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Talonbooks Awards and Prizes, Recent Highlights 2012 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)

Contents 1 14 17 27 35 56 66 69 77 78

New Releases Recent Releases Non-fiction Backlist Fiction Backlist Drama Backlist Poetry Backlist Booklist Index by Title Booklist Index by Author Booklist Index by Translator Sales Representation, Ordering, and Trade Terms

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)

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

2009 Acorn-Plantos Award: Weyman Chan, Noise from the Laundry (Finalist)

GST is not included in Canadian prices quoted in this catalogue. GST # R88535-3235 All information in this catalogue is subject to change without notice. Image collages by Jessica Mullen through Creative Commons. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicamullen/

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) Jessie Richardson Award, Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright: Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (Winner) Libris Award, Small Press Publisher of the Year: Talonbooks (Finalist) ReLit Award, Poetry: Fred Wah, Sentenced to Light (Finalist)

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.

Talonbooks New Releases 1

Number One Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

bev sellars

Bev Sellars is chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She returned to the First Nations community of Soda Creek after an extended period of “visiting other territories.” While she was away, she earned a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia, and she served as adviser for the B.C. Treaty Commission. She was first elected chief in 1987 and has spoken out on behalf of her community on racism and residential schools and on the environmental and social threats of mineralresource exploitation in her region.

Xat’sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to “civilize” Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline. In addition, beginning at the age of five, Sellars was isolated for two years at Coqualeetza Indian Turberculosis Hospital in Sardis, British Columbia, nearly six hours’ drive from home. The trauma of these experiences has reverberated throughout her life. The first full-length memoir to be published out of St. Joseph’s Mission at Williams Lake, BC, 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, often with a leather strap, 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. Like Native children forced by law to attend schools across Canada and the United States, Sellars and other students of St. Joseph’s Mission were allowed home only for two months in the summer and for two weeks at Christmas. The rest of the year they lived, worked, and studied at the school. St. Joseph’s mission is the site of the controversial and wellpublicized sex-related offences of Bishop Hubert O’Connor, which took place during Sellars’s student days, between 1964 and 1967, when O’Connor was the school principal. After the school’s closure, those who had been forced to attend came from surrounding reserves and smashed windows, tore doors and cabinets from the wall, and broke anything that could be broken. Overnight their anger turned a site of shameful memory into a pile of rubble. In this frank and poignant memoir, Sellars breaks her silence about the institution’s lasting effects, and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. Praise for earlier work by Bev Sellars: “Denial of racial oppression … in education has many effects, including the rejection of and blame for the victim … Sellars clearly explains what can only be described as systematic oppression.” – Canadian Council on Learning

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

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After Completion The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff

charles olson & frances boldereff Edited by Sharon Thesen & Ralph Maud

Sharon Thesen is a poet, editor, and writer who teaches in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She is the author of eight books of poetry; the co-editor, with Nancy Holmes, of Lake: a journal of arts and environment; and a contributing editor of the Capilano Review. Thesen’s research interests include modern, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics; lyric essay and philosophical autobiography; the relationship between poetic imagination and “the real”; and the Canadian long poem. Ralph Maud, a world-renowned expert on the work of Dylan Thomas, Charles Olson, and the ethnographers of the Pacific Northwest, is professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University and founder of the Charles Olson Literary Society. He is the author of Charles Olson Reading (Carcanet, 1996) and the editor of The Selected Letters of Charles Olson (University of California Press, 2000). He has edited much of Dylan Thomas’s work, including The Broadcasts and The Notebook Poems 1930–1934, and is co-editor, with Walford Davies, of Dylan Thomas: The Collected Poems, 1934–1953 and Under Milk Wood.

