Starting in 2011, George Bowering, Canada's first Parliamentary poet laureate and author of more than eighty books (novels, stories, books for teens, literary criticism, memoirs, and books about baseb
Almost Islands is a memoir of Collis's friendship with and regular visits to legendary poet Phyllis Webb--now in her nineties and long enveloped in the silence which followed her last published book i
This politically charged play about the ad men behind Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign shows how American politics changed during the 1960s. The "daisy ad" aired only once, but its prese
It is a hot June day. A woman sits in a bar in Montreal’s Main, waiting. Pushing down the disturbing scene (the police, a blanket) she saw that morning in the park. To focus herself, she tries to gues
'All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyr
'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyr
Roughly based on The Trial by Franz Kafka, this black comedy changes the lead character to a modern business woman who finds herself accused of an unknown crime. The more she delves into the bureaucra
In The Better Part of Heaven , Ken Norris deepens and extends both the form and content of his expanding body of work. A poetic journal of a journey through the South Pacific, it builds on both the Ja
