Mqup imprint: 803 books
Journey with No Maps
A Life of P.K. Page
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Journey with No Maps is the first biography of P.K. Page, a brilliant twentieth-century poet and a fine artist. The product of over a decade's research and writing, the book follows Page as she becomes one of Canada's best-loved and most influential writers. "A borderline being," as she...
by Bruce Whiteman
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
From the "rubble [that] is the order of the day" in the opening poem to the longing for a "radiant happy ending" in the book's final line, Tablature is a book of poems that traverses a great swath of the heart's experience in compelling and lucid poetic language. Bruce Whiteman's first book of poems...
by Jeffery Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Palilalia is disordered speech. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this lesser known vocal tic is "an involuntary repetition of words, phrases or sentences." Sister to echolalia (repeating what others say), and distant cousin to the more forbidding coprolalia (the involuntary use...
by Gordon Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From "Anna's Lovers" Our houses glow both from within and on the outside: their night lights and an almost perfect and wintry moon. The phrase "but for now" means among other things "making do," as if we had to settle for the bare minimum. In But for Now, Gordon Johnston presents poems where the mortal...
by Julie Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
A lapsed religion still emits / faint signals; God, / in his satellite dish, / groans / moving on. To seek belonging, to strain against the familiar – these are the polarities many of us live between, feeling the pull of each desire. Offering a particular history, an intimate vantage point from within...
Like Everyone Else but Different
The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Liberal democratic societies with diverse populations generally offer minorities two usually contradictory objectives: the first is equal integration and participation; the second is an opportunity, within limits, to retain their culture. Yet Canadian Jews are successfully integrated into all domains...
War Is Here
The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Canada did not fight in the Vietnam War, but the conflict seized the Canadian imagination with an energy that has persisted. In War Is Here Robert McGill explains how the war contributed to a golden age for writing in Canada. As authors addressed the conflict, they helped to construct an enduring...
Hierarchies of Belonging
National Identity and Political Culture in Scotland and Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Ailsa Henderson analyses each nation's linguistic, racial, cultural, economic, and political diversity within a historical and contemporary context. Challenging the assumption that nationalism in Scotland can be characterized as "civic" in contrast to an "ethnic" model in Quebec, Henderson adopts a more...
Archibald Lampman
Memory, Nature, Progress
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Treasuring the past, savouring the present, and wanting to do right by the future, Archibald Lampman was a poet keenly focused on the workings of time. He was also a thinker of mystical predisposition. His goal was not to transcend time, but to find redemptive meaning within it. Archibald Lampman: Memory,...
Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec
The Taschereaus and McCords
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
History has often ignored the influence in modern Quebec of family dynasties, patriarchy, seigneurial land, and traditional institutions. Following the ascent of four generations from two families through eighteenth-century New France to the onset of the First World War, Patrician Families and the...
Challenge for Change
Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Pioneering participatory, social change-oriented media, the program had a national and international impact on documentary film-making, yet this is the first comprehensive history and analysis of its work. The volume’s contributors study dozens of films produced by the program, their themes, aesthetics,...
The Lansdowne Era
Victoria College, 1946-1963
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Providing background and context, and bringing together a multiplicity of voices, Edward Harvey documents how one Canadian college responded to the important developments of the time - post-war prosperity, rapid urbanization, massive expansion in post-secondary education, the "baby boom,"...
Bringing Art to Life
A Biography of Alan Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Only thirty-nine when he took over the National Gallery in 1955, Jarvis already had an extraordinary record of achievement and social mobility at home and in England: he had trained with Canada's greatest artists, won a Rhodes scholarship, lunched at the Algonquin Round Table in New York, managed...
Body or the Soul?
Religion and Culture in a Quebec Parish, 1736-1901
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
There are many analyses of Tractarianism – a nineteenth-century form of Anglicanism that emphasized its Catholic origins – but how did people in the colonies react to the High Church movement? Beating against the Wind, a study in nineteenth-century vernacular spirituality, emphasizes the power of...