Mike Barnes Non-Fiction These poems offer hard-won wisdom

These poems offer hard-won wisdom alongside a fierce commitment to life itself

and the complex psychological portraits of her recent work

but there is the occasional villanelle and sestina amidst a squalid sea of punchy narrative

Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight

Ten varied stories – many published in Canada’s best literary journals – of contemporary women learning what they want from sex

Mike Barnes Non-Fiction These poems offer hard-won wisdomMike Barnes is the author of the novels Catalogue Raisonn and The Syllabus, the short fiction collections Aquarium winner of the 1999 Danuta Gleed Award and Contrary Angel, and two poetry collections, Calm Jazz Sea, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial award, and a thaw foretold. His stories have appeared twice in Best Canadian Stories, three times in The Journey Prize Anthology, and won the Silver Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine