NEW TITLES — Spring 2008
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.
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 perceptions—and her self—are 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
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.

The Desert Lake
Linda Leith

Relationships columnist Barbara Crossie has been invited to join a Canadian delegation to China. Her agent, Josh, who is also her long-distance lover, is to meet her there. But Josh doesn't show. Devastated, Barbara carries on with her companions, travelling the Silk Road and eventually finding herself in the deadliest desert on earth.

Sunny Dreams
Alison Preston

On a spring morning in 1925 Sunny Palmer disappears from her baby carriage in Picardy’s 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.
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
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.
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 read–as does the "delicious anxiety" she sees hanging in ecstatic, sometimes terrifying suspense in the liminal spaces between.
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.
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.