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Selina Boan's debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, considers the various ways we undo, inherit, reclaim and (re)learn. Boan's poems emphasize sound and breath, they tell stories of meeting family, of experiencing love and heartbreak, and of learning new ways to express and understand the world around her through the Nêhiyawêwan language. As a settler and urban nehiyaw who grew up disconnected from her father's family and community, Boan in...

Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography decimated by resource extraction and development, people are creating, living, laughing, surviving and flourishing-or at least attempting to. The poems in this collection are preoccupied with the role of Indigenous aesthetics in ...

Set in a small-town, sub-Arctic dive bar, this debut poetry collection explores the complexities of addiction and the person beneath, and the possibility of finding home and community in unexpected places. Among Borin's poems are portraits of the bar's regular customers and employees-recurring characters, like those who might appear in a dark and unconventional sitcom. The religious night janitor catalogues the day's sins, the retired barmaid ...

Ranging in voice from a dark fable to youthful accounts, often hilarious or haunting in pained understanding, a recurring motif in these distinctly different stories is the question of what constitutes the truth. Quednau offers unsettling examinations of "what really happened" with rich, complex characters that might equally arouse our suspicions or sympathy: we pay attention. She gives voice to the interludes between actions, what almost occu...

It's the '90s in a small Canadian prairie town and fourteen-year-old Aaron Gourlay, born a male, asserts that she is female, a claim that no one in her life will accept-except for her single mother, Nadine. After wrestling with the health care system and having her identity invalidated time and time again, Aaron tries to kill herself. Desperate to keep her child alive, Nadine calls on a neighbouring town's outlier and loner, Al Klassen, to per...

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Author has published extensively in Canada, the United States and the UK, including literary publications such as EVENT, Southwest Review, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, Little Fiction and Grain. Her work has also been featured in the anthology Coming Attractions 16 (Oberon, 2016) Work has been nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize and shortlisted for the 2014 Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award

In 1983, the BC provincial government announced plans to close Tranquille, a large residential institution for persons with intellectual disabilities located outside Kamloops. The announcement was made with no community placement plans for residents. The nearly six hundred employees of Tranquille, members of the BC Government Employees Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses, were alarmed by the lack of any Ministry of Human Resources planni...

Timely and hard-hitting novel about the housing shortage in Vancouver

The Whole Singing Ocean is a poetic narrative that circles around the central story of a boy and a whale, and the 2013 investigation into the E¿cole en bateau, a French countercultural "boat school, " or school at sea, which was based not only on the ideals of the sixties, but also on twisted ideas about child psychology, the theories of Foucault and an abolition of the separation between adults and children. The narrative begins with a boat b...

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Deep in the thickest part of a cedar forest there lived a young Sasquatch. He was over nine feet tall and his feet were about size twenty. He had long brown hair that covered all of his body. His hands were so big and his arms so long he could wrap them around the biggest of the cedar trees. He had been born here many years ago and he did not know his parents, as they had been scared away by a great fire. He was left on his own and he had surv...

Poetry that explores the experience and greater social implications of mental illness in a subtle in self-refelective way

The author's first book (in manuscript form) was awarded the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry Crawford's work has been widely published in journals internationally, including English Studies in Canada, Transgender Studies Quarterly and The Journal of Homosexuality, and in books such as New York University's Queering the Countryside, The Transgender Studies Reader (Vol. 2), Rutgers' Trans Studies and Best Canadian Poetry in English (...

Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North is a provocative warning to Canadians that the values they cherish are being eroded through a pattern of political, legal and social prejudice directed towards Muslims in Canada since September 11, 2001. Featuring never-before-published interviews with key politicians and journalists, influential Muslim leaders and ordinary Canadians who have suddenly found themselves thrust into what might become a ...

Renaissance Normcore belts like a classically trained riot grrrl, composing catchy tunes in the key of fear and desire. Building on the dreamy emotional landscapes she plumbed in If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You, Barclay navigates even sharper peaks and valleys in her second collection to examine the links between intimacy and power. Tracking the paradoxical impulses of anguish and joy that underpin daily life in our hostile neolibera...

Patricia Sorbara has been a political operative for more than forty years-a mainstay in the background of both federal and provincial politics in Ontario, dedicating her career to the Liberal Party. She's worked for and with Liberal Opposition Leaders, Premiers, Members of Parliament, Members of Provincial Parliament and more candidates than any staffer could imagine. Sorbara became known as the woman to have on side, the one who knows the gro...