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Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebral.

Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gal

A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s.

First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only be

Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York.

Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century.

George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential school in 1958.

In a series of poems inspired by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, E.D. Blodgett searches for meaning amidst grief.

In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story.

Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth.

The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments.

“Shh, my Nuala. I am with you. Today I shall teach you the newness of you.” As the Engine breathes life into Nuala, her gaze falls on Teacher-Servant, the chosen one.

Two murders, fourteen years apart, both shrouded in secrets. David McKenna lies dying in a Kingston hospital, his children gathered from across the country to say a final goodbye.

When damaged, brilliant detective Kala Stonechild and workaholic staff sergeant Jacques Rouleau get paired up, pieces start falling into place.

The hiring of a new assistant triggers a power struggle between an aging TV show creator and her former protégée.