PERESTROIKA: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth by João Cerqueira

398 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 | ISBN 978-1-926716-77-0(pbk.)

In the turbulent landscape of an alternate Europe lies the captivating tapestry of "Perestroika," a literary masterpiece that weaves together the threads of revenge, redemption, and catharsis against the backdrop of an imaginary country called Slavia. With a masterful narrative, this novel stands as a testament to the indomitable spirit of humanity in the face of political upheaval.

Finalist for the 2021 Eyland Awards, Finalist for Fiction Factory Chapter Novel Competition 2022, finalist in the 2023 Latino Book Awards, and winner of the 2023 HFC European Book of the Year. 

"All the fireworks of James Joyce's Ulysses its sleight of hand, and the streaming consciousness of Faulkner are at play..."

"...a unique roller coaster, and it's not one you want to get off."

--Author, Mark Jay Mirsky

Haystacks Kane is a 607-pound professional wrestler and dedicated butterfly collector. He’s been preyed upon, his innate kindness and gentle good nature harvested by unscrupulous promoters and conniving managers; an ex-wife who keeps him on the hook for alimony; fellow denizens of the sordid netherworld he inhabits; and the raucous ravenous crowds with a thirst for violent cheap thrills. After suffering a severe injury in the ring, Haystacks lies in his hospital bed, unable to speak and struggling to uncover the deeper truths of his existence.

Schlam’s exceptional talent as a writer shines through in this novel, as he skillfully weaves together a tapestry of voices, perspectives, and emotions to create a powerful and thought-provoking literary work that is sure to leave a lasting impression on readers.

In a remote village of Laos, rival gangs plot to seize control of the land and exploit its resources for their own gain. But when their plans are threatened by Sithana's appearance, a deadly chain of events is set in motion that will test the limits of loyalty, courage, and love. As tensions rise and alliances shift, a web of corruption and deceit is revealed, and the villagers must band together to fight for their way of life. 

196 pages | 5.25" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-74-9

300+ pages, 50+ contributors, 10+ countries

"This is not just a collection of poems and short stories; it is a granary of artistic abundance! For here, will you find a rich variety of masterfully crafted pieces in a range of style, including those that draw from the African oral storytelling tradition. It is a montage of pieces of literary art, curated in a manner that allows for the ‘strict grammarian’ forms of expression to coalesce with those given to poetic licentiousness."

Whichever your favourite genre is, this anthology of East African literature has delivered something that has not been served to readers in many years. It is a fitting gift to the lovers of literary art in this first quarter of the 21st century.

336 pages | 6" x 9' | ISBN 978-1-926716-61-9

This book is a response to ongoing literary trends: the treatment of words as images in art writing; the evolution of criticism as a form of creativity; and contemporary literary narrative that treats fiction as the greatest truth.

*Winner of the 2020 CJLA Award for Fiction

Daniel is in the twilight of his life, tormented by doubts, of cuckolding, illegitimate children, horrors of war and the inanity of all human activity. A miraculous childhood survivor of the Nazi prison camps at Bergen-Belsen, Daniel recounts how he is shipped to Canada when the war is over...

182 pages | 5.5" x 8.25' | ISBN 978-1-926716-57-2 (pbk.) | Softcover

THE WAR OF NONEXISTENT WOMEN by Jason Price Everett

'Nonexistence' represents the paradox at the pinnacle of the human mind, of evolved intelligence: the ability to conceive of something that is not real and does not exist. The word itself is a tribute to imagination.

5.5 x 8 | 220 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-51-0 

Lock 7 is the highest and last lift up the historic Welland canal. In this literary novel, it is also the dominant metaphor for Leo’s final life epiphany. The one that always seems to come too late...

230 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-50-3 (pbk.) | Softcover

God’s Wife and the Synonymous X, Jesse Chase's first novel follows the protoganist on his search for a new cultural and literary theory while he champions an ethics of self-recovery and rehabilitation of personal narrative in a world of masks, capitalism and oppression.

170 pages | 5.5 x 8 | ISBN 978-1-926716-43-5 | Softcover

Call it America. Vast the tumble-rocket-particle-wave shows the world in a rush to arrive depart and become and forget and remember everything all at once. Call it history. Call it time and memory the way water is the measure of the clock your bones the measure of love. I mean everything passes. I said the earth is a sentry, everything passes and nothing escapes. Call it home; call it exile in a kingdom of rain. - Empire Burlesque, Charles Talkoff

276 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-42-8 (pbk.) | Softcover

The moon’s
a cool
moscato and
the sun
a sauvignon

A poet-robot—a chain-smoking seductress—a dying connoisseur. All of these characters and more make appearances in this strikingly original poetry collection from acclaimed Canadian writer and illustrator Rolli.

Ripe with Rolli’s trademark economy, quotabilty and wit, these are poems to be gulped down like summer fruit.

98 pages | 5" x 8' | ISBN 978-1-926716-63-3 (pbk.)

“Through this fast-paced novel, replete with kidnappings, espionage and fugitive war criminals, Abraham Boyarsky captures the Chassidic communities, their lives and their voices.”

