Talonbooks Fall 2013 Catalogue by Talonbooks

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Talonbooks Awards and Prizes, Recent Highlights 2013 BC Book Prize: Colin Browne, The Properties (Finalist)

2012

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New Releases Recent Releases Selected ebooks Published to Date Sales Representation, Ordering, and Trade Terms

BC Book Prize: Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages (Finalist) Lambda Literary Award: Jane Rule, Taking My Life (Finalist)

2011 BC Book Prize: Ken Belford, Decompositions (Finalist) BC Book Prize: George Bowering, My Darling Nellie Grey (Finalist) BC Book Prize: Stephen Collis, On the Material (Winner) Alcuin Book Design Award: Stan Douglas, ed., Vancouver Anthology (Honourable Mention) Governor General’s Award, Poetry: Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages (Finalist) Lambda Literary Award: Bryden MacDonald, With Bated Breath (Finalist) Robert Merritt Legacy Award: Wendy Lill (Winner) W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize: derek beaulieu, How to Write (Finalist) W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize: Weyman Chan, hypoderm (Finalist)

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2010 BC Book Prize: Fred Wah, is a door (Winner) George Ryga Award: Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (Finalist)

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Governor General’s Award, Translation: Michel Tremblay, The Blue Notebook, translated by Sheila Fischman (Finalist)

All information in this catalogue is subject to change without notice.

Carol Bolt Award for Drama: Joan MacLeod, Another Home Invasion (Finalist)

2009 Acorn-Plantos Award: Weyman Chan, Noise from the Laundry (Finalist) Ann Saddlemyer Award: Sherrill Grace, Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock (Winner) Governor General’s Award, Drama: Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (Winner) Governor General’s Award, Drama: Joan MacLeod, Another Home Invasion (Finalist) Governor General’s Award, Translation: Thierry Hentsch, Empire of Desire, translated by Fred A. Reed (Finalist) Governor General’s Award, Translation: Stéphane Bourguignon, A Slight Case of Fatigue, translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott (Finalist) Jessie Richardson Award, Outstanding Original Script: Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (Winner)

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, and the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit for our publishing activities.

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Modern Canadian Plays Volume Two, Fifth Edition

e d i t e d b y j e r ry wa s s e r m a n Modern Canadian Plays is the core text for university-level Canadian drama courses around the world. Now in its fifth edition, with the previous edition published in 2002, the two-volume Modern Canadian Plays drama series anthologizes major Canadian plays written and performed since 1967. The second volume presents a range of exciting Canadian plays from the late 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. These plays respond directly or indirectly to the events of our time; work effectively on the stage, on the page, and in the classroom; and are contextualized with accompanying history, biography, and criticism.

Professor of English and theatre at the University of British Columbia, Jerry Wasserman has written and lectured widely on Canadian drama. His books include Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France, Theatre and AutoBiography (with Sherrill Grace), and Twenty Years at Play, all published by Talonbooks. He has more than two hundred professional acting credits on stage and screen, and has reviewed more than fifteen hundred plays for CBC Radio, the Province newspaper, and his website, Vancouverplays.com. Wasserman has received the Killam Teaching Prize (1998), the Dorothy Somerset Award (2005), and the Sam Payne Award (2012), honouring a lifetime of achievement in the performing arts.

Polygraph (1988) by Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard 7 Stories (1989) by Morris Panych Never Swim Alone (1991) by Daniel MacIvor The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (1995) by Wendy Lill Counter Offence (1996) by Rahul Varma Problem Child (1997) by George F. Walker Harlem Duet (1997) by Djanet Sears Street of Blood (1998) by Ronnie Burkett The Shape of a Girl (2001) by Joan MacLeod Tempting Providence (2002) by Robert Chafe Scorched (2003) by Wajdi Mouawad The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil (2005) by Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Camyar Chai Age of Arousal (2007) by Linda Griﬃths BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience (2007) by Theatre Replacement The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story (2010) by Marie Clements Kim’s Convenience (2011) by Ins Choi Praise for Jerry Wasserman’s Modern Canadian Plays, Fourth Edition: “The anthology of choice for most courses ... both Jerry Wasserman and Talonbooks continue to expand, update, and broaden the representational range of the standard teaching anthology in the field. One can only look forward to the fifth edition, and all those to follow.” – Ric Knowles, Canadian Literature

Jerry Wasserman’s Modern Canadian Plays, Volumes One and Two, Fourth Edition; Spectacle of Empire; Theatre and AutoBiography (with Sherrill Grace); and Twenty Years at Play are also available from Talonbooks.

ISBN 978-0-88922-679-1 Drama (anthology) 6.75 × 9.75; 560 pp; Trade paper; Photos $49.95 CAD / $49.95 USD August

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Wigrum daniel canty Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei

Daniel Canty is a Montreal-based writer and film director who works in literature, film, and new media. Canty was a member of the pioneering multimedia studio DNA Media, in Vancouver, and directed the inaugural issues of Horizon Zero, the Banff New Media Institute’s web space on the digital arts in Canada. Canty’s first book, Êtres Artificiels (Liber, 1997), is a history of automata in American literature. From 2002 to 2005, he co-directed the poetry magazine C’est Selon. He has contributed to three award-winning collaborative books: Cité selon (2006), on the city; La Table des Matières (2007), on eating; and Le Livre de Chevet (2009), on sleeping. Canty directed Antipodes, a short film on painter Rafael Sottolichio, as well as two experimental shorts, Méduse and Hôtel de la Mer. In fall 2013, he will shoot the short film Cinéma des Aveugles (Cinema for the Blind). Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet, translator, and editor whose poetry collections include We, Beasts (winner of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry) and feria: a poempark. She has translated the work of Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu and Quebecois writer Louise Cotnoir.

ISBN 978-0-88922-778-1 Fiction 6 × 9; 200 pp; Trade paper; Illustrations $14.95 CAD / $14.95 USD October

It’s October 1944. During a brief respite from the aerial bombardment of London, Sebastian Wigrum absconds from his small flat and disappears into the fog for a walk in the Unreal City. This is our first and only encounter with the enigmatic man we come to discover decades later through more than one hundred everyday objects he has left behind. Wigrum’s bequest is a meticulously catalogued collection of the profoundly ordinary: a camera, some loose teeth, candies and keys, soap, bits of string, hazelnuts, and a handkerchief. Moving through the inventory artifact to artifact, story to story, we become immersed in a dreamlike narrative bricolage determined as much by the objects’ museological presentation as by the tender and idiosyncratic mania of Wigrum’s impulse to collect them. With its traces of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Georges Perec, Daniel Canty’s graphically arresting Wigrum explores the limits of the postmodern novel. Having absorbed the logic of lists and the principles of classification systems, the Wigrumian narrative teeters on the boundary between fact and fiction, on the uncertain edge of the real and the unreal. Readers venturing into Sebastian Wigrum’s cabinet of curiosities must abide only the following maxim: If I can believe all the stories I am told, so can you. Grafika Grand Prize Winner (Typography), 2012 “This is a new novel genre. An inventory! … The inventory is a list of more or less fantastic objects – sometimes computer-based, electronic, historical, or purely useless – but each finds its place in this collection for one reason or another. In the last part of the book, Daniel Canty mixes fact and fiction, deconstructing our vain attempts to discover the truth. Unique and very exciting!” – Shannon Desbiens, Les Bouquinistes “In Wigrum, the reader should expect plenty of humour and a very special cabinet of curiosities. This most original work is difficult to characterize as a novel. Rather, it takes a truly literary approach that will satisfy the curious reader.” – Mélanie Robert, Voir

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The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage ludovic fouquet Translated by Rhonda Mullins

Ludovic Fouquet is a visual artist, actor, teacher, director, and founder of the multimedia theatre company songes mécaniques (Mechanical Dreams) in Blois, France. After training as an actor and dancer, Fouquet earned his PhD studying Robert Lepage’s artistic practice and its relationship to technology. Fouquet edited La trilogie des dragons (The Dragons’ Trilogy, L’instant meme, 2005), and developed a photographic monograph of this work. In addition to frequent speaking engagements at French universities, Fouquet contributes regularly to numerous theatre and contemporary art magazines, including Cahiers de Théâtre, JEU, ETC Montréal, and theatre-contemporain.net. Fouquet divides his time between France and Quebec. Rhonda Mullins is a French-to-English translator, writer, and editor. As a literary translator, she has translated a number of works of non-fiction and was a finalist for the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation for The Decline of the Hollywood Empire by Hervé Fischer. Mullins holds an MA in media studies from Concordia University, as well as a BA in communications and a BSc in political science from the University of Ottawa. She has studied and taught translation at McGill University.

ISBN 978-0-88922-774-3 Non-fiction: Theatre; Stagecraft 6 × 9.75; 384 pp; Trade paper; Colour photos $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD November

For more than three decades, Robert Lepage’s dynamic multimedia performance works have been produced on stages worldwide. Celebrated for his bold, visionary aesthetic, Lepage has received several high-profile commissions in recent years, including two Peter Gabriel world tours, Cirque du Soleil’s KÁ in Las Vegas, a dramatic staging of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Lorin Maazel’s 1984 at London’s Royal Opera House. Despite Lepage’s prolificacy, and his status as one of the pioneers of new media performance, little critical writing about his work has been published, particularly in English. Ludovic Fouquet’s The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage, translated for the first time into English, thus presents much-needed in-depth analysis of Lepage’s strategies and practices. The book’s title references the experimentation so integral to Lepage’s creative process and the ways in which he and his creative arts company, Ex Machina, have always been attuned to the synergistic possibilities that emerge when art encounters science and technology. Whether as a playwright, actor, film director, or stage director, Lepage is forever in search of new mutations of form and expression, and his unexpected narratives often write themselves out of discoveries he makes when staging a piece – indeed stagecraft often guides story in Lepage’s creative realm. This full-colour volume will be of keen interest for theatre practitioners of all kinds, from set designers to directors, from academics to fans. “Ludovic Fouquet, in addition to being an avid spectator at many of Robert Lepage’s shows in Quebec and Europe, has been a privileged witness to the working sessions of the prolific playwright and attended many hours of rehearsal during research for this book.” – Louise Vigeant, JEU: revue de théâtre “In illuminating Lepage’s methods of creation (where the text often appears only at the end of a process of collective improvisation), [Fouquet] explores the wealth of the playwright’s work as well as his occasional failures.” – Marie Labrecque, author of Une longue, longue marche

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Rogue Cells Carbon Harbour garry thomas morse

Garry Thomas Morse has had two books of poetry published by LINEbooks, Transversals for Orpheus (2006) and Streams (2007); two collections of fiction, Death in Vancouver (2009) and Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus (2012), published by Talonbooks; and two books of poetry published by Talonbooks, After Jack (2010) and Discovery Passages (2011). Discovery Passages was a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and was voted One of the Top Ten Poetry Collections of 2011 by the Globe and Mail and One of the Best Ten Aboriginal Books from the past decade by the CBC’s 8th Fire. Morse’s work is regularly published in literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, and studied at post-secondary institutions, including the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Morse is the recipient of the 2008 City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist and has twice been selected as runner-up for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.

In Rogue Cells, Oober Mann emerges from his cryobed on high alert in New Haudenosaunee, a nation at war with the mysterious territory Nutella during a critical election year. Citizens here live in dread of celebrities who carry out terrorist actions in defence of their own fundamentalist belief systems, including Stratford-upon-Avonists, whose guerrilla conﬂicts stem from slight variations of Shakespearian texts; Drumhellerists, whose discovery of some dinosaur bones results in a polygamous sect; and Chaos!tologists whose divine teachings are to be found in an obscure book with questionable authorship. Mixed up in an assassination plot being investigated by ISM (Insurgent Saddo Management) and DNA-specialist cops, Mann begins to wonder about the nature of reality and even about the new woman in his life, a femme fatale known only as the Librarian. It is the Age of Aquarium in the speculative “green” dystopia of Carbon Harbour. Omni-magnate Cornelius Quartz is overseeing the merger between Bildung Endustries and Foreign Objects, but is distracted by an imminent double wedding for himself and his daughter; by the loss of his best promoter and lover to his rival, Zirconium Bluff; and by working conditions in the rehashing core and on wind pharms for hardlucks who harvest bio-material to produce architecture, clothing, and other swag for a luxury class of hardcore gamers (they pay for “pollution fantasies” with carbon credits on extended getaways to Putridworld). Threats to these halcyon days include a new religion publicized by Minor and his daughter Diminuenda that is “Old Testamentstyle,” Mr. Goo’s long-awaited release of the “MeMeMe” device, an interstellar pipeline project, the proliferation of aquacukes and giant composting worms that are rapidly running out of garbage, a word virus cultivated by the last carbon-based poet, and the controversial awarding of the Ignoble Prize. Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour resumes The Chaos! Quincunx novel series. “A vision of life with the liminal and the interstitial excised; our lives if we lived inside the current media representation of our lives ... hilarious and bizarre ... In Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour, Garry Thomas Morse has created something new, and we should celebrate it.” – subTerrain

