Bøger udgivet af Press Porcepic,Ontario

In this debut short story collection we return to the turbulent 1970s, revisiting the bittersweet wonder years of a precocious teen living in suburban Montreal.

In the 1920s, Maggie is diagnosed with diabetes. Meanwhile, in Toronto, Frederick Banting and others work to perfect insulin. Will they succeed in time to save Maggie?

Robinson exposes both the gravity and levity of relationships and the subtle ways we attempt to escape their persistent pull.

Gritty and darkly humorous, Pearsons verses address modern myths head-on. British humour and psychoanalytic and feminist theory meet under the poets steady gaze.

Strong, intimate, disturbing and finally poignant, Evelyn Laus poems are about people, trapped and hurting behind their many masks of conformity.

A documentary producer becomes fascinated with Ondine, a young historian who is haunted by memories of violence she witnessed in the Montreal Massacre in 1989.

A disparate group of travellers is thrown together in the Caucasus Mountains. Each has a quest and peering into ones own heart may be the most challenging prospect.

Exotica and the paranormal touch the lives of Dyers characters, both Jamaican immigrants grappling with life in Canada and residents of Jamaica itself.

Batchelors poems forecast the shifting patterns of a marriage. This work keens to the notes of a personal lament but emerges healed and ultimately blessed.

In this Ottawa writers first volume of verse, visual art, from the Middle Ages through Matisse, is re-enacted in vignettes of desire or dereliction.

In this collection of stories, Dabydeens characters live stretched between two worlds: one, an adopted home in Canada; the other, a birthplace in a tropical island.

The author charts the patterns of love, not just love between a man and a woman but love for a parent, friends, knowledge, place, and, ultimately, life itself.

A wonderful weave of poetry and prose, this anthology reflects on moments that have formed the crucible for life in the twenty-first century.

Stephen Henighan billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II.

In quick brush strokes and near staccato stanzas, Cameron deftly redefines the relationship between visual art and the viewers heart.

Paddy McCallum has an uncanny ability to conjure the slap of a birchbark canoe through northern waters and the scent of reindeer moss, cranberry, and moose scat.

Human Bodies collects the poems of the latter half of award-winning poet and novelist Marilyn Bowering's illustrious career.

An explosion of verse from one of our hottest new poetic talents. Kaszubas work combines a photographers eye for detail with the ponderings of a musing heart.

This is a collection of people: Nevill breaks through the flat, artificial surfaces of typical portraits and gives us colourful views of their unexpected natures.

This magical novel is the story of Marco Polo as he is about to set sail on an arduous pilgrimage across the sun-soaked silk route.

Careening through unique poetic territory, from urban junkets to rural backroads, Nevills images stun the reader with the force of wind against windshield.

These poems reconstitute the lost canon of one of our most vibrant and original voices. Musgrave explodes expectations and haunts the reader with dramatic appeal.

With sublime poetic insight, McGrath takes us on a tour of everyday objects and events that celebrates what many of us take for granted.

Here is a portrait of Emily Carr, a fine literary work that is impressionistic rather than exact, betraying the artist intact in spirit, fortitude, and legacy.