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Bonk on the Head" is a tour of duty and a tour de force." --Mark Anthony Jarman "(An) assured, often disturbing debut." --Jim Bartley, "The Globe and Mail

For Your Safety Please Hold On is Czaga's answer to Moure's Domestic Fuel and Solie's Short Haul Engine... and like Moure and Solie we don't need to expect great things from her. Great things are already here." --Elizabeth Bachinsky

These fiercely beautiful stories create a kaleidoscopic vision of a very real but sometimes unsettling world. This is not just another first book of stories, but is something remarkably strong, original and new." --Jack Hodgins, author of Cadillac Cathedral

I've designed hundreds of crosswords, but my goal is always the same. People often equate crosswords with brain gym, but my hope is that solvers come away with some smiles and chuckles, too."--Gwen Sjogren

<, I>, Write Across Canada<, /I>, is a fictional journey of nearly 10, 000 kilometres across the cultural and geographical diversity of the nation.

￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿"Is it all about being a mirror?I say, You have little hands He says, You have a little face--from "Mirror Mirror

A beautifully nuanced look at the challenge of allowing ourselves to claim and be claimed by a place. In this year-long cycle of poems, Simmers brings the sharp focus of a naturalist's eye to the urban everyday of the Vancouver neighbourhood for which the book is named. Text becomes mapping, observations become ecology, dates become narrative. The poems are both fierce and faltering, they experiment with form without ever losing the voice and ...

In her lyrical memoir The Death of Small Creatures, Trisha Cull lays bare her struggles with bulimia, bipolar disorder and substance abuse. Interspersing snatches of conversations, letters, blog entries and clinical notes with intimate poetic narrative, Cull evokes an accessible experience of mental illness. In The Death of Small Creatures, Cull strives to cope with her hopelessness. She finds comfort in the company of her two pet rabbits unti...

This is an adventure story that is likely to become a classic in its own right" -London Free Press

I really enjoyed the humour and challenge of these (O Canada) puzzles. Please tell me you plan to publish more."--Brenda, B.C.

Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of crosswords with the latest instalment of the bestselling O Canada Crosswords series. What began as a fad in 1913 is now a daily pastime for millions who sharpen their pencils and test their wits. Test yours today!

One of the most important voices in Canadian literature today."--Richard Van Camp

Splitting Off" is a marvelous debut, a highly accomplished book, versatile and confident in pleasure and form." -Sharon Thesen

The things he says, the way he says them, how he insists on singing his pain onto the page... Denham has become one of our most important poets."--Steven Heighton

New poems from Trillium award-winning poet Nick Thran.

100 All New Crosswords!

Sheryda Warrener's second poetry collection touches on the illusion of remaining grounded and a sense of belonging. A retired cosmonaut returns from a record-breaking 438 days in space and attempts to re-immerse himself in the world. One speaker considers reinvention from the top floor of the World's Tallest building, another, our complicated future from Reykjavik, post-eruption of Eyjafjallaj￿kull. Confessions and aspirations suspend in air. ...

Like his attempts to swim over the dark water of the river that lies between him and the object of his affections, twelve-year-old Dougaldo Montmigny struggles against oppression, homophobia and racism to realise his love for Tomahawk Clark, a thirteen-year-old Metis boy, during a summer destined to become a painful lesson on love and desire.Like sailors becalmed on idyllic ships, this story is a subtle revelation of the emotional turmoil that...

What I receive from these transmissions is a convincing sweetness, a weird wisdom. This book reminds me of David Berman's Actual Air, but it's warmer. Raoul Fernandes writes like a night school teacher teaching us 'something about night itself.' It's an engaging class, an occasionally mind-altering class, and I finished it feeling more hopeful and human."-- Nick Thran

A moving, fictional account of a young woman's journey through the lives of her grandparents, her own very different urban reality, and the search for something ageless.