Place as Character
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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The High-Rise in Fort Fierce |
Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019 Long-Shortlisted, 2019 Relit Award (Short Story Category) Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in … | Paul Carlucci | 224 | 2018 | View |
The Unpublished CityVolume II: The Lived City, The Imagined City |
Co-edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-fiction that offer a different, more multifarious wayfinding. In … | Canisia Lubrin; Dionne Brand; Phoebe Wang | 89 | 2018 | View |
The Unpublished CityVolume I: Anthology |
Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents: | Dionne Brand | 73 | 2017 | View |
This Accident of Being LostSongs and Stories |
A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out … | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson | 138 | 2017 | View |
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 … | Herménégilde Chiasson | 96 | 2018 | View |
Too Unspeakable For WordsStories |
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 … | Rosalind Gill | 160 | 2017 | View |
NEW! 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 … | C. I. Matthews | 188 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Touch Anywhere to Begin |
From acclaimed author Mark Anthony Jarman comes Touch Anywhere to Begin, his first book of travel writing since the publication of the critically acclaimed Ireland’s Eye in 2002. In 18 unusual, … | Mark Anthony Jarman | 256 | 2022 | View |
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 … | Armand Garnet Ruffo | 112 | 2019 | View |
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 … | Alex Leslie | 106 | 2019 | View |
We Are Not in Pakistan |
Ten years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories. Migrating from Central America to the American South, from Metro … | Shauna Singh Baldwin | 276 | 2007 | View |
From NEW! Part One From: Riven |
Thirty-Six Sentences on the Fraser River that Could Serve as a Very Small Nest – Nature Writing 101 – Beseech – To the Artist of Twenty-First Century Canadian Nature Painting … | Catherine Owen | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
From 1 |
BIRD AIRCRAFT STRIKE HAZARD (B.A.S.H.) – THE OSTRICH – THE BUFFALO IS A PUZZLING CREATURE – GARGOYLE – STREET FOOD – BIRDWATCHER – THE LYREBIRD – AN … | Katie Vautour | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
From 1From: Devil in the Woods |
Devil in the Woods: a Preface – Offering Prayer – Letter to Harrison from Camp White Pine at Grass Lake, ON – Letter to Davies from McKecks Tap & Grill in Haliburton, ON … | D. A. Lockhart | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |
From 1From: Blowing Grass Empire |
Blowing Grass Empire (i) – This Is a Poem – Clothesline – Loralee – Washing Dishes – After the Stroke – Hell – Small-town Prostitutes – Orbital … | Mark Lavorato | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
From Before the FallFrom: Full Circle |
Circle Game – Orange Papers – The Fall of a Man – A Cure for Pessimism – Edith – Shock Treatment – Inflation – Sound Poets – Limited Liability … | Helen Fogwill Porter | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |