Making Waves offers a mosaic of fresh approaches toward shaping a new "literacy of place"---a more coherent understanding of BC and Pacific Northwest literature in the 21st century.Providing new insi
Fiction. In a single convulsion of homicide, the population of Ravenna tries to erase the population of Collingwood. The innocent, standing in their living rooms, cooking in their kitchens, and playin
Fiction. Translated from the French by David Scott Hamilton. Somewhere in Montreal, in the not too distant future, an obscure company offers custom-designed suicides for its clients with one condition
Literary Nonfiction. AFFLICTIONS AND DEPARTURES is a collection of first-person experiential essays. However, this is not the realm of traditional memoir—in addition to incidents and feelings recaptur
Fiction. NONDESCRIPT RAMBUNCTIOUS is a genre-busting thriller with a beating, human heart. More than a simple story of a killer and his victims, the novel takes the reader into the life of a family, t
Literary Nonfiction. Canadian History. "Reading the Riot Act" is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon, meaning the action taken by authority figures when they perceive that their "charges" ar
Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. Art. The Pacific Cinematheque Monograph Series was initiated to explore the spectrum of contributions and innovations of Western Canadian filmmakers, videomakers, an
A Room in the City is a self-revelatory journey into a world of darkness and light, a place of blatant lies and transcendent truths, and represents the culmination of Gabor Gasztonyi's five-year proje
Poetry. Each new volume by Stuart Ross is a more confounding grab bag than the last. In YOU EXIST. DETAILS FOLLOW., his seventh full-length collection of poetry, Stuart Ross veers in opposite directio
Drama. In MUTANT SEX PARTY & OTHER PLAYS, Ed Macdonald eviscerates the high and mighty, the hypocritical, and those who abuse power in late-Capitalism America. He expertly peels back the tattered
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. A DARK BOAT, a new collection of poetry by Patrick Friesen, is heavily inspired by cante jondo (Spanish "deep song", or flamenco) and fado (Portuguese songs of longing.)
Literary Nonfiction. Photography. It was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with orde
Fiction. Set in Surrey, British Columbia, circa 1960, A CREDIT TO YOUR RACE is a story about innocent love awakening between a fifteen-year-old black porter's son and the white girl next door. The nov
Literary Nonfiction. We've all had good, bad, and sometimes ugly experiences on public transit. EXACT FARE ONLY is an anthology of real life stories about heading out, heading back, and everything tha
Poetry. LEAVING MILE END is Jon Paul Fiorentino's seventh collection of poetry and tenth book—a collection of poems that documents the daily din and clatter of cafés, galleries, and dive bars that mak
Fiction. Native American Studies. Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage, or death itself, she never lets go of the witty, the ironic, and
Fiction. Everything is just a little more difficult for poor thirty-something Margaret Rudge. Adjusting to single life after her no- good husband Tommy leaves her for a shrink, Margaret manages to sna
Poetry. Selected and with an Introduction by Stuart Ross. Michael Dennis has been hammering his love, his anger, his grief, and his awe into poems for over forty years. With seven books and nearly t
Poetry. LGBT Studies. ASSDEEP IN WONDER is a collection of new poems that explore the idea of identity in a myriad of contexts: personal, sexual, cultural, national, literary, and poetic. The poems ar
Writers, like skaters, score the blank sheet and test the edge of inclusion and exclusion. Most of these poems begin with a word from skating and push off to another topic. Others revisit ideas of fem
