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The Theory of the Loser Class
$13.95In the early nineties, Beck sang ‘I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?’ and changed everything. Suddenly, it wasn’t so bad to be a nerd or an…
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The Ubiquitous Big
$13.95You’ve heard of The Big Sleep, right? Well, it’s sixty years later and time for The Ubiquitous Big. This book, the second from Calgary poet Ian Samuels, explores the language…
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The Winter Gardeners
$16.95In the town of Lake Wachannabee, Ontario, lies the Winter Garden, home to matron Giggy Andrewes and her brood: her strung-out nephew Jem Waferly, his friend Cora, Chappy the whippet,…
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The World is a Heartbreaker
$12.95The World Is a Heartbreaker inaugurates a new subgenre: imposter poetry. This collection is a set of 1600 pseudohaikus, bite-sized chunks of poetic goodness shotgunned at the distracted masses.What’s a…
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This is Me Since Yesterday
$15.00Alexandra Leggat, the author of Moondogging and numerous book and music reviews, puts on the page the remarkable texts that she is renowned for performing at spoken word events all…
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Toronto Modern
$24.95Toronto, like the Senate of Canada, seems ever fated to be the place for sober second thought. Blessed with undeniable urban vitality, it is yet weighted down by a serious…
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Trout Stanley
$13.95Described by Variety as ‘Yukon Gothic,’ Claudia Dey’s acclaimed play Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly…
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Unrehearsed Beauty
$17.95The Artist Formerly Known As Death Waits christens his new public persona with the release of ‘a series of theatrical proposals to be repeated, discarded, performed simultaneously and/or recombined in…
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Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists
$13.95Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen?Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind’s prose…
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with wax
$16.95Quill pen, linotype, computer: does how you write affect what you write? In with wax, derek beaulieu spurns the sentence and woos the phrase, the image and the language of…
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Words of Wisdom from a Man Claiming to be Fred Rogers
$19.95Words of Wisdom from a Man Claiming to be Fred Rogers is a box of 29 blurry polaroids. Muted, dark, indeterminate – they convey a sense of loss, uncertainty, ambivalence,…
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Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon
$14.95Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the…