ISBN 1-896860-09-3 Cruise Control (poetry) 12.95
published 1996 64 pages

Satirical, witty and often self-referential, Cruise Control offers a wry commentary on everything from politics and yuppies to BMWs and literature. Though rooted in a commitment to language the poems still manage to gaze with Swiftian irreverence at the foibles of an often absurd world.

ISBN 1-894800-42-7 High-Maintenance (poetry) 15.95
published 2004 88 pages

In High Maintenance an ironic wit colours poems about everything in contemporary Canadian life from literature and hockey to Y2K and snowboarding. Stephen Bett’s poetry is a self-referential funhouse that reflects the modern tension between a commitment to ideas and life in a pop-culture world.

ISBN 1-894800-65-6 Nota Bene: A Journey (poetry) 18.95
published 2005 72 pages

Nota Bene: A Journey follows an intense relationship between its author and an astonishing woman artist. Here we see, to put it mildly, a far more nakedly personal voice from a poet known mainly for his sassy, satiric irreverence about political correctness and pop culture.

ISBN 978-1-897430-41-5 Re-positioning (poetry) 21.95
published 2011 116 pages

In this volume, Bett is riffing on language itself. These humorous, self-referential poems are tied to the langue, the argot, not just comic satire. There’s an effort at a more serious humour underlying cultural and philosophical issues that seem to plague us in our increasingly vapid monoculture.

ISBN 978-1-897430-28-6 Sass 'n Pass (poetry) 18.95
published 2008 110 pages

Sass ’n Pass takes an unsettling look at the ironies of pop culture and the angst of contemporary life. Bett’s uncanny ear for spoken language tears at society’s shallow facade to expose the tawdry and banal. Bett defies the politically correct and celebrates the gritty truth as only he can speak it, sparing no one — least of all himself.

ISBN 978-1-897430-43-9 S PLIT (poetry) 19.95
published 2009 120 pages

Stephen Bett’s new book of poetry, S PLIT, is divided into three sections: “Split-Up” concerns relationship; “Split-All-Over” is fueled by angst and the poet’s customary satire; “Split-Down” makes a tender good-bye to a marriage. This is a deeply personal book: poet “split” all over the emotional map.

ISBN 1-894800-90-7 Three Women (poetry) 19.95
published 2006 120 pages

Stephen Bett's last three books (High-Maintenance, Nota Bene and, here, Three Women) have moved from his customary scathing satirizations of so-called pop culture to a deeply anguished book about a difficult love relationship to, now, a book of anger, bitterness, and new beginnings.