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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! GrantedPoems of Metaphor |
In Granted, Jeffery Donaldson explores ‘a universe of potential relation’, providing a master class in the art of metaphor by exploring in verse the complexities of identity, … | Jeffery Donaldson | 116 | 2022 | View |
High Water Mark |
High-Water Mark is Bronwen Wallace Award–winner Nicole Dixon’s smart and sexy debut. These ten tightly written stories focus on contemporary women learning what they want from sex, … | Nicole Dixon | 156 | 2012 | View |
Ordinary ParadiseEssays on Art and Culture |
The essays in Ordinary Paradise challenge conventional wisdom and exemplify a dynamic and lively critical approach, pointing out troubling trends in contemporary appreciation of art and culture. … | Richard Teleky | 252 | 2018 | View |
Portraits of Canadian Writers |
Bruce Meyer shares brief portraits of Canada’s most beloved writers of the 20th century alongside anecdotes that reveal their personalities. | Bruce Meyer | 212 | 2016 | View |
NEW! Rank Songbirds |
Leon Rooke’s Rank Songbirds delves into the drama and humour of love and desire, politics and the passing of time, celebrating humanity’s resilience and its inherent frailty. In Rank … | Leon Rooke | 84 | 2022 | View |
The Dodecahedron, or a Frame for Frames |
Twelve narratives, twelve narrators, twelve genres and twelve fictional worlds collide to spectacular effect in Paul Glennon’s The Dodecahedron, or a Frame for Frames. The second book from … | Paul Glennon | 228 | 2005 | View |
The Essential Charles BruceSelected by Carmine Starnino |
The Essential Charles Bruce introduces the poet’s work, long out of print, to modern audiences with a selection of his straightforward yet stirring verses that take as their subject the … | Charles Bruce | 68 | 2018 | View |
The Essential Douglas LePanPoems |
The Essential Douglas LePan presents a wide-ranging collection of poetry—from tense verses on the fog of war to homoerotic love poems to lyrics in praise of the natural world, all in … | Douglas LePan; John Barton | 64 | 2019 | View |
The Essential Margaret Avisonselected by Robyn Sarah |
The Essential Margaret Avison showcases the development of one of Canada’s most brilliant and original poets, twice winner of the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. Margaret … | Margaret Avison | 68 | 2010 | View |
The Essential P.K. Pageselected by Arlene Lampert and Théa Gray |
P. K. Page needs no introduction. This is a poet who writes in many genres and on an infinite number of subjects. The source of her poetry is always love – whether in vivid portraits of her … | P.K. Page | 68 | 2008 | View |
The Essential Travis Lane |
The Essential Travis Lane presents a selection of poems by a Canadian poet who combines exquisite observations of the natural world with profound thoughts about time and mortality. Inspired by … | Travis Lane | 68 | 2015 | View |
The Museum of PossibilitiesStories |
The work begins with stories of people discovering the consequences of their actions – or inactions – that are full of psychological suspense, and verge on the supernatural. A second … | Barbara Sibbald | 188 | 2017 | View |
The Pig Headed SoulEssays and Reviews on Poetry and Culture |
The Pigheaded Soul presents a series of witty, intelligent, and sometimes controversial essays in which talented newcomers and avowed masters alike find themselves within the literary crosshairs … | Jason Guriel | 276 | 2013 | View |
NEW! The Razor’s Edge |
A collection of linked short stories that hopscotches between time and space to explore the haunting hunger that reaches beyond the physical and into the spiritual—for love, for … | Karl Jirgens | 156 | 2022 | 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 |
From NEW! From: Granted |
Contains the poems I through XXXIII | Jeffery Donaldson | 34 | 2022 | $3.40 Add |