East and West, Laura Ritland’s astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds
The Hardness of Matter and Water fulfills a poetic odyssey Québécois poet Pierre Nepveu began more than four decades ago. Through a sequence of four prose poems, his anonymous protagonis
Drawing from contemporary and traditional texts and music, this is a moving and uplifting guide to commemorating Yom Hashoah?Holocaust Remembrance Day. Enabling the growing audience of individuals, fa
Drawing from contemporary and traditional texts and music, this is a moving and uplifting guide to commemorating Yom Hashoah?Holocaust Remembrance Day. Enabling the growing audience of individuals, fa
A legend of 19th century French Canadian poetry, Émile Nelligan was only 16 when he fell under the influence of Baudelaire and Rimbaud and began writing taut, confidently surrealistic poems, sh
Power and sex take centre stage in Robin Richardson’s formidable third collection, Sit How You Want. Plane crashes and automobile mishaps are the backdrop for female narrators who grapple with t
Praised for his darkly psychological accounts of extreme experiences, Jim Johnstone’s fifth book of poems explores his most difficult terrain to date: mental illness and addiction. Like Coleridg
The third and final detective tale in this gritty series of vintage mysteriesoriginally published in 1953once again follows the hard-drinking yet hardworking private eye, Russell Teed, through the cro
A novel celebrating America’s vibrant 20th century. When Gabriel Rivages recounts the life of Olympic gold medalist and silver-screen heart-throb Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984), he brings to life a
Newspaper reporter Colin Dalhousie tracks scores of human disappearances across Vermont and Quebec dating back to the mid-1800s. What he discovers reveals a chilling pattern of events. This is an apoc
A career-focused woman finds her life taken off course by an unexpected pregnancy and its challenging aftermath; a troubled doctor abandons her family on her daughter's birthday, the three-tiered past
The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke, and Brecht. Cook's versions not only t
This collection of a journalist's writings for the Canadian Jewish newspaper Keneder Adler from the 1920s–1940s offers a vivid evocation of Jewish life during the aftermath of World War I and the Russ
Eugenie is trying, and mostly failing, to restore an inherited old farm in New Brunswick while her husband, a master carpenter, is away in Spain. The work involved overwhelms her, so she hires Dean to
wenty-nine-year-old Daniel is an under-employed internet artist who's struggling as much with money and inspiration as he is in his relationship with Grace. Against a backdrop of a digital economy tha
In a world where language is never simple, this challenging collection shows how the most ordinary words can be used as weapons in the battle for private and public power. Resembling a series of ambiv
“It’s been a long time now, nearly two years since we met at that party.” “Yeah,” Tessie said bitterly, “and nearly five years since I was a clever little girl who thought she’d found a way to make a
