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Poetry by the winners of the annual Muriel's Journey Poetry Prize, held each year in honour of activist poet Muriel Marjorie. As well as first and second prizes, there is a dedicated prize for a poet from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and a prize for an entrant selected at random. Honourable mentions are also included.

In 1803, having survived kidnapping, mutiny, and shipwreck, Jamie Sharpe is finally sailing home, when his ship is attacked by Barbary pirates. Taken captive by the infamous renegade now known as Kemal Rais, Jamie and his cohorts are forced into servitude, but their hearts remain unconquered and longing for escape.With the shadow of war looming over the region, will the arrival of an American ship mean freedom or more danger?

When the emperor wore plaid and people still hung phones on walls, Brad Yung's weekly comic strip Stay as you are. was a beacon to the slacker generation that bathed in irony and rejected everything else.A true underground underdog, the strip appeared in photocopied zines, alternative weeklies, small-town newspapers, and a few national magazines. Too savage, too biting, its targets too spread out and numerous to mention, the strip knew it was never going to achieve mainstream success and didn't care.The Complete Stay as you are. honours these remnants of a simpler, yet more complicated time. A review once called Yung the world's first meta-ironist - if that's true, he should probably apologize. But he won't.

What if you could live your life over, making all the right decisionsand avoiding all the mistakes? You can, vicariously through yourchildren, but is that a good idea?101 standalone stories about parenting or being parented - frombullying to discipline, grandmothers to ice cream, old friends to firstlove - each culminate in a lesson that messed the author up, so he'snot going to teach them to his kids until it's too late.Brad Yung mines his past and speculates on his children's futures,alternately reaching out and lashing out. Added all together, severalstorylines emerge: an embattled mother-son relationship, the earlydeath of his father, a crumbling marriage, a fractured take on hisChinese heritage, and his love for his kids.Understatedly funny, wistfully longing while steeped in regret,poignant if tragic, yet ultimately hopeful, uplifting, and insightful,Lessons I'm Going To Teach My Kids Too Late almost succeeds in notbeing a self-help parenting book, but not for lack of trying.

Fire from the Heart 2021 collects the winning poems from the 2021 Muriel''s Journey Poetry Prize, which honours the vitality, vivacity, and outspokenpresence of poet-activist Muriel Marjorie, who passed on in the fall of 2018.An Indigenous social justice activist, poet, and spoken word artist, what Muriel had to say would often literally wake you up. Her enthusiastic encouragement of innovative creative endeavours was infectious.

Speak easy.Prohibition-era New York swims in a sea of illegal booze and it seems like the party will never end. Even so, dark deeds and bad men lurk behind the good life. Freshly returned from Europe's conflicts, strong and silent Riley wants to rush back to the farm but smooth-talker Cornelius aspires to a new life. As a crime reporter amidst the city's icons, from the Algonquin Round Table's glitterati to the seedy underbelly where deals get done and so do people, Cornelius takes a deadly ringside seat for the unveiling of plans that will change the future of organized crime.Back in Missouri, the daughter he's never seen and a son whose father has yet to come home give Riley the strength to resist the siren call of adventure, though dark scars from the past threaten to surface. When tragedy strikes close to home and Cornelius falls into the clutches of a criminal mastermind, Riley heads east to settle accounts.The city that never sleeps had better watch out.Riley and Cornelius are back! Still traipsing through the 20th Century, they stumble across the secrets behind three of its great unsolved mysteries along the way. Dorothy Parker, Al Capone, Damon Runyon, Lucky Luciano, Arnold Rothstein, J.P. Morgan, Albert Anastasia, and a Marx brother or two - any one of them might make the difference between life and death for our duo.