Peckertracks is a tough, unsentimental and funny portrait of a boy growing up in a small town on the prairies. The novel depicts, with its elliptical and anecdotal structure, the way the central character, a somewhat romantic Percy Lewis, is shaped by family, school, community and friends, till he reaches the age of 17 and leaves Depot for the outside world. A fish certainly not ready for that ocean. SHORTLISTED for the Books in Canada First Novel Award 1979.

Peckertracks: A Chronicle

Literature & Fiction

Dragland, Stan

Poetry

Brick Books

Those familiar with Stan Dragland's work recognize an author who works in protean literary forms. Journeys Through Bookland is about how we educate ourselves and the influences that guide us - fairy tales, individual teachers, family life , dreams and nightmares. Stan Dragland is at his most moving in this book. He makes fiction out of all these sources, so that by the end an individual and a true voice emerge.

Journeys Through Bookland and Other Passages

By the author of Wilson MacDonald's Western Tour (a "critical collage") and Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature Of Treaty 9 (winner of the 1995 Gabrielle Roy Prize for Criticism of Canadian Literature) - nine passionate essays on the writing of seven important contemporary Canadian writers: George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Christopher Dewdney, Dennis Lee, Daphne Marlatt, Al Purdy and James Reaney.

The Bees of the Invisible: Essays in Contemporary English Canadian Writing

History & Criticism

A book of poems by the author of Winter Sun, The Dumbfounding and No Time.

Sunblue

Avison, Margaret

"Avison's new volume is a lyrical tribute to a created order suffused with a holy energy--a vitality inaccessible to the statisticians, the engineers, the corporate mandarins. It is not, however, a whimsical, Pollyanish ecstacy that sustains her, but a gritty religious vision grounded in our desperate humanity, the 'roped-in, rotten, / welted and swollen, sick, / tempter-take-all/ maggot- ripe end of our fall' ('He himself suffered when he was tempted'), but redeemed, generously redeemed." (Michael Higgins)

No Time

A sequence of elegiac poems by the least recognized major poet in Canada, celebrating place all the way to glory.

Ten Letters

Thibaudeau, Colleen

Baby Grand, a slim volume big as it needs to be (and grows in the mind) appeared in 1979, when Brick Books was a chapbook press. Taut, elegant poems. Grab, hold on: you're blessed.

Baby Grand

Birchard, Guy

This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F. Moritz, Guy Birchard, Terry Humby, Alexander Hutchinson and Brent MacKay.

News and Weather

God's Geography (Time is the Metaphor)

Gutteridge, Don

Complex, intricately textured and polyphonic, this sequence of five long poems enacts the fulfilment of poetry and philosophy in one another. "In Schiller's terms, it is the elegiac longing for unity of soul and world, here expressed in some of the most beautiful poetry of 1986." -- Ronald B. Hatch, University of Toronto Quarterly

Wittgenstein Elegies

Zwicky, Jan

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