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 poetry...
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The Birth and Burial Grounds – Newfoundland Poetry Series
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Voices of the Young – A Selection of Student 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 poetry...
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Allowing the Light
The word allow has roots in the Latin verb laudare, to praise. These poems seek to allow the music of that which is muted in a world of bellowing. In Section I, light plays on the veined ways of vegetation, of poetry,...
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Talking to Ghosts – Newfoundland Poetry Series
Talking to Ghosts is Philip Gardner's fourth volume of poetry, and his second to be published in Newfoundland, where he has taught for nearly thirty years. Many of these poems have been published in magazines...
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Bending with the Wind – Newfoundland Poetry Series
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 poetry...
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The Time of Icicles
A collection of lyric pieces, The Time of Icicles is anchored in the author's experience of Newfoundland. But these poems are of a continent, a century. An underlying preoccupation of the volume is with states...
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Rattles and Steadies
Gander is one of the best known small towns in the world, especially among western and eastern Europeans. Russians know it with familiarity. This book is not about Gander, however, despite its notoriety; rather...
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Newfoundland Journal, A
A Newfoundland Journal is a book-length poem drawn from the author's travels through the province's western edges in 2003. Janet MacFadyen is "from away," and the poem weaves disparate images of RV-packed ferries...
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Ragtime for Beginners
The poems in Ragtime for Beginners explore questions of perspective and memory. They consider the difference between something and the image of that thing; they attempt to distinguish a pomegranate, for example,...
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Silent Time, The
In the early 1900s a young and newly wed Leona Merrigan sets out from the Newfoundland community of Three Brooks to find a better life in Knock Harbour on the island’s Cape Shore. After some happy years, tragedy...
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Livyer’s World
The year is 2150. Ninety percent of the world’s population has been wiped out. Civilization has evolved to accommodate various cultures. In Newfoundland, a ‘livyer’ culture dominates. The population is...
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Distinguished Old Bentley Drove Down to the Sea, A
Bentley, a distinguished vintage motorcar, is worn down by the troubles of everyday family life. He needs to recharge his batteries. He drives through the mountains and down to the sea. While relaxing on the...
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Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador: Volume V
Volume V is the most recent addition to the series of Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador by Frank Galgay and Mike McCarthy.
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In the Chambers of the Sea
The stories in this collection explore the process of individual journeys between these categories: Love that isolates and love that redeems, reconciliation with the self and others, the death of innocence, betrayal...
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Wreckhouse: a dark comedy
Wreckhouse is a Midsummer's Night Dream meets Deliverance when mainland carpetbaggers fall into the clutches of a tribe of traditional Newfoundland cannibals. Set in the ruins of a post-industrial wasteland,...
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