ISBN 978-0-88922-776-7 Fiction 5.5 × 8.5; 448 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD September

Garry Thomas Morse’s After Jack, Death in Vancouver, Discovery Passages, and Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus are also available from Talonbooks.

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My TWP Plays A Collection from a Unique Canadian Theatre

jack winter Foreword by Bruce Barton

Jack Winter has taught literature, modern theatre, and creative writing at several Canadian and British universities, including York University and Bristol University. From 1961 to 1967, he was resident playwright at George Luscombe’s Toronto Workshop Productions, where he wrote seven stage plays. In a second tenure with TWP, he wrote five more. Winter has published five books of poetry as well as a literary memoir, The Tallis Bag (Oberon Press, 2012), and a second anthology of plays, Party Day and Other Plays (Starburst, forthcoming 2014). His poems, plays, fiction, and feature articles have been published internationally in magazines and newspapers, including Performing Arts in Canada, Theatre Research in Canada, The Guardian, Canadian Theatre Review, and Canadian Literature. His many literary awards include the Toronto Telegram Theatre Award for Best New Canadian Play, the Canadian Film Award for Best Documentary Film, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject.

My TWP Plays presents five important plays written by Jack Winter while he was resident playwright at Toronto Workshop Productions, one of the first great troupes of the experimental and alternative theatre movement. The carnivalesque style of the selected works in this anthology reflects the turbulence, contradictions, and subversion of the social revolution during which they were written and first produced, as well as the cultural politics at a time when Canadian artists were investigating new, noncolonial, and distinctly Canadian forms of expression that would define the nation and challenge received artistic styles and practices. Extensive notes by the playwright and a foreword by the director and dramaturge Bruce Barton (University of Toronto) illuminate an important twodecade period in the evolution of contemporary Canadian theatre, while providing glimpses of the artistic conditions, the cultural environment, and the personal circumstances within which the works were created. Before Compiègne (1963) wildly imagines Joan of Arc’s final days. The Mechanic (1964) and its experiments in form and staging offer a contemporary take on Molière and the commedia dell’arte. The Death of Woyzeck (1965) dismantles, reconstructs, and rewrites Georg Büchner’s famous fragmentary original of 1837. Ten Lost Years (1974) presents a highly theatricalized full-length dramatization of Barry Broadfoot’s collected interviews with Canadian survivors of the Great Depression. You Can’t Get Here from There (1975) examines Canada’s involvement in the 1973 death of ousted Chilean president Salvador Allende. “A really excellent addition to our understanding of the birth of our modern Canadian theatre.” – Peter McKinnon Professor of Theatre, York University

ISBN 978-0-88922-784-2 Drama (anthology) 6 × 9; 320 pp; Trade paper $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD November

“A long overdue missing piece in Canada’s theatrical history.” – Stephen Johnson Director, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto

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And Slowly Beauty michel nadeau Translated by Maureen Labonté

Michel Nadeau is an actor, director, and playwright who has long been active in Quebec arts and culture. Since 1987, he has served as artistic director at Quebec City’s Théâtre Niveau Parking, and has been writer-in-residence at Théâtre du Trident, where he directed, among others, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba. Nadeau has been a professor at Quebec’s national theatre and music school since 1986, where he teaches improvisation, dramatic movement, mask work, and commedia dell’arte. Maureen Labonté is a dramaturge, translator, and teacher. She has also coordinated a number of play development programs in theatres across Canada, including Quebec’s Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD) and Playwrights Workshop Montreal. From 2009 to 2012, she served as jury chair for the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Labonté has been the co-director of the Banff Playwrights’ Colony since 2008, and has been on faculty since 2003, when she began as resident dramaturge. In 2005, she was named program head.

ISBN 978-0-88922-786-6 Drama 5.5 × 8.5; 144 pp; Trade paper $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD October

Everything changes on what begins as a typical day in the life of the aptly named Mr. Mann, a forty-eight-year-old, buttoned-down, middlemanagement type in a pinstriped grey suit, who feels himself losing touch with his job, his wife, his children, and the rest of his urban life. He wins tickets to a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters and realizes that the mid-life cocoon he has spun around himself is beginning to unwind. And Slowly Beauty, first performed in French in 2003, was created collaboratively by Michel Nadeau and colleagues from his Quebec troupe, Théâtre Niveau Parking. With the intensity of an electric current striking a reflecting pool, Nadeau shows us how Chekhov’s century-old drama about the yearning of three sisters in a dreary provincial town directly addresses Mann’s own stifled existence and liberates him from his self-imposed “gulag.” Mann returns to see Three Sisters a second time, finding that its themes of beauty and poetry lost to the monotony of everyday existence mirror many aspects of his own existence. At the same time, Mann’s dying friend realizes that he is for the first time able to appreciate the astonishing beauty of trees outside his window. The irony of such a deathbed admission is not lost on Mr. Mann. With Chekhov’s characters and themes coming to inhabit the protagonist’s mind and life, emphasized by the repeated image of geese flying overhead – these birds do not question the purpose of their journey but find it sufficient to fly in unison – And Slowly Beauty speaks eloquently to the power of art to transform lives. Cast of 3 women and 3 men. “And Slowly Beauty is a complex, infinitely rich play … The script’s virtuoso ability to balance humour and drama is particularly fine.” – Victoria Times Colonist “And Slowly Beauty is no simple kitchen-sink drama. There is much laughter in unexpected places and some deftly directed movements that quicken the interplay of action and ideas. Like Mr. Mann at the theatre, ‘we were transported’.” – Globe and Mail

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The (Post) Mistress t o m s o n h i g h w ay

Tomson Highway was born in 1951 near Maria Lake, Manitoba. He earned a music degree in 1975 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976, both from the University of Western Ontario. For six years, Highway served as artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts, Canada’s first and most enduring Native professional theatre company, which he also helped found. From 1975 to 1978, he worked for the Native Peoples’ Resource Centre. He has worked for the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture and also as a program analyst for the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres. From 1983 to 1985, he was a freelance theatre artist before becoming the artistic director of the De-ba-jehmu-jig Theatre Company in 1986. He has been writer-inresidence at the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, and Concordia University. Tomson Highway is widely recognized for the tremendous contribution he has made to the development of Aboriginal theatre in both Canada and around the world. In 1994, he was inducted into the Order of Canada, the first Aboriginal writer to be so honoured.

