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In Glover's merciless portrayal, the Ragged Point literary scene consists of the sorriest bunch of excuse-mongering losers you'll ever encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"La Corriveau\" (ref: the Siren of Quebec who murdered her husband and was later hanged in an iron cage above a crossroads), an Anglo woman awakens to find a dead man (presumably a francophone) in her bed. In a hilarious turn-of-events, the female narrator, who cannot at first even remember the man's name nor how they happened to share the same bed, conceives of ways to hide the body in plain sight, while narrating the political implications of her circumstances interplayed with details from popular culture and Quebec history. In \"Lunar Sensitivities,\" a mathematician and a scientist compete for the attention of a beautiful woman; in \"Abrupt Extinctions at the End of the Cretaceous,\" dinosaurs compete for love and life. In both stories, love does everything but triumph. Ranging over time from pre-history to the present, from the American South to the Canadian North, Douglas Glover maps the heart in all its passion, valour, ineptitude, and vulnerability. Occasionally scabrous, horrifically funny, intermittently appalling, and wildly erotic, the stories in this collection bring to life a world in time, irony and desire prevail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eDouglas Glover was recipient of the 2006 Writers' Trust of Canada Timothy Findley Award for his body of work. 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Fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Corrigan Women\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Scatter Stones\u003c\/i\u003e will embrace this new book, while those reading the author for the first time will discover her characteristic bittersweet humour. Tess Corrigan seems to be living the good life. She is a popular politician, the first woman to serve as a Member of the House of Assembly. Her husband Greg is a successful lawyer and son Brendan is a seemingly happy hockey-mad twelve-year-old. Originally from the village of The Cove, the family is now comfortably ensconced in Newfoundland's capital city of St. John's. Urged on by Greg's mother Philomena, Tess sets out to unravel her convoluted family tree. She searches out her natural father who is living in a retirement community, or as he calls it a \"raisin farm,\" in Arizona. Ed Strominski was an American serving at the Argentia Naval Base when he married Tess's mother Carmel. Charming and outgoing, his one flaw was neglecting to reveal the small detail that he already had a wife. The stigma of growing up as the daughter of the abandoned \"poor Carmel\" has shaped Tess's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvolved with her own family problems and with her political work, Tess has no inkling of trouble when Brendan begs her to let him quit the Altar Servers' Association at their St. John's church. Always forthright, Tess insists that he fulfill his responsibilities to the organization. Her decision sets into motion a series of betrayals, revelations, and realizations that change forever her family and the village of The Cove. After a confrontation with the father of one of Brendan's friends, Tess is shattered by the disclosure that her son has been abused by their trusted priest, Father Tom. Shame and grief envelop the family and their world becomes as turbulent as the seas of Newfoundland. 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Unlike most page-turners and much detective fiction, however, Bush's realistic prose narrative is almost totally focused on issues relevant to reader's lives. I recommend it highly.\" — therecord.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Concentric circles spread steadily from the ethical dilemma at the novel's core, growing in depth and implication right up until a perfectly pitched and exquisitely surprising ending. Critical acclaim has never been in short supply for Bush, but there's a sense that \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e, with a bit of good fortune, could also be her commercial breakthrough. ... Be assured that \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare beast: a literary novel with the page-turning properties of the best genre fiction.\" — Postmedia News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of risk told in an assured and accomplished voice: compelling, unsettling, haunting.\" — \u003ci\u003eBuried in Print\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A persistent tapping at the complexities of prejudice — the accusations we harbour in our hearts — brings an unnerving friction to \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e. — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e by Catherine Bush is a complex read, it is a great book exploring the nature of the human condition in the fast-paced era of ours. It is a book that needs to be read, thought over, and read again to completely understand the nature of our ways.\" — inkwellbook.blogspot.ca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] powerful reflection on the nature of allegations. ... tense, intimate mystery . . . characters so vivid they captivate from the first page. ... The story is rendered in Bush's elegant prose, delivering lyrical moments that leave an impact. The language is careful, the narration intimate. The writing flows uninterrupted by quotation marks, pulling the reader into the rhythm of Sara's questions, insights and frustrations. \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of yearning: the desire to know, and the limitations of that knowledge.\" — \u003ci\u003ePRISM Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bush's gift for crafting an impeccable phrase is more impressive than ever. ... Refusing to put her characters into cardboard compartments, Bush reflects the messy truth of real life. People are complicated blurs of conscience and cowardice. We run toward things as often as we run away from them. We gnash at old hurts even as we throttle forward. And Bush gets that.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Be assured that \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare beast: a literary novel with the page-turning properties of the best genre fiction. View it from a slightly oblique angle, in fact, and it could almost be a crime novel of the Scandinanvian variety, Henning Mankell or Karen Fossum striding headlong into the murkier reaches of human motivation.\" — \u003ci\u003eMontreal Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of 2013's finest fiction offerings.