AFTER VILLON, the new book from Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist Roger Farr, is a book of contemporary verse translations and "queer variations" based on the work of 15th century poete maudit Francois Villon. Villon's poetry, written in medie...
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Gustave Morin has spent a life carving out a bold and courageous body of work that questions and expands the definition of poetry. The vision and the range of his work, including the books CLEAN SAILS (2015), The Etcetera Barbecue (2008), and A Pen...
Taken from the Anishinaabe word for "woman," MISKWAGOODE is a lyrical portrayal of unreconciled Indigenous experience under colonialism, past and present. Miskwagoode, the woman in the red dress, is Annharte, and she is Annharte’s mother, who disapp...
They say that the language of birds is the closest to that of the divine. They also say that poetry is the unacknowledged legislator of the world. In BIRD ARSONIST, Tom Prime and Gary Barwin—like all good avant-gardists—flip these commonplaces on th...
Literary Nonfiction. Film. "We've met before, haven't we?" The grand illusion of our era is that we're at the end of history and cinema is now no more than tranquilizing entertainment. What we've lost sight of is the political undercurrent running t...
Fiction. Short Stories. Fleeing communist Budapest by air balloon, a wrestler tries to reinvent himself in Canada. On a formal invitation from the Party's General Secretary, a Belgian bureaucrat "defects" to communist Hungary, chasing the dream of a...
Poetry. "Still producing at the height of his powers" is a cliche that rarely applies as well as it does to George Bowering's recent output. In COULD BE: NEW POEMS, gathering work since his close call five years ago, Bowering shows off a wiser, thou...
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...
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...