Product Description: Awake before dawn a year after his lover Helen's death, Peter H. begins to assemble his memories of her. How to conjure the dead? How to put a lover's body together again?Working through the winter, spring, and into the late summer in a basement laboratory at the Vancouver Aquarium, Peter scrawls into his notebook pieces of her story, and of their story together...read more

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The annual collection of essays, excerpts, and interviews includes work from Isabel Huggan, Alice Munro, Edmund White, Pico Iyer, Alice Walker,John Berger, and Barry Lopez, among other notable authors. Original.

Product Description: In June 2001, the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry published in English in 2000 was awarded to two poets: one Canadian and one international poet. The Griffin Prize Anthology includes selections from the remarkable shortlisted books chosen by jurors Carolyn Forché, Dennis Lee, and Paul Muldoon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The second volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the international and Canadian books shortlisted for the 2002 prize, chosen and introduced by jurors Dionne Brand, Robert Creeley, and Michael Hofmann...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Lost August, Esta Spalding builds an exquisite poetic honeycomb, bursting with rich imagery and lyrical texture. Each poem is a passage to the next; each reverberates with images and echoes of the others; each moves to the dazzling final sequence, "A Yellow Dress...read more

From the editors of Brick: A Literary Journal comes a collection of essays by seventy-four distinguished writers--including Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, and Bill Richardson--who offer personal reflections on some of their favorite overlooked, under-read, out of print, lost, or otherwise unavailable books. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In The Wife's Account, Esta Spalding unflinchingly explores the mysterious and arbitrary losses that occur within love. These poems chart the course of a marriage from winter's end through spring and summer to the first days of fall, bringing to life the peculiar inhabitants of a neighbourhood: a woman with a metal detector whosearches for treasure, a pregnant skunk and a one-eyed mouse, a group of nudists, the elderly Mrs...read more