\" — \u003ci\u003eSalty Ink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Concentric circles spread steadily from the ethical dilemma at the novel's core, growing in depth and implication right up until a perfectly pitched and exquisitely surprising ending. Critical acclaim has never been in short supply for Bush, but there's a sense that \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e, with a bit of good fortune, could also be her commercial breakthrough. ... Be assured that \u003ci\u003eAccusation\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare beast: a literary novel with the page-turning properties of the best genre fiction.\" — \u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bush has put her novelist's finger on something difficult and important.\" — Susan Swan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Western Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e358 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: September 17, 2013\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catherine Bush","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864928504\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$21.95","offer_id":31759479118,"sku":"9780864928504","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864929006\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$32.95","offer_id":31759479182,"sku":"9780864929006","price":32.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/products\/1195_24379fa2-6a86-4148-b172-6add6d8a622e.jpg?v=1618992365"},{"product_id":"after-six-days","title":"After Six Days","description":"Set in the colourful, intense, competitive Montreal of the 1980s, Harrison's novel explores the efforts of two couples to reach beyond the boundaries of self. 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In this postmodern \"sermon on the mount,\" Chiasson has created a tour de force at once compassionate and complex, thoughtful and illuminating.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA meditation on what it means to be human, Chiasson writes from a deep sense of melancholy. Exploring the common bonds of humanity, he creates a tonal montage that probes our notions of who we are and who we might become. Beginning in mid-sentence and ending not with a period but a comma, \u003ci\u003eBeatitudes\u003c\/i\u003e is Herménégilde Chiasson's most important work to date, with beautiful lines that continue to echo long after they have been read. It will be released simultaneoulsy in French by Editions Prise de Parole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eHerménégilde Chiasson is one of Canada's most accomplished writer-artists. He is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, over 30 plays, and several collections of essays. 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She has movingly rendered the complexity expressed in this contemporary ‘sermon on the mount,’ while providing an English text rich with sensuality, rhythm and a sense of communion.\" — quoted from the comments of the Governor General's Award for Literary Translation jury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e120 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: October 19, 2007\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Herménégilde Chiasson (Author), Jo-Anne Elder (Translator)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864924865\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":31759525902,"sku":"9780864924865","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/375_ee95ed83-90b7-4007-ab2a-0194f3038931.jpg?v=1785484853"},{"product_id":"behind-the-orchestra","title":"Behind the Orchestra","description":"This book presents the revelatory nature of Trujillo's English poetry. 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Richardson is completely committed to the universe of each poem. ... \u003ci\u003eBit Parts for Fools\u003c\/i\u003e by Peter Richardson is an immensely rewarding read. Can't recommend it highly enough.\" — michaeldennispoet.blogspot.ca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a chameleonic book, alive with ‘ancestral transmutations’. Richardson can write of ‘a gun-toting do-gooder on a buggy’ or evoke ‘bees nesting in crags above a shoreline of dirty syringes,’ and his words summon the mouth to savor them. Richardson's wit, formal skill, and verbal ingenuity make this not only his finest achievement to date but one of the best collections of poetry to appear in recent years.\" — Eric Ormsby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBit Parts for Fools\u003c\/i\u003e crackles with innovative language, in the deliciously quirky titles and the poems themselves: elaborate, complex, and often wonderfully ambivalent. What might happen if you invent a language and use one phrase (‘broischni hydranya’) as an incantation, or page through a very unusual ‘mourner's abecedary’ that somehow combines ‘bestiary and breviary? This uniquely disarming voice uses chance and change to provide vivid takes on past and present lives and their unpredictable circumstances.\" — Jan Conn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e88 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: October 1, 2013\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Richardson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864924902\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":31759542222,"sku":"9780864924902","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/1088.jpg?v=1785484902"},{"product_id":"blunt-trauma","title":"Blunt Trauma","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn September 2, 1998, a fire in the cockpit sent Swissair Flight 111 plunging into the sea off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. 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[Mordecai] uses rhyme and metre comfortably, applying these old devices to archly contemporary language... verifiably fine.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eCertifiable\u003c\/i\u003e, language is both weapon and redeemer. Pamela Mordecai's facility with language, her striking rhythms and word play, and, above all, her wicked humour lift \u003ci\u003eCertifiable\u003c\/i\u003e from the pull of madness to the divine.\" — Olive Senior\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very rich linguistically, imaginatively, and thematically.\" — D.M. 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After nineteen years as a teacher and educational administrator in Nova Scotia he is now devoting his time to the writing of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e23 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: January 1, 1982\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Leigh Faulkner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864920201\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$3.95","offer_id":31759559310,"sku":"9780864920201","price":3.