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Exstatic Almanac
Insomniac Press 2002; US$ 9.99Exstasy: too little leaves you gutless and stunted. Too much and you've got the Exstatic Almanac; 365 exstatic poems for the sublime year. These poems are signposts on the road to revolutionary ruin and radical redemption. They are at once the record of an improvisatory exstasy and the imaginative impetus for the implosion of your psyche. In the ancient... more...
Gardening in the Tropics
Insomniac Press 2005; US$ 9.95Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior's rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness and racism. But her predominant tone is the verbal equivalent of a pair of wide-open arms. more...
Late Capitalist Sublime
Insomniac Press 2002; US$ 7.95lATE cAPITALIST sUBLIME marks the début of Ryan Kamstra, heir apparent to the dissenting tradition in Canadian poetry. Thematically echoing overtly political poets such as Milton Acorn, F.R. Scott and Dorothy Livesay, Kamstra's streetwise poetry bears witness to a superficial world, which is relieved only by the occasional glimmer of a resilient human... more...
Mental Hygiene
Insomniac Press 2003; US$ 16.95One of today's best young novelists, Ray Robertson is also one of its ablest critics. Mental Hygiene is a collection of his most entertaining, insightful, controversial, and funniest reviews and essays written over the last five years. Believing that ''writers have a responsibility to help maintain the mental hygiene of their time,'' Robertson, following... more...
Only the Ghost has Lasted
Insomniac Press 2002; US$ 9.99The poems in Nancy Dembowski's second collection are a series of tender, yet slightly morbid epistles written for the purpose of saying good-bye to a relationship, lifestyle or country. Underscored by a tone of resignation, the poems come alive in flashes of angry revenge ? bordering on the absurd ? together with tenderness and joy. Dembowski's poems,... more...
Over the Roofs of the World
Insomniac Press 2005; US$ 9.95Using nature as both model and metaphor, Toronto resident Olive Senior delves into birds, flying, and Caribbean life in her third book of poems. Following her much-loved collections, Gardening in the Tropics and Talking of Trees, this long-awaited book of poems is sure to delight readers around the world. Translated into several languages, represented... more...
Psychic Unrest
Insomniac Press 1999; US$ 9.99Psychic Unrest is full of the sea and rain, blues and golds, rhythm and revolution. This is Lillian Allen's long-anticipated book of poems ? her first book since 1993. Collected here is a mix of poems, songs and poetic essays. Allen creates and examines a new poetic style, blending traditional poetry with her inimitable lyrical style, resulting in... more...
Uncivilizing
Insomniac Press 2002; US$ 9.99In a dehumanizing world where commodities and materialism seem to be more valuable than people, six poets have assembled a collection of their work that acts as an antidote to the market-driven ?90s. Caroline Davidson, Roger Nash, Sonja Dunn, James Reaney, Bernice Lever and Robert Sward bring you Uncivilizing, a book of poetry that will inspire you... more...
Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems
Insomniac Press 2007; US$ 16.95His life in Canadian poetry has spanned five decades, and David W. McFadden is still going strong. This selection from his career to date brings back into print many of the greatest poems from nearly two dozen books. Chosen and introduced by fellow poet Stuart Ross, in full collaboration with the author, these poems reaffirm McFadden's status as one... more...
Our Twelve Days Before Christmas
ECW Press 2004; US$ 11.95This hilarious and moving account of one family's frantic countdown to Christmas Eve follows the trials of a Christian minister as he tries to put up a giant Christmas tree, rearranges his schedule to attend his children's concerts, struggles against mobs more...









