YYC POP is the legacy project by Calgary Poet Laureate, Sheri-D Wilson. A collection of poetry written by current and ex-pat Calgarians, the works contained in the collection celebrate ordinary and extraordinary Calgarians. She asked...
21st century
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- Author:Mathis-Moser, UrsulaSummary:
This collection of essays examines how the sense of crisis that occasionally seems to overwhelm us directs and transforms Canadian and Quebec writings in English and French, and conversely, how literature and criticism set out to...
- Author:Hobsbawn-Smith, DeeSummary:
In this amazing first collection of poetry, Habsbawn-Smith displays a skill and passion for capturing and creating experience through language. Here is a new, and original voice that sparks with intelligence in its full-tilt...
- Author:Dickerson, JohnSummary:
Presidential campaigns are a battle for control of power. Whistlestop tells the stories reporters and campaign aides rehash at the bar, each one adding an unknown tidbit. These are human stories full of drama and switchbacks, failures...
- Author:Greenwood, ThereseSummary:
Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly...
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"A collection of dozens of Canadian poets writing about the present pandemic."--
- Author:Nicholson, CecilySummary:
Wayside Sang concerns entwined migrations of Black-other diaspora coming to terms with fossil-fuel psyches in times of trauma and movement. This is a poetic account of economy travel on North American roadways, across the Peace and...
- Author:Bauman, ZygmuntSummary:
- Author:Small, RosamundSummary:
Vitals is a solo show presenting the story of Anna, a Toronto paramedic. Anna’s daily routine is life, death, bureaucracy. Every call she receives is an emergency. How much trouble is our city in? Based on real interviews conducted with...
- Author:Toto, ChristianSummary:
Christian Toto describes Hollywood's descent into dreary, dull, leftist groupthink. This book shows the slow-motion disaster infiltrating the industry, and offers a glimmer of hope for a woke-free tomorrow.
- Author:Hayes, ChristopherSummary:
Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose throughout the past half-century before succumbing to corruption...
- Author:Kidd, Sue MonkSummary:
The authors describe their introspective journeys to Greece and France, during which they reconnected while Sue grappled with midlife challenges and writer's block and Ann struggled with heartbreak and post-college career questions.
- Author:Bouvet, RachelSummary:
Résumé Une femme perd sa voix. Elle écrit pour reprendre possession de son corps abîmé. Elle chemine ainsi, s'ancre par l'écriture dans sa voix intime, qui résonne avec d'autres silences et paysages de terre, d...
- Author:Charleson, KarenSummary:
Everyone knows everyone's business in the small fishing community of Kitsum. So when young Brenda Joe fears she might be pregnant, she also worries that rumours will spread quickly. Things look up when Brenda's favourite aunt, Monica...
- Author:Belcourt, Billy-RaySummary:
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside.' Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like...
- Author:Benson, Brian, Brown, Richard J.Summary:
A long-time activist in the Black community in Portland, OR, shows how and why to become an engaged, activist citizen, and how activists can stay grounded, no matter how deeply they're immersed in the work.
- Author:Liddell-Westefeld, ChrisSummary:
Chris Liddell-Westefeld and dozens of other staff and volunteers dedicated every ounce of their time, intelligence, and limited resources to helping elect Obama, as what started in Iowa spread nationwide. Drawn from more than 200...
- Author:Pearl, NancySummary:
Librarian Nancy Pearl and playwright Jeff Schwager interview a diverse range of America's most notable and influential writers about the books that shaped and inspired them.
- Author:Wooldridge, Adrian, Micklethwait, JohnSummary:
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many others failed. Are Western...
- Author:Alfano, MichelleSummary:
No parent is prepared for the moment when her daughter comes out to her--not as a lesbian, but as a person whose physical gender is out-of-keeping with his emotional and psychological gender-identity. In Michelle Alfano's intimate...