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SHORTLISTED FOR A GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD When Marco Polo was captured by the Genoese he whiled away his year in prison by dictating a memoir, the Livre des Merveilles.

When Kirk Ramdath was a child, his mother came from Trinidad to Calgary to give her family a life of greater opportunity than the one she left behind.

The Great Black North is a contemporary remix of the story of Black Canada.

– Re:Zoom – a book of no return. How can we return? We resume, but never from where we left off. We continue from some other place.

The poems in Narcissus Unfolding are the force of life going on.

These poems were taken from a diary of poems and sketches kept over forty years.

Sheri-D Wilson, winner of the 2005 WGA Stephan G Stephansson award for best book of poetry, presents a scalpel-sharp view of 21st century afflictions such as noise pollution, airport security, and

In Forgetting the Holocaust, Ron Charach reflects on his life as a Jew raised in post-Holocaust Canada.

[sic] thus written, error mine. Sic to incite to attack, especially as a command to a dog: “Sic ‘em!” Siccingpoetry on you. That’s sick, as in, awesome. Or ill and sickly.

Keith Garebian’s most personal book to date, Children of Ararat, is the poignant recollection of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. It is part of the Dektet 2010.

Standoff Terrain takes its inspiration from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.

Falling Blues sings about edges and air, about fear, about letting go, jumping, plunging.

In Learning to Count, Douglas Burnet Smith explores the counterpoint between everyday, often innocent, experiences and the darker elegiac tones of history.

Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe transports you into the “now” of metaphysical possibility, to fly between solitude and wild abandon, from Buddha blink to cosmic flare.

The possibility that the present is a continued struggle against nihilism, marked by the will to create, offers important questions about identity and heritage: what does it mean to exist in the pr