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| Title: A Bouquet Brought Back from Space |
| By (author): Kevin Spenst |
| ISBN10-13: 1772142255 : 9781772142259 |
| In a secularized society, what kind of faith in our collective powers and imaginations can be patch-worked together, and what might be the role of angels? Through multiple locales, languages, and spiritualities, A Bouquet Brought Back from Space both subverts and sublimates traditions of religious poetry, love poetry, and song. Playful in form and formed full of play, this fourth book of poetry by Kevin Spenst explores loss, love and faith through the palindrome, Madlib, Fibonacci, found poem, prose poem, sonnet and various strains of free verse. Spenst meditates on mental health, poetic friendships and influences, and the possibility of there being an angel assigned to the Mennonites at the beginning of their global journey. These poems sing, cry, and soothe. |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: Anvil Press - April 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
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| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 1 of: 238 |
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| Title: A Circle of Birds |
| By (author): Hayden Trenholm |
| ISBN10-13: 1895636035 : 9781895636031 |
| 'A Circle of Birds' is an impressionistic, finely wrought tale of lost memory, tangled history, despair and discovery. It is a journey through much Canadian and world history; a mind-melting descent into mental illness, a sordid yarn of death and twisted love. "This is a surprising tour-de-force, and its author should be praised for it; his vision is bleak, his language is spare, but his imagination is rich and his abilities are profuse. More, please, Mr. Trenholm." - Geist Magazine Winner of the 15th annual 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest |
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Pages: 100
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| Published: Anvil Press - January 1993 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 7.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 2 of: 238 |
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| Title: A Credit to Your Race |
| By (author): Truman Green |
| ISBN10-13: 1897535864 : 9781897535868 |
| A longtime resident of Surrey, Truman Green wrote 'A Credit to Your Race' (1973), in which a fifteen-year-old black porter's son falls in love with, and impregnates, the white girl next door. Set in Surrey, circa 1960, 'A Credit to Your Race' is a disturbing and convincing portrayal of how the full weight of Canadian racism could come to bear on a youthful, interracial couple. "If Isolation is a key theme of black B.C. writing," says social historian Wayde Compton, "Green's protagonist Billy Robinson is the most fully-drawn expression." Compton says Green was diplomatic in the way he described racism, but his novel was passed over nonetheless. After rejection from several literary presses in Canada, Truman self-published his novel in a limited edition of three hundred copies. "If isolation is a key theme of black B.C. writing, Green's protagonist Billy Robinson is the most fully-drawn expression." author and social historian Wayde Compton |
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Pages: 160
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| Published: Anvil Press - October 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 3 of: 238 |
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| Title: A Dark Boat |
| By (author): Patrick Friesen |
| ISBN10-13: 1897535910 : 9781897535912 |
| 'A Dark Boat', a new collection of poetry by Patrick Friesen, is heavily influenced by 'cante jondo' (Spanish "deep song", or flamenco) and 'fado' (Portuguese songs of longing). Friesen approaches music as a method of weaving his poems with both Spanish and Portuguese aspects of longing, imagistic leaps, and darkness. The poems in 'A Dark Boat' try to shake hands with darkness; the kind of darkness that is rich and necessary for a full human life, the darkness of soil into which seeds drop and grow, the darkness of the grave into which the body is lowered. They explore the kind of loneliness and yearning that is contained in the Portuguese word 'saudad:' a longing for something in the past that can never be found because time has shifted everything away from what it was. Although musically aware and inspired, Friesen's poems do not delve too deeply into the metaphorical; rather, they thrive on an allusive and suggestive level that makes room for jarring non sequiturs andvibrant images. These elusive and emotional poems say much, while telling as little as possible. "...His (Friesen's) sensitivity as an artist affects all his work in a profound and beautiful way. ...Friesen writes about a world that is "quiet" but teeming with emotion; this world is alive and "writhing" with lust, obsession, inspiration, suffering, and yearning. ...There is a musicality to Friesen's writing, a lyricism indicative of what the Spanish term "Deep Song", a more somber stream of flamenco music. There are constant references to fado music, pianos, horns and Tom Waits, as Friesen probes the universality of music. ...The poems are not frivolous but neither are they