The Pigheaded Soul is a collection of acclaimed poet and critic Jason Guriel?s intelligent, sometimes controversial reviews, essays, and anecdotes on poetry and culture in North America.
At the end of Lewis' previous memoir, the bitterly and beautifully honest Little Comrades, she left her young self newly married in New York City in the year 1952. But at that point, everything is abo
Music is central to many of R. Murray Schafer's memories. `One of the sounds that I'd almost forgotten until I began to write this chronicle was the tinkling of the piano keys when my mother used to w
Eric Ormsby, that gracious, intelligent and occasionally fractious poet, has produced another vigorous collection of essays to shake North American literary criticism from its lethargy. Opinionated a
Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) is legendary for her contribution to the development of contemporary visual arts in Canada. A self-described `cultural activist' she is best known for celebrating Canadian n
In 1968, Canadian artist and filmmaker Jack Chambers was diagnosed with leukemia. Faced with his own mortality, Chambers began a programme of research into the nature of his own immortality. From that
For some years before 2007, with editor Stan Dragland and Joan Eichner, her long time friend and editorial assistant, Margaret Avison had been working on her autobiography. After Margaret's death in
Master engraver George A. Walker presents The Life and Times of Conrad Black, a wordless biography of the Canadian-born media mogul. With 100 stunning woodcuts, Walker affords readers a glimpse of Bla
Walker's engravings in The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson pay homage to Thomson's contribution to Canadian culture through both representations of his own life and of the contemporary artistic commun
In Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices, politics and economics sprawl comfortably alongside prurient dissertations on sex, marriage and aging as Leon Rooke and Tony Calzetta masterfully unfold a
Eric Ormsby is a poet who writes prose that is both graceful and hard-headed. With an outspoken contempt for cant and literary persiflage, Ormsby ranges over a surprising array of writers and literat
High-Water Mark is Bronwen Wallace Award–winner Nicole Dixon's smart and sexy debut. These ten tightly written stories, touched with humour, focus on characters pursuing romantic and professional desi
The reach of Rosemary Kilbourn's art -- primarily wood engravings and works of stained glass -- spans the country, having found welcoming homes in galleries and churches from Victoria to Montreal. Her
David Carpenter's stories often begin in a comic mode, and the voices of the characters, their accents, tones and peculiar vocabularies, are brilliantly caught. But what begins as comedy can frequent
Acclaimed poet P. K. Page weaves together an astonishing range of characters and themes in this remarkable selection of stories written over the last fifty years and collected here for the first time.
Always Now, Collected Poems of Margaret Avison, encompasses in three volumes all of the published books, from Winter Sun (1960) to Concrete and Wild Carrot (2002), and is framed by a gathering of unco
In the mid-1990s, artist and musician Alec Dempster returned to Mexico, the place of his birth, and discovered son jarocho. A genre of folk music from the Veracruz region of Mexico, son jarocho origin
Sailor Girl is both coming-of-age tale and love poem to the natural world. Set on the cargo boats of Canada's Great Lakes in the summer of 1981, it follows the literal and figurative journey of Kate M
Can a story be both a shrug and a prayer? Can it punch you in the arm because, hey, it is only joking, and the next minute fall at your feet, cling to your knees, beg you to listen? Sure. The stories
The culmination of decades of effort, Wayne Clifford's The Exile's Papers is a four-part poetic journey that explores narrative duplicity, familial and romantic relationships, the correlation between
The literary emblem can trace its roots back to sixteenth-century English collections, which sought to reconcile classical philosophy with Christian doctrine. Consisting of images and verses, emblems
Newfoundland writer Libby Creelman finds the emotional heart of her characters — characters continually seeking, and breaking, connections with others, though they rarely know it. A girl welc
Like Michael Winter, Lisa Moore, Libby Creelman, Jessica Grant and Claire Wilkshire, Ramona Dearing is a member of St. John's now-legendary fiction collective, Burning Rock. While it would be misleadi
Since childhood Margaret Avison has written poetry and published it. Always Now: The Collected Poems (three volumes), stretches from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, through Winter Sun in 1960 a
`Written over four decades, Pittsburgh Stories, is the second in a projected four-volume set of Clark Blaise's selected short stories. Set largely during the forties and fifties, these nine stories, w
Her first novel, Dancer, continues to be a Canadian bestseller and now Shelley Peterson brings you her eagerly-awaited second novel, Abby Malone. Abby is a young teenager striving to make things work
An essential part of the folklore of Canadian academia in the 1950s and 60s, George Johnston's poems were recited with glee by readers largely unaware of their publication abroad in the New Yorker, Pa
Laurie Lewis's memoir begins with her child's-eye understanding of a family life based on love, fear and lies. Her frightening father, who believes his children need to be beaten for their own good,
`How could I have imagined so surrealist and seductive a world? One does not like the heat, yet its constancy, its all-surroundingness, is as fascinating as the smell of musk. Every moment is slow, as
The Book of Hours, a wordless novel, draws us back through time and into the intimate routines of daily life in the hours before the onslaught of 9/11. Through images, artist George A. Walker express
At an early age, P. K. Page/Irwin displayed an aptitude for illustration, and even her juvenalia indicated a sharp, painterly eye. But it wasn't until she visited Brazil in the 1950s as wife of the Ca
In a small corner of what was once known as North America, in the not-too-distant future, Neo-Toronto emerges as a prosperous island enclave after decades of war and unrest. In this world, knowledge i
The name P. K. Page is synonymous with that of `artist': she won the Governor General's award for poetry in 1957, was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999, and her paintings are found
"While representing the best of human endeavor, works of art have become ordinary features of our lives, familiar and reliably present," writes Richard Teleky. "They are, however, extraordinary. So ex
In The Gamekeeper, Michael Harris presents poems of sorrow, sensuality, quirkiness and humour-a grand variety of takes on the mortal landscape.With sharp wit and unaffected music, Harris handles the h
Human beings rarely ever say exactly what they mean. The English language has evolved to embrace a dizzying array of linguistic tools with which clever and playful minds can introduce ambiguity and in
