McGill-Queen's University Press

  • watching for life

    we climb down the manhole / where history waits, and we can read / its layers or at least imagine them From a balcony overlooking an urban back lane, a…

    $17.95
  • When the Whalers Were Up North

    The author tells a story drawn from oral memories, a story which will soon disappear with the last Inuit generation to have seen the whalers. Illuminated by a remarkable collection…

    $32.95
  • Words in Collision

    For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in Collision explores this tradition of language-mixing and its consequences. Returning to Shakespeare’s…

    $95.00