ISBN 978-0-88922-780-4 Drama 5.5 × 8.5; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD September

Canada’s most famous Aboriginal playwright, Tomson Highway, sets his latest theatrical achievement, The (Post) Mistress, in a not-so-distant past, when sending letters through the mail was still vital to communicating with friends and loved ones, and the small-town post office was often the only connection to faraway places longed-for or imagined. Born and raised in Lovely, Ontario, a small French-Canadian farming village near Lake Huron, Marie-Louise Painchaud has never had occasion to venture much farther than the nearest community – Complexity, a copper-mining town and a somewhat larger dot on the map of the Georgia Bay area. For thirty years, Marie-Louise has worked at the local post office, and, through the many letters she sorts when they arrive and the ones that she stamps before they go out, she has come to know the lives of everyone in town and vicariously experience their various loves, losses, and personal dramas. In this one-woman musical tour de force, Marie-Louise confides in us the interwoven stories sealed in the envelopes she handles every day. A samba beat offers the soundtrack for the tale of a local woman’s passionate but doomed affair with a man from Rio de Janeiro; a rhythmic tango plays as Marie-Louise divulges a friend’s steamy tryst in Argentina. All together, twelve unique musical pieces, ranging from Berlin cabaret to French café chanson to smooth bossa nova, accompany a multilingual French, Cree, and English libretto. In The (Post) Mistress, Tomson Highway creates not only a rural comedy but also a sublime parody of small-town life – the northern Ontario version of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town or Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Cast of 1 woman. “Jazzy, raw, heartfelt.”

– Walleye

Tomson Highway’s Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout and Rose are also available from Talonbooks.

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Ali & Ali The Deportation Hearings

c a m ya r c h a i , g u i l l e r m o v e r d e cc h i a & marcus youssef

Camyar Chai has worked in theatre and film for more than twenty years and is the founder of Vancouver’s acclaimed Neworld Theatre. He has worked as a freelance actor, director, and writer as well as an arts educator. Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama, fiction, and film; a director, dramaturge, actor, and translator whose work has been seen and heard on stages, screens, and radios across Canada and around the globe. He is a recipient of the 1993 Governor General’s Award for Drama, for Fronteras Americanas. Writer and performer Marcus Youssef is the associate artistic producer at Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre. A graduate of both the National Theatre School of Canada and the University of British Columbia, Youssef is a regular contributor of drama, commentary, and documentary to programs on the CBC network and for numerous publications, including Vancouver Magazine, the Georgia Straight, Ricepaper, and This Magazine.

In this sequel to the hilarious and hard-hitting The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, the agitprop collaborative team of Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Marcus Youssef turns its idiosyncratic brand of political satire to new global realities. Following the election of U.S. president Barack Obama in 2008, collective optimism for a more tolerant, peaceful, and co-operative postBush world spreads to Canada – and to the backroom of Salim’s Falafel Shoppe in Toronto. There, Ali Hakim and Ali Ababwa, refugee entertainers from the ﬁctitious, war-torn country of Agraba, are inspired to write a stage play in celebration of the new president’s message of “hope and change.” The premiere of their Yo Mama, Osbama! (or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Half-Black President) halts abruptly when an RCMP constable arrives at the theatre and arrests the pair for its ﬁnancial ties to the Agrabanian People’s Front, an alleged “terrorist organization” on the Canadian government’s watch list. Continuity becomes more apparent than change when Ali and Ali are swiftly put on trial. As the hapless playwrights try to defend themselves in the farcical deportation hearing that unfolds, racial and cultural stereotypes are invoked – and lampooned – as quickly as dubious evidence is presented. But, in the midst of the biting comedy, more serious questions are raised about the cost for some when we endeavour to protect the “freedoms” of others. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men. “Razor-sharp timing in a play loaded with controversy … funny and disturbing, all at the same time. It looks at both sides of the terrorism issue, from the point of view of the government and from the point of view of the accused, and both are deeply troubling.” – Globe and Mail

Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Marcus Youssef’s The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil is also available from Talonbooks.

ISBN 978-0-88922-782-8 Drama 5.5 × 8.5; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD October

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The Vestiges jeff derksen

Jeff Derksen is a founding member of Vancouver’s writerrun centre, the Kootenay School of Writing, and has worked as an editor of Writing magazine. As an editor, Derksen also organized “Disgust and Overdetermination: a poetics issue,” for Open Letter and “Poetry and the Long Neoliberal Moment” for West Coast Line. His poetry and critical writing on art, urbanism, and text have been published in Europe and North America, including in the anthologies East of Main and Verse: Postmodern Poetry and Language Writing. His Down Time won the 1991 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and a selection from Dwell – “Host Nation, Host Society” – was nominated for inclusion in the anthology The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North American Poetry: 1993. Formerly a research fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York, Derksen currently teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. He also collaborates on visual art and research projects (focusing on urban issues) with the research collective Urban Subjects.

Based on the experience of city life, The Vestiges moves across the uneven geography of the present, linking historical moments when quarters of cities were squatted, when social change boiled and the future was up for grabs. In the context of our precarious present, the poem “The Vestiges,” around which the book is built, “sets out to explore / what happens / to humans when they are reduced / to things by other humans.” In asking this question, “The Vestiges” is a long poem engaged with modernist poems that move from the particularities of everyday life to enduring and unanswered political and cultural questions. Covering a wide terrain of research, the other serial poems in the book mine various texts, from the Craigslist “auto parts” section to Jane Jacobs, from Marx to Marcuse, and from historical accounts of cities to contemporary realestate promotions, in order to build up an eclectic atlas of this unstable moment. In terms of contemporary poetics, The Vestiges enters into dialogue with modernism, conceptual writing, and post-conceptual art. Praise for Jeff Derksen: “Derksen’s poetry works at the level of the sentence: each one perfectly clear, with a subtle ironic twang, but together forming a text of unsettling perspicacity, one in the reading of which we become aware of a new social relation, where the productive reader, no longer just the passive consumer of romantic lyrics, participates in the contestation of meanings and utopian possibilities.” – Globe and Mail Praise for Jeff Derksen’s Transnational Muscle Cars: “Globalism and nationalism, as well as sexuality, culture, and class identity, are depicted as links in a chain of products and correspondences … It’s an idiom that has already been influential on other writers, such as Kevin Davies, Rodrigo Toscano, and Tim Davis, who are creating bridges between radical constructivism and a vaudevillian social platform. But even for first-timers, this book is accessible in themes, comfortably paced, and motored by an anti-heroic punk sensibility.” – Publishers Weekly

Jeff Derksen’s Annihilated Time, Down Time, Dwell, and Transnational Muscle Cars are also available from Talonbooks.

ISBN 978-0-88922-794-1 Poetry 5.375 × 8; 128 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD August

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The Place of Scraps jordan abel

Jordan Abel is a First Nations writer who lives in Vancouver. He holds a BA from the University of Alberta and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Abel is an editor for Poetry Is Dead magazine and the former poetry editor for PRISM international. His work has been published in many journals and magazines across Canada, including CV2, Capilano Review, Prairie Fire, dANDelion, Geist, ARC Poetry Magazine, Descant, Broken Pencil, OCW Magazine, filling Station, Grain, and Canadian Literature. In early 2013, above/ground Press published his chapbook Scientia.

The Place of Scraps revolves around Marius Barbeau, an early-twentiethcentury ethnographer, who studied many of the First Nations cultures in the Paciﬁc Northwest, including Jordan Abel’s ancestral Nisga’a Nation. Barbeau, in keeping with the popular thinking of the time, believed First Nations cultures were about to disappear completely, and that it was up to him to preserve what was left of these dying cultures while he could. Unfortunately, his methods of preserving First Nations cultures included purchasing totem poles and potlatch items from struggling communities in order to sell them to museums. While Barbeau strove to protect First Nations cultures from vanishing, he ended up playing an active role in dismantling the very same cultures he tried to save. Drawing inspiration from Barbeau’s canonical book Totem Poles, Jordan Abel explores the complicated relationship between First Nations cultures and ethnography. His poems simultaneously illuminate Barbeau’s intentions and navigate the repercussions of the anthropologist’s actions. Through the use of erasure techniques, Abel carves out new understandings of Barbeau’s writing – each layer reveals a fresh perspective, each word takes on a different connotation, each letter plays a different role, and each punctuation mark rises to the surface in an unexpected way. As Abel writes his way ever deeper into Barbeau’s words, he begins to understand that he is much more connected to Barbeau than he originally suspected. “With his breakout collection of visual poetry, Jordan Abel conjures the near impossible: a heartbreaking history lesson, both personal and public, mixed with lyricism, intelligence, humour, and cold-eyed facts. This narrative of the misguided, good-hearted Marius Barbeau and what he did with First Nations cultural icons will be a revelation for many. What Abel takes from language is what gives it form and strength: a more apt use of plunder verse I cannot imagine.” – Carolyn Smart

ISBN 978-0-88922-788-0 Poetry 6 × 9; 288 pp; Trade paper; Illustrations $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD August

“A brave, creative, perceptive text that operates by breaking, exposing, and inverting the assumptions of poetry and place, piece by piece. This is art of the concept, used to unmake language so that language may live.” – Wayde Compton

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Internodes ken belford

Ken Belford was born to a farming family in Alberta and grew up in Vancouver. An early advocate for the ecology movement, Belford homesteaded with his wife and daughter in northwestern British Columbia in the 1960s. For more than thirty years, they operated a soft-paths eco-tourism business in the headwaters of the Nass and Skeena Rivers. The “self-educated lan(d)guage” poet has said that living for decades in the “back country” has afforded him a unique relationship to language that rejects the colonial impulse to write about nature, but attempts to write from nature and our relationship to the land. Currently living in Prince George, British Columbia, Belford continues to write outside the boundaries of the conventional forms espoused by what he calls the “tribal schools” of poetry. His seven previous books of poetry include Fireweed, The Post Electric Caveman, Pathways into the Mountains, lan(d)guage, when snakes awaken, ecologue, and Decompositions, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

ISBN 978-0-88922-792-7 Poetry 5 × 8; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD August

Moving with nomadic grace across the terrain of his previous book, Decompositions, the poetic language of Ken Belford in Internodes shares similar roots, traversing decades at the speed of a search query – pressing onward through Hazelton, the Bulkley Valley, and the unroaded headwaters of the Nass River in the Damdochax Valley – and meanwhile coming to terms with a poetry that “is lived” on the rugged streets of Prince George. In this twenty-first-century evolution, and one may say “mutation,” of Marshall McLuhan’s oft-repeated adage that “the medium is the message,” Belford’s text takes into account the nature of viral marketing and the impact of similar forms of social “trending” on our lives and our language, challenging linearity and order in favour of a work that may be read forward or backward or experienced with an abrupt sense of intimacy, in media res. Whether reflecting upon the internodal segment that is a vital part of a nerve cell; upon the relationship between the nodes and internodes of a plant stem; or upon the internode merely as an interstice of jargon amid connections we forge through high-speed telecommunication and wireless networks, the text invites the reader to make an informed decision before inviting others to “Like,” to “Favourite,” or to otherwise invest their social currency in Internodes. In addition to perceiving the poem as the “means of transmission” over time, Belford’s poetic lines welcome readership as a form of collaborative action and agency in an age of crowdsourcing and flash mobs – and also as a form of ongoing social process that is sensitive to the life and demise of many of the decision trees that ultimately nourish our wavering notions of the future. Praise for Ken Belford’s Decompositions: “What a daring and necessary enterprise – to write one’s life in terms of the land and its ongoingness. Breaking down the borders between discourses and processes, we glimpse an astonishing interchangeability, the mingling and blending of a human life with the life of the land, the two going on in concert. A new story arising from the old ones.” – The Goose

Ken Belford’s Decompositions is also available from Talonbooks.

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Singed Wings lola lemire tostevin

Lola Lemire Tostevin is a bilingual Canadian writer who works mainly in English. She is the author of three novels, six collections of poetry, numerous pieces of short fiction, a collection of essays, as well as works of literary criticism. She has also translated the work of writers such as Anne Hébert, Nicole Brossard, Paule Thévenin, and Claude Beausoleil into English and Michael Ondaatje’s Elimination Dance into French. Her novel Frog Moon was translated into French and her collection of poetry ’sophie was translated into Italian. Her most recent novel, The Other Sister, was published in the fall of 2008. Tostevin is contributing editor of Open Letter, a Canadian journal of writing and theory. She guest-edited the 2007 summer edition of Open Letter, with the theme of mistaken identity.

Working for decades in English and French in poetry, novels, and translations that investigate the relationship between language and female subjectivity, Lola Lemire Tostevin has hewn her own unique and intensely aesthetic path across the national literary landscape, earning her the reputation as one of Canada’s leading feminist writers. Tostevin’s latest offering of poetry emerges from her deep-seated interest in the creativity of women who face advanced age and its ailments. Through study of exhibitions in galleries and museums, ﬁlms and dance performances, and voluminous “bodies” of text, it became clear to Tostevin that aging not only serves women’s creativity but also reinforces it, revealing many forms of strength in vulnerability. Singed Wings invites the reader to peer into the interior world of Camille Claudel, whose intimate understanding of her subjects, from young girl to old woman, captured quite a different power than that of her lover, sculptor Auguste Rodin. Although Claudel was not able to fully realize her creative process into old age, many others did, including Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Betty Goodwin, Pina Bausch, and Agnès Varda, and it is in direct response to the vital creativity of these women that the poet ﬁnds the inspiration and determination to move her own art forward. Spurred on by these groundbreaking precedents that displace the narcissistic, “shopworn” notion of the ideal woman described only in terms of desired female form, Tostevin allocates space where a writer facing her own aging process can use the experience to give it new shapes in language, positing that reimagining the various creative forms of women into language is a postmodern undertaking in an artistic milieu where postmodernism may turn out to have as many heads as the mythical Hydra. “Lola Lemire Tostevin is an incisive, intelligent, and sharply observant writer.” – Quarry

Lola Lemire Tostevin’s Cartouches is also available from Talonbooks.

ISBN 978-0-88922-790-3 Poetry 6 × 9; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD September

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They Called Me Number One Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

bev sellars

In the ﬁrst full-length memoir to be published out of St. Joseph’s Mission at Williams Lake, British Columbia, Xat’sūll chief Bev Sellars tells of three generations of women who attended the school, interweaving the personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own. She tells of hunger, forced labour, and physical beatings, and also of the demand for conformity in a culturally alien institution where children were conﬁned and denigrated for failure to be White and Roman Catholic. Sellars breaks her silence about the institution’s lasting effects and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.

ISBN 978-0-88922-741-5 Non-fiction: Autobiography; Native studies 5.5 × 8.5; 256 pp; Trade paper; Photos $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

“An essential part of the healing process.”

– Tomson Highway

“With honesty, courage, and hope, Bev Sellars teaches, touches, and challenges us all – elected leaders and citizens alike. Idle No More, Canada ... This country has work to do!” – Dr. Marie Wilson Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada “Chief Sellars bravely adds her voice to the burgeoning chorus of stories about residential schools and their powerful effects on family life, community wellness, and self-image. That she has been able to carefully articulate such a deeply personal and painful story is a testament to her courage and determination.” − Chief Phil Fontaine former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations

“Candidly and with brilliant clarity, Bev Sellars draws us deeply into her life while pointing a penetrating light into the darkest shadows of Canada’s racist and genocidal Indian residential schools. In her telling, survivors and the families of those who did not make it will feel their own stories.” – Grand Chief Edward John United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

After Completion

Liquidities

The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff

Vancouver Poems Then and Now

daphne marlatt charles olson & frances boldereff Edited by Sharon Thesen & Ralph Maud Charles Olson had many correspondents over the years, but Frances Boldereff, a book designer and typographer, James Joyce scholar, and single working mother, embodied a dynamic complexity of interlocutor, muse, Sybil, lover, critic, and amanuensis. After Completion opens in September 1950, following a crisis that amounted to a “completion” of the ﬁrst major phase of their relationship. In the 140 letters exchanged over the subsequent nineteen years, we witness a passionate relationship realized mostly in correspondence – one that was ultimately vital to Olson’s working out of his projectivist poetics. ISBN 978-0-88922-706-4 Non-fiction: Biography and autobiography 6 × 9; 256 pp; Trade paper; Photos $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now gathers many of the poems from Daphne Marlatt’s 1972 Vancouver Poems, somewhat revised or in some cases substantially revised, and follows them with “Liquidities,” a series of recent poems about Vancouver’s incessant deconstruction and reconstruction, its quick transformations both on the ground and in urban imagining. “In this new work, Daphne Marlatt revists Vancouver Poems ... and draws us into the present, acknowledging and invoking the spirit of this place and transforming the barking of conquest and commerce into a language of rage, humility, inclusion, and love.” – Colin Browne ISBN 978-0-88922-761-3 Poetry 6 × 9.75; 96 pp; Trade paper; Photos $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

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To the Barricades

In the Dog House

stephen collis

wa n da j o h n - k e h e w i n

To the Barricades moves back and forth between historical and contemporary scenes of revolt, from nineteenth-century Parisian street barricades to twenty-ﬁrst-century occupations and street marches, shifting along the active seam between poetry and revolution. “Continuously in danger of being recouped and serialized by topic and theme, genre, and discourse, in the crosshairs of being literaturized, Collis keeps the forms of social address fluid, stealthy, street-smart, and on the run.” – Rodrigo Toscano

ISBN 978-0-88922-747-7 Poetry 5 × 8.5; 160 pp; Trade paper; Photos $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

In her ﬁrst idiom-shattering book, poet Wanda John-Kehewin combines Aboriginal oral tradition with dramatic narrative to address the effects of colonization, alcohol addiction, familial abandonment, religious authority, sexual abuse, and the pain of mourning. She admonishes humanity for its lack of conscience in poems that journey from the turmoil of the Gaza Strip to rapidly dissolving ice ﬂoes. “Playful, painful, indignant, compassionate, a new voice emerges into the realms of Canadian poetry. Wanda John-Kehewin is a smart, sharp observer, and an articulate craftswoman. Her poetry shines.” – Joanne Arnott ISBN 978-0-88922-749-1 Poetry 6.75 × 9.25; 80 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

The Monument Cycles

Coping with Emotions and Otters

mariner janes

dina del bucchia

The Monument Cycles investigates our relationship to monuments and works of public art, and how they express our desire to capture the ﬂeeting and intangible. Many of the poems in the collection speak speciﬁcally to the city of Vancouver and its Downtown Eastside, exploring the author-narrator’s experiences working in the “poorest postal code in Canada.” “The Monument Cycles makes its mark in a growing tradition of contemporary urban poetry notable for its polyvocality and elegiac exploration of the very human crises of late capitalism. This is a poetry both simple and smart, direct and oblique.” – Stephen Collis ISBN 978-0-88922-751-4 Poetry 6 × 9; 80 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Combining serial poetic technique with pop psychology how-to books, Dina Del Bucchia fashions punchy emotional guides in an age when illusory autonomy is achieved by “going viral” and through obsessive identiﬁcation with celebrities. She tracks two otters at the Vancouver Aquarium who became famous for holding hands and were ultimately viewed by millions on YouTube, prompting us to meditate upon the media frustum through which we construct emotional realities. “Coping with Emotions and Otters is subversive, sly, and hilarious … Del Bucchia deftly holds a comic mirror to our own awkward lives in this exciting, accomplished debut.” – Marita Dachsel ISBN 978-0-88922-764-4 Poetry 6 × 9; 128 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

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Kafka’s Hat

hungree throat

pa t r i c e m a r t i n

bill bissett

Translated by Chantal Bilodeau

In Patrice Martin’s ticklish tip of the hat to the writing of Franz Kafka, we follow the misadventures of a bureaucrat – aptly named “P.” – as he embarks on the illustrious task of collecting the titular headgear. “P.” expects that the accomplishment of this seemingly simple task will grant him both a professional and a personal promotion. But Martin’s eager protagonist has overlooked the systematic diﬃculty in modern bureaucracies – as well as in some of the best twentieth-century ﬁction – getting things done. “Patrice Martin’s first novel revels in the humour, witty eloquence, and intelligence of the author.” – Le Devoir ISBN 978-0-88922-743-9 Fiction 5.5 × 8.5; 144 pp; Trade paper $12.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Composed in his non-hierarchic, phonetic orthography, bill bissett’s second novel-poem, hungree throat, recounts the relationship of two men – one bold and unafraid, the other burdened by terrible memories and unable to trust. In this uplifting “novel in meditaysyun” about love, in which we witness ten years of a shared life, we are reminded of the overlapping, sometimes conﬂicting multitude of “hungers” common to us all. “His poetry addresses the limitless discussion of the boundaries between the personal and the political.” – National Post ISBN 978-0-88922-745-3 Fiction 6 × 9; 176 pp; Trade paper, Illustrations $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Blue Box

Tom at the Farm

carmen aguirre

michel marc bouchard Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Interweaving recollections of her impassioned revolutionary life in Chile with her ﬂeeting attempts to realize a “vision” of love in Los Angeles, Carmen Aguirre’s one-woman show Blue Box explores the tensions between love for the political cause and love for another. As ever, Aguirre is assertive, sexy, and wryly political, sharing the sacriﬁces of her life with humour and courage. Cast of 1 woman.

Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels to the country to attend the funeral and to meet his mother-in-law, Agatha, and her son, Francis – neither of whom know Tom even exists. Arriving at the remote rural farm, and immediately drawn into the dysfunction of the family’s relationships, Tom is blindsided by his lost partner’s legacy of deceit. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

“The play pivots on the fascinating contradictory impulses in this one person: the selfishness of sexual passion versus the selflessness of passionate revolutionary commitment. A good storyteller, Aguirre runs the full gamut of emotion.” – Vancouver Province

“Funny, harsh, tender and terrible, [Tom at the Farm] engages us in a twisted game that plays itself out in a rural setting where innocence and boiling anger collide.” – Sun (Montreal)

ISBN 978-0-88922-757-6 Drama 5.5 × 8.5; 64 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

ISBN 978-0-88922-759-0 Drama 5.5 × 8.5; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

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Leave of Absence

King of Thieves

lucia frangione

g e o rg e f . wa l k e r

A small prairie community is blown apart when fifteen-yearold Blake challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. A student at the local Catholic high school, she confides in her best friend that she feels sexually attracted to her. At first encouraged and then rebuffed, Blake is eventually bullied and betrayed. This searing drama of bigotry and transcendence challenges the fallout of the Catholic Church’s response to samesex marriage rulings in Canada. Cast of 3 women and 2 men. “Full of just as much soaring humour as gutting tragedy, with hope and beauty that rivals the terror in the dark.” – Jerry Wasserman ISBN 978-0-88922-753-8 Drama 5.5 × 8.5; 128 pp; Trade paper $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

New York City, 1928. Master-thief Mac is coerced into joining an FBI sting operation against a cadre of corrupt ﬁnanciers. Music, murder, and mayhem ensue, both at the speakeasy where criminals scheme and on Wall Street where bankers conspire. This trenchantly satirical play exposes the world of corporate crime and, like John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), which inspired it, examines criminal behaviour at all levels of society, revealing the disturbing truth that each of us can fall prey to the greed of others – and to our own. Cast of 11 women and 4 men. “Everyone is double-crossing everyone else and the bodies are hitting the floor quicker than you can say ‘alienation effect’.” – Toronto Star ISBN 978-0-88922-755-2 Drama 5.5 × 8.5; 128 pp; Trade paper $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

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Selected ebooks Published to Date

