Without you, I have taken to drawing maps on the backs of photographs. On the coast in a raincoat your smile has been dented by a lake, the fluting arms of rivers have made your shoulders look
As bass player for the 80s one hit wonder, Rock Viper, Edgar Martin toured the world, had sex with groupies and made thousands of people deaf. But the band broke up years ago and Edgars now middle-age
What mysteries lie beneath the subtle perfection of theBLT? What is the etymology of the "croissant"? Why didI drink all that scotch? This collection of writing by JonahCampbell--met
A small flat sits unoccupied above Henrys caf. When a woman comes to rent the room, Henrys world begins an unusual transformation. As they grow closer the city itself is affected, changed, and slowly
When twelve-year-old Hannah uncovers an ancient Salish spindle whorlhidden in a cave near her home in Cowichan Bay, she is transported backto a village called Tlulpalus, in a time before Europeans had
Eloquent, poignant and witty, Garry Gottfriedson's new collection of poetry, Whiskey Bullets, approaches an old genre with a new flare that will challenge your expectations of cowboy poetry. This edgy
RTGAward-winning storyteller Andy Jones and acclaimed illustrator Darka Erdelji are back with another whimsical, wise, and witty 'Jack tale' -- the third in their on-going series. Jack and Mary in
Other Stories and the Horse You Rode in On is a collection of Dakota McFadzeans comics. Short stories filled with yawning skies, dark humour, and quiet ruminations on memory, aging, and time. Drunken
This is a sex book. It is about having sexwith yourself, with one person, or with twenty people if everyone is down; in beds, on tables, in hallways, boudoirs, on verandas, and in tall reeves of grass
Clever and persistent, Magpie Days, the debut poetry collection from Brenda Sciberras, picks through the baubles and trinkets of the everyday. And like the black and white plumage of the magpie, Scibe
Picture Worldis the first complete book by the Danish poet Niels Frank to be published in English. By turns funny and serious, ironic and sincere, droll and sly, conversational and playfully inventive
Poetry. Time touches everything, and in doing so changes everything. THE ARROW OF TIME examines the challenges, transformations and surprises wrought by change, and celebrates the ways we attempt to m
Follows the friendship between teenagers Rose and Lacey and their search for acceptance, and love in a small village in south-eastern British Columbia. When Rose becomes pregnant, the childless Giacom
In this quirky and beautiful vaudevillian debut, Tara Azzopardi employs sharp social observation and a pop-culture universe from the past and present to explore the struggles we face in constructing o
In this amazing first collection of poetry, Habsbawn-Smith displays a skill and passion for capturing and creating experience through language. Here is a new, and original voice that sparks with intel
These poems lead the reader into a world that reveals a balancing act between the familiar and known, the mysterious and wild. Some poems are narrative, some imagistic meditations, and some are small,
In this highly entertaining collection, Arnason employs all of his powers as a humorist and as a scholar intimate with North American and Icelandic mythology and culture. Whether set in a chilly Canad
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
Charlie Tate and Elodie Gray make a striking couple. Charlie is a shaven-headed weightlifter who has worked as a seaman, carnival huckster and hustler and now earns his keep as an unlicensed private i
Charmaine CadeauProvisional, roaming, obsessed with remnants and deferrals, the poems in Charmaine Cadeau’s second collection navigate flexible and shifting terrains where the speaker’s emotional dire
Catherine Greenwood copyAtmospherically light and stylistically expansive poems that regard our givens as a gift. Don McKay’s description of The Pearl King and Other Poems, Catherine Greenwood’s wond
This lively first collection, often both creepy and hilarious, serves up an image-laden universe the sideshow we call home where contortionists, womanizing ventriloquist dummies, and pickled sharks
Drawing from a range of contemporary poetic traditions, The Purpose Pitch explores the overlap between narrative, pop culture, and the political. These poems are often funny, sometimes harrowing, and
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
John ReibetanzAfloat, John Reibetanz’s eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations. The centerpiece, a sequence on the Three Gorges Dam and its cultural and environmental impl
In Hard Light, Michael Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking through generations of storytellers, he conju
Sneha Madhavan-Reese's debut poetry collection, Observing the Moon, was a finalist for the 2013 Alfred G. Bailey Prize and sparkles with compositional flair -- and lyrical balance. These poems of fami
This Could Be Anywhere describes experiences of places, landscapes, and encounters that do not seem to respond to our natural and spontaneous interest in them. The poetry collection visits various pla
A colourful account of the adventures of the schooner Fronie Myrtle (1935-1949) and her heroic, strong-willed crew as they fished the treacherous waters off Newfoundland and Labrador. Includes numerou
Fierce and delicate poems from a young poet reminiscent of Jane Hirshfield and Jan ZwickyRapt, musical, passionately engaged, the poems in Thin Moon Psalm move towards their own inner stillness, while
Immigrant Blues, an extension and deepening of the famous poems of the siege of Sarajevo translated in Simic's Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford, 1997), explores the personal and the public devasta
Each summer, The Banff Centre's Literary Journalism program takes in eight senior journalists and writers and charges them with a simple, if daunting, task: Write about something you really care about
A follow-up to his acclaimed The Porcupinity of the Stars, Moon Baboon Canoe is filled with Gary Barwins trademark humour, invention, musicality and craft and continues his exploration of family, mode
Life is full of those moments, good and bad, that define you, make you whole, and provide direction to your journey. Richard Scarsbrooks brilliant debut collection of poetry, Outtakes, uncovers the mo
A sharply original debut collection, How To Get Along With Women showcases Elisabeth de Mariaffis keen eye and inventive voice. Infused with a close and present danger, these stories tighten the knot
These "riddlu" are a lighthearted but heartfelt attempt to combine two poetic forms that demand extreme concision and that value the suggestive power of metaphor: the riddle and the
Sabotage is a collection of poems that explores private and public acts of destruction, disruption, and vandalism in the 21st century. In Sabotage, several vital sites are under attack or at risk: the
The poems in Between the Moments immerse the reader deep into the reflection of humanity and tangible reality of life to explore the moments of perplexity and simplicity of life. Throughout the book,
Its him or the cat in this charming collaboration between first time author (and renown Quebec comic actor) Yves Pelletier and the established artist Pascal Girard (winner of the Doug Wright Award for
Examines how aggression and manipulation are as equally responsible as politics and language for how societies come to be defined. This title presents a fresh way of thinking about the politics of sur
