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
People don’t leave the Point, even if they move far away. Or at least that’s how it seems to journalist Kathy Dobson. Growing up in the 1970s in Point St. Charles, an industrial slum in Mo
Connoiseurs of stained-glass windows and frescoes have appreciated Guido Nincheri’s unique work, which can be found across Canada and in New England. Although considered to have been the most pr
Fixing its gaze on writers as they are seldom seen, this anthology of photographs and accompanying stories provides an intriguing exploration into the personal and professional lives of various artist
A visceral tale of obsession and creativity, unrequited passions and the power of music. A love story in which art is a foil to companionship, and the intellect an interlocutor of the heart. In the ut
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
In the late sixties, in a comfortable Calcutta neighbourhood, the restless sons and daughters of the well-to-do eagerly mix with activists and other characters from the margins who carry the seeds of
Richard Sanger’s new collection contains voices reporting from a number of far-flung states, both emotional and geographic. The book’s true theme, though, is what one calls home, and the i
In Four Days, an orphaned boy watches as his older brother and idol graduates from petty thievery into big-league crime. A bank heist goes awry, leaving loose threads and dangerous links back to the b
The year is 1996, and small-town life for 14-year-old Catherine is made up of punk rock, skaters, shoplifting, and the ghost of Kurt Cobain. Her parents are too busy divorcing to pay her headful of un
Previously collected, uncollected, and unpublished poems of Canadian modernist poet Annie Wilkinson are included in this compendium of her work. The textual notes accompanying each poem document chang
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
A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds. Confounded by Japanese-Canadian legacies too painful to fully embrace, Michael Prior’s split speakers struggle
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
In poetry that strikes a delicate balance between candour and lament, Mockingbird tracks the aftershocks of a failed marriage through a variety of self-portraits. Derek Webster’s speakers itemize thei
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
Seventy-year-old Nathan Gelder's recent stroke has done little to appease the obsessive dreams and memories of his parents?both of whom died in the Holocaust?that haunt him relentlessly. While he rema
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
A disturbing tale of identity and deception set in 1950s Toronto. That Rafe Jonason’s life didn’t end when he smashed up his car was something of a miracle; on that everyone agreed. However, the d
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
