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Roadsworth
$29.95Winner, Design Edge Regional Design Award
In October 2001, paint was spilled on the streets of Montreal. A stark, primitive bike symbol, looking suspiciously like the one the city used to designate a bike path; a giant zipper, pulled open down the centre line of the street on a busy commuter route; the footprint of a giant, stomping through the city while people slept.
Inspired by a desire for adventure and galvanized by a loathing of car culture, Roadsworth got down with an idea that had been incubating. The time had come for him to articulate his artistic vision, to challenge the notion of “public” space and whose right it is to use it. By 2004, Roadsworth had pulled off close to 300 pieces of urban art on the streets of Montreal. In the fall, he was charged with 51 counts of public mischief. It seemed to signal the end of his career. Instead the citizens of Montreal and lovers of his work from around the world rallied their support. A year later he was let off with a slap on the wrist.
Since then, Roadsworth has developed as an artist, continuing to intervene in public spaces and to travel the world, executing commissioned work for organizations such as Cirque de Soleil, The Lost O (cycled over in le tour de France), and for municipalities, exhibitions, and arts festivals. In this playful and sometimes subversive book, featuring more than 200 reproductions of his unmistakable work, Roadsworth takes the urban landscape and turns its constituent elements on their heads, both indicting our culture’s excesses and celebrating what makes us human (lest we forget).
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Roadtripping
$19.95Roadtripping documents a decade of road trips through the fiefdom of Alberta. The men and women who make up the Buffalo Gals first set out in July 1999 to experience the unusual and charming roadside attractions of south-central Alberta. Never dreaming that this one-off adventure would turn into an annual event, it’s ten years later and they continue their escapades. Each year a new destination is chosen and the weekend-long travel begins. Traditions have evolved including elaborate scrapbooking, eating in gourmet dining rooms (when available) and excessive snacking (without fail). Beyond the joys and challenges of being on the road and a deepening bond of friendship, this book is a love poem to Alberta, a province often misunderstood and mislabelled as being the right-wing cowboy haunt of Canada.
With trip route maps, hilarious photos, and appendices including checklists and recipes, Roadtripping explores the bizarre and wonderful attractions of wild rose country, stuffed gophers, political fanaticism, mad cows and more.
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Roar of the Crowd, The
$16.95Wherever Randy Craig goes, trouble seems to follow. With the help of her friend Denise, Randy has landed a summer job with a high school theatre program linked to the FreeWill Shakespeare Festival. But when a local actor shows up dead and Denise is the prime suspect, Randy has to find to a way to solve the mystery while surrounded with suspects who have no trouble lying to her face.
The Roar of the Crowd by Janice MacDonald is the sixth installment in the wildly popular Randy Craig mystery series set in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Robber Baron
$32.95Robber Baronr is an unauthorized biography of Conrad Black, who built the world’s third-largest media empire and is now facing criminal charges in Chicago for alleged fraud, money laundering, and racketeering.
Robber Baron is based on rigorous research, hard-hitting interviews, original documents, and exclusive access to Black and his close family and friends, key associates, critics, and staunch enemies. Written by George Tombs, an award-winning journalist and historian, this book gives a fascinating insider’s look at a complex, driven man who is never out of the news for long.
The book will include key testimony and evidence from Black’s Chicago trial, as well as insights into his defence, strategies, hopes . . . and fears. Love him or hate him, Black is a fighter who never says die. Robber Baron tells the story of a modern-day Citizen Kane, helping readers understand why Black does what he does.
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Robbie Burns
$19.99TRIPLE AWARD WINNING GRAPHIC NOVEL
2015 Scottish Independent Book Alliance Awards Best Graphic Novel/Best Writer/Best Newcomer
The story asks what if the events of the narrative poem Tam o’ Shanter, Burns’ most famous work, were actually based on something that happened to Burns himself. Like his fictional creation, Robbie mistakenly takes the wrong road and ends up stumbling upon a full-blown witches’ sabbath being held in the ruins of the haunted old Alloway Kirk. Like Tam, the hot-blooded young poet is entranced by the sight of the dancing witches, but is saved by the sudden and dramatic intervention of the pair of witch-hunters, the old veteran McKay and his young apprentice Meg. And so begins Burns’ education in the ways of witch-hunting, as McKay and Meg struggle to keep him out of the clutches of the demonic Cutty Sark and out of trouble with witches, demons and local farm girls. Two visionary writers from Edinburgh, Gordon Rennie and Emma Beeby, have created a new depiction of the nation’s most loved poet, based on the epic character of the famous narrative poem Tam o’Shanter. Tiernen Trevallion, one of the UK’s most promising new comic artists, provides the artwork.
