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Vox Humana
$20.00Vox Humana (Latin for “human voice”) is driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over others.
In and through literary experiments with word and sound, utterance and song, Vox Humana considers the different ways a body can assert, recount, proclaim, thus underscoring the urgency of doing so against the de-voicing effects of racism and institutional violence.
As the title also represents an organ reed that sounds like the human voice, so DeRango-Adem shares her reclaiming of the instrument traditionally accessed by the white establishment.
These poems are born from the polyphonic phenomenon of the author’s multilingual upbringing. They are autobiographical and alchemical, singular and plural, but, above all, a celebration of the (breath) work required for transformation of society and self.
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Vox Humana
$19.00Poems of great passion and tenderness, as close to rapture as a writer can get and still hold on.
E. Alex Pierce’s voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. It’s not that these poems live in the past; instead, they manage to bring it back to life with uncanny sensual details and an urgency that makes you realize some fires never really go out. The book’s scope is wide: beautifully crafted family reminiscences; Bach and Beethoven; Raphael and Goltzius; Shakespeare; the Greek Myths and the fate of the Romanovs. Vox Humana is all lilt and discipline in its courtliness, its surrender to the theatre of the moment at its most alive.
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Voyage, The
$20.95The Voyage is a collection of poems culled from a lifetime of meditations on self, family, time, and ageing; it also reflects on political and social aspects of human lives, such as hubris, abuse of power, racism and oppression.
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Voyages
$7.00“Well-written and well thought out poems in which emotion sometimes moves to lyric expression so lovely I can only hope he will be more frequently overwhelmed in the future.” Canadian Literature Review
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Voyageur
$20.00The Voyageur is a 74-page graphic novel, illustrated by Nick Marinkovich (KENK, Marvel’s When The Hulk Attacks, Underworld, Nightwolf, Impaler), written and conceived by documentary filmmaker/screenwriter Jeff Sturge (Mayday, Storming Juno, Cold Blood). Compelling characters drive a fast-paced story set in the 17th century that addresses themes of alienation, a young boy’s coming of age and a fish out of water thrust into a strange new world. Marinkovich’s signature ink-rendered, photo-based artwork has been heavily stylized to achieve a haunting look. Every detail of this novel has been accurately recreated from over two years of meticulous research.
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Vs.
$16.00‘Vs.’ is a collection of poems chronicling the author’s foray into the world of amateur boxing. A shy, bookish woman you’d never expect could hit someone in the face, Ryan was soon hooked on the physical and mental challenge of the sport, as well as the camaraderie of the club’s members and volunteers. When the club announced an upcoming white collar fight-an opportunity for novices to participate in an actual bout-she nervously decided to test her mettle. The writing of these poems became a way to process what she was learning in the ring as well as a method of exploration around her decision to participate in the fight. The poems explore her reasons for taking on the challenge, the way the sport changed her perceptions of herself and her capabilities, and how her relationship with her husband factored into the adventure. ‘Vs.’ is part instruction manual, part rationalization. Throughout the collection the author reflects on what it means to be a woman and a fighter, as wellas a poet and a fighter. But, ultimately, ‘Vs.’ is about the fights we all face: brain vs. body, intention vs. action, perceptions vs. identity, and who we are vs. who we want to be.
“The poems in Kerry Ryan’s ‘Vs.’ come at you like quick jabs of light the writing is taut, worked over, sinewy, spare, and lean but never mean. A delightful collection. What else can be said? These poems pack a punch.” Jeanette Lynes, Author, ‘The New Blue Distance’
“Muhammad Ali, keep your guard up. You’re being measured by a better boxing poet. Kerry Ryan has the clarity of vision that comes with a boxer’s discipline and daring, the grace of a true poet’s music of body and mind made one.” Robert Kroetsch, Author, ‘Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait’
Winner of the Acorn-Plantos Award
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Vulgar Mechanics
$19.95Grappling with queerness and trauma from Alberta to Brooklyn, powering through body, sex, and gender to hit free open roads
In Vulgar Mechanics, K. B. Thors seeks to invent new strategies for survival through the two most basic tools available to the speaker: language and the body. The work begins in collapse, the poems acting as witness to the death of a mother. The speaker documents how, as her mother’s physical body disintegrates, hidden knowledge rises to the surface in the form of “seismic legacy data.” As dark secrets are released, the desire for justice demands improvisation. Moving from the fracked landscapes of the prairies to the steep verticality of New York, this is a collection concerned with hunger, anger, and the shifting fault-lines between play and pain. The poems celebrate the body as a vehicle of excavation and self-determination in a world in which there may be no such a thing as a safe word. Thors pushes against the boundaries of language – the material of sense, meaning – in order to claim a quantum vision of the self, one who transforms trauma into energy through its own multiplicity. The body becomes both ghost and machine, burning the past in its engine to make something beautiful and new, “a thunder egg / bucking the fire pit.” -
W.O. Mitchell and His Works
$9.95This volume explores the life and works of W.O. Mitchell. 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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Wabanaki Modern | Wabanaki Kiskukewey | Wabanaki Moderne
$45.00Winner, Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement (Research) and APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Award
The story of an overlooked group of cultural visionariesThe “Micmac Indian Craftsmen” of Elsipogtog (then known as Big Cove) rose to national prominence in the early 1960s. At their peak, they were featured in print media from coast to coast, their work was included in books and exhibitions — including at Expo 67 — and their designs were featured on prints, silkscreened notecards, jewelry, tapestries, and even English porcelain.
