NeWest Press Catalogue Spring 2023

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Good Morning Poems

by George Bowering

Canadian literary legend George Bowering lays bare his process as reader and lover of poetry in this curated collection of poems to be read in the morning.

In a series of deeply astute and conversational essays, two-time Governor General’s Award winner and inaugural Parlimentary Poet Laureate of Canada George Bowering travels through five hundred years, give or take, of English-language literature, adding historical, political, feminist, socio-economic, anecdotal, and literary context to each poem and poet. His selection of poems ranges from the best known to the barely known, each piece treated with depth and reverence, while demonstrating his razor-sharp wit and skill as writer, critic, and reader.

Recalling the work of George Saunders and Sina Queyras, in their interactions with established literature, George’s insight in the poetic mind is invaluable, making this a must-read collection for anyone interested in reading or writing poetry.

Trade Paperback / April 1, 2023

isbn 10: 1-77439-065-5

isbn 13: 978-1-77439-065-8

BISAC 1: LIT 014000

BISAC 2: LCO 019000

BISAC 3: LCO 010000

107 pp / 5.5 x 9 /$20.95 CDN $16.95 USD

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

About The Author

George Bowering approaches literature as he does life: with a playful gravity and a grave merriness that makes intellectual life and writing seem at once attractive, unintimidating and remarkable. He dispels the myth of literature being hard or tricky, and demonstrates, as he reads and chats, the accessible and enriching nature of great literature. Two time Governor General’s Award winner and Canada’s first Poet Laureate, Bowering was born in the Okanagan Valley, attended the University of British Columbia and has taught literature at the University of Calgary, The University of Western Ontario, Simon Fraser University, and Concordia University, Montréal. He and his wife Jean live in Vancouver.

• Two-time Governor General’s Award winner (1969, 1980).

• Innagural Canadian Parlimentary Poet Laureate (2002-2004).

• Well established writer and critic in Canadian Literature.

MARKETING PLAN

• ARC review copies and press releases to all applicable online and print publications including magazines, bloggers, digital book influencers, television, and radio.

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• Submit to all eligible awards.

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• Home-town book celebration and participation in NeWest season launch in Edmonton. Virtual events where applicable.

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• National trade: literary criticism

• US and UK trade: literary criticism

COMPARISON TITLES

• My Ariel by Sina Queyras (9781552453544, Couch House Books, 2017)

• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (9871984856036, Penguin Random House, 2021)

“Bowering the reader of poems returns us to a place of wonder and mystery—with no irritable reaching after fact and reason—as though every poem is the first poem ever read—a cypher, a delight, a breathing of new life into the world.”

—Stephen Collis, author of A History of the Theory of Rain

I (Athena)

by Ruth DyckFehderau

Wrongfully institutionalized for over thirty years due to a misdiagnosis by a small town doctor, Athena is finally free to live her life, but what life will she chose?

When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as “profoundly retarded” and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she’s out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society where nothing works quite like she thinks it should. Athena researches her past, trying to understand why she was institutionalized in the first place and why the people looking after her made such a huge mistake. At the same time, she tries to find a way to live with the man who was her lover in the institution, uncovering all sorts of surprises along the way.

Funny, tough, and serious-minded, Ruth DyckFehderau’s I (Athena) recalls the work of Barbara Gowdy and Elizabeth Strout.

Trade Paperback / April 1, 2023

isbn 10: 1-77439-067-1 isbn 13:978-1-77439-067-2

BISAC 1: FIC 019000

BISAC 2: FIC 079000

BISAC 3: FIC 076000

400 pp / 6 x 9 / $23.95 CDN $18.95 USD

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

About The Author

Ruth DyckFehderau has written two nonfiction books with James Bay Cree

Bloods of Eeyou Istchee: Stories of Diabetes and the James Bay Cree (2017) and

Nâtamukh Miyeyimuwin: Residential School Recovery Stories of the James Bay Cree, Vol. 1 (forthcoming 2023). Her work has been translated into five languages and she has won many literary awards. She sometimes teaches Creative Writing and English Lit at the University of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton with her partner. She is hearing-impaired. This is her first novel.

MARKETS

• Accessibly-deisgned book for low vision readers using guidelines from the CNIB and other sources.

