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Post-glacial: The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch by Mr. Robert Kroetsch
Booksplease Price: £18.41Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch's iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered... -
Completed Field Notes: The Long Poems of Robert Kroetsch by Robert Kroetsch 9780888643506
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95A series of diary entries. Marginalia from Pausanias's description of Greece. A nineteenth century ledger. Postcards from China. What do these ostensibly unrelated things have in common? Little or... -
Words of My Roaring by Robert Kroetsch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60"I was electioneering. By God, people were listening. People were looking my way. And some joker with his arse begining to ache from sitting too long on a nail had to clear his throat and chip in,... -
The Studhorse Man by Robert Kroetsch 9780888644251
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.33Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard's outrageous adventures are narrated by Demeter... -
Seed Catalogue by Teacher Robert Kroetsch 9780888011091
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888011091Author Teacher Robert KroetschFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Turnstone... -
The Hornbooks of Rita K by Robert Kroetsch 9780888643728
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Where has Rita gone and who is reconstructing her... -
What the Crow Said by Robert Kroetsch 9780888643032
Booksplease Price: £18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Alcuin Society Citations for Excellence in Book Design in Canada - 2nd, Prose Fiction 1999.Book... -
Alberta: Second Edition by Robert Kroetsch 9780920897317
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920897317Author Robert KroetschFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest... -
Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet by David Staines
RRP: £34.50Booksplease Price: £30.46Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet brings together an international cast of critics, scholars, and writers to examine, re-examine, and honour the celebrated author's immense significance in... -
The Lovely Treachery of Words: Essays Selected and New by Robert Kroetsch 9780195406948
Booksplease Price: £28.53A collection of essays by distinguished novelist, poet and critic Robert Kroetsch. In this collection Kroetsch dwells on the silence, the violence, and the erotics of writers as different as Sinclair... -
The Home Place: Essays on Robert Kroetsch's Poetry by Dennis Cooley 9781772121193
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £31.09"He wants to sit and visit at the kitchen table, and he can hardly wait to get on the road again." -From Chapter 1 Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's most important writers, was a fierce... -
![Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch's "The Studhorse Man": Biology and Culture; Sex and Gender; Eugenics and Contraception; Writing and Reading by Francis Zichy 9781433108334](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8361499/9397217/9781433108334__58041.1749623134.jpg?c=1 "Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch's "The Studhorse Man": Biology and Culture; Sex and Gender; Eugenics and Contraception; Writing and Reading by Francis Zichy 9781433108334")
Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch's "The Studhorse Man": Biology and Culture; Sex and Gender; Eugenics and Contraception; Writing and Reading by Francis Zichy 9781433108334
RRP: £76.25Booksplease Price: £67.67This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man, examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are... -
Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Moure, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, and Fred Wah by Pauline Butling 9780888644312
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.30Seven poets of diverse region, gender, sexual orientation, race, and generation. Seven poets linked by experiment and opposition. Robert Kroetsch discusses postmodernism's history, Fred Wah talks... -
Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature by Peter Schwenger 9781138830196
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Phallic Critiques, first published in 1984, is a study of 'masculine' styles of writing in the twentieth century - an age, according to Virginia Woolf, when 'virility has become self-conscious'... -
The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature Richard J. Lane 9780415470469
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts. In this clear and structured volume,... -
GWG: Piece by Piece Catherine C. Cole 9780864926418
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.60Winner, Alberta Historical Resources Foundation Heritage Award, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publications, and Redgees Legacy AwardShortlisted, Robert Kroetsch City of... -
That Light Feeling Under Your Feet by Kayla Geitzler 9781988732213
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards 2019 (Canada).Book... -
Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood by Carissa Halton 9781772123753
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.33Apologies 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... -
Attic Rain by Samantha Jones 9781774390986
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alberta Book Publishing Awards: Robert Kroetsch Poetry Award 2025 (Canada). Short-listed for Stephen G... -
Paper Teeth by Lauralyn Chow 9781926455631
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize 2017 (Canada). Short-listed for Alberta Readers' Choice Award... -