Primarily self-taught and deeply rooted in their community, they were among the first modern Indigenous artists in Atlantic Canada. Inspired by traditional Wabanaki stories, they produced an eclectic range of handmade objects that were sophisticated, profound, and eloquent.
By 1966, the withdrawal of government support compromised the Craftsmen’s resources, production soon ceased, and their work faded from memory. Now, for the first time, the story of this groundbreaking co-operative and their art is told in full. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opening in 2022, Wabanaki Modern features essays on the history of this vibrant art workshop, archival photographs of the artisans, and stunning full-colour images of their art.
Wla atukuaqn na ujit ta’nik mu ewi’tamuki’k tetuji kelulkɨpp ta’n teli amaliteka’tijik
Wla “Mi’kmewaqq L’nue’k amaliteka’tijik” tlo’ltijik Elsipogtog (amskweseweyekk i’tlui’tasikɨpp Big Cove) poqji wuli nenupnikk wla amaliteka’tijik 1960ekk. Je wekaw wutlukowaqnmuwow ika’tasikɨpp wikatikniktuk aqq ne’yo’tasikɨpp ta’n pukwelk ta’n wen nmitew — je wekaw Expo 67 — aqq ta’n koqoey kisi napui’kmi’tipp tampasɨk koqoey eweketu’tij stike’ l’taqnewi’kasik, napui’kn misekn, wi’katikne’ji’jk, meko’tikl kuntal, kaqapitkl l’taqa’teke’l, aqq wekaw akalasie’we’k eptaqnk. Nekmow na kekina’masultijik aqq melki knukwi’tij ta’n tett telayawultijik, nekmow na amskewsewa’jewaqq l’nu’k tel nenujik ujit ta’n teli amaliteka’tijik ujit Atlantic Canada. Pema’lkwi’titl a’tukuaqnn ta’n sa’qewe’l, ta’n wejiaqel a’tukuaqnn Wabanaki, l’tu’tipp kaqasi milamu’k koqowey toqo eweketu’titl wutpitnual tetuji moqɨtekl, ma’muntekl, aqq weltekl.
Wekaw 1966ekk, kpno’l pun apoqnmuapni wla amaliteka’tikete’jɨk jel kaqnma’tijik ta’n koqoey nuta’tipp, amuj pana pun lukutipnikk, aqq tel awantasuwalutki’k. Nike’, amskwesewey, wla a’tukuaqn tetuji msɨki’kɨpp wla wut lukewaqnmuwow etel kaqi a’tukwasikk. Wije’tew meski’k neya’tmk Beaverbrook Art Gallery pana’siktetew 2022al, Wabanaki Modern na pema’toql wikikaqnn ujit ta’n pemiaqɨpp wla tetuji wulamu’kɨpp kisitaqnne’l telukutijik, maskutekl sa’qewe’l napuikasikl toqo nemu’jik etl-lukutijik wla lukewinu’k, aqq sikte wultek aqq welamu’k ta’n koqoey kisitu’tij.
L’histoire d’un groupe de visionnaires culturels ignorés
Un groupe d’artisans mi’kmaw d’Elsipogtog (autrefois Big Cove) au Nouveau-Brunswick se fit connaître à travers le Canada au début des années 1960. À l’apogée de leur renommée, les Micmac Indian Craftsmen firent l’objet d’articles dans des publications d’un océan à l’autre. Leur travail figura dans des livres et des expositions — dont Expo 67 à Montréal — et leurs œuvres graphiques furent reproduites sous forme de gravures et de sérigraphies, et elles ornèrent de la papeterie, des bijoux, des tapisseries et même de la porcelaine anglaise.
En grande partie autodidactes et solidement enracinés dans leur communauté, les Micmac Indian Craftsmen furent parmi les premiers artistes autochtones modernes au Canada atlantique. En s’inspirant de récits traditionnels wabanakis, ils fabriquaient à la main une gamme variée d’objets raffinés, évocateurs et porteurs d’un sens profond.
