A Future Perfect operates, like a zoetrope, on the logic of the persistence of vision, joining the successive repetition of absence and presence. Like the sound of rain on a surreal windowpane, these poems constellate between the symbolic order of dreams and the imaginative space of figurative meaning – yet…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772013658
| Rights: WORLD
A History of the Theories of Rain explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, approaching the unfolding climate catastrophe through its dissolution of the categories of “man-made” and “natural.” How do we go on with our daily lives while a disastrous…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE023030
ISBN 13: 9781772012880
| Rights: WORLD
In 2020 near the United States–Mexico border, a family from 1979 drives back towards Chile from Canada. As time and space shift and blend, the family experiences a series of encounters ranging from poignant to comical to fantastical. Encircled by past, present, and future, their journey becomes a collective vision…
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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Drama | Frontlist
| Bisac: DRA019000
ISBN 13: 9781772012903
| Rights: WORLD
Written over the span of a decade and a half, Coast Mountain Foot keens its ear to the energies that connect cities, refracting the gesture of George Bowering’s 1968 classic Rocky Mountain Foot. Occasioned by fitzpatrick’s own move from Calgary to Vancouver in 2011, the book writes through the messy…
$16.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772013597
| Rights: WORLD
Conversations with Khahtsahlano, 1932–1954 contains twenty-two years of conversations between Sḵwx̱uwú7mesh Chief X̱ats’alanexw, a.k.a. Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano, and Major J.S. Matthews. Originally published in 1955 by the Vancouver City Archives, Conversations with Khahtsahlano received a limited publication and is reproduced here in facsimile. Chief X̱ats’alanexw’s reminiscences travel as far…
$45.00 | 444 pages | Pub. Date: 1955
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| Bisac: BIO028000
ISBN 13: 9781772014907
| Rights: WORLD
A debut poetry collection that grows from the impulse to explore home in the suburb – in the intersections, overlaps, and gaps between urban and rural. These are walking poems and driving poems. In growing suburbs across the country, there is a push to urbanize, to rethink this sprawling space;…
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012637
| Rights: WORLD
Finalist 2021 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
eat salt | gaze at the ocean explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives, using the original Haitian zombie as a metaphor for the condition and treatment of Black bodies. Interspersed with textual representations of zombies, Haitian society, and historical policies is the author’s personal narrative…
$17.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012651
| Rights: WORLD
Acclaimed Portuguese Canadian playwright Elaine Ávila’s new play, Fado: The Saddest Music in the World, is a tale of love and ghosts set in the back alleys and brothels of old Lisbon. Part concert, part theatre, the story of a young woman confronting her country’s fascist past and her own…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012897
| Rights: WORLD
In Falling Shadows, a lone man walks in the forest towards the hunting camp where his family has taken refuge to escape the upheaval caused by a widespread power failure. He knows he is threatened. One day, having lost his way, a twelve-year-old boy, mysteriously fearless and familiar, calls out…
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: FIC055000
ISBN 13: 9781772014518
| Rights: WORLD
Flying Red Horse dwells on fatherhood and masculinity, the conditions of whiteness that pressure them, global surveillance, and climate change. It draws attention to the spectacle and surveillance governing Canada and the United States. It asks where individuals stand in relation to the global technological power of connectivity and disconnection…
$16.95 | 136 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772013603
| Rights: WORLD
Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show / Le Wild West Show de Gabriel Dumont is a flamboyant epic, constructed as a series of tableaux, about the struggles of the Métis in the Canadian West. It is a bilingual book, co-published with Éditions Prise de parole, and enhanced with a historical background,…
$24.95 | 304 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772013191
| Rights: WORLD
Set mainly in the rural, HARROWINGS connects with Black intellectual and art history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet’s childhood growing up on a farm, as well as from more recent pandemic experiences volunteering for a local agricultural enterprise led by people who…
$19.95 | 120 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772014051
| Rights: WORLD
With Here, award-winning poet Colin Browne offers a book of luminous encounters, contradictions, collisions, and meditations on art, nature, justice, historical memory, and territorial occupation. Browne’s texts mine the harrowing destinies and densities of place – in this case, of the North American Northwest Coast. The work’s seven movements are…
$19.95 | 192 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012644
| Rights: WORLD
A pioneer of sound, visual, and performance poetry, bill bissett composes his poems as scripts for pure performance and has consistently since the 1960s worked to extend the boundaries of language and visual image, honing a synthesis of the two in the medium of concrete poetry. bissett’s latest collection since…
$24.95 | 290 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772013917
| Rights: WORLD
A stunning new play by star Québec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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Drama | Frontlist
| Bisac: DRA017000
ISBN 13: 9781772014457
| Rights: WORLD
A satirical farce play about land claims, in the spirit of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Indigenous theatre.
$16.95 | 120 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012545
| Rights: WORLD
Winner of 2018 Prix Pierre-Vadeboncœur
Finalist for 2018 Governor General’s Award for French-Language Non-Fiction
Finalist for 2019 Prix des libraires
In this exhaustively researched work of investigative journalism, Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny examines the causes and after-effects of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. When a driverless, out-of-control train carrying highly volatile crude oil decimated the downtown area of the picturesque town of Lac-Mégantic, it immediately killed forty-seven people and lead to the…
$24.95 | 336 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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| Bisac: LAW117000
ISBN 13: 9781772012590
| Rights: WORLD
Moving the Centre is a two-play anthology exploring the problems and possibilities of verbatim theatre and undertake questions of justice, identity, and the history all around us.