• Published as part of the Nunatuk First Fiction Serie.

• Strong themes of female empowerment and inclusion.

MARKETING PLAN

• ARC review copies and press releases to all applicable online and print publications including magazines, bloggers, digital book influencers, television, and radio.

• Book release announcement on website and newsletter as well as all social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

• Dedicated podcast episode featuring interview and readings, available through Apple Podcasts.

• Submit to all eligible awards.

• Ads in all applicable publications.

• Home-town book celebration and participation in NeWest season launch in Edmonton. Virtual events where applicable.

• National trade: fiction

• US and UK trade: fiction

COMPARISON TITLES

• Falling Angels by Barbara Gowdy (9780006475088, HarperCollins, 2007)

• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Stroud (9780812979527, Penguin Random House, 2016)

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“By turns funny and heart shattering, rich with mesmerising detail and unsentimental prose, [Athena’s] journey is a profound exploration of what it means to be human.”

—Fran Kimmel, author of The Shore Girl and No Good Asking

Rose Addams

by Margie Taylor

Rose Addams has hit her early sixties, but these days it feels like they’re starting to hit back…

Rose’s daughter, Morgan, has ditched her thesis program and moved back home to Vancouver, while her son Jason’s partner has never seen eye to eye with his mother. Her husband Charles has decided to take early retirement from the university to work on his long-gestating book, and his rakish best friend Garnet has a new mistress who is way too young for their social circle. When Rose encounters a young man panhandling outside of her library office though, a chain of events is set in motion whereby Rose will have to confront all the facets of her rapidly-complicating life…

Recalling the work of Caroline Adderson, Krista Foss, and Marie-Renée Lavoie, Margie Taylor’s Rose Addams is an insight into the life of a woman who is in the process of beginning her third act, an empathetic and incisive look at the problems of those just exiting middle age while attempting to keep up with a rapidly-changing world.

Trade Paperback / April 15, 2023

isbn 10:1-77439-069-8 isbn 13: 978-1-77439-069-6

BISAC 1: FIC 019000

BISAC 2: FIC 045010

BISAC 3: FIC 044000

272 pp / 6 x 9 /$24.95 CDN $19.95 USD

About The Author

Margie Taylor grew up in Thunder Bay, attended Lakehead University, and began her radio career there. As a CBC Radio host and producer, she hosted regional and national radio programs, and appeared on arts and entertainment programs across Canada. She’s the author of three novels: Harrow Road; Displaced Persons, and Some of Skippy’s Blues, as well as a collection of humorous essays and a compilation of book reviews. Currently, she lives in Coquitlam where she teaches ESL and is working on a novel based on the life of her mother.

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• Author has written three previous novels.

• Book will appeal strongly to female-identifying readers over 50.

• An excellent book club read.

MARKETING PLAN

• ARC review copies and press releases to all applicable online and print publications including magazines, bloggers, digital book influencers, television, and radio.

• Book release announcement on website and newsletter as well as all social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

• Dedicated podcast episode featuring interview and readings, available through Apple Podcasts.

• Submit to all eligible awards.

• Ads in all applicable publications.

• Home-town book celebration and participation in NeWest season launch in Edmonton. Virtual events where applicable.

MARKETS

• National trade: fiction

• US and UK trade: fiction

COMPARISON TITLES

• Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie (9781487004613, House of Anansi, 2019)

• Ellen in Pieces by Caroline Adderson (9781443426787, HarperCollins, 2015)

• Half Life by Krista Foss (9780771036491, McClelland & Stewart,

2021)

“A beautifully crafted work, Rose Addams features vivid characters facing real-world problems in a narrative that reads like a thriller. I had a hard time putting this one down.”

—Ken McGoogan, author of Fatal Passage and Lady Franklin’s Revenge

Hold Your Tongue

by Matthew Tétreault

Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news.

Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions of Métis history and secrets of his family’s past, Richard confronts his desires to leave town, even as he learns to embrace his heritage.

Evoking an oral storytelling epic that weaves together one family’s complex history, Hold Your Tongue asks what it means to be Métis and francophone. Recalling the work of Katherena Vermette and Joshua Whitehead, Matthew Tétreault’s debut novel shines with a poignant but playful character-driven meditation on the struggles of holding onto “la langue,” and marks the emergence of an important new voice.

Trade Paperback / May 1, 2023

isbn 10: 1-77439-071-X isbn 13: 978-1-77439-071-9

BISAC 1: FIC 019000

BISAC 2: FIC 059000

BISAC 3: FIC 066000

320 pp / 6 x 9 / $22.95 CDN $17.95 USD

About The Author

Matthew Tétreault is French-Métis from the Ste. Anne area of Manitoba. He is the author of What Happened on the Bloodvein (Pemmican Publications, 2015), a collection of short stories. He recently completed a PhD in Métis literature and literary history in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He lived in Edmonton for 7 years. He currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with his wife, daughter, in-laws, and his old cat, Major Tom. Hold Your Tongue is his first novel.

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• Important addition to stories of Métis history and identity.

• Of interest to anyone who speaks and reads Michif and the French-Canadian langauge.

• Debut novel author of considerable talent.

MARKETING PLAN

• ARC review copies and press releases to all applicable online and print publications including magazines, bloggers, digital book influencers, television, and radio.

• Book release announcement on website and newsletter as well as all social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

• Dedicated podcast episode featuring interview and readings, available through Apple Podcasts.

• Submit to all eligible awards.

• Ads in all applicable publications.

• Home-town book celebration and participation in NeWest season launch in Edmonton. Virtual events where applicable.

MARKETS

• National trade: fiction

• US and UK trade: fiction

COMPARISON TITLES

• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (9781551527253, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)

• The Strangers by Katherena Vermette (9780735239630, Penguin, 2022)

Oldman’s River

by Sid Marty

Sid Marty is a voice to be reckoned with.

Beloved for his intimate, lyrical poetry, Marty’s depiction of selfhood, connection to place and to landscape have proven him a unique and dissenting voice in Canadian literature as well as a consistent presence in the Canadian environmental movement. These are poems, often strongly resonant of western speech, that celebrate all the vicissitudes of rural life, the loves and losses, the valleys and peaks of life on the prairies, foothills and in the mountains of Alberta and British Columbia.

This first-ever collected works brings together old and new poems, published and unpublished works, in a celebration of the career and artistry of a Western Canadian icon.

Trade Paperback / May 15, 2023

isbn 10: 1-77439-073-6

isbn 13: 978-1-77439-073-3

BISAC 1: POE 011000

BISAC 2: POE 023020

BISAC 3: 023040

320 pp / 6 x 9 / $44.95 CDN $40.95 USD

About The Author

Sid Marty is a poet, author and musician based near the communities of Pincher Creek and the Crowsnest Pass. He is the author of five books of poetry and five nonfiction works. Though best known as a nonfiction author, he began his career as a poet. His first book, Headwaters (1973) was published to widespread national acclaim. Over the years, he has continued to publish poems in books, school texts, anthologies and magazines. The culmination of all that dedication to the “crafte so longe to lerne” is this collection of poems both published and new.

ADDITIONAL SALES POINTS

• First ever available collected works by Sid Marty.

• Author is a beloved voice of the Canadian West.

• Applicable to university and high school English classes in Canadian poetry.

MARKETING PLAN

• ARC review copies and press releases to all applicable online and print publications including magazines, bloggers, digital book influencers, television, and radio.

• Book release announcement on website and newsletter as well as all social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

• Dedicated podcast episode featuring interview and readings, available through Apple Podcasts.

• Submit to all eligible awards.

• Ads in all applicable publications.

• Home-town book celebration and participation in NeWest season launch in Edmonton. Virtual events where applicable.

MARKETS

• National trade: poetry

• US and UK trade: poetry

COMPARISON TITLES

• The Collected Works of Pat Lowther edited by Christine Wiesenthal (9781897126615, NeWest Press, 2010)

• The Rider with Good Hands by Sid Marty (9781897181454, Frontenac House, 2010)

“Sharp and clean as a glacier ridge.”

—William French, Globe and Mail

Ezra’s Ghosts

by Darcy Tamayose

Finalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writer’s Trust Award for Fiction!

Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra’s Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us.

Trade Paperback / May 2022 isbn 13: 978-1-77439-047-4

288 pp / $20.95

Burning the Night

by Glen Huser

Winner of the 2022 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Award!

