Product Description: This is a unique novel of old China, the traditional landscapeof mountains and rivers without end, and life in an imperial city rife with plots, intrigues, culture, sensuality and wealth.Li Wen, a landscape painter of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), is on a journey to deliver a message to the Chinese Emperor...read more

Product Description: Why these poets together? Is this a collection of poetry proposing tolaunch a new school? NO! Or a new-ism? NO! Or a trendy anti-ism? No!Winters in Ottawa are long and dark.and full of snow. In the long, darkwinter of 1997, several of these authors got together at a local pub to talk poetry...read more

Product Description: Of one of Mark Frutkin’s previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry." Divided into two sections, one inspired by ancient Chinese art, the other limning the ambiguities and incongruities of the contemporary human condition, Frutkin’s new volume of poetry, Iron Mountain, often presents human beings wandering in the wilderness between two abysses while still appreciating the smell of pines, the softness of the rain, the brilliance of the stars, the hum of the computer, and the jostle of the crowd on the bus...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Frutkin, Mark (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

`Atmospheres Apollinaire is remarkable not only because it is something new in Canada; it is an extraordinary act of imaginative immersion in a personality and his times. It offers us historic figures who are made convincing as characters, and yet at the same time it presents a background of such authenticity that cultural historians are unlikely to find fault. `The difference between Atmospheres Apollinaire and a straight biography is really that between a good painted portrait and a photograph. Both are likenesses, but the painting shows the controlled nuances of colour and especially of texture of which the camera is incapable. Atmospheres Apollinaire projects the elusive feeling of life, as well as the actual events, in a long past era.' (George Woodcock Ottawa Citizen)

Product Description: `Atmospheres Apollinaire is remarkable not only because it is something new in Canada; it is an extraordinary act of imaginative immersion in a personality and his times. It offers us historic figures who are made convincing as characters, and yet at the same time it presents a background of such authenticity that cultural historians are unlikely to find fault...read more

A British journalist accompanies British and Indian troops on the 1904 invasion of Tibet, hoping to be the first Westerner to write about this extraordinary and enigmatic land, but he is drawn into a spiritual discovery on the way.

Product Description: The Alchemy of Clouds is both lyrical and deep, airy and intense. With imaginative delight, Frutkin manages to merge the sacred with the secular.