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If language is an index of belonging, then these poems are the writing of an exile, a tribe of one.

An homage to Jack Spicer, but also a tribute to his Orphic conception of the serial poem, "After Jack."

This short fiction collection is a paradigm of prosody where writing is sampling, borrowing and cutting-and-pasting, a mash-up meets literature.

Weyman Chan's poems elaborate his singular and solitary work on the renaissance of the contemporary lyric form.

Gabriel Dumont's memoirs present a rare view of Metis history as told by one of their key heros.

Three plays about the co-dependent relationship between a chronically unemployed engineer and actress who has never been out of work.

Is it a substance-abusing petty criminal who's robbing this elderly couple of their possessions, security and family--or something else?

"is a door" includes poems generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem-solving, collaborative events, travel, investigation documentary.

"Strange Comfort" collects the best of Sherrill Grace's many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry.

This gorgeous full-colour book documents the dynamic creative arts company Ex Machina, including Robert Lepage's Dragon's Trilogy.

Essays on poetic theory written by Canadian poets from the late 19th century to 1918.

Essays that explore the ways in which poetry, visual art and critical practices encounter the imperialist agenda of globalization.

This drama scrutinizes the media and our private reactions to foreign policy. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

Siblings embark on a wild road trip in this vaudeville-inspired one-act play. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

Since the debut of Garry Thomas Morses first collection deemed experimental fiction, Death in Vancouver has drawn fervid enthusiasm from many West Coast writers and artists. Set in Vancouver, B.C., this gathering of stories superimposes aspects of literary classics on local urban space to express increasing dissonance and alienation in the groaning necropolis that is the contemporary global city.One Helen is a woman subject to poetic idealization who reveals her own interior monologue on Bloomsday in Another Helen in this two-part romantic comedy where love may arrive too late. In Nailed, an incident from The Book of Judges becomes zagadka without razgadka, or one of Gogols riddles without resolution. Salt Chip Boy presents homogenized global jargon from an Orwellian vision of a future Vancouver where denizens controlled by implanted desiccants enter virtual worlds to enjoy vintage language and scenarios. In Two Scoops, an attractive reporter investigates a government-funded project that involves supermarket products and sexual hallucinations. In The Book, a Dostoyevskian drunkard contemplates Mallarms suggestion that everything exists to end up in a book while en route to the stone that drives men mad as described in Pauline Johnsons Legends of Vancouver. Dry Gray, who takes his name from a burger chain receipt while trying to stay sober, grapples with lingering questions from an Aspergers test.These stories culminate in the title novella, a restatement of Thomas Manns Death in Venice in which a retired ballet dancer called Padam falls under the spell of a young man in the lounge of the Istoria (fictional double to the Sylvia Hotel). When a hotel renovation leads Padam to believe that cosmetic injections will resolve his unrequited passion, he finds himself suddenly face to face with an unslaked desire for historical vengeance in the beak of a First Nations bird monster.

Karasick's sixth book mashes up the lexicon of war with post-industrial consumerism, haute cuisine, couture, language, Eros and desire.

"Pell Mell" imagines an image nation where the heart is always torn to pieces possessed by the other or others.

Internationally acclaimed as a playwright, screen-writer, comic and sardonic commentator on the endless gaffs, absurdities and the profound and painful misunderstandings that continue to characterize social interactions between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples, Taylors stories in Fearless Warriors are a full frontal assault on stereotypes of all kinds and an edifying affirmation of humanity unlike anything else in fiction.

"The Heretic" works well as a stand-up act about one man's personal encounters with religion. Cast of 1 man.

War veteran Silvio self-destructs in the second play in Rossi's "A Carpenter's Trilogy." Cast of 3 women and 2 men.