The Cousin
Harbour View
A Pleasant Vertigo
by John Calabro ISBN 9780981018638 NovellaSeries 144 pages
by Binnie Brennan ISBN 9780981018645 NovellaSeries 108 pages $16.95
by Egidio Coccimiglio ISBN 9780981018652 NovellaSeries 72 pages $14.95
Ten Thousand Miles Between Us
Evidence
$16.95
Of All The Ways To Die by Brenda Niskala ISBN 9780981018669 NovellaSeries 114 pages
$16.95
A River At Night by Paul Zemokhol ISBN 9780981018614 FirstPoetrySeries 80 pages $16.95
by Rocco de Giacomo ISBN 9780981018676 PoetrySeries 84 pages $16.95
The Extraordinary Event of Pia H.
by Samuel Andreyev ISBN 9780981018683 PoetrySeries 84 pages
$16.95
Looking at Renaissance Paintings and Other Poems
by Nicola Vulpe ISBN 9780981018607 NovellaSeries 128 pages $18.95
by Caroline Morgan DiGiovanni ISBN 9780978280680
This Is How I Love You
The Hawk
by Barbara Landry ISBN 9780978280697
Wit in Love
by Rob Rolfe ISBN 9780978280673
FirstPoetrySeries 80 pages $15.95
by Sky Gilbert ISBN 9780978280666
FirstPoetrySeries 80 pages $15.95
NovellaSeries 120 pages
MIC CHECK: An Anthology
Garden Variety
of Canadian Spoken Word Poetry
The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist
Edited by David Silverberg ISBN 9780978280659
by Michael Wex ISBN 9780978280628
PoetrySeries 94 Pages
$16.95
$16.95
Room Tone
My Etruscan Face $16.95
NovellaSeries 84 pages
$16.95
Edited by Lily Contento ISBN 9780978280642
PoetrySeries 90 pages
$16.95
Interstellar
by Gale Zoë Garnett ISBN 9780978280611
By Gianna Patriarca ISBN 9780978280635
PoetrySeries 90 pages
NovellaSeries 90 pages
FirstPoetrySeries 80 pages $15.95
by Allan Briesmaster ISBN 9780978280604
$16.95
PoetrySeries 90 pages
$16.95
Home of the literary novella
CANADIAN DISTRIBUTION 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:
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.
JACK ILLINGWORTH Executive Director Literary Press Group of Canada 192 Spadina Avenue, Suite 501 Toronto ON M5T 2C2 jack@lpg.ca or ewan@lpg.ca 416-483-1321 x 1
MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN, THE LAKEHEAD and LIBRARIES Lisa Pearce (lpearce@lpg.ca) 566 Montrose St. Winnipeg, MB R3M 3N1 Tel: (204) 489-4409 Fax: (204) 487-4036
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS Petra Morin (pmorin@lpg.c) 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 (krosien@lpg.ca) 501-192 Spadina Avenue Toronto, ON M5T 2C2 Tel: 416-483-1321 ext. 4
BRITISH COLUMBIA, ALBERTA, and the TERRITORIES Nadine Boyd (nboyd@lpg.ca) 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 (jfilipi@lpg.ca) 117 rue Dumouchel Chateauguay, QC J6J 3E8 Tel/Fax: (450) 716-1321
SPRING 2010 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.
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Real Gone
The Sylvia Hotel Poems
by Jim Christy
by George Fetherling
ISBN # 99781926802015 NOVELLA SERIES 132 pages $16.95 May 2010
ISBN # 9780981018690 POETRY SERIES 60 pages $14.95 March 2010
Real Gone turns the myth of the Sixties on its head. The protagonist may be a peripatetic young man on an intense search but he knows that the gaff is in. There are sex and drugs, of course, and politics, even a little rock and roll. There is also Rhythm and Blues, and jail and murder; some famous people have walk-on parts but they are no match for a wild assortment of obscure rounders, radicals and roustabouts. Set in 1967-1968, the novella records the very moment that an empire reached its peak and started its decline.
Vancouver’s venerable Sylvia Hotel, famed haunt of artists, writers, and lovers, provides the setting for this series of deeply personal reflections on unrequited love. Eloquent and aphoristic, worldly-wise in tone, and laden with feeling, every one of these masterful poems will speak to, and for, all who have lived “close to the lip of ecstasy and despair” and “cannot / wash the truth out of themselves.” Melancholy, forbearing, wistful, and irrepressibly witty, The Sylvia Hotel Poems is a sustained triumph of style, of character, and of human understanding.
