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"A writer's wrenching, no-holds-barred confession about his experiences with bipolar disorder. Thomas Melle, a successful young novelist and playwright, suddenly sells off his library without knowing why he's doing it. His personal life disintegrates as his behaviour becomes more irrational. Drunken frenzies, wild imaginings, fantasies about sex with stars, broken relationships, professional scandals, scuffles with the police, and enforced stays on psych wards. take over Melle's life. Possibly the most, precise, intense account ever written of how it feels to suffer from bipolar disorder, The World at My Back is a triumph of truth-telling and a masterpiece of elegant literary expression. Balancing exquisite writing with fearless confrontations with brutally self-destructive actions, this book is a wrenching confession and a moving description of the search for emotional balance."--

Seth's newly illustrated version of a classic Christmas Ghost Story by horror master M.R. James.

Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.Quill & QuireIf you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, striving, anxiety-ridden, shimmer cultural soup of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, writes Margaret Atwood, read the stories of Clark Blaise. This Time, That Place draws together twenty-four stories that span the entirety of Blaise's career, including one never previously published. Moving swiftly across place and time, through and between languagesfrom Florida's Confederate swamps, to working-class Pittsburgh, to Montreal and abroadthey demonstrate Blaise's profound mastery of the short story and reveal the range of his lifelong preoccupation with identity as fallacy, fable, and dream.This Time, That Place: Selected Stories confirms Clark Blaise as one of the best and most enduring masters of the formon either side of our shared borders.

In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each others lives.Outside a 7-Eleven, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to do with their night, though the thought of the rest of their lives doesnt seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon, two movie stars try to decide if the affair theyre having might mean they like each other. When Byron, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes, posts a question on a guitar website, he ends up meeting Jessica as well, a woman with her own difficult music. And when the snide and sharp-tongued Twyla agrees to try therapy, not even she would have imagined the results.

Wordsworth wrote that the child is the father to the man, and in On Fatherhood, Randy Boyagoda asks why that might be. Matching his own personal experience¿he has four daughters and cares for his own eighty-year old father¿to a great array of reading and watching, On Fatherhood is a wide-ranging exploration of the joyful difficulties, and difficult joys, of being a father in the twenty-first century.

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn¿t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don¿t talk about poverty or class¿and what will happen when we do.Stories about poor people are rarely written by the poor¿and when they are written they tend to fit into a hero narrative. Through hard work, smarts, and temerity, the hero pulls themselves up by their bootstraps in a narrative that simply provides an easy exception: look, we don¿t have to give you more, you just have to work harder. On Class is an exploration of the ways we talk about class: of who tells the stories and who doesn¿t, and why that has to change. It asks the question: What don¿t we talk about when we don¿t talk about class? We don¿t talk about luck, or privilege, or entitlement. We don¿t talk about the trauma that goes along with being poor.

Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetryOlivers formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation.The poems in Hail, the Invisible Watchman are as tidy as a picket-fenceand as suggestive. Behind the charms of iambs lurks a dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. Metered rhyme sets the tone like a chilling piano score as insidiousness creeps into the neighbourhood. A spectral narrator surveils social gatherings in the town of Sherbet Lake; community members chime in, each revealing their various troubles and hypocrisies; an eerie reimagining of an Ethel Wilson novel follows a young woman into a taboo friendship with an enigmatic divorce. In taut poetic structures across three succinct sections, Alexandra Olivers conflation of the mundane and the phantasmagoric produces a scintillating portrait of the suburban uncanny.

For poetry readers, but also those interested in racial history, the African diaspora, and the transnational racial dynamics of North America. Genre: Fraser employs dramatic monologue and research into the eräs lexicon: he compiled his own dictionary of words, particularly slang, to ensure verisimilitude and authenticity of voice Editorial comps include Rita Dove¿s Thomas and Beulah, The Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste-Lewis, the Louisiana poems of Yusef Komunyakaa, and the monologues of Ai. Born in Grenada, Fraser is a dual Grenadian-Canadian citizen. His work has appeared widely in Canadian literary journals as well as in Best Canadian Poetry, and he is a past winner of the CBC Poetry Prize.