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/124.jpg?v=1782374991"},{"product_id":"climates","title":"Climates","description":"\u003ci\u003eClimates\u003c\/i\u003e is suffused with the single-minded desire to fully inhabit, and be inhabited by, a place: Acadie. The political push-and-pull of being Acadian is a constant, even when the mutability of personal life is in the foreground. The four sections of \u003ci\u003eClimates\u003c\/i\u003e each correspond to a season, and each is marked by unity of tone, atmosphere, and form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eHerménégilde Chiasson is one of Canada's most accomplished writer-artists. He is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, over 30 plays, and several collections of essays. A multi-disciplinary artist, he has received numerous awards for his work, including the Governor General’s Award for poetry, the Molson Prize, le prix France-Acadie, le Grand prix de la francophonie canadienne, the prestigious Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Prix littéraire Antonine-Maillet-Acadie Vie. From 2003 to 2009, he served as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJo-Anne Elder has translated many of Chiasson's works of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eBeatitudes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConversations\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Fred Cogswell, \u003ci\u003eClimates\u003c\/i\u003e. She and Fred Cogswell also edited and translated \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Dreams: Contemporary Poetry of Acadie\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred Cogswell was one of the scions of Canadian Poetry. A widely published poet, anthologist, translator, reviewer, and critic, he has been a figurehead on the Canadian literary scene for more than fifty years. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours ranging from the Bliss Carman Medal in 1947, to the Order of Canada in 1981, to a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Publishers Association in 2000. He was the founder of Fiddlehead Poetry Books, one of Canada's oldest literary presses and has acted as mentor to several generations of young poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eClimates\u003c\/i\u003e possesses a haunting and sustained clarity that meshes vividly with the writer's superb linguistic authority and structural virtuosity (reminiscent of the work of David Jones in its commanding prose passages, the gruesome lyricality of Hubert Aquin)... The volume's quartet of entries succeeds beautifully, tracking the emotional impoverishment and universal loneliness accompanying the perceived numbness of contemporary life.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e120 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: May 1, 1999\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Herménégilde Chiasson (Author), Jo-Anne Elder (Translator), Fred Cogswell (Translator)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864922748\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$16.95","offer_id":31759562958,"sku":"9780864922748","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9780864922748_FC_294d54a3-32dc-43ab-b00a-7afe591c8207.jpg?v=1790323269"},{"product_id":"close-to-the-fire","title":"Close to the Fire","description":"A snug country house, a snowy landscape in a place that could be Prince Edward Island, a small-town lawyer bumbling through an emotional crisis — \u003ci\u003eClose to the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is a winter's tale that warms the heart while gently chilling the blood. Many years ago, the lawyer (then a student) persuaded the woman who is now his wife to desert Orland, her older husband, and run away with him. Now Orland arrives on their doorstep to die. The lawyer recalls the moral force her exerted to make Marijke change loyalties instead of simply enjoying a little adultery. Does sheltering a dying man atone for stealing his wife? The lawyer doesn't know and isn't sure he cares until a dramatic fire and Orland's death rearrange the domestic hearth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eDavid Helwig (1938-2018) grew up in Ontario and lived in Belfast, Prince Edward Island. He founded the \u003ci\u003eBest Canadian Stories\u003c\/i\u003e series, and he was the author of sixteen books of fiction and numerous works of non-fiction, including poetry, memoir, documentary and translation. His most recent work of fiction was \u003ci\u003eClose to the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (Goose Lane, 1999), a novella, and the novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Time of Her Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Goose Lane, 2000). \"Missing Notes\" appeared in \u003ci\u003eArtsAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e (61) and was selected for \u003ci\u003e98: Best Canadian Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"A quirky little morality play, told with humour.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine concatenation of fire, wind, death, and birth, with lashings of drama and food, \u003ci\u003eClose to the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is tightly scripted, mordantly funny, and wise.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Delicious and disturbing... a quick and powerful read that chills and warms at exactly the same time.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Coast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A supernatural cameraman, taking perfectly framed pictures inside the mind and out.\" — \u003ci\u003eBooks in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A master of natural dialogue and evocative sketches.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A chronicler extraordinaire.\" — \u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A plot rife with possibilities.\" — \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e115 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: May 1, 1999\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Helwig","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864922724\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$14.95","offer_id":31759564110,"sku":"9780864922724","price":14.