ISBN 978-0-88922-706-4 Non-fiction: Biography and Autobiography 6 x 9; 256 pp; Trade paper; Photos $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD May

Charles Olson had many correspondents over the years, but Frances Boldereff, a book designer and typographer, Joyce scholar, and single working mother, embodied a dynamic complexity of interlocutor, muse, Sybil, lover, critic, and amanuensis. After Completion: The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff follows on from an earlier edition, Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence, that spans three years and more than three hundred letters. Published in 1999 by Wesleyan University Press, that edition concludes with a crisis that amounted to a “completion” of one of the major phases of their relationship. After September 1950, no longer would Boldereff believe so wholeheartedly in Olson’s work – or in his promises to spend time with her. After Completion picks up the correspondence post-crisis, and consists of letters written between 1950 and 1969 – approximately 140 letters over a nineteen-year span. In this period of the correspondence, we witness the intensity of the letters ﬂare intermittently, sometimes explosively, as Olson and Boldereff try to maintain some continuity in their separateness. In these later letters, we also experience their magniﬁcent mutual embracing of Arthur Rimbaud. The correspondence taken as a whole presents a passionate relationship realized mostly in letters – letters that were to become essential to Olson’s working out of his poetics. Boldereff’s interventions, which provoked Olson to articulate a projectivist poetics, claims for Frances Boldereff an incalculable effect on twentieth-century poetry. Praise for Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence: “Fascinating reading. Here is Olson at the threshold of his career, still tentative, still feeling his way into his poetics, discussing his poems, his philosophy, his dreams, with someone equipped to understand him, sometimes better than he understood himself. The correspondence provides a window on Olson before he became Olson. It’s an intimate, arresting portrait of the artist in the process of becoming.” – Marjorie Perloff

Charles Olson’s Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews and Ralph Maud’s Charles Olson at the Harbor and Poet to Publisher: Charles Olson’s Correspondence with Donald Allen are also available from Talonbooks.

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Liquidities Vancouver Poems Then and Now

daphne marlatt

Daphne Marlatt was at the centre of the West Coast poetry movement of the 1960s, studying at the University of British Columbia and with many of Donald Allen’s New American Poets, most notably Robert Creeley. Much of her postmodernist writing would be attuned to the adjustments, struggles, and accomplishments of immigrants. While Marlatt attended UBC (1960–64), her literary associations with the loosely affiliated Tish group encouraged her non-conformist approach to language and etymological explorations. She was the founding editor of two literary magazines: periodics and Tessera. She co-edited West Coast Review, Island, Capilano Review, and TISH. In 2006, Marlatt was appointed to the Order of Canada in recognition of a lifetime of distinguished service to Canadian culture. In 2009, she was awarded the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, for her long poem The Given, and in 2012 she received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award.

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. Vancouver Poems were a young woman’s take on a young, West Coast port city as it surfaced to her gaze in the late 1960s. In these “re-visions,” it remains verbal snapshots, running associations, sounding locales and their passers-through within a shifting context of remembered history, terrain, and sensory experience. Phrases break open in successive instants of perception, moving outward to observation and inward to linguistic play. Irony shifts tonal levels and traces the effects of imported colonial culture paving over local indigenous cultures. “Liquidities” (from liquid assets, cash): the slower, more introspective rhythms of the city some forty years ago speed up in this new series as wordplay intensiﬁes to verbal collision. Images traﬃc faster, with quicker jumps through milieu and temporal strata. Forest terrain transforms to high-rise architecture. On edge, littoral, surfacing through the litter it leaves, the city’s genius wavers in and out of focus through its tidal marks of corporate progress and enduring poverty. “Everything Marlatt has published is instinct with caring, intelligence, and a feel for technical innovation.” – Ken Adachi “Marlatt’s language conveys a rich sensuality, a sensibility honed to a fine edge.” – Judith Fitzgerald

Daphne Marlatt’s The Gull; Selected Writing: Net Work; and This Tremor Love Is are also available from Talonbooks.

ISBN 978-0-88922-761-3 Poetry 6.75 x 9.25; 96 pp $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD March

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To the Barricades stephen collis

Stephen Collis is the author of five books of poetry, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize–winning On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010) and three parts of the ongoing “Barricades Project”: Anarchive (New Star, 2005), The Commons (Talonbooks, 2008), and the forthcoming To the Barricades. An activist and social critic, Collis’s writing on the Occupy movement is collected in Dispatches from the Occupation (Talonbooks, 2012). Collis is also the author of two book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks, 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and AnarchoScholasticism (ELS Editions, 2006), as well as the editor, with Graham Lyons, of Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation (Iowa University Press, 2012). His first novel, The Red Album, is forthcoming in 2013 from BookThug. Collis teaches contemporary poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University, where he was a 2011/12 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow.

In To the Barricades we move 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. At once elegy (poems dedicated “to” past revolutionary figures and scenes) and a call for renewed struggle in the here and now, this collection of “social lyrics” and serial explosions seeks to drive apathy from the field and to recover forgotten “radical ideas” amidst our current “amnesiac condition.” Avant-garde technique is donated to lyric ends (the expression of social affects), as Arthur Rimbaud presides and the commune is reconvened in Vancouver’s streets. To the Barricades continues Collis’s “life” poem, “The Barricades Project,” which also includes Anarchive (2005) and The Commons (2008). Both the anti-archive of the revolutionary record and the dream of a once and future “commons” upon which all can equally dwell continue to shape these poems where words are hurried bricks thrown up as “barricades” in language. “Dear effects of / tireless treason / the social only / shuffles if you / move your feet / we’ve learned this / in a place invaders / called Vancouver / even if we are only / a few and even if / it rains on the day / of the demo” “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. Like Neruda’s Canto General, To the Barricades succeeds in marshalling forth ‘cities of words’ as yet un-citied. These lines are graffitiable.” – Rodrigo Toscano

Stephen Collis’s The Commons; Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change; On the Material; and Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry / Anarchy / Abstraction are also available from Talonbooks.

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

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In the Dog House wa n da j o h n - k e h e w i n

Cree poet Wanda John-Kehewin studied criminology, sociology, Aboriginal studies, and creative writing while attending the Writer’s Studio writing program at Simon Fraser University. She uses writing as a therapeutic medium through which to understand and to respond to the near decimation of First Nations culture, language, and tradition. She has been published in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast anthology Salish Seas, and the Writer’s Studio emerge anthology. She has shared her writing on Vancouver Co-op Radio, performed at numerous readings throughout the Lower Mainland, and read for the Writers Union of Canada.

In her first idiom-shattering book of poetry, Wanda John-Kehewin endeavours to “speak her truth,” combining elements of First Nations oral tradition with a style of dramatic narrative that originates from the earliest traditions of cultural storytelling and also keeps pace with the rhythmical undulations of Canadian poets such as James Reaney and E.J. Pratt. However, in a contemporary setting, the magniloquent narrative of nation-building has given way to fragmentary and reflexive selfexamination that is inextricably bound to a history of colonization, the residual effects of which are buried deep within silent sufferers. Divided into four aspects of the Medicine Wheel – one of many stone structures scattered across the Alberta Plains – this collection calls for us to acknowledge the blatant neglect of quality of life on Native reserves and to explore ameliorative processes of restorative justice. In emotive and yet wryly unsentimental tones, John-Kehewin lends her voice to many forms of suffering that surround enforced loss of culture, addressing topics such as alcohol addiction, familial abandonment, religious authority, sexual abuse, and the pain of mourning for loved ones. John-Kehewin does not spare herself when relating her own stories, even as she tells the stories of others that are so like her own, admonishing humanity for its lack of conscience in poems that journey from the turmoil of the Gaza Strip to rapidly dissolving ice floes … Wanda John-Kehewin is, as she describes herself, “a First Nations woman searching for the truth and a way to be set free from the past” – shoving aside that lingering sense of shame and stigma – taking the reader on a healing journey that reveals language to be an elusive creature indeed and one that gives new definition to what being “in the dog house” could be, if we as human beings listen carefully and learn to remedy our misunderstandings. “Her work is brave, brilliant, and relentless. Her voice deserves to be heard.” – Garry Gottfriedson

ISBN 978-0-88922-749-1 Poetry 6 x 9; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD April

“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

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The Monument Cycles mariner janes

Mariner Janes was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and was raised in East Vancouver. His work has been published in West Coast LINE and in the chapbook blueprint. The Monument Cycles is his first book. While studying English literature at Simon Fraser University, he co-edited iamb magazine, a venue for new and emerging writers. Janes works in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and he aims to incorporate the multitude of voices he encounters there into his work, through found poetry, transcription, and storytelling. He is currently working on a new collection of poetry that examines the lives and deaths of social and environmental figures from around the world.

