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The Extraordinary Event of Pia H. by Nicola Vulpe ISBN 9780981018607 Novella Series 128 pages $18.95 CAD
MIC CHECK: An Anthology of Canadian Spoken Word Poetry Edited by David Silverberg ISBN 9780978280659 94 Pages $16.95 CAD Wit in Love by Sky Gilbert ISBN 9780978280666 120 pages $16.95 CAD
This Is How I Love You by Barbara Landry ISBN 9780978280697 FirstPoetry Series 80 pages The Hawk by Rob Rolfe ISBN 9780978280673 FirstPoetry Series 80 pages
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Looking at Renaissance Paintings and Other Poems by Caroline Morgan DiGiovanni ISBN 9780978280680 FirstPoetry Series 80 pages $15.95 CAD Garden Variety Edited by Lily Contento ISBN 9780978280642 90 pages $16.95 CAD
The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist by Michael Wex ISBN 9780978280628 90 pages $16.95 CAD
Jack Illingworth Executive Director Literary Press Group of Canada 192 Spadina Avenue, Suite 501 Toronto ON M5T 2C2 jack@lpg.ca 416-483-1321 x 1
MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN, THE LAKEHEAD and LIBRARIES Lisa Pearce 566 Montrose St. Winnipeg, MB R3M 3N1 Tel: (204) 489-4409 Fax: (204) 487-4036
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS Petra Morin 501-192 Spadina Avenue Toronto, ON M5T 2C2 Tel: 416-483-1321 ext. 3 Fax: (416) 483-2510
TORONTO, SOUTHWESTERN and NORTHERN ONTARIO Kayleigh Rosien 501-192 Spadina Avenue Toronto, ON M5T 2C2 Tel: 416-483-1321 ext. 4
BRITISH COLUMBIA, ALBERTA, and the TERRITORIES Nadine Boyd 274 East 5th St. North Vancouver, BC V7L 1L7 Tel: (778) 338-4745 Fax: (778) 338-4746
EASTERN ONTARIO, QUEBEC and the ATLANTIC PROVINCES Jacques Filippi 117 rue Dumouchel Chateauguay, QC J6J 3E8 Tel/Fax: (450) 716-1321
My Etruscan Face By Gianna Patriarca ISBN 9780978280635 90 pages $16.95 CAD
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The Cousin
Ten Thousand Miles Between Us
by John Calabro
ISBN # 978-0-9810186-3-8 128 pages
$16.95
October 2009
The Cousin is an extraordinary journey that evolves from going somewhere, in this case Sicily, to ending up somewhere else, in this case, inside the body of a transvestite named Simone. The Cousin deals as much with memory, violence and sexuality as it does with family, self and culture. John Calabro’s novella, Bellecour, published in 2005 by Guernica Editions, was named by The Globe and Mail's First Fiction reviewer as one of the top 5 books in that category for 2005. LyricalMyrical Press published, in a chapbook, his collection of short stories, Somewhere Else, in 2006. His short stories and essays have appeared in Italian Canadiana, Strange Peregrination, and More Sweet Lemons. The Cousin is his second novella. “[Bellecour] is a small masterwork of erotic candour and psychological acuity." -The Globe and Mail
Harbour View
ISBN # 978-0-9810186-7-6
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” For its part, the book, Ten Thousand Miles Between Us, is a collection of poems about the love affair with movement. From the wide open Canadian prairies to the claustrophobic markets of Indonesia, Rocco de Giacomo’s poems explore the relationship between the delight of the exotic and the frightening sense of the other that exists in the heart of the modern-day traveller. Rocco de Giacomo is a widely published poet whose work has most recently been accepted in the literary journals Vallum and The Carolina Quarterly and has appeared in The Antigonish Review and Tower Poetry. His fifth and latest chapbook collection of poems, Catching Dawn’s Breath (LyricalMyrical Press, Toronto) was launched in March of 2008. He has also been a regular contributor of personal essays to Toro Magazine. Rocco is a member of the council for the Art Bar Poetry Series and a member of the bpNichol Coordinating Committee.
Evidence by Binnie Brennan
Binnie Brennan lives in Halifax, where she plays the viola with Symphony Nova Scotia, a position she has held since 1989. Music studies took her to Queen’s University and the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. Binnie’s short stories have appeared in Existere, The Adirondack Review, Glossolalia, and All Rights Reserved; and in 2007 her children’s story “A Spider’s Tale” was adapted for the stage featuring Symphony Nova Scotia. Binnie is an alumna of the Humber School for Writers; Harbour View is her first novella.
128 pages
$16.95
80 pages
$16.95
October 2009
In Of All the Ways To Die, by Brenda Niskala, Urma holds a pot luck for the people she has lost from her life. The invitation attracts the attention of loved ones, acquaintances and a few famous faces, including a bog mummy, St. Anthony, a Cree grandmother, and an eccentric prairie shipbuilder. Is it possible they can help her find Eileen,the missing teenager? Of course, everyone brings a dish, their favourite recipes, and their stories – how they lived and yes, how they died. Brenda Niskala is a poet, fiction writer and currently the Executive Director for the Saskatchewan Publishers Group. She has two chapbooks, What Butterflies Do at Night (2005, BPrint Editions) and Emma’s Horizon (2000, Hagpapers), one coauthored collection, Open 24 Hours (1997, Broken Jaw Press), and a book of poetry, Ambergris Moon (1983, Thistledown Press). She has taught Creative Writing for the University of Regina Extension Department, and Sage Hill Writing Experience.
October 2009
Tactility morphing into thought, thought into memory, memory calcifying into language: such are the ‘in-between’ states explored in Evidence. Resembling core samples of conscious experiences, these a-temporal, fragmentary poems explore memory, spatiality and the mechanics of thinking. In this unsteadily shifting landscape, a productive tension between hyperlucid recollection and total atomization is everywhere in evidence. Samuel Andreyev is a poet and composer. From 1997 to 2003 he was the editor of The Expert Press, a Toronto-based small press, focusing on innovative Canadian poetry. His writing has appeared in many small magazines and he has had four chapbooks published, including Weight (2006, BookThug.) He is currently living in Paris, but expects to return to Canada permanently in 2009.
Recent Backlist ~ Spring 2009 Titles
Of All the Ways To Die by Brenda Niskala ISBN # 978-0-9810186-6-9
by Samuel Andreyev
ISBN # 978-0-9810186-8-3
ISBN # 978-0-9810186-4-5 128 pages $16.95 October 2009 Harbour View is the story of six people whose lives intersect in a nursing home overlooking Halifax Harbour. Memories draw the residents, staff, and family members from rich and diverse pasts to a present filled with grace and poignancy. Threaded with music and connected by themes of dislocation, family legend, and longing, Harbour View offers a glimpse of the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.
80 pages
by Rocco de Giacomo $16.95 October 2009
A River at Night by Paul Zemokhol ISBN 9780981018614 80 pages $15.95
A Pleasant Vertigo by Egidio Coccimiglio ISBN 9780981018652 72 pages $14.95
The Cousin
Ten Thousand Miles Between Us
by John Calabro
ISBN # 978-0-9810186-3-8 128 pages
$16.95
October 2009
The Cousin is an extraordinary journey that evolves from going somewhere, in this case Sicily, to ending up somewhere else, in this case, inside the body of a transvestite named Simone. The Cousin deals as much with memory, violence and sexuality as it does with family, self and culture. John Calabro’s novella, Bellecour, published in 2005 by Guernica Editions, was named by The Globe and Mail's First Fiction reviewer as one of the top 5 books in that category for 2005. LyricalMyrical Press published, in a chapbook, his collection of short stories, Somewhere Else, in 2006. His short stories and essays have appeared in Italian Canadiana, Strange Peregrination, and More Sweet Lemons. The Cousin is his second novella. “[Bellecour] is a small masterwork of erotic candour and psychological acuity." -The Globe and Mail
Harbour View
ISBN # 978-0-9810186-7-6
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” For its part, the book, Ten Thousand Miles Between Us, is a collection of poems about the love affair with movement. From the wide open Canadian prairies to the claustrophobic markets of Indonesia, Rocco de Giacomo’s poems explore the relationship between the delight of the exotic and the frightening sense of the other that exists in the heart of the modern-day traveller. Rocco de Giacomo is a widely published poet whose work has most recently been accepted in the literary journals Vallum and The Carolina Quarterly and has appeared in The Antigonish Review and Tower Poetry. His fifth and latest chapbook collection of poems, Catching Dawn’s Breath (LyricalMyrical Press, Toronto) was launched in March of 2008. He has also been a regular contributor of personal essays to Toro Magazine. Rocco is a member of the council for the Art Bar Poetry Series and a member of the bpNichol Coordinating Committee.
Evidence by Binnie Brennan
Binnie Brennan lives in Halifax, where she plays the viola with Symphony Nova Scotia, a position she has held since 1989. Music studies took her to Queen’s University and the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. Binnie’s short stories have appeared in Existere, The Adirondack Review, Glossolalia, and All Rights Reserved; and in 2007 her children’s story “A Spider’s Tale” was adapted for the stage featuring Symphony Nova Scotia. Binnie is an alumna of the Humber School for Writers; Harbour View is her first novella.
128 pages
$16.95
80 pages
$16.95
October 2009
In Of All the Ways To Die, by Brenda Niskala, Urma holds a pot luck for the people she has lost from her life. The invitation attracts the attention of loved ones, acquaintances and a few famous faces, including a bog mummy, St. Anthony, a Cree grandmother, and an eccentric prairie shipbuilder. Is it possible they can help her find Eileen,the missing teenager? Of course, everyone brings a dish, their favourite recipes, and their stories – how they lived and yes, how they died. Brenda Niskala is a poet, fiction writer and currently the Executive Director for the Saskatchewan Publishers Group. She has two chapbooks, What Butterflies Do at Night (2005, BPrint Editions) and Emma’s Horizon (2000, Hagpapers), one coauthored collection, Open 24 Hours (1997, Broken Jaw Press), and a book of poetry, Ambergris Moon (1983, Thistledown Press). She has taught Creative Writing for the University of Regina Extension Department, and Sage Hill Writing Experience.
