Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha.

Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoccur throughout his collected letters.

A helpful and informative guide to key roles and requirements for editors that explores a range of skills and editorial genres, from cookbooks to websites to visuals and more.

This vibrantly illustrated story is designed to be read with children aged 5-7 who are suffering from depression. Using metaphor and full of humour, it is a relatable, enjoyable and positive read for all. The book also includes a guide for parents and carers by clinical paediatric psychologists, Dr Melinda Edwards MBE and Linda Bayliss.

Editing Canadian English is an essential reference for anyone who uses Canadian English. First published in 1987, this authoritative yet flexible guide explores spelling, punctuation, measurements, and other relevant topics from a Canadian perspective.

An inspiring book that argues for Van Gogh’s letters to be placed alongside the literary work of Blake and Eliot.

Twenty-seven traditional Lushootseed stories are presented in this two-volume set, complete with English translations and interlinear grammatical analyses.

Nine traditional stories from the Skagit Valley, presented with line-by-line interlinear glosses, illuminate the grammatical and narrative richness of the Lushootseed language

Leading international scholars examine the production of culture during China’s rise to global superpower in the last quarter of a century.

As the first literary critical study of Vincent van Gogh’s letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh presents the painter’s letters as purposeful imaginative creations that chart van Gogh’s evolving conception of himself as an artist.

This invaluable analysis of eighteen Lushootseed traditional stories includes interlinear grammatical analyses.

Milestones on a Golden Road examines works of fiction written in China between 1945 and 1980, when the arts were required to reflect a Maoist vision of history and society.

The twelve “lays” of Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet/translator David R. Slavitt.

The self and the other in the works of Canadian contemporary artists.

Sefer is a surreal, poetic and witty tale of two cities, Vienna and Kraków. As Europe steps into an uncertain 21st century, a psychotherapist tries to untangle the mysteries of his Jewish family, and embarks on a journey.

Merry Laughter and Angry Curses investigates the proliferation of late-Qing-era tabloid journalism and the tabloids’ role in subverting the political and intellectual establishment.

Bringing his genuine poetic gifts to the project, Slavitt’s translations provide stronger evidence of the originals’ poetic qualities than has been available for at least a century. – Henry Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winner

In this collection of four plays by Katherine Koller, the Canadian prairie drives and intensifies the actions of the human characters.

Contemplates language loss and recovery in the twenty-first century, by relating one woman's journey in learning an Indigenous language.

Trueman Bradley – Aspie Detective is a fantasy adventure that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in Asperger's Syndrome.

Charles Noble’s poems push the boundaries of formal logic, using a poetic revitalization of the syllogism to experiment with conventionality.

The first comprehensive study of Nooksack place names in Washington State and southern British Columbia, based on historical records and field trips with elders.

Focusing on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, McCall investigates a wide range of “told-to” narratives that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Canada, and asks what is at stake in crafting a politics and ethics of collaboration.

Musing is a book of sonnets, combining one of poetry’s most classic forms with history and landscape.

Set in the Dirty Thirties, this prairie classic novel concerns Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build a ship in the middle of a Ssaskatchewan wheatfield.

Renowned poet E.D. Blodgett pays poetic homage to Prague in this collection of poems celebrating the legendary city’s rich lifeblood.

A dream-like voyage exploring Mexican cowboys, robots, and convenience store clerks, this collection shatters all preconceived notions of poetry.

In presenting the case of Kaska, an endangered language in an Athapascan community in the Yukon, Barbra Meek asserts that language revitalization requires more than just linguistic rehabilitation; it demands a social transformation. The process must mend rips and tears in the social fabric of the language community that result from an enduring colonial history.

In this mature, accomplished collection, we can once again admire Don Kerr’s unique prairie voice – minimalist, self-effacing, immersed in his love of the vernacular language of this place.

In Windfall Apples, Richard Stevenson mixes east and west with backyard barbecue and rueful reflection.

Dreamwork is a poetic exploration of the then and there, here and now, of landscapes and inscapes over time.

Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.

Canadian voluntary associations have proven that they can effectively manage bilingualism -- this book shows how and why.

As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right.

The powerful images and thoughtful metaphors in these short lyrics show readers the connections between Canadian nature (even within city limits) and the sublime, especially in the overwhelming silence we can sense outdoors – if we pay attention. The poet speaks to change by helping us see natural phenomena around us in a different light each time we read his poems.

This collection commemorates Walterdale’s 50th anniversary and highlights the social and artistic significance of amateur theatre practice in Canada by drawing together significant plays by acclaimed and emerging Canadian playwrights, detailed introductions, and archival production photographs.

Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the “working girl” heroines of western Canada’s poetry, prose, and fiction.

A new critical reading of eminent Canadian author Gwendolyn MacEwen's poetry and prose.

The 25th Anniversary Issue of Canadian Literature

Witsuwit’en Grammar presents acoustic studies of several aspects of Witsuwit’en phonetics, including vowel quality, vowel quantity, ejectives, voice quality, and stress.

Weaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers.

What makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling, malleable, and persistent?

When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-school officials, and menacing mounted police, they knew that resistance to American authority would be foolish. But some Apache families ...

That fire can cleanse as well as destroy is no mystery to J. A. Jance. Before she found fame as a best-selling mystery author, Judith Jance wrestled with the personal anguish of being married to an alcoholic. For years she composed poetry in secret and kept it locked away. Finally it was published as After the Fire in ...

Perhaps the fullest account of any Salish language, this is the long-awaited grammar of the Musqueam dialect of Halkomelem which was begun in the late 1950s.

This work explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century, opening a permanent rupture in the gender system, destabilizing masculinity as an unstable category.