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
Sweet Affliction collects fifteen sharply-observed, darkly funny stories by Journey Prize-nominated writer Anna Leventhal. A memorable range of narrators navigate the complexities and discomforts of m
The Sandcastle Diary portrays journey through life and everlasting reflections of the heart. The poems illustrate deep emotions written in a thoughtfully artistic way with vibrant interpretations stem
Historians, social scientists, writers, theologians and others explore the spiritual dimension of the west coast of North America from Oregon through Washington to British Columbia. They cover religio
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Fiction. Translated from the French by Oana Avasilichioaei and Ingrid Pam Dick. Suzanne Leblanc's THE THOUGHT HOUSE OF PHILIPPA transposes a theory of individuality into a stunningly reflective, sensu
Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourse
Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal is a poetic investigation of melancholia and the baroque. As a collaborative reading of writers such as Walter Benjamin, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Giorgio Agamben,
Little Lessons in Saftey is a collection of Holton’s “scratchy intelligent line drawings” (Broken Pencil) which play with the format of children’s readers, comics, celebrity fashion magazines, and cut
Winner of 2015 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, Sideshow Concessions is the first book from queer performance artist and professor, Lucas Crawford. A themed collection focusing on the circ
Iconic political speeches are some of the best remembered and most repeated passages in contemporary English language. Especially in the United States of America, what child doesn't know Abraham Linco
Literary Nonfiction. Biography. Canadian History. California Interest. This biography of Amor De Cosmos explores the life and career of this most eccentric of Canadian politicians, a man who played a
Gillian WigmoreOrient is the third collection from one of Western Canada’s most accomplished poets. Composed mainly of three long poemsan extended meditation on the connection between man and fish, th
In Singular Plurals, Roland Prevost presents us with fictive -- often surreal -- images encapsulated in text that is layered in meaning, playful with language and polyphonous in tone. The poems explor
YAW marks a sharp departure in tone and structure from Dani Couture's previous two acclaimed poetry collections. An almost singular narrative runs through these quiet, powerful poems, a narrative that
Chaos Inside Thunderstorms draws the audience into the centre of the tumultuous political, socio/economical and historical reality of the First Nations experience in Canada today. It is poetic expres
Mining bilong dispela stori: Exploring the power imbalance between English and Tok Pisin, Twin Tongues transforms the English Language into a character who encounters her own foreignness in Papua New
Ian Sullivan Cants zines / illustrated poems are collected here into his first book, Papercut Heart. In deceptively simple pages, he tackles love, death and dreams with a wistful existentialism. Chia
Poetry. FIELDNOTES, A FORENSIC charts one forensic anthropologist's series of descents in the first decade of the new millennium--a decade when forensic discourses and experts became ubiquitous in pop
Poetry. Philip Resnick's FOOTSTEPS OF THE PAST constitutes a powerful set of reflections on the modern human condition. The book contains poems dealing with memory, recognition, and the slow passage o
For the past five years cartoonist Dakota McFadzean has been drawing a four panel comic strip every day and posting to his website (www.dakotamcfazean.com). EVERY DAY! This is a remarkable achievement
Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year- and Walrus Poetry Prize-winning author.Monologue Dogs is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every "voice" ha
Recently granted registration papers for his submarine, Alfred is no longer an outlaw and is filled with conviction to become an active environmentalist. But in Perth, Australia, he is mistakenly accu
From the multi-talented author of Inventory and Open Pit comes a new collection of short stories, filled with lost souls drifting through exotic locales, reinventing themselves on the fly.Marguerite P
In his first collection of short stories, rob mclennans The Uncertainty Principle uses not a single wasted word to explore history, contemporary culture, human relationships, and the ways in which we
Ground Rules features writing from the second decade of one of the most active micro publishers in Canada, selected from a series of hundreds of publications lovingly edited, produced and distributed
A Night for the Lady explores the terrain of poetry conversation. Each poem arises from conversations with poets, colleagues and intimate friends. They range from a 1998 conversation on healing progra
Sue Goyettes outskirts is a tour de force. Its originality lies in Goyettes refusal of despair, her conviction that the connections among people, their conversation, curiosity, empathy and awe, can he
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
It's been 150 years since Alice first entered Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's beloved classic book. My, how times have changed! Now, from the multi-award-winning poet and scholar Steve McCaffery comesAl
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).
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
Alice Ernestine Prin became Kiki, the Queen of Montparnasse, during the height of the Crazy Years when creativity and unbridled passion had reached a fever pitch. Kiki performed in cabarets, made art,
Homage to Happiness, by Judith Krause of Regina, and Saskatchewans newly appointed Poet Laureate writes in a subtle, yet rich, lyric architecture in these poems that house past loves, present loves, m
Low is a novel about family, identity, illness, love and loss.Lyrical, personal prose draw readers into the world of Adriana Song.We feel our way through Low with her as she navigates lopsidedfriendsh
Following on the heels of the The Song of Roland, Montrealer Michel Rabagliati returns to the childhood story of his famous semi-autobiographical character. Its 1970 and Pauls family watches the news
The publication of bill bissett’s Rush: what fuckan theory; a study uv languagein 1972firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years – and reissued here complete wi
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
This book collects Canadian cartoonist David Colliers work published over the last 30 years in various publications such as: The National Post, The Nerve, The Globe and Mail, The Saskatoon Star Phoeni