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Robert Bond
$19.95The foremost political figure from the years of responsible government in Newfoundland, Robert Bond led a spectacularly successful but often tortured life. Cultured and well-to-do, he tried to play the game of politics like a gentleman, and over a period of 30 years never suffered a defeat at the polls. During his remarkable career, he built a reputation as a statesman, negotiating two trade agreements with the United States and reclaiming Newfoundland’s rights to the French Shore. In the dark days following the bank crash of 1894, he personally intervened to save the country from bankruptcy. As prime minister he led a scrupulous and scandal-free administration. In private life, he was a recluse. He idolized his mother, never married, agonized over his health, and suffered a tortured relationship with his mentor William Whiteway. His place of solace was Whitbourne, where he built a magnificent country estate, complete with an elegant manor house, beautiful gardens and a working farm. This carefully researched and engaging biography delves into Bond’s life and times, following him from his school days in St. John’s and England to his rapid rise in politics in the 1880s and ’90s and his time as prime minister in the first decade of the twentieth century. Along the way it reveals Bond’s relationship with the unforgettable characters in this formative and turbulent time in Newfoundland politics.
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Robert Bringhurst: Selected Poems
$27.95This new volume brings together selections from several of Bringhurst’s collections of poetry, including The Beauty of the Weapons and The Calling, along with complete works including the polyphonic Conversations with a Toad and The Blue Roofs of Japan, and a series of new poems, “The Living.”
The collection’s geography wanders from Japan to the Middle East to El Salvador to British Columbia. Bringhurst’s attention to place cuts below the level of foreign tongues and telling landmarks to more elemental meetings of stone, sky, water, bark, breath and blood. This elemental imagery is matched in a poetics that joins together the economy and elucidating repetition present in improvisational and classical music but so often missing from contemporary poetry.
Poems from “The Book of Silences” and The Old in Their Knowing underline the influence of Eastern and pre-Socratic philosophers on Bringhurst’s thinking, lending the reflexive, sometimes near-unutterable concepts in the writings of Parmenides, Pythagoras, Empedokles, Nagarjuna, Dogen and Uddalaka Aruni, a certain physicality. Here too are attempts to whittle back to the experience of a body in a knowable and unknowable world.
Those familiar with Bringhurst’s prose will find many of the same concerns manifested here. The author’s ideas about mythology, ecology, philosophy, language, art and music are taken up in verse. In particular, polyphonic poems and the typographic illustration of them are represented, with selections from Ursa Major, as well as The Blue Roofs of Japan, New World Suite No. 3, and Conversations With A Toad, each in their entirety.
About his continued fascination with polyphonics, Bringhurst says: “If conditions are right, it is good for poems to be spoken aloud. I mean that the poems themselves can benefitand if that occurs, people may benefit too. Some of the poems in this book are composed for two or three voices speaking together, saying the same thing differently or saying different things at once. I understand that this may seem a needless complication, but poems have presented themselves to me in this form now for many years, and I have not found any way around it. In this book, where different voices speak at the same time, they are printed in different colors. The poems in which this happens can be read in silence alone or read aloud with one or two friendsif conditions are right. Which, in the presence of one or two friends, they just might be.”
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Robert Chafe: Two Plays
$18.95Butler’s Marsh
Thirty years ago Nora’s mother disappeared into the small, dense forest of Butler’s Marsh. She emerged three days later, covered in blood, badly shaken, and completely silent about what had happened. Having never been offered a suitable explanation, and now finding herself at her own moment of crisis, Nora ventures to Newfoundland for the first time to explore Butler’s Marsh for herself. She is accompanied by her partner Tim, who, while less than helpful, is nevertheless adamant that she not be left alone. But as Nora’s night in Butler’s Marsh unfolds, and Tim’s good humour wanes, the primary question of what happened to her mother quickly becomes less troubling than another; with whom exactly is she lost in the woods?
Tempting Providence
In 1921 Myra Grimsley signed a two-year contract and boarded a steamship from London, England, to St. John’s, Newfoundland. Her charge: to serve as the sole health-care provider for three hundred miles of the sparsely settled coast of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. By the time her contract ran out two years later, Myra was married to local Angus Bennett, and had given birth to their first child, Grace. Based on the true story of Nurse Myra Bennett, Tempting Providence is a play about duty and sadness, love and change. Four strong characters drive this no-frills drama about a young British nurse who only signed on for two years, and the local man for whom she stayed for seventy.
