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Series: In the Trenches Best of sub-TERRAIN 1 Paperback Brian Kaufman 9781895636192 $21.95 FICTION Apr 15, 2013

In The Trenches: The Best of subTerrain represents ten years of alternative writing, as featured on the pages of Vancouver's literary renegade magazine, subTerrain. In The Trenches features works of poetry, fiction and commentary by innumerable talented emerging writers, many of whom have since gone on to become established Canadian authors. Included is work by: Derek McCormack, Steven Heighton, Helene Littmann, Elise Levine, Grant Buday, Dianne Warren, Mark Anthony Jarman, Bud Osborn, Sophia Kaszuba, Michael Turner, Mark Cochrane, Joanne Arnot... + Read More
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Series: Cabalcor An Extracted History Mixed media product Sun Belt 9781772140033 $24.00 FICTION Jan 28, 2015

The debut work by Sun Belt is a genre-bending almanac depicting the rise and fall of a company town that, within the span of a century, becomes a desert wasteland. A full-length album of dusty, surreal songs by the Sun Belt music ensemble both informs and is informed by a blend of transcripts, photographs, micro fictions, wildlife plates, film stills, costume designs, environmental reports and other invented artefacts. The result is a multimedia portrait of a mythic place closer tohome than we'd like-and an artistic collaboration that defie... + Read More
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Series: Breakneck Paperback Nelly Arcan 9781772140118 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2015

Rose Dubois and Julie O'Brien find themselves on a burning roof together, on a summer's day, and from then on their fates intertwine, in a world where the natural force that is the changing climate foreshadows and encourages their predestined suffering. Rose and Julie's submissive love for the same man, Charles, creates in them an arms race of artificial beauty and debasement. The first in their common obsession for plastic surgery and their attempts to be the avatar for the perfect female, and possess the perfect female organ; the second in ... + Read More
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Series: Seep Paperback W. Mark Giles 9781772140125 $20.00 FICTION Sep 03, 2015

Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond, during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a team of barnstorming Cuban All Stars. Decades later, when he sees his childhood home being moved on a truck down the highway, he begins a quest to research the history of his hometown and of his family. Seep is being dismantled, and the land is being redeveloped as a master-planned recreational townsite to complement a nearby First Nations casino. And then his brother Darryl arrives on his doorstep with the force of a b... + Read More
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Series: I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457 Paperback Gary Barwin 9781772140132 $18.00 FICTION May 28, 2015

At times comic, tender, dark, compassionate, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin's latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the quantum world. Raging from short story to postcard fiction, Barwin's stories are mysterious, luminous, hilarious, and surprising. A billionaire falls in love with a kitchen appliance, a couple share a pair of legs, a pipeline-size hair is given the Nobel Prize only so that it can be taken away, a father remembers with tenderness, the radiant happiness... + Read More
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Series: Jabbering with Bing Bong Paperback Kevin Spenst 9781772140149 $18.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2015

Kevin Spenst's much-anticipated debut collection of poetry opens as a coming-of-age narrative of lower-middle class life in Vancouver's suburb of Surrey, embroidered within a myriad of pop-culture and "post-Mennonite." Jabbering with Bing Bong interrogates memory and makes its way into the urban energies of Vancouver. Language is at play with sit-com sonnets and soundscapes of noise; videogame goombas and an Old-Testament God; teenage longing within the power chords of heavy metal andthe complicated loss of a father to schizophrenia. Jabbering... + Read More
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Series: Foreign Park Paperback Jeff Steudel 9781772140156 $18.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2015

Foreign Park situates itself in an epoch where prior assurances of the natural world's solidity begin to slip. Poisons enter the Fraser River Basin. An oil slick approaches by night engulfing a fishing vessel, leaving its captain in open waters. Page after page, Foreign Park makes strange with its inhabitants. As it unfolds, it plots itself along the Fraser River overlaying myth and historicity with present day. These calm poems detail the effects of destruction on land and simultaneously explore family and community in Vancouver's coastal city... + Read More
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Series: Rue Paperback Melissa Bull 9781772140163 $18.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2015

