In the News:  Lots of New 2008 Winners & Shortlists - Including the Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist!!

 There is now lots of new Awards news on the News page.  Check it out for 2008 nominees and winners of a whole host of prizes!!

On Sale Now:  All NCL books that we have in stock are now on for half-price.  These books are little paperback editions of Classics from McClelland & Stewart.  Please see our On Sale page to check out which titles you need for your collection of classic Canadian Literature!!

New books entered to New to NWP February 25th, 2008.

Lots of new books added to the Sale Bin - so check it out!!

The Anansi Reader - Forty Years of Very Good Books - edited by Lynn Coady
Here, in this impressively curated “reader,” award-winning writer Lynn Coady has gathered excerpts from forty important and influential books — a mix of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry — ten from each decade of the press’s existence. And, in a surprising and fresh coda, she also takes us into the future: excerpts from five exciting worksin- progress to be published within the next two years.

Falling by Anne Simpson
In startling, luminous language, Anne Simpson captures both the natural beauty and tawdry eccentricity of Niagara Falls, while evoking the elemental bonds that tie us to the ones we love. By turns uncompromising and heartbreakingly tender, Falling is a riveting story of ordinary people poised on the knife-edge of grief and hope.

The Collected Radio Drama of Marie-Claire Blais by Marie-Claire Blais and translated by Nigel Spencer
Mostly written for the French-language Radio Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s, these plays show another side of Marie-Claire Blais' talent...Plays included in this volume are Vanished, Invader,Two Fates, Murmurs, Garden in the Storm, A Couple,The Exile, and Fever.

The Crooked Good by Louise Halfe
Through the voice of ę-kwęskît – Turn-around Woman – Louise Halfe guides the reader on a three-fold journey down a path where the personal, the historical and the mythic walk hand-in-hand. Louise Halfe revisits familiar aboriginal themes, but pushes them farther than she has before, in this third collection of her moving, powerful poetry.