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Based on Tea Gerbeza’s experience with scoliosis, How I Bend Into More re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain, consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body both visually and linguistically, creating a multimodal space that forges Gerbeza’s grammar of embodiment as an act of reclamation. Paper-quilled shapes represent the poet’s body on the page; these shapes weave between lines of verse and with them the reclaimed disabled body is made. How I Bend Into More is a distinctive poetic debut that challenges ableist perceptions of normalcy, and centers “the double architecture / of  ( metamorphosis (.”

Praise for How I Bend Into More

How I Bend Into More is a singular, stunning debut. The brilliance and courage with which Tea Gerbeza remembers, witnesses, experiences, and imagines is matched only by the intensity with which she bends the boundaries of art. Gerbeza expands the possibilities of poetry, renewing the creative potential of everything from punctuation, lines, and images to layout, paper, and the corporeal body itself. Read this book immediately and share in this expansion, this renewal.—Daniel Scott Tysdal, author of The End Is in the Middle: Mad Fold-In Poems

How I Bend Into More is a healing line. Tea Gerbeza’s sculptural pages crack the brackets of shame and unfurl the self—the vertebral I—until poem and body touch. This is the quilled work of a heart. A bouquet of paper roses unfolding in the hand.—Jennifer Still, author of Legs, Comma, and Girlwood 

Oh Canada! Impress friends and family with your knowledge about Canada with this trivia quiz, with 140 multiple choice question cards. Answer questions across a variety of topics relating to Canada, including history and culture. Presented in a bright geometric print box. Full instructions included.

This tropical gem is a must for tiki drink lovers. This is our version of the beloved Hawaii drink, POG., Our Hula Hula is made with passionfruit, mandarin orange, guava and lime - it's fruity, punchy, bright and a favourite with kids of all ages.

Use to make mai tais and tequila sunrises. This is the ultimate classic shaved ice flavour! Don’t have a home ice shaver? No problem - just blend ice up and pour over the hula hula cordial. Ta da! 

Ingredients: Ingredients: water, cane sugar, guava puree, mandarin orange juice, passionfruit juice, lime juice, citric acid

Shelf life: 12–24 months

2010 John Hirsch Award for most Promising Manitoba Writer

Winner 2011 Aqua Books Lansdowne Poetry Prize

Finalist 2011 ReLit Award

Hump is a mash-up of pregnancy-and-mothering poems and urban/nature/love poems that functions as an anti-sentiment manifesto from Winnipeg writer Ariel Gordon. Month by month, stanza by stanza, Gordon attempts to adequately represent the wonder and devilment of being-with-child. Hump is a love poem written simultaneously to a father and child, to a lover and the glimmer in his eye, and to a city that is gritty, faded, but still greener-than-most.

Praise for Hump

Gordon channels Adrienne Rich’s dichotomy of love and frustration.—Winnipeg Free Press

Ariel Gordon’s writing allows the reader access to the essence of a place and time. Her command of language brings an importance to moments both fateful and seemingly insignificant. Her work displays a surprising combination of ease and conviction, of playfulness tempered with insight, and evokes a vivid sense of the word in its studied context, the image in its rightful place.—Jury for Hirsh Award

Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy. Hump speaks the erotics of being alive and being in love with being alive.—Robert Kroetsch

The focus of Hump is the rich experience of motherhood and marriage on the one hand, and of city life in the integrated context of the natural world, which is everywhere engaging, fierce, beautiful, and unstoppable. This is capable, exuberant writing, at once passionate and meticulous. Hump is a worthy first book indeed.—Michael Harris, Kenneth Meadwell, and Serge Patrice Thibodeau, jurors for the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry

Brimming with finely crafted poems that thrum with life and love, Hump is indeed a very promising debut.—CV2

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Vegan, cruelty free, no synthetic ingredients 

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Vegan, cruelty free, no synthetic ingredients 

A day in the life of one of Canada’s most iconic animals, from nationally celebrated and bestselling creator Paul Covello 

 I am a beaver, and I do what beavers do.

Come along and spend the day with an adorable beaver kit! Can you chomp through a tree, swim in a stream and help your family build a lodge? You could, if you were a beaver!

This bright and joyful board book is perfect for young animal lovers and book lovers alike.

A day in the life of one of Canada’s most iconic animals, from nationally celebrated and bestselling creator Paul Covello

I am a polar bear, and I do what polar bears do.

Come along and spend the day with an adorable polar bear cub! Can you hide in the snow, jump on an ice floe and swim through icy cold water? You could, if you were a polar bear!

This bright and joyful board book is perfect for young animal lovers and book lovers alike.

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This vinyl car decal sticker is approximately 8.5" long on its longest side and has a glossy finish. It is professionally printed with high quality, eco-solvent ink so it is waterproof and uv resistant! 

Radical Buttons was founded in 2015 and is based in Edmonton, Alberta. My goal is to create accessories that promote self-empowerment and anti-oppression. I also love making products that speak to topics I'm passionate about, including social justice, LGBTQ+ rights, mental health and reading. 

“We can do this!” Hayley Wickenheiser calls to her team as they skate out onto the ice. It’s been a long journey to the Olympics, but Hayley has worked hard to get here. From early-morning practices to playing with boys hockey teams during her childhood, from being the youngest player on Team Canada to winning two Olympic gold medals, Hayley knows she can make history again.

Ideal for young hockey fans and future stars, this level-2 I Can Read book is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.

Team Canada is facing the United States in a must-win game at the Vancouver Olympics. The score is 2-1 for Canada, and then disaster strikes—with only 24 seconds left in the game, the US scores. The game is tied and goes into overtime. The team that scores the next goal will win the Olympic gold medal. Seven minutes into overtime, Sidney Crosby gets the puck and shoots . . .

Ideal for young hockey fans and future stars, this level-2 I Can Read book is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.

It wasn’t too long ago that goalies didn’t wear masks. They faced rock-hard pucks flying at them without much protection—until Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante had enough. Jacques Plante had broken many bones: his nose (four times), his cheekbone (twice—the right one, then the left), and he’d even fractured his skull. So Plante got to work, stood up to the people who laughed at him and helped develop the first goalie mask.

Ideal for young hockey fans and future stars, this level-2 I Can Read book is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.