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Ghosts of James Bay
Dundurn 2009; US$ 11.99Fourteen-year-old Al, spending the summer near James Bay with his father, is startled to see a ship he recognizes as the Discovery, whose captain was the ill-fated Henry Hudson. more...
Dreamwork
Athabasca University Press 2010; US$ 19.95Dreamwork is a poetic exploration of the then and there, here and now, of landscapes and inscapes over time. It is part of a poetry series on dream and its relation to actuality. The poems explore past, present, and future in different places from Canada through New Jersey, New York and New England to England and Europe, part of the speaker?s journey.... more...
Praha
Athabasca University Press 2011; US$ 19.95Prompted by renowned poet E.D. Blodgett's deep love for and intimate experience of Prague, Praha is a poetic homage to the legendary city's vital spirit. As they build on one another, the poems in the collection lift the reader over the threshold of purely mythic understanding and into the heart of one of Europe's loveliest... more...
Marian Engel's Notebooks
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 48.95Marian Engel emerged as a writer during that period in Canada when nationalism increased and "new feminism" dawned. Although she is recognized as a distinguished woman of letters, she has not been widely studied; consequently we know relatively little about her and her craft. The material collected in Marian Engel's Notebooks: "Ah, mon cahier, écoute..."... more...
Going Home
House of Anansi Press 2011; US$ 18.95Tim Lilburn has long been recognized for his ability to explore issues of ecology from a variety of viewpoints ? philosophical, moral, ethical, even poetic. This new collection expands on his thoughts in surprising and enlightening ways, concentrating on how we relate (often uneasily) to our physical landscape in Canada and the United States. Going... more...
The Lily Pond
Biblioasis 2008; US$ 17.95A memoir that explores the author's thirty-plus years of living with bipolar disorder. more...
Workbook
ECW Press 2011; US$ 11.95A fresh and provocative picture of what it means to create literature, this collection of Steven Heighton’s notes to himself as he writes peeks into the mind of an acclaimed author. The short pieces reveal Heighton’s pointed, cutting take on his own work and materialize the musings and meditations that come to him as he scribbles. Offering... more...
Brave New Avant Garde
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the questions: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? With this it asks the related question, echoing Alain Badiou: must the avant garde hypothesis be abandoned? Brave New Avant Garde stands in opposition to postmodern... more...
The Reverend Edward Taylors Sacramental Meditations on the Song of Songs
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 159.95This text is the first to employ and semiotic theory, gender and sexuality studies to render a fresh reading of Taylors erotically charged devotion more...
Pupa
Insomniac Press 2003; US$ 9.95Losing one's parents is a growth experience many people can relate to. Catherine Graham's collection of poems, Pupa ? fittingly named after the chrysalis stage of an insect ? intimately explores this loss, employing metaphor and rhythm evocatively. Like all memorable poets, Graham imbues daily events with transcendent relevance. more...









