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( sub rosa )

( sub rosa )

**Out of Print** January 2003 128 pages | ISBN 978-0-919897-87-8 Stan Rogal starts (sub rosa), his seventh collection of poetry, by defining the rose as a highly complex symbol. The book...
(alive): Selected and new poems

(alive): Selected and new poems

September 2004 120 pages | ISBN 978-0-919897-98-4 (alive): Selected and new poems is a volume of distilled grace. Twenty years of Rhea Tregebov’s poetry have been collected in this work...
52 Things to Do in Hamilton: The Insider's Guide to Fun in the Hammer

52 Things to Do in Hamilton: The Insider's Guide to Fun in the Hammer

November 4, 2025120 pages | ISBN 978-1-998408-31-3 A wide-ranging mix of activities sure to keep visitors, newcomers to the city and even long-time residents heading out to explore all through...
A Conspiracy of Chickens

A Conspiracy of Chickens

November 22, 2022300 pages | ISBN 978-1-989496-61-9 David Waltner-Toews is a veterinarian, as well as a specialist in the epidemiology of food- and water-borne diseases and zoonoses, infectious diseases transferred...
A Difficult Beauty

A Difficult Beauty

September 2011 104 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-57-8 David Groulx’s collection offers his readers a handful of poems as cutting and brilliant as glass shards, offering glimpses of the anger, pain...
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A Hat to Stop a Train

A Hat to Stop a Train

**Out of Print** January 2003 88 pages | ISBN 978-0-919897-89-2 "Tight and tighter, the mother binding her daughter to her, the daughter binding the mother's aching legs. Sheila Stewart 'puts down...
A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Scriptwriter’s Daughter

A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Scriptwriter’s Daughter

November 5, 2024 312 pages | ISBN 978-1-998408-08-5 George Salverson had written over a thousand radio plays for the CBC before he became the first television drama editor for the...
A Nervous City

A Nervous City

April 2013 80 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-74-5 **Winner of the Kerry Schooley Award – Hamilton Literary Awards** Whether it is the roads that weave through his native Hamilton, or the...
Book Cover: A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail, Jenna Butler

A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail

October 2015 152 pages | ISBN 978-1-928088-08-0 **Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award****Gold Medal for the Green Living category in the Living Now Book Awards****Finalist for the...
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A Roller-coaster Ride: Thoughts on Aging

A Roller-coaster Ride: Thoughts on Aging

**Out of Print** April 2012 230 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-64-6 **Silver medal for the 4th Annual Living Now Book Awards** Now past her eightieth birthday, Naomi Beth Wakan is well-placed to...
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Abandon

Abandon

**Out of Print** January 2005 78 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-05-9 A strong debut collection from Montreal poet Oana Avasilichioaei, Abandon is filled with the richness of a country’s history. The poet...
Archive of the Undressed

Archive of the Undressed

September 2012 80 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-66-0 From twirling tassels to dead playmates Archive of the Undressed is a sharp, darkly comic look at the image of women in a...
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Arguments with the Lake

Arguments with the Lake

**Out of Print** April 2013 72 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-71-4 In 1954, at the age of sixteen, Marilyn Bell became the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. It brought her...
Book Cover: Big Breath of a Wish, Richard Harrison

Big Breath of a Wish

January 1998 82 pages | ISBN 978-0-919897-62-5 **Nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry****Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize**Richard Harrison's fourth book, Big Breath of...
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Book Ends: A year between the covers

Book Ends: A year between the covers

**Out of Print** May 2010 252 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-42-4 Everyone’s favourite “old biddy from Gabriola Island,” Naomi Beth Wakan, captures a year of her obsessive reading in her new collection...
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Burning House

Burning House

**Out of Print** March 2010 126 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-40-0 In a portrait-gallery of poems, Richard Lemm considers everything from the history of war in the United States to an undertakers’...
Book Cover: But It's So Silly: A Cross-cultural Collage of Nonsense, Play and Poetry, JonArno Lawson

But It's So Silly: A Cross-cultural Collage of Nonsense, Play and Poetry

September 2017320 Pages | ISBN 978-1-928088-45-5 **Honorable mention in the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry** How are ideas of play shaped by culture? What is...
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Cantos from a Small Room

Cantos from a Small Room

**Out of Print** January 1993 88 pages | ISBN 978-0-919897-37-3 **Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry** In his seventh book of poetry, Hillies describes his feelings of affection and...
Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinânihk

Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinânihk

November 22, 2022236 pages | ISBN 978-1-989496-59-6 **Winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-fiction****Winner of the Indigenous Peoples' Writing Award – Saskatchewan Book Awards****Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for...
Catalysts: Confrontations with the muse

Catalysts: Confrontations with the muse

April 2012 144 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-59-2 With her characteristic fearlessness Catherine Owen examines what drives her to write and the influences that shape her writing. From her childhood memories...