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The first full length collection of poems by poet and scholar Jason Dewinetz From the sun drenched Okanagan Valley to "Gericault s Severed Limb Paintings " this work examines images both tangible and ethereal as well as the beauty of the grotesque This collection is a kind of movement through the work of Canadian poets like Kroetsch Marlatt Ondaatje Webb and Suknaski

This brand new edition features the plays that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright and gained her many accolades among them the first ever Governor General s Award for Drama for Blood Relations in 1981 Her characters are the oppressed from the spinster Lizzie Borden in the title play Blood Relations to the prisoners of One Tiger to a Hill to Leah "chosen" daughter/mistress of rum runner Mr Big in Whiskey Six Cadenza

Dene Elder George Blondin creates a spiritual guidebook that weaves together oral stories with the recounting of how the northern Canadian Dene came to depend on the European fur traders The result is a magical journey for readers of any heritage

It s 1968 and Min is planning her 90th birthday party Half the Connar clan isn t speaking to the other half and the town is filled with eccentric characters whose secret and public histories are interwoven with each other and with the history of the town "Better Than Life" celebrates all the blessings and bruisings of blood ties and explores the emotional misfires that can hamper the most precious of human connections with poignancy and wry hu...

A compilation of individual stories based on the author s interviews and correspondence with several depression era teachers

The Wireless Room is a stunning first collection of poems ranging from studies in western pastoral history through high flying evocations of sub atomic particles to deeply personal poems about and for parents Rhodes is one of the most accomplished young poets to appear on the scene in a long time

The memoir of a young woman who in 1951 at the age of 17 was arrested for her involvement with an underground organization demanding alternatives to Stalinist rule and as a result spent five years in the Soviet prison system Tumanov belonged to group of young people who believed in freedom and equality and were willing to stand up for their beliefs

Apocrypha " a shaped collection of writing by Stan Dragland produced over two decades is a passionate meditation on the meeting of life and literature and a text of rumination invention and rhapsody Dragland looks at the texts of strangers and colleagues including Michael Ondaatje Roy Kiyooka Robert Kroetsch Fred Wah Matt Cohen Agnes Walsh and others weaving together personal reminiscences with theoretical and critical looks at their work

Come along for a ride with big rig truckers In "Big Rig Comic Tales from a Long Haul Trucker " veteran trucker Don McTavish will take you on some eye popping highly comical road trips

The sequel to "With Unshakeable Persistence " McLachlan takes us into the next decade relating with vivid sometimes shocking detail the experiences of prairie teachers during and after the second world war

The story of one woman s personal discovery of her Canadian Ukrainian cultural origins and the impact of that invigorating discovery on her life A must read for those interested in the history of all the peoples who helped shape and enrich Canada with their unique cultures

Robert Kroetsch captures the beauty of this province in this endearing documentation of his Alberta experience from the dinosaur digs in the Badlands to the Calgary Stampede to the site of Big Bear s prophetic vision of kd lang s hometown Stettler

Hammerstone follows Hornby Island from its molten birth in the South Pacific to the present In a carefully woven narrative Fletcher tells the tale of an island in the Gulf of Georgia on the West Coast of Canada

Cut chronicles a visit to the land of purgatory sort of a celestial rest home for characters allegedly cut from famous plays In the one man plays Scraping the Surface and Objects in the Mirror Lyle Victor Albert draws on his own experiences growing up coming of age and accepting his cerebral palsy

Return to the Drum" is a story about survival the survival of a people and their way of life Focusing on the history of the Sahtuot ine of Great Bear Lake and the struggles that follow their first encounters with Euro Canadians in the 1800s Miggs Wynne Morris weaves together their story with her own

This two act play explores the failure of the mental health system in the late 1960s and provides insight into paranoid schizophrenia at its extreme through the story of Victor Hoffman a farm boy who murdered nine members of the Peterson family near Shell Lake Saskatchewan

Ranson skillfully recreates his northern experience in strong crisp stories that are humorous quirky and unique Working North makes it clear why Ranson was moved to "pity the southerner who has never seen an arctic sun skipping along the earth gathering all the colours of the prism and turning the land a warm purple " "Working North" is an engaging and entertaining read for inexperienced southerners and northern travellers alike

Daring to defy a world that believes old women should not be seen or heard three women steal a barrel from a travelling show and plan to go over Niagara Falls

Poor Super Man" is "one of the top ten plays of the year " according to "Time magazine " "An unflaggingly witty and often moving slice of life Poor Super Man explodes on to the stage like a bold comic strip complete with snappy captions and hard bright witty dialogue " writes the "Edmonton Journal

A hideously disfigured stranger hired as a field hand on an isolated ranch filled with beautiful people who have disturbing scars of their own brings their morbid depravity to the surface An unforgettable play about the true evil that exists inside all people