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This Poem is an ironic investigation of contemporary culture and the technomedia-saturated world in which we are enmeshed. Composed in the style of Facebook updates and extended Tweets, each section infuses itself with continuous shifting tones, styles, and commentary, which are in turn provocative, emotive, and deeply satiric.Mashing up the lexicons of Stein, Zukofsky, Shakespeare, Whitman, the recent financial meltdown, semiotic theory, Lady Gaga, Derrida, and Flickr streams, This Poem is a self-reflexive romp through the fragments of post-consumerist culture. Both celebrating and poking fun at contradictory trends, threads, webbed networks of information and desire, and the language of the ordinary,"e; it opens itself with immediacy to the otherness of daily carnage.This Poem interrogates the tradition of the Canadian long poem, systematically and systemically accusing it of being a multi-platform interdisciplinary repository, an archive of fragments, updates, analysis, aggregates, treatises, advice, precepts, echoes, and questions, unravelling into itself, in an ever-enfolding, luminous text of concomitance.Karasick's serial poem textually proceeds in the tradition of such poets as George Oppen, bpNichol, Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer.

In Rogue Cells, Oober Mann emerges from his cryobed on high alert in New Haudenosaunee, a nation at war with the mysterious territory Nutella during a critical election year. Citizens here live in dread of celebrities who carry out terrorist actions in defence of their own fundamentalist belief systems, including Stratford-upon-Avonists, whose guerrilla conflicts stem from slight variations of Shakespearian texts; Drumhellerists, whose discovery of some dinosaur bones results in a polygamous sect; and Chaos!tologists whose divine teachings are to be found in an obscure book with questionable authorship. Mixed up in an assassination plot being investigated by ISM (Insurgent Saddo Management) and DNA-specialist cops, Mann begins to wonder about the nature of reality and even about the new woman in his life, a femme fatale known only as the Librarian.It is the Age of Aquarium in the speculative "e;green"e; dystopia of Carbon Harbour. Omni-magnate Cornelius Quartz is overseeing the merger between Bildung Endustries and Foreign Objects, but is distracted by an imminent double wedding for himself and his daughter; by the loss of his best promoter and lover to his rival, Zirconium Bluff; and by working conditions in the rehashing core and on wind pharms for hardlucks who harvest bio-material to produce architecture, clothing, and other swag for a luxury class of hardcore gamers (they pay for "e;pollution fantasies"e; with carbon credits on extended getaways to Putridworld). Threats to these halcyon days include a new religion publicized by Minor and his daughter Diminuenda that is "e;Old Testament-style,"e; Mr. Goo's long-awaited release of the "e;MeMeMe"e; device, an interstellar pipeline project, the proliferation of aquacukes and giant composting worms that are rapidly running out of garbage, a word virus cultivated by the last carbon-based poet, and the controversial awarding of the Ignoble Prize. Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour resumes The Chaos! Quincunx novel series.

This award-winning second edition shares the stories, discovers the aspirations, and celebrates the accomplishments of early architects in British Columbia.

Explores the personae of lost companions who reappear, animated by a voice in love with the music of their speaking.

Seminal collection by one of Canada's pioneering figures in racial, feminist, and queer politics.

One of the most intriguing theories about the identity of the infamous London murderer, Jack the Ripper, is that he hid behind the skirts of respectability, social position, and perhaps, even royalty ¿In Saucy Jack, the author of Blood Relations and Doc, Sharon Pollock, implicates the most upper echelons of British society in the brutal murders of London¿s prostitutes. In a stately Victorian drawing room, two old friends, James Kenneth Stephen, a scholar, and his former pupil, Prince Albert Victor, Queen Victoriäs nephew and heir to the throne, dance around the truth of the identity of London¿s most notorious killer, and while a tale of psychological intrigue is played out, an unravelling of tested friendship, betrayal, duplicity, and motive is revealed.With the single female character of Kate, an actress hired by James to re-enact the death throes of the prostitutes, Pollock creates an ominous presence, both disturbing and haunting.Saucy Jack undoes the mythology surrounding the killer, weakens his place in the ranks of history¿s powerful, and instead, gives a voice and a face to his anonymous victims.

Slow Scrape brilliantly enacts a poetics of relation and action to counter the settler colonial violences of erasure, extraction, and dispossession. Drawing on documentary poetics, concrete-based installations, event scores, and other texts, the book cites memory, Cree and Alutiiq languages, and embodiment as modes of relational being and knowing. In the words of Layli Long Soldier, Slow Scrape presents ¿an expansive and undulating meditation on time, relations, origin, and colonization."Includes an introduction by Layli Long Soldier as well as a dialogue between Lukin Linklater and editor for the first edition, Michael Nardone.

Travelling alone through time, Africa, and unnamed lands, a traveller searches for Dr. David Livingstone, the ¿discoverer¿ of Africa. Throughout her quest for knowledge and for Livingstone, she visits many peoples, listens to their stories and their silences, and learns about their Silence. Suspense, parables, and dreams play major parts as the story twists and turns toward the traveller¿s confrontation with Livingstone-I presume.Looking for Livingstone explodes Western assumptions about the ¿silence¿ of Indigenous peoples as it beautifully gives voice to the Ancestors to whom it is dedicated.

An unforgettable tale of healing and forgiveness When Grazianäs violent stalker dies in a car crash, the abrupt news and its resulting catharsis land her in hospital. Her eight-year-old, the willful and creative Hazel, suddenly becomes the ward of Grandpa ¿Grumpy¿ Herman, while her mother embarks on a necessary path to healing ¿ a path that includes a pilgrimage to Italy to bike the famous Via Francigena.A gritty and spiritual story of transformation, forgiveness, accountability, and rebirth,Grazie takes us from Red Deer to Rome, from the Amazon to Andromeda. Both violent and tender, Grazie examines what it means to feel connection to oneself, one¿s family, one¿s history, one¿s culture, and to existence.

A stunning new play by star Québec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.

Limbinal, as its hybrid title suggests, voices the porous space between a limb's articulations and a liminal border.