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"From one of the country's most celebrated new writers, a blistering collection of short fiction that is bracingly relevant, playfully irreverent, and absolutely unforgettable. There's a hole in the ozone layer. Are teenage girls to blame? Floods and wildfires, toxic culture, billionaires in outer space, or a purse-related disaster while on mushrooms--in today's hellscape world, there's no shortage of things to worry about. Last Woman, the new collection...
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Ce livre d'Elizabeth Caron, le premier essai littéraire entièrement consacré à un seul auteur ou à une seule autrice autochtone du Québec, permet de mettre en lumière la dimension intimiste et personnelle, ainsi que la puissante portée décoloniale de la poésie de l'autrice ilnue Marie-Andrée Gill, l'une des voix les plus complexes parmi les littératures des Premières Nations en langue française. Les trois recueils de Gill – Béante...
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Through a kaleidoscope of philosophy, critical theory, and folk theology, A Devil Every Day surveys the terrain where white Western culture blends into pure evil. Twisting into aphorisms, inner dialogues, and incantations, John Nyman's poems are caught between complacency and a disquieting agnosticism, contemplating the problematic pleasures and unremarkable monstrosities of the contemporary West. Ultimately, A Devil Every Day asks: what hope is there...
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Revived from a coma after a traumatic event, Megan's injuries leave her capable of great violence, forcing her desperate physician Cassandra to recruit Alison, an Indigenous clinician, as her consultant. Alison uses an innovative form of technologically enhanced expressive arts therapy to augment the rehabilitative effects of speaking Lenape, their shared (and almost extinct) language. However, this reminder of cultural expression and identity triggers...
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Avec une plume d'une précision et d'une méticulosité impressionnantes, l'autrice nous convie dans son premier recueil à un parcours en six parties au fil duquel se déploie une voix qui, peu à peu, arrive à s'exprimer avec force et sans maladresses. Le hoquet en pulpes évoque tant l'importance de prendre soin de soi que celle de confronter autrui, pour apprendre à mieux bâtir sa maison.
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After twelve years trapped in the throat of a serpent, a girl escapes. She returns to her village naked with a monstrous snakeskin trailing behind her. One decision at a time, she reclaims her life. Each character she encounters by land and sea-brute, healer, orphan, mystic, lover-reflects an unhealed aspect of herself and plots her recovery through symbolic milestones. Serpent's Wake is intended for adults and young adults exploring how, once fractured,...
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Au milieu des eaux, une île, un phare. Là habitent, seuls avec les oiseaux, une fille, son père et sa mère. Un marin survient. Il a fait naufrage la veille. Entre lui et la fille débute une étrange histoire d'amour, expression du besoin profond qu'a la jeune femme de s'émanciper de sa famille, de cette île isolée. Au cœur de la rose est une fable mystérieuse sur les rapports des hommes et des femmes à la construction du pays, sur l'impatience...
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What is the measure of a woman? She is immeasurable. She is strong. She is a double force to reckon with. Jagjeet Sharma's "journalistic poetry" continues in this new poetry collection, Measure of a Wo/man. Poems in this collection are about the Wo/man. The Hindu God Shiva's ardhanishvara, a concept that she is both half man and half woman. Lord Shiva, one of the Hindu gods is referred to as the ultimate man, but one form of Shiva is also a fully...
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Souvent, le matin, une personne s'arme, se rend dans un lieu public et ouvre le feu sur ses semblables. « Doit-on imaginer Narcisse enragé? »
Pendant ce temps, les écosystèmes s'effondrent, la Terre devient chaque jour plus inhospitalière. Les tueries de masse et la catastrophe écologique sont l'angoissant terreau dans lequel poussent les poèmes de ce livre. Devant cet horizon bloqué, qu'allons-nous devenir? Qui ou quoi interroger pour le...
11) The Just
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Camus's The Just is based on the true story of a group of Russian revolutionaries who assassinated Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905. This new translation by Bobby Theodore comes at a time when the play is more relevant than ever and provokes a troubling yet vital question: Do the ends justify the means?
Cast of 4 men and 1 woman.
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Alternator blends catastrophe and consciousness, modern living and past transgressions, off-kilter imagery and the "hidden room" of the unsayable to construct a polyphonic triumph. Chris Banks threads fire through the eye of his imagination, and the product is these poems born of whole cloth: surrealist meditations, modern ghazals and powerful narrative sonnets that are both alive and burning.
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Freedom: A Mixtape is a soulful artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, spoken-word pieces, and musical instrumentation from folks living in Ontario's Niagara Region. A community conversation about our complicated relationship with emancipation and the human right to be free, Freedom: A Mixtape is a compilation album that is part protest and...
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In the spring of 2020, Jamie Sharpe was in New Brunswick, purportedly studying the famed Magnetic Hill outside Moncton. A dog-walker discovered Sharpe in a ditch, disrobed except for his backpack containing a manuscript …
With his fifth collection, Get Well Soon, Sharpe reaffirms "he is utter master of his language. Whether [Sharpe's] poems are the result of long lucubration or the inspiration of the moment, they bear no mark of effort, and it...
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A stunning new edition of the Canadian classic with never-before-seen paintings
First published in 1977 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of a Canadian painter whose brief, brilliant life, and untimely death in a mysterious canoe accident, gained him mythic status in his homeland, Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm quickly attained legendary status in its own right. This newly designed and expanded edition revives a classic and adds more...
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Now part of Cambridge, Ontario, the village of Hespeler has produced some amazing artists. Renowned Canadian painter Frank Panabaker is well-known to art fans. He was born in Hespeler and started his long career there.Less known is the work of Vera Rosenberger. She was a teacher for over 40 years and retired in 1960. People still remember the elaborate works of art she effortlessly drew on the chalkboard.Shirley (Cox) Brent, was the first artist to...
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In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the 'edge of the woods'-a space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, they engaged in a survivance intervention: an Indigenous reclamation of territory, using Storyweaving practices rooted in personal connections to the land as a method of restor(y)ing treaty relationships.
Retreating to Re-Treat documents both their artistic...
18) Éventrer le bois
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Éventrer le bois est un recueil en trois parties o l'écriture propose de se venger de l'agresseur par de longs poèmes o on perd haleine. Les vers incisifs et sans pudeur permettent au lecteur d'observer une force résiliente incomparable.
Extrait : feuilleter l'oxyde / pages calcaires / ils n'y voient que du feu / à la maison / laissée seule / sur un plateau d'argent / on lui sert l'amour / cheap / tout est jaune ici / la tapisserie / les rideaux...
20) Hotline
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Beyrouth, 1984. Muna embrasse Halim pour la dernière fois, avant qu'il ne s'évapore dans un brouillard de poussière soulevé par les combats de rue. Deux ans plus tard, elle et son fils Omar, âgé de huit ans, posent leurs valises à Montréal, au commencement de l'hiver, dans un appartement trop petit pour eux. Alors qu'elle connaît une réussite éclatante dans la vente par téléphone de boîtes-repas diététiques, la jeune mère monoparentale...
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