The travelers in the Stone Soup folktale creatively offer a share of the nourishment to come by inviting the townspeople to contribute whatever they can. This simple gesture dispels fear and forges co
From poems set in the eastern Mediterranean, with its abiding reverberations of the ancient Greek world, and informed by sacred sites and classical stories, to aseries of sonnet responses to the Gospe
In Some Mornings, Nelson Balls trademark minimalism takes on a new expansiveness. It is a book of both profound joy and mourning. In sharply observed poems about nature and the nature of people, Ball
After a long series of professional and personal upheavals, Detective Lane begins his latest adventure happy, at peace, and enjoying life with his partner Arthur, their children Christine and Matt, an
Some Talk of Being Human is a charming, whimsical, and occasionally dark collection of poems about entering the world of adulthood. Laura Farina started writing it at her first desk job after universi
Carafola is a novel about the impact of a single decision. It also explores where the narratora ruminating, cynical, insecure woman in her early twentiesends and her mental illness begins. These theme
Poems Suitable to Current Material Conditions demonstrates how seductive everyday wordsthose euphemisms and new expressions often mean more than we think they do: how when we speak them we can be tric
Bridget Keating with her urgent and devotional poems has created a first book that is both essential and moving in the ways it reveals that all our loves and our fates are inexorably intertwined. With
How are self-regulating systems such as cities, languages, and ant colonies alike or unalike? What does a medieval love poem have to do with neocolonialism? What politics does interspecies desire enta
Victor Enns is not a soldier, yet he has been speaking with Canadian soldiers since 2007 through these poems, and directly in interviews with Canadian soldiers back from Afghanistan (from 2008 2009).
Absurdity reigns in multiple award-winning author and playwright Clem Martinis newest collection of work, Martini with a Twistfive plays spanning two decades of Martinis career, from 1989 to 2009. A l
The elders in Those Who Know have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they have maintained sometimes forbidden practices fo
Roadkill stuffed and presented as art, an OB/GYN appointment gone horribly wrong, and government spies with a weakness for salmon bagels and Timmy Hos.Tender, satirical, and occasionally absurd, Barb
A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman.Antony Di Nardo's third collection of poems occupies the air between Canada and Lebanon, viewer and painting, victim and tri
The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "verb" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry out their faith within a hookless frameworkthat sings in chorus while undermi
Akin to a bookkeepers accounting of whats given and taken in a fraught, uncertain exchange, The Counting House goes on to record the pageantry and pedantry of courtly affection gone awry. Symbols and
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 RELIT AWARDConflict interweaves ghosts, bad communication, the uncanny and the archiv
Inspired by music, this poetry collection is composed of assonances, rhythms, musical phrases, and improvisations that outline the beginning and the end of everything that matters. Paul Savoie delves
Rewrite, an intellectual mystery, follows Bruno Leblon, a history lecturer at a Paris university, during a six week long winter break as he tries to do research at the Public Library for his new booka
David Groulxs latest book of poems is as smooth as a mirror, but as cutting and dazzling as shards of glass, reflecting back to us the collective voice of fractured lives. Weaving the ephemeral with t
