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  • The Long Way Home

    by Mike Barnes ...
    "The Long Way Home" is the first book in an eco-themed sci-fi saga. Kids who enjoy reading - or having read to them - books such as the Narnia tales will love this too.The tale begins in the land of Gondwana, where centuries of peace come to a sudden and violent end. The kingdom is in the grip of a sudden and violent rebellion led by the would-be heir to the throne, Prince Brandon, whose lust for ... Read more

    $4.90 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lily Pond

    A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis

    by Mike Barnes ...
    A memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however, The Lily Pond is equally searching in its exploration of the psyche's resources in healing and reknitting that story. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Captain Beefheart: The Biography

    by Mike Barnes ...
    “Barnes gets the story, and with the full participation of those brave musicians who attempted to interpret Beefheart's sometimes otherworldly methodology” The TimesThrough new interview material, and with reference to reports and eulogies that appeared in the media, Mike Barnes studies the star’s legacy putting the last two decades into context with the revelation of Van Vliet’s battle with MS. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sleep is Now a Foreign Country

    Encounters with the Uncanny

    by Mike Barnes ...
    Finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award • One of CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the FallA poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination.In the summer of 1977, standing on a roadside somewhere between Dachau and Munich, twenty-two-year-old Mike Barnes experienced the dawning of the psychic break he’d been anticipating ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Captain Beefheart: The Biography

    by Mike Barnes ...
    As Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet recorded a series of albums from the late 1960s to the 1980s which marked out new boundaries for the avant garde of rock music. He then abandoned recording in favour of painting and quickly achieved an almost equal reputation with his figurative and expressionist oil paintings. As a musician Beefheart has been associated with psychedelia free jazz and rock n roll ... Read more

    $12.09 USD

  • Braille Rainbow

    poems

    by Mike Barnes ...
    FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NELSON BALL PRIZE"In a dark time," wrote Theodore Roethke, "the eye begins to see"—and with Braille Rainbow, Mike Barnes reveals both darkness and the light that shines beyond it. Beginning with a suite of poems completed before and immediately following his admission to a psychiatric unit as a young man, Barnes's quiet lyricism and formal sensitivity capture those moments of ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Be With

    Letters to a Caregiver

    by Mike Barnes ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARDAS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS TV'S THE MORNING SHOWA CBC CANADIAN BOOK TO READ FOR MENTAL HEALTH WEEKDrawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer’s, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live wit... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A New Day Yesterday

    UK Progressive Rock and the 1970s

    by Mike Barnes ...
    Series Book 2 - Omnibus Remastered
    An entertaining, definitive and in-depth study of prog rock, with a new cover and a foreword by Steve Hackett (Genesis). Progressive rock, a genre formed out of a creative surge in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies. Made by young musicians for a young audience, prog music looked towards new horizons by synthesising rock, jazz, folk, classical and other styles. While prog has always ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Calm Jazz Sea

    by Mike Barnes ...
    Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike Barnes. In the everyday and the ephemeral meals, drinks, weather, work, moments of solitude or connection he finds ways to engage the secret matter of humanity: what horrifies, astonishes, or comforts us ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Calm Jazz Sea

    by Mike Barnes ...
    Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike Barnes. In the everyday and the ephemeral meals, drinks, weather, work, moments of solitude or connection he finds ways to engage the secret matter of humanity: what horrifies, astonishes, or comforts us ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Catalogue Raisonne

    by Mike Barnes ...
    It is 1984. The latest recession is said to be over, and in the steel city of Hamilton, things are picking up. For Paul, however, an ex-rock guitarist and current art gallery attendant, life has slowed to the pace of a still life on a wall. He badly needs a jolt -- and he gets one. Soon after the arrival of an exhibition of Surrealist art, puzzles start to multiply around him. Before long, he is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Captain Beefheart: The Biography

    by Mike Barnes ...
    “Barnes gets the story, and with the full participation of those brave musicians who attempted to interpret Beefheart's sometimes otherworldly methodology” – The TimesThrough new interview material, and with reference to reports and eulogies that appeared in the media, Mike Barnes studies the star’s legacy – putting the last two decades into context with the revelation of Van Vliet’s battle with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD