Ian Williams

These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, these are poems voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with others, often to no avail. Ian Williams writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets. He also invents his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don't end. With a deft hand...

Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications, misunderstandings,...

Bestselling Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings a fresh point of view and new insights to the urgent conversation on race and racism in these illuminating essays born from his own experience as a Black man in the world.--

Hauntings and obsessions, travelers in jeopardy, lives under siege...A ghost story with an erotic twist; a sociopath walking his victims along their fault lines until they crack; a black GI in wartime Brisbane loses his dog tag; an Australian woman on holiday in Romania finds herself implicated in her lover's stolen jewelry fencing activities...Eleven compelling stories exploring the unexpected and sometimes, terrifying consequences of stepping outside...

"In this graphic novel, a doctor doubts his ability to make decisions about the lives of others when he may need more than a little help himself"--Provided by publisher.

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