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Fruitfly Geographic
$16.95Gathering berries or information; hunting game, experience, or knowledge; we’re still essentially the children of our earliest ancestors. Stephen Brockwell’s latest collection, Fruitfly Geographic, examines the features of our nomadic trajectories with different lenses: the present moment, the collected or archived past and (im)possible futures. By turns objective, personal, quizzical, and ironic, these poems explore the influence of form on our perceptions. Brockwell takes a lens to geography and history as one might inspect a backyard insect in the afternoon — in doing so, he simultaneously magnifies and distorts our domestic microcosm.
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Fruits of our Desiring
$22.95Fruits of our Desiring
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Fugitive Horizons
$20.00These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time. The counter-intuitive insights of modern science here become reality as we are led to question the representations of our senses. Quantum physics and cosmic relativity, captured in the intimacy of the prevailing sonnet form, create a dynamic challenging the reader to reaffirm the human world in the face of the unknowable.
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Full Circle
$16.95***2019 RELIT AWARD LONG SHORTLIST***
Full Circle brings together poetry written across decades by one of Newfoundland’s best-loved writers. Balanced on the sharpest edge of life, yet caught in the ruthless pull of aging and death, these poems offer keen insights into the way the world was—and the way it ought to be. Throughout, Porter reminds us that change, like life, is a long and circuitous journey, and that the fight for a good life and a just society is never over.
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Full Fadom Five
$29.95It is 1997 and Noah Lamarck’s life is a mess. Laid off work as a librarian, with his estranged wife and child in need of money, and the trauma of his father’s mysterious suicide unresolved, he struggles to find a way forward. A persevering man, but running out of options, Noah is thrown an unexpected lifeline: when long lost evidence of Shakespeare’s life is uncovered, an eccentric bibliophile hires Noah and his friend, graduate student Cecelia Lines, to investigate.
But the more they delve into the playwright’s life, the more they are drawn into each other’s; and despite their growing feelings for one another, their divided loyalties leave them increasingly at odds, and vulnerable to the manipulations of their employer. So unfolds a drama of love, sex, family tensions, financial burdens, obsessions, and devious manipulations which Noah and Cecelia, like players in a Shakespearean romance of star-crossed lovers, must navigate to save not only themselves, but Noah’s family from ruin.
Set in places as varied as the seacoast of Cape Breton, the streets of Toronto, and Shakespeare’s London, in Full Fadom Five the past is always present, and the characters always at the mercy of their legacies: those they carry forward, and those they try to leave behind.
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Full Frontal T.O.
$24.95Winner of the 2013 Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence
Shortlisted for the 2013 Toronto Book AwardThe Toronto streetscape: how it looks, lives and changes over time, documented in over 400 photographs. For over thirty years, Patrick Cummins has been wandering the streets of Toronto, taking mugshots of its houses, variety stores, garages and ever-changing storefronts. Straightforward shots chronicle the same buildings over the years, or travel the length of a block, facade by facade. Other sections collect vintage Coke signs on variety stores or garage graffiti. Unlike other architecture books, Full Frontal T.O. looks at buildings that typically go unexamined, creating a street-level visual history of Toronto. Full Frontal T.O. features over four hundred gorgeous photos of Toronto’s messy urbanism, with accompanying text by master urban explorer Shawn Micallef (Stroll).
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Full Magpie Dodge
$9.95‘Full Magpie Dodge’ is about the shiny brightness of modern urban life, its pressures and joys. More-or-less artful dodgers populate its pages, along with office workers, crows, exhausted junkies and jubilant lovers. Intertwined with all their lives is the unforgotten rural past and the still turbulent North: in short, it’s a book that takes Canadian life as it is: startlingly robust, enduring, and sometimes beautiful.
