Music and Lyrics by Barry Keating. Book by Barry Keating and Stuart Ross.
Characters: 6 male, 6 female, plus 2 droids. Now released...a newly updated version! Dreaming her way into a comic book adventure in Innerspace, Eleanor saves the galaxy in this zingy rock musical. It is Eleanor, Spacepunk, the Starmites and the lizard man against the evil Banshees (weird women with dangerous hair-dos) led by Diva and Shak Graa. Diva's entrance song, "Hard to Be Diva," is a guaranteed show stopper. Every space age possibility for light hearted thrills is thoroughly exploited to delight fun loving comic book fans. "A space age Peter Pan!...Assets include Mr. Keating's eclectic pop rock score, which occasionally pauses for a sweet ballad or gospel number between the hard driving 60's style melodies...A light hearted space flight."-The New York Times"Wonderful entertainment for the young and the young at heart."-WNBC-TV "The score is irresistible."-ABC Radio "A campy adventure aimed at the latent teenager in all of us."-Christian Science Monitor

Starmites

Ross, Stuart

Keating, Barry

S. French

The Inspiration Cha-Cha

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

ECW Press

The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky

Coach House Books

Brilliant experimental, surrealist fiction from the award-winning author of Snowball, Dragonfly, JewA wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, Pockets is a novel of fragments ― both literally and figuratively. In a series of prose-poem chapters, the nameless narrator, in a largely Jewish 1960s suburb in the northern reaches of Toronto, repeatedly enters the world, as if for the first time. His landscape is one of trilobite fossils, bicycles with banana seats, Red Skelton, and overwhelming loss. Among shadows that both comfort and threaten, a brother who drifts through the sky, he finds his narrative full of pockets of emptiness he can’t help but try to fill.A heartbreakingly personal and profound work, Pockets redefines the novel, delivering infinite scope in something diminutive, pocket-sized. Every reading brings new revelations.

Pockets: A Novel

Literary

a misFit book

Winner of the 2023 Trillium Book Award 
A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet 
A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “real” in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with what it means to grieve the people one loves and what it means to go on living in the face of an enormous accumulation of loss. Written during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly after the sudden death of his brother left him the last living member of his family and as a catastrophic diagnosis meant anticipating the death of his closest friend, this meditation on mortality ― a kind of literary shiva ― is Ross’s most personal book to date. More than a catalogue of losses, The Book of Grief and Hamburgers is a moving act of resistance against self-annihilation and a desperate attempt to embrace all that was good in his relationships with those most dear to him.

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

Parenting & Relationships

Stuart Ross's sometimes poignant, sometimes outrageous third story collection deepens his exploration of the possibilities of the short story and narrative. A trio of tales probe fame through the lens of 1960s-70s French pop and disco icon Claude François; legendary Hollywood actor Lee Marvin saves the day, again and again; the citizens of a small town worship an all-knowing potato; a man dons a bib to eat his neighbour's house; a tourist finds both love and a dead frog in Nicaragua; and, in one rather educational anti-story, the author instructs readers in the art of writing the short story. In I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub, Stuart Ross, a veteran of the Canadian literary underground, unleashes his arsenal of pathos, absurdism, humour, and cantankerousness.

I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub

Short Stories & Anthologies

Anvil Press

I Cut My Finger

Winner of: 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry Elegiac, bittersweet and generous of spirit – a major poet’s most beautiful work to date. Always willing to take aesthetic and artistic risks, Stuart Ross is the author of some of Canada’s most daring, and also most rewarding, poetry. Long celebrated for his surreal narratives and humorous wordplay, here Ross focuses more intensely on intimate subject matter – investigating the often complex, often absurd, but always powerful connections between loved ones. The care and delicacy with which he renders these portraits of family members, friends, mentors – and even himself – is nothing short of arresting. And readers – both those familiar with his work and those new to it – will admire the dexterity with which he juxtaposes such pieces with more audacious inventions.

Sparrow Came Down Resplendent, A

Buckrider Books

Portugal's Pousada Route: An Insider's Guide

Travel

Europe

Seven Hills Books

Portugal's Pousada Route

Vista Iberica Publicacoes

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