ISBN 978-0-88922-751-4 Poetry 6 x 9; 88 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD April

Written through the lens of history, geography, and a fear of memory, The Monument Cycles roams from meditations on DNA and remembrance, to transportation, nuclear weapons, and community, veering toward societal invective. The book begins by investigating the human relation to monuments and works of public art: why do we make these representations of people, history, and place? From Emily Pauline Johnson’s memorial rock in Vancouver’s Stanley Park to the cenotaphs throughout the city, we attempt to make permanent the impermanent, to hold on to the fleeting, the intangible. These poems consider both the subject and impetus for their creation, asking the historical, biographical, and literary questions behind their creation. “a homemade sunrise” imagines the minds of the Enola Gay pilots, and “but listen, gary” uses Lionel Kearns as a starting point for a eulogy to the author’s father, taking the form of an Allen Ginsberg litany, a petition of memory. Enmeshed in a love of music, several of the poems attempt to write a music back to their source, such as “robert johnson sings the blues at the shangri-la, july 1937” and “betty carter will have her revenge.” While many of the poems in The Monument Cycles speak to Vancouver as a whole, several focus specifically on the city’s Downtown Eastside (“the poorest postal code in Canada”); they explore the narrator’s experiences working in this community and write toward possibility, remembrance, and the nature of truth and storytelling. “in the mecca” is a “DTES reimagining” of Gwendolyn Brooks, a narrative of community, violence, geography, pain, and the human condition. Found poems from scraps of paper, alleyway graffiti, personal tales, and SRO walls also appear inside many of the poems, speaking the community with its own tongue and letting it write itself.

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Coping with Emotions and Otters dina del bucchia

Dina Del Bucchia holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She writes a monthly column for Canada Arts Connect, and her writing has appeared in literary publications across Canada, as art in the Old Friends’ exhibition Funny Business at Gallery Atsui, and as a blog for the Vancouver International Writers Festival. She is the creator of the one-woman show Not a Shiksa. An avid reader, she writes about books she has read on the librarians’ social media site StackedBooks.org. Del Bucchia was a finalist for the 2011 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers.

ISBN 978-0-88922-764-4 Poetry 6 x 9; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD April

Taking as her guide the structure of the contemporary pop psychology how-to book, with its neatly numbered and ordered rules regarding how to change and improve our lives, and also ﬂirting with a concept found in serial poems such as Jack Spicer’s “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy,” Dina Del Bucchia fashions incredibly witty and punchy guides for exploring our most awkward emotions. The question becomes how to get a grip on these emotions and “selfactualize” in an age when the height of illusory autonomy is achieved by maximum contagion, by “going viral,” and through intensely obsessive identiﬁcation with celebrities – spectacular representations of living human beings who, as Guy Debord suggests, “exist to act out various styles of living and viewing society unfettered, free to express themselves globally” through the act of dramatizing by-products of our labour, emphasizing power and vacations, decision and consumption. With the advent of reality show worship, our sense of emotional control and superiority is inextricably linked with enjoying an emotional arena full of “real people” that combines explosive “blowouts” with grave mockeries of our electoral process. This phenomenon was evident in the case of the now-deceased Nyac, one of eight sea otters brought to the Vancouver Aquarium following the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill that devastated Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989. Nyac skyrocketed to celebrity status when millions watched a YouTube video posted in 2007 that caught her holding hands with Milo (another otter). In poems about this exciting celebrity hookup, by turns touching and ironic, Del Bucchia takes on our “society of the spectacle,” prompting us to meditate upon the media viewing frustum through which we channel so many of our emotions and thereby construct our sense of reality, when otters are looking out for one another in a way we often don’t.

