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This book keeps our attention focussed on what is, has been and will be important. He ranks with the few contemporary poets who understand the past as well as the present and have much to contribute to those who may still be literate in the future. His imagination is a dark wood with wildlife in it.

Meditation drafts, fragments, lyric samplings, glimpses, notes, reveries, lines on the edge of disappearing, poetry close to white space gaps, glancing off mysteries, a sacred spell of reflections and soundings, ecstasies and longings. Such is B W Powe's book, his first new one in nine years.

The setting is an olive orchard in Sicily, where an olive quivers at the end of a branch, longing for his freedom. In the grass below, the orchard owner's daughter, Pina da Vita, has been seduced by the son of her father's enemy. From this unusual tableau is conceived our hero, Olivo Oliva -- part man, part olive, a bastard who grows up to be a prodigious killer and obsessive artist.

1950s Quebec: a shy sixteen-year-old in a Catholic boarding school for perspective schoolteachers falls in love with a classmate. When the fantasised relationship fails, she takes superficial refuge with a group of girls, and learns how alone she is, how alone and closed off they all are.

In this poetic theatrical piece, Solange, Thomas, Gabrielle, and Paul represent four different ways of life and four different elements of existence which play out over fourteen tableaux. As they move among the spaces of dreams and of the real world of hospital rooms, bars, galleries and classrooms, Herménégilde Chiasson's characters confront an overwhelming range of questions, from sex to death, from money to marriage, from the Acadian Expuls...

Ancient and medieval Jewish travellers are brought to poetic life amidst images garnered from the poet's personal journeys crossing the Sahara Desert and voyaging down the Congo River. This title is number 135 of the Essential Poets Series.

Containing a very moving section dedicated to the death of the author's father, this collection of prose poems considers a variety of forms of love as well as the plights and blitheness of the body, individual and collective. Flourishing under the personal experience of loss, the author uses a broken sentence style that is written in the language of tomorrow as she continues on her trajectory toward new and unexplained horizons in poetry.

Conjuring Jesus" presents a disarmingly fresh picture of Jesus as a mystic, a mischievous reformer, and a poet of the sensuous. It portrays him in his tumults and his moments of transcendence, his musings and stories, and his diverse encounters with women and men. Continually surprising in its perspectives, while closely based on Biblical texts, "Conjuring Jesus" reveals a man who is playful and resolute: moved by a keen and encompassing accep...

Written with a probingly sensitive eye, this collection of poems illuminates the subtle and poignant moments in life -- moments that cause people to grow and, occasionally, to digress as individuals. Greatly emphasising musicality, this compilation re-examines the common aspects of everyday life from a female perspective. The urban world and its intricacies are explored and, as a result, a profound zeal for nature emerges. Insightful and uniqu...

Jim Johnstone explores the polarity between gravity and the inertia of escape. Siamese twins, circus performers, burn victims and scientists clash in a narrative that merges poetry with theoretical science. From convenience stores and hotels to the lonely frequencies of space, Johnstone creates an escape from the permanence of the unknown.

A richly woven story about life in the heart of Umbria, this travel narrative is filled with nostalgic and personal recollections of the city's history, architecture, culture, and its unique people.

In "If This Were Death", Paul Chanel Malenfant mourns the loss of a beloved woman by evoking the privileged moments of a life -- the grace of a landscape or painting, the emotion of things seen, windows open onto the world -- as a ceremonial and consoling leave-taking. A writer, critic and professor at the Université du Quebec á Rimouski, Paul Chanel Malenfant has published over fifteen collections of poetry and two novels, as well as a book a...

Encompassing a range of emotions -- tenderness, vengeance, desire, cruelty -- this visionary poetry collection written in the first person traverses the phantom miracles and peers into the dark heart of the world.

Poets speak the unspeakable. Carole David's poems exude the smell of life in the raw. She excavates the human landscape. She goes for the jugular. Softly. David's literary heroes include Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, the Beat generation. Her early prose-poems are stark and questioning. They placed her outside the Quebec literary establishment. This translation finally makes her art accessible to a wider Anglo readership. The Place Where Your Soul ...

Drawing out her mother's childhood memories of life in southern Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century, Mary Melfi takes an unconventional approach to autobiographical writing. Italy Revisited serves as a double memoir, told in dialogue between a mother and a daughter. The conversation takes the reader to a medieval town high up in the mountains where time is told by the shadow the sun casts, where wheat and olive oil are the currency of c...

In this post-modern novel about shifting views of history, a young journalist covering the visit of a French prime minister to Quebec becomes fascinated by a newspaper photograph of historic Trestler House. Curious about how such a landmark sheds light on the difference between personal and national identity, he decides to research the history of the grand old building. As he tours the house and gathers documents, its many rooms become symbols...

Karen Shenfeld explores the meaning of family, memory and return. She draw her inspiration from a variety of sources, including Jewish mystical tradition and personal travels in Africa and Asia.

These poems are the living records of my experiences, passions and reflections. My writings speak of the transitions and changes in my cultural self, my maturing feminism, my encounters with destiny, history and nature. I write to see more deeply. I write for the enchantment of words, the haunting spell of images emerging from the foam of memory. These writings are necessary companions and courageous teachers on this mysterious journey we call...

Interference, a collection of prose poems, was first drafted in Montreal during these intense months of the war. It is the story of a North American Penelope. Like her predecessor, the war in distant places interferes in the daily life of her weaving. But this modern Penelope also has the power of the Gods. She can see what is happening in the trenches of that distant place of Troy from the TV perch of America's safe Olympian domain: 'vision w...

The novel is remarkable in its form and narration. The story unfolds through journal entries, letters, film script, and photographs, and the narration is interrupted by flashbacks, digressions, the switching of narrators, and the presence of foreign words. The specific (dis)order in which events are presented in this book illustrated the state of confusion experienced by Fabrisio in his quest for identity amid a pluricultural society. With thi...