Goose Lane Editions

A selection of poems on topics ranging from a tour of the Berlin zoo to a sailing ship.

Douglas Glover’s collection of stories mezmerizes like no other. A sheer tour-de-force, the collection features eleven new stories that demonstrate that Glover is capable of writing like no other writer. Like a good Beatles album, the collection includes Glover’s best new stories, linked only by the quality of the writing. The stories are wide ra …

This warm, amusing, and deeply human story of how Jim and Kay Morrison retired to the New Brunswick countryside is told in a series of lively episodes which catch the flavour and excitement of a new start in life. Of course, Jim Morrison was well rooted in rural new Brunswick. During the Depression years, he lived on his grandfather’s farm with h …

From the days when proto-humans lashed animal jawbones to sticks and whacked wildebeest-poop slapshots in Olduvai Arena to today’s super-high-tech computer-assisted extravaganzas, one by-product of the hockey game has gone unnoticed and untapped. Until now . . . In 50 Things to Make with a Broken Hockey Stick, Peter Manchester transforms the agony …

One thousand five hundred, that’s the magic number. At least, it is for Mayor Hosea Funk when it comes to his town, Algren, Manitoba. Algren’s claim to fame is its rank as Canada’s smallest town, a title that incites both pride and constant angst for its eccentric mayor. Motivated by the Prime Minister’s pledge to visit the smallest Canadia …

“Together with five other men, I went out on the bowsprit to stow the jib after the downhaul and sheets had been manned. The canvas was flogging so violently that the stout bowsprit whipped like a sapling . . . we hung on with every finger a fishhook as the foaming water rose up to our knees.” As a young journalist in Montreal in 1911, Frederic …

What’s a teenaged rebel to do in a smug Mennonite community? If you’re 16-year-old Nomi Nickel — drive aimlessly around the countryside with your pot-smoking boyfriend. Rage against fate and a runaway mother for deserting you in the wrong “East Village.” And put off finishing that English assignment as long as your oddly attentive teacher …

With maps and illustrations, A Cruising Guide leads the sailor around Grand Manan, Passamaquoddy Bay, the Fundy coast to Saint John and St. Martins, up the Saint John River, and around Nova Scotia from Digby to Lockeport. History, personal experience, and local wisdom complement essential information about navigation, anchorages, sources of fuel an …