In her compelling debut poetry collection, shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award, Melissa Bull explores the familial, romantic, and sexual ties that bind lives to cities. Rue takes us through its alleys, parks, and kitchens with a robust lyricism and language that is at once inventive and plainspoken, compassionate and frank. In English, to rue is to regret; in French, la rue is the street Rue's poems provide the venue for moments of both recollection and motion. Punctuated withneologisms and the bilingual dialogue of Montreal, the colle... + Read More
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Series: Rogues, Rascals, and Scalawags Too More Ne'er-Do-Wells Through the Ages Paperback Jim Christy 9781772140170 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 15, 2015

Never before have as many outrageous and out-sized characters appeared in one place at the same time. Words like rogues, rascals, rapscallions, reprobates and rodomontades don't completely describe these individuals; they are more than each or any combination thereof. They are scalawags. People who claim to push the envelope are stamped, sealed and delivered compared with this bunch. They may be conmen or conwomen, adventurers, fabulists and/or delusional but they all share the extremepassion for life always more Life! Some are of the modern ... + Read More
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Series: Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer Paperback Stuart Ross 9781772140187 $18.00 LITERARY CRITICISM May 28, 2015

Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is a continuation of the columns and essays that comprised Stuart's 2005 release, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Again, equal parts literary memoir, reckless tirade, and unsolicited advice for the aspiring writer, Further Confessions is drawn largely from Stuart Ross's notorious "Hunkamooga" column, his blog entries, essays for subTerrain magazine and other online venues. We bring them together here in their collected brilliance: alternately snarky, sincere, touching, honest, and always op... + Read More
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Series: The Land We Are Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation Paperback Gabrielle Hill 9781894037631 $24.95 ART Jun 15, 2015

The Land We Are is a stunning collection of writing and art that interrogates the current era of reconciliation in Canada. Using visual, poetic, and theoretical language, the contributors approach reconciliation as a problematic narrative about Indigenous-settler relations, but also as a site where conversations about a just future must occur. The result of a four-year collaboration between artists and scholars engaged in resurgence and decolonization, The Land We Are is a moving dialogue that blurs the boundaries between activism, research, an... + Read More
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Series: Semaphore Shopping Cart Pantheism Paperback Jeanne Randolph 9781894037617 $14.95 PHILOSOPHY May 15, 2015

Glorifying consumerism as the de facto religion of our time, Shopping Cart Pantheism offers a preposterous yet challenging invitation to participate in commodity worship. As our narrator meanders the Las Vegas Strip, its sites and monuments become examples of Christian sainthood, miracles, worship, and dogma now transformed into icons of consumerism. Satiric, witty, and deeply insightful, Shopping Cart Pantheism reveals the fraught beginnings of the twenty-first century's most pervasive neurosis.
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Series: My Body Is Yours Paperback Michael V. Smith 9781551525778 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 08, 2015

A memoir about fathers and sons, breaking out of gender norms, and reconciling with a dangerous childhood. Lambda Literary Award finalist Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male--a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; an insecure teenager desperate to disappear; and an obsessive writer-performer, drawn to compul... + Read More
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Series: Well Fed, Flat Broke Recipes for Modest Budgets & Messy Kitchens Paperback Emily Wight 9781551525792 $22.95 COOKING Mar 31, 2015

In this winsome cookbook, based on her popular blog of the same name, Emily Wight offers great recipes, ideas, and advice on how to prepare imaginative, nutritious, and delectable meals without having to spend a lot of money. Perfect for students, new adults, and others on a budget, it’s a personable guide that adapts the act of cooking to our modern economy. Chapters are divided according to ingredients so that readers can choose their main and build a meal around it. Recipes range from the simple (perfect scrambled eggs, rice and lentils) to... + Read More
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Series: Lost Boi Paperback Sassafras Lowrey 9781551525815 $16.95 FICTION Mar 31, 2015