October 2009
Tactility morphing into thought, thought into memory, memory calcifying into language: such are the ‘in-between’ states explored in Evidence. Resembling core samples of conscious experiences, these a-temporal, fragmentary poems explore memory, spatiality and the mechanics of thinking. In this unsteadily shifting landscape, a productive tension between hyperlucid recollection and total atomization is everywhere in evidence. Samuel Andreyev is a poet and composer. From 1997 to 2003 he was the editor of The Expert Press, a Toronto-based small press, focusing on innovative Canadian poetry. His writing has appeared in many small magazines and he has had four chapbooks published, including Weight (2006, BookThug.) He is currently living in Paris, but expects to return to Canada permanently in 2009.
Recent Backlist ~ Spring 2009 Titles
Of All the Ways To Die by Brenda Niskala ISBN # 978-0-9810186-6-9
by Samuel Andreyev
ISBN # 978-0-9810186-8-3
ISBN # 978-0-9810186-4-5 128 pages $16.95 October 2009 Harbour View is the story of six people whose lives intersect in a nursing home overlooking Halifax Harbour. Memories draw the residents, staff, and family members from rich and diverse pasts to a present filled with grace and poignancy. Threaded with music and connected by themes of dislocation, family legend, and longing, Harbour View offers a glimpse of the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.
80 pages
by Rocco de Giacomo $16.95 October 2009
A River at Night by Paul Zemokhol ISBN 9780981018614 80 pages $15.95
A Pleasant Vertigo by Egidio Coccimiglio ISBN 9780981018652 72 pages $14.95
BACK LIST
CANADIAN DISTRIBUTION
The Extraordinary Event of Pia H. by Nicola Vulpe ISBN 9780981018607 Novella Series 128 pages $18.95 CAD
MIC CHECK: An Anthology of Canadian Spoken Word Poetry Edited by David Silverberg ISBN 9780978280659 94 Pages $16.95 CAD Wit in Love by Sky Gilbert ISBN 9780978280666 120 pages $16.95 CAD
This Is How I Love You by Barbara Landry ISBN 9780978280697 FirstPoetry Series 80 pages The Hawk by Rob Rolfe ISBN 9780978280673 FirstPoetry Series 80 pages
LitDistCo c/o Fraser Direct at 100 Armstrong Avenue Georgetown, ON L7G 5S4 Ph: 1.800.591.6250 Fax: 1.800.591.6251 Email: orders@litdistco.ca Terms: 40% discount for trade accounts. Returns: Books may be returned for credit from three months after the invoice date until 12 months of the invoice date, provided they are in saleable condition and free of retailer’s stickers. Early returns are permissible for event stock. Literary Press Group 501-192 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5T 2C2 Ph: 416.483.1321 To place an order, please contact the Literary Press Group sales representative for your region:
$15.95 CAD
$15.95 CAD
Looking at Renaissance Paintings and Other Poems by Caroline Morgan DiGiovanni ISBN 9780978280680 FirstPoetry Series 80 pages $15.95 CAD Garden Variety Edited by Lily Contento ISBN 9780978280642 90 pages $16.95 CAD
The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist by Michael Wex ISBN 9780978280628 90 pages $16.95 CAD
Jack Illingworth Executive Director Literary Press Group of Canada 192 Spadina Avenue, Suite 501 Toronto ON M5T 2C2 jack@lpg.ca 416-483-1321 x 1
MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN, THE LAKEHEAD and LIBRARIES Lisa Pearce 566 Montrose St. Winnipeg, MB R3M 3N1 Tel: (204) 489-4409 Fax: (204) 487-4036
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS Petra Morin 501-192 Spadina Avenue Toronto, ON M5T 2C2 Tel: 416-483-1321 ext. 3 Fax: (416) 483-2510
TORONTO, SOUTHWESTERN and NORTHERN ONTARIO Kayleigh Rosien 501-192 Spadina Avenue Toronto, ON M5T 2C2 Tel: 416-483-1321 ext. 4
BRITISH COLUMBIA, ALBERTA, and the TERRITORIES Nadine Boyd 274 East 5th St. North Vancouver, BC V7L 1L7 Tel: (778) 338-4745 Fax: (778) 338-4746
EASTERN ONTARIO, QUEBEC and the ATLANTIC PROVINCES Jacques Filippi 117 rue Dumouchel Chateauguay, QC J6J 3E8 Tel/Fax: (450) 716-1321
My Etruscan Face By Gianna Patriarca ISBN 9780978280635 90 pages $16.95 CAD
of the literary novella §
FALL 2009 Quattro Books presents a borderless, post-national literature, unafraid of breaking the taboos surrounding origin; we are interested in powerful, meaningful writing regardless of its linguistic, cultural or national background, and in the process contributing to a community that embodies the multiplicity, excitement, and future directions of contemporary Canada.
Room Tone by Gale Zoë Garnett ISBN 9780978280611 84 pages $16.95 CAD Interstellar by Allan Briesmaster ISBN 9780978280604 90 pages $16.95 CAD
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