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In this unique literary collection Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliot Clarke, anthologizes significant firsts in the landscape of African-Canadian poetry and prose. Clarke's powerful introduction illuminates the historical, cultural, and political significance of these groundbreaking works for contemporary audiences.

A thriller, a love story, an elegy, and a confession, Resort recounts the misadventures of actors/con artists, Jill Charles and Danny Drake. Broke and desperate in Acapulco, Danny agrees to Jill's scamming of an eccentric older English couple, leading them across Mexico to Veracruz. Along the way, Danny begins to suspect Jill hasn't told him the truth about herself or the English couple.

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What has happened to Bret Easton Ellis' ego? Why does Ferran Adria reject the gastronomy it's said he invented? Who was the poet that punched her husband in the face? Why is David Sedaris broken in the wrong way? When is it comforting to eat spleen? In Magical Narcissism, award-winning Canadian journalist and critic Shaun Smith investigates all these questions and many others as he pursues his two great loves: books and food.

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Examines the state of Canadian literature today by exploring independent publishing, the awards culture, and the commercialisation of even the most un-commercial of booksWith contributions from Ryan Bigge, George Fetherling, and Stephen Henighan, this volume is both entertaining and thought provoking.

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A talented group of writers create site-specific installations or short fictions that include a phone call, either metaphorical or real, in homage to and out of respect for the beautiful, dirty telephone booth. Perfect for anyone interested in the commonalities shared with technology and communication, this book explores the bygone era of phone-booth culture.

Onion Man is an intense and masterly sculpted series of linked poems set in southern Ontario in the late 1980s a time in Canada when the recession lay like a lead weight on the shoulders of young people, leaving the future bleak. The poems are told from the point of view of an eighteen-year-old girl working for the summer as a labourer at a corn canning factory, and they follow her relationship with her factory job, her boyfriend, her alcoholi...