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  • av Kristjana Gunnars
    249

    Gunnars work is as though designed for handselling: These novellas, previously published only in Canada, were the underground books of their time, smuggled over borders, beloved by booksellers-indeed, they were the tomes booksellers didn't want to pass on to just any random customer: can a bookseller just keep a book for themselves? We hope you don't…Autofiction before such a term existed: These works by writer, poet and painter Kristjana Gunnars presaged the work of writers like Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ben Lerner, and Sheila Heti. For readers of Duras' The Lover, Michael Ontaatje's Coming Through Slaughter, anything by Roland Barthes, and Lisa Robertson's The Baudelaire Fractal.Kazim Ali wrote the introductionThere's a pleasant 80s/90s vibe to these books, like the film An Unbearable Lightness of Being or long letters sent by mail, coin telephones, train rides unfettered by noise….Gunnars has written in dialogue with thoughts and poems and works of Italo Calvino; Hélène Cixous; Annie Dillard; Hermann Hesse; Clarise Lispector; Toni Morrison; Alain Robbe-Grillet; Christa Wolf; W.B Yeats; Antonin Artaud; Jean Cocteau; Northrop Frye; Martin Heidegger; Susan Howe; Fredric Jameson; Søren Kierkegaard; Julia Kristeva; Anaïs Nin; Marcel Proust; Virginia Woolf, and others.

  • av Robert McGill
    179

    A bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furniture Distraught and hopeless, an eighteen-year-old distance runner, Regan, decides to end her life. And she''ll do it through an unusual new method available only on the dark web. Enter Ülle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan''s wish come true. But Ülle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have brought her to this new country and to Regan''s house. Meanwhile, Regan might be changing her mind, and she finds herself more and more concerned about keeping both Ülle and herself alive. But the shadowy organization that brought them together wants to keep them both quiet - permanently. A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a darkly comic dystopian tale that probes our anxieties around boundaries, whether territorial or bodily, and our fraught desire not to die alone."Gripping from the first page, Robert McGill''s A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a dark, speculative novel with echoes of The Handmaid''s Tale, set against the backdrop of a plague. Some of us would do anything to survive, down to flatpacking ourselves like IKEA furniture, while others would do anything to make our miserable lives end. This is timely, provocative, ethically challenging fiction that asks whether the drive to survive is stronger than the inevitability of death." -Ian Williams, author of Reproduction"Terrifying and tender, A Suitable Companion''s sci-fi angle serves to frame a fascinating parable about the post-post-modern family. Unpredictable and completely original, this is a propulsive, rewarding, and thought-provoking read." -Michael Redhill, author of Bellevue Square ​​"The guy knows what he''s doing, from missing children to silk parachutes, you are never lost and he will catch you." - Zadie Smith, author of NW "A storyteller who refuses to keep things straight, and for this produces freshly captivating effects." - Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist "A writer of striking talent and originality." - Daily Mail on The Mysteries "McGill is a talented writer, adept at expressing the nuanced, unspoken truths that beg the lies by which we live." - Observer on The Mysteries

