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Powerful and vivid poetry that tackles the gritty issues of drug addiction, neglect and abuse.

This is a collection by four emerging Canadian writers and three graphic designers, integrating design with prose and poetry. Each collaboration of graphic designer with writer creates a unique interpretation of the writer's works. Nik Beat's lyrical and unpretentious poetry, Noah Leznoff's darkly humorous prose and narrative poetic cycles, Mary Elizabeth Grace's Celtic dialogues and mystical images, and Matthew Remski's medieval symbols and s...

If Ezra Pound were on speed, this is the book he would write. Leznoff's work is gritty, urban and sensual, yet it is lyrical, funny and well-crafted. He has mastered a diversity of forms from concrete and language-based poetry to more traditional narrative work. Leznoff turns a trip to the supermarket into an epic adventure, while finding dark and touching insights into his characters on the side of a mountain in northern Quebec. His agility o...

Elegant and eggy, vixen is a tense tango cutting through the jungle of the urban underground.

Jennifer Morton armed with a knap-sack full of cameras, chased the global art, music and culture scene. As producer and host of TV Frames a show focusing on urban culture using a documentary style format. Belong is also a look at how art, music and culture survive in places most of the rest of the world associate with poverty and civil strife.

You may wonder what happened to the Greek gods after the fall of Olympus. This mystery is revealed and others are explored in this novella. Myth, dream, and devotion are woven into a connected stream of short narratives -- some tragic, some poignant, some touching, and some uncertain -- together forming a death diary, threaded through ten centuries of memories. Each new voice that follows adds clues to the wraith's grasp of her journey and its...

The financial services industry is in the midst of a transformation from a commission-based industry to a bona fide profession. A number of changes are accelerating this transformation: an ongoing transition to fee-based advice, a crying need for consumer protection and a growing consensus that credentials and training are required. More change is to come. John J De Goey argues that consumers have grown justifiably sceptical about the motives ...

As our life spans increase so do our options for how we will spend out later years. Few have made extensive -- or any -- plans for retirement. This guide solves the problem. Topics covered include estate planning, wills, taxation, how to choose financial professionals, your role as a caregiver, physical and mental health issues, and the different challenges facing us as we enter our golden years.

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Not since Al Purdy's 'North of Summer' has a Canadian poet written so compellingly about life in the frozen arctic. The poems in Zachariah Wells' debut collection range through territories as vast as the north itself, from explorations of ancient myths to modern tales of courage and survival, from lyrical meditations on nature to searing poems about the daily grind of manual labour. This book reminds us why our nation's consciousness is pervad...

The fourth book in the Spirit Book Series, about using Divine Love to create love in your life. A practical how-to manual surveys a variety of historical and modern metaphysical methods used throughout history to help inspire love.

A classically lyrical, deeply subjective examination of the randomness of beauty from a voice whose senses are sharpened against the edges of love, fear and yearning.

A crowd of dead people tries to hitchhike in the rain. A husband and wife awake to find that he has transformed into a pickle and she into a mango. A member of a rock star's entourage has recently been promoted to become keeper of the sunglasses. A man living in an elevator opens his mouth to release a swarm of flies. In 'Broken Accidents', Phlip Arima presents fictions in which the mundane and the surreal collide, and humour and sadness paint...

Resources Rock is an easy-to-read introduction to the resource sector as it gears up to take off for the first time in over two decades. Readers will learn how to invest in natural resource stocks, including diamonds, gold, base metals, oil and gas, forestry and fertiliser companies. For years, the average prices of shares in resource sector stocks, for everything from gold to diamonds to forest products, have been at record low levels. But it...

One of todays best young novelists, Ray Robertson has collected his most entertaining, insightful, controversial and funniest reviews and essays written over that last five years.

A postscript to the 1990's, the twelve stories in Black Coffee Night, center around male and female narrators who explore issues of fidelity and sexuality, the meaning of art, love and work.

This book is a collection of poems about losing one's parents. Intimate and colloquial, the poems employ metaphor and rhythm evocatively, imbuing daily events with transcendent relevance.

Scouts are cancelled us a richly humorous book of poetry that examines what happens when a small farm community is corrupted by a greedy developer trying to sell off farmland to build a subdivision.

Early Poems reprints Moritz's first four books of poetry, Here (1975), Black Orchid (1981), Between the Root and Flower (1982) and The Visitation (1983).

Swimming in the Ocean is about tossing secrets into the water to become free from the bonds of silence and unnamed tensions that often hold us back from embracing ourselves.