In Sassafras Lowrey’s gorgeous queer punk reimagining of the classic Peter Pan story, prepare to be swept overboard into a world of orphaned, abandoned, and runaway bois who have sworn allegiance and service to Pan, the fearless leader of the Lost Bois brigade and the newly corrupted Mommy Wendi who, along with the tomboy John Michael, Pan convinces to join him at Neverland. Told from the point of view of Tootles, Pan’s best boi, the lost bois call the Neverland squat home, creating their own idea of family, and united in their allegiance to P... + Read More
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Series: Where the words end and my body begins Paperback Amber Dawn 9781551525839 $16.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2015

The first full-length poetry book by the Lambda Literary and Vancouver Book Award Winner. Finalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Award-winning writer Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a suite of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets, such as the legendary Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich, as well as contemporaries like Leah Horlick, Rachel Rose, and Trish Salah. (Glosas, a 15th-century Spanish form, typically open with a quatrain from an existin... + Read More
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Series: Justice Belied The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice Paperback Sébastien Chartrand 9781926824796 $29.95 LAW Nov 01, 2014

Written by practicing criminal defense lawyers, jurists, investigators, and specialized journalists, this book criticizes the whole initiative of international criminal justice and considers the idea that it must be abandoned in the name of justice. Has foreign policy trumped justice? How are equity, equality before the law, absence of selectivity, protection of witnesses, and enforcement affected? How are lives of citizens throughout the world changed by International Justice? Asking the burning questions about criminal justice as it is practi... + Read More
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Series: Journey to the Heart of the First Peoples Collection Hardcover Marie-Paule Robitaille 9781771860307 $49.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2014

Revealing objects of unimagined beauty and rarity, this book brings readers into the world of the Aboriginal nations of Quebec, Canada, the United States, Amazonia, and Oceania. The history of this collection spans a period stretching from New France (1600), with objects brought back by the priests of the Séminaire de Québec from missions in various regions of the Americas, to the present, with the most recent donations by collectors passionate about history and the ways of life of the First Peoples. The collections at Quebec's Musées de la Civ... + Read More
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Series: Storming the Old Boys' Citadel Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America Paperback Carla Blank 9781771860130 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2014

This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice architecture in North America during the 19th century. Mother Joseph du Sacré-Coeur, a Sister of Providence—born Esther Pariseau, in St. Elzéar, Quebec—is credited with works built in the present states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, northern Oregon, and in the province of British Columbia. For her contributions, Mother Joseph was honored by the State of Washington as one of two people to represent it in the National Statuary Hall C... + Read More
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Series: The Nickel Range Trilogy The Insatiable Maw The Nickel Range Trilogy, Volume 2 Paperback Mick Lowe 9781771860376 $19.95 FICTION Jun 01, 2015

In this story of eco-resistance based on actual events in the heart of Canada’s Nickel Range, Jake McCool, the injured hardrock miner, returns to work for the International Nickel Company (INCO) but now at its nearby Copper Cliff smelter complex. In no time, Jake finds himself embroiled in a vicious fight over health and safety and, more specifically, over the extreme levels of sulphur dioxide that poison the air in the smelter but also in the entire surrounding area. The fight takes on new dimensions as freelance reporter Foley Gilpin sparks i... + Read More
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Series: None Exhilarating Prose Cognitions, Contemplations, Insights, Introspections, Lucubrations, Meditations, Musings, Prognostications, Reflections, Reveries & Ruminations on the Process of Writing Paperback Barry Healey 9781771860383 $19.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Jun 01, 2015

This smartly illustrated literary miscellanea is intended to stimulate readers and writers of English prose. From "dead language ? the speaks" (i.e., ad-speak, media-speak, corporate-speak) through "re-writing ? Again?" to rules (to obey or not to obey), authors Barry Healey and Cordelia Strube examine what makes good and bad writing. With tongue often in cheek, they scrutinize various forms of prose and the seven major prose elements, and reflect on how to approach the writing process most effectively. Exhilarating Prose also abounds with exam... + Read More
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Series: Rebel Priest in the Time of Tyrants Mission to Haiti, Ecuador and Chile Paperback Claude Lacaille 9781771860390 $24.95 RELIGION Jun 15, 2015