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Kafka’s Hat pa t r i c e m a r t i n Translated by Chantal Bilodeau

Born and raised in Quebec, polymath Patrice Martin is a writer, musician, and politician – he currently serves as a Gatineau city council member and is a former clerk in Canada’s House of Commons. He concedes his working life in government bureaucracy helped shape his first novel, the deliciously absurd Kafka’s Hat. In 1994 he co-authored, with Patrick Savidan, La culture de la dette [The Culture of Debt]. Martin holds a degree in political science from the University of Ottawa. Chantal Bilodeau is a New York–based playwright and translator originally from Montreal. Her play Sila won first prize in the 2012 Earth Matters on Stage Ecodrama Festival and the 2011 Uprising National Playwriting Competition. She is the recipient of a Jerome Travel and Study Grant and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Notable among her English translations are Bintou by Koffi Kwahulé and Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre by Larry Tremblay.

ISBN 978-0-88922-743-9 Fiction 5.5 x 8.5; 144 pp; Trade paper $12.95 CAD / $12.95 USD May

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.” (pun intended) – 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 twentieth-century’s best fiction – of getting things done. And so Kafka’s hat is increasingly unreachable: express elevators get stuck between floors, rooms full of suitcases must be searched, unsympathetic bureaucrats must be confronted, and then there’s the rather unanticipated discovery of a fresh cadaver in the suitcase room … Naturally, “P.” knows that every hero has his coming-of-age trial to go through; trouble is, he’s no modern Ulysses. Never departing in tone and timbre from a somewhat amicable and farcical, obstinately absurd storytelling style, Kafka’s Hat assembles a pleasant labyrinth of intertextual references, which make room for the diverse imaginary worlds of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Paul Auster. Living in a different city, wearing new clothes, but still immersed in the part-tragic and part-comical ambience of Franz Kafka’s best existentialist literature, Patrice Martin’s “P.” is the compelling alter ego of a not-so-distant “Joseph K.” – still contemporary, still relevant. Invoking some of modern literature’s most meaningful authors, Martin’s prose playfully reminds us that we do not create new work without reintroducing past fictions inside our present desires. “Patrice Martin’s first novel revels in the humour, witty eloquence, and intelligence of the author.” – Le Devoir

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hungree throat bill bissett

Written 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:

bill bissett garnered international attention in the 1960s as a pre-eminent figure of the counterculture movement in Canada and the United Kingdom. In 1964, bissett founded blewointment press, which published the works of bpNichol and Steve McCaffery, among others. A pioneer of sound, visual, and performance poetry – eschewing the artificial hierarchies of meaning and the privileging of things (“proper” nouns) over actions imposed on language by capital letters; the metric limitations imposed on the possibilities of expression by punctuation; and the illusion of formal transparency imposed on the written word by standard (rather than phonetic) spelling – bissett composes his poems as scripts for pure performance and has consistently worked to extend the boundaries of language and visual image, honing a synthesis of the two in the medium of concrete poetry. Poet George Bowering has called bissett “a sound poet through whom spirit talks, and a primary political force for our shared good.”

all our throats r hungree 4 breething being sing ing eeting digesting speeking saying food kissing watr love air ficksyun fakt memoree th present what is nu all ovr lapping imbuing change th throat chakra being well is a condishyn 4 life

Praise for bill bissett “bissett is one of the leading performance poets in Canada.” – Flak Magazine “[bill bissett] is the shaman of Canadian poetry.”

– Georgia Straight

“His poetry addresses the limitless discussion of the boundaries between the personal and the political.” – National Post “bill bissett is my astral twin.”

– Margaret Atwood

Praise for bill bissett’s first novel-poem, novel: “These essays are rich with information about bissett, but most importantly they revive and re-examine significant moments from his life and career. It is a must-read for both bissett scholars and fanatics alike.” – Broken Pencil

For a complete listing of bill bissett’s available titles, see page 69 of this catalogue.

ISBN 978-0-88922-745-3 Fiction 6 x 9; 176 pp; Illustrations $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD April

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Blue Box carmen aguirre

Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based theatre artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written and co-written twenty plays. Her first nonfiction book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, was published in 2011. Something Fierce was nominated for British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, was a finalist for the 2012 BC Book Prize, and won CBC Canada Reads in 2012. Aguirre has more than sixty film, TV, and stage acting credits; facilitates workshops for Theatre of the Oppressed; and instructs in the acting department at Vancouver Film School. She received the Union of BC Performers 2011 Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award; the 2012 Langara College Outstanding Alumni Award; and has been nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award, the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, and the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Aguirre is a graduate of Studio 58.