En 1966, toutefois, le gouvernement retira son soutien. Les Craftsmen perdirent leur financement, la production cessa peu après et leur œuvre finit par être oubliée. Une nouvelle publication relate maintenant, pour la première fois, l’histoire complète de cette coopérative innovatrice et de ses réalisations. Publié dans le cadre d’une grande exposition qui a lieu à la Galerie d’art Beaverbrook en 2022, Wabanaki Moderne comprend des textes sur l’histoire de cet atelier dynamique, des photographies d’archives des artisans et de superbes illustrations couleur de leurs œuvres.
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Wage Slave’s Glossary, The
$12.95Wage Slave’s Glossary, The
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Wages for Schoolwork
$22.00This book presents a radical proposal: paying students to attend school. Part polemic, part movement history, and part political strategy, Wages for Schoolwork is a rousing manifesto and call to action for disillusioned high school students fed up with cruel teachers, excessive workloads, and onerous adult expectations. Drawing on the rich history of student resistance and school strikes, it charts a new course for education?one that recognizes the countless hours students devote to studying for what it actually is: labour, arguing that like all forms of labour, schoolwork should be paid. Informed by the victories of organized labour, feminist, and anti-racist movements, Wages for Schoolwork brings class struggle to the classroom by placing students at the center of the fight for a more just world.
The latest in ARP Books? Semaphore Series of short polemical texts, Wages for Schoolwork addresses disillusioned high school students, critiquing the devaluation of their labour in schools, despite their crucial role in reproducing capitalist accumulation. Raveendrabose encourages high school students to recognize that they have the power to fight not only for wages, but for structural changes to the school system.
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Wait
$18.00In Wait, relationship and reflection are drawn on to free emotion and understanding from fear, whether it would grow in praise of passion or cooling love, or arise from being trapped by power or lost to indulgence. The poems in Wait seek to cut through the dishonesty and abuse that skew life.
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Wait Softly Brother
$24.00From lost siblings to the horrors of war to tales of selkie wives, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory, reality and the truths hidden in family lore.
After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her childhood home determined to write her way to a new life. There she is put to work by her aging parents sorting generations of memories and mementos as biblical rains fall steadily and the house is slowly cut off from the rest of the world. Lured away from the story she is determined to write – that of her stillborn brother, Wulf – by her mother’s gift of crumbling letters, Kathryn instead begins to piece together the strange tale of an earlier ancestor, Russell Boyt, who fought as a substitute soldier in the American Civil War. As the water rises, and more truths come to the surface, the two stories begin to mingle in unexpected and beautiful ways. In this elegantly written novel Kuitenbrouwer deftly unravels the stories we are told to believe by society and shows the reader how to weave new tales of hope and possibility.
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Waiting For Saskatchewan
$15.95Wah interprets memory–a journey to China and Japan, his father’s experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhood–to locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wah’s own attempts to find “the relief of exotic identity.””Fred Wah searches for his father within various literary forms and embraces. This is a beautiful book and we are in the muscle and limbs of rough cut clear language–live bright fish slapping on the table.”–Michael Ondaatje
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Waiting for the Cyclone
$19.95A Trillium Book Award Finalist
Women are too often cast in literature as inherently good and dependable—but this is not the case in the audacious stories of Waiting for the Cyclone.
Mary, a closet drinker, leaves her children with Debbie, a seemingly perfect housewife who shoots pharmaceuticals at night. Alison vacations with her husband, but wakes up in the tattooed arms of another man. Donna lies to her family about volunteering in Afghanistan so she can parasail with a lover in Turkey.
With authenticity and intensity, Dean challenges traditional literary archetypes by revealing female characters that are nuanced, contradictory, and boldly unapologetic.
“In Waiting for the Cyclone, Leesa Dean gives us an original, honest voice. Far from shelter, readers will find themselves pulled closer and closer to the eye of this storm. Brace yourself: These women are unflinchingly real. You will not be able to look away.” —Elisabeth de Mariaffi, author of How to Get Away with Women, nominated for the Giller Prize
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Waiting for the Man
$24.95A surreal journey of a man who is searching for purpose and for happiness
Joe, a 36-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency, feels disillusioned with his life. He starts dreaming of a mysterious man, seeing him on the street, and hearing his voice. Joe decides to listen to the Man and so he waits on his stoop, day and night, for instructions. A local reporter takes notice, and soon Joe has become a story, a media sensation, the centre of a storm. When the Man tells Joe to “go west,” he does, in search of meaning.
Waiting for the Man is a compelling and visceral story about the struggle to find something more in life, told in two interwoven threads — Joe at the beginning of his journey in Manhattan, and at the end of it as he finds new purpose on a ranch in Montana under the endless sky
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