Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. This engaging memoir relates stories about George Bowering's small-town BC upbringing and his parents—his father long dead and his mother more recently passed on at the age of 100—while at the same time honouring the aut...
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Fiction. David Woods, a first-year teacher, shares his grade-4 students' passion for nature and their reluctance to be hemmed in by classroom walls. He pushes the boundaries of risk and the constraints of school board policy, leading his class on ou...
Poetry. Memoir. Abandoned by her mother and abused by her father as a child, Janet has sought to unearth and articulate the questions around her upbringing and her family's past ever since. Recounting her story to Sharon, she found a receptive ear, ...
Fiction. Jewish Studies. THE RENTER, Michael Tregebov's fourth novel, is set in Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba's version of cottage country, ca. 1968. Once the preserve of the city's establishment, by the time the events of the novel take place, Winnipeg ...
Poetry. Since his first book, The Mood Embosser, was published in 2001, Louis Cabri has established himself as one of the most distinctive, and entertaining, poets in Canada. Steeped in the transformative poetics of the post-New American Poetry of L...
Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. Personal Memoir. A lantern slide, a faded recipe book, a postcard from Mexico, a nugget of fool's gold—such are the clues available to the narrator of THE SMALLEST OBJECTIVE as she excavates for buried treasure i...
Literary Nonfiction. George Bowering has been provoking and inspiring writers and readers for half a century. While he may be better known for his poetry and fiction, the essay holds an equally important place in his work. WRITING AND READING includ...
Fiction. Campus politics collide with curling club realities, releasing pent-up forces and triggering a chain reaction of unintended consequences. Blackie and his curling buddies find themselves whipped up by Blackie's university-age son to oppose t...
Poetry. In nine Cantos—spheres of hell—Roger Farr's I AM A CITY STILL BUT SOON I SHAN'T BE metabolizes the modernist long poem to provide a new, psychogeographical I—witness account of the post—Real city. Avoiding the worn paths of the flaneur, Farr...
Fiction. Short Stories. The short story form is unambiguously un-dead in this new album of thirty fictions from Tim Conley, coming at the reader in a variety of shapes and guises running the gamut from elliptical micro–fictions to tales of the inexp...
Literary Nonfiction. Film. "Jean Walton's MUDFLAT DREAMING is a wonderfully evocative account of the varied ways in which an alternative Vancouver was imagined, constructed and lived by its residents in the 1970s. From waterfront squatting to protes...
Poetry. "Reading Michael Turner's extraordinary 9X11 I was reminded of Christa Wolf's Accident, how global crisis intensifies the daily—except that in Turner's / our current state disruption has become the new norm. Disruption both terrifies and exc...
Poetry. A selection from the 22 books published during David Bromige's lifetime, IF WANTS TO BE THE SAME AS IS charts the course of one of the 21st century poetry masters from high modernism through L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E to his own distinct place. It incl...
Music. THE BIG NOTE is the complete guide to the music of Frank Zappa—100 albums recorded over 35 years, the 80+ players on them, each one of 1,772 tracks described in detail, backed up by 1,424 citations. Based on hundreds of interviews, letters, a...
Poetry. "WEST BROADWAY is a narrative/lyrical work, set along the West Broadway corridor on the West Side of Vancouver. It's a sequence of events, personally experienced but largely uninterpreted, that may take place crossing the street or on the si...