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Here in There
$20.00Here in There, Angela Carr’s third book of poetry, is a lyrical petition to the human faculty of attention. In constant motion, the poems locate unusual instances of connection. They ask, do we give or pay attention? And what do we attend to? How do we decide what merits our attention? In a world where stillness is elusive, can we give or pay attention to anything but that which outlives our own distraction? Turning our attention to the senses, in Here in There, touch informs inscription, credit becomes an audible vibration. Carr’s poems form traceable and untraceable patterns, disappearing economies of material.
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Here is my street, this tree I planted
$16.95Winding their way through places that are experiencin g a change of purpose, Jonathan Bennett’s poems move with a unique, seductive language and an irresistible drive. Revelling in the articulation of transition, as awestruck by the possibilities of change as it is keenly aware of loss, this debut collection rejects the too-easy judgements of navigation guided solely by a moral compass. With influences as diverse as the poetry of Les Murray and the painting of Edward Hopper, Here is my street, this tree I planted bounces, both linguistically and culturally, from one end of the globe to the other — and back again. Always moving, always seeking, always metamorphosing: Bennett’s writing is the kind of poetry this country needs — one that’s as universal as it is Canadian.
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Here Is Still Here
$22.95Where can one go when Here Is Still Here?
Raised in a family of post-war Jewish refugees in Canada, Isabel feels displaced from an early age. She’s searching for love, purpose, and the true meaning of home. From Montreal to Jerusalem and back again, she navigates checkpoints and borders, home and exile, milestones and disappointment, love and loss.
Sivan Slapak’s debut collection is an intimate and layered exploration of human connection and the complexities of identity. Told with compassion and wit, Here is Still Here is a poignant reminder that however far you may go, you remain yourself.
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Here Is Where We Disembark
$16.95With her remarkable debut collection, Yukon poet Clea Roberts proffers a perceptive & ecological reading of the Canadian North’s past & present.
Roberts deftly draws out the moments that comprise a cycle of seasons, paying as much attention to the natural—the winter moon’s second-hand light that pools in the tracks of tree squirrels & loose threads of migrating birds—as she does to the manufactured—the peripheral percussion of J-brakes & half-melted ice lanterns. She also casts her gaze back to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898, raising the voices of those marked by a frenetic race for fortune: a seductive, edgy wolf, a disillusioned photographer, and a pragmatic prostitute, among others.
Here Is Where We Disembark is a beautifully crafted book that ignites the senses, and its presence lingers, like woodsmoke, long after the final page has been turned.
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Here the Dark
$22.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK • A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK FOR 2020 • A CBC BEST FICTION BOOK FOR 2020 • “His third appearance on the Giller shortlist … affirms Bergen among Canada’s most powerful writers. His pages light up; all around falls into darkness.”—2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury • “David Bergen’s command is breathtaking … His work belongs to the world, and to all time. He is one of our living greats.”—Matthew Thomas, New York Times-bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselves
From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost off the islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naiveté and an aging rancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil and good, obscurity and light. Following men and boys bewildered by their circumstances and swayed by desire, surprised by love and by their capacity for both tenderness and violence, and featuring a novella about a young woman who rejects the laws of her cloistered Mennonite community, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner David Bergen’s latest deftly renders complex moral ambiguities and asks what it means to be lost—and how we might be found.
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Herman
$24.95Herman, by Jim Unger, is syndicated in more than 800 newspapers in North America. Hilarious, biting, and snappy, these cartoons are found on fridge doors throughout the country.
This particular volume contains more than 400 panels, in full colour and on high-grade coated stock, demonstrating how Herman gets along with pets.
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Herman Classics, Volume 3
$22.95Syndicated in more than 800 newspapers, Herman is recognized as one of the funniest comics of the past two decades. With an economy of line and a wry, nonchalant humor, this popular strip reveals a hilarious cast of characters in panels with such themes as golf, marriage, and prison. This full-color collector`s edition contains specially colored Herman favorites and a collection of 50 full-page Sunday spreads that have been colorized for this volume only.
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Herman Classics, Volume 4
$24.95?Syndicated in more than 800 newspapers in North America, Herman is one of the funniest comics of the past two decades. With an economy of line and a wry, nonchalant humour, this popular strip reveals a hilarious cast of bandaged hospital staff, hapless criminals, zealous sales clerks, and frustrated cavemen.
This full-colour collector’s edition contains more than 400 specially coloured panels of Herman favourites, with comments and insights from the award-winning cartoonist, covering such topics as golf, marriage, jail, and war.
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Herman Classics, Volume 5
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Syndicated in more than 800 newspapers in North America, Herman is one of the funniest comics of the past two decades. With an economy of line and a wry, nonchalant humour, this popular strip reveals a hilarious cast of bandaged hospital staff, hapless criminals, zealous sales clerks, and frustrated cavemen.
