The title Night Vision refers firstly to the night vision goggles that enable soldiers to see through the darkness in order to destroy and kill, and secondly to a vision of the political and ecological night that threatens humankind, but also to the faint possibility, grounded in personal relationships and cultural values, that we will see through and somehow transcend this night. The book is a major expression by a veteran poet of searchingly reflective and finely articulated thought. Its...

Dennis Bock’s novel The Communist’s Daughter met with praise from readers and reviewers the moment it reached bookstore shelves, debuting as an instant Maclean’s bestseller. This is the story of legendary Canadian doctor Norman Bethune—visionary, radical, martyr. Amidst the death and chaos of the Japanese army’s advance into the hills of northern China, Bethune composes a wrenching letter to his daughter, a small child he has never seen, the daughter of a woman abandoned ...

In The Geography of Arrival George Sipos revisits the city of London Ontario where his family settled after immigrating to Canada from Hungary in 1957. Divided into short chapters each related to a different local landmark the book depicts the world through the eyes of a boy getting the hang of North American culture and of an adolescent finding his way in the larger world. A few years ago says Sipos "someone I knew moved to London Ontario the place where I had grown up in the lat...

Nineteen writers, nineteen views of Cape Town. Each recreate the city that has shaped them, going beyond the iconic picture postcard image of Cape Town. They explore, often with startling honesty, the complex personal relationship that each writer has with the city.

The final volume of poems by America’s most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.Later Poems: Selected and New brings together a remarkable body of work by the celebrated poet. Included are Adrienne Rich’s own selections from twelve volumes of published works, including the National Book Award–winning Diving into the Wreck, An Atlas of the Difficult World, and her final volume, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, along with ten powerf...

From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems.The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here—the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism—but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, ly...

Another spellbinding trip around the globe with some of today's most celebrated writers and journalistsCondé Nast Traveler is the preeminent travel magazine in the United States, boasting a readership of 3.5 million. This second collection of the award-winning magazine's best travel writings, includes essays by luminaries such as, Robert Hughes, Russell Banks, E. L. Doctorow, André Aciman, Pico Iyer, and Edna O'Brien.As the world becomes smaller an...

Capturing David Niven on a magical marble escalator to heaven in 1946, recording L. S. Lowry's studio after his death, and peering into the illicit worlds of the Victorian Mutoscope, these poems document what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs are arrested in time by photography. Assured and unsettling, Sinéad Morrissey's poems explore the paradoxes in what is seen, read, and misread in the surfaces of the presented world.

Selected as a Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator"Travel writing in excelsis." -Jan Morris, author of Venice"A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder." -Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunNick Hunt sets off on an unlikely quest: to follow four of Europe's winds across the continent....

In his brilliant third collection, award-winning and critically-acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship as the speaker attempts to leave our "homes half-sheathed Tyvek" and "drift into the pain of our neighbours." Like Babstoc...

                                                    fpa THE OLD POVERTY ROAD TO SANTIAGO We told that damn Cousin Jack he was simply too old (and past Redemption) for any Pilgrimage further than the nearest bar, but he claimed he...

A debut collection that welcomes a new modernist aesthetic for the twenty-first century.Aswirl with waking dreams and phantom memories, The Late Parade is a triumph of poetic imagination. To write about one thing, you must first write about another. In Adam Fitzgerald's debut collection, readers discover forty-eight poems that yoke together tones playful and elegiac, nostalgic and absurd. Fitzgerald's shape-shifting inspirations "beckon us to join...