The beat and language of reggae arose from the Jamaican countryside and the sidewalks of Kingston, but they're basic for the poets represented in Wheel and Come Again. This remains true even though th
In this lush collection of linguistic concatenations, Peter Richardson lines up the quotidian and the metaphysical, the personal and the fictional, and assigns equal standing to their rich complicatio
This new collection by Lynn Davies, her first in eight years, abounds in departures: words and communities die, trout-lilies and passengers vanish, even the King and Queen of Fairies disappear. In poe
In this lyrical memoir, Kishkan, a Canadian author/poet/small press owner, pays homage to the trees on her forested property on the Sechelt Peninsula. Blending personal and natural history with mythol
David Askevold broke into the art scene when his work was included in the seminal exhibition Information at New York?s MOMA 1970, which cemented Conceptualism as a genre. He later became recognized as
"The story of the transformation of a horse cavalry unit into one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments. Twentieth-century warfare is epitomized by the image of Allied tanks growling across the c
Showcasing the major career highlights and some of the most recent work of abstract painter Jacques Hurtubise, this lavishly illustrated bilingual volume captures the key works of Hurtubise’s
In this psychologically sophisticated debut novel, Naomi K. Lewis burrows into the inner sanctum of a family whose collective memory is purposefully vanishing.Agatha and Jasmine Winter, children of a
For Lily Piper, life on the prairie is spare, austere, and tucked in. She is restless — not the daughter she feels her mother wants. When puberty hits, an abrupt shift in fate has Lily on her way to E
When Canada entered the Great War in 1914, thousands of women eager to see active service signed on to nurse the wounded. What they experienced in the hospitals behind the front lines would remain wi
In this artfully crafted collection, Soraya Mariam Peerbaye leaps onto the stage with aplomb. She examines how naming expresses our relationship with each other and the natural world and how meaning i
In 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly decomposed bodies. The authorities suspected foul play, but the i
The Scare in the Crow races across the back roads like a muscle car making a beer run. Then it pauses, in haunting contemplation of a walk through the woods. Armstrong's poems inhabit the fantaia of t
The Qingming Shanghe Tu scroll, sometimes called “Spring Festival by the River,” was thought to have been painted by Zhang Zeduan before 1127, when the Northern Song capital of Bian-Ii
Authentic. Original. Inimitable. Mary Majka is one of Canada’s great pioneering environmentalists. She is best known as a television host, a conservationist, and a driving force behind the int
From privateers to peacekeepers, from sailing ship battles to submarine espionage, New Brunswick's recorded naval history dates back to the first European incursions.Bounded on three sides by the ocea
On a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disembowelled his own sister, before dumping her lif
The House is Still Standing is peopled with charlatans, gingerbread men, children, and savants ? the thousands and the particular. Adrienne Barrett builds this nimble first collection with a supple cr
Carmelita McGrath?s Escape Velocity ? the long awaited follow-up to her Atlantic Poetry Prize-winning collection To the New World ? culls overlooked fragments from our domestic lives and ferries them
Featuring 50 hiking routes within 150 km of Montreal, this handy guide explores trails within the city and in the adjacent Laurentides, Lanaudiere, Monteregie, and Cantons-de-l?Est regions. Michael Ha
