Biblioasis imprint: 218 books

by Alexander MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF 2012 IRISH TIMES BOOK-TO-READ FOR 2012 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARD WINNER FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE AND THE FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD A GLOBE & MAIL, QUILL & QUIRE, AND AMAZON.CA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Engrossing, thrilling and ultimately satisfying:...
by Clark Blaise
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009

Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual...
by Shane Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012

Meniscus is Shane Neilson’s manic statement, arching backwards through his personal histories and into the current scale of illness: how it prophecizes and destroys. But this book is not solely given to a state. Most of Meniscus is given to love, how it moves, the disaster of chasing it, and how it settles all his accounts.
by Stephen Henighan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008

In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. He weaves together daring literary criticism with front-line reporting on events such as the end of the Cold War in Poland and African reactions to the G8 Summit.

Little Eurekas

A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry

by Robyn Sarah
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007

A reader-friendly miscellany of essays, appreciations, reviews, and conversations, published in newspapers and literary magazines over the past ten years, these are pieces that will resonate equally with the lay poetry lover and the specialist. This collection explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading it, writing it, teaching it, editing it, publishing it, reviewing it.
by Zachariah Wells
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry. Inhabiting a milieu in which unfriendly remarks are typically spoken sotto voce-if at all-Wells has consistently said what he thinks aloud. The pieces...
by Amanda Jernigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011

The three sequences of Groundwork comprise a sophisticated reworking of European myth on the order of Yeats’s The Tower. The first is situated by an archaeological dig in modern-day Tunisia, the second by the Garden of Eden, the third by the waters and islands of Homer’s Odyssey. Together they...
by Alejandro Saravia
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017

Traumatized by his past as a Bolivian soldier who, in a sudden coup d'etat, was forced to participate in atrocities, Alfredo flees to Montreal, haunted by the dead. He rides the Montreal metro and pours his guilt and shame into his writing, until he falls for a woman without a nation—a Kurdish freedom-fighter...
by Joshua Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011

When The Idler's Glossary was released in October 2008 the world was on the cusp of experiencing its greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Depending on your sense of irony, this was either foolhardy or prescient. The Wage Slave's Glossary, a second volume of anti-economic etymology,...
by Marius Kociejowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011

Marius Kociejowski follows up his now classic The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool with The Pigeon Wars of Damascus. A metaphysical journalist in search of echoes rather than analogies, hints as opposed to verities, Kociejowski discovers once again at the periphery of Damascene society-for the...

Ghost Road

and Other Forgotten Stories of Windsor

by Marty Gervais
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

Eccentric, unexpected, and told by the city’s most popular historian, Ghost Road and Other Forgotten Stories of Windsor is the city like you’ve never seen it before.

Pensativities

Selected Essays

by Mia Couto
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015

First collection of Mia Couto's essays to appear in English Gathers journalism, talks, op-eds, essays, and opinion-pieces from over the course of his career Mia Couto's works have been translated into 20 languages and have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide Winner of the $50,000...

The Dusty Bookcase

A Journey Through Canada's Forgotten, Neglected and Suppressed Writing

by Brian Busby
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

Largely drawn from his columns for Canadian Notes & Queries and entries in his popular blog by the same name, Brian Busby's The Dusty Bookcase explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary efforts: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety....
by Horatio Castellanos Moya
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2000

As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet Assuming his identity, Sosa unleashes a reign of terror on San Salvador with his snake accomplices. A macabre high-speed romp, in which violence and comedy become almost indistinguishable.
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