Gaspereau Press Ltd.

A Ragged Pen brings to the page five essays on memory. First delivered in Vancouver in the spring of 2005, these talks — by Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson and Jan Zwicky — examine the narrative challenges, lyric energy and questions of verity that surround the subject of memory in a creative context.

Finley’s essa …

This book is a smyth-sewn paperback bound in card stock with an offset-printed jacket. The text was printed offset on laid paper.

As first collections of poems go, Paul Tyler’s A Short History of Forgetting is remarkable for its confidence, maturity of voice and control of form. Its style ranges from the aggressive pace, short measure and muscular language of its tightly-wound object poems, to gentler, more meditative reflections on aging and the loss of identity and langua …

With enthusiasm and sincerity biologist Soren Bondrup-Nielsen recalls his experience as a graduate student in the 1970s researching the Boreal Owl in northern Ontario and Alberta. After receiving his B.Sc. in the spring of 1974, Bondrup-Nielsen travels by train to Kapuskasing to begin his study of this tiny, elusive species, cousin to the Tengmalm’ …

Gathered from its author’s wide-ranging experience, Monica Kidd’s debut collection includes local legends and personalities, imagined scenarios based on found photographs, lamentations and confessions of love, lyrical studies of medical anomalies, and landscape portraits. Kidd’s deft imagery and songlike stride render her subjects in striking …

A brief tribute to the artistic legacy of African Nova Scotians, featuring Clarkes signature abundance and zany spirit.

In his sixth collection of poetry, Peter Sanger brings his archaeologist’s eye, along with classical and local iconography, to his encounters with domestic implements, local ecology, cultural relics and landmarks. The poems in this collection achieve a delicate balance between the grounded and the ethereal, such that the poet’s studies set down …