Always, in our best poetry, the hovering care for place. Douglas Smith hears our landscape; he hears the way it resounds in the people who travel its subtle and comp[lex surface. Two people in a car, speeding across boundaries, hear images echoed as thoughts, as emotions, as words. Landscape for Douglas Smith is a kind of musical instrument. -Robert Kroetsch

Scarecrow

Literature & Fiction

Smith, Douglas

Poetry

Turnstone Pr

"He is usually sure-footedly raunchy, with a good sense of narrative; Turner stands as a keen observer of Indian and Eskimo life." University of Toronto Quarterly

No Country for White Men

Turner, Gordon

Draft: An Anthology of Prairie Poetry

The Shunning 'tears heads off cliches, making us see a whole place freshly. It is a complete world, reeling and tilting but enduring. A fine book, full of bone and muscle. A totality.' Christopher Wiseman, Books in Canada 'The Shumnning shuns easy answers and offers a complex vision of lives in all their contradictions. It's a powerful, humane and moving book.' Douglas Barbour, Toronto Star.

The Shunning

Friesen, Patrick

20th Anniversary Edition! Shortlisted for both the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the Books in Canada Best First Novel Award, The Salvation of Yasch Siemens is an outrageous, comic ride through a community as memorable as any in Canadian literature.Armin Wiebe does for Gutenthal, a composite village drawn from the Mennonite farming communities of Southern Manitoba, what Stephen Leacock did for Mariposa and its inhabitants. The results are similarly uproarious and touching, side-splittingly anarchic and wistful. Wiebes writing is utterly endearing, genuinely funny... Do not miss it.Patrick Dunn, Canadian Mennonite

The Salvation of Yasch Siemens

Armin Wiebe

Humor & Satire

The Folk Festival Book

Arts & Photography

Johnson, Steve

Oberman, Sheldon

Music

Mandel's essays scrutinize the leap from modern to postmodern writing. Mandel also examines individual writers such as Gary Geddes, Leonard Cohen, P.K. Page, Frank Davey, Margaret Atwood and John Glassco."The quality of Mandel's criticism is uniformly high. He grinds no -particular literary axe, speaks for no school but the school of intelligent inquiry."--Books in Canada

The Family Romance

Mandel, Eli

History & Criticism

These unsentimental, passionate stories of modern rural life were nominated for the 1986 Governor Generals Award. Retired farmers cruise and booze around the countryside; a farm wife contemplates an affair with the hired hand; a cropduster opens the No Place Bar and Grill.... a diamond hard realism and authenticity.Books in Canada

A Stone Watermelon

Braun, Lois

Contemporary

Seed Catalogue's first publication in 1977 changed the shape of prairie writing when Robert Kroetsch claimed a personal mythology and language grounded in the prairies. A seminal work of prairie literature, it began a new era in Canadian writing and new excitement for the possibilities of poetry in the West."No other book of recent poetry, and few in fiction, sets out with more wit and precision the connections of place and poetry."--The Globe and Mail

Seed Catalogue (Prairie Play Series; 7)

Kroetsch, Robert

Winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets).Nominated for the Governor-Generals Award for Poetry and the Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Di Brandts first book of poetry is a deep, cutting exploration of patriarchy within the Mennonite tradition.You can feel the warmth of the poets breath, sometimes gasping, sometimes singing, always affirming life itself. Read these poems. They will take your breath away.Magdalene Redekop

Questions I Asked My Mother

Brandt, Di

Brandt, Diana

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