`What you're after comes before and haunts your wanting it....'Surpassing Pleasure pulls hard in two directions. Launching for `the every-coloured light / streaming through the bright rose-window,' or
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
If I Were Me is the culmination of Clark Blaise's career as a geographer of the human heart. In the character of Gerald Lander he has created a modern Faust who carries the world within him, but must
"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 Museum of Possibilities, the future is limited only by the imagination&emdash;and the choices that we make. This exhibit contains, among others:a minor government functionary, forced by an appa
A bedraggled hen is rescued from certain starvation by an old woman. The old woman leads a meagre existence, but willing and generously shares food and water with the hen. The hen, it turns out, is ca
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
The second in a series of graphic novels edited for the Porcupine's Quill by wood engraver George A. Walker in which Walker encourages students at the Ontario College of Art & Design to embrace 19th
What does it mean that a man loves a woman? Can a boy truly love a girl? How does a father love daughters? Does a penitent love, or fear, the Goddess? Does the servant love his mistress? Why must a s
Concord of Sweet Sounds presents, in words and images, the musical instruments of Shakespeare's time. In his plays and poems, Shakespeare mentions twenty-seven different instruments specifically. In
Slant Room marks the book-length emergence of a poet whose work, already startlingly assured, is gaining national recognition. The poetry of Michael Eden Reynolds transforms both the Yukon's terrain
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
Shane Neilson's accustomed fascination with the two great subjects, love and death, has an element of purely professional interest: he has written a poetry that fuses his poetic concerns with those o
