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Mr. Blue is Jim's cat and his sole companion until the day they discover a copy of The Arabian Nights in a cave along the beach. From then on, the novel Jim is writing develops in unexpected ways. For words are independent like cats, and they don't do what you want them to.

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A visceral tale of obsession and creativity, unrequited passions and the power of music. A love story in which art is a foil to companionship, and the intellect an interlocutor of the heart. In the utterly unique All that Sang, the second fiction by Lambda Literary Award-finalist Lydia Perovic, a Toronto opera critic on assignment in Paris falls in love with the subject she's been sent to interview, France's leading female conductor. But is th...

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The apparently wry, engaging surface of these poems is undercut by an incisive look at human habits and foibles. Articulate, quiet humour is belied by something ineffable and much darker. This tension carries throughout the book informing the casual, bantering speech of the poetry itself.

This is an outlandish, quirky exposure of one woman's fix on God--his surrealistic depravities, her own lusts and horrors, their vital marriage. A Nun's Diary expresses a poetic theology that has as much to do with contemporary morality and love as it does with the institutions and traditions of Christianity. It is very funny--the humor both bawdy and black--and brilliant in its perceptions of what women, if they departed from conventional ass...

Earle Birney has created a unique memoir that spans four decades. By linking together book reviews, magazine articles, editorials, and radio broadcasts with reminiscences of his childhood, education, and early teaching and writing career, Birney presents the reader with an exciting view of the early days of modern Canadian literature. He writes of meeting and corresponding with Bliss Carmen, Raymond Souster, A J M Smith, P K Page, Malcolm Lowr...

An adventure of a risky sort: a series of anecdotes displaying vitality and lyricism.

Philosopher, romantic, a teller of tales, Robert Allen exhibits a humour rare to the serious job of the poet. What marks the pages of Magellan's Clouds most is the stamp of the clear-seer and the attentive listener.

These poems are informed by the poet's wry and direct perception of her world--equally at home in the Texas of her youth and the Canada of her adulthood.

These poems centre on the changing life of a fictional Suffolk village. Monologues are spoken by characters who live in East Suffolk. The poet has drawn on local records and transcribed oral history to create his poetry, successfully catching something of the life of a small community as it emerges through the words and histories of its people.

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CIV/n was a dynamic magazine published in Montreal between the years 1953 and 1955. In only seven issues it published the early work of Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Louis Dudek, Robert Creeley, Phyllis Webb, Raymond Souster, Irving Layton, Robert Currie, Gael Turnbull, Avi Boxer, Cid Corman, D G Jones, Charles Olson and A J M Smith. As Irving Layton states in his essay Recalling the 50's included in this book: There was tremendous excitement in ...

These six stories are about real people -- Pierre Valli+res, Paul Rose, the Mohawks, Paolo Violi, Claude Jutra, and Jean Castonguay. Each in turn exhibits an acute discomfort with the world as it is, a fierce resistance against the passivity and apathy that drags at life's coat-tails, and an inclination -- nourished by personal belief -- to act in ways that threaten the orderly peaceable flow of what passes for normal life. For different reaso...

This is a lively, quirky collection of short stories, poetry, and memoir vignettes from published (Nino Ricci, Robyn Sarah, Rhea Tregebov) and unpublished writers Elisabeth Harvor has met over the years in workshops and as a writer-in-residence in universities and libraries across Canada.

A guileless group of misfits share an extraordinary undertaking in this novel set in 1968. Recently bereaved, a Montana guitar-maker pursues a dream he has contemplated for many years -- to break the wheel-driven world land-speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Four unlikely team-mates volunteer their energies to build a four-engined streamlined racing car: Jill, an aspiring tap dancer, Beth, a failed fashion model, Ephram, a curmudgeonly...

When the Westmount Public Library was opened in 1899, it was the first tax-supported public library in the province of Quebec and one of the first established outside Ontario. In 1897, an ageing British monarch, a young Canadian town, and a reneging utility company prompted the establishment of this unique library as a permanent memorial to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. In addition to telling the fascinating story of the Westmount Public L...

This collection of letters documents the trials of a young Polish woman who was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo in 1942 for working as a spy for the Polish Underground, imprisoned in Berlin, and executed two years later. In the last year of her life, she wrote over 60 poignant letters that, through the kindness of a courageous prison guard, were smuggled to her parents or to the guard's daughter, who became her pen pal.

Examining 11 cities worldwide and concentrating on the intersection of nature and society in the urban environment, this book offers insight into how people have tried and often failed to connect with nature throughout history while retaining a strong optimism for the future. Giving examples for each city, the author weighs the consequences of introducing nature to urban areas and provides recommendations on creating green space in the city.

Retracing the life of Paul Bley--one of the most complex and mysterious personalities in the history of jazz--this fascinating biography positions him in the pantheon of great jazz musicians from the last 50 years. A proponent of free jazz and improvisation, his techniques, aesthetic values, and individual style are examined in the context of his contributions to modern jazz. The story of his musical career is also discussed alongside many of ...