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As Shane Neilson writes in Margin of Interest, `Maritime poetry is the sum of what's come before, a unique history, and yes, a unique place.'In Margin of Interest Neilson examines representation, identity, power, and the politics of literary history, from the creative traditions of the Mi'kmaq to the work of young poets today. He pays due homage to iconic Maritime writers (Milton Acorn, Alden Nowlan, George Elliott Clarke), shines a critical s...

For a writer who once professed If in the course of my life I can get half a dozen stories printed, I'll be satisfied', "Flying a Red Kite" (1962) marked the start of a very much more productive career. A new edition of that title, released by the Porcupine's Quill in 1987, formed volume one of a proposed Collected Stories'. "A Short Walk in the Rain" (Volume Two) includes thirteen stories written between 1957 and 1961, which for one reason or...

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A mainstay of Toronto's theatrical landscape since 1968, Theatre Passe Muraille (which translates to `Theatre Without/Beyond Walls') has focused on breaking down barriers-between actors and spectators, for example-while developing a populist aesthetic that has found resonance with both rural and urban audiences. In Beyond Walls, Peter Jobin considers the fledgling years of Canada's longest running alternative theatre in Toronto. It is a roller...

Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna was many things. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, a dedicated dupe of the notorious mystic Grigori Rasputin-and the steadfast wife of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and mother to their five children. In her collection of poems, Mrs Romanov, Lori Cayer gives voice to the expectations and fears of this powerful and ultimately doomed figure. With great empathy and emotion, she presents a portrait in poetry of a ...

The poetry of Charles Bruce resonates with the sights and sounds of the Maritimes. Unlike the modernist poets of his time, Bruce embraced rural settings, tactile imagery, structural simplicity and direct language.The Essential Charles Bruce introduces the poet's work, long out of print, to modern audiences with a selection of his straightforward yet stirring verses that take as their subject the workaday existence along the shores of Nova Scot...

When was the last time you visited a shoemaker? A watchmaker? A tailor? Have you met a sign painter, a typewriter mechanic or a shirt factory worker? Do camera stores and independent department stores still exist in this day and age? What exactly are the principal responsibilities of a town clock keeper? As automation and modernization bring to the brink of extinction many twentieth-century ways of making a living, we find ourselves in danger ...

Venice, 1769. The City of Masks is awash with rumour. A strange man haunts the nearby island of Torcello, a skeleton strapped to his back. A wolf wearing a priest's cassock is spotted running through the fields. A mysterious courtesan bears signs of a most unusual form of stigmata.Michele Archenti, former priest and devil's advocate, and current publisher of a scandalous collection of erotic poetry, becomes reluctantly embroiled in political i...

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Human beings rarely say exactly what they mean. The English language has evolved to embrace a dizzying array of linguistic tools that invite playful minds to introduce ambiguity and innuendo-and hilarity-into common parlance. In See What I'm Saying? Jim Westergard does just that, illustrating idioms with a series of exquisitely detailed engravings. Through these images, Westergard will insist you `keep an open mind' and admonish you not to `tu...

Jeffery Donaldson's Fluke Print reflects on chance occurrences, on quiet, familiar scenes and impressions-prints, if you will-in which `Each word's a wake that, glancing, folds aside / in parting phrases, under a furrowed brow, / then opens into passing stillnesses...' His is a poetic world in which myth and memory are fitting counterparts to science and knowledge, in which pain, passion, and patience are equally worthy sources of inspiration,...

Though she lived most of her adult life in the eastern United States, Roberts's poetry is rooted in the sights and sounds of her native New Brunswick. Her work exhibits a keen intelligence as well as a tough-minded tenderness, echoing the power and beauty of her beloved Maritime Canadian landscape and communicating her longing for the waterways and forests of her homeland.The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada's most celebrate...

In this remarkable volume, one of Canada's most celebrated artists has collaborated with a distinguished professor of English to create a work of art and scholarship both beautiful and informative.Sir Phillip Sydney, one of the earliest of English literary critics, claimed that the purpose of poesie', or literature, was to teach and to delight'. A Gathering of Flowers accomplishes both goals with great success. The artist's astonishingly reali...

While representing the best of human endeavor, works of art have become ordinary features of our lives, familiar and reliably present, " writes Richard Teleky. "They are, however, extraordinary. So extraordinary, in fact, that in themselves they are a kind of paradise." In Ordinary Paradise, acclaimed author, critic and editor Richard Teleky considers a variety of artistic forms-from novels and poems to paintings and sculptures to movies and m...

Known for her award-winning poetry and her intricate visual art, P. K. Page did not consider herself a writer of fiction, but she nevertheless produced a substantial and varied body of compelling stories. Triptych: Selected Fiction of P. K. Page presents powerful examples of Page's insightful and provocative fiction. Characterized by the exploration of charged ideas, these works (including a novel, several short stories, and a collection of br...

In The Gamekeeper, Michael Harris presents poems of sorrow, sensuality, quirkiness and humour-a grand variety of takes on the mortal landscape. With sharp wit and unaffected music, Harris handles the human and natural worlds with equal sensitivity. Of an apple tree, for instance, he says, "and the apple tree's victory stays / stiff-necked, full of thrash / in its iron-bare head of black antler." Considering Emily Dickinson in a poem entitled "...

John Reibetanz is a poet of transformation. His poetry is tightly woven through syntax that closely responds to the movement of feeling and thought. He dexterously interweaves his own lived experience with the landscape of the imagination, exploring the metaphysical dimensions of the physical world and the mythic resonances of fundamental human concerns. In so doing, his work reveals the poet's underlying longing to engage fully with the overw...

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Belle of the Bayou is a satirical odyssey which takes Arabella Slominski Boot from Montreal to Lafayette, Louisiana in hot pursuit of her own liberation.

In the "Book of Hours, " award-winning wood engraver George A. Walker creates a modern-day, secular devotional that captures in narrative imagery what is too devastating for words: the individual moments of innocence and routine life that ended with the onslaught of 9/11.