Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy and Me, a cross between memoir and fiction, truth and fantasy. It is the exploration of Yacowar's relationship with Roy Farran - soldier, politician, author, mentor - and his conflict with Farran's anti-Semitic past.

Best known for his service with the British Special Air Service during World War II, Roy Farran later worked for the Calgary North Hill News (where he hired the sixteen-year-old Yacowar as a cub reporter) and served as a cabinet minister for Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed. During his time with the British goverment in...

The fact that Cavlacanti's friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti's own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the ""sweet new style"" that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante's poetry was devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Beatrice, Cavalcanti's poetry had more the tang of real-world experience: he struggled against unruly passions and sought instead to overcome love - a source of torment and despair.

It is chiefly through the translations of Rossetti and Pound that...

Through poems that move between two languages, Naomi McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nehiyawewin, the Plains Cree language, and English, akayasimowin. Written to honor her father's facility in nehiyawewin and her mother's beauty and generosity as an inheritor of Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English, kiyam articulates a powerful yearning for family, history, peace, and love.

In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build an ocean-bound ship in the middle of a desiccated wheat field in Saskatchewan. Set during the hardship of the "Dirty Thirties," Dustship Glory presents us with Sukanen's mythic effort to escape both the drought and pestilence of his time, as well as his own personal struggle to be free.

Featuring an illuminating forward by beloved Saskatoon writer Don Kerr, Dustship Glory will provide Canadian and international audiences alike with the...