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JAMES CLARKE has authored many volumes of poetry that explore his role as a judge, as a father, as a husband, and as a man of conscience in the world. These books have earned him a reputation for insight into the nature of human judgment and mercy, forgiveness and responsibility. In WINTER WITH FLOWERS, Clarke turns to more intimate and revealing poems, taking up issues of aging and death, of family and relationship, of doubt and faith, wri...

Island Pieces is a collection of short prose, poetry, and photography that recalls summers spent on Manitoulin Island. It describes a landscape "where life clings to a skiff of earth that hardly covers the shield rock, and where living things are afterthoughts to stone and water and sky." Each piece in the collection returns to this northern landscape, exploring what the Island has become in the writer's memory over the years.

During a police raid, a suspect's two pit bulls attack an officer. He shoots one in the head, injuring her, and both dogs flee into a neighbour's back yard where they maul three year old Christopher Allen. His death and the dogs' subsequent disappearance spark a desperate search for the killers in the wild lands surrounding the picturesque cottage community of Bracebridge, and against this backdrop fallingoverstandingstill interweaves three pa...

Eli, Eli is the poetry of a mother's grief at the loss of her young child and a love song to the son who was lost too soon. The writing is frank and poignant, full of a fierce and vulnerable strength. It is a poetry where many readers will find their own griefs reflected, and where they may also find the determination to endure through sorrow into hope.

ETCH 2022 is a collection of stories written for the Guelph Public Library's 2022 Teen Writing Contest. There's a story about a carrier of illegal books, one about child victims of clergy abuse, one about live streaming a haunted house, and one about a girl being betrayed by an online lover. There's a story here for everyone, so have a look and discover the one that's waiting for you.

This Vocamus Edition of The Napoleon of Notting Hill is an excellent introduction to Chesterton's earliest and most imaginative novel. It offers an introduction to the text, a chronology of Chesterton's life, and informative notes designed to help readers fully enjoy Chesterton's classic story. Both those who are reading the novel for the first time and those who are returning to it as an old favourite will appreciate this edition of a book th...

The Rhapsody Anthology is an annual collection of writing by Guelph and area authors, celebrating the creativity of our literary community in 2020 / 2022.

Rhapsody 2020 is an annual collection of poetry by writers in Wellington County, presented by Vocamus Writers Community, a non-profit community organization that supports literary culture in Guelph, Ontario. The anthology is a celebration of local writing that includes both authors who are well established in their craft and those who are published here for the first time, reflecting the writers and writing that formed the literary communities...

The Rhapsody Anthology is an annual collection of poetry by Guelph and area writers, celebrating the creativity of the local literary community in 2017 / 2018.

ETCH 2018 is a collection of stories written for the Guelph Public Library's 2018 Teen Writing Contest. There's a story about a ruler hunted by an assassin in her own castle, about a boy whose life is changed by a flat tire, and about a girl who inherits her grandfather's love of records. There's a story here for everyone, so have a look and discover the one that's waiting for you.

AFRICAN LEGACIES, AFRICAN FICTIONS is a collection of interviews and essays on African fiction.

Rhapsody is an annual collection of poetry by writers in Wellington County, presented by Vocamus Writers Community, a non-profit community organization that supports literary culture in Guelph, Ontario.The anthology is a celebration of local writing that includes both authors who are well established in their craft and those who are published here for the first time, reflecting the writers and writing that formed the literary communities of Gu...

Anne Sutherland Brooks has long been one of Canada's lost poets. Though her work was at one time internationally recognized with the likes of fellow Canadians William Henry Drummond, Bliss Carmen, and John McCrae, she has now largely been forgotten.This volume offers readers a selection of the work that made her a poet of note in her day, with the hope that it will introduce her to a new generation of readers and re-establish her place in Cana...

ETCH 2019 is a collection of stories written for the Guelph Public Library's 2019 Teen Writing Contest. There's a story about detectives solving murders at an aquarium, one about child victims of clergy abuse, and one about the murders of First Nations women in Canada. There's a story here for everyone, so have a look and discover the one that's waiting for you.

THE RHAPSODY ANTHOLOGY is an annual collection of poetry and very short prose by writers who live in and around the city of Guelph, Ontario. It is a celebration of local writing that includes both authors who are well established in their craft and those who are published here for the first time, reflecting the variety of writers and writing that formed the literary communities of Guelph during 2014 / 2015.

EVERY WAY I KNOW HOW is a collection of erotica that is as much about telling stories as it is about being erotic. There's no shortage of sex in it, so don't worry about that, but it always tells a human story too. There's a bridesmaid who helps the mother-of-the-bride find a fashion that suits her. There's a guest speaker at a college whose night is disrupted by a young woman's poetry. There's a landlady who is irresistibly drawn to her guest...

Thousands of Guelph Mercury readers looked on with shock and regret when the 149-year-old newspaper produced its final edition on January 29, 2016. The development ended a journalistic tradition that was as old as Canada and one that had produced national and provincial honours for its coverage. Now Phil Andrews, former Managing Editor at the Guelph Mercury, has gathered short fiction from nineteen journalists who worked in the Mercury newsroo...

Candace de Taeye's debut full-length collection of poetry, Small Planes and the Dead Fathers of Lovers, explores with wit and sincerity ideas of family, relationship, and home. Beginning with poems of movement and travel, the book develops diverse and wide-ranging meditations on what it means to be at home in a place, to grow into it, and then also eventually to leave it. The poetry itself makes full use of the physical page, occupying each co...

The RHAPSODY anthology is an annual collection of poetry and very short prose by writers who live in and around the city of Guelph, Ontario. It is a celebration of local writing that includes both authors who are well established in their craft and those who are published here for the first time, reflecting the variety of writers and writing that formed the literary communities of Guelph during 2015 / 2016.

ETCH is a collection of stories written for the Guelph Public Library's 2015 Teen Writing Contest. There's a story about a robot who does not want to be retired, about a detective tracking a wereshrew, about a girl surviving an earthquake, about a boy exploring a mysterious well, about all kinds of things. There 's a story here for everyone, so have a look and discover the one that's waiting for you.