  • av Andrew Faulkner
    175

    A buddy-cop dramedy starring a bottle of Advil and a headache that wont quitImagine youre standing in a room, and someone on the other side of the door wont stop knocking ever. Welcome to Andrew Faulkners world of the never-ending, low-grade headache, a medical issue resolved only by striking up a committed relationship with the slippery miracle that is Advil. Through direct address, sideways glances, lyrical interludes and deep consideration of what it means to overcome a condition when living is a part of the condition itself, these poems observe the speakers world as it crowds around him, coming into sharper and specific focus, from the hard wisdom of saints on suffering and a slightly unhinged Caravaggio on the metaphysics of painting, through to the deep meaning of a hot dog and a thoroughly botched retelling of a Norm Macdonald joke. Throughout it all, Advil whirls around like an unruly tornado of a sidekick, snapping Polaroids and searching for a cloud that resembles a plausible end-of-life scenario.Think of this collection as a meditation on how to deal with pain and uncertainty when life itself is an uncertain, painful mess. These are poems that acknowledge the shakiness of the ground we stand on. The opening poem wonders: If you stay with the shakiness through its conjugations? Who knows. But dont worry. Advils on the case and aims to find out.These wry poems cajole the reader into feverish attentiveness. Andrew Faulkner'sHeady Bloomis that unusual collection of poems whose aim is generous and profound, but whose means are often comic and provocative, all jagged edges and elbows. Chaplinesque, perhaps, but Chaplin at an all-ages hardcore show, or having been to one and reflecting on it later, in tranquility. Ed Skoog, author ofTravelers Leaving for the City and Run the Red LightsAmong other issues, this book explores how the seizures, hallucinations, and excruciating pain caused by neurological conditions that are now treated clinically were once thought of as visions granted to and endured by saints. Faulkner does this in poems that are filled with seriousness but also humor, unlikely allusions, and exhilarating wordplay. A running conceit is the speakers ambivalent relationshipa kind of bromancewith Advil, modern medicine personified as his nemesis and doppelgnger, a taunting comedian but also a vital helpmate, a debased version of the saints archangelic protectors. Faulkners imagery and conceits surprise and delight. A strange and beautiful book. Geoffrey Nutter

  • av Nicole Markoti
    185

    For fans of the creative translations of Mary Jo Bang and Kathy AckerFor readers of classic literature who enjoy playful, loose retellings of classic books in the tradition of Jack Spicer's After Lorca and James Joyce's UlyssesThis version of Beowulf fits in well with the trend of modern, feminist translations such as Emily Wilson's The Odyssey and Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf: A New Feminist Translation of the Epic PoemMarkotic offers a contemporary take on Beowulf's language and, more unusually, the culture and character of the hero of this foundational text.Classic poetry continues to find new readers with the help of modernized translations, such as Mary Jo Bang's recent translations of Dante's Divine Comedy. Blurbs forthcoming

  • av Sina Queyras
    179

    From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mindThirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after theyd turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virignia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolfs A Room of Ones Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of ones own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.How central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry, and criticism, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind, and from a very private life of the mind to a public life of the page, and from a life of the page into a life in the Academy, the Internet, and on social media.With Virginia Woolf alongside them, Queyras journeys through rooms literal and figurative, complicating and deepening our understanding of what it means to create space for oneself as a writer. Their hard-won language challenges us to resist any glib associations of Woolfs famous room with an easy freedom. Inspiring and moving, Queyrass memoir testifies to Woolfs continuing generative power.Mark Hussey, editor ofVirginia Woolf's Between the Acts(2011) and author ofClive Bell and the Making of Modernism(2021)In this beautiful, perceptive book, Sina Queyras moves deftly between the words and wake of Virginia Woolf and their own formation as writer, lover, teacher, friend, and person.Roomsis expert in its depiction of personal and literary histories, and firmly aware of its moment of composition. Reading these pages, I was enticed by Queyrass curiosity and openness, thrilled by the sharp edges of their anger. Tight prose, electric thinking, self-discovery its all here, all abuzz.Roomsis alive. Heather Christle, author ofThe Crying BookIt is impossible not to question the world as we thought we knew it by the end of this book. Sina Queyras painstakingly aims their extraordinary nerve and talent at Virginia Woolfs idea of a room of ones own: 'Its a mistake to consider the room without all of its entanglements.' Taking Woolfs cue, Queyras explores writing that is not world-building but something far more generous and transformative; as Woolf wrote, 'Literature is open to everybody.' CAConrad, author ofAMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration

  • av Perry King
    185

    From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.';The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.' For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or neighbourhood park. It's a story that plays out in sport after sport team and individual, youth and adult, men's and women's. While the dazzle of pro athletes may command our attention, grassroots sports build the bridges that link city-dwellers together in ways that go well beyond the physical benefits. The pandemic and heightened awareness of racial exclusion reminded us of the importance of these pastimes and the public spaces where we play. In this closely reported exploration of the role of community sports in diverse cities, Toronto journalist Perry King makes an impassioned case for re-imagining neighbourhoods whose residents can be active, healthy, and connected."e;I couldn't stop reading Perry King's Rebound. An evocative essay about the transformative and uniting power of local sports in a city with residents from every country in the world, the book is well researched, entertaining, and informative. It spoke to my own experiences as a young athlete fitting into a new city when I first came to Toronto and to the importance our city government must place on local recreation and sports if our city is to help all residents reach their potential. A fantastic contribution to understanding Toronto and to the power of local recreation in any major city."e; David Miller, former mayor of Toronto

