University Of Alberta Press: 115 books
The Green Heart of the Tree
Essays and Notes on a Time in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Woudstra's literary essays, rooted in personal experience and travel, are long and loving looks into the mysterious heart of Africa. Her writings explore topics as diverse as volcanic eruptions and wild trees, African art and ritual, life in Rwanda, and turtle eggs in warm sand. "Like Annie Dillard,...
Sasquatch at Home (The)
Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place through her talk, "The Sasquatch at Home." Robinson's disarming...
by Alice Major
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major’s most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties,...
by Ella Zeltserman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
"Freedom is something my father has never known. How do I explain freedom to the ones born bent?" -from "Not Scared" Ella Zeltserman's poetry cuts both ways. The story of her flight from the USSR in 1979-of the young family she brought to Edmonton and the older one she left behind-does...
Winter in Fireland
A Patagonian Sailing Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego, South America. Coghlan recounts earlier adventures...
Man in Blue Pyjamas (The)
A Prison Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime because of his literary and journalistic achievements—writing that openly explores themes...
Shy
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The pages of this anthology are filled with personal essays and poems of thoughtful musings, raw memories, and humorous self-examinations by authors and poets who have been labelled by the world—teachers, parents, and peers—as shy. Here, they proudly own up to their shyness, and their message...
Grads Are Playing Tonight! (The)
The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Between 1915 and 1940 the amazing Edmonton Grads dominated women’s basketball in Canada. Coached by J. Percy Page, they played over 400 official games, losing only 20; they travelled more than 125,000 miles in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and they crossed the Atlantic three times to defend...
Healing Histories
Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Healing Histories is the first detailed collection of Aboriginal perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada's indigenous communities and on the federal government's Indian Health Services. Featuring oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada's Indian Hospital...
Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities
Resisting a Dangerous Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
“Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and...
Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders
The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
The phrase "child labour" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents' working the land, cleaning stovepipes, and chopping wood. By shouldering their share of the chores, these children...
Crow Never Dies
Life on the Great Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
“It was a different crow, but the same crow, you understand? Because there is only one Crow. God made them all black and identical-looking because there is no reason for them to be different birds. That’s why you can never kill a crow, because it lives forever. Crow never dies!” — James Itsi...
by Micheline Maylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor’s poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love that has passed, the interplay between the animal world and human thought, and the myths we append to ourselves and others. An...
by Lisa Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Lisa Martin’s new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy and sorrow. Here readers will find a range of moods, tones, and subjects, as well as both traditional...