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Product Description: The Path to Ardroe is an exploration of friendship and its limits, life changes, and the challenges and aspirations of writers. Peter Chisholm, a writer wrestling with his craft, finds himself at forty-two without direction, and so it seems an eerie coincidence to him that unplanned events have conspired to place him in Lochinver, Scotland, developing his next novel, seeking out his former lover, and trying to find a solution to his restlessness and self-imposed fakery...read more

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9781927068014 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, March 15, 2012, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Path to Ardroe is an exploration of friendship and its limits, life changes, and the challenges and aspirations of writers.

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Product Description: John Lent celebrates the urban and natural landscapes of southern British Columbia in a series of jazz–inspired meditations sung in a laid–back, conversational style. In order to get the music he wants, Lent plays with the visual architecture of his poems, making them mirror what the poems see: those crazy mysteries and back beat moments when you catch a big and strange idea sideways and then it disappears, leaving you feeling triumphant for no reason...read more

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9781897235669 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, September 30, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: John Lent celebrates the urban and natural landscapes of southern British Columbia in a series of jazz–inspired meditations sung in a laid–back, conversational style.
9780155779204, titled "Rsvp: Invitiation a Ecrire" | Harcourt College Pub, January 1, 1965, cover price $24.95 | also contains Rsvp: Invitiation a Ecrire

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Product Description: This conversation between Robert Kroetsch and John Lent is guided by love -- of the word, of stories, of reading, of teaching. These two veteran writers circle around the topic, returning to the centre, to the question "where's that damn story?"

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9780973805741 | Kalamalka Pr, February 27, 2009, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This conversation between Robert Kroetsch and John Lent is guided by love -- of the word, of stories, of reading, of teaching.

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Product Description: Glen Sorestad has been publishing poetry for thirty years and throughout his distinguished career he has relied upon the central themes of family, history, nature and friendship to guide his readers through his ever-expanding desire to name, and remember...read more
By John Lent (editor) and Glen Sorestad

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9781894345972 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, September 7, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Glen Sorestad has been publishing poetry for thirty years and throughout his distinguished career he has relied upon the central themes of family, history, nature and friendship to guide his readers through his ever-expanding desire to name, and remember.

By John Lent and Sean Virgo (editor)

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9781894345866 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, August 15, 2005, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: Schmidt’s poetry is the Canadian wilderness. From the tundra to the prairies, it reads like a naturalist’s tour of the Canadian north. In language both deft and pure, Schmidt creates the relationships between external and internal landscapes, examining the impacts left by the travellers who seek the wealth of the north’s resources...read more
By John Lent (editor) and Brenda Schmidt

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9781894345897 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, April 8, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Schmidt’s poetry is the Canadian wilderness.

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Product Description: The stories in The Beauty Box are traditional in the way they offer familiar settings, events, and characters, or the way Dunlop’s quiet voice directs our attention; however, they evolve beyond tradition in the controlled, purposeful way that Dunlop’s details are measured...read more
By Bonnie Dunlop and John Lent (editor)

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9781894345705 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, March 30, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The stories in The Beauty Box are traditional in the way they offer familiar settings, events, and characters, or the way Dunlop’s quiet voice directs our attention; however, they evolve beyond tradition in the controlled, purposeful way that Dunlop’s details are measured.

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Comic art and picture story telling have had rich traditions in Asia, yet have received little academic attention. This book helps redress this shortcoming through contributions on Asian comic and serial art, providing both historical and

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9780700711888 | Routledge, October 19, 2001, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: Comic art and picture story telling have had rich traditions in Asia, yet have received little academic attention.

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Product Description: "...John Lent has written a book of tender short stories which carries the kind of insight that encourages the reader to read on. His use of detail including the familiarity of Western Canadian landmarks creates an introspective that draws out aspects of Canadian culture which are often difficult to define...read more

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9781895449563 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: ".

Product Description: Caribbean Popular Culture goes into the impact of music and how it represents the culture. This book has input from numerous resources to portray the island life and how music contributes to the culture.
By John Lent (editor)

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9780879724993 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, August 1, 1990, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Caribbean Popular Culture goes into the impact of music and how it represents the culture.

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9780879725006 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, August 1, 1990, cover price $13.95

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Product Description: "John Lent’s suite of stories and poems is a disarming and pleasing work that resists categorization." Malahat Review.

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9780920633755 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, August 1, 1990, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "John Lent’s suite of stories and poems is a disarming and pleasing work that resists categorization.

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Hardcover:

9780920066850 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, May 1, 1984, cover price $20.00

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9780920080504 | Harbour Pub Co, August 1, 1983, cover price $5.95

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