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Juliana Aragn Fatula writes histories so terrifying they feel as if they were written with a knife. She writes with craft and courage about what most folks are too ashamed to even think about, let alone talk about. Her fearlessness is inspirational. This is the kind of poetry I want to read, this the kind I want to write. She makes me feel like writing poetry!" -Sandra Cisneros

Joseph Hutchison is Colorado's Poet Laureate and the author of eleven collections of poetry.

What happens when you try to double cross the tooth fairy? Marc Ngui's follow-up to his popular and critically acclaimed book Enter Avariz answers this question with an intricately crosshatched cartoon conflation of childhood fears in a morally ambiguous suburban fable. Told with wicked delight and dark humour in the tradition of Roald Dahl, Edward Gorey, or Tim Burton, Toronto native Marc Ngui has created a graphic novel with all the ghoulish...

Since 2009, Spain & Morocco was serialized weekly at www.spainandmorocco.com, to much acclaim and a steadily growing readership. The story follows two young roommates, Walt and Dan, who decide to leave behind their uneventful lives to go on a two week trip through Spain and Morocco. With little money, not much travelling experience, and almost no social skills, they hope to find something that will awaken their spirits. What they do find is th...

Winner of the Colorado Book Award, Never Summer speaks tenderly...layered so the perception of reality becomes almost super-real.

The voice of these poems lives in myth and dream, and therefore holds the secrets of our deepest hopes and desires.

In his adaptation of Amerika, which took seven years to achieve, Godbout has tried to remain as faithful as possible to Kafka's novel, while using the clear line aesthetic he has perfected in his series Red Ketchup. Unlike the common cliché of Kafka's work, Amerika is not a dark and sinister novel, but a dynamic and colourful story, with a touch of absurdist humor. Perfect for an adaptation into a graphic novel. It tells the story of the young...

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Belliveau's story begins with a loss of innocence over ice skater Katarina Witt's fall from grace by posing in Playboy. It is told through both drawings and email text between friends. The story jumps between Canada and the United States and travels abroad navigating life after art school, marriage and divorce. It is a year in a life, but one that is pregnant with memory, meaning and desire. It is a post-modern coming of age story which quite ...

In Active Gods, Michael J. Henry examines what it means to be both the parent and the son, and his poems reveal threads between these dual identities in small, specific moments: the shared experience of growing up, losing out, escaping, and then resolving to try again.

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Chris Ransick, appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006, is the author of five books: Language for the Living and the Dead, Never Summer: Poems from Thin Air (Winner of the Colorado Book Award), A Return to Emptiness: Stories (Colorado Book Award finalist), Lost Songs & Last Chances, and Asleep Beneath the Hill of Dreams.

J Diego Frey is a product of suburban Colorado in the nineteen-seventies and an admirer of cheeseburgers. His poetry follows naturally from this.

Cultural Writing. Biography. Humor. Sports. BOWLBRAWL is the hard-to-believe but apparently mostly true tale of Robert Towell's rise in the world of late 1990s contact hypermasculine bowling, culminating in the only bowling trial in the history of Ontario, Canada. With his company (World Championship Bowling) and the edgy and life-risking storylines, pay-per-views, psychotic "athletes" and the continuous love of his wife Nikola, Robert Towell ...

In this first volume of a trilogy based on the writings of Stephen Crane, Vancouver artist and animator Julian Lawrence brings his iconic Drippy the Newsboy to life! Here the naive Drippy gets pulled into the world of the Forbidden Zone by Harry and his alchoholic pals. His papers do not get delivered and his mother is concerned. But after his darling mother grows ill Drippy sees the error of his ways. Lawrence is known in Vancouver's undergro...

Joe is a shy high school student who is relentlessly bullied, and must find comfort in the natural world. Soon however, the story twists into a tale of power and fear complete with visual symbolism and beautiful cartooning. The morally ambiguous ending will keep you thinking long after you close the covers. Already a success in French (published by Delcourt) the English version was serialized in small mini comic chapters through Oily Comics in...

The long anticipated second installment of Julian Lawrence's trilogy (based on Stephen Crane's work) is here! The Red Drip of Courage finds our hero, Drippy the Newsboy, preparing to go to war with the enemy. After several false rumours (and, presumably, editorial retractions) in the Gazette, the boys are finally on the march. But their enthusiasm for action is soon extinguished by the harsh reality of conflict with the Forbidden Zone's Army o...

A Pick-A-Plot book, where you make the choices that pick the plot. This is the prequel to the award-winning You Are a Cat! where we discover the originals and escapades of Holden Catfield before he is taken home by a dysfunctional family. One plot thread has the kitten growing so large it crushes the Earth itself!

Towerkind is an oblique end-of-the-world story seen through the eyes of a diverse group of children in Toronto's St James Town, a neighbourhood of densely populated high rise apartments. The kids in this "towerhood" become aware of an impending catastrophe through a number of supernatural abilities. Among other characters super strong Ty is a self-proclaimed monarch, Mackenzie uses her death magic to meddle, and language savant Mose would pref...

Garbage is an architectural-scale series of panels that transform a gallery into a comic book. Each "page" of the story pops with colour off the wall, unfolding using the common tropes of comic books. Taken together the paintings tell the story of neighbours in Halifax's North End and a mysterious couch which shows up one morning on the narrator's front curb. As the narrator confronts his neighbours, asking where it came from, he gains insight...