“There’s no messing around with Lyle Neff. He’s straight forward, down-to-earth and uncomplicated in a very complicated way that makes sense.” – The Loop
“There’s enough humour, self-loathing, and joie de vivre here to satisfy Bukowski’s fans, but Neff’s the far better craftsman. If you thrill to what words can do when stacked right, drop 14 bucks on ‘Full Magpie Dodge’. Five books down the road, this kid’ll be big-league. Get in on the ground floor and grin.” – Fast Forward Weekly
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Fun and Games
$19.95“Covering many of the biggest names and greatest events in sports, it’s a wonderful collection of yarns and reminiscences, told in Perk’s inimitable style.” — Postmedia
“Few can spin a yarn with the wit and clever turns of phrase that Perky can.” — Shi Davidi, Sportsnet
After forty years of encountering a myriad of athletes, fans, team managers, and owners, Perkins offers unique observations on the Blue Jays and Raptors, fifty-eight major championships’ worth of golf, ten Olympic Games, football, hockey, boxing, horse racing, and more
Dave Perkins was once told by a bluntly helpful university admissions officer: “You don’t have the looks for TV or the voice for radio. You should go into print.” Which he did, first at the Globe and Mail, and then for thirty-six well-traveled years at the Toronto Star.
In Fun and Games, Perkins recounts hysterical, revealing, and sometimes embarrassing personal stories from almost every sport and many major championships. Learn why Tiger Woods asked Perkins if he was nuts, why he detected Forrest Gump in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and why Super Bowl week is the worst week of the year. Perkins exposes the mistakes he made in both thought and word — once, when intending to type “the shot ran down the goalie’s leg,” he used an “i” instead of an “o” — and to this day, he has never found a sacred cow that didn’t deserve a barbecue.
“Anyone who has ever spoken to Dave Perkins, or read Dave Perkins, remembers his voice. This book is a delightful way to experience it all again, through the wise funny man’s eyes.” — Bruce Arthur, Toronto Star sports columnist
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Fun Times Brigade
$24.95From acclaimed author Lindsay Zier-Vogel comes an insightful and heart-rending exploration of motherhood, grief, and the search for identity.
Amy is a new mother, navigating the fog of those bewildering early days and struggling with a role she feels ill-prepared for. It’s the first time in a decade that she hasn’t been living the busy life of an acclaimed children’s musician, and her sense of self is unravelling. To make matters worse, her bandmates have seemingly abandoned her.
In flashbacks, we see Amy’s journey to success—her stumblings as a solo singer-songwriter and her eventual rise to fame as a member of the Fun Times Brigade. But as the novel progresses—and Amy grapples with a devastating loss—we come to understand how precarious definitions of artistic success can be.
The Fun Times Brigade examines the enduring challenges of reconciling being an artist with being a mother. It is also a timely reflection on forgiveness and what it really means to have a good life in a world that demands we have—and be—it all, and asserts that amidst the chaos, we can find our way back to our genuine selves.
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Fundamentals of Directing
$19.95Concise and practical, Fundamentals of Directing is a distillation of Ric Knowles’s twenty-five years of experience as a director, teacher of directing, and dramaturge across Canada. Organized to reproduce the chronology of a play’s rehearsal, the book moves through the various stages of the directorial process, from selecting a project through auditioning; working with designers, actors, and technicians; to coordinating the work of the full company through tech week to closing night. It also, and uniquely, includes important appendices on the work of directors in devised theatre and new-play development.
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Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer
$18.00Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is a continuation of the columns and essays that comprised Stuart’s 2005 release, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Again, equal parts literary memoir, reckless tirade, and unsolicited advice for the aspiring writer, Further Confessions is drawn largely from Stuart Ross’s notorious “Hunkamooga” column, his blog entries, essays for subTerrain magazine and other online venues. We bring them together here in their collected brilliance: alternately snarky, sincere, touching, honest, and always opinionated, Stuart’s “confessions” are essential reading for any literary confessional. This volume offers its readers a roller-coaster journey into the mind of one of Canada’s most committed small press activists.
