In The Thing About Dying, Tremblay reflects on the nature of dying and death. Her subjects include old men and younger brothers, sisters and mothers, as well as reflections on the deaths inflicted by murderous cats. Tremblay writes with irreverent humour and luminous insight about the perils of religion and the powerful connection...
ISBN:978-088982-213-1 / $16.95
The poems in this book are poignant and honest, touched with ambivalence, emotion and spirituality. Following the last months of her husband’s life Leanne McIntosh passes through the disorientation of diagnosis, the discomfort of a new reality, the amazement that almost anything can become routine, until eventually sadness gives way/pressed...
ISBN:9780889822018 / $17.95
The poems in Stumbling in the Bloom engage the ever-present enticements and entanglements of beauty on life’s, and art’s, home ground—in wilderness and garden. But this surprising volume, the finale of John Pass’s quartet of poetry books, At Large, takes intriguing side trips on the home-stretch, including a wry excursion to the chiropractor, a...
ISBN:9780889821972 / $17.95
Susan McCaslin’s A Plot of Light charts a contemplative journey in which the world of visionary dreaming lies along a continuum with the everyday life of the mystic, baffled and blessed by moments of connection with a larger, more comprehensive mind, wooing us with her poems into the world of the invisible.
The poems form a...
ISBN:9780889822269 / $15.95
In this book-length poem, W. H. New uses the metaphor of Snowman to represent the alternative self, the alter-ego, the doppelganger. Here we encounter the cold version of the warm person.
Throughout this book, the narrative voice searches for the intrinsic harmony that lies within each individual. New suggests that our fear of anarchy...
