Completed Field Notes

Robert Kroetsch

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• A series of diary entries. Marginalia from Pausanias's description of Greece. A nineteenth century ledger. Postcards from China. What do these ostensi... Lees meer

An Ark of Koans

E D Blodgett

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• An Ark of Koans is a meditation on the mystery of what happens at the moment it happens. Although it takes animals as its threshold, animals only serv... Lees meer

Poetics of Naming

George Melnyk

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• Literary historian and scholar George Melnyk engages the dynamic between truth, language, and personal identity. His intent is to take the reader to t... Lees meer

Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination

Paul Comeau

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• Margaret Laurence instinctively turned to the epic mode to create archetypal narratives of loss, exile, and redemption. Drawing on the Bible, Dante, a... Lees meer

Recurring Fictions

Wendy McGrath

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• "Pick any place you like. Go ahead pick a place and I will long for it to be home." This poetic novel, by turns playful and poignant, follows a family... Lees meer

Threshold

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• A dynamic collection of Alberta's vibrant literary culture. Established names and emerging talents are brought together to demonstrate the outstanding... Lees meer

Wild Horses

Rob McLennan

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• Cast during his year in the U of A's writer in residency, wild horses is Ottawan rob mclennan's deep lyrical engagement with Edmonton, Alberta. He see... Lees meer

Sawbones Memorial

Sinclair Ross

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• After practicing medicine for forty-five years, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter is retiring. It's April 1948, and the long-awaited hospital in Upward, Saskat... Lees meer

Apostrophes II

E D Blodgett

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• Here, in the second volume of a series, E.D. Blodgett extends the meditations of Apostrophes: woman at a piano, which won the Governor General's award... Lees meer

Recalling Early Canada

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• ReCalling Early Canada is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WWI. ... Lees meer

The Snowbird Poems

Robert Kroetsch

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• It's a matter of knowing winter. Snowbird travels south, seeks warmth, and begins waiting. Robert Kroetsch's new collection, The Snowbird Poems, is a ... Lees meer

«He Should Have Listened to His Wife!»

Annegret Oehme

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• This publication uncovers two previously dismissed pre-modern adaptations of the Middle High German Wigalois (1215) by exploring their different appro... Lees meer

Apostrophes VII

E D Blodgett

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• Apostrophe 1. Rhet. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his discourse, and turns to address pointedly some person or th... Lees meer

Demeter Goes Skydiving

Susan McCaslin

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• What if Demeter, the timeless fertility goddess of ancient Greek myth, slipped through a crack into the twenty-first century, shook off her ankle brac... Lees meer

Gothic Canada

Justin D Edwards

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• Canadians have always been obsessed with the idea of their own identities. Stories that tell us who we are provide a reassuring sense of identity for ... Lees meer

A Map of the Island

Nigel Darbasie

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• A Map of the Island is an extended poetic meditation upon a boy's youth in Trinidad. In these verses we hear the cadences of the West Indies spoken fr... Lees meer

Gabriel Dumont in Paris

Jordan Zinovich

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• The troubles of 1885 are a topic of enduring fascination. Gabriel Dumont in Paris is a fictional retelling of the events leading up to the Northwest R... Lees meer

Hybrid and Inorganic Perovskite Nanostructures

Lioz Etgar

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• This book covers the benefits of controlling perovskite nanostructures for enhancing the properties of solar cells. It describes different aspects of ... Lees meer

Leaving Shadows

Lisa Grekul

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• "On our way home, we stopped in Vegreville for one last look at the Pysanka-and, posing in front of it while my dad pulled out his camera, I wanted to... Lees meer

Kat Among the Tigers

Kath MacLean

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• Exemplar of the Moderns, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), is reanimated by postmodern diva Kath MacLean in a tantric work of literary ventriloquism. B... Lees meer