Claude Lacaille witnessed up close the oppression and poverty in Haiti, Ecuador, and Chile where dictators and predatory imperialists ruled. Like other advocates of Liberation Theology, he saw it as his duty to join the resistance, particularly against Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet. But the dictators were not alone, as they often enjoyed the support of the Vatican, sometimes tacit, but then brazenly open under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He began writing this book in Chile where thousands shed blood simply because they def... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Pensativities Selected Essays Paperback Mia Couto 9781771960076 $22.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jun 15, 2015
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Montreal Before Spring Paperback Robert Melançon 9781771960113 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2015
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Series: My Shoes are Killing Me Paperback Robyn Sarah 9781771960137 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2015

Winner of the 2015 Governor General?s Award for PoetryWinner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for PoetryIn My Shoes are Killing Me, poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on the ?hazardous ? treasurehouse? that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada?s most well-regarded poets.
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Series: In Another Country Selected Stories Hardcover David Constantine 9781771960175 $28.95 FICTION Jun 16, 2015
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Series: Video Watcher, The Paperback Shawn Curtis Stibbards 9781771960199 $19.95 FICTION May 15, 2015
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Series: reSet Series History of Forgetting, A Paperback Caroline Adderson 9781771960212 $19.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2015
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Series: Reset Books Canada Made Me Paperback Norman Levine 9781771960236 $19.95 FICTION May 30, 2015

Norman Levine's Canada Made Me, a bitter, critical reassessment of the moral and cultural values of 'the polite nation,' proved so shocking it took 21 years - despite initial acclaim when released in 1958 - to see a Canadian edition. A record of his three-month journey from coast to coast, Levine?s vision of Canada's seedy and unpleasant underworld is now a laconic classic.
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Series: reSet Series Camera Always Lies, The Paperback Hugh Hood 9781771960250 $19.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2015
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Series: reSet Series Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada Paperback Ray Smith 9781771960274 $19.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2016
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Series: Arms The Culture and Credo of the Gun Paperback A.J Somerset 9781771960281 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2015
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Series: Sum Paperback Zachariah Wells 9781771960304 $18.95 POETRY Apr 15, 2015
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Series: Backspring Paperback Judith McCormack 9781927428870 $19.95 FICTION May 15, 2015

Nominated for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardEduardo, an architect from Lisbon, has come to Montreal to be with his wife Geneviève. Geneviève researches fungi and likes to catalogue her orgasms. But when Eduardo is caught in an explosion and rumors of arson begin to circulate, both his marriage and his fledgling architecture firm verge on collapse. Gorgeous, colourful, and richly described, Backspring is a sensual taxonomy of desire.
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Series: Confidence Paperback Russell Smith 9781771960151 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2015

Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize.Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.In Russell Smith?s darkly brilliant new collection of short stories Confidence, the reader will be introduced to ecstasy-taking PhD students; financial traders desperate for husbands; owners of failing sex stores; violent and unremovable tenants; aggressive raccoons; seedy massage parlours; experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day; wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clu... + Read More
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Series: Bonobo A Journey into the Congo Paperback Deni Béchard 9781771960328 $24.95 NATURE May 01, 2015
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Series: One Hundred Days of Rain Paperback Carellin Brooks 9781771660907 $20.00 FICTION Mar 24, 2015

Did she say, at the beginning, that it rained every day? She was wrong. She misspoke. She didn't mean it.... No. It did not rain every day. But it rained for a hundred days, that year, which was enough--more than enough, even.In prose by turn haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks' One Hundred Days of Rain enumerates an unnamed narrator's encounters with that most quotidian of subjects: rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator must rebuild a life from the bottom up. As she wakes each day to encounter Vancouver's sky and cit... + Read More
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Series: Giving Up Paperback Mike Steeves 9781771660914 $20.00 FICTION May 12, 2015
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Series: Alice In Plunderland Paperback Steve McCaffery 9781771660891 $20.00 FICTION Mar 12, 2015

It's been 150 years since Alice first entered Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's beloved classic book. My, how times have changed! Now, from the multi-award-winning poet and scholar Steve McCaffery comes Alice in Plunderland, a reimagining of Lewis Carroll's Alice books that will forever change the way readers negotiate Wonderland and its menagerie of characters.McCaffery is your tour guide to Plunderland, a rough-and-tumble world where theft, drugs, and gangs hold sway, and nary a tea party is to be found. Meet the Cheshire Cat (a junkie from the U... + Read More
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Series: The Thought House of Philippa Paperback Suzanne Leblanc 9781771661072 $18.00 FICTION Jun 02, 2015

Suzanne Leblanc's The Thought House of Philippa transposes a theory of individuality into a stunningly reflective, sensuous and frank philosophical novel. Setting the chapters in the various rooms of the house Ludwig Wittgenstein designed for his sister in Vienna, Leblanc's novel lays out P.'s intensely emotional and intellectually acute way of seeing the world and her place in it. Prompted by early isolation, P. moves towards the Great World of others and Nature, alienated from the everyday, yet devoted to a deeper connection, in an exploratio... + Read More
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Series: the pet radish, shrunken Paperback Pearl Pirie 9781771660921 $18.00 POETRY Mar 05, 2015

In this post-lyrical era, poems can be stories, or they can just as easily be exuberant laughter set to words, an experiment in language, or an incidental collation of plays on a Scrabble board.the pet radish, shrunken, the third full collection of poetry from the inimitable Pearl Pirie, deals in the poetics of sound, language, and play. In true Pirie style, this fresh, quirky, and clear-seeing collection speaks in a range of styles and voices: From a military convoy of turtles, to a Kafkaesque conversation with a housefly, to the dissection of... + Read More
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Series: Endangered Hydrocarbons Paperback Lesley Battler 9781771660938 $18.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2015

Fracking - tar-sand runoff - dirty oil extraction. This is the language of our oil-addicted 21st century society: incredibly invasive, blatant in its purpose, and richly embedded in mythological and archetypal symbolism. The ultimate goal of the industry: To core the underworld.Endangered Hydrocarbons, Lesley Battler's first full-length collection of poetry, shows that the language of hydrocarbon extraction, with its blend of sexual imagery, archetype, science, pseudoscience and the purely speculative, can be as addictive as the resource it pur... + Read More
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Series: Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play Paperback Jake Kennedy 9781771660952 $18.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2015

In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later as an adult, he read a story about how Kurt Schwitters' "interior house-sculpture" ("Merz Structure No. 2") was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing with matches accidentally burnt the building down. This sad 'unmaking,' so similar in nature to his own haunting experience, became the inspiration for Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play, a collection of experimental poetry that explores the dynamic, if often unsettling, relationship between making and... + Read More
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Series: their biography an organism of relationships Paperback kevin eckhoff 9781771660945 $18.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2015

Would it be possible to compose a book that appears to be "about" its author, but is indirectly about something else, like identity or relationships or language? Maybe a book not written by a hero... but by many?This was the challenge taken up by Kevin McPherson Eckhoff in his fourth book, their biography: an organism of relationships. This collaborative memoir collages together word-portraits from friends, family, coworkers, strangers, robots, and even adversaries in order to create a silhouette of not a single person, but of the manacles that... + Read More
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Series: A More Perfect [ Paperback Jimmy McInnes 9781771660969 $18.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2015

Iconic political speeches are some of the best remembered and most repeated passages in contemporary English language. Especially in the United States of America, what child doesn’t know Abraham Lincoln’s "Fourscore and seven years ago..." or Roosevelt’s "The only thing we have to fear..."?Taking as its source text Barack Obama’s campaign speech from March 18, 2008, A More Perfect [ by Jimmy McInnes acts as a poetic translation of the rhetorical devices often used in political speeches. Like poetry, the campaign speech depends heavily upon the ... + Read More
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Series: Sophrosyne Paperback Marianne Apostolides 9781771660501 $20.00 FICTION Sep 02, 2014

Because fear can transform into confidence, recklessness, the kind of power you can’t imagine until you’re inside it. And then, once you’ve felt it, you can’t feel alive when it’s gone. Sophrosyne. You understood this feeling. I know you did, though you never said it. I saw it, instead, on your face when you danced. Sophrosyne is one of only four virtues identified by Socrates - four traits which, if lived deeply, define who we are as human beings. But sophrosyne is a concept our culture has long forgotten. ’Self-restraint,’ ’self-control,’ ’m... + Read More
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Series: Bunny and Shark Paperback Alisha Piercy 9781771660518 $20.00 FICTION Sep 02, 2014

From award-winning author Alisha Piercy comes Bunny and Shark, a middle-aged coming-of-age story-cum-shark-adventure that reveals and celebrates women's power in the trenches. Plunging into the first thirteen days after the 'bastard' pushes his ex-Playboy wife 'Bunny' over a cliff in the Caribbean, Bunny and Shark is a fable about island survival, and the perils and potentials of being exiled from one's identity.Literally lost at sea, Bunny is fueled by the miracle of having been saved from sharks by a band of dolphins. And her continued surviv... + Read More
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Series: Universal Bureau of Copyrights Paperback Bertrand Laverdure 9781771660525 $18.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2014

From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights, a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn’t exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things on Earth, including real and fictional characters. Through this novel, which is part poetic narrative, part sci-fi-dystopian fantasy, readers become acquainted with the main character, a man who deconstructs himself as he navigates the mystifying passages of the story. Having no control ... + Read More
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Series: Leak Paperback Kate Hargreaves 9781771660563 $18.00 POETRY Oct 06, 2014

Welcome to Kate Hargreaves' Leak, where the relationship between language and the body lives in the bumps and bruises that in turn become new ways of understanding the borders and leaks of our everyday existence. In Leak, bodies lose pieces and fall apart, while words slip out of place and letters drop away. Emergency room signage becomes incomprehensible, the census requests bodily measurements, a cyclist confuses oil with her own blood. This visceral deconstruction of the body and its multiple representations tests the boundaries of body pol... + Read More
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Series: Afterletters Paperback R. Kolewe 9781771660549 $18.00 POETRY Oct 06, 2014

Lovers wrote letters. Letters crossed absence, longing, joy, passion, loss and heartbreak. Sometimes letters were answered. Sometimes not. And sometimes not for years, but then - In 1948, in the exhausted aftermath of WWII, the poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann met in Vienna. They began a difficult and intense but intermittent relationship which lasted until the early 1960s, broken off only when Bachmann could no longer deal with Celan's increasing mental instability. And yet, despite the break, the relationship continued to haunt both of ... + Read More
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Series: a thin line between Paperback Wanda Praamsma 9781771660532 $18.00 POETRY Oct 06, 2014

In what can be described as a verse-novel for its lyricism and rhythmic structure, Wanda Praamsma crafts a story that transcends geographic boundaries and time periods, by weaving together lives from her own family's past, including her poet-grandfather and sculptor-uncle. Subtle in its life lessons, a thin line between works at 'peeling away the I's' to explore concepts of self and family in flux. What emerges is a poignant, and at times humorous, portrait of a Dutch-Canadian family and a close look into a young woman's exploration of her ow... + Read More
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Series: City City Book One: Singular Assumptions Paperback Michael Boughn 9781771660570 $18.00 POETRY Oct 06, 2014

Taking Charles Olson's "Poem 143--the festival aspect" as its provocation and partner in conversation, Michael Boughn's City sets out on a voyage to explore the Three Towns central to Olson's poem and the Vedic myth that it responds to. Combining observations and commentary on current affairs with references to and considerations of traditional texts by Dante, Augustine, Fra Carnevale, Weber, Bachelard, Whitehead, Benjamin, Agamben, and a host of others, City weaves multiple threads together into a tapestry of urban experience that is always... + Read More
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Series: Metaphysical Licks Paperback Gregoire Pam Dick 9781771660556 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 06, 2014

Metaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick [a.k.a. Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al., author of Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009)]. With a mix of high and low, tragic and comic, abstract and concrete, artifice and confession, Dick's playful writing takes risks. It transposes Georg's Grete (musician, fellow addict and suicide) to current-day Greta, gives her Wittgenstein and Kafka as other brot... + Read More
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Series: Ubu Mayor A Play with Music Paperback Adam Seelig 9781771660815 $20.00 DRAMA Oct 09, 2014