  • av Susan Holbrook
    185

    Shortlisted for the ReLit 2022 Poetry Awardink earl takes the popular subgenre of erasure poetry to its illogical conclusion.Starting with ad copy that extols the iconic Pink Pearl eraser, Holbrook erases and erases, revealing more and more. Rubbing out different words from this decidedly non-literary, noncanonical source text, she was left with the promise of 100 essays and set about to find them. Among her discoveries are queer love poems, art projects, political commentary, lunch, songs, and entire extended families. The absurdity of the constraint lends itself to plenty of fun and funny, while reminding us of truths assiduously erased by normative forces. ink earls variations are testament in micro to the act of poiesis as not so much a building as an intrepid series of effacements; we rub away at the walls of language weve lived within in order to release both whats been written over, and what we want to say now.

  • av Jocelyne Saucier
    185

    Away From Her meets Strangers on a Train in this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained DownAfter And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about a woman's disappearance.Gladys might look old and frail, but she is determined to finish her life on her own terms. And so, one September morning, she leaves Swastika, her home of the past fifty years, and hops on the Northlander train, eager to put thousands of miles of northern Quebec between her and the improbably named village, and leaving behind her perennially tormented daughter, Lisana.Our mysterious narrator, who is documenting these disappearing northern trains, is eager to uncover the truth of Gladys's voyage, tracking down fellow passengers and train employees for years to learn what happened to Gladys and her daughter, and why.

  • av David O'Meara
    185

    Words like radio waves, bouncing off the spectres of mortality, middle age, and the mundane. Arriving at middle age was a decisive experience for David O'Meara, standing equidistant to the past and future with its accompanying doubts and anticipations, inviting re-evaluation of past goals, confronting personal loss, and the death of his father and friends. These are the masses on radar, indistinct but detectable existential presences encroaching, and in the center of the radar is the lyric 'I' sweeping its adjacent experience. Poems like "e;I Carry a Mouse to the Park Beside the Highway,"e; "e;I Keep One Eye Open and One Eye Closed,"e; and "e;I Sleep as the Volcano Ash Falls like Snow,"e; usher the reader through thematic corridors of memory, fracture, and recovery. Embracing uncertainty and incorporating seasonal forecasts, humour, trivia, satire, politics, the environment, loss, and the mundane, these poems are a detection system signaling a paradox of meanings.

