Bøger udgivet af Talon Books,Canada

Makes available for the first time the collected works of this significant feminist, experimental prose writer and member of the renowned TISH group.

One of the finest explorations of the local in poetry to be found.

A brilliant poetic examination of the hypermediatized self.

Brousseau's beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each written in a single, stylistically accomplished sentence and featuring a different character, willlinger with readers.

People Live Here is a collection of three exciting new plays by George F. Walker, Canada's king of black comedy and a winner of two Governor General's Literary Awards for Drama. The Chance, Her Inside Life, and Kill the Poor complete the the author's Parkdale Palace trilogy of plays that deal with issues of social justice and ally heart, humour, and a contemporary reflection on human inequalities.

Seven Sacred Truths explores the perspective of an Indigenous Woman on a continuous journey of healing from trauma. The closer you are to the truth, the more free you become.

Collection of three coming-of-age gender and LGBTQ+ plays. Suitable for young-adult audiences. Play "My Funny Valentine" is based on true events, the assassination of openly gay non-conforming 15-year-old Lawrence King, killed by his classmate in Oxnard, California.

A collection of eight linked stories, set in Vancouver's West End, all funny, and all taking place at Christmastime. The stories deal with the seasonal tug-of-war between expectation and disappointment that always occurs as the light begins to deepen.

Interplay of Indigenous characters from different historical periods (modern vs. First World War), different cultural groups (Cree, Coast Salish ...). Suited for younger and young-adult audiences. Introduction to Indigenous Peoples in Canadian history.

The follow up to Eng's BC Book Prize-winning Prison Industrial Complex Explodes.

My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan is a darkly humorous book about grief and isolation. Cutting yet tender, sorrowful yet angry, these poems touch on death and loss, architecture, alcohol, horse statues, and catalogues of life.

An Anishnawbe man, Arthur Copper, decides to repopulate the lakes of his home Territory with manoomin, or wild rice - much to the disapproval of the local non-Indigenous cottagers, in particular the formidable Maureen Poole.

Quirky, wry, sensitive, bitchy, and honest, It's a Big Deal! interrogates the ways we interpret and process the big deals of our twenty-first-century lives. Del Bucchia's poetic voice is unique, delivering sharp humour and candid sincerity.

A verbatim play about young women's resilience through foster care.

The Living is a documentary play inspired by the actual stories of women and girls who survived trauma in post-conflict zones. It examines the lives of victims and perpetrators, post-genocide, who live side-by-side in government-issued housing, as well as the role of NGO-funded campaigns.

"Part treatise on phenomenology, part theatrical score on ontology, part billet-doux to poetry itself" (Divya Victor), PE¿FACT is a three-part series of poems interrogating the nature of experience, language, trauma, and identity.

With perceptive, unflinching wit, these three early plays from award-winning Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Aguirre document the hardships, horrors, and heartache of exile, revealing the far-reaching effects of dictatorial violence and terror.

Private Jonathan Woodrow is a young Indigenous soldier fighting on the Western Front during World War I. Thanks to his experience in hunting and wilderness survival, he quickly becomes one of the 1st Canadian Division's most feared trench raiders. But as the war and the fighting stretch on with no end in sight, Woodrow begins to realize that he will never go home again.