Frontenac House: 18 books

Let's suppose you have a really ambitious goal in life - you want to kill your community! You want to drive away people, eliminate jobs, undermine businesses, and you won't quit until the whole place is in ruins. Here is the perfect manual, filled with proven ideas, taht every town wrecker needs to make his dreams come true!

The erotic impulse is embodied in Incarnate through a passionate wrestling with image and form. Juleta Severson-Baker wills memory and desire onto the page until “the seduction is complete”. The force of these poems is palpable. Readers witness the poet take a polluted river into her “belly...

Starting with a promise, Reckless Toward Blossoming begins a conversation with solitude, landscape and awakening. Through an ever-expanding world, we journey with the poet to navigate the “intersections of ditching streams,” ask haunting questions of the “lake with no bottom” and find courage...

[sic] thus written, error mine. Sic to incite to attack, especially as a command to a dog: Sic em! Siccingpoetry on you. Thats sick, as in, awesome. Or ill and sickly. Either way, the (gendered, sexualized) body is implicated. [sic] re-writes a feminist lyric within the long shadow cast by neo-liberalism...

Ali Riley applies her unique and inventive poetics to our national identity. Breaking down and remixing our familiar icons – for example, The Hudson‘s Bay Company, Susannah Moodie’s "Roughing it in the Bush" – the poet finds that wanderlust, geography, solitude and a thirst for exploration still underlie the Canadian spirit.

When Kirk Ramdath was a child, his mother came from Trinidad to Calgary to give her family a life of greater opportunity than the one she left behind. Love in a Handful of Dust, his first book, is in many ways the fulfillment of that opportunity. Though in its romance, it might seem to be far...

All Roads Lead to Manyberries is like a script torn right out of Coronation Street, except it’s Canadian and it all happens in a little place called The Just One More Saloon in the Prairie town of Manyberries, Alberta. It’s a chair-dragging-across-the-saloon-floor earthy read. Ron Wood pokes fun...

Mid-winter medical evacuations from the Antarctic; determined and often tragic searches for lost people and planes; daring feats of aviation pioneers; amazing lifestyles of those who choose to live and fly in the Far North – these are the against-all-odds success stories in Shirlee Smith Matheson’s...

When Marco Polo was captured by the Genoese he whiled away his year in prison by dictating a memoir, the "Livre des Merveilles". Polo's "Book of Wonders" became a raging best seller before printing presses even existed. Christopher Columbus travelled with his own carefully-annotated...

Standoff Terrain takes its inspiration from Sun TzusThe Art of War. It is a book of love poems for losers, and since almost everybody has lost at love… well, this book is probably for you. In the end, these poems are about how power and lack of power affect who and why we love.