By Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek
A rich, emotional, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. Cast of 3 women, 4 men and 1 male child.
$16.95 | 104 pages | Pub. Date: 1991
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222953
| Rights: WORLD
By Gil McElroy
These poems map out zones of interaction which took place in the “surface of last scattering”—the first formation of matter in the universe.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2007
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225756
| Rights: WORLD
By Audrey Thomas
A brilliant and intense journey through a relationship, and through language and myth—as well as a literary journey spanning three continents.
$18.95 | 176 pages | Pub. Date: 1979
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889221673
| Rights: WORLD
By Morris Panych
Lawrence and Holloman, a hapless nerd and a loquacious salesman, meet by chance. From this fleetingly irritating and insignificant encounter comes a viciously murderous and incredulously bizarre plot. Cast of 2 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223929
| Rights: WORLD
By Lucia Frangione
A small prairie community is blown apart when an audacious teenaged girl challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. Suspected of being gay, she is brutalized by her classmates. This searing drama of bigotry and transcendence challenges the fallout of the Catholic Church’s response to the same-sex marriage rulings in Canada. Cast of 2 men and 3 women.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
6 W × 9 H × .5 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA008000
ISBN 13: 9780889227538
| Rights: WORLD
By Jacob Richmond
When Mom and Dad are busted for growing pot, Penny and Ezra Lamb embark on the wild road trip that comprises this vaudeville-inspired one-act play. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
$16.95 | 72 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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Edition # 1
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.25 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226104
| Rights: WORLD
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco
Michel Tremblay’s classic Joual play. A housewife wins a million trading stamps in a lottery and invites her friends over to help her paste them into books. Cast of 15 women.
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1992
| Revised edition
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223028
| Rights: WORLD
By Rick Salutin
Preface by Ken Dryden
A play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor. Cast of 7 men.
$18.95 | 192 pages | Pub. Date: 1977
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889221222
| Rights: WORLD
By Sally Clark
A woman’s struggle for freedom, identity and dignity. Cast of 3 women and 5 men.
$16.95 | 168 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223479
| Rights: WORLD
By Jovette Marchessault
Translated by Yvonne M. Klein
The first volume of Jovette Marchessault’s autobiographical trilogy.
$18.95 | 176 pages | Pub. Date: 1988
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.5 D inches
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889222618
| Rights: WORLD
By Mary Meigs
A compelling autobiography about the exercise of will, friendships, and dreaming.
$16.95 | 264 pages | Pub. Date: 1981
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
Non-Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: BIO026000
ISBN 13: 9780889221956
| Rights: WORLD
By Oana Avasilichioaei
Limbinal, as its hybrid title suggests, speaks in the porous space between a limb’s articulations and a liminal border. Formally diverse, the pieces in Limbinal intersect prose fragments with incantatory dialogues, poetic footnotes with photographic phrases, rebellious translations with liquid transpositions.
$16.95 | 136 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
5.5 W × 8 H × .75 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229242
| Rights: WORLD
By Ken Norris
Limbo Road —as divorce journal, meditation, travel poem—chronicles the search for the new beloved.
$34.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.45 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224018
| Rights: WORLD
By Lilia D’Acres & Donald Luxton
Powerful, sometimes mysterious stories of the people and times that gave birth to Vancouver historic landmark, the Lions Gate Bridge.
$34.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 1999
9.00 W × 10.00 H × 0.75 D inches
Non-Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: ARC005000
ISBN 13: 9780889224162
| Rights: WORLD
By Daphne Marlatt
Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now gathers many of the poems from Daphne Marlatt’s 1972 Vancouver Poems, somewhat revised or in some cases substantially revised, and follows them with “Liquidities,” a series of recent poems about Vancouver’s incessant deconstruction and reconstruction, its quick transformations both on the ground and in urban imagining.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2012
6 W × 9 H × .5 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889227613
| Rights: WORLD
By James Reaney
Two stories intertwine and illuminate the relationship of life to its creative dream. Cast of 4 women, 4 men, 1 female child and 1 male child.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 1972
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889220027
| Rights: WORLD
By John MacLachlan Gray
Three musicals by John MacLachlan Gray: 18 Wheels, Rock and Roll and Don Messer’s Jubilee.
$24.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 1987
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222489
| Rights: WORLD
By Sally Clark
A comic, biting, surreal investigation of the question of self and identity in the North American middle-class. Cast of 9 women and 11 men.
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223974
| Rights: WORLD
By Des Walsh
This book of poems is a sustained adoration of the beloved that echoes the work of the troubadours. The unnamed Irish woman of this collection “the complicated jewel of the Burren Peninsula,” leads the narrator on a spiritual quest from the streets of St John’s to the seeminingly impenetrable evergreen thickets of Ireland. Recently released as a feature film, Love and Savagery is a lyrical story of impossible love. On the twentieth anniversary of its first publication and the astonishing occasion of its release as a feature film, Talon has published a new edition of Love and Savagery, celebrating the transformation of the essence of such a finely crafted book of poetry into a film that pays homage to its literary roots.
$16.95 | 56 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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Edition # 2
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.15 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889225992
| Rights: WORLD
By bill bissett
Poems that tell stories on many different levels: through sound, visual images, political insights, non-narrative fusion and linguistic music.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 1997
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223721
| Rights: WORLD
By Louis Patrick Leroux
Translated by Shelley Tepperman & Ellen Warkentin
Three plays about the co-dependent relationship between a chronically unemployed engineer and actress who has never been out of work.
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2009
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Edition # 1
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.57000000000000006 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226234
| Rights: WORLD
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