Straw Things
CHARLES TIDLER

Straw Things: Selected Poetry & Song

Geraldine
DAVID WATMOUGH

Geraldine celebrates the pioneering and often turbulent years of a twentieth century woman scientist from Victoria, B.C. through her life as a bio-chemist in Europe and North America. In that sense it is a tribute to feminists of an era when they had to struggle unceasingly to make their way in what is implacably a man’s world.

His Doubtful Excellency
JAN DRABEK

In His Doubtful Excellency: A Canadian Novelist’s Adventure’s as President Havel’s Ambassador, Czech-Canadian author Jan Drabek regails the reader with the escapades of an artist pressed into diplomatic service. When, after the fall of communism, his former schoolmate, playwright Vaclav Havel, becomes president of the Czech Republic, Drabek is named ambassador and chief of protocal, welcoming dignitaries such as Queen Elizabeth and Pope John Paul II.

Paper Trombones: notes on poetics
MIKE DOYLE

In Paper Trombones poet and scholar Mike Doyle shares musings on poetry – his own and others’ – drawn from informal journal notes of the past thirty years. With candid commentary on his wide reading in poetry, philosophy and criticism, Doyle is a personable guide to the currents of contemporary literature. An accessible journey through a personal landscape of poetry, Paper Trombones will appeal to those interested in the art of poetry and the dialogue on contemporary literature.

Splitting the Heart
JANET MARIE ROGERS

A powerful debut by Indigenous performance poet and spoken word artist Janet Marie Rogers, Splitting the Heart throbs with the vitality of a Native drum and wails with a warrior’s wisdom. Both Mohawk warrior and west coast woman, Roger’s poems speak of personal and cultural identity, the trials of her people, loss and death – balanced by exquisite love poems, transcendent in their earthiness.

Little Red Berries
YOLANDE VILLEMAIRE

In Little Red Berries, a poetic novel of dreams and interior drama, we meet Solange Therrien, an insecure college literature instructor. Set in Montreal on the verge of the new millennium, the reader meets a colourful cast of characters as Solange comes to terms with relationships past and present. An insightful commentary on the complexity of contemporary Quebec, Little Red Berries stirs the heart and nourishes the mind.

The Trutch Street Women
ELLEN ARRAND

The Trutch Street Women is the second in a series of plays published under the Inconnu Dramabook imprint. Set in Victoria on a family street called Trutch Street, it tells the story of single parents caught up in the women’s movement of the 1970’s. It is a memory play and a coming of age story, as a group of women find common ground together and then drift apart.

Reflections on Spiritual Liberty
HIDAYAT INAYAT KHAN

Reflections on Spiritual Liberty is the fourth volume of the Reflections series of contemplations on Sufi teachings by Hidayat Inayat Khan. Here the fascinating subjects of consciousness, freedom of thought and the essential unity of mystical traditions are explored through highly condensed ‘reflections.' These offer a distilled approach to Sufi metaphysics. Sufism is a universal wisdom philosophy honouring all religious traditions and concerned with the individual’s relationship to self, humanity and the divine

Blues for the Grauballeman
KEN CATHERS

Blues For the Grauballeman creates a landscape of language that engages the reader not only on a visual and visceral level but on an emotional and intellectual one as well. As the poet digs for truth and sifts through layers of meaning, the poem embodies a created experience: the physical body of utterance, the archeological flesh of meaning.

Starstruck: a teens' guide to astrology
GWENYTH LUPTAK

The ancient study of astrology holds an obvious fascination for teens and can help them understand themselves and others during the challenging adolescent years. Gwenyth Luptak’s Starstruck offers a simple approach to the zodiac and its symbols, designed to help the teen reader discover astrology’s wisdom and apply it to life

The Redemption of Anna Dupree
JIM CHRISTY

In a departure from his hard-boiled writing from the street, Jim Christy’s surprising new novel, The Redemption of Anna Dupree tells the story of a feisty older woman rebelling against age and life in a retirement home. With his trademark ear for dialogue, Christy breathes life into the colourful Anna Dupree, who finds redemption and renewal in the friendship of a young man...

1970
ELIZABETH RHETT WOODS

1970: A Novel Poem is poet and novelist Elizabeth Rhett Woods’ personal exploration of a pivotal year of turmoil, discovery and transition. Draft-dodgers, Viet Nam, literature and LSD, love affairs, liaisons and leavings – each has their season in a year scarred by the Kent State tragedies and the War Measures Act. Against this backdrop the poet traces an interior landscape of restlessness and renewal.

Earthbaby
PETER SUCH

Peter Such's futuristic novel Earthbaby has received top marks from reviewers for its spicy combination of politics, science and sex in a well-told tale readers can't put down. The action takes place in the year 2039 after global warming has devastated the planet. The American Protectorates, under General Foreman, control the continent (including Canada) and plan to take over the entire world.

Ordinary Days
CORNELIA C. HORNOSTY

The finely crafted poems of Cornelia Hornosty’s Ordinary Days celebrate the cotidian with the deceptive informality of Auden’s Musee des Beaux Arts. Anything but ordinary, Hornosty's latest volume documents a personal journey of growth, love and loss with the wry detachment of a silent witness carefully noting atmosphere, nuance and gesture.

Blood Orange
MILES LOWRY

Blood Orange is one artist’s personal response to another artist. An inveterate traveler, composer and writer, Paul Bowles was a truly remarkable figure whose life and work embodied and responded to the major impulses of the twentieth century. His literary work remains a steady influence on others, and Miles Lowry is one artist who has been deeply affected by him.

The Pillowbook of Dr Jazz
TREVOR CAROLAN

The Pillowbook of Doctor Jazz is autobiographical fiction in the tradition of Jack Kerouac. Hip radio man, Dr. Jazz, gives up a coast to coast late-night show when girlfriend, Nori, suggests that he meet her in Bangkok, Thailand. Travelling on a shoestring, they journey along what Dr. Jazz calls "the old dharma trail" — a backpacker’s network of cheap rooms and contacts throughout Asia.

Wintering
Rosemary Blake

Rosemary Blake’s Wintering is a thoughtful collection of poems of landscape and memory. The poems recall a childhood filled with the loss of a beloved father, but also with the light and beauty of the Australia landscape. Canada provides a way of seeing into this past with its loss and longing; a way which explores the contrast of the seasons, the reversals of winter and summer and the particular beauty of the Canadian landscape.

The Eye on Fire
LUDWIG ZELLER

The Eye on Fire is the moving testament of a poet confronting the passing years and yet affirming the value of poetry, love and freedom. Chilean-Canadian poet Ludwig Zeller combines eroticism and spirituality in poems where reality shines with the light of mystery and imagination.