13 Ergebnisse.

One afternoon, in an old house in an abandoned village on the outskirts of Perimeter, in the place they call Pacifica, Bramah and the beggar boy find fragments of an ancient text. Hunched over scraps of parchment and broken computer disks, they blow the dust off a cover, and so our story begins. Many things happen-some good, but mostly bad-including five eco-catastrophes and a viral bio-contagion. Steeped in the tradition of fairy tales, THOT ...

Later we will laugh, shake moonlightoff our clothes like ash. For now we stare at the clock. Theday wears, tired as mechanism.

One of the first lines of X, Shane Rhodes' sixth book of poetry, is a warning: "this book of verse demands more of verse, this book demands perversity." He goes on to write:This book is about where I live, a place still settling, still making the land--law by law, arrest by arrest, jail by jail--its own snow blownHeed this warning. In X, Rhodes takes poetry from the comfortable land of the expected to places it has seldom been. Writing through...

Why does 9/11 resonate more strongly with Canadians than June 23, 1985?

X, passing the Ancient Mariner on his new SeaDoo, like pirate flix with cheap FX, no kraken exploded from no Styx. Extras wandered the ship, eyes X-ed out like the dead in comix. All in all, our luck was mixed.

Timely Irreverence is a collection of occasional poems that are sewn together through the inescapable intrusion of poetry itself. With circles of logic that provoke thoughtfulness, the paths of these poems are alluringly complex, and they engage through amusing points of casual living, visceral moments when poetry is permitted to intrude upon the everyday. Whether MillAr is letting a poem pass him by while mowing the grass, or etching it upon ...

Prose poems, soundtracks, minifictions—the lyrical, multi-faceted pieces in The things I heard about you record the ways in which language makes and unmakes us." --Jen Currin

We do not own the water. The water owns itself."-- Lee Maracle

The power of water is the power of blood, flood and drought. Water keeps it real, keeps us real. Forgetting this, we turn the earth into a toxic dump. Remembering this, we unfurl the future as perpetual possibility. Water is also the strength of subtlety, quietly making its way through your body. perpetual is both a gift and a warning from water. Through drawings and graphic essays by artist Cindy Mochizuki and writer Rita Wong, the book visit...

An eclectic new collection from Toronto poet Jay MillAr.

Opening with a series of poems based on historical figures such as Degas, Baer, Avogadro and Heisenberg, this work takes the reader into a world of details - showing us the author's view from his window, his commute and even his major appliances.

Bill Bissett has been a landmark on the Canadian literary scene since the 1960s, renowned as much for his fascinating life as for his poetics. His work transcends boundaries, appealing to those whose tastes run toward the traditional and to the more avant-garde. This book features a group of more than 80 poets to celebrate Bissett's life and work.

Aims to expand the taxonomy of insects, mushrooms, and trees to inventive meditations on life and language. This collection is a journey across the geography of imagination.