Winner of the 2021 Confederation Poets Prize • One of The Times' Best Poetry Books of 2022 • A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022"...a trans-mystical work of love and change..."—Ali Blythe, author of HymnswitchThe mystics who coined the phrase ‘the way of affirmation’ understood the apocalyptic nature of the word yes, the way it can lead out of one life and into another. Moving among the languages of Christian conversion, Classical metamorphosis, seasonal transformation, and gender transition, Luke Hathaway tells the story of the love that rewired his being, asking each of us to experience the transfiguration that can follow upon saying yes—with all one’s heart, with all one’s soul, with all one’s mind, with all one’s strength ... and with all one’s body, too.

Two crystalline novellas linked by one devastating crime: Say This is an immersive meditation on the interplay between memory, trauma, and narrative.Its a cold spring in Baltimore, 2018, when the email arrives: the celebrity journalist hopes Eva will tell him everything about the sexual affair she had as a teen with her older cousin, a man now in federal prison for murder. Thirteen years earlier, Lenore-May answers the phone to the nightmare news that her stepsons body has been found near Mount Hood, and homicide is suspected. Following Evas unsettling ambivalence towards her confusing relationship, and constructing a portrait of her cousins victim via collaged perspectives of the slain mans family, these two linked novellas borrow, interrogate, sometimes dismantle the tropes of true crime; lyrically render the experiences of grief and dissociation; and brilliantly mine the fault lines of power and consent, silence, justice, accountability, and class. Say This is a startling exploration of the devastating effects of trauma on personal identity.

Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Smallis the story of one mans reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldnt do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too much pot and listening to too much Grateful Dead, he suspects that hes overdue when it comes to understanding the bigger picture of who he is and what were all doing here. So hes made another decision: to teach himself 2,500 years of Western philosophy.Thankfully, he meets Caroline, a fellow book lover who agrees to join him on his trek through the best of whats been thought and said. But Caroline is on her own path, one that compels Phil to rethink what it means to be alive in the twenty-first century. In Estates Large and Small Ray Robertson renders one mans reckoning with both wry humour and tender joy, reminding us of what it means to live, love, and, when the time comes, say goodbye.

Selected by guest editor Diane Schoemperlen, the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Stories continues not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. “The best short stories,â€? writes editor Diane Schoemperlen, “are disruptive in all the best ways, diverse in all senses of the word, always looking back and leading forward at the same time ‿ they must be written in the world, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of more horrifying news every day.â€? Submitted and published by Canadian writers in 2020, Schoemperlen‿s selections for Best Canadian Stories 2021 feature work by established practitioners of the form alongside exciting newcomers, and stories published by leading magazines and journals as well as those appearing in print for the first time‿all of which, as Schoemperlen writes, “bring us news of the world and the shape of things to come.â€?Featuring work by:Senaa AhmadChris BaileyShashi BhatMegan CallahanFrancine CunninghamLucia GaglieseAlice GauntleyDon GillmorAngélique LalondeElise LevineColette MaitlandSara O‿LearyJasmine SealyJoshua WalesJoy Waller

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021The thirteenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. “The exceptional essay,â€? writes editor Bruce Whiteman, “derives from a passionate feeling, love and anger being perhaps its upper and lower limits, coexisting with a desire for truth, and it aims for the radiance of what is.â€? In the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Essays, Whiteman‿s selections seek truth in all the places it may be found, from walks in brambled woods and ancient cities to memories of childhoods that shape a life; to analyses of artifacts both legislative and cultural that advance equality long overdue; to reports from the field that articulate the poetry of the present, the invisibility of the poor, the social contours and consuming mental contagions of the ongoing pandemic. Drawn from leading magazines and journals published in 2020, the fifteen essays gathered here brilliantly illuminate what is. Featuring work by:Neil BesnerCatherine BushYvonne BlomerJenna ButlerElizabeth DauphineeEva-Lynn JagoeMark KingwellFrances KoziarHilary Morgan V. LeathemStephanie NolenKevin PattersonSoraya RobertsIan WaddellSheila Watt-CloutierJoyce WayneRob Winger

