R. M. Vaughan

When Marsh Cole's body is found in Samson Brindle's pool, who's to blame? Was it suicide, or the vengeful ghost of Sylvian Oulette?From acclaimed poet and playwright R.M. Vaughan comes the story of three neurotic gay men who fall in love and proceed to torture each other to death — a twisted fable about love, jealousy, murder, and talking back fr …

A provocative collection from one of Canada's most exciting and controversial emerging writers, these narratives weave together love, loss, and anger, and draw a politically blunt but linguistically playful portrait of a young gay man's coming of age. Romatic and erotic, stylized yet truthful, the skillful mixture of confessional and experimental s …

There are no lost women, only women who've forgotten their scripts.' RM Vaughan's play about Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner comes off the stage and onto the page in this handsome edition from Coach House Books. An insightful look at the gender politics behind the cameras and studios of the golden age of cinema.

Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region’s finest poets in a volume that will whet appetites for more. The earlier poetry renaissance began in 1945, with the establishment of The Fiddlehead magazine …

Full of intimate selections, this volume of poetry combines quiet, formal, confessional poems and exuberant, mischievous performance pieces. A vibrant collection that dodges, disrupts, and disturbs, it includes works dedicated to old boyfriends and one-night stands, French Revolution dictators and Hollywood character actors, an old pair of jeans an …

E. G. Blundell is fast becoming known as a leading renegade in the reinterpretation of the Canadian landscape. Rejecting a traditional approach to landscape painting, he considers himself to be the receiver and conduit of the life force contained within bodies of rock and the landscape, and he does not agree with the conventional belief that there …

Ogres, trolls, demons – monsters, like violence, are always represented as male. Not this time. Celebrated playwright RM Vaughan gives us, in three one-act monologues, three very monstrous women. In A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance, we meet a middle-aged police officer whose world view is determined by her obsessi …

Ruined Stars combines a penchant for formal experimentation with a unique, often engagingly puzzling devotion to language and its limits. It explores the author's obsession with travel, magic, and sex and includes baroque feats of word play, some gossipy asides, and the insights of a questioning heart.

Spells is a violent coming-of-age story set in suburban Canada in the 1970's. Andy Loch, a chubby 14-year-old, is obsessed with witchcraft and the occult. Convinced that occult forces curse his family, and that he himself possesses supernatural abilities, the boy dabbles in black magic in a desperate effort to connect with his remote father. Andy's …

Ogres, trolls, demons – monsters, like violence, are always represented as male. Not this time. Celebrated playwright RM Vaughan gives us, in three one-act monologues, three very monstrous women. In A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance, we meet a middle-aged police officer whose world view is determined by her obsessi …

Everyone falls in love with their therapist at least a little. But what happens when the therapist not only loves you back but also acts upon it? Troubled is the poetic account of the true story of a patient/psychiatrist relationship gone horribly wrong. With his signature mix of scathing self-analysis and volatile wordplay, RM Vaughan brazenly doc …

This two-part catalogue, which includes essays by Sally McKay, R.M. Vaughan and stories by Sheila Heti and Derek McCormack, documents two exhibitions curated by Philip Monk. What It Feels Like for a Girl featured work by Karma Clarke-Davis, Louise Liliefeldt, Peaches (with Kara Blake and j.d. Samson), Fiona Smyth, and Julie Voyce while Sinbad in th …