The Green Man's forest is full of spirits. From the loftiest cedar to the lowliest centipede, all life falls under the dominion and protection of He Who Is Verdant. Circumspect eyes track defiant inte
In Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices, politics and economics sprawl comfortably alongside prurient dissertations on sex, marriage and aging as Leon Rooke and Tony Calzetta masterfully unfold a
"I'd like to think that I'm polarizing the way a battery is," explains Michael Lista in his introduction toStrike Anywhere, "energizing the flashlight by which you read in the dark only
The culmination of decades of effort, Wayne Clifford's The Exile's Papers is a four-part poetic journey that explores narrative duplicity, familial and romantic relationships, the correlation between
Joseph Grand, the hero of From a Seaside Town, is a travel writer struggling to eke out an existence in an English seaside town. He introduces us to the small circle of relatives and companions who fi
A young Pole in a Canadian internment camp during World War I becomes obsessed with a female visitor. A contemporary young woman's baby develops a mysterious illness while her own life is invaded by d
The third in a celebrated Porcupine's Quill series of `Essential Poets' that already includes The Essential George Johnston (2007), and The Essential P. K. Page (2008). Volumes in preparation include
Subtle, varied and elegant, exact in their tuning, traditionally informed yet wholly original, the poems of George Johnston have yet to find the wide readership they deserve. That they flew beneath th
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
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
In a career that spanned more than half a century, Kenneth Leslie published six books of poetry, including By Stubborn Stars, which won the Governor-General's medal in 1938. He also created The Prote
Wood engraver Gerard Brender a Brandis has long been an avid gardener and botanist; his encyclopaedic knowledge of the plant world animates the exquisite microcosm of A Wood Engraver's Alphabet. This
This is the second volume in our `Essential Poets' series. Our aim is to provide the best possible introduction to a prominent Canadian poet by selecting key works that carry the essence of an indivi
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
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
Mystery Stories is inhabited by absence: strange truancies (with equally strange arrivals), missing friends, lost lovers. The survivors are left behind to navigate the pitfalls of memory while trying
This is the sixth volume in The Porcupines Quill's Essential Poets series. The Essential Margaret Avison provides an excellent introduction to this distinguished Canadian poet and the evolution of he
Re-visit the life of history's most notorious lover, from childhood to Casanova's daring escape from the State Inquisition's prison. Using eighteenth-century poetic conventions that Casanova himself
The literary emblem can trace its roots back to sixteenth-century English collections, which sought to reconcile classical philosophy with Christian doctrine. Consisting of images and verses, emblems
In the mid-1990s, artist and musician Alec Dempster returned to Mexico, the place of his birth, and discovered son jarocho. A genre of folk music from the Veracruz region of Mexico, son jarocho origin