Timeless and essential, Burning the Night spans across generations and distance, traversing from Vancouver to Halifax, as it bears down on the history of Canadian painting and awakening as a gay man.

Trade Paperback / May 2021

ISBN 13: 978-1-77439-011-5

272 pp / $19.95 CDN $14.95 USD

Coconut

by Nisha Patel

Winner of the 2022 BPAA Award for Book Design!

Coconut rises fiercely like the sun. Nisha Patel’s work questions and challenges propriety and what it means to be a good woman, secondgeneration immigrant, daughter, consumer, and lover.

Trade Paperback / April 2021 isbn 13: 978-177439-023-8 108 pp / $19.95 CDN

The Cine Star Salon

by Leah Ranada

Gold Medal Winner at the 2022 IPPY Awards!

Leah Ranada’s debut novel is a graphic and engaging depiction of the importance of women’s work and the loyalties that connect friends across oceans. The Cine Star Salon marks the entry of a vital new voice in Canadian literature.

Trade Paperback / October 2021 ISBN 13: 978-177439-032-0 336 pp / 5.5 x 8.5 / $21.95 CDN $17.95 USD

Last Tide

by Andy Zuliani

Bronze Medal Winner at the 2022 IPPY Awards!

Ana and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity, making way for more gentrification.

Trade Paperback / October 2021

ISBN 13: 978-177439-034-4

240 pp / $21.95 CDN $17.95 USD

A Brief View from the Coastal Suite

by Karen Hofmann

Silver Medal Winner at the 2022 IPPY Awards!

The reunited Lund siblings, separated as children by Social Services, find that family, whether held together by blood or by choice, can be both a curse and a blessing, an obstacle and a point of connection.

Trade Paperback / April 2021 isbn 13: 978-177439-017-7

312 pp / 6 x 9 / $21.95 CDN $16.95 USD320

There Are Wolves Here Too

by Niall Howell

It’s 1997, and Robin and his two best friends, Steph and Dylan, are ready to dive into their first summer as teenagers. But when Catherine, a classmate’s younger sister, disappears, Robin finds his carefree life of mall arcades, soccer, and slasher movies swapped out for one of paranoia, guilt, and confusion.

Trade Paperback / Sept. 1, 2022

ISBN 13: 978-1-77439- 059-7 291 pp / 6” x 9” / $23.95 cdn $18.95 usd

Five Moves of Doom

by A.J. Devlin

Five Moves of Doom is a highaltitude and high-attitude entry in A.J. Devlin’s award-winning mystery series, one that finds its hero pushed to his absolute limit, relying on his closest allies to survive, and making choices he never thought he’d have to make.

Trade Paperback / Sept. 15, 2022 ISBN 13: 978-177439- 055-9 236 pp / 5” x 8” / $22.95 cdn $17.95 usd

Ghosts in a Photograph

by Myrna Kostash

In Ghosts in a Photograph, awardwinning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century.

Trade Paperback / Oct. 1, 2022

ISBN 13: 978-177439- 057-3 246 pp / 6” x 9” / $24.95 cdn $19.95 usd

How to Hold a Pebble

by Jaspreet Singh

How do we scale up our imagination of the human? How does one live one’s life in the Anthropocene?

How to Hold a Pebble locates humans in the Anthropocene, while also warning against the danger of a single story.

Trade Paperback / Oct. 15, 2022 ISBN 13: 978-177439-53-5 95 pp / 6” x 9” / $20.95 cdn $16.95 usd

Tracking the

Caribou Queen

by Margaret Macpherson

In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the ’60s and ’70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by the colonialism and systemic racism that continues today.

Trade Paperback / Oct. 15, 2022 ISBN 13: 978-1-77439- 061- 0 236 pp / 6” x 9” / $24.95 cdn $19.95 usd

The Broken Places

by Frances Peck

When things begin to fall apart, who will you become?

Frances Peck’s debut novel examines the unpredictable ways in which disaster can shake up lives and test personal resilience.

Trade Paperback / April 1, 2022 isbn 13: 978-177439- 045- 0 400 pp / 6 x 9 / $ 24.95 cdn $20.95 usd

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