“This is a book,” writes guest editor Souvankham Thammavongsa, “about what I saw and read and loved, and want you to see and read and love.” Selected from work published by Canadian poets in magazines and journals in 2020, Best Canadian Poetry 2021 gathers the poems Thammavongsa loved most over a year’s worth of reading, and draws together voices that “got in and out quickly, that said unusual things, that were clear, spare, and plain, that made [her] laugh out loud … the voices that barely ever survive to make it onto the page.” From new work by Canadian icons to thrilling emerging talents, this year’s anthology offers fifty poems for you to fall in love with as well.Featuring:Margaret AtwoodKen BabstockManahil BandukwalaCourtney Bates-HardyRoxanna BennettRonna BloomLouise CarsonKate CayleyKitty CheungDani CoutureKayla CzagaŠari DaleUnnati DesaiTina DoAndrew DuBoisPaola FerranteBeth GoobieNina Philomena HonoratLiz HowardMaureen HynesGeorge K IlsleyEve JosephIan KetekuJudith KrauseM Travis LaneMary Dean LeeCanisia LubrinRandy LundyDavid LyYohani MendisPamela MosherSusan MusgraveTéa MutonjiBarbara NickelOttavia PaluchKirsten PendreighEmily Pohl-WearyDavid RomandaMatthew RooneyZoe Imani SharpeSue SinclairJohn StefflerSarah Yi-Mei TsiangArielle TwistDavid Ezra WangPhoebe WangHayden WardElana WolffEugenia ZuroskiJan Zwicky

T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Ernie Ford, Buddha and Jesus, Jung and Heidegger. Love, solitude, obliteration, the ocean, and a sad neighbor who feeds pigeons. Metanoia is an aphoristically narrative poem that engages all of these, a book-length meditation on transformation, enlightenment, and on opening one's eyes. McCartney's work evinces that journey, the junket into the self.Sharon McCartney is the author of numerous poetry books. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and an LLB from the University of Victoria. She lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she works as a legal editor.

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.After attending a séance at an acquaintance's home, a man receives an unexpected job offer from another guest: resident doctor at the prison he directs. But when a prisoner begs to have his cell moved, terrified of what's behind the next door, the young doctor starts to question his luck.

[Metcalfs] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.Washington PostIn Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.In a 1983 editorial letter to the Globe and Mail, celebrated Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella railed that Mr. Metcalfan immigrantcontinually and in the most galling manner has the temerity to preach to Canadians about their own literature. Forty years later, in spite of Kinsellas effort to discredit him in the name of a misguided nationalism both embarrassing and familiar, John Metcalf still has the temerity and gall to preach, to teach, and to write passionately (and uproariously) about literature in Canada. Part memoir, meditation, and apologia, part criticism and pure Metcalf, the present volume distills a lifetime of reading and writing, thinking and collecting, and continues his necessary work kicking against the ever-present pricks. As is the case with all of his critical work, Temerity & Gall will challenge, delight, anger, and inspire in equal measure, and is essential reading for anyone interested in literature in Canada and its place within the wider tradition of writing in English.Temerity & Gall is printed in a limited paperback edition of 750 copies signed and numbered by the author.

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When the Lady Gwendolen, age six, drops her doll down a staircase, her ladyship solemnly digs her fractured companion a grave. Luckily Mr Puckler, renowned doll doctor, thinks he can help-but when his daughter Else goes missing, he's not sure whose voice he hears calling to him in the night.

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But she hasn't reckoned on the obstinate Mr Jones, the caretaker she's told dislikes her changes, yet never seems able to be found.

