Endre Farkas goes full circle in this collection of poetry. He writes about making love, an ultra sound, death, and everything in between. His lyrical language and his tone, at times playful and at times sombre, make his sixth collection one that you'll be thinking about long after you've put it down.

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Literature & Fiction

Farkas, Endre

Poetry

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A poignant look at beginnings and ends in Ruth Taylor's unique voice.

The Drawing Board

Taylor, Ruth

"Letelier-Ruz writes with the power and passion of the 'eucharist of hatred and blood,' which he describes as the essential iingredients of war, and he struggles to discover meaning and redemption in them both...he writes about hidden moments when 'Someone wants to sing between the sobs&#47someone hides the faces of the dead/and everyone knows that no one is watching." ?Allo Books

Silence

Letelier-Ruz, Elias

Humor & Entertainment

Family Scandals captures with precision the feelings of an adolescent girl in the nether-zone between child and adult, where men respond with lust and women deny or denounce budding sexuality. At this stage, girls learn to internalize the duplicities that compose the social script prescribed for women, duplicities defined as sane and normal by the dynamics of family life.

Family Scandals

Nelson's

Surviving Words is Endre Farkas' seventh book of poetry and his most powerful and accomplished to date. It is a collection of singular yet interwoven poems that, with haunting simplicity, evokes the horrors we inflict upon each other. The book begins with his parents' experiences in Auschwitz and Mauthausen, moves on to deal with his childhood memories of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and concludes with poems about the ongoing acts of genocide. The poems in Surviving Words are striking for their imagery and tone. With subtle irony, they remind us that "nothing is forgotten/nothing is ever forgotten."

Surviving Words

Visible Stars presents a substantial selection from all of Bruce Whiteman's published poetry, as well as an intriguing selection of unpublished new work. This volume includes excerpts from Whiteman's long poem in-progress, "The Invisible World is in Decline." There is acute sensitivity at work here. Striking juxtapositions of conversational and metaphorical language foreground the narrative, located somewhere between the visible and the invisible, the concrete and the abstract. Whiteman is one of the most interesting voices in Canadian poetry.

Visible Stars: New and Selected Poems

Whiteman, Bruce

Quebec Suite is an intriguing and timely anthology by English Canadian poets writing about and for Quebec. There is no simple yes or no here as to what Quebec wants and is. The poets, Jack Kerouac, Leonard Cohen, Al Purdy, Irving Layton, P. K. Page, Ralph Gustafson, Elizabeth Brewster, William Henry Drummond, A.M. Klein, F.R. Scott, and many others, the unacknowledged legislators of the world, explore the complexities of the Quebec conundrum. Quebec Suite is a poetic/historical and personal perspective of what Quebec has meant to these writers. We've heard from the politicians, economists, pollsters, and now we, in Quebec Suite, can hear from those whose poems shape our imaginative sense of self.

Quebec Suite: Poems for and about Quebec

25 years ago, the Montreal poetry scene experienced an unprecedented eruption of activity that resulted in collaborative poems, simultaneous readings, multimedia performances, videopoems, poetry on the citys buses, English poetry programs on French CBC, concrete poems, a dozen issues of poetry magazines and more than a dozen books. This and more was the result of the individual and collective effort of Endre Farkas, Artie Gold, Tom Konyves, Claudia (Cel) Lapp, Stephen Morrissey, John McAuley and Ken Norris who became labelled the Vehicule Poets. The Vehicule Poets came together to form the most cohesive poetry movement in Canada since the TISH days of the early 1960s. Their work tended toward the fresh and the experimental as they shared a spirit of collectivity and collaboration. They were the leading proponents of literary community and poetic experimentation. One of the results of this collaborative work was the publication of The Vehicule Poets in 1979. To mark the twenty–fifth anniversary of this important book, The Muses Company is publishing The Vehicule Poets Now. This is not a nostalgic look back but a view of the present. The poems in this anthology reveal a still very vibrant and vital body of work. These poems continue to push boundaries and test limits.

The Vehicule Poets Now

If you've ever wanted "to read with the page turned/upside-down, craving a different perspective," you'll want to enter Unfamiliar Weather, a world of beauty and menace, where "electricity floats just above the surface/of events, phosphorescent/as the ghosts of jellyfish." Beneath the glittering glaciers, you can hear the sound of boulders shifting "like knuckles cracking before a fight," and witness a wind storm that threatens to turn loose the "wilderness waiting in everything," revealing the bare terrain of human isolation. In this turbulent, unpredictable climate, Chris Hutchinson's deft, intelligent poems explore our place in the world, our relationships to nature, to each other, to language, and to art.

Unfamiliar Weather

Hutchinson, Chris

Volume II contains six plays. The English-language plays are: Novena, by Marie-Beath Badian, a play about a detached and estranged daughter's return home to say a Novena for her father who is sick in the Philippines; The Clothesline, by Donna Caruso, a fun and loving narration about three generations of Canadian women and their experiences far from the land of their birth; Spring Arrival, by Marjorie Chan, introduces us to an unforgettable Hong Kong immigrant who cheers up the other patients in her hospital ward with stories about the cultural misunderstandings of her first days in Toronto; The Gift, by Marty Chan, a touching story behind the desperate attempt of a mother, who fled China during the Great Cultural Revolution, to pass down the family's dumpling recipe to her daughter; Say Ginger Ale, by Marcia Johnson, a play in which a Jamaican Canadian woman returns to her homeland and finds herself forced to rediscover the value of what she has left behind and confirm fundamental truths about immigrant life; One Officer's Experiences, by Arthur J. Vaughan, the compassionate and humorous memoir of an immigration officer stationed at Halifax's Ocean terminal who greeted the arrival of immigrants for twenty years spanning the great post-war influx.

Where is Here?: A CBC Radio Drama Anthology (Vol. 2) (Scirocco Drama)

Dramas & Plays

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