From playwright Adam Seelig, founder and director of One Little Goat Theatre Company in Toronto, comes a new play of timely absurdity: Ubu Mayor: A Harmful Bit of Fun. This anti-musical is the result of intoxicatingly driving Alfred Jarry's 1896 merde-filled masterpiece Ubu Roi head-first into the internationally renowned antics, absurdities and obscenities of Toronto's mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug. Ubu Mayor tells the frolicsome tale of a mayor (Ubu) whose wife (Huhu) is having an affair with his older brother (Dudu). Ubu wants Huhu to ... + Read More
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Series: Al Pittman: Collected Poems Paperback Al Pittman 9781550814378 $24.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2015

From the publication of his first collection, The Elusive Resurrection, in 1966, to his death in 2001 at the age of sixty-one, Al Pittman stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive edition spans nearly four decades of poetic production, reprints each of Pittman’s remarkable collections, and includes previously unpublished poems. The Collected Poems of Al Pittman at last offers readers the chance to appreciate this influential poet’s work in its entirety.
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Series: Do You Think This Is Strange? Paperback Aaron Cully Drake 9781927366387 $17.95 FICTION May 01, 2015

Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour Writing Winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) Freddy has problems. Some of them are because he's autistic. Most of them are because he's a teenager. When he’s seven years old, Freddy's mother walks him to the train station, sits him on a bench, kisses his forehead, and disappears from his life. In a few short days, everything changes. His father moves him across town, enrols him in a different school, and takes him away from l... + Read More
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Series: This Godforsaken Place Paperback Cinda Gault 9781927366417 $17.95 FICTION Jun 16, 2015

The year is 1885 and Abigail Peacock is resisting what seems to be an inevitable future—a sensible career as a teacher and marriage to the earnestly attentive local storeowner. But then she buys a rifle, and everything changes. This Godforsaken Place is the absorbing tale of one tenacious woman’s journey set against dramatic myths of the Canadian wilderness and the American Wild West. Abigail's adventure introduces her to some of the most infamous characters of her time—including Annie Oakley and Gabriel Dumont—and brings the high stakes of the... + Read More
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Series: Mystics of Mile End, The Paperback Sigal Samuel 9781554812530 $21.95 FICTION May 01, 2015

Four distinct voices weave together the tale of a dysfunctional Montreal family obsessed with climbing the Kabbalah's Tree of Life. This literary debut by Jewish Daily Forward editor Sigal Samuel is reminiscent of Nicole Krauss's The History of Love and Myla Goldberg's Bee Season. The Meyer family lives in Mile End, home to a mashup of hipsters and Hasidic Jews, where down the street crazy Mr. Katz is building a tree out of plucked leaves, toilet paper rolls, and dental floss. When David, a skeptical professor of religion, is diagnosed with an ... + Read More
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Series: Welcome to the Circus Paperback Rhonda Douglas 9781554812288 $21.95 FICTION May 01, 2015

Rhonda Douglas's debut collection dazzles with its daring and dangerous prose. Welcome to the Circus, where every moment is a tight-rope act, precariously balancing on the edge of destruction. In these stories, a choir processes its collective grief at the loss of one of its members to cancer; a teenage boy marks himself with the poetry of John Donne; God explains the collapse of the cod fishery; Mata Hari stands trial; and two sisters try to reconcile their respective places in the family porn emporium business before everything blows up. Thes... + Read More
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Series: For Your Own Good Paperback Leah Horlick 9781927575673 $18.00 POETRY Feb 15, 2015

In the canon of contemporary feminist and lesbian poetry, For Your Own Good breaks silence. A fictionalized autobiography, the poems in this collection illustrate the narrator's survival of a domestic and sexual violence in a lesbian relationship. There is magic in this work: the symbolism of the Tarot and the roots of Jewish heritage, but also the magic that is at the heart of transformation and survival. These poems are acutely painful, rooted in singular and firsthand experiences. But Horlick also draws from a legacy of feminist, Jewish and ... + Read More