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THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS takes as its organizing principle the idea of contingency – the world thrown into Being that the poet encounters – and variation, or Bach’s looping, recombinant system, as a way to turn into verse what shows up in the Notes a...
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In TOMORROW IS A HOLIDAY, Hamish Ballantyne resists the urge of revelation in favour of idiomatic observations. Divided in four parts, the last of which draws on translations of San Juan de la Cruz, these poems sit by the ocean or by the felled spru...
A young man returns to the town of his youth after a period spent on the road. Unable to rekindle a high school flame, Cal Bedrick, who is Jewish, soon meets a very nice Catholic girl, Frannie Sinkiewicz, who falls hard for the troubled young man...
Gerald Lampert Memorial prize nominee, Tom Prime’s latest poetry collection. MALE PREGNANCY IN REVERSE, a long poem "in 5 Acts", transmutes a disturbing and sometimes horrifying experience—albeit one which is only ever obliquely and allegorically d...
A unique first-hand account of a life spent in the Children of God, a/k/a The Family, a millenarian doomsday sex cult under the sway of a charismatic leader, David Berg. In 1972, Perry Bulwer, a naive 16-year-old growing up in Port Alberni, a mill...
New from Marc Edge, author of Asper Nation, Greatly Exaggerated, and THE NEWS WE DESERVE. Even as their readers move on–line and their advertisers look elsewhere, daily newspapers continue to be our main source of information, shaping citizens' un...
A compelling story telling laced with dark social comedy, NAKED DEFIANCE is the story of a turn–of–the–century radical art group and its charismatic leader. Written by one of its members, Florian Moore (probably a pseudonym), the manuscript of NA...
It's 1978 and a non–stop carnival of debauchery begins as the first shock of punk hits Vancouver. Now, in 2022, revisit John Armstrong's pivotal memoir in the 21st anniversary edition of Guilty of Everything.As Buck Cherry — lead singer and guitaris...
In 22 engaging essays, Summerland writer Don Gayton fuses the personal with the ecological to portray the geography and the natural and human history of his adopted Okanagan Valley homeland. Draft resister and professional ecologist by training, Do...
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...
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...