““Get thee to a nouneree.”“ Ophelia had been experiencing noun slippage, (and haven’t we all?) And where is the nouneree? Do you know the way? With heightened and more sophisticated noun awareness, do we come closer to happiness, starring ourselves? Ophelia unfortunately didn’t find the nouneree and perhaps thought it was the name of the river. Can you walk into the same nouneree twice? She jumped in. Lost lovesickness, now called co-dependency.
$16.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2000
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224339
| Rights: WORLD
A careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence assembled by a youthful imagination blossoming during World War II.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225145
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 1980 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
The English and French working class get together on their balconies in Montreal. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1980
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889221451
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889223806
| Rights: WORLD
A one-man-show/memoir in which Fennario recounts, with astonishing insight and wit, the phenomenon of taking his famous bilingual play, Balconville, to Belfast on a British / Canadian cultural mission. Cast of 1 man.
$15.95 | 64 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223967
| Rights: WORLD
These texts are part of Davey’s ongoing work on the use of the sentence as the basic structural unit of poetry—to create poetic texts, as they have always been created, out of the materials of prose. They also constitute another of his forays into cultural commentary—in this case, disclosing how our engagement with globalized culture creates meaning as it “speaks through itself.”
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226364
| Rights: WORLD
Bowering’s life in love and the game unfolds in a picaresque memoir of a road trip taken through the storied ballparks of the poet’s youthful dreams.
$19.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2006
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6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889225299
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 2007 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater
Winner 2007 Musical Award of the New York Fringe Festival
While the goal of BASH’d is first and foremost to tell an engaging gay love story, it also flips the music industry’s gangsta stereotype of rap music on its head and returns it to its political roots—in this case to explore the dangers of the kind of attitudes that continue to condone and even encourage sexual discrimination of all kinds in our society. Not since Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner has a narrative poem inspired such empathy in the hearts and minds of its audience.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226562
| Rights: WORLD
Steven Bush is on a mission to confront the skeletons in his family closet. Did his very own cousins occupy the White House? What can he, a distant relation of the “Bushes” do to redeem the family name? This stand-up comedy, rant, political protest and call to action is a brash theatrical tour de force. Cast of 1 man.
$18.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.75 D inches
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| Bisac: ART015020
ISBN 13: 9780889226470
| Rights: WORLD
Short-listed 2019 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Comprising two lines of poetic text flowing along a 114-foot-long map of the Columbia River, this powerful image-poem by acclaimed poets Fred Wah and Rita Wong presents language yearning to understand the consequences of our hydroelectric manipulation of one of North America’s largest river systems. beholden: a poem as long…
$24.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
10.125 W × 8.25 H × .75 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012118
| Rights: WORLD
Full of excruciating twists of fate and malice, this dark comedy of “trading places” resonates with uncomfortable truths about how we see (or don’t see) the people we live with every day. Cast of 2 women and three men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2008
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225848
| Rights: WORLD
Set in landscapes which move from Detroit to China, Bethune is a study of how one man’s vision may shape the world. In this play, Rod Langley attempts to chronicle the journey of Dr. Norman Bethune toward his final destiny. Bethune premiered at the Globe Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, in…
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1975
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889220881
| Rights: WORLD
Rod Langley’s Bethune chronicles the medical and political career of Norman Bethune, a Canadian-born doctor who died a national hero in the Republic of China in 1939. He remains an esteemed figure in China today, for his selfless contributions to the Communist Party of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 – 1945), when he trained rural peasants to serve as army medics and set up much-needed base hospitals that ultimately saved thousands of lives.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2013
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .4 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889228580
| Rights: WORLD
Short-listed 2006 Lambda Literary Award
A beautiful memoir that reads like the most exquisitely crafted fiction.
$19.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
7.00 W × 10.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889225053
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 1980 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1982 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Winner 1999 Jessie Richardson Award: The Sun Readers' Choice Award (Vancouver Playhouse)
One of Canada’s most successful and enduring musical plays, Billy Bishop Goes to War was first published in 1982 and went on to win the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award and the Governor General’s Award for Drama. In 2010, the celebrated story of the World War One flying ace –…
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226890
| Rights: WORLD
A tour of books that inspired Tremblay’s imagination.
$18.95 | 192 pages | Pub. Date: 2003
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889224766
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 2010 Médicis Prize
Winner 2010 Franz Hessel Prize
From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes Birth of a Bridge – the story of a handful of men and women of various backgrounds and classes, who assemble around the construction of a giant suspension bridge in Coca, a fictional city somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California.
$16.95 | 256 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889228894
| Rights: WORLD
A composition of daily riffs during an autumn in Denmark and Italy; an album of verbal portraits by a husband and wife who see differently; and a series of tributes to other writers on special occasions.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1997
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223813
| Rights: WORLD
In this sexy, fast-paced, and darkly comic follow-up to her acclaimed autobiography, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, Aguirre ultimately asks: Between the extremes of love for the political cause and love for another, how and where does one create space for self-love?
$16.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 2013
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889227576
| Rights: WORLD
The broken lives and the heroic struggle for joy of two “tramps” in a hotel boiler room. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1978
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889221376
| Rights: WORLD
Set in a hotel bar in Montreal on Remembrance Day, Bolsheviki has World War I veteran Harry “Rosie” Rollins telling young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins recalls men pissing their pants, losing limbs and planning a revolt against their officers. This cutting-edge drama, profoundly in opposition to conventional histories of Canadian troops in World War I, debunks every sentimental notion of duty, heroism and nationhood.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226876
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Short-listed 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
This delightful collection of eight autobiographical narratives offers the reader an exquisite remembrance of Michel Tremblay’s childhood past.
$17.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2006
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: BIO007000
ISBN 13: 9780889225411
| Rights: WORLD
A beloved brother returns to his family. Cast of 6 women and 2 men.
$15.95 | 92 pages | Pub. Date: 1990
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222526
| Rights: WORLD
Young Jimmy faces a dilemma: embrace the hero of American popular myth as embodied by his father, or engage the task of building a different identity, embodied by his mother “on the Canadian side of nowhere.” Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2003
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224773
| Rights: WORLD
Scobie illuminates Nichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, positing a cogent argument for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction.
$13.95 | 154 pages | Pub. Date: 1984
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.45 D inches
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| Bisac: LIT004080
ISBN 13: 9780889222205
| Rights: WORLD
Nichol’s comics (1960–1980) informed his work in other genres as well as the work of other writers.
$29.95 | 320 pages | Pub. Date: 1984
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: CGN006000
ISBN 13: 9780889224483
| Rights: WORLD
Bread and _Salt_—what you bring for luck to a new house—is a joyous affirmation of vision and courage in hard times.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1996
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223677
| Rights: WORLD
breth presents both new and selected poems from legendary Canadian sound, visual, and performance poet bill bissett. bissett’s innovations have shaped poetry, music, painting, and publishing and have stimulated, provoked, influenced, shocked, and delighted audiences for half a century. This new collection, bissett writes, “shows sew manee threds thru poetree…
$29.95 | 544 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
6 W × 9 H × 1.5 D inches
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| Bisac: LCO006000
ISBN 13: 9781772012262
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 2004 Canada Japan Literary Award English-Language
Short-listed 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award
Short-listed 2002 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Play or Musical: Small Theatr
Dene miners, radium painters and people of Hiroshima labour under the false sun of uranium which poisons their relationships to the earth and to each other. Cast of 5 women and 12 men.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2003
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224728
| Rights: WORLD