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Structured in three parts, "On the Material" is a meditation on how language holds the materiality of the physical world.

In 1999, writer Madeleine Gagnon undertook to document the experience of women in the many war zones at the end of a century of ashes through their own eyes and in their own words. Travelling to Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Gagnon talked with women of all ages and social classes, recording her encounters.

Two stories about life intertwined with the creative dream. Cast of 4 women, 4 men, 1 girl and 1 boy.

Written in the midst of wildfires and atmospheric rivers, The Middle extends award-winning poet Stephen Collis's investigation of threatened climate futures into a poetics of displacement and wandering. The fulcrum of a trilogy begun with A History of the Theories of Rain, The Middle hikes the shifting treelines of our warming world to reflect on the way all life is in motion, fleeing the rising heat. Taking up the human-plant relationship in particular, each of The Middle's linked sequences finds itself somewhere on a mountain, in the company of trees (or the ghosts of now absent trees), climbing in altitude, or heading north. Across the poem's three sections, Collis employs various forms of citational practice, rooted in his long engagement with the idea of a "poetic commons" where writing is made out of what one is reading. This practice is a kind of entanglement, a form of literary seed dispersal, where words are blown, carried, and scattered from one textual field to another, akin to the mammals, fish, crustaceans, reptiles, rodents, birds, insects, plants, grasses, and trees in motion on our dangerously heating planet.

Three people gaze out their living room window as the days pass. Across the street in Withrow Park life goes on - or is it a dream?Then a knock at the door. Time has found them, hiding in plain sight. Or possibly it's just a man in a wrinkled suit. But Janet, Marion, and Arthur must act now or forever be devoured by their own indifference. They can no longer live on the periphery of their own lives. They must invite the young man to dinner.

In a Mughlai restaurant in Toronto, a late-night visit from a mysterious stranger rattles the cage and shatters the peace. Now Ayub must face reality, the family he's left behind, and the dreams he's abandoned, all while keeping the restaurant clean to a mirror shine.From award-winning playwright and novelist Anosh Irani, Behind the Moon is a painfully beautiful story of love and loss, freedom and faith, the meaning of brotherhood, and how we begin a new life.

Guillermo Verdecchia's new play Feast follows a comfortable North American family as they contend with breakfast, family life, and the end of things as we know them. The family deals with the coming troubles in their own ways. Twenty-something daughter Isabel is increasingly convinced that something drastic must be done. Her mother, Julia, fortifies their home in preparation. And her father, Mark, lets his foodie cravings precipitate the family's unraveling as he brings Chukwuemeka Okonkwe - super-competent, under-employed fixer and logistical genius looking for the business opportunity he deserves - into their lives. Moving from North America to Beirut to Mombasa, with stops along the way at Starbucks, The Centre for Avant-Garde Geography, and a cave on the island of Lampedusa, Feast spans the globalized world and beyond, offering a wild, magical-realist take on the uncertainties and anxieties of the early twenty-first century.

**A funny, touching memoir of coming of age with an absent mother in a vanished time, with five added companion stories **The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960. It is the era of The Three Stooges and the Red Menace, the apex of plastic, Arborite, and everything turquoise: high heels, pedal pushers, refrigerators, even cars. Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant heard wild family stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led far away in Australia. Nancy's world of riches and men seemed light years away from Cordova Bay on Vancouver Island, where Marion lived with her aunt and uncle. But things changed the year she entered her teens. That year, Nancy threw everyone into a tizzy with the surprise announcement that she was coming for a visit. This second edition of Farrant's beloved memoir of her fourteenth summer, capturing a lost time and place with love and hilarity, includes five additional stories and a preface by the author. Witty, tender, and wry, My Turquoise Years is a book for anyone who remembers being a teenager.

Chambersonic imagines the book as an acoustic chamber, its pages populated with an ensemble of players who breathe together, enacting translations between instruments and materials. The space comes alive with rehearsals, scores, and a reverberation of adjoining environments - aural, social, physical, visual, political. A conductor fades in and out as agencies, noises, and situations test their volumes and energies - all until voices morph into rebellious notation, signalling the near-silenced, the dissonant, and the ignored.A collection of poems, essays, performance scores, and audio recordings, Chambersonic thematically and formally reflects on the practice of soundmaking, combining poetic and experimental music techniques in ways that will appeal to readers and listeners alike.

When Zero, the hero of our story, stumbles upon a mysterious manuscript, they're thrown into a journey across centuries, continents, and concepts. They travel throughout the Muslim world, from Sumeria to India to Baghdad. They learn about Europe as other and outside. They're guided by the cryptic mirror the manuscript provides as it traces a history of the number zero.Anahita Jamali Rad's No Signal No Noise is a playful poetic hybrid, sitting somewhere between philosophical treatise and experimental novel. No Signal No Noise is the first installment in a series that traces the origin of the binary (self and other, good and evil, 0 and 1) in relation to technology, identity, representation, class, orientalism, and nationalism.

