Mike Barnes

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD AS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS TV'S THE MORNING SHOW A CBC CANADIAN BOOK TO READ FOR MENTAL HEALTH WEEK Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer’s, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver... Lire la suite

As Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet recorded a series of albums from the late 1960s to the 1980s which marked out new boundaries for the avant garde of rock music. He then abandoned recording in favour of painting and quickly achieved an almost equal... Lire la suite

Ce livre raconte l'histoire extraordinaire d'une légende de la contre-culture. Même dans les années soixante, il n'existait rien de comparable à Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Après des débuts conventionnels, le Capitaine - Don Van Vliet dans... Lire la suite

“Barnes gets the story, and with the full participation of those brave musicians who attempted to interpret Beefheart's sometimes otherworldly methodology” The Times Through new interview material, and with reference to reports and eulogies that... Lire la suite

A memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however, The Lily... Lire la suite

Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wire Primers: a comprehensive guide to the core... Lire la suite

"The Long Way Home" is the first book in an eco-themed sci-fi saga. Kids who enjoy reading - or having read to them - books such as the Narnia tales will love this too. The tale begins in the land of Gondwana, where centuries of peace come to a... Lire la suite

Il progressive rock, generato da un’ondata di creatività alla fine degli anni Sessanta nel Regno Unito, raggiunge il suo apice negli anni Settanta affermandosi come uno dei generi più seguiti al mondo!
Una musica creata da giovani che vola verso... Lire la suite

An entertaining, definitive and in-depth study of prog rock, with a new cover and a foreword by Steve Hackett (Genesis). Progressive rock, a genre formed out of a creative surge in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies. Made by young... Lire la suite

Christianity Today 2021 Award of Merit (The Church/Pastoral Leadership) Diary of a Pastor's Soul tells the story of a fictionalized pastor, embarking on his final year before retirement, who reflects on the experiences and relationships that have... Lire la suite

Deep down it's easy to believe that the better job, the nicer house, or the more dynamic church will finally make us feel "at home." In Searching for Home, M. Craig Barnes challenges this belief. He reminds us that paradise is lost and we can't go... Lire la suite

"Fiercely alive, marked by a sharp, unerring eye for detail and a wonderful way with metaphors."—Toronto Star At a psychiatric hospital in the eighties, patients formed what they called The Adjustment League to protect themselves against the... Lire la suite

It is 1984. The latest recession is said to be over, and in the steel city of Hamilton, things are picking up. For Paul, however, an ex-rock guitarist and current art gallery attendant, life has slowed to the pace of a still life on a wall. He badly... Lire la suite

Written between one January and the next, A Thaw Foretold is a passionate exploration of themes that are as timeless and recurrent as the seasons. In language that is both precisely vivid and particular, embracing both colloquial directness and... Lire la suite

Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike Barnes. In the everyday and the ephemeral meals,... Lire la suite

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NELSON BALL PRIZE "In a dark time," wrote Theodore Roethke, "the eye begins to see"—and with Braille Rainbow, Mike Barnes reveals both darkness and the light that shines beyond it. Beginning with a suite of poems completed... Lire la suite

"The Reasonable Ogre is a marvel, and a tribute to the power of story. The illustrations and language are so entwined as to be inseparable, and they cast a beautiful spell. Mike Barnes is a real fairy-tale creature."-Kate Bernheimer, author of Horse... Lire la suite

Music journalist Mike Barnes (MOJO, The Wire, Prog, and author of the acclaimed biography Captain Beefheart) goes back to the birth of progressive rock and surveys the cultural conditions and attitudes that fed into, and were in turn affected by,... Lire la suite

Finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award • One of CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall A poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination. In the summer of 1977, standing on... Lire la suite