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Young, naive and inadequately trained nurse Heather Rose arrives in a remote Native community. Cast of 1 woman.

"The Trigger" is a play written for anyone who has ever dealt with sexual violation. Cast of 5 women.

Bowering responds to Rilke's "Duino Elegies" to create post-modern literature that discovers the other during the process of writing.

"sublingual" is perhaps the most highly structured yet of bissett's "textual visions." It begins with a short creation story.

In the second in the "Notebook" trilogy, Celine becomes hostess in a transvestite bordello, flourishing amid a community of others.

The second volume in Hentsch's epic survey of the formative texts of the Western narrative tradition.

The story of Pollock's life from her family roots in New Brunswick through her pioneering years as a Canadian playwright.

A group of urban Egyptian hipsters debates secularism and "fundamentalism" with tragic consequences. Cast of 4 women and 6 men.

This dark comedy of "trading places" resonates with uncomfortable truths about everyday life. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

Drawing from MacLeods experience working with mentally handicapped adults and children, this play celebrates the personal challenges of both self-destruction and self-affirmation so vital to the process of identity creation. At the plays heart is Jhana, whose character begs the question whether the other characters, in their own ways, are any less handicapped. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

Between 1860 and 1930, more than 80,000 British children were "exported" to Canada. Cast of 5 women and 3 men.

Murakami's first book of poetry, written in the political and emotional wake of Vancouver's Missing Women. Governor General's Award Finalist.

Diligently researched biography of one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century.

These poems map zones of interaction during the "surface of last scattering"--the first formation of matter in the universe.

This extraordinary book inverts the traditional ways we define forms in English; self-expression becomes prosaic, the recording of history poetic.

Manufactured unrealities fall away in these poems, leading us both toward and away from being "at home" in the present.

A remembrance of childhood in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, recrafted for the stage. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

This drama set in a one-room schoolhouse evokes a past way of life. Cast of 5 women and 7 men.

Two plays, on Argentina's Dirty War of 1976-83, constitute an unsparing interrogation of a world perpetually at war.

A multilayered drama based on the persona of famed Ojibwa artist Norval Morrisseau. Cast of 5 women and 4 men.

In Vermeer's Light, Canada's first Poet Laureate reveals secrets of creation that he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself.

Silvio Rosato shows up at the house of his estranged father. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

By analyzing publicity materials, photos, programs, reviews, and box office and theater records, D.A. Hadfield traces the process of creating a theatrical success and investigates how the politics involved influences what we perceive as good play-writing.

Looks at freedoms that have been lost to surveillance "for our own protection." Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

A vicious and unsparing look at the talent agencies that remake Hollywood stars. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

Phyllis Webb is a poet around whom archetypes tend to cluster: the reclusive artist; the distraught, borderline suicidal Sapphic woman poet. While on the surface she seems supremely disinterested in the public sphere, argues Stephen Collis in this celebration of her work, Webb is no domestic, as a creator or a critic. Her work sweeps across politics, philosophy, and economics.

The process by which the reader represents the "I" of the text preoccupies Kearns in these brief but concentrated pieces.

This fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry quests for life beyond the perpetual terror of the twenty-first century.

Marion Farrant assaults the unaccountably disaffected and disillusioned of the Western world in her eighth volume of extremely short stories.