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
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! 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
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
The Cuffer Anthology, Volume VII A 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
This Ramshackle Tabernacle	This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken lives of …	Samuel Martin	216	2010	View
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 …	Rosalind Gill	160	2017	View