$19.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772013948
| Rights: WORLD
Finalist 2021 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
The music of thinking. The thinking of music. Music at the Heart of Thinking is a poetry that works through language as the true practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens to and notates thinking. From jazz, the unpredictable ad lib driving itself from itself. From a…
$24.95 | 272 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012620
| Rights: WORLD
A work exploring sibling and romantic love, and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another
$16.95 | 88 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012866
| Rights: WORLD
Eleven weeks on the BC Bestseller list
Written in sixty short epistolary chapters, award winning author M.A.C. Farrant’s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society.
$19.95 | 200 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: BIO022000
ISBN 13: 9781772012842
| Rights: WORLD
A poetic, theatrical, and philosophical examination of self and identity OЯACULE occurs at the intersection of poetry and theatre. The book’s dramatis personae inhabits a classical and cosmological world where psychic phenomena constantly threaten to impinge upon the arc of combat occurring between the women trapped within. Influenced by Friedrich…
$16.95 | 152 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772013610
| Rights: WORLD
An exquisite and highly aesthetic coming-of-age novel.
$19.95 | 240 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772012835
| Rights: World
Standing in a River of Time merges poetry and lyrical memoir on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on a Métis family. Kirton does not shy away from hard realities, meeting them head on, but always treating them with respect and the love stemming from a lifetime of…
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772013795
| Rights: WORLD
still interrogates alienated interiority. It begins with a body, with materiality that slowly morphs, extends, spills, and oozes. A self-withdrawn, hidden presence: silent inactivity, affective and extractive capitalism, surveillance and commodification of behaviour, non-participation, withdrawn complicity, non-subjectivity and refusing a gaze, paralysis in
time of crisis – what non-doing undoes.
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012859
| Rights: WORLD
Still • Falling and The Code explore issues today’s teens face in their daily lives: mental-health struggles, the complexities of gender dynamics, and the challenges that arise when the lines between friendship and romance blur. A realistic, honest, and bitingly funny look at the difference between so-called teen angst and…
$18.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772013993
| Rights: WORLD
A moving, poetic correspondence written during the ongoing military occupation of Kashmir. The City That Is Leaving Forever is a unique instant-message exchange between Kashmir and Vancouver spanning more than five years in the lives of two Kashmiri Muslim women poets. As India’s military carries out extrajudicial killings and imposes…
$19.95 | 298 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: LCO004020
ISBN 13: 9781772013573
| Rights: WORLD
Daniel Brooks’s The Full Light of Day is a modern epic tragedy, a timely exploration of crumbling privilege and power, beautifully told and innovative in form. Mary’s family finds itself in serious difficulty, and some bad decisions lead to disaster. Mary soon falls ill, and as she is dying wrestles…
$19.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772013634
| Rights: WORLD
It’s May 1922, wedding preparations are in full swing, and old memories, past desires, and big regrets threaten to turn the big celebration into a big melee.
$16.95 | 248 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772012613
| Rights: WORLD
Set in a school facing the real-life challenges of immigration, income inequality, and fears of violence in our schools, The In-Between is a realistic, relatable exploration of the complex social circumstances students must navigate in contemporary schools.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: YAN017000
ISBN 13: 9781772012408
| Rights: WORLD
Winner of 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Dorothy Dittrich’s The Piano Teacher is a play about loss, love, friendship, and the healing power of music. When Erin, a classical pianist, experiences the loss of the life she knew, she meets an unconventional piano teacher who gives her new hope for the future.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772014020
| Rights: WORLD
These poems are written from a sense of place and home on Canada’s West Coast now on the brink of another catastrophe, global climate change, so that throughout the book, “There Then” permeates any “Here Now” of immigrant consciousness and highlights the impermanent quality of “home.”
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: POE021000
ISBN 13: 9781772012873
| Rights: WORLD
The poems in Tracery enact a lyric condensation. Often written in transit: on the bus, on a bicycle, on foot, in the endless to and fro of work life – they are primarily governed by the music of reason: “the ear’s judgement” (Joachim du Bellay), the “natural music” of poetry…
$16.95 | 104 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772014358
| Rights: WORLD
Against a backdrop of moderate gains and terrible defeats, Un laments socialism’s failure to deliver formerly colonized peoples out of imperialism’s terrible grasp. Drawing on the US War on Terror and the disappearances of people extrajudicially apprehended from the Middle East and North Africa, this collection of poetry interrogates the…
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772013764
| Rights: WORLD
Unfuckable Lardass reverts the patriarchy’s gaze. It began as an attempt to refract and undercut an outrageous insult allegedly lobbed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel – an egregious demonstration of the framing of women in reductive and sexualized terms ignoring their existence as subjects of their own complex histories. As…
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772013887
| Rights: WORLD
These essays emerge from years of reading, writing, and teaching through the exemplary controversies, commitments, and atmosphere of the crises of modernism that accompany the author’s reading of European literature as a world literature. The author imagines the collection through the image of the Colporteur, who appears along the streets…
$29.95 | 576 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: PHI026000
ISBN 13: 9781772012606
| Rights: WORLD
Buy all 3 books for $35.00 Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal Birth of a Bridge by Maylis de Kerangal Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal
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ISBN 13: 9781773000000
| Rights: World
Witness Back at Me is personal dissection that draws on the author’s childhood episodes of disembodiment, when, through the death of his mother from cancer at age two, he lost his ability to speak for nearly two years, which is also the time when he was placed in a foster home at a dairy farm outside Calgary, from age two to four. During this time, the author recalls not inhabiting his own body, but often floating outside it and witnessing himself as “other.”
$18.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2022
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| Bisac: POE023050
ISBN 13: 9781772014419
| Rights: WORLD