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In language at once simple and eloquent, Michael Kenyon's The Sutler charts a falling and a rising, taking the reader through the grief of a failing relationship to the emergence of new possib

There are many journeys encompassed in the pages of this mature and well-crafted first collection; literal travels to different parts of the world, to Europe and Africa, are the outward manifestati

Longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards Whatever their subject -- the unwinding of lovers, childhood as the foundation of being, the metaphorical life of everyday objects and events -- S.E.

Shortlisted for the 1997 Pat Lowther Award and for the 1997 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award Toward a Catalogue of Falling, Meira Cook's second full-length book, proves that the fall i

Kelsey Byden's family had always told her that her mother was dead, but she discovers on the same day her divorce becomes final, that she is in prison for murder.

Precisely etched meditations on public and private experience, charged landscapes and reconceived Greek myths.

Under the sugar maples of Montreal, family life is given mythic dimensions in this sweeping novella-in-verse.

Shortlisted for the 2001 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes) In her second book, Slow-Moving Target, Sue Wheeler unwraps more than the Fifties.

Billy is drifting, looking for a place to land.

Afloat, John Reibetanz's eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations.

On the day that David Waltner-Toews' young daughter Rebecca gave "Mr.

Lindsay Abercrombie is an ambitious young solicitor specialising in family law.

This extraordinary sequence of prose and free verse poems explores the postures, styles, and rhetorics of our culture and its history -- not with the predictable aim of criticism and rejection, or

Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial wastelands; both visions are as gorgeous as they are terr

Winner of the 1995 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry Bert Almon's poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that the