Product Description: Poetry. Rua Da Felicidade is an actual place, a "Street of Happiness" in colonial Macau, where from the 1920s to the 1950s it was said that every desire could be fulfilled for a price. It is a book written against the appropriative gesture, against the grain of what we too often believe we can possess for a price...read more

Product Description: If, as Robert Creeley said, “form is never more than an extension of content,” what happens when we lose form? Does content retreat into its ruins, its absences? Can we never go home because it retreats from us as relentlessly and unfathomably as our future? Is the imagination of “our” future as illusory and unreliable as the memory of “our” past? If, for the young man, “going home is the first defeat,” the first violation of a burgeoning autonomy, is the very imagination of “home” an abrogation, a transgression? These are the questions that the deceptively simple lyrics of this book ask, that we encounter as we navigate our way, “room to room” through their stanzas—from the poet’s New York childhood, his Montreal mentorship with Louis Dudek, to his volitionary adoptive “home” of Asia...read more

Product Description: Fifty is the book Ken Norris began writing when he was 47 and stopped writing on the day he turned 50. It is both a counting and an accounting. He writes of love found and love lost, of children growing and parents dying, of political injustice, of the slow crawl through a Northern winter, of being in the genuine middle of life...read more

Product Description: "He is in short, a poet, and a good one. The world he inhabits is a geographically, politically and emotionally extensive one in which he is entirely comfortable in his own skin, and therefore able to register the surrounding phenomena exactly...read more

Product Description: The third installment in Ken Norris' acclaimed post-modern poem including history. Includes "The Book of Return," "1984: A Year in My Life," "The Wheel," and "Radar Interference," which was a prize-winner in the CBC Literary Competition.

Product Description: Tom Konyves’ Sleepwalking Among the Camels includes compelling selections from his groundbreaking books No Parking (1978), Poetry in Performance (1982), and Ex Perimeter (1988) as well as a section of exciting new work. A must read for lovers of Canadian Surrealism.

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Product Description: Since 1975, Ken Norris has produced some of Canada’s most intriguing poetry. Whether detailing the amorous lives of produce (Vegetables), documenting travels to the South Seas (The Better Part of Heaven and Islands), engaging contentious social and political issues (In the Spirit of the Times and In the House of No), or taking the measure of the successes and failures of contemporary love (The Music and Limbo Road), Norris has always given us quirky, edgy poetry that has continually revealed unanticipated possibilities and explored new horizons...read more

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Product Description: Book by Fournier, Michael

Product Description: Ken Norris' poems are among the most accomplished of his generation. Full Sun includes a compelling selection of work from eleven previous collections, as well as several new poems.

Product Description: This group of poets who gathered in the mid-70s around the alternative gallery Vehicule Art Inc. and the printing operation Vehicule Press was initially interested in gaining access to the means of production. But a funny thing happened on the way to print...read more

Product Description: In the honourable tradition of satire, Howl Too, Eh? holds up a funhouse mirror to pretension and pomposity, reflecting the absurdity that surrounds us in these confusing and dangerous times. Endre Farkas and Ken Norris, with a little help from Artie Gold and Tom Konyves, have collaborated to produce a collection of satiric poems that poke fun at everyone: from the Baby Boomers to rabid nationalists and sell-out Canucks...read more