Product Description: Ground Rules features writing from the second decade of one of the most active micro publishers in Canada, selected from a series of hundreds of publications lovingly edited, produced and distributed by editor/publisher rob mclennan...read more

Product Description: When his father died, award-winning poet and curator Gil McElroy was given a box of photographs that documented his father’s military career. Beginning in the Second World War and continuing right through to the end of the Cold War, the senior McElroy staffed Canada’s network of electronic defence, including the Distant Early Warning Line – a network of radar stations stretching along the Arctic coast from Alaska to Baffin Island...read more

Product Description: Gil McElroy’s Ordinary Time sets out to give shape to time from four different referents.Its first section, “Chain Home,” preceded by a Spicer poem that perfectly captures the fearful ennui of the age, is both a childhood memory of growing up in the far-distant monitoring stations of the Cold War, like the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line of the High Arctic where McElroy’s father worked, and at the same time an unsettling history of the utter failures of these remote surveillance technologies to make “our” world either better known or reliably predictable...read more

Product Description: During both the first and second world wars, Canadian, American and European artists, including Donald Cameron Mackay, Ellsworth Kelly and Grant Wood lent their talents to the military development of optical camouflage. Both naval and civilian ships were painted in strong geometric patterns and bold contrasting coloration so as to deceive the enemy...read more