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/9780864922724_FC.jpg?v=1783584023"},{"product_id":"conversations","title":"Conversations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConversations\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of poetry that won the 1999 Governor General's Award (French Language), is a sequence of 999 numbered fragments that record the essence of verbal interactions between two people. Over a period of a year, Herménégilde Chiasson captured snatches of conversations overheard, conversations he had with other people, even reported conversations. Then he distilled what was said and his observations into a series of single sentences, each attributed to a strangely impersonal He or She. Chiasson has likened his concept to the visual experience of driving: a succession of flashes zooming by, the connections only intuited. The blank spot for entry number 1000 underlines a Zen-like philosophy that suggests that nothing is ever fully completed. In subject matter and technique, \u003ci\u003eConversations\u003c\/i\u003e fuses tradition and modernity. Chiasson continues his exploration of the often uncomfortable zone where the mechanical or artificial meets human emotion and spirit. The format participates in the strong and lively Acadian oral tradition, yet the sentences themselves are polished literary jewels, almost epigrammatic in their compactness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConversations\u003c\/i\u003e is at the same time as public as a news broadcast and as private as a lover's unspoken thoughts. With ten personal collections of poetry, Herménégilde Chiasson's body of work is among the most prolific in Acadian poetry. \u003ci\u003eMourir à Scoudouc\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1974 to critical acclaim in Acadie and Quebec. In 1976, he made a radical departure in style with his collection of anti-poetry \u003ci\u003eRapport sur l'état de mes illusions\u003c\/i\u003e. Busy with filmmaking, the visual arts, and playwrighting, it was a decade before Chiasson published \u003ci\u003eProphéties\u003c\/i\u003e in 1986. The 1990s were a prolific time for Chiasson's poetry. His 1991 collections \u003ci\u003eVous\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eExistences\u003c\/i\u003e, broke new ground in the field of experimental poetry and Vous was nominated for a Governor General's Award. \u003ci\u003eVermeer\u003c\/i\u003e  and \u003ci\u003eMiniatures\u003c\/i\u003e  continued Chiasson's quest to blend the visual with the oral in a unique poetic style. In 1996, Chiasson produced \u003ci\u003eClimats\u003c\/i\u003e. It was hailed as one of modern Acadie's strongest poetic works and was the first of his books to be translated into English. \u003ci\u003eClimates\u003c\/i\u003e brought Chiasson his second Governor General's Award nomination. In 1999, Chiasson won the Governor General's Award for his landmark poetic work \u003ci\u003eConversations\u003c\/i\u003e, now available in English from Goose Lane Editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eHerménégilde Chiasson is one of Canada's most accomplished writer-artists. He is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, over 30 plays, and several collections of essays. A multi-disciplinary artist, he has received numerous awards for his work, including the Governor General’s Award for poetry, the Molson Prize, le prix France-Acadie, le Grand prix de la francophonie canadienne, the prestigious Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Prix littéraire Antonine-Maillet-Acadie Vie. From 2003 to 2009, he served as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJo-Anne Elder has translated many of Chiasson's works of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eBeatitudes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConversations\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Fred Cogswell, \u003ci\u003eClimates\u003c\/i\u003e. She and Fred Cogswell also edited and translated \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Dreams: Contemporary Poetry of Acadie\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred Cogswell was one of the scions of Canadian Poetry. A widely published poet, anthologist, translator, reviewer, and critic, he has been a figurehead on the Canadian literary scene for more than fifty years. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours ranging from the Bliss Carman Medal in 1947, to the Order of Canada in 1981, to a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Publishers Association in 2000. He was the founder of Fiddlehead Poetry Books, one of Canada's oldest literary presses and has acted as mentor to several generations of young poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"With a moving and incantatory poetic force, \u003ci\u003eConversations\u003c\/i\u003e is rooted in the sonorous rhythmic resources of a language on the verge of ultrasound... An Acadian version of the expression of humanity.\" — Governor General's Award jury citation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Epigrammatic, intense... like time-release capsules, waiting to be felt... The writing builds toward stateliness. Each poem is its own landscape, which makes the implication of the title interesting. Here, the two speakers don't talk to each other, don't answer each other's questions, don't overlap. The layout of the book keeps them in discrete units of type, like paintings hanging opposite each other: a clean look, a cinematographic tone, a controlled direction.\" — \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Straight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Intriguing and resonant... worth thinking about.\" — i\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e156 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: October 15, 2001\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Herménégilde Chiasson (Author), Jo-Anne Elder (Translator), Fred Cogswell (Translator)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864923196\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$18.95","offer_id":31759573710,"sku":"9780864923196","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/251_c095d998-f446-4f22-97cc-b8ec69df5d96.jpg?v=1782375079"},{"product_id":"cricket-in-a-fist","title":"Cricket in a Fist","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne night, Agatha Winter's phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It's the anniversary of their mother's accident and subsequent split from the family. Jasmine is determined to exact revenge. Their mother, now a flashy self-help guru under a new moniker, preaches \"willing amnesia\": liberation by deliberately forgetting and disowning the past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut \"willing amnesia\" is no innovation: it runs in the family. The girls' grandmother and great-grandmother, both Holocaust survivors, have found their own superficially innocuous yet fiercely destructive ways to fend off memory. In separate struggles, the girls work to break free from the burden of their family's silence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTold in three major and two minor voices, \u003ci\u003eCricket in a Fist\u003c\/i\u003e offers sophisticated psychological insight. Lewis's rich command of language transports us into a world of richly imagined characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eNaomi K. Lewis was born in England, lived in Washington DC, and grew up in Ottawa. Her stories have been published in the \u003ci\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAntigonish Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e. \"The Guiding Light,\" a chapter of the novel that began as a story, won the Fiddlehead Fiction Prize in 2007. Lewis now lives in Edmonton. \u003ci\u003eCricket in a Fist\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book-length work of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"The emotional and psychological action in the novel is so rich and intricate that the reader is carried along through the decades of story without so much as a hiccup. This is a wonderfully well-rounded story with true-to-life characters, emotions, and situations, making it an impressive first effort by an obviously talented writer.