Pier Giorgio Di Cicco ISBN 1-894469-143 $14.95 CDN $12.95 US 96 pp In The Dark Time of Angels, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco continues the exploration of spiritual themes that he began in the critically acclaimed The Honeymoon Wilderness, which Michael Redhill in The Globe and Mail called, “a startling and beautiful work.” Personal yet universal, […]
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The Bone Broker
Lillian Necakov ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-36-4 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 88 pp In The Bone Broker, Lillian Necakov steps into the operating room of human history to take the pulse of a troubled world. This is visceral poetry that bears witness to a “landscape haunted by centuries of rage,” in which the drama of public life […]
The Body of my Garden
Rishma Dunlop ISBN 1-894469-08-9 $14.95 CDN 120 pp In The Body of My Garden, Rishma Dunlop takes a voyage around the heart in poems that embody the burdens and exhilaration of love. Whether recreating the paradise gardens of Moghul India, or writing an erotically charged poetry of absent lovers, Dunlop uses language in a painterly […]
The Alphabet of the Traveler
Corrado Paina ISBN 1-894469-25-9 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 56 pp In The Alphabet of the Traveler, Corrado Paina has crafted an alphabetical meditation on the motives and concerns of an anonymous traveler who seeks to escape the bonds of time and determination. It is a book for anyone who has ever gone to a foreign […]
The Aging Cheerleader’s Alphabet
Jeanette Lynes ISBN 1-894469-151 $14.95 CDN $12.95 US 80 pp In The Aging Cheerleader’s Alphabet, Lynes has crafted a moving portrait of a woman whose humour and chutzpah challenge a world that sees her as a relic of another age. Part nostalgia, part cultural critique with respect to women’s experience of aging, Lynes’ Cheerleader does […]
Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco ISBN 1-894469-32-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-32-6 with a preface by Charles Landry In Municipal Mind, Toronto’s Poet Laureate offers a blueprint for building sustainable cities in a global era, predicated on city soul. By weaving bold and savvy strategies for urban creativity and civic prosperity, together with a reasoned appeal for mutual […]
Hoarse Legend
Corrado Paina ISBN 1-894469-02-X CD Included: 25 min. $15.95 CDN 56 pp In Hoarse Legend, Corrado Paina plunges into the maelstrom of language and race to bring back an evocative report of what is found there. His poems are an incisive critique of a culture that fears difference, yet the cities he describes are splendid […]
Goodbye, Ukulele
Leigh Nash ISBN 978-1-894469-50-0 $16.95 CDN / US 68 pp Leigh Nash’s first full-length poetry collection is jammed with surprises and conundrums: lovesick whales, a mermaid Virgin Mary, pumpkins tossed from windows—a litany of strange and striking questions. The poems in Goodbye, Ukulele layer stark images that yield truths, lies, and what glimmers between. Blending […]
Flutter
Alice Burdick ISBN 978-1-894469-41-8 $16.95 CDN 98 pp Nova Scotia poet Alice Burdick’s second major poetry collection is a cat’s cradle of startling imagistic leaps and quiet meditations. Burdick sets her lateral gaze on small-town news stories, banal occurrences, and the tiny things of a semi-rural life. In the tradition of John Ashbery or Lorine […]
Floors of Enduring Beauty
Steven Venright ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-33-3 $16.95 CDN $12.95 100 pp With his first full-length work since the acclaimed Spiral Agitator (2000), Steve Venright sails even further out onto uncharted literary waters. Floors of Enduring Beauty is laden with delirious extended prose poems, distorted philosophical musings, elaborate advice for instant gratification, a spoonerist narrative that rollicks […]