  • av Daphne B.
    179

    A nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson's BluetsAs Daphn B. obsessively watches YouTube makeup tutorials and haunts Sephora's website, she's increasingly troubled by the ways in which this obsession contradicts her anti-capitalist and intersectional feminist politics. In this poetic treatise, she rejects the false binaries of traditional beauty standards and delves into the celebrities and influencers, from Kylie to Grimes, and the poets and philosophers, from Anne Boyer to Audre Lorde, who have shaped the reflection she sees in the mirror. At once confessional and essayistic, Made-Up is a meditation on the makeup that colours, that obscures, that highlights who we are and who we wish we could be.The original French-language edition was a cult hit in Quebec. Translated by Alex Manleylike Daphn, a Montreal poet and essayistthe book's English-language text crackles with life, retaining the flair and verve of the original, and ensuring that a book on beauty is no less beautiful than its subject matter.';The most radical book of 2020 talks about makeup. Radical in the intransigence with which Daphne B hunts down the parts of her imagination that capitalism has phagocytized. Radical also in its rejection of false binaries (the authentic and the fake, the futile and the essential) through the lens of which such a subject is generally considered. With the help of a heady combination of pop cultural criticism and autobiography, a poet scrutinizes her contradictions. They are also ours.' Dominic Tardif, Le Devoir';[Made-Up] is a delight. I read it in one go. And when, out of necessity, I had to put it down, it was with regret and with the feeling that I was giving up what could save me from a catastrophe.' Laurence Fournier, Lettres Qubcoises, five stars"e;Made-Up is a radiant, shimmering blend of memoir and cultural criticism that uses beauty culture as an entry point to interrogating the ugly contradictions of late capitalism. In short, urgent chapters laced with humor and wide-ranging references, Daphn B. plumbs the depths of a rich topic that's typically dismissed as shallow. I imagine her writing it in eye pencil, using makeup to tell the story of her life, as so many women do."e; Amy Berkowitz, author of Tender Points"e;A companion through the thicket of late stage capitalism, a lucid and poetic mirror for anyone whose image exists on a screen."e; Rachel Kauder Nalebuff"e;Made-Up is anything butcommitted to the grit of our current realities, Daphn B directs her piercing eye on capitalism in an intimate portrayal of what it means to love, and how to paint ourselves in the process. Alex Manley has gifted English audiences with a nuanced translation of a critical feminist text, exploring love and make-up as a transformative social tool."e; Sruti Islam"e;The book will leave you both laughing in recognition and wincing at the reality of the beauty world's impact on our collective psyche."e; Chatelained"e;[Made-Up] examines the intersection of beauty culture and consumer culture... Aided by the work of writers like Anne Carson, Anne Boyer, Amanda Hess, and Arabelle Sicardi... B. makes sharp observations about the ideologies behind both beauty [...] and consumerism."e; Bitch Media"e;MadeUp: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism is well worth reading."e; Literary Review of Canada"e;[Made-Up], newly translated by writer/poet Alex Manley from its original French, puts an intersectional, feminist lens on the author's personal fascination with the makeup industry; it also reckons with the cultural dominance of this fascination as she aims to square anti-capitalist principles with beauty-product obsession."e; BitchReads: 11 Books Feminists Should Read in September

  • - The Art of Superbrothers and the Making of JETT
    av Adam Hammond
    185

    The genius and artistry behind Superbrothers and the making of an indie video game, from inception to its highly anticipated launch. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery was released in 2011 at the forefront of an exciting era of “indie gamesâ€? ‿ with the aesthetic of punk rock and the edge of modernist fiction, indie games pushed gaming into the realm of the avant-garde. Superbrothers (Craig D. Adams) was hailed as a visionary in the video game world. Now, his long-awaited follow-up, JETT: The Far Shore, has been released for Sony PlayStation and Epic Games Store. In the decade from inception to launch, Adams brought author Adam Hammond along for the ride, allowing unprecedented insight into the complicated genesis of Jett. The Far Shore offers a portrait of the enigmatic Adams and his team, the genius and artistry, the successes and setbacks, that went into building the world of JETT, in which you‿re tasked with scouting a new home for a humanoid people after they‿ve decimated their planet. To provide context, Hammond recounts the history of indie games and how their trajectory has followed that of independent art and literature. A riveting insider‿s look at one of our most popular art forms.

  • av Alison Dean
    199

    Kicking ass and taking notes—what it's like to be a woman in the ring.Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. ';You punch like a girl' still isn't a compliment — women aren't supposed to choose to participate in violence.Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a person's — and particularly a woman's — relationship to their body and to the world around them, and at the same time considers the ways in which women might change martial arts.Combining historical research, anecdotal experience, and interviews with coaches and fighters, Seconds Out explores our culture's relationship with violence, and particularly with violence practiced by women."e;An important addition to women's martial arts scholarship, Dean provides personal insight into the radical space women occupy in sport fighting. Seconds Out is a must-read for all fighters looking for mentors in the complicated world of martial arts."e; —L.A. Jennings, author of Mixed Martial Arts: A History from Ancient Fighting Sports to the UFC"e;Dean brings a fresh new female voice to the topic of combat sports."e; —Trevor Wittman, renowned MMA trainer, UFC analyst, and founder of ONX Sports"e;Trained in the discipline and art of both fighting and literature, Dean combines both with style. She honors the fighters, writers, and historians who have come before her and definitively ends the idea of women fighters as a novelty. Seconds Out is a must-read for anyone who feels the call of the bell and reverence for a good fight."e; —Sue Jaye Johnson

