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Excerpts from a Burned Letter
Award-winning writer Joelle Barron looks back at history through queer eyes in their second poetry collection. Excerpts from a Burned Letter places the experiences of historical figures and fictional characters in modern contexts--and makes their queerness explicit. This collection highlights the circular nature of time, demonstrating how even in a post-marriage-equality world, queer experiences and queer histories still face erasure. From the perspective of a single, modern speaker, each poem is haunted by a fictional or historical queer couple, connecting ancestors to their descendants and underlining the ancientness of being queer. The book also explores themes of religion, disability, mo...
Excerpts from a Burned Letter
Award-winning writer Joelle Barron looks back at history through queer eyes in their second poetry collection. Excerpts from a Burned Letter places the experiences of historical figures and fictional characters in modern contexts—and makes their queerness explicit. This collection highlights the circular nature of time, demonstrating how even in a post-marriage equality world, queer experiences and queer histories still face erasure. From the perspective of a single, modern speaker, each poem is haunted by a fictional or historical queer couple, connecting ancestors to their descendants and underlining the ancientness of being queer. The book also explores themes of religion, disability, m...
Felicity
Felicity has never heard of Cinderella, and her life has been nothing like a fairytale. Her mother—who she must call Madam—has kept her locked in a dank basement since she was a young child, giving her nothing but two meals a day and regular beatings. Her only comfort comes from reading, and from the little bit of light that streams in through her small window. Miraculously, Felicity manages to escape the hell of Madam’s creation, and she finds more than she ever expected: Timothy, a young, British artist who captures her heart. Timothy’s visits become more and more frequent, and Felicity’s world opens up in ways she never could have imagined. He calls her his Cinderella, because she must always return home before midnight, to avoid Madam’s wrath. Timothy isn’t the only man who notices Felicity. Just as Timothy walks into her life, a mysterious observer threatens this newly found solace. She is attacked, and discovers, to her horror, how far Madam will go to satisfy her irrational temper. Fearing for Timothy’s safety, Felicity tries to remove him from her life. But she soon finds out that their fates are sealed.
Ritual Lights
On "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould": "The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the more puzzling for what it plainly says: 'Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it, / So can't get saved, ' as Robert Frost said." -- Jeffery Donaldson Absorbed in the small, everyday rituals of existence, this remarkable collection of poems tears open the fruit of life and scoops out beauty and joy, pain and suffering, in equal measure. Ritual Lights takes the reader on a journey through an underworld that is both familiar and uncanny, a space between death and life where one nourishes the other. Shadowed by th...
None of This Belongs to Me
In this vibrant debut, Ellie Sawatzky rustles the underbrush of identity, seeking clarity on the nature of ownership and belonging. Haunted and inspired by old boyfriends, girls named Emily, ancestral ghosts, polar bears and mythic horses, None of This Belongs to Me plots a young woman’s coming of age in a time of environmental and socio-economic peril. From rural Ontario to Kitsilano to Burning Man, Sawatzky inquires into childhood learning, girlhood learning, what is inherited, what is acquired, what begins to take form in the iridescent space between innocence and experience (“The body’s crystal arithmetic”). Superimposing dreamscapes on realities, history on pop culture and every...
The Malahat Review
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La Bachelette
De la Pentecôte à la Trinité de cette année 1738, la petite ville de Maulévrier va vivre intensément les fêtes de la Bachelette qui constituent à l’époque un des temps forts de l’année. Pierre, le gars de la Fromentinière, va profiter de son élection au titre de “roi des bacheliers” pour dévoiler la passion qu’il voue à Catherine Duverdeau, la fille du garde principal du comté. Mais la tradition familiale veut qu’un fils de paysan prenne femme dans son milieu. Là commencent les difficultés pour ce garçon plein de franchise et de droiture qui n’aurait jamais pensé un instant entrer en conflit avec son père, chef incontesté de la famille. Ce roman nous fait entrer de plain-pied dans la vie du Bocage vendéen au XVIIIe siècle : rude, mais pas tant que ça ; calme, mais jalonnée tout de même d’événements imprévus. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR André Hubert Hérault, né à Maulévrier, dans la Vendée Angevine, est écrivain et éditeur. Il voue une fidélité passionnée à l’âme de sa terre natale. Auteur d’une vingtaine d’ouvrages, il a édité plus de cinq cents titres (histoire, biographies, ethnographiques et littérature générale).
Best Canadian Poetry 2019
Guest editor Rob Taylor, author of the widely acclaimed collection The News, brings a passionate ear for rhythm, an eye for narrative compression, an appetite for vital subject matter, and an affinity for warmth and wit to his selections for Best Canadian Poetry 2019. The fifty ruggedly independent poems gathered here tackle themes of emergence, defiance, ferocious anger, gratitude, and survival. They are alive with acoustic energy, precise in their language, and moving in their use of the personal to explore fraught political realities. They emit a cloud of invisible energy, a charge. Featuring work by: Colleen Baran • Gary Barwin • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Ali Blythe • Marilyn Bowering...
Just Pretending
A debut short story collection from one of Canada's most exciting new Aboriginal voices. "In our family, it was Trish who was Going To Be Trouble; I was Such a Good Girl." At times haunting, at times hilarious, Just Pretending explores the moments in life that send us down pathways predetermined and not-yet-forged. These are the liminal, defining moments that mark irreversible transitions n girl to mother, confinement to freedom, wife to murderer. They are the melodramatic car-crash moments n the outcomes both horrific and too fascinating to tear our eyes from. And they are the unnoticed, infinitely tiny moments, seemingly insignificant (even ridiculous) yet holding the power to alter, to transform, to make strange. What links these stories is a sense of characters working n both with success and without, through action or reaction n to separate reality from perception and to make these moments into their lives' new truths.
Journey Into Power
A guide to physical, mental, and spiritual transformation explains how to rewire thinking, cleanse diet habits, meditate for truthful living, and do ten-minute tune-ups that boost energy and alleviate stress.
