Author: Megan Speer
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: novels, graphic, wanderlust
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-05-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0889843295
ISBN-13: 9780889843295

A wilful young woman revels in the surprisingly-inclusive communal aspects of life in the punk / anarchist counterculture as it was practised in the hardscrabble underbelly of Sault Ste Marie on the cusp of the 21st century.

Author: David Helwig
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: donkeys, smuggling
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0889842949
ISBN-13: 9780889842946

A retired teacher surviving a hard winter on memory and jokes finds that life still has surprises in store for him.

Author: P. K. Page
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: essential, poets, page
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0889843082
ISBN-13: 9780889843080

This is the second volume in our `Essential Poets’ series. Our aim is to provide the best possible introduction to a prominent Canadian poet by selecting key works that carry the essence of an individual poetic voice and sensibility. By offering a small but carefully considered selection it is hoped these chapbooks will invite an intimate acquaintance and ongoing engagement with the poems. Selected by Arlene Lampert and Théa Gray, the collection is admittedly wildly idiosyncratic and certain to be controversial. Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, these poems do not reflect a `y

Author: Robyn Sarah
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: shelter, promise
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1997-10-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0889841926
ISBN-13: 9780889841925

What a treat it is to read stories that do not seek to reduce the complexity of our lives or the ambiguities of our relationships, intriguing stories that are profound without being heavy. There are eight stories here, some very short, others long, and all worth reading, pondering and then rereading.

Author: Russell Smith
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: noise
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0889841977
ISBN-13: 9780889841970

A fast-paced comic extravaganza from the pen of the author of the runaway bestseller How Insensitive. Set in the cynical and celebrity-obsessed world of mainstreal media, and alternatively in the stultifying conservatism of suburban sprawl, a failed musician and intellectual nerd has become a freelance magazine writer and unwillingly been cast into the role of fashion arbiter.

Author: Mike Barne
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: angel, contrary
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-05-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0889842396
ISBN-13: 9780889842397

In stories of stark passion and haunting trauma, Contrary Angel finds an acute clarity in those moments when human desires meet the sorcery of the world. The stories are exuberantly diverse in both subject matter and technique, as evidenced by a few of their titles: `Urchipelago’, `Karaoke Mon Amour’, `Cogagwee’, `Do Not Stand Outside the Grande Restaurant.’ They take us from the brilliant career of the runner Tom Longboat to the comic machinations of a peeping Tom landlord. The final four-story sequence, `Doctors’, follows an Egypt-obsessed girl from a savage chi

Author: Grant C. Robinson
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: expectations
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 088984206X
ISBN-13: 9780889842069

Great Expectations is a contemporary succession story, written in the style of Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, that will strike a chord of uneasy familiarity with each and every harried entrepreneur.