  • av Molly Cross-Blanchard
    175

    Shortlisted for the ReLit 2022 Poetry AwardSmart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry.Sticky, sad, and sultry, Exhibitionist is a merry-go-round circling back to the tender, awkward parts of ourselves. Molly Cross-Blanchard allows her poems to ask the reader out for ice cream, to fart at a dinner party, to sprawl out on a chaise lounge, stare through a dusty skylight and whisper that they think they may love you. And that love will be unmistakably mutual. Mallory Tater, author of The Birth Yard and This Will Be GoodMultiple orgasms appear in the first line of the first poem in Exhibitionist. Multiple orgasms, as a relative image or a practice, elicit everything from mystical worship to moral panic. Molly Cross-Blanchard understands this diametric power. She nods to this power with countless crisp and explicit images throughout her debut collection. Read her poems first to marvel at the well-crafted voicing of sexuality. Read a second time to appreciate Cross-Blanchards beautiful charge of juxtaposition. Again and again, she places the erotic beside mundane so that both are transformed a dirty basement carpet becomes the backdrop of profound intimacy and gas station coffee acts as a symbol of self-discovery. Amber Dawn, author of My Art is Killing Me and Sodom Road ExitIf this book had a fragrance, it'd be a Britney perfume, any one of them really, but with hints of prairie in the dry late-summer, notes of the sweet ocean smell that passes through Vancouver when the wind gets high, and a fabulous pair of overalls. Katherena Vermette, author of River Woman and The BreakOne minute shes drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next shes asking the sky to swallow her up: the narrator of Exhibitionist oscillates between a complete rejection of shame and the consuming heaviness of it. Painfully funny, brutally honest, and alarmingly perceptive, Molly Cross-Blanchards poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism. What this speaker wants more than anything is to be seen, to tell you the worst things about herself in hopes that youll still like her by the end.

  • av Cyrille Martinez
    165

  • av Sarah Dowling
    185

  • av Christiane Vadnais
    179

  • av Ken Babstock
    179

  • - Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis
     
    199

    A warning, a movement, a collection borne of protest. In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on the present and future consequences of the climate emergency. Ice caps are melting, wildfires are raging, and species extinction is accelerating. Dire predictions about the climate emergency from scientists, Indigenous land and water defenders, and striking school children have mostly been ignored by the very institutions ‿ government, education, industry, and media ‿ with the power to do something about it. Writers and artists confront colonization, racism, and the social inequalities that are endemic to the climate crisis. Here the imagination amplifies and humanizes the science. These works are impassioned, desperate, hopeful, healing, transformative, and radical. This is a call to climate-justice action. Edited by Madhur Anand, Stephen Collis, Jennifer Dorner, Catherine Graham, Elena Johnson, Canisia Lubrin, Kim Mannix, Kathryn Mockler, June Pak, Sina Queyras, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Rasiqra Revulva, Yusuf Saadi, Sanchari Sur, and Jacqueline ValenciaProceeds will be donated to RAVEN and Climate Justice Toronto.

  • - A Nicole Brossard Reader
    av Nicole Brossard
    259,-

    The definitive survey of an essential feminist poet.In June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize been so richly deserved. For five decades she has writing ground-breaking poetry, fiction, and criticism in French that has always been steadfastly and unashamedly feminist and lesbian.Avant Desire moves through Brossard's body of work with a playful attentiveness to its ongoing lines of inquiry. Like her work, this reader moves beyond conventional textual material to include ephemera, interviews, marginalia, lectures, and more. Just as Brossard foregrounds collaboration, this book includes new translations alongside canonical ones and intertextual and responsive work from a variety of artist translators at various stages of their careers.Through their selections, the editors trace Brossard's fusion of lesbian feminist desire with innovation, experimentation, and activism, emphasizing the more overtly political nature of her early work and its transition into performative thinking.Devotees of Brossard will be invigorated by the range of previously unavailable materials included here, while new readings will find a thread of inquiry that is more than a mere introduction to her complex body of work. Avant Desire situates Brossard's thinking across her oeuvre as that of a writer whose sights are always cast toward the horizon.

