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Rivers are often used in mythology to represent boundaries, to cross the river is to transform. The poems in River Revery reflect the river Thames as it winds through the city of London, Ontario. Because the Thames forks into two streams at the city's core, it was called Askunessippi, "the antlered river, " by the original Algonquin inhabitants. For Indigenous communities, it is "Deshkan Ziibiing." In re-naming the river the Thames, English se...

With the world slipping into recession, company downsizing, restructuring, reorganizing, and retrenching are becoming everyday occurrences. Why Me? And No Gold Watch! concerns job loss and the prospect of retiring earlier than expected. Introducing Sally McBride, a fifty-seven-year-old middle manager who is terminated due to her company's downsizing actions. Sally's dilemma is whether to seek a new position or retire. In her journey for answer...

Tom Cull's debut collection is equal parts zoo, funhouse, and curio cabinet. A mouthy badger tells off a search committee, a family of beavers conspires to commit murder, a celebrity seal slips his cage. In these poems, human and animal spaces overlap, often marking moments of transgression, rebellion, escape, and capture. Home and habitat are flooded with invasive species, cute animal videos, and rising tides.

Twenty years ago, Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused such an uproar upon its publication that Insomniac Press has produced a special 20th anniversary edition. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music, and the electronic media, Walcott's book not only assesses the role of Black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any...

In Local Heroes, Penn Kemp celebrates legendary cultural heroes from London, Ontario. These poems evoke a specific city in its particular landscape and history. Kemp documents London's literary and artistic heritage in honouring artists in fields ranging from the visual through the word to figure skating. Presented as an overview, the collection stretches from Victorian explorer Teresa Harris to the contemporary arts scene. Local Heroes acknow...

Deals with such themes as obsession, relationships, drugs, rock and roll, copycats and scapegoats in a 250-odd-page graphic novel. Explorations into how some of us distract ourselves from the horrors of the world and our own lives, Fatal Distraction is also a play on Fatal Attraction -- a Hollywood movie from the mid-eighties about female obsession and gender stereotypes. The dark themes involved in the novel are tempered by naïveté and dry su...

Drawing from a variety of sources including folksong, philosophy, linguistics, chaos theory, theatre and sexuality, Stan Rogal's poetry is a rollicking and adroit expression of the world in flux. This selection gathers together fifty of Rogal's best poems from the last thirty years, it is sure to delight long-time fans and new readers alike.

In his debut poetry collection, Sam Cheuk attempts to invent a new way of truth-telling. Borrowing disparate ideas and modes ranging from self-censorship and identity performance, lyric poetry and phenomenology, Cheuk reverse-engineers the parlance of post-modernism in search of the primal motivation behind expression, all the while asking the question: is a lie a lie if the liar shows you how he lies?

In the first section of Angela Hibbs's second collection, short lyrical poems blur the lines between personal, geographical, and artistic spaces, demonstrating how we blend the intimate details of our lives with the culture we consume -- be it modern literature, primetime television, or contemporary art. Here, liminal spaces are not denounced as confusing gray areas, but celebrated as welcome places of pause, ripe with opportunity for fertile ...

The coming-of-age story of a thirty something, eccentric man

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This is an interactive road map designed to help you get from where you are to where you would rather be. Even if you have worked with goals in the past, this program will accelerate your progress by helping to uncover your hidden desires and the roadblocks that have stopped your happiness and peace of mind. Don't let a past failure become permanent: use your experiences as a stepping-stone to all that life has to offer. You truly can have all...

The growing belief that we create our own reality requires a level of consciousness that goes beyond deliberation of the day-to-day essential activities of our lives. Living our destiny begins with a discipline of heightened awareness of our self and the desire to evolve -- to become "more".

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Experts estimate that you will change not only your job, but your career an average of four to five times in your life. Stability and job security are things of the past. Whether you're an employee, business owner, entrepreneur, or re-entering the work force, this book is for you!

Jason Camlot's third collection of poetry walks an oscillating lyrical tightrope between realms of cosmopolitan sophistication and ribald hilarity. In these surprising poems high art and low art gather together, sometimes on the battlefield, sometimes at lover's leap. Camlot's poetry always maintains an evocative connection to the tender absurdities of our daily lives. He makes us laugh, nervously, at ourselves.

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If "Twin Peaks "had been set in southwestern Ontario, it might resemble Marion Douglas' new novel, "Dancehall Road." As the town of Flax collectively grapples with the suicide of high school student Cheryl Decker, alliances form and dissolve as tragedy follows tragedy.Marion Douglas has created a novel of psychological depth that explores yearning, emotional damage, and the individual and collective desire for retribution. Events are recounted...

Salt addictions, lisps, cruise ships, and MTV.