Rather than force these love-stories into serial monogamies, this collection lets them overlap and tell a story of romantic and sexual multiplicity, a story of compassionate and passionate complexity. The Exit Show is about coming to terms with plurality. The work is sensual, human, and multifaceted. It depicts an intimate view of polyamoury in many configurations. Aesthetically the poetry is focused on sound and imagery, on the music/cadence of language, while the ideas depict a world outside models of monogamous hetero-normalcy. Variation in social forms are expressed, in part, through variations of poetic style that range from emails to prose poetry to lyric and beyond into integrated linguistic architectures. Angels roam the pages.

The Exit Show

Literature & Fiction

Walker, Anne F.

Poetry

Palimpsest Pr

Stone (Stone, 1)

McLennan, Rob

Natural Disasters is the first poetry collection from Andrea MacPherson. It explores memory and history, asking if it is possible to inherit the past and the generational complexities that come along with it. Stories of lost sisters and marriages based on card games combine with the immediate and personal responses to wild fires and collapsed schoolhouses. The collection is also concerned with place, from the dry land of the interior of British Columbia to the rugged beauty of the west coast shoreline. These settings affect not only language and mood, but tangible links to the past, the dusky valleys and planks stained with fish blood. Here, the tragic mingles with the everyday, allowing shadowy figures and hazy memory to once again become real.

Natural Disasters

MacPherson, Andrea

Bright Scarves of Hours is a poetry collection that explores common domestic landscapes -- car-pooling with children, walking the dog, vacation snapshots and recipees. These elements weave into one woman's vibrant inner life, transforming the mundane into a tapestry shimmering with insight and lyricism. From an elegiac yellow morning to the dark dreams of exhausted sleep, these poems assert that no hour is an ordinary hour, and that there is no such thing, really, as an 'ordinary' life. Wrought with the burdens and triumphs of familiar love, the language seeks to connect us while celebrating the sometimes contrary desires and hidden grace found in the everyday. Diane Tucker was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she received a B.F.A. from the University of B.C. in 1987. Her first book of poems, God on His Haunches, published in 1996, was short listed for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies and appears regularly in journals in Canada and abroad. Diane lives in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Bright Scarves of Hours

Tucker, Diane

In 1977 Kate Braid got her first job in construction as a labourer on a small island off the coast of British Columbia. Never in her wildest dreams did she plan to be a construction worker, much less a carpenter, but she was desperate to stay on the island and had run out of money, along with all the options a woman usually has for work -- secretary, waitress, receptionist. Turning Left to the Ladies is an autobiographical account of the fifteen years she worked as a labourer, apprentice and journey carpenter, building houses, high rises and bridges. She was the first female member of the Vancouver union local of the Carpenters and the first full-time woman teaching trades at the BC Institute of Technology. It is a wry, sometimes humorous, sometimes meditative look at one woman's relationship to her craft, and the people she met along the way.

Turning Left to the Ladies

Braid, Kate

Living in Gravity

Stetson, Valerie

The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes

The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes is an alphabetically ordered list of common names with whimsical descriptions of each child. Each poem is clever, silly and a delight to read. Here you will find Abigail who has a face "that's as sweet as an angel, but when she sings her song, it turns strangely bestial" and Ian who "ate worms and toads and rocks and snails a la mode." These playful and lively rhymes, illustrated in full-colour by Sarah Preston-Bloor, will appeal to children and adults alike.

Children's Books

Troutt, Jordan D.

Activities, Crafts & Games

An illustrated book of whimsical poems for children filled with true-to-life experiences in the world of a child. The poems appeal to the fantasy and imagination of the readers. The rhythmic flow of the poetic language encourages children to read, memorize and chant the poems many times over. This book is ideal for that special moment in the evening when a bedtime poem is just the right soother to close the day.

Eanie Meanie Hate Zucchini

Mccallum, Arnot

Presents a collection of whimsical poems for alphabetically-arranged list of common names.

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The Exit Show

Stone (Stone, 1)

Natural Disasters

Bright Scarves of Hours

Turning Left to the Ladies

Living in Gravity

The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes

Eanie Meanie Hate Zucchini

The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes