Current

YSP table at OLS-N conference 2006
YSP table at OLS-N conference 2006

We've got

  • Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry, edited by Madhur Anand and Adam Dickinson. "...a fresh approach to our most urgent concern."—Tim Lilburn

  • Anishnaabe World: A (Survival) Guide for Building Bridges between Canada and First Nations, by Roger Spielmann. "...raises the bar for those wanting to become more familiar with Canada and its history. ... Instead of a Wannabe, Spielmann's what we call a Shouldabeen."—Drew Hayden Taylor

  • Mesopotamia, new poems by Bruce Meyer. “Intelligent, tender and elegantly crafted … flowering with pleasure in design and a hard-earned knowledge of
    human nature.” – Molly Peacock
     
  • Here After, by Sean Costello. “Sean Costello could easily be our next Stephen King.”—Rave Reviews
     
  • A Life Consumed: Lilly Samson's Dispatches from the TB Front, by Diane Sims. “...a delicately narrated homage to the human spirit. ...Sims has produced a literary labour of love...”—Eric Harris, Executive Editor, Canadian Geographic 
     
  • The Hole in the Wall, poems by Peter McEwen. “...a voice long overdue to be heard.”—Bruce Meyer  
     
  • Ramasseur, by Richard deMeulles. "a brilliant novel...”—Veronica Ross
     
  • Arcadia Borealis: Childhood and Youth in Northern Ontario, by George Case. The literary memoir a region and a generation have long awaited! “George Case is funny, nostalgic, and unsparing...”—F. G. Paci  
     
  • Angels, Stars and Trees: Tales of Christmas Magic, by John Forrest. "These tales should become seasonal classics; right up there with 'Christmas Carol' and 'The Grinch.'”—Craig Cook
     
  • Remembering Medusa Remembering, by Monique Chénier. On facing pages, in alternating classical Sapphic fragments and contemporary prose poetry, Medusa “re-members” herself and ushers us into a story long forgotten.  

  • Charlie Smith Reads: The Best of the Birch Lake Road, a CD featuring 20 of Charlie's best poems from his two books of poetry, plus 5 new beauties.
     
  • Shedding Knowledge, by Christopher A. Taylor. "Taylor’s poems lead the reader into luminous meditation, eulogy and elegy."—Karen Mulhallen, Editor of Descant.

  • Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth, by Susan Ioannou. From the subatomic to the cosmic, from the lab to the lyre, she ranges across the continuum of being of which our humanity is but a part. This book is unique.

  • Something Blue and Flying Upwards: New and Selected Poems, by Roger Nash, former President of the League of Canadian Poets.

  • Loving the Alien, by Laurie Kruk. "Powerful narrative poems."—Jeanette Lynes.

  • Other Times, Other Places, 20 stories set in locales around the world, by Colin Hayward. Longlisted for the 2007 ReLit Award; shortlisted for the Northern Lit Award.

  • Bluffs: Northeastern Ontario Stories from the Edge; 19 tales by acclaimed, established, and emerging authors that take us to the various edges of what we know.

  • Lichen Bright: Poems, by Lauren Carter. “. . . one cannot but stop and wonder at the beauty of Carter’s craft and skill.”—Kim Fahner, CBRA. Longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Award.

  • Tag Alder Tales, 17 stories by Charlie Smith. "the world could use more writers like Charlie Smith."—Richard Buell, Editor, Highgrader Magazine