Witty themed puzzles with Canadian-flavoured clues by established puzzle creator Walter D. Feener. The eleventh book in this best selling Canadian crossword series.
With his restless intellectual curiosity tempered by a dash of witty self-deprecation, Hutchinson deftly manoeuvres through hallowed halls of academia with humour and grace. Three stylistically distinct sections, "Imago", "A Brief History of the Short-Lived" and "Serialist" are interwoven throughout the collection, showcasing the range of Hutchinson's poetic ability. The "Brief History" poems explode from the page in densely allusive bursts of...
Chris Jennings's work possesses a full poetic intelligence, by which I mean that passion is matched by intellect and intellect by humour--all this delivered in a voice that is equal parts rigorous vision and technical panache." --Roo Borson
Gillian Wigmore's poems are place-literate, fully flexed, often suspenseful. When she writes of the life and death of northern people and northern rivers, you love and grieve." --Fred Stenson
An amateur historian studies the life of Benedict Arnold and reaches a far different conclusion than we were taught in our history books: All events of September 1780 point to a setup of epic proportions. Benedict Arnold was betrayed by his country. If not for Arnold, America would never have won her independence.
Biographical essays on Nelson Symonds, Sonny Greenwich, Claude Ranger and eleven other influential Canadian jazz musicians. Essential to the library of every Canadian music buff.
Tim Bowling's first book, "Low Water Slack, " is a rare find. Accomplished, assured, and stocked with memorable imagery, it trumpets the presence of a huge new talent." -"The Antigonish Review
<, I>, Ferryboat Ride<, /I>, is a child's eye view, crystallized in a sequence of colourful miniature poems. The exhilirating movement of the boat through this unparalled wrold of islands and lighthouses, seagulls and whales, tugboats and barges, ferries and docks, sets the child's imagination in motion.
The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder" is an unusual collection of poems that combines craft, innovation, humour and down-to-earth insight in a focused and riveting read that will charm poetry buffs of every stripe.
The poems in "The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder" subversively and imaginatively inhabit the voices of characters from Wilder's famous "Little House" books--human and non-human, animate and inanimate--but launch them in new dir...
Shortlisted for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Atlantic Poetry Prize
George Murray proves once again he is one of his generation's most accomplished poets with "The Rush to Here." Diverging from the excess and declamation of his highly praised previous collection, "The Hunter, " Murray breaks new poetic ground in poems that are dangerous, sharp and glistening in both language and style.
Combining what the poet calls "thought-rhyme" w...
From Glenn Gould to Jeff Wall to an aspiring Miss Hong Kong, Doretta Lau has an imagination larger than the entire country of Canada, which is big. If you want to know how we live today, read this book!" -Gary Shteyngart
The candid, direct poems of Canoodlers interrogate sexuality, friendship, family, language, and social, cultural and political phenomena. Straddling genders, sexualities and social positions, the collection hilariously but harrowingly follows the growth and class leaps of a townie tomboy". From family relations (Dearly beloved, Don Cherry has better conversation skills than my stepfather, and my mother doesnt love me anymore) to individual enc...
This is the third book of poetry and first collection of occasional poems by the author of the 2007 Globe 100 book, Muybridges Horse: Governor General and Trillium Awards nominee, Rob Winger. Driven by an attempt to understand how to reorder common experience, the books transitional sections -- Set", Re/Set", and Lect -- all intertwine and overlap, thematically and intuitively linked by the extensive range and depth of Wingers poetics. While e...
Pluck" is a series of poems taking on issues of sexuality, female vulnerability and parenthood with delicacy and intent. In turn, Rosnau employs words that give way to feelings of both solid surety and waning doubts. From the harsh realities of sexual assault to the routine heaviness of child-rearing, Plucks sharp portrayals evoke how beyond the slick viscera, the sharp cries, the women brimming/ around the bed, is the memory of weight", or ho...