Like the protagonist of Real Gone, Jim Christy grew up in Philadelphia, led a knockabout life in the United States which included carnivals, hoboing, and professional boxing, was involved in radical politics and moved to Canada in 1968. As well as being a writer, he is also a widely exhibited visual artist and has recorded CDs of poetry and music and performed in various countries. Recent books include the novel The Redemption of Anna Dupree (2004) and the nonfiction book Scalawags (Anvil Press, 2008).
Good Evening, Central Laundromat
by Jason Heroux
ISBN # 9781926802046 NOVELLA SERIES 96 pages $16.95 May 2010 What if your best friend’s ghost was still hanging around town? What if your girlfriend mysteriously lost her voice and didn’t seem to care? What if a strangely independent pigeon started following you wherever you went? These are the questions plaguing Cameron Delco as he struggles to get to the bottom of a bizarre mystery that begins with a fortune-teller in a late night Laundromat and ends somewhere inside a dusty lint trap. A book where the present moment is like a dream and the distant past feels like an unfinished work-in-progress, Good Evening, Central Laundromat is about learning how to separate the lights from the darks in life, death, and laundry. Jason Heroux is the author of two poetry collections, Memoirs of an Alias and Emergency Hallelujah. His work has appeared in chapbooks, anthologies and magazines in Canada, the U.S., Belgium, France, and Italy. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
A Gardener on the Moon
by Carole Giangrande
ISBN # 9781926802053 NOVELLA SERIES 128 pages $16.95 May 2010 Overwhelmed by his wife’s illness and swamped with memories of being a prisoner of war, Pierre LeBlanc retreats into a hasty affair and recalls the breakup of his youthful relationship with Lorraine. Meanwhile, his daughter Danielle struggles to claim her dad’s abandoned language and her American roots. Danielle’s prodding draws Pierre into an encounter with Lorraine which helps him confront the unspoken sorrows and regrets of his life. Set in Montreal during the crisis of 1970, this novella evokes the traumas and heartbreak of time present and time past with exquisite lyricism and passionate energy. Carole Giangrande is the author of An Ordinary Star and A Forest Burning (novels), Missing Persons (short stories), and two non-fiction books. She worked for many years as a broadcast journalist for CBC Radio. Her essays have been anthologized and her fiction, articles and reviews have appeared in Grain, New Quarterly, Descant, Canadian Forum, Matrix, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and Books in Canada. She now hosts Words to Go, a podcast for writers and readers.
George Fetherling lives in Vancouver, near the Sylvia Hotel, after having been based in Toronto – which he still visits frequently – for many years. He has been publishing poetry since the mid 1960s. He is also a novelist, memoirist, cultural commentator and visual artist. Among his many books are Travels by Night, The Dreams of Ancient Peoples, Madagascar: Poems & Translations, and the forthcoming Walt Whitman’s Secret.
Sew Him Up
by Beatriz Hausner
ISBN # 9781926802022 POETRY SERIES 80 pages $16.95 May 2010 No other Canadian writer is as thoroughly conversant with the fertile tradition of surrealism as Beatriz Hausner. She bestows the imaginative energy and erotic power behind this abundantly creative way of seeing on every poem in Sew Him Up: stitching together intelligent invention and free-flowing intuition in one charged, open-ended packet after another. What was domesticated breaks its shackles and runs wild; devotion to friends and family remodels a ferocious tenderness. Beatriz Hausner lives in Toronto. She is a literary translator of some renown, with more than twenty works of literature published to date. She was President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada, as well as one of the founders of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. She is recognized for her tireless advocacy in the of international literature in English translation. She has a previous poetry collection, The Wardrobe Mistress, as well as several chapbooks of poetry.
Psychic Geographies
by Gregory Betts
ISBN # 9781926802008 POETRY SERIES 80 pages $16.95 May 2010 Psychic Geographies is a tour de force, an ambitious exploration of the age, its physical and emotional permutations, its tragic contradictions, its joyful transformations. Gregory Betts takes a construct from the Situationists of the last Century as a means of exploring the language and rhetoric of the contemporary global moment as symptomatic of stasis and psychosis. How he does this is what sets Psychic Geographies apart, what makes this a book without precedent in Canadian letters. Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, essayist, and teacher originally from Vancouver and Toronto. He is the author of If Language, Haikube, The Others Raisd in Me, as well as eight chapbooks and numerous bits of ephemera. He has edited editions of poetry by W.W. E. Ross, Raymond Knister, and Lawren Harris, and recently finished a critical edition of selected stories, essays, and manifestos by Bertram Brooker, Canada's first avant-gardist. He is the co-editor of PRECIPICe literary magazine, and curates the Grey Borders Reading Series in St Catharines.
Real Gone
The Sylvia Hotel Poems
by Jim Christy
by George Fetherling
ISBN # 99781926802015 NOVELLA SERIES 132 pages $16.95 May 2010
ISBN # 9780981018690 POETRY SERIES 60 pages $14.95 March 2010
Real Gone turns the myth of the Sixties on its head. The protagonist may be a peripatetic young man on an intense search but he knows that the gaff is in. There are sex and drugs, of course, and politics, even a little rock and roll. There is also Rhythm and Blues, and jail and murder; some famous people have walk-on parts but they are no match for a wild assortment of obscure rounders, radicals and roustabouts. Set in 1967-1968, the novella records the very moment that an empire reached its peak and started its decline.
Vancouver’s venerable Sylvia Hotel, famed haunt of artists, writers, and lovers, provides the setting for this series of deeply personal reflections on unrequited love. Eloquent and aphoristic, worldly-wise in tone, and laden with feeling, every one of these masterful poems will speak to, and for, all who have lived “close to the lip of ecstasy and despair” and “cannot / wash the truth out of themselves.” Melancholy, forbearing, wistful, and irrepressibly witty, The Sylvia Hotel Poems is a sustained triumph of style, of character, and of human understanding.
Like the protagonist of Real Gone, Jim Christy grew up in Philadelphia, led a knockabout life in the United States which included carnivals, hoboing, and professional boxing, was involved in radical politics and moved to Canada in 1968. As well as being a writer, he is also a widely exhibited visual artist and has recorded CDs of poetry and music and performed in various countries. Recent books include the novel The Redemption of Anna Dupree (2004) and the nonfiction book Scalawags (Anvil Press, 2008).
Good Evening, Central Laundromat
by Jason Heroux
ISBN # 9781926802046 NOVELLA SERIES 96 pages $16.95 May 2010 What if your best friend’s ghost was still hanging around town? What if your girlfriend mysteriously lost her voice and didn’t seem to care? What if a strangely independent pigeon started following you wherever you went? These are the questions plaguing Cameron Delco as he struggles to get to the bottom of a bizarre mystery that begins with a fortune-teller in a late night Laundromat and ends somewhere inside a dusty lint trap. A book where the present moment is like a dream and the distant past feels like an unfinished work-in-progress, Good Evening, Central Laundromat is about learning how to separate the lights from the darks in life, death, and laundry. Jason Heroux is the author of two poetry collections, Memoirs of an Alias and Emergency Hallelujah. His work has appeared in chapbooks, anthologies and magazines in Canada, the U.S., Belgium, France, and Italy. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
A Gardener on the Moon
by Carole Giangrande
ISBN # 9781926802053 NOVELLA SERIES 128 pages $16.95 May 2010 Overwhelmed by his wife’s illness and swamped with memories of being a prisoner of war, Pierre LeBlanc retreats into a hasty affair and recalls the breakup of his youthful relationship with Lorraine. Meanwhile, his daughter Danielle struggles to claim her dad’s abandoned language and her American roots. Danielle’s prodding draws Pierre into an encounter with Lorraine which helps him confront the unspoken sorrows and regrets of his life. Set in Montreal during the crisis of 1970, this novella evokes the traumas and heartbreak of time present and time past with exquisite lyricism and passionate energy. Carole Giangrande is the author of An Ordinary Star and A Forest Burning (novels), Missing Persons (short stories), and two non-fiction books. She worked for many years as a broadcast journalist for CBC Radio. Her essays have been anthologized and her fiction, articles and reviews have appeared in Grain, New Quarterly, Descant, Canadian Forum, Matrix, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and Books in Canada. She now hosts Words to Go, a podcast for writers and readers.
George Fetherling lives in Vancouver, near the Sylvia Hotel, after having been based in Toronto – which he still visits frequently – for many years. He has been publishing poetry since the mid 1960s. He is also a novelist, memoirist, cultural commentator and visual artist. Among his many books are Travels by Night, The Dreams of Ancient Peoples, Madagascar: Poems & Translations, and the forthcoming Walt Whitman’s Secret.
Sew Him Up
by Beatriz Hausner
ISBN # 9781926802022 POETRY SERIES 80 pages $16.95 May 2010 No other Canadian writer is as thoroughly conversant with the fertile tradition of surrealism as Beatriz Hausner. She bestows the imaginative energy and erotic power behind this abundantly creative way of seeing on every poem in Sew Him Up: stitching together intelligent invention and free-flowing intuition in one charged, open-ended packet after another. What was domesticated breaks its shackles and runs wild; devotion to friends and family remodels a ferocious tenderness. Beatriz Hausner lives in Toronto. She is a literary translator of some renown, with more than twenty works of literature published to date. She was President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada, as well as one of the founders of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. She is recognized for her tireless advocacy in the of international literature in English translation. She has a previous poetry collection, The Wardrobe Mistress, as well as several chapbooks of poetry.
