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Sign Language and Other Tales of Montreal Wildlife

A work of startling imaginative power, this collection of linked short stories about working-class women is set in the small town of Tisol, Ontario. Many of the women spend their weekdays at Beadleman's Poultry Processing Plant and their Saturday evenings at the Tilson Inn. Grittily realistic in its evocation of the lives of working women, 'Birds of a Feather' is also comic in the attention it pays to their unglamorous jobs at Beadleman's and ...

Winner of the 1991 QSPELL Fiction Prize, these carefully crafted fictions expose the damaged lives of an exotic assortment of characters. All is not as it seems to be -- the face these characters show is not the only face one sees. Finely controlled as they are, these stories are expressions of desperation, and though apparently cool and dispassionate, they reverberate with emotional tension.

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With an introduction by critic W.J. Keith, this overdue reissue of Coles's early virtuosity--a voice whose austere, tender, insouciant, sad-lit clarity reinvented Canadian poetry--allows readers to glimpse the evolution and shaping of a major writer.

The poet's fifth collection is a series of centos that, on one level, draw inspiration from a traditional Newfoundland craft. Like a hooked rug made up of strips of fabric cut from old clothes, the cento is stitched together from lines scissored out of other poems. Dalton's centos range across continents and epochs, rummaging among poems contemporary and canonical in celebration of the combinatory energies of language. As her lines hook togeth...

Many jazz lives have unfolded as marginal existences, as jazz guitarist Peter Leitch attests in this honest memoir of a life lived in search of excellence in music and art, but also a life lived battling depression, alienation, and narcotics addiction. Leitch vividly relates trying to eke out a living in jazz clubs, night-clubs, and studios in Montreal, Toronto, and New York. He tells of growing up as an Anglophone in Montreal's working-class ...

Taking as its subject the rumors, misunderstandings, and half-truths that often comprise our knowledge of others, this latest collection of poems from Richard Greene captures the various states of feeling that come with a flawed life. Moving from his mother's oil paintings and the harrowing conditions at a corrections facility to recollections of a much-loved mentor, this collection of verse is capped off by the lyrical and moving title poem. ...

Days after sending rejection letters to four would-be authors, literary agent Madison Holmes is found murdered, the victim of a brutal attack in her home. Lieutenant-Detective Toni Damianois assigned to the high-profile case, much the chagrin of the more seasoned detectives in her division. Eager to close her first major case, Damianois discovers the murder weapon -- a boxed manuscript -- mere hours into the investigation, but is left wonderin...

Pierre Nepveu is unique among French Quebec poets for having forged a voice at once unadorned, sensuous, and adventurous, and this new collection is a masterwork consisting of three sequences. The first focuses on an immigrant night cleaner glimpsed on a subway, the second, a riff on a group of stones on a table, and the final sequence concerns the poet's parents and their deaths. The book closes with a long meditative poem written in the Amer...

If cows could talk, what would they say? This book represents the collective wisdom of centuries of bovine self-awareness. On its surface, Robert Moore's fourth collection is a running ledger of aphorisms, maxims, and injunctions that lay bare the mystery behind those docile cud chewers. Deeper down, however, the book is an indictment against the cruelty we inflict upon each other and the nonhuman world. A tour de force allegory about our post...

Collects the poems that explore the surface tension which separates words from the world, highlighting the sometimes poignant struggle between what is said and what is meant.

In the media-saturated world of this post-modern novel, the lines between reality and virtual reality are blurred. A boy nicknamed Garbage Head, the inevitable product of this world, has developed the ability to predict what those on TV and the radio will say before they say it. At first, he finds fame on television, the very medium to which he is supernaturally privileged, but then is deemed a threat by the government and taken before a fitti...

An anthology that gathers together forty stories from the finalists and winners of the CBC Radio One and Quebec Writers' Foundation Short Story Competition from 2002 through 2005.

Largely written following a near-fatal medical emergency, this stirring collection of poetry offers the story of a young man whose gratitude at being alive is undercut by his own confusion and ambivalence. Brandishing a newly acute sense of mortality, the author emerges as a stroller of the Atlantic, stalked by terrifying sea legends, death-steeped domesticity, and the extinct Newfoundland wolf. Understated, sinister, and unsettling, this seri...

A hard-knuckled look at the other half, this collection of lively poems mix a girl-about-town cockiness with an all-too-rare emotional honesty about men, love, and relationships. Whether the subject is a one-man chimney demolition, the lifelong fidelity of seahorses, a lover at war in Afghanistan, or a kickboxing match, Lahey confronts the enduring disconnect between the sexes in a language that is slangy and quick, punctuated with jabs. She e...

Detailing the lives of artists, lovers, brothers, and strangers, this collection of stories acutely probes love and loss, men and women together, and the family ties that bind. A father renews an old artistic rivalry with his dying son, a raucous family gathering ends in tragedy, a quick stop to pick up a hitchhiker begins a chain of events that changes a man's life. Dark yet uplifting, these tales journey to the heart of what matters in the t...

Documenting the development of Montreal's Jewish community from the 1880s until 1945, this investigation meticulously draws from historic city maps and directories, authentic photographs, brittle newspaper articles, and long-forgotten anniversary publications to track the locations of the city's early synagogues. The result is a fascinating story that describes and defines the social, religious, and economic aspects of a distinct group of peop...

From early modern history to contemporary global influences, this resource captures the legacy of Portugal and its people. From adventurous sailors in search of spices more than 600 years ago and the pioneering city plans that rebuilt Lisbon--and the definition of a modern city--to being the first European nation to outlaw slavery, this historiography details the expansive Portuguese legacy that reaches such places as India, Brazil, Newfoundla...