Telephone communication is a prevalent subject in From a Call Box, but the real theme is communication between people. Calls for help, calls for information, calls for love, calls of desperation. In the author's words, "We transfer vast amounts of information via these technologies, as well as the huge range of human emotions. We are not always successful in our attempt to get both emotion and information across to the person on the other end of the telephone line." From a Call Box is an exploration of people's funny, poignant, sad, sometimes tragic attempts to make connections.

From a Call Box

Bob Stallworthy

Frontenac House

Pattern of Genes examines a life well lived, full of humour and character, but filled also with inescapable losses. These are intensely intimate poems that take us from the poet's childhood in Winnipeg in the Second World War through her experiences as a Wren in the Royal Canadian Navy and as a traveller. There is a spirit of adventure and romance in her work, a vivid sense of time and place, but there is also a pervading elegiac tone as she copes with bereavement and loneliness.

Pattern of Genes

Rosalee van Stelten

Catherine Moss is a jeweller of words. Every poem in Swallowing My Mother is carefully crafted and polished, but beneath the polish lies great emotional risk. Whether she is dealing with childhood loss, her passion for gardening, or the many and various exotic places she has encountered, Moss is an artist who is not afraid to expose painful, sharp-edged revelations.

Swallowing My Mother

Catherine Moss

The poem Static Mantis is an investigation into our experience of reality, a challenge to the idea that works of fiction, or the fictions that we create for ourselves every day, are required to hold any consistency or similarity to the real world. Insects, space travel, the apocalypse and The Beatles swarm in clouds of randomized particles which disperse and settle, showing themselves to be neither more nor less substantial than the simple fact of existence.

Static Mantis

Arran Fisher

A Bad Year for Journalists

Lisa Pasold

A taqsim is an improvisational Middle Eastern medley in which the musician moves between formal musical structure and free-flowing improvisation. In Taqsim Zaid Shlah writes within the formal structure of the lyric, but incorporates an innovative lyricism that agitates between his Iraqi and Canadian heritage: a history of music, food, war and love in a space as wide as the mountains and prairies of his native Alberta to as far away as the land between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Taqsim

Zaid Shlah

Aviation adventures are Shirlee Smith Matheson's specialty. In Maverick in the Sky the author paints a fascinating portrait of flying ace Freddie McCall, one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War I. McCall's bold spirit might well have been inherited from his clan motto Dulce Periculum Danger is Sweet. His amazing wartime accomplishments, his extraordinary flying skills, his fiercely independent barnstorming character and his self-reliant entrepreneurial spirit make him one of Canada s most spectacular mavericks. The exciting story of this true Canadian hero comes to life on every page of this book.

Maverick in the Sky: The Aerial Adventures of World War I Flying Ace Freddie McCall

Shirlee Smith Matheson

Breathing Stone: Contemporary Haida Argillite Sculpture

Breathing Stone presents extraordinary new sculptures by contemporary argillite artists of Haida Gwaii- the Queen Charlotte Islands. Breathing Stone begins with author Carol Sheehan's introduction to Haida culture and the historical realities that have shaped this unique art form. There is also an explanation of how argillite sculpture is produced and how it can best be appreciated. Personal portraits of 15 sculptors and their work, illustrated by nearly 200 colour photographs taken in artists' workshops, galleries, collectors' homes and on-site in Haida Gwaii, demonstrate like nothing else the power and richness of this art form.

Carol Sheehan

Arts & Photography

Things that Matter Now examines how reactions to persons and events change with age; how memories lose their power to control; how there is choice in those things one reacts to: in short, the things that matter now.

Things That Matter Now

David Bateman and Hiromi Gotos collaborative poem, Wait Until Late Afternoon, is a nostalgic/anti-nostalgic creative autobiographical conversation. Tracing their relationship to their fathers, their lives, and to each other through the transfiguring effects of alcohol, the narrative travels from glamorous nightclubs and the Jade Market in Taipei to Peterborough, Ontario and Nanton, Alberta. Through memory, mourning, geographies and sexualities, this poetic narrative is at once a memento mori and meditations upon wabi sabi.

Wait Until Late Afternoon

David Bateman

Hiromi Goto

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