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Apologetic for Joy
Apologetic for Joy is a lush collection from a unique new voice whose palette of subject matter ranges from artistic anatomy to dislocation. Hiemstra-van der Horst's poems reveal a sensual awareness and an imaginative escape into intricately woven poetic worlds, rich in sensual detail and metaphor. Her gentler sketches of quotidian moments peel away to reveal an artist and poet whose careful observations of the world undertake the difficult translation to page and canvas.
Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle
Painters use the term “fugitive pigments” to describe those colours most prone to fading after a brief exposure to light. In Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle, poet and visual artist Jessica Hiemstra uses the idea of fugitive colour to explore the grieving process; whether her subject is a lost grandparent, language, child, painting or cat, Hiemstra renders the fleetingness of life with fine, delicate strokes. “The poet listens, tastes and remembers, senses afloat, dipping into the past and then surfacing again, drawn by a perfect but fleeting moment.” — Descant Jessica Hiemstra is a visual artist and writer. Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle is her third volume.
How to Expect what You're Not Expecting
Winner of a 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal One size fits all does not apply to pregnancy and childbirth. Each one is different, unique, and comes with its share of pleasure and pain. But how does one prepare for an unexpected loss of a pregnancy or hoped-for baby? In How to Expect What You're Not Expecting, writers share their true stories of miscarriage, stillbirth, infertility, and other, related losses. This literary anthology picks up where some pregnancy books end and offers diverse, honest, and moving essays that can prepare and guide women and their families for when the unforeseen happens. Contributors include Chris Arthur, Kim Aubrey, Janet Baker, Yvonne Blomer,...
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Local and Regional Policy and Management
In this volume of the TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) publication series, the key concepts of the project are applied to local and regional policy and public management. The aim is to show that by taking nature's benefits into account, decision makers can promote local development to ensure human well-being and economic growth and stability, while maintaining environmental sustainability. The book explores the potential for local development provided by an approach based on nature. It offers examples of successful implementation of this approach from across the world, highlighting the importance of local decision making in management and planning. It provides tools and pr...
The Holy Nothing
Most of Jessica Hiemstra's new poems were written over several winters. Perhaps all that snow covering every living thing gave Hiemstra enough quiet to think. These were hard poems to write, she says. They arrived both suddenly and slowly. To Hiemstra the poems of The Holy Nothing feel like the slake of a hard moment. Haiku poet Claudia Radmore says that Hiemstra's poems want to be haibuns. There's something so painfully unadorned and simple about her work, which isn't simple-mindedness. Think of these poems as meditations.// With 17 beautiful B&W illustrations by the poet.
One Crow Sorrow
An evocative new voice in Canadian poetry, Lisa Martin-DeMoor fearlessly channels the weathered West, the half-truths of memory, and present day loss in her first collection. One Crow Sorrow is smoothly varied, from sparsely drawn meditations on relationships, to longer and bolder verse rich in image. Each one holds our mortality up to the light, fragile against the earth's sturdiness. Her command of language and unifying tone create a heightened attention and a crisp view of all that makes us feel vulnerable-grief, love, nature and solitude.
Panicle
ÒSucculent in its excellence, SzeÕs poetry insists that cultural ÔdifferenceÕ is what can make a beautiful difference in our apprehension of the Ôbeautiful.ÕÓ Ñ George Elliott Clarke on Peeling Rambutan In Panicle, Gillian Sze makes her readers look and, more importantly, look again. ItÕs a collection that challenges our notion of seeing as a passive or automatic activity by asking us to question the process of looking. The bookÕs first section, ÒUnderway,Ó deals with the moving image and includes both poetic responses to film theory and lyrical long poems while also reimagining fairy tales. The next section, ÒStagings,Ó takes its inspiration from the still image and explores a...
Underwater Carpentry
Bartlett takes his readers on a meditative journey in which he encapsulates the complexity of human experience. Delighting in humour and the play of words, he induces his readers to take a new look at historical events, the natural world, and a full range of emotions.
In the Presence of Each Other
In the Presence of Each Other is a brilliant ethnography that examines the educational benefits of the use of oral storytelling in the classroom and the ways in which non-print literacy enhances children's overall language and communication capacities.
