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The love poems in "This Tremor Love Is" span 25 years, from Marlatt's first writing to its most recent sequences.

A compulsively readable, beautiful and dark novel of stormy relationships and all-consuming desires.

Nichol's comics (1960-1980) informed his work in other genres as well as the work of other writers.

Tremblay's four memorable solo performances for the stage: "A Trick of Fate," "Anatomy Lesson," "The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi" and "Ogre."

Doyle has a funny problem: he can hear the most intimate details of those around him. Cast of 1 man.

A history of modern Iran, and a revealing first-hand account by Irans first female vice-president, Massoumeh Ebtekar, of the 1979 revolutionary students who captured the American embassy in Tehran. Ebtekar sets out to correct decades of misrepresentation by the Western media of what the aims of the Iranian students and the populist revolution they personified were, and have since remained.

"Invites its audience to think about the nature of self and its socio-cultural construction, as well as the nature of fame, the role of cultural iconography, but doesn't presuppose answers. The play is never didactic, and more enjoyable for it."

Two plays about the process of becoming an adult and the necessity for rites of passage in all cultures.

Fifteen years after the death of their father, three brothers visit the place where it happened. Cast of 3 men.

Features the work of Blaser, Bowering, Derksen, Dudek, Hartog, Kiyooka, Kroetsch, Marlatt, McKay, Nichol, Ondaatje, Robertson, Stanley, Wah and others.

A woman returns to cottage country where, years before, she and her sister both fell in love with local boys, and their lives changed unalterably. Cinematic in its feel and pacing, recalling the 1950s genre of Dirty Dancing and My American Cousin, That Summer is a meditation on what endures of fleeting moments. Cast of 5 women and 3 men.

In Volume II, Wasserman shows us Canadian drama from 1985 to 1997, during which we see women playwrights rise to greater prominence, along with Native, gay, lesbian, and Quebecois playwrights. But, continuing on from Volume I, this selection of plays not only takes us farther into the annals of the lives of the marginalized; it also provides a revealing cultural and philosophical cross-section of late-twentieth-century life in Canada.

This fourth edition contains "The Ecstasy of Rita Joe," "Fortune and Men's Eyes," "Les Belle Soeurs," "Leaving Home" and others.

This fourth novel in the "Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal" follows Edouard, the fat woman's brother-in-law, as he explores Paris.

Adeena Karasick's fourth book of poetry achieves an astonishing layered complexity and maturity.

Poems explore the creative power of desire, where the love of perfection crosses boundaries of gender and polity.

Humorous stories, bittersweet monologues, poetic reflections and revelatory anecdotes about motherhood.

Five instantly recognizable multicultural characters play out their coincidental relationships in a contemporary paradisea park on the outskirts of a city. The pursuit of their personal goals, usually considered as good and worthwhile in our society, pits each of these characters irrevocably against each other, and good intentions are carried to their absurd extremes. Cast of 4 men, 2 women.

Native activists and environmentally concerned vegetarians clash over moose roast and vegetarian lasagna. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

A young woman, her sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X loser and his disabled brother. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

Thoroughly grounded in the media culture of film and television, mclennan's language obscures the breadth and depth of this work.

Examines the writings of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, focussing on their collaborative work as the Toronto Research Group (TRG).

Will a Montreal Mafioso sacrifice his young son for safe conduct to England? Cast of 6 women and 8 men.

Three brothers strive to unite and care for their ailing sister. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

This is the third volume in Michel Tremblay's Chronicles of the Plateau Mount-Royal.

Selections from all six of Thesen's previous books, as well as poems from the late 1970s to the mid 90s.

Contains "Gossip" (1977), "Filthy Rich" (1979) and "The Art of War" (1983), three plays that showcase Walker's film noir style.