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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527758Author Kai Cheng ThomFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 222g

In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix . . . you can't stop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365863Author Douglas CouplandFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 111gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a...

Passion, desire, and longing in the work of six Canadian women poets.Passion, desire, and longing in the work of six Canadian women poets.About the AuthorMeira Cook, a widely published poet and scholar, is the author of Text into Flesh: A Lacanian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize 2019 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9781772123753Author Carissa HaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint...

Celebrate the holiday season with over twenty tales-true and make-believe-of Atlantic Canadian Christmases, past and present. Edited by Dan Soucoup (A Short History of Halifax), The Finest Tree showcases memories, traditions, and stories from all four...

Much of A.M. Klein's finest prose is to be found in the mass of uncompleted work that he abandoned at the time of his breakdown, and that became accessible only when his papers were deposited in the National Archives. Notebooks offers a generous...

The search for a distinctive Canadian literature is not new. It began in the 1820s, and even then involved many of the same issues that concern critics today. Much of this early material is now inaccessible to most Canadians. Carl Ballstadt has selected...

This anthology offers readers a selection of Newfoundland writing which will illuminate the unfolding of the province's history and culture and at the same time command respect as literature. It is comprised of 65 selections from literary and historical...

The writings of John Milton and William Blake were central to Northrop Frye's concept of the imaginative structure of Western literature and thought. He considered them the two most important poet-prophets in the English tradition.This volume brings...

The works of a seminal Canadian writer, available again.The works of a seminal Canadian writer, available again.About the AuthorBorn in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) taught at McGill University from 1951 to 1981 and wrote novels and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773861128Author Adrienne FitzpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...

Finalist for the 2014 Archibald Lampman Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry! Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices into a stitched song propelled toward the next century. Haunted by "time's frame / that...

"Needs Improvement is a book of a new logic making its way from witty statements to slow-moving lyric villanelles, achieving brilliantly a contemporary sense of streaming among words, places and 'no self.'"--Nicole Brossard Whether misreading sixth...

"Alphabetic dismantling, syntactic play, essaying words backwards and 4words (as she might say), Christakos manifests forensic clarity and telegraphic fortitude in this unsettling work."--Rachel Blau DuPlessis Revelling in the value of social polyphony...

"This is a book with brains and muscle, resonant and intense, and Matthew Heiti is a prodigious talent, the spooky bard of mullets and muffin-tops, grow-ops and stolen snakeskin boots on Highway 69." Mark Anthony Jarman A body is found on the side...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550175028Author Paul VermeerschFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Considered by many to be Northrop Frye's magnum opus, The Great Code (1982) reflects a lifetime of thinking about the patterns and meanings of the Bible. In this new edition of The Great Code, Alvin A. Lee presents a corrected and fully annotated version...

"After reading Mr. Faulkner's incredible book, something happened. I began to feel bad for the person I was before reading his poems. The poet writes: 'I've placed dynamite around your heart and a bit / in your teeth. How bored you must have been /...

Although Northrop Frye's first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), elevated the reputation of William Blake from the status of a minor eccentric to that of a major Romantic poet, Frye in fact saw Blake as a poet (and, consequently, himself as a critic) not of...

"Whip-pan-smart, fleet and protean, David Seymour's poems seem to contain the speed of the age. I love their ranginess and ambition, the way they rove through a here-and-now teeming with there-and-then, their speakers' flights and turnings through the...

"No other writer of our time and place was so diverse, attempted so much, and never lost sight of his intent."--Michael Ondaatje a book of variations collects three difficult-to-find bpNichol texts--love, zygal, and art facts--which exemplify Nichol's...

The twelfth installment of Best Canadian Essays speaks with striking prescience to our contemporary moment. "This book-like most that have found their way into the world this fall-began life in the Before Times," writes editor Sarmishta Subramanian...

Fifty years ago, Markoosie Patsauq, then a bush pilot in his late twenties living in the tiny, isolated High Arctic community of Resolute, spent his spare time quietly writing a story that effectively emerged as the first Indigenous novel released in...

First-wave feminist, activist, and social reformer, Nellie McClung is ranked as one of the most popular Canadian authors and among the liveliest critics of Canada's male-dominated society. Well ahead of her time, McClung was known as a writer who dared...

Fifty writers on life, art and writing from twenty-two years of Brick, A Literary Journal.Founded in 1977, Brick, A Literary Journal features a great many of the world's best-loved writers, and has readers in every corner of the planet. The magazine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551524627Author John Mikhail AsfourFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125320Author Rona AltrowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Alberta Press (CA)Publisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 133g

"The right story, at the right time, if you happen to be open to it ... can perhaps move you so far outside of yourself that you will not consider going back." "Like meeting a stranger, much of the pleasure of a story is its unknown power," writes...

George and Catherine Stewart share the worry of Catherine's illness, which could cause her death at any time, and the memory of Jerome Martell, Catherine's first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with...

A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes is the story of two races within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in prewar Quebec, MacLennan focuses on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771087704Author Elizabeth Rollins EpperlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896794495Author Briana DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Deebee BooksPublisher Deebee BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992741709Author Lyn MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Spinning WheelPublisher Spinning Wheel

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789366388649Author Marietta HolleyPage Count 272Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789366387918Author Clara Louise BurnhamPage Count 248Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789366384719Author Anna Katharine GreenPage Count 348Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions