Poetry
That Singing You Hear at the Edges
In this collection, the dividing walls of time and place remain intact but approach transparency because of what turns visible—and audible—when we become still enough to hear the singing at the edges. >>
Jennifer Houle's debut poetry collection comes from a place of grappling, an attempt to find meaning, beauty and connection in the day-to-day, without being confined by it. >>
The poems in this collection are the product of long reflection on loss: of a daughter, a sister, parents. Intelligent, vivid and carefully crafted, they honour the dead, yet avoid easy answers. >>
"Strangely secret!
They will last longer than our oblivion.
They will never know that we have left."
- from "Things" by Jorge Luis Borges
Like one of his heroes, Borges, Michael Pacey is fascinated by the everyday objects which surround us.
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Beausoleil invites the reader on a voyage which is as much an interior one as a physical one, making the reader a traveller into his own mysteries as he questions the nature of solitude, wandering, the distance which forms and grows between people, and writing. >>
The House on 14th Avenue is about paired and shared lives, featuring two people whose connection sometimes seemed forced and uneven. >>
Ferguson found escape from the parochial world of his working-class evangelical Baptist family through literature; in his twenties, that escape became literal, as he left the Maritimes and hitchhiked across the country, working odd jobs, experiences reflected in The Lost Cafeteria.
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A girl who wants to decode the world searches for the patterns and codes in everything, trying to decipher music, travel, family, love, loss. Through first waltzes, first sailing trips and first tattoos, the young woman tries to understand the universe, and herself. >>
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