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Stolen continents: the new world through Indian eyes since 1492
By Ronald Wright. 1992
One dead Indian: the premier, the police, and the Ipperwash crisis
By Peter Edwards. 2001
On September 4, 1995, several Stoney Point Natives entered Ipperwash Provincial Park, near Sarnia, Ontario, and began a peaceful protest…
aimed at reclaiming a traditional burial ground. Within 72 hours, one of the protestors was dead, shot by an OPP officer. Six years later, Peter Edwards investigates the event. 2001.Flowers on my grave: how an Ojibwa boy's death helped break the silence on child abuse
By Ruth Teichroeb. 1997
In 1988, a 13-year-old Ojibwa boy named Lester Desjarlais committed suicide. Journalist Ruth Teichroeb covered the inquest into his death,…
which was scheduled for one day, but which lasted three months. She relates what happened to Lester as he left the Sandy Bay First Nations reserve and found himself in a maze of foster homes, mental hospitals, and treatment centres. Sexual content and descriptions of violence. 1997.Flint & feather: the life and times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake
By Charlotte Gray. 2002
An exploration of the many dimensions of Pauline Johnson's life. Complex and talented, she was a native rights advocate ahead…
of her time; a lyric poet who performed vaudevillian skits; a New Woman who wrote for The Mother's Magazine; and an incurable romantic who never married. 2002.Cairns, through the study of the historical record, discusses the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other…
in Canada. He considers the differences between the assimilationist assumptions of the imperial era and the more recent attempts at nation-to-nation negotiations supported by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and contemplates whether either of these approaches can lead to an outcome that will satisfy both sides. 2000.Bitter embrace: white society's assault on the Woodland Cree
By Maggie Siggins. 2005
For over 200 years, the Cree community of Pelican Narrows has endured a torturous relationship with encroaching European culture, from…
the Hudson Bay factors and missionaries of earlier times to the bureaucrats and police of today. Author Siggins gives us the human face behind the newspaper headlines of Native issues, after years of research on a community she has known most of her life. 2005.Book of longing
By Leonard Cohen. 2006
A collection of musings, jottings, quatrains, lyrics, prose meditations and offhand epigrams, including previously unpublished poems dating as far back…
as 1970. Cohen displays both a surface humility and an underlying self-confidence as he reflects on women, Zen doctrine, his own advancing age, and the legacy of the '60s. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2006.A wild peculiar joy: selected poems, 1945-89 (The Modern Canadian poets)
By Irving Layton. 1989
19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East
By Naomi Shihab Nye. 2002
Over four dozen of her own poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the…
United States. Nye writes of figs and olives, fathers' blessings and grandmothers' hands. She writes of Palestinians, living and dead, of war, and of peace. 2002.The tent
By Margaret Atwood. 2006
A collection of short stories, including parodies of fairy tales and fables, a tale which encapsulates the divide between men…
and women, and an account of the remarkably thuggish population of a small, out-of-the-way island. Atwood dissects our habit of seeing the world in terms of "we" and "them," and our refusal to face the facts of environmental degradation. 2006.Thanks and giving all year long: Marlo Thomas and friends
By Marlo Thomas, Christopher Cerf. 2004
Spoken here: journeys among threatened languages
By Mark Abley. 2003
An award-winning Canadian journalist documents the unprecedented extinction of the world's less-spoken languages. Drawing on his encounters with linguistic remnants…
from the arctic to aboriginal Australia, he illustrates threats to many endangered tongues. The report also speaks to the relationship between language and identity, and warns of globalization's consequences. 2003.The Penelopiad: The Myth Of Penelope And Odysseus (The myths series)
By Margaret Atwood. 2005
For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband fights in the Trojan War is not easy -…
already aggrieved by the shocking behaviour of her cousin Helen, she must bring up her wayward son, face down scandalous rumours, and keep over a hundred lusty, greedy and bloodthirsty suitors at bay. When Odysseus finally returns home and slaughters the suitors, he also brutally hangs Penelope's twelve beloved maids. What were his motives, and what was Penelope herself really up to? 2005.Everyday eclipses
By Roger McGough. 2002
These poems contain Roger McGough's own spin on innocence and experience. Poems about his docker father and his new daughter;…
poems about how, in his dreams, he gave the idea of "Hey Jude" to McCartney and advised Dylan to go electric; and poems about sad music and the sad eclipses of everyday life. 2002.Blackbird singing: poems and lyrics 1965-1999
By Adrian Mitchell, Paul McCartney. 2001
A highly personal collection from one of the major cultural figures of the last 50 years, containing the lyrics to…
many of the best-loved Paul McCartney songs, and also poems that have never before been seen, including moving elegies to his late wife, Linda.Kid (Faber Pocket Poetry Ser.)
By Simon Armitage. 1999
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
By Seamus Heaney. 1999
A translation of the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon poem relating Beowulf's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a…
defender of his people. Heaney has aimed to produce a work true both to the original, which is one of the classics of European literature, and to his own creativity. 1999.The annals of Chile
By Paul Muldoon. 1994
Translations from the natural world
By Les Murray. 1993
Ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of our natural world which find distinctive voices…
in this new collection of poems by Les Murray. Few poets could achieve such variety of approach to express character and feelings and to give us their vision of the universe. 1993.The brazen serpent
By Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. 1994
"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin employs a poetic point of view that is displaced, unspecified, and often enigmatic; her poetry resonates with…
ancient rites and presences from a spiritual otherworld. She is a unique poet who has influenced younger writers, broadened the scope of Irish poetry, and earned her place among the very best poets of her generation."