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Of Love and Drowning
Genre(s): Poetry
Of Love and Drowning is a commentary on the pre-cariousness of human existence, using a variety of real and imaginary voices to explore childhood, love, despair, aging, death and the reaffirmat ...read more

Softcover: $15.95


Where Genesis Begins
Genre(s): Art Poetry
Where Genesis Begins is a collaboration of two of Newfoundland’s foremost artists: Tom Dawe, a profoundly visual poet, and Gerald Squires, a profoundly poetic painter. The book contains thirty- ...read more

Softcover: $39.95
Hardcover: $59.95


Feral Domicile
- Sonnets
Genre(s): Poetry
A figure journeys through his old city, speaking sonnets - some from memory, some from contemporary condition and relationship with his place. He has no way to return home. He is in exile. ...read more

Softcover: $16.00


The Last Will and Testament of Jon Martinez de Larrume
Genre(s): Poetry
The Last Will and Testament of Jon Martinez de Larrume explores Labrador South and the people who were drawn to its resources and wild beauty from the 1500s to the present day. From one of the ...read more

Softcover: $14.95


The Cyclic Variations
- and more new poems
Genre(s): Poetry
The Newfoundland Poetry Series began in 1993, to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Breakwater's aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of ...read more

Softcover: $16.95


The March Hare Anthology
Genre(s): Poetry Fiction
The March Hare Anthology commemorates twenty years of one of Canada's most successful literary festivals. Blending international writers with some of the best Newfoundland and Labrador writers ...read more

Softcover: $27.95


Around the Red Land
- Newfoundland Poetry Series
Genre(s): Poetry
These poems span the gamut of life from love to death; a eulogy for a people, who for the most part, are no longer with us. Their evolution in rural Newfoundland has taken hundreds of years, and there ...read more

Softcover: $16.95


Come By Chance
- Newfoundland Poetry Series
Genre(s): Poetry
Come-By-Chance is a collection of poems, often narrative, sometimes lyrical, always ruminative, about home, family, and place, about leaving and returning, about growing up and growing old, abo ...read more

Softcover: $14.95


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This Ramshackle Tabernacle

This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern O...


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Caroline Stellings
Caroline Stellings is an author and illustrator of children’s books from Waterdown, Ontario. She is a professional artist who loves to paint the many ...



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