Linda Holeman's characters are instantly familiar. Or are they? In the nine stories which comprise Devil's Darning Needle, we meet people -- seemingly ordinary -- struggling to go forward. The reade
A series of 113 drawings which served as studies for artist Tony Urquhart's ubiquitous box sculptures - strange, surreal, almost absurd objects. These preliminary sketches provide a unique window int
Frank Newfeld, `type-cast' (as it were) as a book designer-cum-illustrator, as well as a designer of printed matter for art galleries, gives us a fascinating memoir both from the standpoint of human
Carpenter's voice captures both the bleakness and the unexpected joys of life. Filled with moments of high humour but grounded by the sense of defeat and rejection that we all face, this novel provid
Jay Macpherson's allusive lyricism and penchant for mythic resonance have made her work central to the development of Canadian poetry from the mid-century and beyond, influencing the careers of writer
Shane Neilson's Dysphoria fearlessly confronts mental illness from all sides, taking the perspective of patient, doctor and observer. It explodes with love and longing, passion and fear. It wails to t
Born of a Mohawk father and an escaped-slave mother, John `Daddy' Hall was a product of not one but two oppressed peoples. His gripping story is the stuff of legends-of the War of 1812, of the harsh r
In The Museum of Possibilities, the future is limited only by the imagination&emdash;and the choices that we make. This exhibit contains, among others:a minor government functionary, forced by an appa
Always Now: Collected Poems of Margaret Avison, encompasses in three volumes all of the published books, from Winter Sun (1960) to Concrete and Wild Carrot (2002), and is framed by a gathering of unco
A charming alphabet book, beautifully illustrated, by one of Canada's most renowned poets. Ideal for very young children, and for P. K. Page fans of all ages.But this isn't an ordinary alphabet book,
The Exile's Papers, Part One, considers the implications of duplicity in autobiography as they appear in the first two hundred or so sonnets of a four-volume sonnet cycle completed over the past twent
A bedraggled hen is rescued from certain starvation by an old woman. The old woman leads a meagre existence, but willing and generously shares food and water with the hen. The hen, it turns out, is ca
The latest wacky and wonderful collection of children's poetry, Governor General's Award winner JonArno Lawson's The Hobo's Crowbar presents a world of word botchers and bird watchers, of vile versifi
The Deep is a vivid, accomplished tale of twin sisters caught up in the mania that was World War I. The year is 1918. Esther and Ruth, living a life privileged and protected, embark upon a journey to
The reach of Rosemary Kilbourn's art -- primarily wood engravings and works of stained glass -- spans the country, having found welcoming homes in galleries and churches from Victoria to Montreal. Her
`How could I have imagined so surrealist and seductive a world? One does not like the heat, yet its constancy, its all-surroundingness, is as fascinating as the smell of musk. Every moment is slow, as
More than twenty years in the making, Dancing, With Mirrors is the result of George Amabile's patient examination of his life. The light of careful attention, shining into his past, sends fragments of
Wayne Clifford's The Exile's Papers first appeared in 2007 with the publication of The Duplicity of Autobiography, but this creative project -- a four-part series of hundreds of surreal, straightforwa
An essential part of the folklore of Canadian academia in the 1950s and 60s, George Johnston's poems were recited with glee by readers largely unaware of their publication abroad in the New Yorker, Pa
