Product Description: Well worth its Poetry Book Society Recommendation...a bizarre, slangy, immensely energetic sequence of poems set in a rugged Wild West frontier town"" - London Review of Books. ""Williams is comic, ironic, satirical and ridiculous but most of all he is impatient and angry...read more

Explains the process of writing poetry, suggests ways of approaching particular subjects, describes how to overcome writer's block, offers tips on getting published, and includes writing exercises (view table of contents)

Product Description: In Canada, poems arrive out of the ether like the fabled, lantern-jawed Mountie coming to the rescue out of nowhere. Others are on their way back into the ether, transmissions from the brain of an uneasy redman. These are poems that make you feel the hairs on a pony's neck...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The main character—the protean and unkillable Spider Rembrandt—has six toes, sleeps in a grave, and dreams of congress with the pert and playful Reedy Buttons. Sucked into the vortex of Spider's philandering mind is a narrator—sometimes Spider's adversary, sometimes his victim—who lies upon a bed brooding on the absence of a nameless, brown-haired woman. He, too, is protean: full of passionate longings and homicidal tendencies. A surrealist film-noir that blends the forensic with the erotic, the seedy penny-dreadful and the lyric prose-poem, Mystery in Spiderville is one of the strangest, strongest and most arresting fictional debuts in years.

Product Description: Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) was so popular during the Ceausescu years that his readings had to be held in football stadiums and his books sold thousands of copies. While his witty, ironic parables were not directly critical of the regime, Romanians could read other meanings into them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Subversive and satirical, inventive, wry and unconventional, John Hartley Williams has long been celebrated for his maverick sensibility, for his outsider's take on the way we live our lives.

Product Description: The bestselling guide to finding your voice, writing poetry, and getting published Teach Yourself Writing Poetry is a user-friendly and comprehensive guide that will prove indispensable if you're seeking creative guidance, inspiration, and practical advice...read more

Textual and explanatory notes accompany Wilde's novel about a man who sells his soul for eternal youth