Ever since the cover of RPM and some of her poetry was used in Charlie Kaufman’s film, “I’m thinking of ending things,” Eva’s book has been sold around the world. It just goes to show how many people pay attention to film in general and Charlie Kaufman in particular. On September 12, Eva will be […]
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Candace de Taeye on the longlist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award!
Candace de Taeye Special 20% off. $18.00 is now $14.40 Can/US It’s April, it’s National Poetry Month, it’s getting warmer, and the League of Canadian Poets will soon hand out their annual awards. There are a lot of great books here on the longlists, including Candace deTaeye’s _Pronounced / Workable._ It is up for […]
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 […]
Gary Barwin Gets Inside Stephen Harper
Here’s a great video for a poem that appears in Gary Barwin’s brand new Moon Baboon Canoe.
Moon Baboon Canoe Trailer
Here is a little trailer for Gary Barwin’s Moon Baboon Canoe which will be launched in Toronto on April 9th at the Monarch Tavern.
Review of Tristan Hughes’ Eye Lake
Reviewed by Alisha Kaplan Eye Lake Tristan Hughes Coach House Books, 2011 208 pages, $19.95 Where the Lost Things Are: A Review of Tristan Hughes’ Eye Lake Eye Lake is Tristan Hughes’ heartbreaking portrait of Crooked River, a declining iron ore town in Northern Ontario, and of a deceptively simple young man weighed […]
Leigh Nash reads from Goodbye, Ukulele
Here is a fond memory of Leigh Nash dropping by the dear old Mansfield office to read from her poetry collection Goodbye, Ukulele. As Leigh shares her birthday with St. Patrick’s day, remember to raise a glass of green beer in her honour.
Book review: The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Reviewed by Peter Norman The Reinvention of the Human Hand Paul Vermeersch McClelland & Stewart, 2010 88 pages, $18.99 Created more than 17,000 years ago, the cave paintings at Lascaux depict hundreds of animals. The purpose of the images is unknown: their significance may have been religious or shamanistic, or possibly scientific […]
