Search Results
"Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion and humour, sympathy and truth-telling. For many...
"The Maritimes are rich in story-telling traditions, and home to many of Canada's great short story writers. Their strong Maritime voices are collected here in this splendid anthology of short stories. Best Maritime Short Stories is a collection of the work of long-established an...
David Adams Richards is one of Canada's greatest writers, his place in the pantheon ensured by seventeen novels of consistent power and vision. He is also the author of four marvelous non-fiction ruminations on religious faith, hockey, hunting and fishing and their roles in his a...
Notes on a Writer's Life is the author's account of his more than fifty years as a writer. It chronicles his early childhood, his high school years of turmoil and rebellion, and his uneasy relationship with both publishers and academics. Throughout, Richards records his continuou...
"Wild Green Light is a collaboration that brings together the poetry of acclaimed author David Adams Richards and award-winning writer Margo Wheaton. Drawing upon a fiercely shared passion for the natural world - as well as a literary friendship that has spanned more than two dec...
"Taking cues from the 20th century life writing of Robin Blaser, Frank O'Hara, William Everson, Sylvia Plath and Alden Nowlan, The Lost Cafeteria is a stylistically shapeshifting bildungsroman in verse set between the author's evangelical upbringing and peripatetic adulthood. Exp...
Bernell MacDonald was born in O'Leary, PEI in 1948 and educated at UNB in Fredericton. Here he discovered his love of writing and became one of the celebrated "Windsor House Poets" headed by writer-in-residence, Alden Nowlan. Out of Kilter is MacDonald's twelfth book of poetry an...
A thrilling, revelatory collection from one of the most provocative and original literary voices in Canada today. David Adams Richards is one of Canada's greatest writers, his place in the pantheon ensured by seventeen novels of consistent power and vision. He is also the autho...