Lillie Dempster of Saint John, New Brunswick, often imagines herself on the big screen. It is the one fantastic escape she can afford from her tragic daily life. In the burgeoning early years of the twentieth century, Lillie is a lot...
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Auteur:Heighton, StevenSommaire:This collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General's Literary Award winner The Waking Comes Late, showcases a defining lyric poet of his generation. Selected Poems 1983-2020 is...
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Auteur:Bergen, BobSommaire:Most Canadians know little, if anything at all, about the role of the Canadian Air Force in the 1999 Kosovo Air War. Yet lives were at put at stake as mission dedication and military skill were pushed to the limit. Some of Canada's most...
- Auteur:J, EvanSommaire:
Some poems can live without souls / but mine remain ghastly fools flicking / uncomfortable narratives like / cigarette butts during class change.One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux...
- Auteur:Torre, StephanSommaire:
A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephan Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands.
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Auteur:Joseph, EveSommaire:WINNER, 2019 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
The poems in this collection reach for something other than truth, the marvelous. Leaves fall out of coat sleeves, Gandhi swims in Burrard Inlet. The poems are like empty coats from which the...
- Auteur:Joseph, EveSommaire:
These short, condensed prose poems demonstrate that the illogical has a logic of its own, and that the "real is underpinned by the surreal, rather than the other way around.
- Auteur:Lewis, RobertSommaire:
An intimate history of the journalists who covered Canadian history, and made some of their own. The history of the press gallery is rich in anecdotes about the people on Parliament Hill who have covered 23 prime ministers and 42...
- Auteur:Bourassa, Marie-Eve, Bourbonnais, Claudine, Bouthillette, Benoît, Ellory, RJ, Garneau, Claude A., Goudreault, David, Lévesque, François, Malavoy, Tristan, Michaud, Martin, Moffatt, Ariane, Sévigny, Marie-Ève, Seymour, Johanne, Brouillet, ChrystineSommaire:
Monstre d'acier ou de béton, le pont, silhouette massive, occupe le paysage urbain et se fond au décor jusqu'à parfois s'y faire oublier. Voici treize nouvelles où toujours il se dresse, à la fois lien et tremplin, entre...
- Auteur:Boraks-Nemetz, LillianSommaire:
This collection offers a cycle of poems about the poet who, as a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has had to live with the memories of the Holocaust all her life. The first section describes the evils of suffering and prejudice, of...
- Auteur:Simamba, Makambe K.Sommaire:
Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through the unknown, as Slimm grapples...
- Auteur:Henrie, MauriceSommaire:
Diplomatie. Méfiance. Filature. Espionnage. Ambiguïté. C'est dans cet univers administratif étouffant que Paul vient d'accéder au poste de directeur général aux Affaires étrangères. Il travaille dans un service diplomatique où les...
- Auteur:Désy, JeanSommaire:
Une méditation sur la mort, la vie et l'amour. Résumé Mourir. Malgré la vie. Malgré la joie. Mourir. Peut-être renaître un jour. Conte-poème au pays des Inuits et des coureurs de froid. Accueilli et soigné au Nunavik, l'...
- Auteur:Brossard, NicoleSommaire:
Nicole Brossard’s Museum of Bone and Water delivers sensual and provocative investigations of the human body — our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire — that pulse and surprise at every turn. In this collection,...
- Auteur:Horlick, LeahSommaire:
Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she...
- Auteur:Liebich, RayyaSommaire:
This poetry collection travels through a daughter's childhood memories in Montreal, her mother's homeland of Lebanon, and the dark realities of grief across borders. Min Hayati uncovers the well of sorrow and the depth of love...
- Auteur:Redekop, MagdaleneSommaire:
Making Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s,...
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Auteur:McNulty, LoriSommaire:A middle-aged sportswriter gets a new lease on life with a heart transplant and develops an intimate relationship with his donated heart. Two brothers find in their rotting family tree the tangled roots of a dark childhood memory. A...
- Auteur:Giguère, ChristianSommaire:
Michaël a rencontré Dominique durant la fièvre du printemps 2012. Aujourd'hui, il est père d'une petite fille et réduit à vendre du fentanyl dans les secteurs pauvres de Longueuil. Un jour, il est approché par le Gang de l...
- Auteur:Pleau, MichelSommaire:
D'une douceur infinie, ce recueil respire l'enfance retrouvée, ses gestes, ses odeurs et ses moments de grâce. Évoquant l'été de ses huit ans, Michel Pleau écrit ici le petit livre qui, à son insu, commençait alors à prendre forme dans...
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