Breakwater Books
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Al PittmanCollected Poems |
The definitive Pittman collection. From the publication of his first collection, The Elusive Resurrection, in 1966, to his death in 2001 at the age of sixty-one, Al Pittman stood as one of the … | Al Pittman | 376 | 2015 | View |
![]() An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife |
Katie Vautour’s extraordinary debut collection is an eclectic examination of the space where humans and animals meet, where migratory patterns encounter commercial flights, and birds appear … | Katie Vautour | 84 | 2019 | View |
![]() Best KindNew Writing Made in Newfoundland |
In Best Kind, editor and essayist Robert Finley introduces twelve of the most exciting essay writers currently working in Newfoundland. Highlighting a varied and electrifying range of new voices, … | Robert Finley | 184 | 2018 | View |
![]() Four-Letter Words |
Chad Pelley’s Four-Letter Words, his collection of award-winning short stories, presents us with characters haunted by one four-letter word or another: love, hate, lust, or loss. A father … | Chad Pelley | 168 | 2016 | View |
![]() Full Circle |
Full Circle brings together poetry written across decades by one of Newfoundland’s best-loved writers. Balanced on the sharpest edge of life, yet caught in the ruthless pull of aging and … | Helen Fogwill Porter | 80 | 2018 | View |
![]() geo•logics |
Stephen Rowe’s geo•logics—his highly anticipated follow-up to Never More There—binds the impermanent to the permanent. With both an inquiry into loss and an inquiry into … | Stephen Rowe | 72 | 2015 | View |
![]() I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game |
Richly imagined and evocative, I’d Write the Sea like a Parlour Game explores the diversity and resilience that inhabit life at the margins, from tuckamore trails to the streets of a … | Alison Dyer | 75 | 2017 | View |
![]() InquiriesPoems |
In poems that risk the comingling of anger and elegy, poetry and documentation, humour and the dark spectre of poverty, Michelle Porter’s Inquiries oscillates at its edges, and amplifies … | Michelle Porter | 66 | 2019 | View |
![]() NEW! Land of Many ShoresStories From a Diverse Newfoundland and Labrador |
In Land of Many Shores, writers share their essays about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often-neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, LGBTQ+, … | Ainsley Hawthorn | 256 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Narrow Cradle |
In Narrow Cradle, Wade Kearley explores the midlife encounter with mortality and the ways we strive to resist, deny, cheat, and even bargain with it. Grounded in both traditional and modern … | Wade Kearley | 112 | 2020 | View |
![]() New And Collected Poems |
For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, … | Tom Dawe | 396 | 2019 | View |
![]() RacketNew Writing Made in Newfoundland |
In Racket, editor and acclaimed fiction writer Lisa Moore introduces us to ten of the most exciting new writers currently at work in Newfoundland. Featuring a diverse range of previously … | Lisa Moore | 184 | 2015 | View |
![]() Send More Tourists, The Last Ones Were Delicious |
With birth, death, contemplation, and close calls, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious explores how we respond to the weight of social expectations. From the hidden pressures … | Tracey Waddleton | 258 | 2019 | View |
![]() Soak |
This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in … | Kerri Cull | 64 | 2012 | View |
![]() The Cuffer Anthology, Volume VIIA Collection of Short Stories from Newfoundland and Labrador |
Now in its eighth year, the Cuffer Prize is sponsored by The Telegram and Creative Book Publishing in St. John’s. It showcases some of the best short fiction from Newfoundland and Labrador … | Pam Frampton | 152 | 2015 | View |
![]() NEW! The Love Olympics |
Characters weave their way in and out of The Love Olympics, a collection of short fiction set in St. John’s. The book is about various forms of love—the ways love grips us, shakes us, … | Claire Wilkshire | 240 | 2021 | View |