As Shane Neilson writes in Margin of Interest, `Maritime poetry is the sum of what's come before, a unique history, and yes, a unique place.'In Margin of Interest Neilson examines representation, iden
In Bite Me!, idiosyncratic observations and provocative musings illuminate an unseen world of creatures both real and imagined.This is a collection populated by eighty-foot-long boa constrictors and c
A veteran of the Second World War, Douglas LePan never forgot his experience of the horrors of battle. His bold, powerful verses often recall scenes of valour, tenacity and honour amid the `festivals
`When does a thought become part of a poem and when does it become part of some other form of writing? ... You jot something down and watch to see how it leans.'In Viaticum, Jeffery Donaldson presents
A postal worker confronts the supernatural after he is assigned a cursed route near an abandoned tannery. An attempted robbery goes awry when dimwitted thieves decide to knock off a coffee joint ... b
Northrop Frye wrote that for Canadian poets the question of identity isn't so much `Who am I?' as `Where is here?' In his ground-breaking collection of essays, You Are Here, James Pollock gives his an
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 Deep is a vivid, accomplished tale of twin sisters caught up in the mania that was World War I. The year is 1918. Esther and Ruth, living a life privileged and protected, embark upon a journey to
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
Wayne Clifford's The Exile's Papers first appeared in 2007 with the publication of The Duplicity of Autobiography, but this creative project -- a four-part series of hundreds of surreal, straightforwa
More than twenty years in the making, Dancing, With Mirrors is the result of George Amabile's patient examination of his life. The light of careful attention, shining into his past, sends fragments of
The Exile's Papers, Part One, considers the implications of duplicity in autobiography as they appear in the first two hundred or so sonnets of a four-volume sonnet cycle completed over the past twent
`As a disease that is ``made of tangles'' Alzheimer's is the perfect metaphor for the social intricacies that are the subject of The One With the News. While the dementia floor of the Health Centre is
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,
In 1980, George A. Walker was all of nineteen years old and starting his first year at the Ontario College of Art when printmaking instructor Bill Poole approached him with a crazy idea: to create nin
Walid Bitar's poems read as if transmitted in softly staccato impulses from some remote time-warp in the tenth dimension. They crackle with the static of unique ciphers hurled over huge distances and
Jeffery Donaldson's Fluke Print reflects on chance occurrences, on quiet, familiar scenes, impressions-prints, if you will-in which `Each word's a wake that, glancing, folds aside / in parting phrases
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
Venice, 1769. The City of Masks is awash with rumours. A strange man haunts the nearby island of Torcello, a skeleton strapped to his back. A wolf wearing a priest's cassock is spotted running through
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
