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In a small town like Chesterville, homicides are as rare as government grants. So it's not surprising that the violent death of the richest man in town, J A Bussières, shakes up the entire population: who could hate the man enough to murder him, one rainy night, in the local cemetery? Roméo Dubuc, the Chief of Police, heads up the investigation. Several suspects have motives. Is it just a coincidence that J A's son, who hated his father, escap...

Merle Nudelman plumbs the nuances and vagaries which define our relationships and the shifting moments of lover, abuser, victim, and healer. The imagery in We, the Women is at once startling and evocative. Poems of layered scenes of domesticity and of the natural world border on the elegiac. In this richly textured collection, Nudelman celebrates the transformative power of love and spiritual awakening.

With humour and poignancy, Marisa Labozzetta's stories expose the social and sexual turmoil of men and women in the time as she puts it 'the old age of youth.' In 'The Knife Lady, ' a seemingly happily married suburbanite receives a jolt of sexual panic with the visit of a woman selling knives. In 'At the Copa, ' an Italian American mother's legacy traps a daughter in her quest for sexual satisfaction and then, paradoxically, frees her. In 'Th...

This is a selection of poems chosen from the first four books published by Paul Bélanger. With Projet de Pablo (1988, a finalist for the Émile Nelligan Award), Bélanger began to cultivate his memory using various kinds of tools. In this first collection Picas-so's works become the pretext for the poet to compare painting to poetry. In Retours (1991, a finalist for the Governor General Award), the poet chooses to travel within and face the stra...

Though Gilles Cyr's work is rooted in the act of seeing, it is not content merely to remain with what is seen, it is not nature poetry, but goes on to encompass the nature of seeing. While nature poetry exploits its material, Gilles Cyr's expresses wholeness, it makes the necessary connection between what is seen and what is seeing. Ultimately sight manifests itself, at the human level, in speech, and that is where the poetry comes from. Cyr, ...

In these poems, told from the writer's home on the outskirts of the city, dreams recur, lore emerges, memory merges with imagination, artifice with nature, and the physical with other possibilities.

Challenging and compelling, this sequence of linked narrative poems consists of philosophical encounters between various necessary polarities: eye and ear, faith and reason, mythos and logos, essence and existence. It also explores the connection between them-the transformation from silence to speech made possible by the written word-and examines the relationship between the poet's physical being and the poet's soul.

The poems in 'Courage Underground' burrow beneath the skin to examine the relationship between consciousness and body. They penetrate hidden emotions contained by vital organs, they enter the sensibilities of lower order creatures and characters of the mythic underworld. The journey elicits new perspectives on loss and alienation that are both hilarious and startling.

Modern poetry is combined with a classical theme in this complex and turbulent incantational anthology from internationally recognized actor Nick Mancuso.

In 'First Day', Malca Litovitz's third collection, childhood memories, love, nature, and battles with illness are depicted on a broad canvas of lyrical and prose poems.

Laurence Hutchman's poetry is a witness to the world around him, to the patterns of families, nations, and landscape. He hears Mozart in the supermarket, and Nelligan breaking into song. While there's a refreshingly outward-looking documentary zeal in his poetry, transformations abound: a typewriter becomes a 'silent temple, ' a baseball glove a 'leather flower, ' a forest a 'way of going into myself.' With this selection from his previous boo...

The writings of Denise Desautels have circulated in Quebec and Europe for some thirty years or so. She is considered to be one of the most talented poets in Quebec, often taking inspiration from the visual arts which she has a gift for seeing in words. As her translator, I was very conscious of this aspect of her work, and when various choices arose in the course of the translation process, I almost always opted for the most pictorial or the m...

In this new book, And Light Remains, Isabella Colalillo-Katz mobilises a poignant poesis to probe the divinities of the heart and its mnemonic trajectories. These poems are stark meditations, imagistic, hopeful and lyrical, on the paradigmatic nature of love and truth. They report the evocative experiences of a searching metaphysic that seeks to reconcile and restore what is lost on the human journey while celebrating what remains -- the indel...

The Last Woman", a selection from twenty years of poetry, is a voyage into being and living, into the country where a woman reveals herself without fear. This lyricism of survival emerges directly from an intimacy of words spoken by one in search of roots, loving and spiritual. French critic, Jean-Pierre Faye, says: "Claudine Bertrand stands between Gaston Miron and Tristan Tzara: a Quebec poet who invents her own new language." This selection...

Told with earthy humour, Stay With Me, Lella is about the arrangement and rearrangements Italian Americans coped with in the years after World War II, as they began to make their way into the mainstream.

Born in 1945 in Pärnu, Jüri Talvet has become one of Estonia's foremost literary figures. He holds degrees in English Philology and Hispanic Literature, and since 1974 has taught comparative literature at Tartu University, serving since 1992 as Chair of the University's Department of Comparative Literature and since 1994 as Chair of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature. He has travelled on grants and as a translator to Cuba, Mexi...

In a moment when poetry is blindfolded in the labyrinth of world politics, trying to find its way to the solutions, Lane gives us the rational route. She has put her fragile eggs (bubbles) in the basket of balance and harmony, the ironic optimism that suffuses her compassionate and intelligent writing... These are not classical puzzles planted as they are in history. They are Now." -- Linda Rogers.

A fascinating look at the beginnings of Fascism and Communism in Italy in the 1920s, this provocative essay analyzes the social stratification of northern and southern Italy in 1926, and is relevant to current discussions of state formations, diasporas, and strategic alliances.

This restless son of the Diaspora has worn out many pairs of shoes, alligator and otherwise, walking his beat which stretches from Toronto to Paradise via Armageddon. Poet and artist Joe Rosenblatt paints a surreal nocturnal world where everything private becomes part of the public domain as he examines the reasons for moving on. In these affectionate and critical essays, the secretive poet/voyeur is revealed as he has revealed the ruined and ...

Newer Lies' contains a sequence of narrative lyrics guaranteed to turn readers upside over with its relentless restraint and exquisite comprehension of the world in which we live, work, and die. It's meticulous, accomplished, and endlessly revealing. From East Coker to Northern Ontario, the fine line between poetry and deceit lurks, inevitably, in the corners of each of our lives. Dan Jalowica illuminates precisely these in language honed, spa...