Out of Grief, Singing: A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss
Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. >>
This exciting anthology features short works by twelve of Canada’s newest playwrights, recent graduates from university writing programs and professional theatre schools across the country. >>
Painting Over Sketches of Anatolia
Like a painter faced with the incongruities of the familiar and unfamiliar and a sketchbook almost full, Leonard Neufeldt explores the question of finding rootedness in an ethos quite unlike one’s own. The realities of discovering and settling in Turkey are uppermost in this collection, but a similar rootedness is evident in the lyrical invocations of western British Columbia, where the author was born and raised. >>
Paper Oranges is a poetic response to Vladimir and Estragon, Beckett's infamous pair, who pin their hopes on salvation that never arrives. It explores the notion of human existence as an extended wait characterized by quiet desperation, loneliness, suffering and the search for self. >>
Passenger Flight takes us on a harrowing but exhilarating ride through the heavy turbulence of the twenty-first century. In this collection of free-wheeling, elegantly crafted prose poems, the reader is exposed to scenes of tenderness, random violence and phantasmagorical dreams evocative of the chaos of this post-911 world. >>
For forty years, Lydia Eadon and Dorian Grant believe that the terrible secret from their last summer at the Eadons’ isolated lakeside cottage is safe. But when Lydia’s mother dies and the cottage falls to her, the two are plunged into a grim reckoning with their past. >>
Margaret Rudley has finally persuaded her husband Trevor to take a vacation, a week-long canoeing expedition in Northern Ontario. But a serial murderer is on the lam in cottage country, and chaos reigns at The Pleasant in their absence. >>
With compelling exuberance, Margaret Macpherson entices her readers to leave behind their familiar comforts and join her on a unpredictable journey of hazardous navigations – where the risks are many, the rewards transformative. >>
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