| NEW TITLES Spring 2008 | |
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Blue:
The Derek Jarman Poems Keith Garebian Keith Garebian splices together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. In this life-affirming, cinematic, at turns randy and elegiac verse-biography, Keith Garebian celebrates Derek Jarman, one of the world's truly unforgettable and rebellious spirits. |
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Away Andrea MacPherson Andrea MacPherson takes us on a grand tour of Europe, where the vast legacy of human history combines with her own ancestral origins to make a mark on her. MacPherson is a traveller always aware of how her perceptionsand her selfare being shaped. In this book of quiet beauty and careful observation, MacPherson seeks to re-invent the travel poem on her own terms. |
| NEW TITLES Fall 2007 | |
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Bowling
Pin Fire Andy Quan Andy Quan recounts a series of firsts: first time listening to Joni Mitchell's Blue, first loss of a friend, first dance with a man. Building on earlier explorations of memory, sexuality, and culture that are the signatures of his best work, Bowling Pin Fire transcribes the arc of one man's life. |
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The
Desert Lake |
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Sunny
Dreams Alison Preston On a spring morning in 1925 Sunny Palmer disappears from her baby carriage in Picardys restaurant in downtown Winnipeg. When there is still no word after months, the search is called off. But eleven years later, the appearance of two drifters reopens the mystery. |
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Three
on the Boards Kit Brennan Three on the Boards features full-length and one-act scripts for three actors written by Canadian playwrights from across the country. The plays in the volume represent various production options; they have appeared on the main stage, in alternative theatres or non-traditional theatre spaces, at the fringe, and in professional workshops. |
| NEW TITLES Spring 2007 | |
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Summer
of My Amazing Luck Chris Craddock With all the humour, compassion, and intelligence of Miriam Toews' novel, this inventive stage adaptation takes audiences on a hilarious and heartbreaking journey as Lucy discovers that this may be the summmer when everything changes. |
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Faceless Genni Gunn In Faceless, Genni Gun explores "the impulse for the edge," a magnetic field between the gloss of the topside world and the grit of the world beneath. The countless faces that Gunn confronts on the streets of the city or behind closed doors make her important new book such a compelling readas does the "delicious anxiety" she sees hanging in ecstatic, sometimes terrifying suspense in the liminal spaces between. |
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Made
Beautiful by Use Sean Horlor Sean Horlor tackles issues of belief by questioning whether it is possible for anyone to be conscious, compassionate, and ethical in a twenty-first century world. He questions what constitutes faith in a time when too many have stopped believing. Whether it is St. Joan before the walls of Orleans or St. George returning to the world as George W. Bush, here are some of the West's greatest stories retold from a contemporary perspective. |
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Heron
Cliff Margo Button In Heron Cliff, the heart moves house and finds a home once more in the world. This collection includes poems about the giving up of a beloved home where a son had taken his own life, poems about Button's own childhood, and poems about the larger upheavals and passions of the world. She articulates a vision of life where the darkest grief has a place alongside the most profound joy. |