NEW BOOKS

Title: Lost Passport: The Life and Words of Edward Lacey

Author: Fraser Sutherland

Genre: Non-Fiction

Format: Trade Paperback, 6 x 9, 456 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956060

Price: $26.95

Edward Lacey was one of the rare North American writers who intimately knew the Third World in the latter twentieth century. A superb speaker and translator of multiple languages, he was a gifted teacher in Mexico, Trinidad, Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia. While he was a college student in the 1950s, his poems pioneered forthrightly gay themes. No one — neither loyal friend nor newfound acquaintance — could forget this strange man: solitary yet sociable, pedantically aloof and gravely polite, a lifelong enemy of authority. A remarkable Canadian poet, Edward Lacey is among the few who are known beyond our borders.

Title: Rising With a Distant Dawn

Author: David Groulx

Genre: Poetry

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 80 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956053

Price: $14.95



Rising With a Distant Dawn is a powerful and moving poetry collection, which stretches across the boundaries of skin colour, language, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ordinary Aboriginal Canadians. The poems embrace anguish, pride, and hope. They come from the woodlands and the plains, they speak of love, of war, and of the known and the mysterious, they strike with wisdom, joy, and sadness, bringing us closer than ever before to the heart of urban Aboriginal life. The book captures timely personal and cultural challenges, and ultimately shares subtle insight and compassion.

 

Title: Puzzle of Murders

Author: Brandon Pitts

Genre: Fiction

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 208 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956077

Price: $24.95

When disinherited loser Sam Giltine catches pneumonia, stemming from depression over his sister’s rape, he emerges from his feverish state changed. Believing his body to be inhabited by a malevolent angel, he embarks on a spiritual journey that devolves into a series of random murders. After discovering the FBI’s top profiler is assigned to the case and following two close encounters with police, Sam decides to quit his murder spree. He returns home to tackle the challenges of his past. He must confront the guilt-ridden, rejected love he has harbored for so long and face the murdering angel who resides within him.

Title: Whistle for Jellyfish

Author: The Field Stone Poets

Genre: Poetry

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 120 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956015

Price: $16.95



Whistle for Jellyfish is a poetry collection written by six award-winning poets - Sylvia Adams, Brock Currie, Gill Foss, Glenn Kletke, Barbara Myers, and Margaret Malloch Zielinski. Their decision to write a collection of travel poems was based on a desire to share experiences in a way that would preserve their distinctive voices and relate all aspects of travel, from anticipation and pleasure through deterrents, hardships and imbroglios to revelations and the varied features - elegiac, eulogistic or reflective - of journey. With disparate histories and viewpoints, the collection comes together as a journey itself, as an organic whole with implied narrative.

Title: Above and Below the Waterline

Author: Marianne Paul

Genre: Poetry

Format: Trade Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 96 pp.

ISBN: 9781926956008

Price: $16.95

The river winds through Above and Below the Waterline, the first collection of poetry from novelist, Marianne Paul. The author navigates the joy and the grief that is life in the process of being lived, those events and passages that mark the flow of time, the undercurrents of family, the rough waters and calm waters, the challenges and dysfunction - but beneath it all, love. Water speaks volumes, Marianne Paul tells us. The paddler learns to read river in the same way a child learns to read symbols on the page - the contours and patterns that hint of submerged rocks, that forewarn of swifts and rapids, the shallows, the gentleness and respite of flat waters.