This anthology of Aboriginal writings from Manitoba takes readers back through the millennia and forward to the present day, painting a dynamic picture of a territory interconnected through words, ideas, ...

Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences ...

Bertram Brooker won the country’s first Governor General’s Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the ...

Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon ...

In recent years Mennonites have become one of the most visible ethnic literary communities in Canada. With the publication of Half in the Sun, BC writers of Mennonite heritage claim their place in this ...

Finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award, 2007 BC Book Prizes
Statistics say that one in 10 women has no intention of taking the plunge into motherhood. Nobody’s Mother is a collection ...

Sexing the Maple is a unique sourcebook designed to raise issues of nationalism and sexuality in Canada through a rich and diverse selection of fiction, poetry, criticism, and history. Structured so as ...

In this volume of interviews with H Nigel Thomas, fifteen leading African Canadian writers discuss the complexities of the writing experience and reveal their thoughts on their creative process. Identifying ...

The Dodecahedron, or A Frame for Frames is a kaleidoscopic novel … of sorts. Twelve stories of seemingly different genres cohere into a book of astonishing literary dimension.

Méira Cook, a widely published poet and scholar, is the author of Text into Flesh: A Lacanian Reading of the Short Stories of I. B. Singer. She lives in Winnipeg.