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Moving... genuine.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her passionately felt first novel, Naomi K. Lewis explores how the Holocaust distorts the lives of surviving generations. \u003ci\u003eCricket in a Fist\u003c\/i\u003e asks difficult questions about personal freedom and the long arm of the past.\" — Martha Bailie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCricket in a Fist\u003c\/i\u003e lays a handful of fingers on what goes wrong when we are young. There's a whole family of trouble beating here, and Naomi K. Lewis gives voice to it all — a smartly structured, tender, and candid first novel.\" — Michael Winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: February 22, 2008\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Naomi K. Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864924957\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":31759574222,"sku":"9780864924957","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/products\/382_c222db60-a47f-4b87-ad3d-ab50fd6cbccc.jpg?v=1620806404"},{"product_id":"cutting-the-devils-throat","title":"Cutting the Devil's Throat","description":"To play \"cutting the devil's throat,\" hold a round stone as if you were going to skip it across the water, but throw it straight up into the air. If you do it right, the stone drops into the water without a splash, making only a sound like a gulp. 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This collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eDance the Rocks Ashore\u003c\/i\u003e, is certainly choice Choyce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance the Rocks Ashore\u003c\/i\u003e contains substantial new stories including \"Dance the Rocks Ashore,\" a bittersweet account of an elderly couple's decline; the hilarious and bizarre \"My Father Was a Book Reviewer\" \"The Third or Fourth Happiest Man in Nova Scotia,\" with a peculiar hero reminiscent of Noah; and \"The Wreck of the Sister Theresa,\" in which spring fever hits like \"a handshake in hell.\" Favourite stories from previous books include \"Losing Ground,\" the pivotal chapter in Choyce's acclaimed 1989 novel \u003ci\u003eThe Second Season of Jonas MacPherson\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \"The Cure,\" \"Dancing the Night Away,\" and the complex and disturbing \"Conventional Emotions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eNo one has a clearer view of Atlantic Canada's literary endeavours over the past twenty years than Lesley Choyce. He is the founder of the literary journal \u003ci\u003ePottersfield Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e, and the publisher of Pottersfield Press. He has edited several fiction anthologies and has been the in-house editor of many books from Pottersfield Press including \u003ci\u003eMaking Waves\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories by emerging authors from Atlantic Canada. He is the author of more than fifty books in genres ranging from poetry and essays to autobiography, history and fiction for adults, young adults, and children. Among his recent books are the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorld Enough\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCold Clear Morning\u003c\/i\u003e, and the story collection \u003ci\u003eDance the Rocks Ashore\u003c\/i\u003e. Choyce is the writer, host, and co-producer of the popular literary show television program, \u003ci\u003eOff the Page with Lesley Choyce\u003c\/i\u003e, which is broadcast across the country on Vision TV. He also teaches in the English department of Dalhousie University in Halifax and is leader of the rock band The Surf Poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"As refreshing and unpredictable as those Atlantic waves he's so fond of riding.\" — \u003ci\u003eMaclean’s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By turns impish, poignant, and forceful.\" — \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e223 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: May 1, 1997\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lesley Choyce","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864922182\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$17.95","offer_id":31759579214,"sku":"9780864922182","price":17.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/products\/1202_21bdafeb-4935-43bb-b4cc-b26a1266b644.jpg?v=1609923777"},{"product_id":"d-day-to-carpiquet","title":"D-Day to Carpiquet","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe brutal battlefields of Europe during World War II were the testing ground for the young men of the 1st Battalion of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. On June 6, 1944, the soldiers landed on the coast of France as part of the first wave of the D-Day invasion. After securing the eastern flank of the Canadian landing along Juno Beach, the Regiment was in constant contact with the enemy over the next thirty days, suffering a steady stream of casualties. This led to a ferocious battle in the French village of Carpiquet. For five days, the Regiment endured a living hell and suffered nearly 300 casualties. By the end of it, the North Shore Regiment had effectively died.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor the first time, the comprehensive tale of this storied Regiment is finally told.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eD-Day to Carpiquet\u003c\/i\u003e is volume 9 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eMarc Milner, a native of Sackville, NB, is a prolific author of Canadian military history. 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In this dream-collage, which cuts across the boundaries of prose and poetry, she combines post-modernist influences with a fully realized narrative. Spanning a few days and several decades, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Down a Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e follows a woman-dreamer as she prepared to give birth. Speaking to her unborn daughter through journals, letters, stories, and eloquent imaginings, Harris's unnamed narrator calls up a distinctive cast of characters as she travels from the tropical warmth of the West Indies to Canada with its houses \"iced in snow.\" \u003ci\u003eDrawing Down a Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire Harris (1937-2018) was a Canadian poet of Trinidadian background who produced eight collections of poems. Her first volume, \u003ci\u003eFables from the Women's Quarters\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), won the Commonwealth Award for Poetry for the Americas Region. First released in 1992, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Down a Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Her work has been included in more than 70 anthologies and has been translated into German and Hindi.\u003c\/p\u003e Claire Harris was born in Trinidad, West Indies, studied at University College, Dublin, where she earned a BA Honours in English. She came to Canada in 1966 and settled in Calgary. In 1975, during a study leave in Nigeria, she first wrote for publication and was encouraged by Nigerian poet, J.P. Clark. She also earned a diploma in communications from the University of Lagos, Nigeria (1975). After returning to Canada, Harris became active in the literary community in Calgary working as poetry editor at \u003cem\u003eDandelion\u003c\/em\u003e from 1981-1989 and helping to found the all-Alberta magazine, \u003cem\u003eblue buffalo\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1983. 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Harris's book (like Michael Ondaatje's \u003ci\u003eIn the Skin of a Lion\u003c\/i\u003e) should be read for the sheer beauty of the writing.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e112 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: September 11, 2007\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Claire Harris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864924964\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$17.95","offer_id":31759598414,"sku":"9780864924964","price":17.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/383.jpg?v=1785484962"},{"product_id":"dressing-for-hope","title":"Dressing for Hope","description":"Lorna Jackson's characters earn every scrap of comfort they get, sexual and otherwise. 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His well-known scatological realism, exuberant violence, and dark, unsettling humour give his unique version of history a thoroughly modern chill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eDouglas Glover was recipient of the 2006 Writers' Trust of Canada Timothy Findley Award for his body of work. His bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e won the Governor-General's Award and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. \u003ci\u003eA Guide to Animal Behaviour\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 1991 Governor-General's Award, and\u003ci\u003e 16 Categories of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the 2000 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Mathews teaches English at Memorial University. He has published stories in numerous anthologies and journals and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sandblasting Hall of Fame\u003c\/i\u003e. 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When Shauna Singh Baldwin's debut collection was first published in 1996, it took readers by storm. Reviewers discovered a new voice; listeners tuned in to the stories on CBC Radio. Since then, Baldwin has written two award-winning novels and, in 2007, a second story collection, \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not in Pakistan\u003c\/i\u003e. Dramatizing the lives of Indian women from 1919 to the present, from India to North America, Shauna Singh Baldwin travels from the intimate sphere of family to the wasteland of office and university. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eShauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eWhat the Body Remembers\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1999 by Knopf Canada, Transworld UK, Doubleday USA, and (as an audiobook) by Goose Lane Editions. It received the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean region) and has been translated into fourteen languages. Her second novel \u003ci\u003eThe Tiger Claw\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for Canada's Giller Prize 2004. Shauna is the author of \u003ci\u003eEnglish Lessons and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to America\u003c\/i\u003e. Her awards include the 1995 Writer’s Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award. \u003ci\u003eEnglish Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e received the 1996 Friends of American Writers Award.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA former radio producer and ecommerce consultant, her fiction and poems are widely published in literary magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, and India. She has served on several juries and teaches short courses in creative writing. Shauna holds an MBA from Marquette University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not in Pakistan: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Goose Lane Editions in 2007. 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Pratt Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted, BMO Winterset Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarmelita McGrath's \u003ci\u003eEscape Velocity\u003c\/i\u003e — the long awaited follow-up to her Atlantic Poetry Prize-winning collection \u003ci\u003eTo the New World\u003c\/i\u003e — culls overlooked fragments from our domestic lives and ferries them on unpredictable journeys. A conversation with a telemarketer becomes a monologue on overcoming loss, stray animals provoke cautionary tales shared between generations of women, and junk mail fosters a meditation on necessity, debt, and the inevitability of one's passing. From the elegiac, to the playful, to the meditative, McGrath effortlessly shifts from a natural refinement to a near breathless elegance. Well worth the wait, \u003ci\u003eEscape Velocity\u003c\/i\u003e marks the return of McGrath's receptive intelligence, gathering strength and taking flight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eCarmelita McGrath (1960) was born in Branch, St. Mary's Bay, NL, and now makes her home in St. John's. In 1998 she received the Atlantic Poetry Prize for \u003ci\u003eTo the New World\u003c\/i\u003e. Her collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eStranger Things Have Happened\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Bennington Gate Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eShortlisted: BMO Winterset Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner: E.J. 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Too small to support a high school or a drugstore, Eyehill is populated by men and women who have worked for generations to wrest a living from the dry, rolling hills. Like people anywhere else, they hunger for love, understanding, a decent living, and safety and comfort in their homes. Their passion for something more, something better, is tangled by their almost visceral attachment to the land and by the dangerous allure of an oil industry that grows more rapacious every year.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this startling debut collection of loosely linked stories, characters disappear only to resurface once again a few stories later. Among the central characters are Rhea, a girl whose mother abandoned her and her father when she was three and who grows to adulthood full of questions and contradictions; Jarvis, a boy whom Rhea loves but wants as a boyfriend only when he has to marry his pregnant girlfriend; and the Lalonde brothers, so different and yet so clearly formed by their shared circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA strange eroticism pervades \"They Secretly Pray for Rain.\" A subtle, mostly denied violence underlies \"Very Little Blood,\" but it percolates to the surface in the terrible climax of \"River Judith.\" The ancient aquifer flowing below the prairie pulses through the very marrow of the men's bones. Farming is not what they do, but what they are, and interference is fatal. In this small, tightly knit community, secrets are essential. The need to keep silent and to control terrifying emotions is at the same time necessary and ruinous, and the stories people tell hide as much as they reveal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eKelly Cooper grew up in the tiny farming community of Senlac, Saskatchewan, where she vaccinated, branded, and ear-tagged cattle, sorted calves on foot and on horseback, drove cattle to pasture on horseback, and drove a tractor and a three-ton truck. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Cooper taught high school English and later moved to Belleisle Creek, New Brunswick, with her husband, where until recently, she worked as an art teacher. The only girl among siblings and cousins, she routinely did \"men's work,\" and now works with her husband on their dairy farm. Cooper's stories have been published the \u003ci\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRoom of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDescant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMalahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eWindsor Review\u003c\/i\u003e. They have been featured in anthologies such as \u003ci\u003eComing Attractions '02\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWater Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHome for Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e. \"River Judith\" won the Fiddlehead Fiction Prize, and an early version of \u003ci\u003eEyehill\u003c\/i\u003e won the prestigious David Adams Literary Award. \u003ci\u003eEyehill\u003c\/i\u003e is her long-awaited first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"[A] wise and bountiful debut.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cooper's writing style and milieu resonate with Karen Solie's prairie poems in \u003ci\u003eShort Haul Engine\u003c\/i\u003e and Annie Proulx's Wyoming stories in \u003ci\u003eClose Range\u003c\/i\u003e. The lives of her characters are less hard-bitten and sun bleached than Proulx's... and Cooper is kinder in her judgment of them — allowing room for at least a hint of redemption. This is a book readers will come back to.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEyehill\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable book, weaving together the small moments of individual lives to give us the sense of an entire community and a whole way of life. It is rare to find such range in a writer coupled with such a sureness of touch.\" — Nino Ricci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sophisticated, empathetic, and original, Kelly Cooper works emotional magic, turning a prairie town into a prism sparkling with vivid characters — waitresses, store clerks, farmers, runaway teens, actresses, dope growers, architects, cheating wives, and broken husbands. A glittering debut.\" — Ken McGoogan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kelly Cooper's brilliantly envisioned stories are intricate puzzle pieces that, together, form an entire world, Eyehill makes you laugh out loud and breaks you open.\" — Anne Simpson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: March 8, 2004\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kelly Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864923790\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":31759621582,"sku":"9780864923790","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/289.jpg?v=1785398550"},{"product_id":"fables-from-the-womens-quarters","title":"Fables from the Women's Quarters","description":"\u003ci\u003eFables from the Women's Quarters\u003c\/i\u003e marked Claire Harris's blazing 1984 entry into the literary world, winning a Commonwealth Prize for poetry in its year of publication. A tribute to the women who create the fabric of life, this book contains poems that have become classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire Harris (1937-2018) was a Canadian poet of Trinidadian background who produced eight collections of poems. Her first volume, \u003ci\u003eFables from the Women's Quarters\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), won the Commonwealth Award for Poetry for the Americas Region. First released in 1992, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Down a Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Her work has been included in more than 70 anthologies and has been translated into German and Hindi.\u003c\/p\u003e Claire Harris was born in Trinidad, West Indies, studied at University College, Dublin, where she earned a BA Honours in English. She came to Canada in 1966 and settled in Calgary. In 1975, during a study leave in Nigeria, she first wrote for publication and was encouraged by Nigerian poet, J.P. Clark. She also earned a diploma in communications from the University of Lagos, Nigeria (1975). After returning to Canada, Harris became active in the literary community in Calgary working as poetry editor at \u003cem\u003eDandelion\u003c\/em\u003e from 1981-1989 and helping to found the all-Alberta magazine, \u003cem\u003eblue buffalo\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1983. 