Psychic Geographies
by Gregory Betts
ISBN # 9781926802008 POETRY SERIES 80 pages $16.95 May 2010 Psychic Geographies is a tour de force, an ambitious exploration of the age, its physical and emotional permutations, its tragic contradictions, its joyful transformations. Gregory Betts takes a construct from the Situationists of the last Century as a means of exploring the language and rhetoric of the contemporary global moment as symptomatic of stasis and psychosis. How he does this is what sets Psychic Geographies apart, what makes this a book without precedent in Canadian letters. Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, essayist, and teacher originally from Vancouver and Toronto. He is the author of If Language, Haikube, The Others Raisd in Me, as well as eight chapbooks and numerous bits of ephemera. He has edited editions of poetry by W.W. E. Ross, Raymond Knister, and Lawren Harris, and recently finished a critical edition of selected stories, essays, and manifestos by Bertram Brooker, Canada's first avant-gardist. He is the co-editor of PRECIPICe literary magazine, and curates the Grey Borders Reading Series in St Catharines.
The Cousin
Harbour View
A Pleasant Vertigo
by John Calabro ISBN 9780981018638 NovellaSeries 144 pages
by Binnie Brennan ISBN 9780981018645 NovellaSeries 108 pages $16.95
by Egidio Coccimiglio ISBN 9780981018652 NovellaSeries 72 pages $14.95
Ten Thousand Miles Between Us
Evidence
$16.95
Of All The Ways To Die by Brenda Niskala ISBN 9780981018669 NovellaSeries 114 pages
$16.95
A River At Night by Paul Zemokhol ISBN 9780981018614 FirstPoetrySeries 80 pages $16.95
by Rocco de Giacomo ISBN 9780981018676 PoetrySeries 84 pages $16.95
The Extraordinary Event of Pia H.
by Samuel Andreyev ISBN 9780981018683 PoetrySeries 84 pages
$16.95
Looking at Renaissance Paintings and Other Poems
by Nicola Vulpe ISBN 9780981018607 NovellaSeries 128 pages $18.95
by Caroline Morgan DiGiovanni ISBN 9780978280680
This Is How I Love You
The Hawk
by Barbara Landry ISBN 9780978280697
Wit in Love
by Rob Rolfe ISBN 9780978280673
FirstPoetrySeries 80 pages $15.95
by Sky Gilbert ISBN 9780978280666
FirstPoetrySeries 80 pages $15.95
NovellaSeries 120 pages
MIC CHECK: An Anthology
Garden Variety
of Canadian Spoken Word Poetry
The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist
Edited by David Silverberg ISBN 9780978280659
by Michael Wex ISBN 9780978280628
PoetrySeries 94 Pages
$16.95
$16.95
Room Tone
My Etruscan Face $16.95
NovellaSeries 84 pages
$16.95
Edited by Lily Contento ISBN 9780978280642
PoetrySeries 90 pages
$16.95
Interstellar
by Gale Zoë Garnett ISBN 9780978280611
By Gianna Patriarca ISBN 9780978280635
PoetrySeries 90 pages
NovellaSeries 90 pages
FirstPoetrySeries 80 pages $15.95
by Allan Briesmaster ISBN 9780978280604
$16.95
PoetrySeries 90 pages
$16.95
Home of the literary novella
CANADIAN DISTRIBUTION 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:
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.
JACK ILLINGWORTH Executive Director Literary Press Group of Canada 192 Spadina Avenue, Suite 501 Toronto ON M5T 2C2 jack@lpg.ca or ewan@lpg.ca 416-483-1321 x 1
MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN, THE LAKEHEAD and LIBRARIES Lisa Pearce (lpearce@lpg.ca) 566 Montrose St. Winnipeg, MB R3M 3N1 Tel: (204) 489-4409 Fax: (204) 487-4036
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS Petra Morin (pmorin@lpg.c) 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 (krosien@lpg.ca) 501-192 Spadina Avenue Toronto, ON M5T 2C2 Tel: 416-483-1321 ext. 4
BRITISH COLUMBIA, ALBERTA, and the TERRITORIES Nadine Boyd (nboyd@lpg.ca) 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 (jfilipi@lpg.ca) 117 rue Dumouchel Chateauguay, QC J6J 3E8 Tel/Fax: (450) 716-1321
SPRING 2010 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.
www.quattrobooks.ca
quattrobooks@yahoo.ca