Two Hands Clapping

Edited by Kit Brennan

A goldmine for actors seeking two-person plays, Two Hands Clapping features full-length, one act, and short scripts for two actors. The playwrights are Canadian and include established writers, as well as voices that are just beginning to make their mark in Canadian theatre. This volume also includes in-depth interviews with playwrights. Two Hands Clapping is a valuable resource for anyone who loves theatre. >>

Urban Myths: Anton & No Cycle

Harry Standjofski

In Anton, a Russian emigré finds himself drawn into the lives of three wealthy sisters who live together because they can't agree on selling their inherited Westmount mansion. No Cycle is a series of five vignettes that echo off each other in surprising and moving ways. >>

Vehicule Days: An Unorthodox History of Montréal’s Vehicule Poets

Ken Norris

Irreverent and adventurous, the Vehicule Poets provoked both praise and vitriol from the public and the critics. Vehicule Days is an important record of literary and cultural history, which includes articles, essays, interviews, and a sampling from the works of the Vehicule Poets then and now. >>

Vetiver

Joël Des Rosiers

Translated by Hugh Hazelton

Vetiver, a grass originally from the Indies, has overgrown the island of Haiti. The plant in exile becomes a symbol for the emigré in this English translation of Des Rosiers' prize-winning poetry. >>

Virga

Jennifer Houle

Like rain held in abeyance, these poems were waiting for their time, and gathered together create a compelling, distinctly feminine and feminist meditation on maturing womanhood. >>

Virgo Out Loud

Seán Virgo

Séan Virgo's virtuosity is evident throughout this powerful collection of audio fiction, most of it never before published. >>

Volta

Susan Gillis

In Volta, Susan Gillis explores the "turn," facing new directions, considering new angles and changing from one form to another. She also turns fifteen original 16th century sonnets into fifteen new free verse poems by trying to crack them open at their "turn." >>

Walking on Water

Dave Carley

Walking on Water is an engaging and theatrical murder mystery. It's also a hilarious return to a place and time of moral clarity, good guys and bad guys, tough broads and daring dames. >>