The Grand Trine

Literature & Fiction

Northey, William

Genre Fiction

Radiant Press

Bridget Keating with her urgent and devotional poems has created a first book that is both essential and moving in the ways it reveals that all our loves and our fates are inexorably intertwined. With a deftness for illuminating personal and public myths she evokes the beasts and angels that exist within our internal thoughts and dreams. In Red Ceiling Keating writes unblinkingly of human intimacies close at hand and also of lives outlined with clarity yet witnessed from a distance. Red Ceiling is full of poems that are both precise and startling, both devastating and full of grace.

Red Ceiling (Strike Fire New Authors)

Keating, Bridget

Poetry

When Vangie Bergum retired, she and her husband purchased five acres along the Salmo River, in the midst of British Columbia's Selkirk Mountains, near the town of Ymir. There, they discovered the property had seen a tragedy a few years before-- the murder of a child, and the suicide of a father. The deaths on her new home place mirrored the murder of Bergum's own Grandmother and her aunts by her Grandfather. Although this tragedy took place in the 1930's in northern Saskatchewan, the connection between the two events allows Bangum to travel downstream through the currents of suffering within her family. Downstream tells the story of the deaths of Bergum's grandmother Inger Marie (Bestemor, means grandmother in Nowegian), and two of her daughters, Jennie and Tina. And she tells the painful story of her grandfather, Lauritz (Bestefar), who killed them, and himself. It is a story of the silence surrounding her family's tragedy which left her with no skin, no protection against its sorrow and shame.In her retirement home, near a mountain river, and surrounded by trees, animals and birds, Vangie Bergum found the supportive environment to address the generational pain and loss that had been shadowing her whole life. In poetic language, Bergum gives us moments that that lift us into understanding, recognition and empathy for her powerful story. A grandmother herself, Bergum has written a book that will allow her own grandchildren to know the true story of love and loss within their family.

Downstream: Bestemor & Me

Bergum, Vangie

Parenting & Relationships

Between 1869 and the early 1930s more than 100,000 children were rounded up from the streets of Britain to be used as labourers in Canadian homes; often little more than slaves. Today there are two million or more descendants of what were derisively known in Canada as 'home children'. Writer and journalist, Sean Arthur Joyce was shocked to learn in middle age that he was one of those descendants. These child immigrants had no choice: they could live in abject poverty on the streets of Britain, or be shipped to a strange country, never to see one's home or family again. The lives of Canadian child immigrants were rife with suffering: for the boys, back-breaking labour from dawn 'til dusk on a farm. The girls were earmarked for domestic service, mostly in isolated farm households, that left them vulnerable to sexual abuse due to their isolation. While some children would be welcomed into loving homes, others were exploited as cheap labour, little different than pack animals and many did not live to be adults. Laying the Children's Ghosts to Rest is a captivating blend of memoir and history and offers the reader a personal, and highly readable narrative on the subject of Western Canada's 'home children'. With painstaking research and an ability to bring personal details to life, Joyce imbues the stories of 'home children' with a sense of redemption and human dignity.

Laying the Children's Ghosts to Rest: Canada's Home Children in the West

History

Joyce, Sean Arthur

Americas

Lessons from a Nude Man, a short-fiction collection by Manitoba writer Donna Besel is the seventh title in the Strike Fire New Authors Series. Besel knows prairie landscape--how the frost looks like on a badly tended garden, how trees change one decade to the next and more importantly she has populated her stories with indelible characters. Lessons from a Nude Man captures both the comedy and absurdity in all levels of human relationships. Besel is a new voice with a strong and profound value, her stories are filled with wit and humor and incredible poignancy, she deftly reveals the everyday patterns that, over time, can swerve a life off course.

Lessons from a Nude Man

Besel, Donna

Literary

The Birthday Books

Lilley, Joanna

Adam's Tree

Mehlmann, Gloria

United States

A Beautiful Stone

Thompson, Rod

Monahan, Lynda

The Vivian Poems

Rice, Bruce

With this brilliant debut, Penner thoughtfully upends the tropes of postapocalyptic fiction -- Publishers Weekly 
Strange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction, and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichés that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most people have deserted the cities and towns to work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks. The only adults unaffected by this mysterious obsession are a dwindling population that live in the margins of a new society they cannot understand. Isolated, in an increasingly deserted landscape, living off the material remnants of the old order, trapped in antiquated habits and assumptions, they struggle to construct a meaningful life for themselves. Miranda, a young woman who travels across what had once been the West, meets Dave, who has peculiar theories about the apocalypse.

Strange Labour

Penner, Robert

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