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Neutrøis
$25.95Syd Zolf’s new work enacts a trans poetics of possibility.
In Neutrøis, Syd Zolf makes monstrously queer assemblages of nonbinary trans life. Neutrøis is a refusal of gender and a revisioning of the body’s markers, with subjects always trans-forming the labels pinned on them. Zolf composes a playful, emotionally layered, and subversive score gleaned from case studies on thefemale transsexual,’ tests that claim to decipher masculinity, philosophical writings on the neutral/neuter’ third person, immigration documents, and more. Employing cut-ups, radical trans-lations, and other tactical moves, Zolf deconstructs and reconfigures normative language about transness, family, and nationhood. Suffused with births, deaths, border crossings, and other transitions, Neutrøis enacts a life-affirming fugitive becoming without end. -
Never Mind
$17.00In Never Mind, Katherine Lawrence constructs a centuries-old immigrant tale that is fiercely feminist, surprisingly modern, and darkly funny. The voice in these exquisite poems is a 19th century woman who straddles both old and new worlds as she navigates her own interior landscape. Observations are wry, intimate, and shot with musicality.
This muscular collection pays tribute to the long poem while extending the tradition with fragments from letters, diary entries, sketches, dialogue, and an ongoing communion with the natural world. “Who knocks?” asks Wife in Never Mind. “Maple leaves reddened with gossip — Come in.”
New star in the longpoem sky, Never Mind by Katherine Lawrence gets cunning on page 5 and stays that way, throwing open the shutters of self, family, history, nation. Its language settles toward, while reaching free of, a narrative we expect but have not seen quite this way. Its open forms give but don’t give in. We’ll be grateful for this book.
–Gerald Hill, author of Hillsdale Book
Layered, distinctive, and adventurous, Katherine Lawrence’s Never Mind seems set in the past but vaults into a future poetic. At once ethereal and concrete, her words, through erasure and oblique reference, invite engagement and speculation. They make you mind.
–Steven Ross Smith, author of Emanations: Fluttertongue 6
Lyricism and beauty, loss and awe, horror and grief–these poems comprise an unflinching portrait of a woman (and artist) who spends a lifetime asking herself: “What brought me here?”
–Patricia Young, author of Night-Eater and An Auto-erotic History of Swings
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Never Play Another Man’s Game
$24.95Heists, double crosses, and brutality drive this fast-paced fourth installment of the Wilson Mystery series
An armoured car carrying a huge payday will be rolling through the city every Friday for four weeks. Out of money, Wilson takes up with Ruby, an old partner, for a job that promises a huge score. The only problem: Ruby’s kid, Rick, wants in on the deal. Rick is everything Wilson isn’t but without him there is no job. Wilson signs on with the condition that he runs the job; he plans it, supplies it, and staffs it. The job is a success, but so is the double cross. Wilson loses the money and almost his life. He sets out after his partners and learns that nothing was ever as it seemed – nothing but the blood on the ground. Honour among thieves is bullshit, but Ruby and her son should have known better than to try and play another man’s game.
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Never Swim Alone & This Is A Play
$17.95A funny, satirical story, Never Swim Alone is about Frank and Bill, two egotisitical men locked in a ruthless competition of one-upmanship for seemingly no reason. A hilarious metaplay, This Is A Play follows three actors who, while performing, reveal their own thoughts and motivations as they struggle through crazy stage directions and an unoriginal musical score.
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Never Too Fast
$19.95The true story of the most dangerous racecar driver on the circuit … Paul Tracy was just a youngster when he discovered fast cars. Growing up in West Hill, Ontario, Paul dreamt of his hero Gilles Villeneuve, and when his father left him at the local go-kart track with a full tank of gas each morning, he retrieved Paul — and the empty tank — at night.
Tracy rose quickly through racing’s minor leagues, setting and breaking records as he went. At 17 he was racing cars with twice the horsepower of the family cars his friends were just learning to drive. Veteran team managers and drivers knew they were seeing someone special on the track: a quiet kid with the looks of a boy scout and the desire of a champion. Soon Tracy dominated kart racing, won at Can-Am racing, and ruled Indy Lights. He then stormed into the Championship Auto Racing Team circuit, racing wheel to wheel with Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti. In those early races, even driving an underpowered car, Tracy proved he could run with the big boys.
But Paul Tracy’s success has come with its share of hardships. His aggressive driving style on the cart circuit has made almost as many enemies as fans. He’s been criticized, penalized, and vilified both on and off the track. Nevertheless, two things remain consistent — his desire to drive fast, and his desire to win.When you live in a world of speed and danger, a world where success is measured in tenths of seconds and inches can separate winners from losers, one thing is certain: you can never be too fast.
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Never Without Love
$22.95Both charming and powerful, this memoir unfolds the story of a young girl born in Iran who eventually triumphs over sexism and abuse to become a successful woman and mother in Canada. The book opens with a dramatic account of a terrible accident that leaves a young child with burn scars all over her chest. This scarring has a profound effect on the girl’s life. Yet, despite this accident, the narrator’s childhood is rich and blessed in many ways. The family circle is extensive and the relationships, especially with the wonderful Baba (her father) and her spirited cousin Fereshteh, are both protective and complex. The narrator travels from Qazvin, an ancient capital of the Persian Empire, to remote mountain villages, to the glittering capital of Tehran with its cafés, dance clubs, fancy boutiques and lush parks, to a villa on the Caspian Sea, as well as to the “tin town” of Halaby Abad in Southern Tehran and to the rice paddies where women do backbreaking work for next to nothing in wages. In doing so, she deftly handles a minefield of politics, from the regime of the Shah to the foreign interests of British and Americans, to street marches and protests, to the installation of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Islamic Republic. A beloved uncle is murdered by the Revolutionary Guards and the narrator’s own marriage to a man of the Bahai faith is illegal. Sexual politics and women’s rights are addressed throughout the memoir from the Persian custom of khastegari, to the stripping of women’s rights under the Islamic Republic to domestic abuse in Canada.
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Never, Again
$19.95Set in post-war Communist Hungary, in the fictional town of Békes, Never, Again is the story of seven-year-old Tomi Wolfstein, the son of Holocaust survivors who have never told him anything about their past experiences in the concentration camps. The story opens in the fall of 1956, when Tomi is about to start school, and chronicles his adventures and experiences in the months leading up to and during the Hungarian uprising.
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Nevertheless
$19.95Award-winning poet Gillian Jerome’s long-awaited second collection is a meditation on rediscovery and reconnection.How do we restore relationships between land and people? Gillian Jerome’s poems suggest that we might plant a garden, put one foot in front of the other. In Nevertheless, a collection about love, grief, friendship, aging, neighbours and neighbourhoods, Jerome roams into ordinary places inside and outside of the city of Vancouver to find beings and states of being to sing about.
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New & Selected Poems of David Waltner-Toews
$20.00Each volume of the Lyrik Poetry Series will offer
a generous selection of some of the best work, past and present, by Canada’s foremost Mennonite poets, plus an afterword by the poet and a detailed critical
introduction by the editor.These volumes will present a “best of” collection ideal for those who wish an introduction to an influential poet and will also be ideal for classroom use. Many of the poems will be reentering the public sphere, as original publications may no longer be available. The Lyrik volumes will present a range of poems from across the poet’s career, arranged within
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New & Selected Poems of John Weier
$20.00In the second volume of the Lyrik Poetry Series, honouring Canada’s foremost Mennonite poets, CMU Press presents the fine poetry, past and present, of Manitoba’s John Weier, who has been publishing poetry, creative non-fiction, experimental fiction, memoir, naturalist writing, and children’s books in a writing career of more than 40 years. The poems are lyrical, reflective, often dealing with travel and the natural world, but always against a backdrop of loss. Including an introduction by editor Nathan Dueck and an afterword by the poet.
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New & Selected Poems of Sarah Klassen
$20.00This is the inaugural volume of the Lyrik Poetry Series, which honours Canada’s foremost Mennonite poets. This collection offers a generous selection of some of the best work, past and present, of Manitoba’s Sarah Klassen, who has published eight books of poetry in a long and distinguished career. The book includes a brand-new afterword by the poet and a detailed critical introduction by the editor, Nathan Dueck. This volume presents new and uncollected poems as well as the best of the work from previously published books. The poems are thematically arranged and chosen in consultation with the poet.
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New and Collected Poems
$24.95***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER***
***2020 RELIT AWARDS: LONG SHORTLIST***
For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, reprinting each of Dawe’s published collections while gathering previously uncollected poems along with a stunning body of new work. This volume stands as a testament to a monumental achievement for readers both at home and abroad.
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New Blue Distance, The
$17.00Lynes distills Canada into poetry; curling, spring in Saskatoon and grape vines in Antigonish weave the country into the book. Lynes reveals a deep understanding of the country we live in and gives voices to this insight in her trademark wry and endearing style. Yet, this is her most serious collection so far, and readers everywhere will find themselves deeply identifying with a woman who “… with somewhat clouded mind, with fond / cautious affection for the farmer’s wife I never was, / I stand, brush in hand, ready for ice and whatever may befall me.” As she steps out onto the curling rink.
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New Brunswick
$19.95Heralding a new regionalism, New Brunswick interrogates the popular representations of Shane Neilson’s home province. Structured as a group of serial long poems, this fifth book by the winner of the 2017 Walrus Poetry Prize recasts the political, economic, and social histories of settler New Brunswick, particularly as they relate to the sacrifices of his parents. As forests are reborn and fields are healed by rest, Neilson insists that though “we want catastrophes of fire,” out of the ashes of charred dreams and old myths arise avenues for reconciliation through vulnerability and affect.
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New Brunswick and the Navy
$16.95From the seafaring battles between the British and the French of the 1640s to the privateers of the War of 1812, from the merchant ships of the Second World War to the construction of the corvettes and frigates in the 20th century, New Brunswick has played an important role in Canada’s naval history. In 1881, the new Dominion of Canada chose New Brunswick as the base for its naval operations. Three decades later, New Brunswick MP Sir George Foster initiated Parliamentary debates that led to the founding of the modern Canadian Navy.
In this fact-filled volume, Marc Milner and Glenn Leonard tell the story of New Brunswick’s contribution to Canada’s storied naval heritage.
New Brunswick and the Navy is volume 16 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.
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New Canadian Curling Club, The
$15.95A Chinese medical student, a Jamaican Tim Horton’s manager, an Indian father of three, and a 17-year-old Syrian refugee walk into a curling club. It’s Monday night at a small-town rink and it’s the first-ever Learn to Curl class for new Canadians. Inspired by the local refugee resettlement program, community-minded Marlene organized this evening to welcome newcomers and “diversify the club”. But when she slips on the ice and breaks her hip, the club’s ice-maker–who also happens to be Marlene’s ex-husband–Stuart MacPhail is forced to step in as head coach. Trouble is, Stuart has plenty of opinions about immigrants. What follows is the hilarious and inspiring story of a group of unlikely athletes who face off against local prejudice and become a true team. Both laugh-out-loud funny and quietly moving, The New Canadian Curling Club is a new Canadian comedy with a heart as big as Canada itself!