Praise for Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer, vol. 1:
“Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is a wonderful book-funny, outrageous, and acute. I’ll even say it’s the best short-essay collection about the writing life I’ve read in ages.” (Lynne Van Luven, Malahat Review)
“For a quick and dirty breath of fresh air, it’s difficult to beat renegade urban poet Stuart Ross’s latest effort, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer … No reformed baby boomer or slumming trust-funder, Ross has the battle scars and knows poetry isn’t about flowers and meadows, it’s about blood and guts.” (Stephen Knight, Quill & Quire)
“The book is a must for anyone working as a poet in Canada, with standout pieces on the politics ofwriting for free, open mic readings, poetic bitterness, chapbook and zine publishing, and the requisite but never-funnier grouch advice to young poets, salubriously titled Stop Bugging Me Already!’” (Prairie Fire)
“…no pulled punches here … this is writing that works because, as with all good confessions, it’s from the heart but comes by way of the brain.” (Vancouver Review)
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Furthermore, the Lake
$22.95Furthermore, the Lake is an artfully disjointed novel whose narrator—too fearful of commitment to commit to a name—navigates a world where memory and dream intermingle. This constant blurring of both time and place suffuses his day-to-day life with uncertainty: an evening walk might last for seasons, and staff parties might never end. An existential crisis that arises when he orders scones leaves him dislocated in his own life. Through a series of semi-connected vignettes, he struggles to find his way back. This quest foregrounds an exploration of loss that cascades into a series of losses, as he traverses a Calvinoesque city, whose streets swap signs, that is emerging around him. Michael e. Casteels’ novel integrates prose poetry, lists, surrealism, shards of conventional narrative to create a deeply human story of contemporary urban alienation.
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Fury
$11.95Fury contains a novella about an Irish immigrant to the north of Canada, his lost daughter and her terrorist Québécois lover. Their stories converge in Montreal during a massive urban blackout on Canada Day, 1999. Plus five short fictions. And the films Gordon’s Head and HITLER! A Filmpoem. HITLER! Has been screened at the London Film Festival, le Festival du Nouveau Cinéma/Vidéo Montreal, Toronto’s Rendezvous With Madness, and the Poetry & Video Festival in San Francisco.
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Fuse
$20.00Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of each culture. Painfully and at times, reluctantly, Fuse probes and explores the documented prevalence of mental health issues in bi-racial women.
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Future Howl
$24.95Sue Goyette’s poem Future Howl plots a fulsome radius of the experience of trauma and survival, one that encompasses much about living in the aftermath that skirts straightforward description and yet works in the frequency of courage and joy. Propelled by Goyette’s declarative voice, sense of humour and side-slipping imagery, each page of the poem is “a microdose of ars poetica” infused with intertextual and transformative guidance from the painter Bob Ross, the live-cam company of a pair of endangered red wolves, and a private-to-public reckoning that is grounded in this singular time.
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Future on Fire
$20.00Climate change is already affecting millions of people. Governments talk about taking action to limit global heating to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but the greenhouse gas emissions allowed by their policies have the Earth on track to heating far more than that by the end of the century – a level of heating that will have truly disastrous consequences. Visionary plans for how to slash emissions and make society better at the same time abound, including various Green New Deals. But how can we make the changes that are so urgently needed?
Future on Fire argues that a just transition from fossil fuels and other drivers of climate change will not be delivered by businesspeople or politicians that support the status quo. Nor will electing green left leaders be enough to overcome the opposition of capitalists and state bureaucrats. Only the power of disruptive mass social movements has the potential to force governments to make the changes we need, so supporters of climate justice should commit to building them. Confronting the question — what if heating above 2 degrees becomes unavoidable — and refusing to despair, David Camfield argues that even a ravaged planet is worth fighting for and that ultimately the only solution to the ecological crisis created by capitalism is a transition to ecosocialism.