In Give My Love to Rose, Dwayne Brenna reveals the intimacy of a long marriage with warmth and astonishing generosity. These poems of a life partnership are fresh, resonant and honest. With the succes
Against the backdrop of the changing seasons, Shirley Camia's The Significance of Moths is a graceful exploration of home and memory through the eyes of the migrant and the migrant child. As lives are
Poetry. If Dionysus and Ariadne lived in Montreal in the late twentieth century, would he serve veal stuffed with apples and pate de fois gras? Coach nubile young singers in a performance of L'Orfeo?
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
In this breathtaking collection of poems, Pamela Porter invokes the twin mysteries of love and loss to illumine the heart burdened by grief, yet comforted and renewed by the beauty of the natural worl
Languages of My Land/Langues de ma terre brings the prose and poetry of eleven emerging and established indigenous writers from Quebec. The languages in this anthology are many, not just the French or
In her debut collection of poetry, Luann Hiebert, peers at the undercurrents of family and relationships. In an age where secrecy and privacy seem to have fallen by the wayside What Lies Behind looks
Stones . . . hewn by nature and the hand of man. They shelter us, record our grief, provide hope, joy and provide a window into the past. Dennis Cooley's latest collection of poetry brings his tradem
Michelle Berry has one of the most darkly playful and unique voices in Canadian literature and her second collection of short stories, Margaret Lives in the Basement is no exception. At its heart are
Ann ShinIn The Family China, her second book of poems, Ann Shin examines the decentering experiences of migration, loss and death, and the impulse to build anew. In five suites threaded through with f
At once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcrofts The Truth of Houses is an elegant and honest debut collection. While very intimateeven startlingly intimate at timesthe voices of these poems are co
Detectives Lane and Harper are back for the third installment of the Detective Lane Mystery Series in this gripping twister of a novel that baffles with its ever increasing body count and suspect list
Stations of the Lost is about how we seek to find places for ourselves in landscapes and situations that seem to belong to others. In language playful, extravagant, somber and meditative, yet always p
Much of this poised and luminous book is rooted in an idea of epiphany, an aesthetics of everyday incarnation; not the sudden and profound manifestation of essence or meaning, but the smaller steps ta
Fiction. In grappling with the line between what happened and what might have happened, Steeves gives voice to the anguish of a generation of people who grew up with great expectations, and are now se
In her fourth historical novel dealing with British North America and the American Revolution, Jean Rae Baxter focuses on Broken Trail, a young boy who was born white but captured and adopted by the O
Kate Cayley bioKate Cayley’s is a mind both studious and curious, deeply attuned to the question “what if?” What if Nick Drake and Emily Dickinson met in the afterlife? What if a respected physician s
In her follow-up to 2008s Flutter, former big-city-dweller Alice Burdick explores nature and the small town, taking a cue from children learning their voices: All I see are trucks, / trucks and ducks.
Sarah de Leeuws Geographies of a Lover is a sexually charged travelogue of love, lust, and loss.Drawing inspiration from such works as Pauline Rages The Story of O and Marian Engels Bear, de Leeuws po
Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canadas most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane for Breat
Set in the near future in the mountainous and fielded cusp between BC and Alberta,The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey is the story of Jeffery Inkster, an ex-hipster-turned elk farmer. Inks
The English translation of new work from a celebrated Danish poet. Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments is a collection of poems that zooms in and out of places and states of mind, from
Joe is a shy high school student who is relentlessly bullied, and must find comfort in the natural world. Soon however, the story twists into a tale of power and fear complete with visual symbolism an
The Night Drummer is the story of two teenage friends--white, middle-class Peter Ellis, and Otis James, a native boy adopted by an older evangelical Christian couple. Peter and Otis grow up in small t
A once blue-collar town, Peacefield has surrendered to the illusion of affluence. But for some, the newcomers and their wealth are not welcome. Tension and division are a way of life. One night, the o
A rock-littered backyard in east-end Ottawa slowly becomes a garden in Monty Reids looping cycle and re-cycle of anti-paradisial poems. With his companion species, the shovel, Reid digs and un-digs, t
In 2007, after the suicide of his son, Linthout wrote and drew the graphic novel Years of the Elephant, which was nominated for a number of international awards and won the Bronzen Adhemar, the most i
In the tradition of Borges, Nabakov, and Bolano, The Red Album is a work of fiction that turns itself inside out. Divided into two parts, the book begins with an edited and footnoted narrative of dubi
Lucid accurate detail and music at every turn.Many of the poems in Noble Gas, Penny Black explore the subject of departure and arrival, an ongoing theme in David O?Meara?s work. Travel?being between p
Set in present-day Toronto, Incidental Music is a novel about three very different women. Petra is new to the city and eager to establish roots, but she keeps losing jobs, and finds it impossible to m
Two porcupines walk into a bar. No, wait. One porcupine walks into a bar. Well, actually, its a poet. And he walks into a library. He opens books and shakes them until they look like porcupines dancin
Following the coast on their summer vacation, the Henrys stop at the beach to break up the monotony of their road trip. Matty and Nat build castles in the sand as Anne and David take turns minding the
War herald of the Nine Worlds, Ted Callan, must build a cage from Surtur's bones, unearth the Bright Sword, and vanquish the fire giant once and for all.But there's a snag in his master plan to slay t
Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that it's hard to believe this is a first book. Short Haul Engine is one great twist of fate and fury af
" ?a book of marvels from the tropical zone of poetry." ? Roo Borson Jaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship, with textual notes and
In May 1949, at the age of twenty, Barbara Kingscote left her farm in Mascouche, Quebec, and set out for the Pacific Ocean on horseback. Barbara and her equine compa
Leah is haunted: by the things shes done, and the things she has failed to do. And then there's the the ghost of her brother. She has to learn to let go of the past if she, or her brother, are ever go
Cultural Writing. Women's Studies. African American Studies. Edited by Notisha Massaquoi and Njoki Nathani Wane. THEORIZING EMPOWERMENT: CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT is a collection
Barry Dempster copyVirtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.Invisible Dogs, Dempster’s fourteenth collection, is a
