Buy all 5 books for $58.00 Still by Anahita Jamali Rad Then Now by Daphne Marlatt One and Half of You by Leanne Dunic One Good Thing: A Living Memoir by M.A.C. Farrant A History of the Theories of Rain by Stephen Collis
$58 | 624 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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Poetry | featured
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772000000
| Rights: WORLD
“Can you walk away from a climate?” Maybe. But “in the future / everyone will have their fifteen minutes of blame.” 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 conceptually…
$16.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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Poetry | featured
| Bisac: POE023030
ISBN 13: 9781772012880
| Rights: WORLD
Anywhere but Here is an external representation of the inner turmoil of exile. Using magic realism tropes, it follows a family on a journey back toward Chile from Canada. They drive in a convertible along the desert border between the U.S. and Mexico, each with different emotions about the North…
$16.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: DRA019000
ISBN 13: 9781772012903
| Rights: WORLD
Two plays from rising Canadian theatre star Ellie Moon. Asking For It looks at gender roles and sexual consent in the wake of the Ghomeshi scandal, and considers the various ways in which sexual consent is understood personally, culturally, and legally. In this documentary play, Moon speaks with people of…
$19.95 | 224 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012668
| 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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Poetry | Frontlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012637
| Rights: WORLD
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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Poetry | Frontlist
| 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
Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show is a flamboyant epic, constructed as a series of tableaux, about the struggles of the Métis in the Canadian West. It is a multilayered and entertaining saga with a rodeo vibe, loosely based on Buffalo Bill’s legendary outdoor travelling show. In 1885, following the hanging…
$24.95 | 304 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772013191
| 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 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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Poetry | Frontlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012644
| Rights: WORLD
A father who feels his family is better off without him … a daughter who retreats completely into the virtual world … a family torn apart by the past with little hope for a future. But each discovers the desire to save each other, and perhaps themselves. From the acclaimed…
$18.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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Drama | Frontlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012699
| Rights: WORLD
A satirical farce play about land claims, in the spirit of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Indigenous theatre.
$16.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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Drama | featured
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9781772012545
| Rights: WORLD
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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Non-Fiction | Frontlist
| Bisac: LAW117000
ISBN 13: 9781772012590
| Rights: WORLD
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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Poetry | Frontlist
| 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
A BC Bestseller
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
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
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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Poetry | Frontlist
| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772012859
| Rights: WORLD
The Diary of Dukesang Wong restores a lost central voice to a foundational episode in Canadian history – one that changes our understanding of the history it recounts. Dukesang Wong’s remarkable diary tells of the appalling conditions, the punishing work, the camaraderie, the sickness and starvation, the encounters with Indigenous…
$18.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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Non-Fiction | Frontlist
| Bisac: BIO006000
ISBN 13: 9781772012583
| Rights: WORLD
The fifth novel in the Desrosiers Diaspora series from Québécois national treasure Michel Tremblay, winner of the Governor General’s Award, the Chalmers Award, the Molson Prize, and the Prix France-Québec It’s May 1922, and preparations are in full swing for a “grand melee” – the marriage of Nana and Gabriel,…
$14.95 | 208 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
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| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9781772012613
| Rights: WORLD
From one of Canada’s most influential poets, poems written in response to the discovery of letters by her father. 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
In They Write Their Dream on the Rock Forever, Nlaka’pamux Elder Annie York explains the red-ochre inscriptions written on the rocks and cliffs of the lower Stein Valley in British Columbia. This is perhaps the first time that an Indigenous Elder has presented a detailed and comprehensive explanation of rock-art…
$24.95 | 200 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
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Non-Fiction | featured
| Bisac: SOC002010
ISBN 13: 9781772012200
| Rights: WORLD
Long-listed 2015 One of 15 best CanLit covers of 2015 (CBC Books)
This is the second edition of award-winning Nisga’a poet Jordan Abel’s second collection of poetry, Un/inhabited, which maps the terrain of the public domain to create a layered investigation of the interconnections between language and land. Abel constructed the book’s source text by compiling ninety-one complete western novels found on…
$24.95 | 240 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
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| Bisac: POE015000
ISBN 13: 9781772012682
| Rights: WORLD