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The Rules of the Game reintroduces Ludwig Zeller, the great Chilean-Canadian “poet’s poet,” through a selection of his most engaging works. These short poems span a development of almost 60 years.

At Dempsey’s Lodge, nothing is what it seems. Dempsey’s Lodge is the perfect getaway for families and young couples: the fishing is good, the air is fresh, the scenery is breathtaking.

Surrender is a wacky tale about a defunct school mascot, Chester the Beaver, and how he comes back to haunt the school principal responsible for his demise.

Hold the Note is a wide-ranging collection unified by a jazzy, syncopated writing style — dynamic, sometimes experimental, often playful, yet always passionately engaged, sensual and visceral.

The radio show celebrating Jack Layton is up on Gathering Voices.

In the tradition of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, this collection of short essays and “alternative versions” is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminde

“There is a shadow of a boy walking within me. His spirit is lightning fire. He will not be shackled. At birth, I was labeled a girl. My name is Jazz.

In this dark satire of pop culture, an unnamed, teenaged narrator describes his descent into violence and destruction.

Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Saro (Rosario) D’Agostino. It includes poems, fiction works that may be chapters of an unfinished novel, and letters.

Against God is the gripping, dark tale of a man searching for answers. What happens in the mind of a man when, all of a sudden, he loses all reason for living?

The year is 1773. Anne Grant cannot bear that her father has betrothed her to a man who is as cruel as he is wealthy.

Helena’s disfigured face has defined her since childhood, yet with her older sister Grace’s unconditional love and encouragement, she is able to establish a sense of normalcy.

Costume and Bone’s two stories are set in downtown Toronto during the 1980s, when Queen Street West was lined with hotel taverns and crumbling shops overlaid with the dwellings of its residents.

Here is the work of a masterful and much-honed poet at the peak of her powers. Sharp and strong as steel blades, these poems fuse eerie beauty with gleaming wit, and strangeness with tenderness.

This collection offers five answers to the question its title implies: within us, in wild things, in change over time, in teething and in being left behind.