May 16th, 2024
PAUL DRIESSEN was born in 1940, just before The Netherlands were invaded by Nazi Germany and his family lived through the Nazi occupation of Holland.Growing up with parents who were arts and culture advocates, Driessen was surrounded by music, literature, and theatre.In 1967 he moved to London to work on the animated Beatles feature The Yellow Submarine.
February 27th, 2024
The Unthinkable has devastated the west coast, turning thriving towns into debris-filled wastelands.
February 26th, 2024
In her poems Sue Sorensen makes visits to the Village Vanguard jazz club in June 1961, to Freudbs study in London, to the novelist Henry James.
November 29th, 2023
Middle-aged Jane Barken discovers a lump in her left breast, the second in five years.
November 21st, 2023
The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves chronicles the fictionalization of the year the author spent teaching in Aupaluk (a remote Inuit community on the Ungava Coast of Nunavik).
November 9th, 2023
The first book in the ‘Shanghai Tetralogy,’ City Rising, starts on the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ where the FIRST EMPEROR the most powerful man the world to that time had ever known bequeaths a talisman to his three trusted followers: the BodyGuard, his favorite Courtesan and his Head Confucian - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth for the next 2500 years of a city at the Bend in the River - Shanghai.
November 7th, 2023
Pinching Zwieback: Made-up Stories from the Darp focuses on recurrent, related characters with a common reality: small town Mennonite life.
October 25th, 2023
February 2021 to March 2022 was a period of great reflection for two of Canadabs most celebrated poets.
May 18th, 2023
Following her critically acclaimed first collection of poetry, What Fox Knew, poet Mary Barnesb sophomore collection, Moving Upstream reveals a tempered grace.
May 11th, 2023
In the blistering summer of 1971, four strangers take a chance on a new psychological treatment.