Conversations with the Kagawong River poses questions about language, the boundaries of authorship and readership, and the possibility of collaboration with the more-than-human. A site-specific engagement with a local ecosystem, it makes visible the colonial, environmental, and social processes that construct an ecosystem and (settler) relationships to it.The author spent several years on the Kagawong River, learning to listen and follow the rhythms and patterns of its flora and fauna, the weather and the water. In response to her observations, she installed a series of alphabets made of paper and wood to act as invitations for various "agents" - woodpeckers, otters, currents, ice, grasses - to edit, compose, re- and decompose. This book shares the documentation of these poems, some that changed and disintegrated in a few seconds, others that morphed over months.Supported by local Elders, language speakers, and historians, Conversations with the Kagawong River highlights Mnidoo Mnising | Manitoulin Island Treaty history while asking whether leaving behind known and dominant languages might engender new forms of language and longing. Might new relationships emerge from a different way of seeing and writing the world?Includes an Anishinaabemowin river glossary and reproductions of the Indigenous historical plaques installed throughout the Billings Township and along the Kagawong River.

cop city swagger takes an etymological and theoretical dive into the words "safety" and "care," questioning whose "safety" matters in the City of Vancouver. Spanning from 2019, near the beginning of the pandemic and the corresponding rise of anti-Asian hate crimes in the city, to 2023, the centennial year of the Chinese Exclusion Act, cop city swagger conducts an inquiry into Vancouver's first Chinese Canadian mayor - the first Vancouver mayor to be publicly endorsed by the Vancouver Police Union - who promised to address "safety" by increasing the number of police officers on the streets.

This book is about cities and trees, about deeper social justice, about working less and living more, about decolonizing temporalities, about mutual aid, about human and more-than-human labour, and about futurity. It's about trying to live through the last ugly decade. And it's kind of angry-funny too.

Taking Measures collects the major serial poems of Canadäs inaugural Poet Laureate, George Bowering, including work from each of the last six decades. Here is Bowering at his experimental and irreverent best.

Seven life stories from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, giving voice to women who are seldom heard on their own terms.

Untangles some of the truths and myths about First Nations and addresses misconceptions still widely believed today.

While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman who lives on the streets, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a First Nations residential school. Desperate to hear the man acknowledge the terrible abuse he inflicted on her and other children at the school, Johnny follows Anglican bishop George King to his office to confront him. Inside King's office, Johnny's memories are fluid, shifting, and her voice cracks with raw emotion. Is the bishop actually guilty of what she claims, or has her ability to recollect been altered by poverty, abuse, and starvation experienced on the streets? Can her memories be trusted? Who is responsible for what? At its core, God and the Indian, by celebrated Aboriginal playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, explores the complex process of healing through dialogue. Loosely based on Death and the Maiden by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman, the play identifies the ambiguities that frame past traumatic events. Against the backdrop of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has facilitated the recent outpouring of stories from First Nations residential school survivors across the country, the play explores what is possible when the abused meets the abuser and is given a free forum for expression.

The Battle of Batoche is the best-known confrontation between Metis and British soldiers in the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It remains one of Canada's most emotion-laden memories, chronicling an historic event equivalent to the 1863 battle of Gettysburg. After Batoche, everything changed for the Metis people and for Canada as well, especially in Quebec. The battle decided the future for the Metis people mixed Cree or Anishinaabe and Scottish or French ancestry who populated the Red River region known today as modern Manitoba, North Dakota, and Minnesota. The battle was the climax of the federal government's efforts to control the native and settler population of the West. It also changed attitudes in Quebec, which saw widespread outrage over the hanging of rebel leader Louis Riel following the battle; distrusting the Conservative government, French-speaking Quebecois began to feel safe only in Quebec and consequently limited theirexpansion into western Canada.Walter Hildebrandt's chronicle of the battle, first published at the centenary of the Northwest Resistance in 1985, eloquently revisited and analyzed the strategies of both sides. This redesigned new edition adds sidebars and extended captions, as well as numerous maps and photographs that offer detailed description of the fateful battle. Sidebars focus in detail on topics related to the battle, including Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont as leaders of the Metis resistance; nurse Kate Miller, Canada's Florence Nightingale; Batoche as the site of the first-ever battlefield photos, taken on horseback during the battle; the Gatling gun as evidence of the newly industrial nature of warfare; and zareba warfare and riflepit trenches as foreshadowing of the trenches of World War One, among other topics.Recent historiography, in particular, on Metis and First Nations involvement, including the role of women and children, is incorporated into the text, and notes and bibliography are updated.Foreword by Jean Teillet, great-grandniece of Louis Riel.