The Secrets Men Keep is about the secrets men keep, and the comic possibilities that arise from our shifting sense of what it means to be a man. Taking an off-kilter approach to revealing the intricac
During a major power outage in the heat of a Montreal summer, two shy young neighbours finally take the time to slow down, meet, and spend time together. Beaulieau takes a microscope to the lives of a
Say Nothing Saw WoodOne weekend, right outta nowhere, it struck me. All of it. Boom. Floored me. What I went and done. When I was only seventeen years old.Jude Traynor has served his time in prison an
In Seas of South Africa, the sixth volume in the best-selling Submarine Outlaw series, it has been over two years since the young explorer first set sail in his own submarine, with his dog and seagull
This book is one woman's examination of her role as an otepayemsuak, a Mtis, in this 500-year era of resistance and change. We are in a time when many Indigenous prophecies are reaching into the pres
E. Alex Pierce CATALOGUE COPYE. Alex Pierces voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. Its not that these poems live in the past; instead, they manage to bring it back to
Over a decade after the release of their first album, The Dears have weathered the indie fringes, the collapse of the music industry as we knew it and the near implosion of the band itself, with their
A tour de force, a book-length poem, embracing a wide variety of poetic and prose forms, to tell the story of Harry Houdini. Steven Price?s Houdini knows better than most the limitations of life, havi
In her third collection of poems, Sue Wheeler writes of the ephemeral with an eye trained on the eternal questions. "Who are you?" she asks at the outset of her search for fresh and more telling names
As a boy born into a girls body in a culture where gender definitions are drawn with sharp lines, Jazz must undertake a heros journey to live his true male identity. Set in modern times, and peopled w
Literary Nonfiction. Afterword by Vanessa Place. 05/09/04 "Now she is blogging. Now she is sitting on the black couch listening to the sirens wail and the rain fall. Now she is thinking of oy
Anna Gareau arrives in Victoria, BC, with two things to hide—an illegal pistol, and the ability to read people’s pasts by touching certain objects. After a
Sole survivor of a suicide pact, Ang has fallen into an underground music scene obsessed with the idea of the end of the world. But when the end finally does come, Ang and her friends dont find the li
After beating back the might of Surtr, Ted Callan is getting used to his immortal powers. The man who once would stop at nothing to rid himself of his tattoos and their power, might even be said to be
On hearing a radio report of an accused priest Philippe is thrown back to a difficult time in his youth. He is faced with his parents impending divorce, moves to a new city, goes to a new school, and
Bread, Wine and Angels is the story of a child - a girl child - in a remote village of southern Italy living in an environment where girls are "barrels of wine" to be sold off quickly lest they turn t
Corey Bonspiel is having a bad day. There's a mysterious lump on his neck, he broke up with his girlfriend, lost his job at a call centre, and worst of all he can't find a TV to watch the Habs' game.
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Emu is a literary cult named after a bird improvised from the spare parts of other birds, a bird that never flies because flying is a cliche. Emu is I AM YOU AND YOU ARE ME spoken at the speed of ligh
"If only my cousin had kept off me, kept out of me his brown fly-strop glue, his shot dog-eye cream. Afterwards, he would comb my hair to a wet Elvis point between my eyes and warn me what his wolves
This collection of nine short stories and a novella offers a fine introduction to the short fiction of Marie-Claire Blais. The stories range widely in setting and form, and take us from depictions of
Rishma Dunlops Lover Through Departure features new and selected work from a lyric poet who has staked her poetic landscape in the sensual territory of love in the urban environment. Here are poems by
The University of Albertas English Department is caught up in a maelstrom of poison-pen letters, graffiti and misogyny. Miranda Craig seems to be both target and investigator, wreaking havoc on her ne
In 2008 Wayne Johnston became the second prominent Canadian writer to enlighten and entertain audiences as a speaker in the Canadian Literature Centre's Henry Kreisel Lecture Series. He spoke to an en
In her University of BC Sedgewick Lecture for 1999, Sandra Djwa relates the life and times of two illustrious professors of English who were among the most influential teachers in Canada's history. Fr
Between 1869 and the early 1930s more than 100,000 children were rounded up from the streets of Britain to be used as labourers in Canadian homes; often little more than slaves. Today there are two mi
Lansing Meadows has one last shot to get it right. With the clock ticking, he sets out on the road one last time, to sing his songs to anyone wholl listen, and to try to right his wrongs, before its t
Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.Adam Dickinson?s poems, with firm intellectual bite and imaginative scope, reach fresh levels of poetic?and ecologic
From the outskirts of the fevered empire, and the embers that were its heart, Moritz sings us to our selvesour failures, our cruelties, our stupidities, and beauty which even now astonishes and leaves
Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains, of growing up and of being young, of being alive in the present momen
"Hear the rustle all down the block as people unwrap the box of the Fifties. Life will be a clock, a pet, it will wag its tail and lie down. Food will glisten in mounds on the breakfast tables and ski
This spirited collection highlights the freshness, charm and originality that are the hallmarks of Manitoba writing. These are stories to savourby turns funny, tender, offbeat, unsettling, provocative
Meditative, meticulously-crafted poems that nonetheless take seriously the idea that all poetry is a form of praise, and that "the habit of sadness just isn't enough/ ... / because it isn't joy." Gath
What is a terrorist doing at a remote research station in the Canadian North? How does he hide his true identity and deadly intent? The polar bear research station at Cape Churchill on the Hudson Bay