  • av Andrew Wedderburn
    199

    A joy ride set on a crash course with the past.

  • av Dominique Fortier
    179

    A whimsical and misanthropic imagining of Emily Dickinson's life

  • av Jordan Scott
    185

    bronchia thinkform a bombsightthink periosteum singingparticle falconry workpiecetwo lowcut hills seekingwhat stone isfor bodyis herdalliterationsNight & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to a degree where it's broken by the will to live. A poem that invokes expansive loneliness, where the poet's emotional response is to endure. A crushed line of astral forms and anatomy in perpetual remove; it is a poem that nurtures vulnerability: some soft-footed embryo sounds against language’s viscera. Night & Ox possesses a feral minimalism for those too tired and too frantic with joy to cope with narrative.‘A fierce, ladderlike cri de cœur – at times a cri de cur – Night & Ox pulses with sawblade nocturnes that gnaw through the very rungs on which they’re wrung. One part Jabberwocky-talkie, one part fatherhood ode, the poem seeks a threshold, where the “mondayescent” gives way to ardour, splendour, even love. Scott is a cosmoglot of the throat’s ravine, and this is his manic, pandemonic article of faith.’ – Andrew ZawackiPraise for Blert:‘Scott takes us down to the basement of words, where sound and rhythm rule, and poets learn their craft. Blert is a strange and gorgeous work of linguistic materialism.' – Dennis Lee

  • av Sina Queyras
    185

    A poem-by-poem revisioning and engagement with Sylvia Plath's Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it.

  • av Syd Zolf
    185

    An unflinchingly subversive, aversive, conversive poetic look at the underbelly of Canadian settler-colonial experience.

  • av Brecken Hancock
    185,-

    Nothing slips by Brecken Hancock's deft ear as she seductively plumbs the depths of the evolution of bathing, doppelgangers, the Kraken, and the minutiae of family with all its tragic misgivings. The poems in Broom Broom pervert the rational, safe parts of the world to extoll and absorb the sweep of human history.What I mean to say is, the evidence is always there.From where we stand, we confuse lampposts for ghosts.Brecken Hancock's poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared in several journals, including Event and Fiddlehead. She is reviews editor for Arc Poetry Magazine.

  • - Fun and Learning with Acting and Make-believe
    av Karen Hines
    169

    Written by a Second City alum, this genre-bending, multi-character comic play is part graphic novel, part Japanese horror film.

  • av Gary Barwin
    165

    In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the Utne Reader has noted, what makes this work 'so compelling is Barwins balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.' The Porcupinity of the Stars sees the always bemused and wistful poet reaching into new and deeper territory, addressing the joys and vagaries of perception in poems touching on family, loss, wonder, and the shifting, often perplexing nature of consciousness. His Heisenbergian sensibility honed to a fine edge, the poems in this bright, bold and intensely visual book add a surreptitious intensity and wry maturity to Barwins trademark gifts for subtle humour, solemn delight, compassion, and invention.

  • - Third Edition
    av Lisa Robertson
    205

    Pompoms, blackberries and Value Village: Take a stroll through the thoughts of one of Canada's most intriguing poets and thinkers.

  • av Jen Currin
    169

    In tongues alternately vulnerable, defiant, resigned, and hopeful, The Inquisition Yours speaks to the atrocities of our time war, environmental destruction, terrorism, cancer, and the erosion of personal rights fashioning a tenuous bridge between the political and the personal.

  • av Matthew Tierney
    149

    To be human is to cope with knowing. In the early 1960s, Leonard Hayflick determined that healthy cells can divide only a finite number of times. Known as the Hayflick Limit, it sets an unsurpassable lifespan for our species at just over 120 years.Shifting focus between the limits of the microscope and the limits of the telescope, Matthew Tierney gives voice to a range of characters who scrape out meaning in a carnivalesque universe, one that has birthed black holes and Warner Bros. cartoons, murky market economies, murkier quantum laws, Vincent Price, Molotov cocktails, seedless grapes, Area 51 and competing Theories of Everything.

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