Product Description: Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and ’70s poet. The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy is a selection of thirty-five poems that includes some of his best-loved and unearths lost and ignored treasures...read more

Product Description: In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets documents the connections and diversity of poetry coming out of an eclectic group of Canadian poets. These poets range from established to emerging, traditional to experimental, and the dialogue created between them charts an expanse of themes and styles available to poetry readers...read more

Product Description: On the afternoon that two tonnes of explosives are set to dismember Toronto's Metropolitan Library, poet Henry Black hides himself away in his favourite wing; when his mangled body is uncovered, there's a book lodged in his chest...read more

Product Description: traffick is an intelligent exploration of the long poem in which the pieces struggle with the order and disorder of language, body, and place amongst other things."Budde has managed to transport to us an explosive text of acrobatic and infinitely intriguing poems."--Matrix

Product Description: One day in 1897, as the huge carnival big-top swooshed upward, a child came flying out of the folds of the tent and landed softly in the straw on the ground. This is Slip’s story, and skillfully illustrates the curiosity towards the human condition that exists today as it did at the height of the turn-of-the-century freak-show...read more