Our newest catalogue—Fall 2018—is hot off the press! A list of award winners are on page 2, and you can find our Open access titles on page 22. Along with our new releases, recently released titles, and top sellers, it features the newest books published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, on pages 14 and 15. We […]
“The book’s subtitle — Injustices and Activism — captures the two main themes it explores: thehorrible exploitation that many farm workers endure, and the efforts they and their supporters have made to organize for reforms. This book represents a compelling argument that those of us who depend on the life-supporting work done by Canadians and temporary […]
Nicholas Bradley [Rain Shadow] was invited to participate in IFOA’s 10th Annual Battle of the Bards in Toronto. Here is his account of this quick yet rewarding trip: Hi, Monika, After the long Easter weekend and the rush of the new week, my trip to Toronto at the end of March already seems like ancient […]
On March 1st we launched Welcome to the Anthropocene at the University of Alberta Conservatory with great success. More than 70 eager readers gathered to celebrate Alice Major’s 11th poetry collection; they were welcomed by Sharon Morsink, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science – Physics. Peter Midgley, Senior Editor at UAP said a few words about Alice […]
“Lisa Martin’s Believing is not the same as Being Saved cleaves even closer to the holy, keeping religious motifs so near her natural language that they slip in unnoticed until they start to pile up, as in the various uses of the sword ‘saved’ in the title poem. Martin’s best poems have a knack for […]
I saw this post last year – A Bookstore Is Displaying All Books By Men Backward – and thought it to be a great post to share this year for International Women’s Day. It is a strong visual aid that illustrates the gender gap in publishing. So today, Cathie and I turned all male-authored or […]
Lougheed House offered the perfect venue to launch Doris MacKinnon‘s newest book, Metis Pioneers as it was the home of one of the two women whose lives are described in the book: Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed. Both Isabella and the second woman in the study, Marie Rose Delorme Smith, were born in 1861. They experienced […]
Registration for the 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is now open! The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Regina invite you to Saskatchewan from May 26 to June 1 to take part in the largest academic gathering in Canada. Take advantage of the University of Regina’s Graduate […]
“The seven quirky stories in Gisèle Villeneuve’s new collection, Rising Abruptly,all have mountains at their heart…. The characters’ relationship with mountains evolves throughout the stories, creating an arc that models a romantic relationship: infatuation, the conflict between independence and commitment, and the acceptance of love coupled with death. Rising Abruptly is a literary ode to […]
Dr. Colleen Skidmore—author of Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography—gave a talk about the subject of her new book at the University of Alberta’s Mountain Festival on December 7, 2017. The event was hosted by Dr. PearlAnn Reichwein, author of the award-winning Climber’s Paradise. Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, […]