Paola Ferrante will read tonight in Kitchener at the gala opening of the Wild Writers Festival. She is there to receive this year’s Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award for her story “The Underside of a Wing.” Congratulations to Paola on an outstanding year that also saw the publication of her great book, “What to Wear […]
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The Loudest Thing
Joshua Levy ISBN 9781771262361 $17.00 CDN/USA 80 pages The Loudest Thing is a love letter to family and the complex history of blood, to failed relationships and the magic left behind, to the dance of a happy marriage across decades, to friendship, travel, coming home. Funny, honest, and seductive—Joshua Levy finds the silver lining […]
Swallows Playing Chicken
David Menear 9781771262286 $20.00 CDN/USA David Menear is most often described as an edgy, urgent, gritty and sometimes ‘transgressive’ short story writer with a soft heart and a sense of humour. You find him at that place where Salinger meets Cormac McCarthy for bourbon and biscuits. In the random and weaved stories of “Swallows Playing Chicken,” Menear […]
Deboning a Dragon
Julie Hartley 9781771262323 $17.00 CDN/USA In her debut poetry collection, Julie Hartley has captured the lived experience of a life in motion–a travelogue that moves in rhythmic language from a childhood in England through restless travels around the globe. Hartley is a poet who can say, “You’ll never know if there are others / picking your route […]
Stuart Ross wins the Harbourfront Festival Prize
A little late in the news cycle but it is still worth reporting that our good friend Stuart Ross, who has edited many Mansfield books over the years, has won the Harbourfront Festival Prize. Few people in this country have given more to the cultivation of a vibrant literary culture than Stuart. He’s a great […]
Doubter’s Hymnal
Laura Cok ISBN 9781771262088 $17.00 CDN/USA 100 pages In strikingly assured poems of formal and informal grace, Laura Cok’s explores the compelling nature of faith and its loss and the shifting dynamics of family life. Steering clear of sentimentality, and with a wry look at the vagaries of coming of age, Cok has created a […]
Unless Acted Upon
Tim Conley ISBN 9781771262125 $17.00 CDN/USA 92 pages Unless Acted Upon, a book which in its heart of hearts wants to be a Rube Goldberg machine, explores different kinds of forces and movements. It applies the laws of motion (classical and textbook physics) to human relationships and institutions. It asks, “isn’t emotion a / combo […]
Breakfast with a Heron
James Hawes ISBN 9781771262163 $17.00 CDN/USA 98 pages In his first full-length collection of poems, James Hawes explores themes as diverse as nature, travel, love, coleslaw and Steven Seagal, placing his subjects on equal ground, searching for empathy in even the most mundane of events. It is a book of memories of the everyday to […]
What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack
Paola Ferrante ISBN 9781771262248 $17.00 CDN/USA 86 pages “Paola Ferrante comes out of the gate as one of the strongest new writers in Canada. In What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack, the perversions of procedural thinking are exposed in a mock-scientific deconstruction of man’s attempted dominion over women. Classic horror films, biology, fairy […]
