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A masterful new collection by Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Russell Thornton.The poems in The Broken Face explore a sacramental, imaginative vision within contexts of crime, perception, memory and love. In this collection, Russell Thornton returns to the vital themes of intimacy and family, loss, fear and hope, bringing to each poem the essential quality of a myth or incantation. Reverent and revealing, within those familiar relationships he ushers in a connection with something transcendent: "A man has come floundering late in the night / to stand alone at the shore of a sleeping infant's face."The poems capture life at the periphery, whether describing homelessness or incarceration, or even the universal experiences of aging and mortality, love and fear of love, all of which bring the speaker into a detached yet energized state of watching and waiting: "the door that was my grandfather into our passing lives / will arrive at a house where each of us is his own door / that opens on our first selves, fundamental together."With intense lyricism, Thornton displays a mastery of craft so complete as to be nearly invisible. While stunningly beautiful, his imagery is also in such complete service to the deeper emotional resonance of each poem that it feels inevitable, making the collection deeply moving.

A rich collection of Canadian crosswords from a bestselling series.

An engaging account of how the development of West Vancouver has been defined by its spectacular landscape.

Take the Torch is a compelling memoir from one of BC's most widely accomplished and animated politicians, Ian Waddell, QC. Waddell takes us on a journey through his life and career as a storefront lawyer, an NDP Member of Parliament, a Minister of Culture, a writer, a teacher, a film producer and more-delivering a smart, humorous, endearing and impossible-to-forget exploration of public life.Waddell endeavours "to pass on some of the lessons I learned about setting goals for social change and the methods to use to get there ... debating, protesting, and marching to 'biting dogs' at press conferences (following the old adage 'dog bites man is not a story; man bites dog is a headline'), writing op-ed pieces for newspapers, getting elected, taking on prime ministers, dictators and kings, grabbing maces, lobbying diplomats in the lobby of the United Nations, and bucking your own party." Waddell got his start through his involvement as a young lawyer, from an immigrant family, in both the first consumer class-action lawsuit in Canada and the Berger Inquiry into the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.

A new collection by celebrated poet Tom Wayman that contemplates how to live in a fractious time.

What Your Hands Have Done looks at how life spent in a close-knit fishing family in rural Prince Edward Island marks a person. The book is rooted in PEI but moves from there to Toronto where the malaise of life proves to be unbound to the sameness of small-town days spent hauling gear on the Atlantic or toiling in rust-red potato fields.Bailey examines the world around him from the inside, observing the minute to account for the vast. These poems are laid bare and free of ornament, revealing the hard-won wisdom just below the surface:She was there, cooked for you. Helped cleanthe mess you'd become from decadesspent on your father's ocean hauling lobstersfrom its depths, gulping down the sea air.Even when the booze was too much,she knew you were more than the vomitcaked to your shirt. Less than confessionsmade beneath the red summer moon.

With Selected Poems, Tim Bowling has gathered together his finest poems over a twenty-year period, a selection including work from his widely celebrated debut collection, Low Water Slack, in 1995, to his tenth collection, Tenderman, in 2011. Always a poet of intense emotion and surprising metaphor whose lyric-narrative voice ranges in tone from romantic to humorous to coldly tragic and unrelievedly dark, Bowlings integrity has never wavered, nor has his commitment to celebrating poetic tradition and the land and waterscapes of his cherished West Coast. Selected Poems is unabashedly musical, image-rich and ambitious; poems of the natural world, childhood, family, death, and the pleasures and rigours of art lead into ever-deeper explorations of history, society and middle age, but the faith in the power of language to convey something essential about life remains consistent. This is a book whose pages are viscerally alive with concrete, physical sensations.

The author's first book (in manuscript form) was awarded the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative PoetryCrawford's work has been widely published in journals internationally, including English Studies in Canada, Transgender Studies Quarterly and The Journal of Homosexuality, and in books such as New York University's Queering the Countryside, The Transgender Studies Reader (Vol. 2), Rutgers' Trans Studies and Best Canadian Poetry in English (2015, 2018)

GoldenEagle's first book, Bearskin Diary, won the 2017 Aboriginal Literature Award and was the First Nation Communities READ selection for 2017-2018. It was also shortlisted for three Saskatchewan Book Awards (for the Aboriginal Peoples' Writing Award, Fiction Award and First Book Award)Author is well-known and well-connected. She is the first Aboriginal woman to anchor a national newscast (CBC Newsworld) in Canada. She was also the original host of In-Vision News on APTN and the anchor of CBC News Northbeat on CBC Radio NorthGoldenEagle was winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal Achievement Award

A new collection of humorous and moving tales from master storyteller Mike McCardell.

