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“jim johnstone”

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  • The Next Wave

    An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry

    Edited by Jim Johnstone ...
    Mercurial and modern, The Next Wave is an output-based anthology of 21st century Canadian poetry. Curated by Jim Johnstone, it features 40 early-to-mid-career Canadian writers selected from a diverse range of national and international presses. While The Next Wave surveys poets from across Canada, its contributors are the product of a global mindset—a distinct generation of writers characterized ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The King of Terrors

    by Jim Johnstone ...
    CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships and our immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone's poems oscillate between the personal ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Bait and Switch

    by Jim Johnstone ...
    In Bait & Switch, Jim Johnstone—poet, editor, and erstwhile physiologist—turns his considerable analytic powers to Canadian poetry, presenting a series of essays and reviews exploring the state of Canadian poetry in the 21st century through the lens of a trained scientist.With characteristic empathy and a researcher’s eye, Johnstone explores a variety of topics, including the legacy of science ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • The Chemical Life

    by Jim Johnstone ...
    Praised for his darkly psychological accounts of extreme experiences, Jim Johnstone’s fifth book of poems explores his most difficult terrain to date: mental illness and addiction. Like Coleridge's opium dreams, Johnstone's narratives in The Chemical Life are hallucinatory, coloured by his use of both prescription and recreational drugs. Returning often to the notion of rival realities—“in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Dog Ear

    by Jim Johnstone ...
    Like the “page turned down to make another / page,” Dog Ear explores the marks we leave on a world whose social and political markers are constantly shifting. In his fourth book of poems—and most powerful work to date—Jim Johnstone establishes himself as an exquisite observer of decay, both physical and spiritual. This is a universe where man resembles “the final / generation of a species ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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    by Patti LaBoucane-Benson ...
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  • Kim's Convenience

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    A brand new edition of the smash-hit play, now a wildly popular CBC TV series.Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim’s Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood. As the neighbourhood quickly gentrifies, Mr. Kim is offered a generous sum of money to sell — enough to allow him and his wife to finally retire. ... Read more

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  • The Book of Sensations

    by Sheri-D Wilson ...
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    The Book of Sensations by Sheri-D Wilson embodies an intricate ecosystem of language and feeling. These poems reach their roots down into the depths of what it means to be—to connect to one another, and to connect to the earth.With fine-tuned vocabulary, far-reaching observation, and the dream-vision of the surrealist eye, Sheri-D delves into the personal and the universal, the everyday and the ... Read more

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  • Let's Talk About the Birds and the Bees

    A Let’s Talk picture book to start conversations with children about the facts of life (From how babies are made to puberty and healthy relationships)

    by Molly Potter ...
    Illustrated by Sarah Jennings ...
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    From the author of How Are You Feeling Today? and Will You Be My Friend? comes a picture book all about the birds and the bees (sex education).It's natural for young children to have questions about their bodies and where they came from, but it can seem a daunting task to answer honestly so that they understand the subtleties of puberty, sex, reproduction and relationships, and are comfortable ... Read more

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  • Musical Tables

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    by Billy Collins ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love, a collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, and each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence“Whenever I pick up a new book of poems, I flip through the pages looking for small ones. Just as I might have trust in an abstract painter more if I ... Read more

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  • One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Sir Tom Moore

    by Captain Tom Moore ...
    Illustrated by Adam Larkum ...
    The story of the man who captured the heart of a nation in its darkest days, Captain Sir Tom Moore. This fully illustrated book is about life's ups and downs, about family, about never giving up, and about what we can achieve when we work together.This is an inspirational picture book which tells the incredible story of the man who walked 100 laps of his garden and captured the heart of a nation. ... Read more

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  • LVOE.

    Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms

    by Atticus ...
    Even if you've never heard his name, you've probably met someone with his words tattooed on their skin or heard them sung at a music concert. Atticus, the young, anonymous poetry superstar, has taken the world by storm with his beautiful poems and powerful, simple themes of love and strength of the human spirit – all while wearing a mask and keeping his identity a secret.His fourth poetry ... Read more

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