Northern Love: An Exploration of Canadian Masculinity by Paul Nonnekes 9781897425220
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in pursuit of a distinctive conception of a Canadian masculinity.In close discussions of novels by Rudy Wiebe (A... -
Coterminous Worlds: Magical realism and contemporary post-colonial literature in English by Elsa Linguanti 9789042004382
Booksplease Price: £43.73The present collection of essays endeavours to furnish informed responses to central questions posed by the editors: Is the fact that the marvellous coexists with the factual and never resolves... -
![Imagining Culture: New World Narrative and the Writing of Canada by Margaret E. Turner 9780773513082 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6583658/6660579/9780773513082__45177.1738899888.jpg?c=1 "Imagining Culture: New World Narrative and the Writing of Canada by Margaret E. Turner 9780773513082 [USED COPY]")
Imagining Culture: New World Narrative and the Writing of Canada by Margaret E. Turner 9780773513082 [USED COPY]
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £3.71Turner examines the manner in which a new world culture represents itself, creates its origins, and constructs and understands the construction of its cultural history. She supports her theory with... -
Postcolonial Literary Geographies: Out of Place by John Thieme 9781137456861
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as... -
Whelmed by Nicole Markotic 9781552453261
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Dulge, rageous, couth, chalant-we think of prefixes as a few letters that change a word, but what if a word is lost without one? Each prose poem in Whelmed features a word that has been unhinged from... -
Entering Sappho by Sarah Dowling
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement. Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing... -
Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity by George Melnyk 9781552388907
Booksplease Price: £33.71Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and... -
Clockfire by Jonathan Ball 9781552452363
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.84Shortlisted for the Manitoba Book Awards in the category of Most Promising Writer Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be... -
Exhibit by Paul Zits 9781773850689
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.25Margaret is unlike other women: her hands bark, she speaks Hawaiian Punch, and she can often be seen prodding at stars with sticks. And sometimes she is the happiest woman in the world: a pillow with... -
Air Salt: A Trauma Memoire as a Result of the Fall by Ian Kinney 9781773851129
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Ian Kinney fell seven stories, and he survived. In Air Salt Kinney (un)writes his hospitalization and recovery, using poetry as neuro-rehabilitation. A memoir written by an amnesiac, this collection... -
Molecular Cathedral: The Poetry of John Lent John Lent 9781771126373
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Molecular Cathedral is the first ever selection of the extraordinary poems of John Lent, renowned Okanagen-based writing instructor and poet.Lent's work is restlessly experimental and yet always... -
Vs. by Kerry Ryan 9781897535349
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84'Vs.' is a collection of poems chronicling the author's foray into the world of amateur boxing. A shy, bookish woman you'd never expect could hit someone in the face, Ryan was soon hooked on the... -
Anthologizing Canadian Literature: Theoretical & Cultural Perspectives by Robert Lecker 9781771121071
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in... -
Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction by Brian Edwards 9781138864375
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Drawing on developments in critical theory and postmodernist fiction, this study makes an important contribution to the appreciation of playforms in language, texts, and cultural practices. Tracing... -
The Canadian Postmodern:: A Study of Contemporary Canadian Fiction by Linda Hutcheon 9780199001798
Booksplease Price: £14.00The postmodern novel was a surprisingly and often poorly understood phenomenon of the 1980s and 90s, in which many artists explored issues of how art represents the world. These works are... -
Photographic Encounters: The Edges and Edginess of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions by William F. Garrett-Petts 9780888643629
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.10Literacy is broadly understood to refer to the ability to read and write. But the term is heavily value-laden and is often used to elevate print at the expense of other forms of communication. In... -
Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann 9781487011789
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.46An intimate look at one of culture's most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park... -
Nighthawks Lisa Martin 9781772128550
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27In Nighthawks, Lisa Martin traces a creaturely interconnectedness, traversing land, ecology, and other boundaries amid crises unfolding at a global scale. These poems parse aspects of human... -
As If by E. D. Blodgett 9780888647276
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95as if there could be no other memory a tree invisible remembering itself In as if, E.D. Blodgett takes readers on journeys of contemplation in which he re-imagines the lyric form. Each line leaves... -
Continuations 2 by Douglas Barbour 9780888645968
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95"Most long poems contain lyric occasions. Here is an amazingly sustained lyric that contains traces of other commodities." -Robert Kroetsch Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular...