Canadian Literature

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Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones
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Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones

 The weight of history lies on the spine of memory. That heft and delicate balance are palpable in these rich poems that echo with grief, longing, and observed beauty. From the silence and … 128 View
To Live and Die in Scoudouc

To Live and Die in Scoudouc

 First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson’s poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh … 96 View
Too Unspeakable For Words

Too Unspeakable For Words

Stories

 Nancy comes of age in a British colonial school in 1950s St. John’s; Georgina discovers women’s liberation in a humorous evocation of the 1960s; Jamie returns to the resettled outport … 160 View
Took You So Long
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Took You So Long

 Took You So Long presents emotionally resonant stories about challenging relationships and deeply flawed characters mired in the circumstances of their everyday lives. Often out of sight and … 188 View
Trailer Park Shakes
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Trailer Park Shakes

 These poems, while dreamlike and playful, bear unflinching witness to the workings of injustice — how violence is channeled through institutions and refracted intimately between people, … 99 View
Transversing

Transversing

 Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland’s most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. … 120 View
Treaty#

Treaty#

 A treaty is a contract. A treaty is enduring. A treaty is an act of faith. A treaty at its best is justice. It is a document and an undertaking. It is connected to place, people and self. It is … 112 View
Two-Man-Tent

Two-Man-Tent

 In Two-Man Tent, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, Robert Chafe, offers his long-awaited collection of short fiction. The individual stories are thematically linked by an interwoven, … 216 View
Twoism

Twoism

 Part roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body’s limits and its trickery, you are … 72 View
Vancouver For Beginners

Vancouver For Beginners

 In Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood … 106 View
Vixen
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Vixen

 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence. … 81 View
Way Up

Way Up

stories

 In the thirteen stories that comprise Way Up, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer’s canvas stretches from downtown Toronto to isolated farms, from the Canadian Shield to Nova Scotia and Europe, and even … 190 View
We All Need to Eat

We All Need to Eat

stories

 We All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, … 186 View
Write Across Canada

Write Across Canada

An Anthology of Emerging Writers

 The stories and poems gathered in Write Across Canada showcase a mere sampling of emerging writers working in Canada today. Selected by their mentors working in creative writing programs from … ; 112 View
Your Therapist Says It's Magical Feelings
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Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Feelings

 Sadie McCarney’s Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking is a buoyant second collection that playfully navigates the turbulent waters of life with mental illness and … 92 View
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"Not Your Father's <i>Playboy</i>"

"Not Your Father’s Playboy"

From: Search Box Bed

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 Search String – Porn – The Extinction – Post Rape – Nipple Clips on Amazon – Cam Girl Signs Off – Unposted – Sexting – Loves Kids and Animals … 21 $2.10 Add