Composing an arranged marriage of the bestial and humane, this anthology finds a balance between instinct and intellect. The featured poems clarify vision through the funhouse mirror - logic is strained, existence contracts and multiplies, connections amputate and then graft in incongruous ways - reflecting the human race's own absurd image. From Nancy Reagan promoting crab salad to Paris spilling into the countryside and a hammer seeking understanding...

The definitive policy overview of the book publishing industry in Canada In a thorough exploration of Canada's book industry, Ultra Libris provides a historical backdrop to understand modern events in book publishing. From the Massey Commission (1952) and the Ontario Royal Commission on Book Publishing (1971–72) to the explosion of national book publishing in the 1970s and the industry–government sparring over the next 30 years, Lorimer elucidates...

The production team that crafted this film was both inspired and passionate about breathing real life into a cast of characters, both old and new, in order to bring Anne's world back to the screen with authenticity. Our hope is that as you peruse and enjoy the wealth of imagery, you will be swept up and in her creation of one of fiction's most extraordinary characters. --Provided by publisher.

Known around the world for his pastoral masterpiece "Anne of Green Gables" and the long running, Emmy award-winning television series "Road to Avonlea" this sumptuous book is a captivating examination of Sullivan's visual style. The engaging text takes the reader behind the scenes of numerous Sullivan productions. With the aid of hundreds of movie production stills - reproduced in colour and some never before seen - the book reveals how aspects of...

Nine new short works include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian émigré's winter journey to the Riviera.

Back Blurb: Ten years after Wichita, with the walls of his reclusion crumbling around him, Quinn Jacob boards a bus. Racked by failures, fears, and phobias, he quickly finds himself borne back into the past, where bits of forsaken memory fall like seeds on a future garden. But with each seed sown, something far more forsaken presses its phantom blade a little harder against the cartilage of his throat, Rocky's ghostwriting pocketknife... the knife...

Roach has been living on the streets since age 14, he's rebellious, loud and defiant. As part of S.P.I.T., Roach has been given a camera to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent, because there's a war against squeegee kids. The RoachCAM is positioned behind enemy lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, being hunted by police. The viewer is forced to look at the living reality of Roach and his friends: Hungry on the...

Made over 6 years, THE STREET is the result of the filmmakers' total immersion into the world of the homeless. It is a gutsy, raw, moving and intimate study of 3 homeless Montrealers.

In this eagerly-anticipated second edition of Ugly Naked People, Giselle Renarde brings readers eight works of queer fiction as engaging as they are diverse. One minute you're fainting on a Toronto subway, the next you're fleeing mythological monsters in the Yukon. First a sidewalk psychic's convincing you new love is right around the corner, and then your family's reuniting you with an old flame. With Giselle at the wheel, you never quite know what's...

Deluxe redesign of an aching solo situated at the mid-point of a long, melodious career. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the third of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Riffs features a new introduction by the poet Paul Vermeersch, a reprint of an extended interview with Dennis Lee about the book, and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst....