2010 — NEW TITLES
Blood is Blood
Endre Farkas & Carolyn Marie Souaid

A collaborative book-length poem for two voices, dealing with the bloodshed in the Middle East. A powerful encounter between two poets, from diametrically-opposed backgrounds, whose cultural and personal lives intersect, clash and confront the truths and fictions that have become the destructive reality of Jews and Arabs trying to co-exist in the Middle East.
Out of Grief, Singing
Charlene Diehl

Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn.

Solitaria
Genni Gunn
Solitaria explores the mystery of the Santoro famly, a mystery that stems far back into their family tree - and reveals to some that their roots are not what they appear to be.

It is Just That Your House is So Far Away
Steve Noyes
Poignant and ironic, and searchingly funny, It is Just That Your House is So Far Away delivers a Beijing love story and a vision of 1990s China on the edge of globalism.
Blue Wherever
Barry Dempster
Whether Barry Dempster is writing about woodpeckers, river rocks or coyotes, a vista or the tunnel of a microscope, Blue Wherever is a book about living here and now, eyes wide open.
Catchment Area
Jena Schmitt
Streams from history, literature, art and current events converge in Jena Schmittıs debut collection, an exploration of the internal and external forces that mold our personal and cultural topographies.
Things That Go Bump, Volume 2, Plays for Young Audiences
Kit Brennan, editor
These six recent Canadian plays for elementary school age audiences is a companion volume to 2009's Things That Go Bump, Volume 1.
2009 TITLES
Things That Go Bump, Volume 1, Plays for Young Adults
Kit Brennan, editor
These five recent Canadian plays for young adult audiences address real and current issues. An interview with each playwright follows the script.
Front Porch Mannequins
Rebekkah Adams
Alice, Lily and Nan spend their afternoons drinking Joy Juice on Alice's porch with her mannequin Delane.Each is more eccentric than the next, each trying to escape her own demons.
Pleasantly Dead
Judith Alguire
Trevor and Margaret Rudley have had their share of misfortunes at The Pleasant Inn, the cherished Ontario cottage-country hotel they've owned for 25 years. And this season has begun with a rather disturbing discovery as well.—a dead body in the wine cellar.
Our Extraordinary Monsters
Vanessa Moeller
Our Extrardinary Monsters is Vanessa Moeller's debut poetry collection, which uses language(s) to build a written architecture where meaning(s) reside(s). The work resembles M.C. Escher's lithographs of impossible spaces, but ones created from language and memories where investigations of self, identity and voice occur, where dichotomies exist and where correspondence are created, sent, delivered and read.
Slide
Barbara Myers
In Slide Barbara Myers plays with the eternal present, the nunc stans, taking us through time and space, over three continents, where people, places, and events continue to co-exist in memory and in the body.

Imaginary Maps
Darrell Epp
Imaginary Maps reveals a city haunted by monsters, movie stars and jilted lovers; a city where hope and rage, sacred and carnal, mundane and surreal are uneasy neighbours. One with a downtown that swells with pleasures and pains too big for words, where every dead end is suffused with an unbidden kindness, ‘an accidental choreography.’

Passenger Flight  
Brian Campbell
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.

2008 TITLES
Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School
Denise Roig

Butter Cream is the chronicle of an intense year of learning and tasting, dramas at the stove and in the locker room. It's about fights, friendship and competition, fallen cakes and rising dougs. And sometimes, unexpectedly, it's about the sheer joy of baking.
Marrying Hungary
Linda Leith

When the 18-year-old daughter of Irish Communists meets a debonair young refugee from Hungary, she knows little about his country. But what she does know is so appealing that she knows she never really stood a chance of marrying anyone other than a Hungarian.

The Checkout Girl
Susan Zettell

In Varnum, Ontario, the smell of industry is the smell of money, and a lot of that money's heading south just like the young hockey sensation Bobby Orr. Checkout girl Kathy Rausch is fighting off the advice of her well-meaning mother and the advances of her amorous room-mates as she coasts along at the grocery store, with a vague dream of making her living on the ice, like her hero Bobby Orr.

Paper Oranges
Carolyn Marie Souaid

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.
Blood Mother
Su Croll

How is a woman supposed to express the strange miracle of mothering without falling into hopeless cliché? Blood Mother answers with remarkable originality in poems that never background the frustrations of motherhood while celebrating the rapturous pleasures that many women are summoned to in giving birth to their children and our families.
Some Days I Think I Know Things
Rhonda Douglas

In this contemporary retelling of the story of Cassandra, Rhonda Douglas explores what "truth" really means and asks what Homer's iconic young prophetress might have to say to anyone wise enough to pay heed toher in the 21st century.
Character Actor
Scott Randall

In his sophomore collection Scott Randall finds the perfect pitch story after story, getting right to the heart of ordinary characters — not the brilliantly burning stars, but the kind of people we see all around us every day.
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.