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Now, with the publication of \u003ci\u003eFabulous Fabrications from Busted Hockey Gear\u003c\/i\u003e, the hockey stick handyman has turned his creative talents to the rest of the equipment left to fester in the basement — helmets, pads, gloves, skates, and even cast-off hockey uniforms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this oh-so-Canadian book of how-to humour, a wonderland of \"construct-o-rama experiences\" awaits devotees of rink junk. Who would have thought of an electric guitar for only $15 or a drum set made entirely of cast-off helmets? A leather skate becomes a bird or a ball cap; a dismantled helmet becomes a mask; a pair of pants becomes an amazing sling chair.  Basement artistes can build a lap steel guitar from sticks, fashion a guiro from a bit of stick and a plastic knee protector, mount a row of helmets into a set of timbales, and presto! a garage band like no other. A tent, a crouching dog, a mechanical cheerleader — with Manchester's step-by-step instructions and clear, humorous illustrations, all these things and more can rise like, well, like a squawking bird, if not a phoenix, from a mound of hockey detritus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eAn accomplished illustrator and painter, Peter Manchester lives in Sackville, New Brunswick. His passion for discovering the magnificent in the mundane extends beyond hockey sticks into the realm of history, an interest enflamed by his experience as a museum curator. Totally without the aid of research, he illuminates the march of progress from pre-history to the post-rink life of the hockey stick. \u003ci\u003e50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick\u003c\/i\u003e was his first foray into authorship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"Eco-artist Peter Manchester finds beautiful new uses for cast-off hockey gear... 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On the cusp of the 50th anniversary of the disaster, critically acclaimed poet Gary Geddes provides an intimate portrait of the many lives affected by the toppling of that seemingly indomitable structure. Pairing his polyphonal narrative with grainy archival photos, Geddes displays a sure-footed authority while balancing the line between documentary and fiction. The Second Narrows collapse was real, and Geddes has a real connection to it: his father, a former navy diver, was called to the bridge to search for bodies in the wreckage. The voices that speak from the page are fiction; at times raw, occasionally profane, they ring with awful truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eGary Geddes was born in Vancouver and raised mostly on the west coast, where he gill netted, loaded boxcars at BC Sugar Refinery, stocked shelves at Woodwards, worked as a fishing guide at Whytecliffe, taught on Texada Island, and drove a water-taxi. 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After doing graduate studies at Reading University in England and at the University of Toronto, he embarked on a varied career as a writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. Gary taught for twenty years at Concordia University in Montreal before returning to the west coast, where he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University (1998-2001) and served as writer-in-residence at Green College, and the Vancouver Public Library. He has written and edited more than thirty-five books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003e20th Century Poetry \u0026amp; Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e15 Canadian Poets x 3\u003c\/i\u003e. His literary awards include the E.J. 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Since the mid-nineteenth century, scientists have fanned out into the world from colleges and universities that are among the oldest in North America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreat Maritime Achievers in Science and Technology\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the achievements of more than 30 of these trail-blazing scientists and inventors, many of whom gained national and international prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmong those profiled in the book are Grace Annie Lockhart, the first woman in the British Empire to earn a university science degree;  Charles Fenerty, who discovered how to make paper out of wood; Abraham Gesner, who invented kerosene and fathered the petroleum industry;  and others whose practical, yet creative minds helped change the course of Canada's scientific history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eGeorge MacBeath received the Order of Canada in recognition of his dedication to the preservation and presentation of Canada's heritage. A graduate of the University of New Brunswick and the Sorbonne, Université de Paris, he was the first director of the Ontario Science Centre, a director of the New Brunswick Museum, and the deputy minister of Heritage for the New Brunswick government, where he was instrumental in the \"construction\" of the province's two major living heritage museums, Kings Landing and le Village Historique Acadien. His other books include \u003ci\u003eNew Brunswick: The Story of Our Province\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSteamboat Days on the St. John: 1816-1946\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"This illuminating little book is full of things you never knew about people you think you know... It also introduces you to people you might never have met... just plain fascinating, from beginning to end.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A welcome addition to the study of regional history in Atlantic Canada and contributes greatly to our understanding of the 19th and early 20th century's scientific breakthroughs in the Maritimes. It is hoped that a copy of \u003ci\u003eGreat Maritime Achievers\u003c\/i\u003e will appear on bookshelves in all schools throughout the region.\" — \u003ci\u003eTimes \u0026amp; Transcript\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the strengths of the book is in the personal details of these gifted men's and women's lives... very enjoyable.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e128 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: October 19, 2004\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"George MacBeath","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864923806\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$14.95","offer_id":31759655694,"sku":"9780864923806","price":14.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/290_02f07f5b-58e8-4cc6-9673-ceee490c547e.jpg?v=1787731351"}],"url":"https:\/\/gooselane.com\/collections\/shipping-lettermail-eligible.oembed?page=4","provider":"Goose Lane Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}