Winner 1997 Association of Asian Americal Studies Poetry Award
The most important poetic works of Roy Kiyooka.
$29.95 | 320 pages | Pub. Date: 1997
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889223783
| Rights: WORLD
Death, desire, and divination are the threads running through Jónína Kirton’s debut collection of poems and lyric prose. Delicate and dark, the pieces are like whispers in the night – a haunted, quiet telling of truths the mind has locked away but the body remembers. Loosely autobiographical, these are the…
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
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| Bisac: POE015000
ISBN 13: 9780889229235
| Rights: WORLD
After Canada officially declares war with Italy, Romano, a recent immigrant, is arrested without charge in his own home. Cast of 2 women and 8 men.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223936
| Rights: WORLD
After generations of living in the paradise of their west coast family estate, the McKinnons have fallen on hard times—half of it has just been bought by a Turkish immigrant family. The heirs of both families, Day McKinnon and Leyla Zeki, fancy themselves to be sophisticated citizens of the world, alienated by their ancestors’ “outdated” traditions. Yet Leyla recognizes something fundamental and mysterious in the vestiges of the old estate garden, and Day has uncovered an ancient family secret there. Abandoning their families for their careers, Day and Leyla are reunited years later, having discovered that love is not just something that happens to us, but a paradise that we must build and tend by hand: like a garden in the wilderness of our lives.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226586
| Rights: WORLD
Unleashing the dark secret of her being, Albertine, one of Tremblay’s most unforgettable heroines, sets out to re-conquer the beau she has lost to her younger sister. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2004
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224933
| Rights: WORLD
A piercing look at what it means when a Canadian prime minister puts his own private interests first.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2006
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| Bisac: POL033000
ISBN 13: 9780889225381
| Rights: WORLD
Mohawk spoken-word artist Janet Marie Rogers’s newest collection pulses with the rhythms of the drum and the beat of the heart. Poems drawing on the language of the earth and inflected with the outspoken vocality of activism address the crises of modern “land wars” – environmental destruction, territorial disputes, and resource depletion. This unique poetry wants to be spoken (aloud).
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229112
| Rights: WORLD
When Phyllis Webb published Wilson’s Bowl in 1980, Northrop Frye hailed it as “a landmark in Canadian literature”: landmark, an event that marks a turning point in something (in this case, Canadian literature); and an instantly recognized feature of a landscape (in this case, the landscape of Canadian poetry). Wilson’s…
$45.00 | 512 pages | Pub. Date: 2014
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229129
| Rights: WORLD
“Part treatise on phenomenology, part theatrical score on ontology, part billet-doux to poetry itself” (Divya Victor), PEЯFACT is a three-part series of poems interrogating the nature of experience, language, trauma, and identity. This moving, philosophical debut, whose influences range from Antonin Artaud and Simone Weil to Gertrude Stein and George…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012279
| Rights: WORLD
A collection of 18 original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by scholars and drama specialists in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Japan.
$24.95 | 324 pages | Pub. Date: 2003
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| Bisac: PER011020
ISBN 13: 9780889224759
| Rights: WORLD
Persian Postcards, the fruit of Fred Reed’s travels to the Islamic Republic as both journalist and impassioned observer, is an attempt to suggest the depth and complexity, the tragedy and raw beauty of this ancient culture. Reed examines the Iranian reasons for The Iran-Iraq war, sheds new light on the Iran-Contra scandal, and looks at Iranian history, in its meeting with the peculiar traditions of Shi’ite Islam. Persian Postcards is more than a journalistic report, an academic treatise, or a travel book, although it enfolds elements of all three.
$24.95 | 288 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
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| Bisac: TRV015000
ISBN 13: 9780889223516
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 2003 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
bissett’s deliciously comic interrogation of the socio-political events towering around us like so many boxes we need constantly to imagine our way out of, is counterpoised in this collection by a recurring dream of a future locked in a global war.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2002
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889224643
| Rights: WORLD
Phyllis Webb is a poet around whom archetypes tend to cluster: the reclusive artist; the distraught, borderline suicidal Sapphic woman poet. While on the surface she seems someone supremely disinterested in the public sphere, argues Stephen Collis in this brilliant and revealing new celebration of her work, her work sweeps into the wilds of politics, philosophy, economics and her slim books speak volumes. Webb’s work points steadily towards the idea that the poem is not a commodity to be hoarded, but a response-ability to be shared, an aspect of the commons and our “common good.”
$24.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2007
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| Bisac: LIT014000
ISBN 13: 9780889225596
| Rights: WORLD
Three tales spin a web of suspense, impending violence, and tragedy that haunt the sleek façade of a city. In “The Axe” a teacher of literature in drunken despair awakens and confronts one of his students with the term assignment he has submitted—an axe. In “Piercing” a teenage runaway seeks to escape the mediocrity of her small-town family life, only to end up in a very different kind of urban “family,” a cult of dominance and body piercing presided over by the maimed and orphaned son of a millionaire. In “Anna on the letter C” a lonely, virginal typist transcribing the “c” words for a dictionary project, takes pity on a middle-aged stalker and invites him to her apartment for tea and nasty surprises.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889226456
| Rights: WORLD
Short-listed 1994 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation
A mordant satire on the relation between theatre and life. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1993
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223356
| Rights: WORLD
Documents Olson’s influence on The New American Poetry, Allen’s visionary and revolutionary anthology.
$18.95 | 192 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
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| Bisac: LIT007000
ISBN 13: 9780889224865
| Rights: WORLD
This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society’s “popular narratives.” A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 1991
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889222854
| Rights: WORLD
25 individual talents come together in this groundbreaking collection for a rare literary event: the transition of a cultural identity primarily rooted in place to one that is rooted in a rapidly fragmenting, technology-based globalization.
$19.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2005
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| Bisac: POE001000
ISBN 13: 9780889225237
| Rights: WORLD
Throughout these poems is a meeting of obscene or politically charged material, as well as commentary on language usage under extreme circumstances of duress such as the Arab Spring. This is poetry written under conditions of wartime. The title implies an analogy between Ezra Pound, imprisoned at Pisa after World…
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2016
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229792
| Rights: WORLD
In this contrapuntal follow-up to Governor General’s Award finalist Discovery Passages, Garry Thomas Morse traces multiple lines of his mixed ancestry. These include the nomadic “pre-historical” movements of Wakashan speakers who were later to form various West Coast First Nations; the schismatic mindset of Jedidiah Morse, the “father of American…
$18.95 | 176 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889229402
| Rights: WORLD
Price Paid untangles truth from some of the myths about First Nations and addresses misconceptions still widely believed today.
$19.95 | 240 pages | Pub. Date: 2016
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| Bisac: SOC021000
ISBN 13: 9780889229723
| Rights: WORLD
Short-listed 2018 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Combining text from government questionnaires and reports, lyric poetry, and photography, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes examines the possibility of a privatized prison system in Canada leading up to then Prime Minister Harper’s Conservative government passing the Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51. This legislation criminalizes Indigenous peoples’ attempts to…
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2017
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772011814
| Rights: WORLD