This biography of George Bowering, first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, reveals the intimate, intellectual, and artistic life of one of Canada’s most prolific authors, offering an inside look at the people and events at the centre of the country’s literary and artistic avant-garde from the 1960s to the present. A…
$24.95 | 336 pages | Pub. Date: 2018
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
Non-Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: BIO026000
ISBN 13: 9781772012064
| Rights: WORLD
Short-listed 2010 W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize
How to Write is a perverse Coles Notes: a paradigm of prosody where writing as sampling, borrowing, cutting-and-pasting and mash-up meets literature. This collection of conceptual short fiction takes inspiration from Lautréamont’s decree that “plagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the author’s sentence tight, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, replaces it with the right idea.”
$16.95 | 72 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
4.25 W × 7.00 H × .15 D inches
Non-Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: LAN005000
ISBN 13: 9780889226296
| Rights: WORLD