A Miramichi Reader Best Fiction Title of 2021Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Huebert's stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world.From refinery operators to long term care nurses, dishwashers to preppers to hockey enforcers, Chemical Valley's compassionate and carefully wrought stories cultivate rich emotional worlds in and through the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world, Chemical Valley doesn't shy away from urgent modern questions-the distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the place of technoculture in this ecological spasm-but grounds these anxieties in the vivid and often humorous intricacies of its characters' lives. Swamp-wrought and heartfelt, these stories run wild with vital energy, tilt and teeter into crazed and delirious loves.

A CBC Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2021Drawing on Arthurian myth, the Romantic poets, the ill-fated "e;Great War"e; efforts of the Newfoundland Regiment, modern parenthood, 16-bit video games, and Major League Baseball, these poems examine the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, both as individuals and as communities, in order to explain how and why we are the way we are. At its heart, Romantic interrogates our western society's idealized, self-deluding personal and cultural perspectives.

"e;It makes no sense. You would be strangers / if not for this."e;In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a moment of recognition or arrival. In his hands, the form becomes not simply a revelation in words but, in Wallace Stevens' phrase, "e;a revelation in words by means of the words."e; The epiphany here is not only the poet's. It's ours. A book about the songlines of memory and language and the ways in which they connect us to other human beings, to read Strangers is to become part of the lineages (literary, artistic, familial) that it braids together-to become, as Richard Outram puts it, an "e;unspoken / Stranger no longer."e;

A CBC BOOKS AND QUILL & QUIRE ANTICIPATED FALL BOOK A LAMBDA LITERARY MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ TITLEA 49TH SHELF BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. The linked stories in Householders move effortlessly from the commonplace to the fantastic, from west-end Toronto to a trailer in the middle of nowhere, from a university campus to a state-of-the-art underground bunker; from a commune in the woods to a city and back again. Exploring the ordinary strangeness in the lives of recurring characters and overlapping dramas, Householders combines the intimacy, precision, and clarity of short fiction with the depth and reach of a novel and mines the moral hazards inherent in all the ways we try and fail to save one another and ourselves.

Not far away from here is a lake. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know where theres a hole in the fence. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. Thats what I will do today. I will go through the hole in the fence and Ill dive into the icy water. And then Ill go home.Friends since grade school, Cline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and drifting apart as their lives pull them in different directions. But when their friend dies by suicide in the abandoned city lot where they once gathered, they must carry on in the world that left him behindone they once dreamed they would change for the better. From the grind of Montreal service jobs, to isolated French Ontario countryside childhoods, to the tenuous cooperation of Bay Area punk squats, the three young women navigate everyday losses and fears against the backdrop of a tumultuous twenty-rst century. An ode to friendship and the ties that bind us together, Stfanie Clermonts award-winning The Music Game confronts the violence of the modern world and pays homage to those who work in the hope and faith that it can still be made a better place.

A celebration of fifty years of Best Canadian Stories

"e;If you really want to journey into the heart of darkness, you'd be advised to travel with Vancouver writer Keath Fraser, a man of extraordinary talents."e; -Bronwyn DrainieAn icon of Canadian short fiction, Keath Fraser has exerted a wide and trenchant influence since the publication of his first collection Taking Cover in 1982. Damages: Selected Stories 1982-2012 gathers the finest of his work across decades. Combining the craftsmanship of the form's greatest masters with the idiosyncratic voices and music of our contemporary moment, the stories selected here travel from the richly peopled worlds of Fraser's Vancouver to the Gulf of Thailand, a Phnom Penh bone-house embassy, and the Rajasthan desert, and demonstrate remarkable diversity of character and effortless storytelling across a range of modes. Featuring an introduction by John Metcalf, and including the novella "e;Foreign Affairs,"e; called by the Oxford Companion of Canadian Literature "e;one of the masterpieces of Canadian short fiction,"e; Damages showcases Keath Fraser as one of the best and most enduring story writers of the last fifty years.

Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize AGlobe and MailBook of the Year ACBC BooksBest Canadian Nonfiction of 2021In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi.The taxi, writes Marcello Di Cintio, is a border. Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have metyet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase,Drivenseeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us.Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives arent defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylans lyrics, Di Cintios subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them.Like the people encountered in its pages,Drivenis an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, its a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.