Product Description: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club PickFor thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking such questions as “Whaddya know?” and announcing “Party time!” when guests showed up at Brett’s farm...read more

Product Description: No other contemporary songwriter has created a body of work of such consistent quality, and such singular emotional and intellectual brilliance, as Leonard Cohen. His smoke-black vocal style navigates the most sophisticated and arresting of melodies in songs infused with romance, innuendo, and humor...read more

Product Description: A Crown of Lifetells the story of John McCrae, the soldier-doctor-poet who wrote "In Flanders Fields," the best know poem to emerge from the First World War, and which inspired the adoption of the poppy as the symbol of remembrance.

Product Description: Journey with No Maps is the first biography of P.K. Page, a brilliant twentieth-century poet and a fine artist. The product of over a decade's research and writing, the book follows Page as she becomes one of Canada's best-loved and most influential writers...read more

Robert Service's time in the Yukon, at first as a transplanted bank clerk and later living off the royalties of poems like "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee," is the core of a fascinating life. Starving in Mexico, residing in a California bordello, farming on Vancouver Island and pursuing unrequited love in Vancouver were only preludes to his Yukon years and his first poems.Words were Robert Service's lifelong passion, and he set them on many stages. But it was his McGrew, McGee and other players of the Great White North who glittered with a golden glow and forever made him the "Bard of the Yukon" and the de facto poet laureate of Alaska. Robert Service sheds light on on aspects of Service's life that have been sketchily covered by other biographers, focusing on his years in the western U.S. and Canada. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Songs of a Sourdough, was the most successful poetry book of the 20th century.

Draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with Cohen, his friends, and colleagues to provide an in-depth study of the man, his musical career, and his intensely private life

A distinguished poet and long-time gardener reflects on the healing power of nature as he explains how the gardening life has become inseparable from his own in this part memoir, part homage to the possibility of renewal. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Since her untimely death in 1975, the life and work of the Vancouver poet Pat Lowther have often been referred to as 'the Lowther legacy.' In The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther, Christine Wiesenthal seeks to convey what that legacy actually entails...read more

Product Description: The two sections of this collection retrace the author's androgynous childhood and beyond, unearthing both laughter and wounds while travelling from the hills of Italy and the back country of China to the magical landscape of the Gulf Islands.

Product Description: "Growing up on a farm I knew what it was to feel god tired and yet to work into the gloaming of summer and then to sleep the sleep of angels. But I couldn't wait to leave. I looked longingly down the road and dreamed of adventure in the city...read more

Product Description: Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are widely acknowledged as the great pop poets of the 1960s, transforming the popular song into a medium for questionng the personal, social, and political norms of their times. They emerged at a time when the music industry was transforming the revolutionary sound of black music into something bland, homogenous, and fit for mass consumption...read more

Product Description: Book by Zieroth, David

Product Description: This autobiography is about reclaiming self, transecending a tumultuous childhood and a marriage fraught with the struggles that come out of being a Mi'K maq woman in Canada. American Indian Literatures.

Combining fiction and reflection, a thought-provoking exploration of the vast array of stories upon which women base their perception of romantic love begins with a mesmerizing love story, which is then deconstructed to reveal the truth, drawing from personal anecdotes, film, history, and literature to show why intelligent, sensible women fall in love with the wrong man.

Product Description: Book by Layton, David

Product Description: Out of this World is a lively biography of Canada's "People's Poet," Milton Acorn, exploring – and exposing – his larger-than-life myths, and tracing his tragic rise and fall: from his youth in Charlottetown, to Montréal in the late '50s, to Toronto and Vancouver in the '60s...read more

Product Description: In the summer of 1994, guided by the image of his childhood, award-winning Canadian poet Stephen Scobie returned to his native Scotland and set out on a journey that took him through the country's most beautiful and historic regions...read more

Product Description: For many the '60s were a time of love, peace and experimentation. For Mary Lawrence, The Age of Aquarius was the start of a descent into hell from which she would not emerge for fifteen years.Mary was put into residential school by her grandmother, who had no idea of what residential school was like...read more