Manipulators and liars, egomaniacs, bullies, interrupters, condescenders, ice queens, backstabbers, hypocrites, withholders, belligerents, self-deceivers, whiners, know-it-alls, nitpickers: these are some of the characters you'll encounter in Difficult People, a collection of stories that investigates and celebrates difficult people (and some animals).As these characters fumble through their quests for YouTube fame, stand-up glory, romantic love, stable employment or anyone who can tolerate them, they reveal that we are all, in our own ways, difficult people.

Rife with colloquialisms, irony and a healthy dose of sass, the poems collected in Bec and Call refuse to be silent or subtle; instead they delve into the explicit, the audacious, the boldly personal. Bec and Call subverts the notion of female sexuality as male appeasement, the French wordplay in the title using the meaning of "bec"-a kiss, mouthpiece or beak-to complicate notions of compliance and submission. The roles of Acadienne and feminist come with the responsibility of speaking up, and Bec and Call is a means of vocalizing the societal dérangement of Acadian culture amidst the difficulties women encounter as a result of rape culture and anti-feminism.These poems are fearless and precise in their aim, but are not without a sense of play:Menstrual synchrony's a bitch in a household of women:some sheets never see the line, endometrial tissue Javexed and tumble-dried.To captains off-duty, solariums are wheelhouses.Antique binoculars magnify songbirds, deer and that one black squirrel.Close the blinds to neighbours. Girl, you're bodied, full-bodied, embodied.

Replete with firsthand accounts, maps, and photos, Pinch's homage to Sierra Club BC is a heartfelt, in-depth look at environmentalism in Western Canada through the years.

In this collaboration with oral historian Robert Budd, celebrated artist Roy Henry Vickers is inspired by voices from the past to illustrate the rich history of the Skeena River.

With her signature eye for irony and sensuality, Elizabeth Bachinskys latest book of poetry, The Hottest Summer in Recorded History, balances a youthful playfulness with observational maturity. Bachinsky strings together seemingly non-sequitur images, capturing in these poems the commonality of raw intimacy, dark humour and a sense of immediacy. Her vision is unapologetically bold, finding the erotic in everyday moments and keenly capturing the complicated truths of life in a powerfully candid style.

An intimate portrait of Asa Singh Johal-one of British Columbia's most successful entrepreneurs.

A BC classic hailed by the Vancouver Sun as "A moving, very human story."

Brad Crans highly anticipated second book of poetry, Ink on Paper, is a compelling collection of political poems that seek to elucidate our relationships with our surroundings as well as those who surround us. Cran, former Poet Laureate for the City of Vancouver, masterfully constructs images held in contradictory tension, as in his civic poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Grey

Part garden guide, part manifesto, this is an invitation to preserve our dynamic, sustainable food supply-one seed at a time.

Award-winning BC historian Jean Barman brings marginalized stories to the fore in her work toward historical redress.

Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North is a provocative warning to Canadians that the values they cherish are being eroded through a pattern of political, legal and social prejudice directed towards Muslims in Canada since September 11, 2001. Featuring never-before-published interviews with key politicians and journalists, influential Muslim leaders and ordinary Canadians who have suddenly found themselves thrust into what might become a full-fledged culture war, this book sounds the alarm about our politicians, our commitment to the rule of law and the changing value of our citizenship.Spanning settings from dark prison cells in Guantanamo Bay and Syria to the gilded corridors of power on Parliament Hill, this book centres on fundamental notions of social cohesion and the value of Canadian citizenship-issues which continue to make headlines. Canadians who are worried about the direction our country is headed will consider this a must-read.

A gorgeous children's picture book about summer on the Pacific Northwest coast.To the sea, to the sea,who or what waits here for me?Pairing two dozen of Carol Evans's wonderful watercolours with a lilting rhyming story by Caroline Woodward, A West Coast Summer tells of a timeless, idyllic season where "Sea salt in the air floats everywhere / and cedars smell so sweet beside the shore." Children race bikes along sand flats, search under logs and in tide pools for tiny creatures, jig at the dock for herring, dance at a totem raising ceremony, pick berries, make memories and leave footprints in the sand.Evans's illustrations capture the jubilation of children exploring the seashore, inspiring young readers to take their own journey to the sea to discover who or what waits for them in the Pacific Northwest-and learn that the best memories are those shared with family and friends.Readers of all ages will enjoy this charming collaboration, sure to become a West Coast children's classic.

An uncensored look at the life of a first responder-and what really happens behind closed ambulance doors.

An exciting visual account of how railways shaped the history of British Columbia.

In the summer of 2017, wildfires dominated the headlines in British Columbia. As a low pressure weather system continued start new fires, strong winds fanned the existing ones. Czajkowski's is an exciting eyewitness chronicle of a summer in wildfire country..