Books tagged: Essays
A Brief History of Oversharing
By Shawn Hitchins
Narrator Shawn Hitchins
Musings from a “one-man flash mob” (Toronto Star)
Comedian Shawn Hitchins explores his irreverent nature in this debut collection of essays. Hitchins doesn’t shy away from his failures or celebrate his mild successes — he sacrifices them for an audience’s amusement. ... Read more
A Friend Sails in on a Poem
By Molly Peacock
Palimpsest Press and Molly Peacock are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of A FRIEND SAILS IN ON A POEM, available for presale in Canada and the United States.
For the last forty-six years, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed ... Read more
A Green Reef
By Stephen Henighan
In spite of its disturbing implications, the impact of climate change on our physical environment can be difficult for us to understand or imagine. Moving from a memoir of a journey through an abundant yet fragile natural world to the daunting scientific evidence that climate ... Read more
A Green Reef
By Stephen Henighan
In spite of its disturbing implications, the impact of climate change on our physical environment can be difficult for us to understand or imagine. Moving from a memoir of a journey through an abundant yet fragile natural world to the daunting scientific evidence that climate ... Read more
A Life Out of Whack
By Les Essif
A Life Out of Whack has two parts. The first part is autobiographical and sketches the atypical early life of a future academic scholar from family poverty to marriage and divorce at nineteen, from eight years in big-city and federal law enforcement to starting college at the ... Read more
A Profession of Hope
By Jenna Butler
Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award
Gold Medal for the Green Living category in the Living Now Book Awards
Finalist for the High Plains Book Award for creative nonfiction
"This is not the story of a ready-made farm, complete with generations of history, ... Read more
A Ragged Pen
By Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson, and Jan Zwicky
A Ragged Pen brings to the page five essays on memory. First delivered in Vancouver in the spring of 2005, these talksby Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson and Jan Zwickyexamine the narrative challenges, lyric energy and questions of verity that ... Read more