Sender Pleskin is a self-proclaimed trauma specialist dedicated to serving his Chassidic community and to ‘gently’ nudging it into modernity.

When a Bubmer Hasid child falls inexplicably into a coma, Sender and his team jump to action. Hunting down leads in his investigation, Sender follows the signs that he interprets to be Divine Providence as they lead them down a circuitous path that will test not only his faith, but all he was and is. 

5. 5 x 8 | 228 pages| ISBN 978-1-926716-40-4 (pbk.) | Softcover

At a time so charged with volatility, from an atmosphere so polarized, and nations not only socially-distanced but divided, comes this timely collection, volcanic eruptions of the social and political injustices that ravage the landscape.

62 pages | 4.7" x 7.5' | ISBN 978-1-926716-60-2 (pbk.) 

An American jet fighter pilot is shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. Twenty years later, his body is found. An American team travels to the jungles of Laos to recover the remains of the pilot for burial at home. But upon arriving, they must deal with corrupt government officials, a police chief out on a personal vendetta and suspicious, reluctant villagers who believe it is their sacred duty to conceal the remains of the pilot from them.

5 x 8 | 296 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-36-7 (pbk.) | Softcover

Darren C. Demaree’s collection Nude Male with Echo examines and challenges male vanity, power, and expectation. While exploring the place of his gender in this world, Demaree’s attempt to expand upon the expectations of “what makes a man”, while drilling down into the artistic framework provided by the body and aging provides a new landscape for these modern questions.

75 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-56-5 (pbk.) | Softcover

Sam Cooke, the man, the musician, the lover - his natural genius, his wanton escapades, his raw passion and his brilliant, soulful music are all here conjured in a series of poems by Darren C. Demaree. From humble gospel beginnings, to world-fame stature and cold murder, the beauty, unlikeliness and tragedy of a genius and his life are here commemorated and eternally brought to life.

A collection of poems by Darren C. Demaree commemorating and recounting the life and genius of Sam Cooke. 

78 pages | 5" x 8" | ISBN 978-1-926716-52-7 (pbk.) | Softcover

Set in Montreal, Ensemble takes us through the throes of existential crises as lives and marriages are overturned by a man’s restless yearning.

A philosopher is suddenly forced to face the questions he lectures on when they materialize out of the theoretical and into the practical after he falls for a student in his class. Meanwhile his wife, an accomplished musician is left to deal with the disintegration of their marriage and the new silence that descends upon her life as she dissects her husband’s inner workings and confronts the object of his desire. Told in clinical honesty, Ensemble deconstructs love and relationships in the 21st century.

4.72 x 7.48 | 148 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-29-9 (pbk.) | Softcover

Suddenly thrust into the middle of a battle between evil and more evil that has been raging for centuries she learns of another world co-existing with ours, but invisible to her until that fateful day.

The Award-Winning, Best-Selling Series "Arielle Queen" by Michel Levesque

5 x 8. | 230 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-32-9 (pbk.) | Softcover 

What began as a collaboration project between two life-long friends—Maria Haro, a visual artist, and Claudia Serea, a poet—resulted in a refreshing lyricism of urban photography and poetry. Twoxism is a work that finds beauty in unexpected places and sees the mundane with redemptive eyes...

116 pages | 6" x 9' | Color | ISBN 978-1-926716-53-4 (pbk.) | Softcover

Darren C. Demaree’s "Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly" is as masterful as it is subtle. In this latest collection, Demaree continues to expand and develop not only his power and voice, but the voice of a time and a generation. A transcendent unity runs through this tripartite collection of poems that can be taken individually, as particles or a moment on a continuous wave. Birth (A Violent Sound in Almost Every Place), Life (We are Arrows) and Death (All the Birds Are Leaving) are woven together on the circle that surrounds and unites all.

5.25 x 8.5 | 194 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-41-1 (pbk.) | Softcover

"...artful and prayerful... In clear, crisply nuanced lines, Demaree gives praise to small quirky moments, to ordinary human exchanges, to the miracles of quotidian love, to Wednesdays, to Ohio... ...these generously attentive and marvelously whimsical poems repeatedly resist sleight-of-hand poetic transubstantiation, while slyly acknowledging the inevitably transformative nature of language.”

--Lee Ann Roripaugh, Author of Dandarians

5. 5 x 7.25 | 90 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-35-0 (pbk.) | Softcover

SHOW THIEVES 2010 Issue 1

MISSION STATEMENT: To rejuvenate and promote Montreal poetics in the new century.

DECLARATION DE RESOLUTION : Rajeunir et promouvoir la poésie de Montréal dans le nouveau siècle.

Limited to 888 copies | 131 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-04-6

“For now, there is Baldie Fitzgerald. He doesn't know it yet, but he too will be changed.”

Sarah. On a wall in a house in Florida she collects postcards and photos from a hundred years ago: Baldie, the young man with one short leg; Ora, the girl with a wandering eye; Jack the chairboy: all three come alive under Sarah's probing gaze.

5.25 x 8 | 193 pages | ISBN 978-1-926716-08-4