La Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek

Plays by Quebec’s best-known playwright: La Duchesse de Langeais; Berthe; Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs; Surprise, Surprise; Gloria Star.

La Maison Suspendue
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.

Lasagna
By Ronald Cross & Hélène Sévigny

A biography of the most notorious of the 1990 Oka warriors.

Last Scattering Surfaces
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.

Latakia
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.

Lawrence & Holloman
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.

Leave of Absence
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.

Legoland
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.

Les Belles Soeurs
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.

Les Canadiens
By Rick Salutin
Preface by Ken Dryden

A play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor. Cast of 7 men.

Life without Instruction
By Sally Clark

A woman’s struggle for freedom, identity and dignity. Cast of 3 women and 5 men.

Like a Child of the Earth
By Jovette Marchessault
Translated by Yvonne M. Klein

The first volume of Jovette Marchessault’s autobiographical trilogy.

Lily Briscoe
By Mary Meigs

A compelling autobiography about the exercise of will, friendships, and dreaming.

Limbinal
By Oana Avasilichioaei

Here, linguistic limbs fold and migrate, a distant border politicks and trips over the horizon, a river overflows, floods, palimpsests another river, Arendt’s responsibility touches Deleuze’s fold, the body, changeable, restless, searches for resonances. And new translations of Paul Celan’s Romanian poems become a generative field of language that sprout other limbs and broach other thresholds.

Limbo Road
By Ken Norris

Limbo Road —as divorce journal, meditation, travel poem—chronicles the search for the new beloved.

Lions Gate
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.

Liquidities
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.

Listen to the Wind
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.

Local Boy Makes Good
By John MacLachlan Gray

Three musicals by John MacLachlan Gray: 18 Wheels, Rock and Roll and Don Messer’s Jubilee.

Lost Souls and Missing Persons
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.

Love and Savagery
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.

loving without being vulnrabul
By bill bissett

Poems that tell stories on many different levels: through sound, visual images, political insights, non-narrative fusion and linguistic music.

Ludwig & Mae
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.