suppressive or overwrought by the darkness. Instead, the themes are the undiluted musings of an adult, contemplative, full of yearning and with an awareness of death. Friesen is preoccupied with dancing, the motion of feet and legs. In his poems everything from walking and drunken stumbles, as well as the movementof dance, is associated with lust, struggle and resistance. This becomes the perfect backdrop for historically rich poems about Lorca. ..." - Vancouver Weekly "...If you've never heard fado music, you should. It is an intense, raw, emotional music which Patrick compared to the Delta blues, another passion of his. Or you could just read this book, which is imbued with his reminiscences of his trip and the music of fado. ...lines that punch you in the gut, leaving you breathless. ..." - PrairieFire |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: Anvil Press - April 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 238 |
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| Title: A Mysterious Humming Noise |
| By (author): Howard White |
| ISBN10-13: 1772141410 : 9781772141412 |
| Howard White says, "Some poets try to capture rare butterflies in their writing. The things I go after are more like houseflies." The comparison does him no favours but it is true inasmuch as his writing is notably unpretentious and concerned with common and everyday realities. That is, if your everyday realities include such things as sinking docks, driving bulldozers, arguing about sand, baseball, pouring without a funnel, dancing in the street, thought guns, coition, brainfarts, not sending sympathy cards, not shooting your father, and sea otters. In this book he also writes quite a bit about writing, not so much the kind of personal writing he does in this book so much as that he has done as an "accidental chronicler" for "a galaxy of voices" he acted as a "conduit" for in his work as a memoirist and publisher. |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: Anvil Press - September 2019 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 5 of: 238 |
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| Title: A Room in the City |
| Sub-title: Photographs of Gabor Gasztonyi |
| By (photographer): Gabor Gasztonyi Introduction by: Harold Rhenisch, Gabor Mate |
| ISBN10-13: 1897535287 : 9781897535288 |
| 'A Room in the City' is a self-revelatory journey into a world of darkness and light, a place of blatant lies and transcendent truths. Photographer Gabor Gasztonyi presents a Vancouver with deep roots in an otherwise forgotten past, and an East End populated by people seeking shelter, safety, and love in extreme social conditions. 'A Room in the City' presents Gasztonyi's five-year project of photogrpahing the residents of the Cobalt, Balmoral, Regent, and Sunrise Hotels in Vancouver'sDowntown Eastside, the poorest postal code in the country. They are represented in private moments, with respect and dignity-in their rooms and on the streets-as they wish to be seen. Gasztonyi's style continues in the great documentation tradition of Czech photographer Zdenek Tmej and Jousef Koudelka, the photographer of the Roma. " 'A Room in the City' is a haunting collection of photographs by Gabor Gasztonyi. ... There's more here than prostitution and crack pipes, although they're in evidence. Whether confronting the lens or averting their gaze, the subjects expose their vulnerability but also their attachment to another human being or a cosseted pet. In the book's foreword, addiction expert Gabor Maté notes that for many of these people, mental illness or substance abuse is a response to trauma. Their entire life,' he adds, has been one of survival against odds.' We're left wondering how people have to live this way in Canada." -Uptown Magazine "Gabor Gasztonyi spent five years photographing and talking to the men and women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and 'A Room in the City' is the mesmerizing result. The black-and-white images, and Gasztonyi's diary entries, forcefully and unforgettably capture the desperation-and the unexpected glints of dignity and joy-of lives ravaged by poverty, drugs, mental illness and social dislocation." -The National Post Finalsit , George Ryga Award for Social Awareness In Literature |
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Pages: 200
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| Published: Anvil Press - July 2010 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Individual photographers |
| List Price: 30.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 238 |
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| Title: A Small Dog Barking |
| Sub-title: & Other Stories |
| By (author): Robert Strandquist |
| ISBN10-13: 1895636698 : 9781895636697 |
| Following the success of his novel, 'The Dreamlife of Bridges', Robert Strandquist makes a much-awaited return to the short story form. As always, Strandquist's works explores relationships both familial and sexual, and plumbs the unspoken communications where things go haywire. This collection is more eclectic than his first collection, 'The Inanimate World', covering themes of nature, of building and destruction. Settings are extreme or post-apocalyptic and walk the line of magic realism. Despite the sometimes-alien landscapes his characters inhabit, there is always the motif of adults navigating the riparian paths of longing, love and loss. "The writing is so beautiful, the language shining, enlightening a sacramental universe ... It is not the smallness, nor the dog, but the barking that is important, the raging against the coming of the night." -Prairie Fire "Strandquist's prose is spare and precise, studded with startling, evocative images. ... Strandquist has a wildimagination and an awe-inspiring mastery of language and form ...'A Small Dog Barking' is an excellent collection, well worth reading and rereading." -Books in Canada "Strandquist once again proves he's incapable of writing a dull sentence." -The Vancouver Sun |
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Pages: 160
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| Published: Anvil Press - November 2005 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Short stories |
| List Price: 11.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 7 of: 238 |
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| Title: A Temporary Stranger |
| By (author): Jamie Reid |
| ISBN10-13: 1772140988 : 9781772140989 |
| A Temporary Stranger is comprised of three sections: Homages, Fake Poems, and Recollections. In Homages we find poems of reverence and honour, tributes to writers who had opened up the world of poetry to Jamie. There are poems to Spicer, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton, Francis Ponge, Tristan Tzara and others. At the centre of A Temporary Stranger are the Fake Poems, so called because "There is no art on earth that can fully represent the exact and flowing experience of viewing stone within the flow of water and the waving light within the water and around the stone, and the subsequent sense of awe and beauty that arises in the interaction between the seer and the seen... . In that sense, all art is fake... " The third section, Recollections, is an assemblage of articles paeans, really - to Robin Blaser, bill bissett, Warren Tallman, John Newlove, Curt Lang, Nellie McClung, Artie Gold, Kim Goldberg, Kate Braid, and others. Here, as friend and editor Karl Siegler states in his Foreword, "we encounter memory-not as a form of nostalgia for a bygone golden age of a romanticised pastoral arcadia ... but as an historical record of who did what when, and to what end, throughout the counterculture revolution that shaped the lives of Jamie Reid and his companions over the past six decades." |
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Pages: 64
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| Published: Anvil Press - June 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 8 of: 238 |
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| Title: A Toilet Paper |
| Sub-title: A treatise on four fundamental words referring to gaseous and solid wastes together with their point of origin |
| By (author): Rachel Mines |
| ISBN10-13: 189563640X : 9781895636406 |
| 'A Toilet Paper' is a humorous examination, from a historical linguistic viewpoint, of four commonly used words relating to our posterior orifice and that which comes out of it. |
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Pages: 50
Size: 152x101xmm
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| Published: Anvil Press - January 2002 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics : Humour |
| List Price: 3.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 9 of: 238 |
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| Title: Accelerated Paces |
| Sub-title: Travels Across Borders and Other Imaginary Boundaries |
| By (author): Jim Oaten |
| ISBN10-13: 1895636930 : 9781895636932 |
| Dodging down back-alleys in bomb-torn Beirut. Wheeling past God and traffic in Mombassa, Kenya. Slipping around the edges of Alzheimer's disease, the Gulf War, and the eternity of CNN. Set somewhere between here and the heat-death of the universe, Jim Oaten's debut collection serves up random samples of literal and literary truth scooped up at top speed. Whether peeking out from the backseat of Mom and Dad's car or surveying the grimy wings of mental wards, 'Accelerated Paces' hurdlesthat uneasy terrain between creative fact and honest fiction. These short stories and pieces ignore borders as they jaunt thorough external trips and internal voyages. This is both creative non-fiction and creative fiction, which follows the idea of crossing boundaries and blurring borders. This collection is an explicit demonstration of how the two genres interplay, of how a non-fiction event can inspire a fictional piece, and, interestingly enough, the reverse as well. Stamp your passport, andstep on the edge. Buy a ticket, and take the ride. "Whether it is a description of role-playing a cat in a mental health centre, careering through the streets of Mombasa in a taxi, or even attedning a Robert McKee story seminar, Oaten's writing constantly teeters on the blissed-out edge of chaos." - Quill & Quire |
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Pages: 176
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| Published: Anvil Press - December 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Memoirs |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 10 of: 238 |
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