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"A Teatro Trilogy" is three plays written by Stewart Lemoine for his company Teatro la Quindicina Each play "Shockers Delight " "Pith " and "The Margin of the Sky" respond to the question Well what if THIS happened

Ranson skillfully recreates his northern experience in strong crisp stories that are humorous quirky and unique Working North makes it clear why Ranson was moved to "pity the southerner who has never seen an arctic sun skipping along the earth gathering all the colours of the prism and turning the land a warm purple " "Working North" is an engaging and entertaining read for inexperienced southerners and northern travellers alike

"Pacific Rim Letters "is a never before seen collection of letters Roy Kiyooka wrote between 1975 and 1985 It presents a fascinating and highly valuable picture of the artistic and literary communities Kiyooka was actively involved with as well as Kiyooka as a man with an extraordinary intellect and passion for life and the arts Kiyooka takes the epistolary form into new and radical directions At once tenderly estranged and confessional attentive as much to the minutiae of daily life as to the complexities of artistic and literary creation and embedded in the politics of culture making and those of racialized identities these letters are a literary achievement in their own right

"Apocrypha " a shaped collection of writing by Stan Dragland produced over two decades is a passionate meditation on the meeting of life and literature and a text of rumination invention and rhapsody Dragland looks at the texts of strangers and colleagues including Michael Ondaatje Roy Kiyooka Robert Kroetsch Fred Wah Matt Cohen Agnes Walsh and others weaving together personal reminiscences with theoretical and critical looks at their work

Based on the novel by Bruce Allen Powe "The Aberhart Summer" is a dark "coming of age" story where desperation secrets and tragedy affect the lives of the people in an Edmonton neighbourhood during the Depression A mystery a comedy and a gripping look at Alberta history

My name's Bacon Sobelowski, and I'm trying to find my someone. Kenny Rogers sings a song that says there's someone for everyone, and in Bellevue where I live, Kenny Rogers' word is gold. It's just too bad my mother thinks girls turn boys into pigs, but that's probably just because my father had enough of her Eggos and walked out.But maybe she's right. I'm not sure if Sarah is my someone because she got mad and smashed chili peppers into a cut on my head, and maybe my someone wouldn't do that. Karla could be it because she lets me stay at her condo, but she might be too old to be my someone. Then there's Mr. Kwon's daughter, but she's sort of my cousin and I'm not sure if sort-of cousins can be someones at the same time.I think it might all come down to timing, and if that's true then I'm in trouble. I'm Bacon Sobelowski-who knows if I'll ever find my someone.

This collection chronicles Phyllis Webb s struggle with the creative process and her intense need to probe beneath the surface of things

From her own harrowing experience Hudson graphically renders the deadly underbelly of society and her descent into the abyss of drug addiction and prostitution In direct prose without fear shame or explanation and without imposing hindsight or societal values onto her narrative Hudson takes the reader with her on a terrifying journey to the bottom Snow Bodies is a heartbreaking reminder of the horrors occurring daily on Canada s city streets

Before her death Rubis Caillou Morin sends her son west to help her brothers settle new land Raoul carries with him a shadowy understanding of why his mother died and a red book filled with her wisdom and love The book sees Raoul through life and helps his great granddaughter find the truth about healers Rubis and the loyalty responsibility and consequence that rules her family

Crafted from archives interviews memories and bankers boxes of papers sent to the author during the years before her death "Always Someone to Kill the Doves A Life of Sheila Watson" is the portrait of a woman shaped by her times by her turbulent marriage by the clarity of genius and by the moral sense of her Catholic upbringing With the gentle touch of an old friend Flahiff provides a poignant insight into the woman the westerner and the writer Best known for the modernist novel The Double Hook and her part in creating the literary magazine "White Pelican " Watson s life was as rich and complex as her finest literary creation

In this collection Chris Craddock tackles the weighty issues of suicide drug and alcohol abuse and sex and pregnancy in the lives of teens and their families with humour insight and candid reality Throughout all three plays subversive wit and outright laugh ability keep students parents and teachers entertained while building new awareness of these significant social issues