Breakwater Books

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Title & Subtitle	Contents	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Al Pittman Collected 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 Kind New 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
NEW! Hard Ticket New Writing Made in Newfoundland	hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. Hard Ticket showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by …	Lisa Moore	232	2022	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
Inquiries Poems	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 Shores Stories 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
NEW! No One Knows About Us	Award-winning author Bridget Canning returns with an incisive and unsettling collection that considers what it means to be good—or to be a villain—in our relationships with others. No …	Bridget Canning	280	2022	View
Racket New 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