In praise and rant, the poems in Barbaric Cultural Practice pay tribute to our dear Mother World's enchantments as well as her upheavals. They confront the stresses of urban life as juxtaposed to natu
A tattered coat upon a stick represents both a summing-up and a continued breaking of new ground by a distinguished poet still at the top of his game after a long career. This full-bodied, symphonical
Home Was Elsewhere reveals the intimacies of Stanley Fefferman's 20-year immersion in the world of the charismatic guru Chogyam Trungpa. The poems show the author making himself at home in the master'
River Neither is a collection of short lyrical poems, many of which are variations on the sonnet form. In a sense, the entire book is an exploration of "form" and its possibilities. The tone
The Other Oscar tells the story of a thirty-year-old Canadian musician who arrives in a Chilean coastal town to appear in a film about madness. That's all Oscar knows about the film except that he's b
Blackbird Calling depicts the beauty and complexity that unfold when dominant and indigenous cultures fuse horizons. It begins on Cape Breton Island, where the protagonist, unnamed, encounters the ago
Psychomachia is a meditation on revenge, violence and transformation. It is the story of a mother for whom the painful past persists. It is also the story of a young boy who has been put face to face
Set in Toronto and Milan, Between Rothko and 3 Windows takes us into the inner vortex of cities evolving away from the imagined ethnic certainties of the past towards an unsettling, increasingly chaot
This novella is a fictional account of one man's immigration to Quebec. It relates, in the first person, how Samuel Gaska, a failed composer of Polish origin, comes to give up music after doing time i
Detailing a six-hour window on April 21, 1941, The Bus features eight different narrators: six mental patients, the doctor who will kill them, and the man who will burn their corpses. Crammed into a b
Dying Behaviour of Cats is about Theo Galli. He has not left his house in seven years. When Hurricane Catalina hits, the streets are flooded and the animals of the city zoo escape. All are captured or
