredulously bizarre plot eme
In this collection of short humorous essays originally written for the popular media, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor sends his readers fascinating and exotic postcards from h
In 2003, a mild-mannered historian named Moses Lapinsky jots down notes for a biography. It is to tell the tale of his father Sonny, a famous Jewish- Canadian boxer. As Moses buries himself in his res
bill bissett, who recently celebrated his seventieth birthday, remains even in his ?biblical years” Canada’s most exciting, innovative pioneer in the field of the written, spoken, performed, illustrat
This volume represents the most definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett’s writing from the 1960s and 1970s, in voices ?erotik, politikul, humorous, lyrikul, sound-vizual, narrative, meditati
During a thunderstorm, lightning strikes the home of the Lastings, killing the parents and forever bonding the children, even though Rock, William, Fred-James and Naomi are not blood-related. Years la
ABC of Reading TRG examines the writings of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, with a special focus on their collaborative work as the Toronto Research Group (TRG). The book expands what little criticism t
Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction is a collection of M.A.C. Farrant’s work dating from 1985 to 2009. Compiled of selected fiction from Sick Pigeon (1991), Raw Material (1993), Alte
In Annihilated Time, Jeff Derksen offers a clear point of view from which to critique and unsettle contemporary neoliberalism and its slippery redeployments of democratic vocabularies for undemocrati
This collection of 37 essays by Canada’s Confederation Poets is the first in a series of volumes intended to collect all the significant essays on poetic theory written in English by Canadian poets fr
With Bated Breath asks questions about memory?how and why it plays such a prominent role in our lives: how time affects it, how it fractures, how we often reinvent it depending on the situation?and wh
Franz Boas (1858-1942), geographer, linguist, physical anthropologist and ethnologist, is considered the father of modern North American anthropology.The 1895 German publication of Indianische Sagen v
Two-time Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Morris Panych has done with What Lies Before Us the almost unthinkable: he has turned Waiting for Godot into a comedy while simultaneously heighten
The Battle of Batoche is the best-known confrontation between Metis and British soldiers in the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It remains one of Canada’s most emotion-laden memories, chronicling an his
Passionate critic, principled citizen, attentive reader and editor, and energizing teacher ? Roy Miki is all these and more, a poet whose -writing articulates a moving body of work. The two main areas
Somewhere at the core of almost every intellectual discipline is an attempt to explain change ? why and how things change, and how we negotiate these transformations. These are among the most ancient
Is an artist born, or rather, created by experience? From the moment in childhood when he is forced to take drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from a violent assault ? the only maternal figu
In tribute to the surrealist narrative techniques of Andre Breton and Robert Desnos, Minor Episodes documents the serial adventures of Minor, the ubiquitous "everymogul" who embodies the economic one
