Framing the Garden
Victoria, the Garden City famous for its felicitous climate and heritage charm, is also renowned for its flourishing artistic community. Drawn to the beauty of Vancouver Island and the vibrant culture of a livable city, poets and artists have chosen this location as home. In Framing the Garden: Reflections of Victoria, Poet Laureate Linda Rogers pr …
Friday Water
It's the night before Ariel's chemotherapy — her Friday Water — and a man is shot outside her house. The Angel of Death is surely circling, she believes; the next to die will likely be her. It isn't self-pity that motivates Ariel's morbid thoughts. Her husband, Barin, is in jail in Cuba (a Canadian documentary filmmaker caught filming …
George Fetherling and His Works
The Toronto Star has called George Fetherling, the poet, novelist and cultural commentator, a "legendary" figure in Canadian writing. The Montreal Gazette speaks of him as "a mercurial, liberal intelligence? the kind of which English in Canada has too short a supply.
For nearly forty years he has been the professional outsider who is nevertheless …
Homing
Linda Rogers is a poet passionately engaged with existence whose poems resonate a subterranean logic and the music of deep mindfulness. In Homing: New & Selected Poems she returns again and again to the unquiet ground of the theatre of life. A singular and uncompromising awareness of suffering and joy, hope and despair, the arc of naked dreams and …
Muscle Memory
Between the heart and the head, poetry moves, linked by memory, in the conversational fluency and exquisite metaphor of Linda Rogers's new book of poems, Muscle Memory. In poems of compassion, longing and expansive generosity, Rogers reminds us that the heart is a muscle, exercised through benevolence and social consciousness. In Muscle Memory Lind …
Say My Name
Say My Name recovers the lost voice of a young Cowichan man who took his own life. In a sometimes disturbing story laced with humour, he speaks of the terrible sadness – but also the great tenacity – of a people too often invisible in an unsympathetic world.
The Empress Letters
In a series of letters written while on board the Empress of Asia, en route from Victoria to Shanghai, Poppy von Stronheim Mandeville explains the secret history of her family to her daughter, Precious. From the activities of her opium and rum smuggling mother, to the truth behind Precious conception, Poppy must unravel the secrets that her mother …
Third Day Book
Tragedy has dogged Precious her whole life, tearing her away from her loved ones wherever she finds them. Now married and raising a deaf daughter in Victoria, Precious prays that she has left this curse behind. But when she discovers she is again pregnant, bittersweet memories of her time in Hong Kong with her Chinese father and stepmother begin to …