This full-colour collector’s edition contains more than 400 specially colored panels of Herman favorites, with comments and insights from the award-winning cartoonist, covering such topics as golf, marriage, jail, and war.
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Herman Classics, Volume I
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Hero of the Play
$15.00Ten years ago, Richard Harrison thrilled poetry and hockey lovers with a collection of poetry devoted to the great Canadian game. This beloved collection has been re-issued with a new selection of poems, “The Hero in Overtime,” an essay by the author on ten years of living with hockey poetry, and a foreword by Roy MacGregor.
“I was mesmerized by Harrison’s writing ? his observation that Mark Messier’s stare ‘weighs 200 pounds’; his descriptions of Don Cherry; his astonishing, yet accurate, comparison of hockey to Sumo wrestling ? and I am delighted that, 10 years on, he is back with a new issue of Hero of the Play with all kinds of new writing to fascinate and intrigue and, most importantly, inspire those of us who profoundly believe it is impossible to know this country without knowing its game.” ? Excerpt from Foreword
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Hero-Man
$24.95Enter Citiesville, the golden metropolis (no, not that one) guarded by Hero-Man! When Hero-Man uncovers a plot by the Mayor to take advantage of Hero-Manbs protection, his whole world is changed. Hebll need the help of Kid-Lad, Hero-Lass, and all the citizens of Citiesville to help him overcome his greatest challenge: himself. Join Hero-Man on his first adventure as he makes you reconsider everything youbve ever thought about comic books and the world around you.
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Heroes and Rogues and the Story of Heart’s Content
$18.95In 2009, author Ted Rowe published his fascinating book about the transatlantic cable called Connecting the Continents. The narrative of that 1866 miracle of engineering brought the outport of Heart’s Content back to the world’s attention. Now, in a companion volume to his earlier book, Rowe introduces us to the characters who shaped this remarkable community from its earliest days up to the 1970s. Readers will meet pioneer merchants, rogue priests, and community stalwarts. And they will hear the extraordinary stories of how these people shaped a Newfoundland outport through more than three centuries.
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Heroin
$34.00Heroin is an illustrated history of Canadian heroin regulation over two centuries. Susan Boyd points to our failure to address the overdose death epidemic caused by criminalizing drug users and to the decades of resistance to harm-reduction policies. Heroin, discovered in 1898, was heralded as an important medicine and successfully marketed as a pain reliever and cough suppressant. Until the early 1950s, heroin was prescribed for therapeutic use in Canada. Yet, illegal heroin use became the focus of drug prohibition advocates and law enforcement, who painted it as highly addictive and destructive. Systemic racism was the impetus for our first anti-heroin laws; the race, gender and class of users influenced drug control, which, by the 1930s, became the focus of law enforcement. Flawed ideas about heroin and people who use the drug have shaped drug law and policy for decades. This book is informed by documentary evidence and the experiences of people who use/used heroin, drug user unions and harm-reduction advocates. These sources highlight the structural violence of drug policy that uses prohibition and criminalization as the main response to drug use.
Take a peek inside this beautiful book designed by David Lester!
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Heroines
$29.00Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
The Heroines Series is an epic photographic documentary of the addicted women of Vancouver?s Downtown Eastside. In 1997, fashion and portrait photographer Lincoln Clarkes turned his lens away from the world of glamour and began documenting the dire circumstances being endured by the marginalized women living and working on the streets of Vancouver?s most troubled neighbourhood. The Heroines Series consists of over 400 portraits of addicted women in Vancouver?s notorious Downtown Eastside, and has garnered national and international media attention. Peace Arch Entertainment produced a one-hour documentary film, Heroines: A Photographic Obsession, earlier this year for BRAVO! and Women?s Television Network. The film "e;is a study in pain and intimacy, artistic expression fuelled by passion and moral outrage"e; and is accompanied by original poems written and narrated by Susan Musgrave. The documentary opened the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival and has been screened at several other festivals since its premiere in June of 2001.
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Heroines Revisited
$48.00Heroines Revisited is a large format follow-up volume to the original Heroines: Photographs by Lincoln Clarkes that was released by Anvil in 2002. This new edition features over 150 portraits accompanied by three new critical essays that contextualize the five-year photo project and the controversial body of work.
The Heroines Project is an epic photo documentary of the addicted women that were living and working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the late ’90s and early 2000s. University of Western Ontario professor Kelly Wood writing in Philosophy of Photography states, “Heroines forced viewers and respondents to take sides in an uneasy ethical dialogue that does not acknowledge the series’ uncanny ability to perform against viewers’ expectations of certain visual categories and discusses how these expectations might preclude photography’s ability to enact or incite political change.”
Essays by Kelly Wood, Paul Ugor, and Melora Koepke; Interview with the artist by Theresa Norris.