Blaurock Press

Like a Road
ISBN 978-0-9864924-0-2
$25.00
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“My name is Jerry Carson.” And so it begins. All Carson men leave home early, and between departure and return, between flight and reconciliation lies the journey. Trial by water and by fire, trials of betrayal, imprisonment, loneliness and loss. As in all fairy tales there are Helpers and Instructors: canny [...]

The Yellow Room
ISBN 978-0-9784321-9-5
$20.00
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The final days of Jørgen Mikkelsen. A man of no family or property, a disappointed artist and lover, a reluctant Resistance fighter, a man with intolerable burdens of memory and regret. Alone with his thoughts, a curiously lucid madman imprisoned in an attic room, Jørgen conjures out of his past [...]

Acquainted With Absence. Selected Poems
edited by Douglas Glover
ISBN 978-0-9784321-7-1
$24.00
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“—a magnificent poet, prolific, protean and deeply, intensely, personal. She is a metaphysical poet, concerned with ends and existence, yet she grounds everything in the specific and the concrete.
“Reading and rereading her, one begins to notice, beyond the narratives of love and death and the [...]

Dry Bones
ISBN 978-0-9784321-6-4
$20
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A hybrid narrative, different voices, contrasting worlds. One strand—banal, cruel, funny, sentimental by turns—a coming-of-age tale, a middle-class schoolboy awakens to the facts of class and sex in post-war England. The other strand a sordid tale of manipulation, betrayal and murder in Toronto, Kingston and Montreal. These stories are brought together in [...]

Philip Snowcroft’s Finality
ISBN 978-0-9784321-8-8
$20
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A Manhattan fable of talent and mediocrity, ambition and genius, art and commerce, crime and punishment. Owen Higdon, hungry artist’s-agent, likeable chancer and compulsive gambler, has staked everything on selling Philip Snowcroft’s new painting. Finality is his friend’s culminating achievement as an artist, a work of epic scale, raw passion, moral [...]