Our Books

Ceasefire in Purgatory by Colin Carberry
"'History is the nightmare from which I am struggling to awake,' James Joyce wrote, and the years since he died have been even more nightmarish, especially in his native Ireland. In later generation Colin Carberry wrestles with similar demons, not only at home in Ireland but in the wide world. His poetry with its dark and bright imagery expresses a vision of that struggle in a distinctive voice, Irish in its eloquent music, yet with echoes of Canada, Mexico, and Rastafari Babylon. The settings may be purgatorial yet they're redeemed by the energy and order of the verse. The imaginative force is heightened by its containment within metrical verse, including sonnets and terza rima. Redemption, the longed-for ceasefire, is achieved by hope and love. These poems are profound and moving, the real thing, poetry such as we seldom find, both lucid and mysterious." - Kildare Dobbs

Poems in English

ISBN 13: 9780978147129
ISBN 10: 9780978147129

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Publication and Release Date: late September

Making Bones Walk by Alex Boyd
"Alex Boyd gives us back the world, as if remade by thoughtful, inventive and always engaged language, in this excellent debut collection. Boyd's concerns are strikingly mature for a young poet - to examine closely, to record faithfully, and to speak out in memorable lines with style and clarity. The concern and care he shows, for both the formal richness of English poetry, and histories both sensual and political, is exemplary. He gives us lessons, about power, pain, hard light, and possible grace. Time and again, poems here had me stopping, returning, moved by the possibility that he might just be one of the best new poets of his emergent generation." - Todd Swift, author of Café Alibi

Poems in English

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Making Bones Walk will launch Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 8pm, upstairs at The Victory Café, 581 Markham St, one street west of Bathurst and Bloor, Toronto.

Exiliana by Mariela Griffor
"An incredibly powerful and complex journey beyond the window of exile into the depths of the experience. Exiliana is brilliant and maddening in its uncensored truth about love and death, war and life - brilliant in the richness and detail that can only come from a mind rare enough to focus on both, the war-torn graves of Latin America and the politics of thrown away pink sofas on the streets of Detroit, maddening in the way it forces us to continuously question the reality of our own lives. This is a significant work by any standard." - Rainelle Burton, author of The Root Worker.

Poems in English

ISBN 13: 9780978147105
ISBN 10: 0978147103

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Publication and Release Date: January 26, 2007 at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association (GPAA)