Set in the downtown Toronto of the 1980s, these two stories are told with an intricacy which powerfully evokes both sense and dream. An anorexic who embraces poverty after a childhood of privilege att
From award-winning author Alisha Piercy comes Bunny and Shark, a middle-aged coming-of-age story-cum-shark-adventure that reveals and celebrates women's power in the trenches. Plunging into the first
Drawing on his experience as a two-term MP and former Parliamentary Secretary, Ted McWhinney addresses the need for modernization to meet the radically new demands of the plural, multicultural Canada
Andrew Szymanskis debut fiction collection takes on subjects such as idealized love in an illogical world, ruminations on the realities of failed relationships, and the inability to make meaningful co
Cultural Writing. Gender Studies. WO(MEN) AND BEARS revisits classical debates in women's cultural and Native studies regarding nature and culture. As a mixed-genre anthology--academic and poetic, con
Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style o
Award-winning actor/playwright Chris Craddock explodes the conventions of the theatrical monologue in this collection of three hilarious, poignant, feverishly inventive and (sometimes literally) elect
Since Canada may be faced with a period of minority governments, it has become increasingly important to understand the role of the Head-of-State?the Governor General?in facing the challenge of dysfun
To Calvin White, "political" means taking a stand on issues that matter, wading into the nitty-gritty of who we are as humans and the lives we live and are sometimes forced to live.
The shocking true story of the institutionalization and abuse of children and adults with intellectual and physical handicaps in Canadas oldest provincial institution in Orillia, Ontario. Daisy Lumsde
Edited by Kitty Scott and including essays by Barbara Fischer, Teresa Gleadowe, Francesco Manacorda, Cuauhtmoc Medina, and Lourdes Morales; this book offers an overview of thinking on curatorial pedag
Tracks: The Art and Times of Switchman Joe, by Joe Varro celebrates Joe Varros railway paintings, his bunkhouse sketches in pencil, prints, personal photographs, watercolors and paintings in oil and a
"Societies of Peace: Matriarchies Past Present and Future celebrates women's largely ignored and/or invisible contribution to culture by exploring matriarchal societies that have existed in the past a
Hall of Mirrors is an examination of Canadian museums and their relationship with the public which they attempt to represent. This book examines a number of questions, issues, and controversies surrou
Literary Nonfiction. History. Photography. LIVE SOULS presents 250 of the photos that Alec Wainman took in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, along with his personal story of his time as a volunteer
In daily love letters written to her husband and soul companion, Brian, over the year following his death from brain cancer, critically acclaimed author, playwright, and jazz singer Martha Brooks lead
David W. McFadden has been exploring the Japanese forms of haiku and tankas for six decades. This is the first full-length collection of his work in those forms. The 400 or so poems in this collection
A critical scrapbook collected from fifteen years of writing. Contains essays, reviews, interviews, journals, notes, and poetic improvisations on contemporary
David Arnason is one of the most loved and prolific short story authors on the prairies. Over a lifetime of writing David Arnason has crafted some of the most memorable stories in the Canadian literar
No pair made a greater contribution to colonial life on Canadas West Coast than did Edward and Mary Cridge. While still in England, Edward Cridge was hired by the Hudsons Bay Company to be the chaplai
Rails Across The Rockis an all colour then & now celebration of the former Newfoundland Railway on the 25th Anniversary of its closing. The reader is taken on a 547 mile photographic journey from
Rails Across The Rockis an all colour then & now celebration of the former Newfoundland Railway on the 25th Anniversary of its closing. The reader is taken on a 547 mile photographic journey from
The Criminals Handbook is an unflinching and practical documentthat delivers important survival techniques for anyone unfortunateenough to be arrested, tried, and incarcerated in Canada.Each year almo
Cleopatra at the Breakfast Table is about storytelling in the digital age. Its a jaunty account of a single father, 55, and his daughter, 15, studying Grade 10 Latin together. The book explores the bu
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
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
This story of family and identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through family history, memory, and the occasional recipe. Di
Offers an objective perspective on the tragic events surrounding the Frog Lake Massacre of 1885. By bringing together eyewitness accounts and journal excerpts, memoirs and contemporary fiction, and ex
Toward. Some. Air. is an unprecedented collection of contemporary poetics from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Here, poet and scholar Amy DeAth and former Parliamentary Poet Laureat
A razor-sharp eye for detail roams and redeems imperfections both personal and collective.The world in Carolyn Marie Souaid's latest collection is both an act of the imagination and a responsibility.
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
This book gathers essays by noted poet and translator Erin Moure, and records a quarter century of writing practice emerging from a city of exhilarating poetic and translatory possibility: Montreal. I
Midnight presents the thoughts of a restless traveller to such places as Istanbul, Edinburgh, Montreal, Toronto, the coast of Scotland, and towns and cities in Ireland, France, Italy, and Greece. In t
The titleNight Visionrefers firstlyto thenight vision goggles that enable soldiers to see through the darkness in order to destroy and kill,and secondly to a vision of the political and ecological nig
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwicky's experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landscapes of
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
Teen-agers Darek Dabrowski and Eleanor Hanson come from two different worlds. In communist Poland, all Darek cares about is Levi Strauss jeans, Adidas sneakers and a one way ticket to America. Oh and
Metaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick [
Welcome to Kate Hargreaves' Leak, where the relationship between language and the body lives in the bumps and bruises that in turn become new ways of understanding the borders and leaks of our everyd
House DreamsHouse Dreams, Deanna Young’s haunted and haunting third collection, is at once a core sample of the life we all live underground, and a view beneath the foundations of the various eras and
