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In Blaise Moritz's second collection, Zeppelin, we are passengers in the long-range ghost ship that is our new millennial culture. The time before technology recedes in our wake the past an amazing clutter, if only as deep as early modern things and looking forward, our impressions phase constantly. We travel far, seeing much that is strange, but it seems more enervating than thrilling, always subordinate to the constant narrative of crisis. In our weariness, we wish to reach apocalypse and post-apocalypse where we might recover some simplicity, but instead are left at loose ends, dwelling on all that has been lost, forgotten, defeated, none of which will even settle down into tragic symbols: at any time anything might be revived as nostalgia or as the improbable font of saving innovation. And yet there is time and experience enough on our journey to arrive at the real once more, to rediscover the terrain, both natural and constructed, and know again that it preceded our maps.

A stunning debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief and intergenerational wounds.Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonization through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old-growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all together in this contemporary existence.With an upbringing in Surrey, fraught familial conflicts, the passing of his older brother and its influence on his world view, Bige slices through the forts built overtop occupied Turtle Island to examine their origin and his own. His journey climbs into the mountains while he reconnects with his Dene and Cree cultures like a gripping hand on jagged rock. His path draws into the concrete urban streets that Wetako-medicine lurks through, especially for his people. The labour of these travels brings him to the springs where healing passed-down traumas becomes possible by drawing water through vulnerability.

"A much-anticipated debut collection from one of Canada's most promising emerging poets Pebble Swing earns its title from the image of stones skipping their way across a body of water, or, in the author's case, syllables and traces of her mother tongue bouncing back at her from the water's reflective surface. This collection is about language and family histories. It is the author's attempt to piece together the resonant aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which stole the life of her paternal grandmother. As an immigrant whose grasp of Mandarin is fading, Wang explores absences in her caesuras and fragmentation--that which is unspoken, but endures. The poems in this collection also trace the experiences of a young poet who left home at seventeen to pursue writing; the result is a series of city poetry infused with memory, the small joys of Vancouver's everyday, environmental politics, grief and notions of home. While the poetics of response are abundant in the collection--with poems written to Natalie Lim and Ashley Hynd--the last section of the book, "Thirteen Ghazals and Anti-Ghazals after Phyllis Webb," forges a continued response to Phyllis Webb on Salt Spring Island, and innovates within the possibilities of the experimental ghazal form."--

Tongue-in-cheek humour, . . well-paced writing, believable characters and strong dialogue make for a great read.-Victoria Times-Colonist

Poems by Order of Canada inductee and founder of Grain magazine Ken Mitchell.

A/Z Does It is a collection of conceptual wordplays and concrete puns, by an innovative writer who literally draws the line between impractical fictions and improbable art.

A companion to the bestselling Ferryboat Ride, this book of evocative children's poetry about the experience of taking a ride on one of BC's ferries offers children the opportunity to colour Greta Guzek's fabulous coastal landscapes. Ages 5 and up.

"Splitting Off is a marvelous debut, a highly accomplished book, versatile and confident in pleasure and form." -Sharon Thesen

"Tim Bowling's first book, "Low Water Slack," is a rare find. Accomplished, assured, and stocked with memorable imagery, it trumpets the presence of a huge new talent." -"The Antigonish Review"

Biographical essays on Nelson Symonds, Sonny Greenwich, Claude Ranger and eleven other influential Canadian jazz musicians. Essential to the library of every Canadian music buff.

"a product through which participation and vicarious thrills can be purchased."-Independent Publisher

Photographs of musicians by Bill Smith.

A rediscovered Canadian classic. What killer is stalking the nervous occupants of Restholme?"... one of the most interesting of all the woman protagonists in detective fiction."--Robin Skelton, Toronto Star

A Canadian underground classic, an unredeemedly raw tale of sex, drugs and booze in the life of a Vancouver jazz musician in the early 1960s.

Three fictional pieces satirize contemporary life and more.

Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

Just what is a prowler anyway? Puccini decides to keep barking until he finds out!

The debut poetry collection by Sally Ito, one of Canada's most important up-and-coming writers. Runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award.

"Woman With a Man Inside is splendid! Barbara Parkin illuminates our most intimate battles."-Linda Svendsen

By the winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama.

"This is an adventure story that is likely to become a classic in its own right" -London Free Press

"the poetry in this collection is as good as it gets in this country. . . . one of the finest books of poetry I've read this year." -Richard Stevenson, League of Canadian Poets

"Joe Denham is just what the insular Canadian poetry world needed - an unheralded talent. Not since Ken Babstock has such a poet arrived..." -Shane Neilson, Arc

Shortlisted for the 2003 Governor General's Award for Poetry.

Winner of the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry!