"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
"With Il pleuvait des oiseaux, the author has excelled. Brilliant! And what humanity! Jocelyne Saucier is a magician of the soul."?Le DevoirTom and Charlie are living out what's left of their lives on
"Goldbach's touch is light and his narrative momentum is fierce."?The Globe and MailRobert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call f
James Reaney is one of Canada's favourite poets and playwrights; at the intersection of his dramatic and poetic talents is Scripts, a collection of musical writings. There are nine complete works here
The craft of craft, the art of craft ? here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about these things. In March 1999, Jean Johnson, who runs Toronto's Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre, organi
Praise for Monoceros:"Monoceros is one of the most imaginative, quirky and emotionally devastating novels I've read in a long while." ?Globe and MailDr. Edith Vane, scholar of English literature, is c
Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he could
We live in an "adultitarian" state, where the rules are based on very adult priorities and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and powerless; they understand they're subject to
Shacks, Value Village, Vancouver fountains, scaffolding, suburbia, synthetics and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry: delectably incongruous subjects find stirring cross-contamination in the
"This is a book with brains and muscle, resonant and intense, and Matthew Heiti is a prodigious talent, the spooky bard of mullets and muffin-tops, grow-ops and stolen snakeskin boots on Highway 69."
"Whip-pan-smart, fleet and protean, David Seymour's poems seem to contain the speed of the age. I love their ranginess and ambition, the way they rove through a here-and-now teeming with there-and-the
It all started with a black rose and a rich young man. And a house with a creek running through it. And then there she was, Kip Flynn, standing beside her boyfriend's dead body and agreeing to take a
bpNichol was one of Canada’s most innovative, eclectic, entertaining, and, yes, enigmatic poets, making startling interventions in the development of poetry and profoundly influencing both his own and
In two massive volumes, Steve McCaffery, Canada's most challenging, experimental and innovative poet/critic amasses the best of his previously published and ungathered work.From the early concrete and
In two massive volumes, Steve McCaffery, Canada's most challenging, experimental and innovative poet/critic amasses the best of his previously published and ungathered work.From the early concrete and
Adrift in history and myth, fairy tales and TV, the tedious and the marvellous, you'll find Dislocations in Crystal.These poems move through the world opened by Prince Henry the Navigator's epoch-shif
Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the intense diversity of the city itself, and Any Other Way is an eclectic and lavishly illustrated history of how these groups
"Alphabetic dismantling, syntactic play, essaying words backwards and 4words (as she might say), Christakos manifests forensic clarity and telegraphic fortitude in this unsettling work."?Rachel Blau D
"McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack." ? The Washington PostMelding the deeply personal and the culturally popular, Li'l Bastard is confessional
Common Place negotiates intimacy while navigating the complexities of memory, addressing shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes challenged by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text
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
Nights on Prose Mountain gathers all of beloved writer bpNichol's published fiction. Originally appearing between 1968 and 1983, and representing almost the entire arc of Nichol’s writing career, Nigh
"Bock's language crackles with the energy of a Québécois folk song, impassioned and celebratory but also melancholy and cheekily ironic." ?The New Yorker, on AtavismsA young, floundering author meets
`There is so much disappointment in conventional politics. But cities and neighbourhoods are spaces where transformation is still within reach; indeed, it happens every day. This original and inspirin
"Charming, funny, and often elegant. This is a formidable collection." Ben FamaWith an alternating sense of wonder and detachment, Jay Ritchie's first full-length collection of poetry grapples w
"Iceland is a beautifully structured and extremely powerful play that haunts the mind. Billon is an original and exciting voice."?Atom EgoyanNicolas Billon's acclaimed trilogy of plays tackles, with w
New Theatre represents a lively foray into spaces geographical and utopian that investigate the process of meaning. Coolly cerebral poems about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's later life muse on power and ide
The debut collection of visceral short fiction from notorious Toronto writer, editor, indie commentator and small-press overlord Hal Niedzviecki, Smell It lances the boil of urban life and sticks its
Anatomic is a poetry book that has emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to look at the wayThe poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing
"When I first saw Norah and Amy's breathtaking performance I was speechless. Mouthpiece touches on every part of the female experience from birth to death using dance, music, and wicked humour with ju
