Living Under Plastic represents a major departure from Evelyn Lau's previous poetry books. Instead of the obsessive focus on relationships and emotional damage that has characterized much of her earl
The Missionary, The Violinist And The Aunt Whose Head Was Squeezed follows a five month journey that Keith Harrison made into the past. This narrative diary explores the gaps and myths of family histo
When a group of boys set off into the forest to catch the uirapurau bird, they encounter an old man trying to mimic the bird's song and a maiden of the moon.
Susan Telfer?s intense poems in Ghost Town are possessed of a wild brilliance all their own. There is a raw, unruly, exhumed energy coming to the surface of these poems, which is the source of their p
Leaving the Farm is a poignant, funny, beautifully rendered memoir about growing up on a small Minnesota dairy farm in the 1950s. It was a time when family farms throughout North America were beginnin
Anna always looked forward to summer holidays. This summer is different. Anna is sent to live with her Grandfather, an eccentric artist in his strange new studio. She's terribly afraid that she will b
In this exciting new anthology from Oolichan Books, editors Kim Clark and Dawn Marie Kresan comb the Canadian landscape for its redheaded writers. Only 2% of the world's population is born with red lo
What is a neighbourhood? What holds it together? What tears it apart? Each has its own geography, relying on such social networks as schools, parks, libraries, community centres, and places of worship
Five minutes. That's all it takes for Sylvia to fulfill a life's ambition and simultaneously blast fracture lines through her most important relationships. Sylvia, fourteen, rides her horse in a cross
On the heels of the "hell bent for fun road trip" of the anthology Desperately Seeking Susans, here comes Catherines, the Great, a collection that gathers the poetry of both established and emerging C