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Robert Kroetsch
$20.00These essays span the period of Kroetsch’s writing. Included are previously published and new essays that cover (some of) his novels, (some of) his poetry, and even (some of) his critical writing. The contributors include writers who knew Kroetsch well and those who only met him on the page; critics at the beginning of their careers and those well established in the Canadian literary field; men and women, writers and poets and critics and damn fine thinkers. The contributors featured are: Robert Archambeau, Catherine Bates, George Bowering, Jenna Butler, Pauline Butling, Dennis Cooley, Tom Dilworth, Nathan Dueck, Jasmine Elliott, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jon R. Flieger, Jay Gamble, Gary Geddes, Susan Holbrook, Christine Jackman, Brian Jensen, Wiktor Kulinski, Michael Laverty, John Lent, Ann Mandel, Nicole Markotić, John Matias, Roy Miki, John Moss, Brianne O’Grady, Jeff Pardy, and Aritha van Herk.
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Robert Kroetsch and His Works
$9.95This volume explores the life and works of Robert Kroetsch. These studies of Canadian authors fulfill a real need in the study of Canadian literature. Each monograph is a separately bound study that contains a biography of the author, a description of the tradition and milieu that influenced the author, a survey of the criticism on the author, a comprehensive essay on all the author’s key works, and a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary works.
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Robinson’s Crossing
$16.00My great-
grandmother slept
in a boxcar on the night
before she made the crossing. The steel
ended in Sangudo then, there was
no trestle on the Pembina, no siding
on the other side. They crossed
by ferry, and went on by cart through bush,
the same eight miles. Another
family legend has it that she stood there
in the open doorway of the shack
and said, “You told me, Ernest,
it had windows and a floor.” – from “Robinson’s Crossing”The poems in this book arise from Robinson’s Crossing – the place where the railway ends and European settlers arriving in northern Alberta had to cross the Pembina River and advance by wagon or on foot. How have we crossed into this country, with what violence and what blind love? Robinson’s Crossing enacts the pause at the frontier, where we reflect on the realities of colonial experience, but also on the nature of living here- on historical dwelling itself. In long meditative narratives and shorter probing lyrics, Jan Zwicky shows us-as she has in her celebrated Lyric Philosophy and the Governor General’s award-winning Songs for Relinquishing the Earth – how music means and meaning is musical.
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Rock ‘n’ Radio
$19.95Rock ‘n’ Radio illustrates that Montreal was at the epicentre of the rock radio revolution in Canada, eventually attracting talented DJs from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Their personal stories and the inevitable collision with the power of alternative FM rock radio in the late 60s take the reader through some of the best rock music recorded and the social changes that percolated in the background.
The period 1926 to 1949 can be considered the Golden Age of radio when it was the hearth of the North American family. Much to everyone’s surprise, it survived the incursion of television to live another Golden Age–the 1960s and 1970s when rock ‘n’ roll music seeped its way onto mainstream radio, pushing aside Perry Como and the Dorsey Brothers for Elvis and The Beatles.
The new golden era of radio spawned what would eventually be called Top 40 AM radio, whose premise was built on the philosophy: play all the hits, then play them again. Pioneer Top 40 DJs like Alan Freed in the U.S., widely recognized as the man who coined the phrase “rock ‘n’ roll,” spawned a new breed of radio personalities–the fast-talking salesman who delivered the goods. Hundreds of radio stations in North American gave up their entire programming day over to rock music. And with that came a legion of young, hungry Top 40 DJs such as Dave Boxer, Ralph Lockwood and Doug Pringle, looking for jobs at stations across Canada.
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Rock Painter
$5.00In Rock Painter, Rashley explores the prairie landscape with a sharpness of vision and a touch of melancholy.
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Rock Painter
$10.00In Rock Painter, Rashley explores the prairie landscape with a sharpness of vision and a touch of melancholy.
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Rock Paper Sex
$19.95St. John’s is known as a flourishing port city, a cultural gem, and popular tourist destination: a picturesque city of pubs and restaurants, music and colourful houses. But a thriving sex trade quietly exists beneath that polished conception, a trade few are aware of or even understand. In an engaging journalistic style, Kerri Cull respectfully reveals the people who make up the city’s surprisingly diverse sex industry and, in the process, makes a compelling humanistic argument for understanding before judgment.
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Rock Paper Sex Volume 2
$22.95This follow-up to the bestselling Rock Paper Sex provides a space for the varied voices of individual sex workers, massage parlour owners, and community organizations, in a startling and compelling investigation of the industry. Rock Paper Sex Volume 2: Trigger Warning is timely, compassionate, and enlightening.
The stories presented in this sequel offer a wide range of perspectives from the sex industry in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. As new voices are introduced and others from Rock Paper Sex are revisited, key themes related to sex work emerge, including barriers to safety, intersections with human trafficking, and challenging perceptions.