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Poems on Land and on Water explores a terrain as rocky and a climate as varied as the physical environment of Newfoundland itself. The poet finds her material by "mining" memory and language, and by exploring the very ordinary question of how one thing leads to another. She writes about cycles of belief and loss of belief, freeze and thaw, discovery and abandonment. She is interested in the landscape of bays, dreams, deserted roads, and dysfunctional families. She also writes poetry for summer days, in the belief that writing about something sometimes makes it happen.

Carmelita McGrath's second collection of fiction explores the psychic and emotional realm of everyday life. Travelling from a 1930s Newfoundland outport to present day St. John's, these fourteen stories, bringing to life the world of ordinary girls and women who come to know that "redemption is something we reach for, but don't get. A little grace, now, that's a different matter..."

Weather's Edge sets out to capture the richness and diversity of women's lives in Newfoundland and Labrador. It

Sheila is fresh out of university and a broken engagement. Rudy is fascinated with storms and the unknown world of ice beyond the frozen harbour. Carl dreams of defending his dissertation against an assembly of hunters, while all the while his wife, Marian, is slipping away from him. Dave doesn't like women much, but he likes sleeping with them. Alice has invented a tradition of women-only parties to escape the tyranny of Hockey Night in Canada. These are some of the outsiders who have come to work in a small northern town.

Hearts are the essence of this new anthology of erotic fiction from Newfoundland's Burning Rock Collective; hearts beating, pausing, stopping, re-activating, the life force going on and on.