Fearless Warriors by Drew Hayden Taylor Heaven by George F. Walker Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World’s Mining Industries by Alain Deneault & William Sacher, tr. Fred A. Reed & Robin Philpot In Absentia by Morris Panych In Piazza San Domenico by Steve Galluccio Judith’s Sister by Lise Tremblay, tr. Linda Gaboriau Kafka’s Hat by Patrice Martin, tr. Chantal Bilodeau King of Thieves by George F. Walker

7 Stories by Morris Panych Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre by Larry Tremblay Against the Wind by Madeleine Gagnon, tr. Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Leave of Absence by Lucia Frangione The Madonna Painter by Michel Marc Bouchard, tr. Linda Gaboriau

All Is Flesh by Yannick Renaud, tr. Hugh Hazelton

Maleficium by Martine Desjardins, tr. Fred A. Reed & David Homel

All That Glitters by Martine Desjardins, tr. Fred A. Reed & David Homel

Miss Take by Réjean Ducharme, tr. Will Browning

The Baldwins by Serge Lamothe, tr. Fred A. Reed & David Homel

Nuri Does Not Exist by Sadru Jetha Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by Drew Hayden Taylor

Baseball Love by George Bowering Les Belles Soeurs by Michel Tremblay, tr. John Van Burek & Bill Glassco

The Painter’s Wife by Monique Durand, tr. Sheila Fischman Piercing by Larry Tremblay, tr. Linda Gaboriau

Billy Bishop Goes to War (2nd ed.) by John MacLachlan Gray with Eric Peterson

The Refugee Hotel by Carmen Aguirre

Blue Box by Carmen Aguirre

The Strange Truth About Us by M.A.C. Farrant

Bolsheviki by David Fennario

Taking My Life by Jane Rule

The Book of Esther by Leanna Brodie

Then We Were One: Fragments of Two Lives by Fred A. Reed

Burning Vision by Marie Clements

Theogony / Works and Days by Hesiod, tr. C.S. Morrissey

Chimera by Wendy Lill

They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars

Cold Comfort: Growing Up Cold War by Gil McElroy

Seeds by Annabel Soutar

To the Barricades by Stephen Collis

A Covenant of Salt by Martine Desjardins, tr. Fred A. Reed & David Homel

Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard, tr. Linda Gaboriau

Crossing the Continent by Michel Tremblay, tr. Sheila Fischman

Tombs of the Vanishing Indian by Marie Clements

Cul-de-sac by Daniel MacIvor

Turkana Boy by Jean-François Beauchemin, tr. Jessica Moore

Darwin Alone in the Universe by M.A.C. Farrant

Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr

Death in Vancouver by Garry Thomas Morse

The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements

Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change by Stephen Collis

Vigil (2nd ed.) by Morris Panych

Down the Road to Eternity by M.A.C. Farrant

Where the Blood Mixes by Kevin Loring

The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen X. Tulchinsky

With Bated Breath by Bryden MacDonald

To browse the entire Talonbooks list of more than ﬁve hundred titles in print, please visit talonbooks.com

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Under $150.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10% Over $150.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30% CANADIAN FREIGHT Booksellers and wholesalers whose shipments are valued at $400 net or more will receive free freight on ground shipments within Canada, as will those whose net purchases from Raincoast, Publishers Group Canada and BookExpress combined total at least $100,000 per year. Otherwise, all terms are FOB our warehouse. Customers may opt for a minimum value on backorder shipments to avoid higher shipping costs for single items. Call customer service for more details on this and also on our expedited shipping options.

NEW ACCOUNTS Customers who qualify may apply for prepaid or net following terms upon completing a credit application. New accounts will be opened on approval of credit. If you have any questions, contact the credit department.

CREDIT TERMS Payment is due at the end of the month following date of invoice (e.g., all June invoices are due on July 31). Overdue accounts are subject to an interest charge of 1.5% per month, 18% per annum.

SPECIAL ORDERS Titles not regularly stocked may be special ordered under our usual terms. Please allow 6–8 weeks for delivery. The Canadian price is based on cost at time of delivery and cannot be guaranteed at time of order.

1. All books purchased from us may be returned to us for full credit, unless otherwise indicated, between 3 months (min.) to 1 year (max.) from date of invoice. If a publisher should change distributors, notices will be placed in the appropriate trade journals regarding the shortened return period. Permission to return books is not required. 2. Returns will be credited in full only if accompanied by an accurate packing slip which shows the following: invoice numbers and dates, ISBN and list price of title, discounts and quantities of each title returned. “Returns” must be marked on the outside of the box. Please number the boxes. 3. Books must be returned in re-saleable condition. We cannot accept books in unsaleable condition whether shop-worn, ink-priced, stickered or stickerdamaged. Outdated annuals, titles for which we no longer have Canadian rights and books not purchased from us will not be accepted. 4. Travel guides and annuals: old editions are full-cover strippable for credit for 3 months after the publication date of a new edition (send full front and back covers). Current editions are not strippable and must be returned whole-copy. 5. Other revised editions: Whole-copy returns will be accepted for 3 months after a new edition has been issued. 6. Books ineligible for credit will be returned at the customer’s expense. Unacceptable returns are shipped in the same manner as new books. 7. We cannot be responsible for goods either not received by us or damaged in transit. 8. BookExpress titles purchased from Raincoast are returnable up to 6 months from the invoice date and are subject to a 15% restocking fee. Invoice numbers must be quoted: a 5% penalty of the net total will be applied if invoice numbers are not provided. BookExpress Calendars are sold at a 40% discount and are non-returnable (see BookExpress catalogue for more details). 9. We do not accept returns sent freight collect.

CLAIMS Damaged books, short shipments or errors must be reported in writing to customer service within 20 days of receipt of shipment. Raincoast will not arrange to pick up damaged claims. Damaged books must be returned in full via a traceable method to ensure proof of delivery. Whole book returns only, no cover returns. Include a copy of the invoice with a description of the damage and a claim to credit the return shipping. For additional assistance, please contact customer service at 1-800-663-5714.

ELECTRONIC AND ONLINE ORDERING If your store is using a system that can order electronically or if you would like to order online or check your orders online at our B2B website http:// services.raincoast.com, or to obtain information on electronic ordering, please call our customer service department at 1-800-663-5714.