Bøger udgivet af Talon Books,Canada

Humour allows the exploration of Indigenous relationships with settler law.

From one of Canadäs most influential poets, poems written in response to the discovery of letters by her father. These poems explore a sense of place and home on Canadäs West Coast now on the brink of global climate change. ¿There Then¿ permeates any ¿Here Now¿ of immigrant consciousness and highlights the impermanent quality of ¿home.¿

A work exploring sibling and romantic love, and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another

It¿s May 1922, wedding preparations are in full swing, and old memories, past desires, and big regrets threaten to turn the big celebration into a big melee.

still is a book of poems about alienated interiority, a self-withdrawn, hidden presence: affective and extractive capitalism, surveillance and commodification of behaviour, non-participation, withdrawn complicity, paralysis in time of crisis, what non-doing does.

Explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, and asks what resistance to the tenor of these out-of-joint times might look like.

Written in sixty short epistolary chapters, award winning author M.A.C. Farrant¿s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society.

Maya is a hikikomori, an extreme recluse who hasn¿t left her bedroom in five years, spending all her time in Virtual Reality. So her father hires an actor to befriend her online and entice her back into the real world. How? By visiting the scariest place on earth, Aokigahara, the ¿Suicide Forest.¿ Can virtual worlds offer real solutions? Is an honourable death better than a meaningless life? Kuroko is a story about a family who are worlds apart, separated by pain, from past and present, alone in the real and virtual worlds, each unsure of the way back home.

Life-long poem project from the Governor General's Award¿winning former parliamentary poet laureate.

The only known first-person account by a Chinese worker on the Canadian Pacific Railway, an invaluable contribution to Canadian history.

"Orwell in Cuba: How '1984' Came to Be Published in Castro's Twilight" is a personal account of today's Cuba at a pivotal point in its history, with the Castro brothers passing power on to a new generation. The book is akin to a detective story, as the author investigates how and why a state-run publishing house has come to release a new translation of George Orwell's iconic anti-totalitarian novel "Nineteen-Eighty-Four," formerly taboo.

This high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless trickster who face the world head-on. Kamloopa explores the fearless love and passion of Indigenous women reconnecting with their homelands, ancestors, and stories. This boundary-blurring adventure will remind you to always dance like the ancestors are watching.

Eight-Track is composed of eight tracks (or series) plus two bonus tracks, each of which explores one of the various meanings of the word "track," such as a musical track, a physical path, the marks left by a person or animal, speech tracking, animal and human tracking, and systems of surveillance. The poems ask: How can a trace be sonically and visually embodied? What do our systems of surveillance reveal about ourselves? How does language oppress?