Six years after fleeing the 1973 military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende, the democratically elected, socialist leader of Chile, elevenyear-old Carmen Aguirre and her family return to South America to join the underground resistance. At eighteen, Carmen commits herself to the movement, running a safe house on the border between Chile and Argentina. Forfeiting her first marriage to the pressures of revolutionary life, and living for years with the ever-present fear of capture and torture for her opposition to the Pinochet regime, Aguirre realizes the sacrifices she who unconditionally loves the cause must make. “When one is in the revolution,” she says, “having a personal life is an act of treason.” Fifteen years later, in Los Angeles, Carmen once again unconditionally gives everything of herself – for love of a different kind. She begins a sexually passionate but emotionally impossible relationship with a handsome Chicano TV star whom she pursues as relentlessly as she herself was once hunted. Emphasizing the tensions between these two modalities of loving, Aguirre’s monologue intercuts recollections of events that, although they are disconnected in time and space, together comprise two “core stories” that define her, and which she is challenged to reconcile. In this sexy, fast-paced, and darkly comic follow-up to her acclaimed autobiography, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, Aguirre ultimately asks: Between the extremes of love for the political cause and love for another, how and where does one create space for self-love? Cast of 1 woman. “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 “There’s a clear, sophisticated intelligence at work here. The script is riddled with both serious and ironic political references.” – Georgia Straight

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

Carmen Aguirre’s The Refugee Hotel and The Trigger are also available from Talonbooks.

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Tom and the Coyote michel marc bouchard Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard emerged on the professional theatre scene in 1985. Since then he has written twenty-five plays and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including, in June 2012, the prestigious National Order of Quebec for his contribution to Quebec culture, and, in 2005, the Order of Canada. He has also received le Prix Littéraires du Journal de Montréal, Prix du Cercle de critiques de l’Outaouais, the Governor General’s Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award, and the Chalmers Award for Outstanding New Play. Translated into nine languages, Bouchard’s bold and visionary works have represented Canada in major festivals around the world. Linda Gaboriau is an award-winning literary translator based in Montreal. Her translations of plays by Quebec’s most prominent playwrights have been published and produced across Canada and abroad. In her work as a literary manager and dramaturge, she has directed numerous translation residencies and international exchange projects. She was the founding director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. She won the 2010 Governor General’s Award for Forests, her English translation of Wajdi Mouawad’s play Forêts.

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

Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels into 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 untruth. With the mother expecting a chainsmoking girlfriend, and the older brother hellbent on preserving a facade of normalcy, Tom is coerced into joining the duplicity until, at last, he confronts the torment that drove his lover to live in the shadows of deceit. The lover, the friend, the son, the brother, and the nameless dead man have left behind a fable woven of false-truths which, according to his own teenage diaries, were essential to his survival – in the face of the fact that in this same rural setting, one young man had destroyed another young man who loved yet another. Like an ancient tragedy, years later, this drama will shape the destiny of Tom. In a play that unfolds with progressively blurred boundaries between lust and brutality, between truth and elaborate ﬁction, Bouchard dramatizes how gay men often must learn to lie before they learn how to love. Throughout 2011 and 2012, Tom and the Coyote was produced in Quebec and France, as Tom à la ferme, and in Mexico, as Tom en la granja. Award-winning Quebec director Xavier Dolan is currently ﬁlming a screen adaptation of the play for release in 2013, with Caleb Landry Jones in the leading role. Cast of 2 women and 2 men. “Extremely well written, a work of great density.”

– CBC

“Funny, harsh, tender, and terrible, the play engages us in a twisted game that plays itself in a rural setting where innocence and boiling anger collide.” – Montreal Sun

Michel Marc Bouchard’s The Coronation Voyage, Down Dangerous Passes Road, The Madonna Painter, The Tale of Teeka, and Written on Water are also available from Talonbooks.

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Leave of Absence lucia frangione

I believe in God the Father (and/or Mother), the almighty, maker of heaven and earth, the Higgs boson, and the big bang. And in Jesus Christ, His/Her only begotten Son, our Lord, who … descended into hell (which is probably a state of mind not a physical place) … I believe in the not-so-holy Roman Catholic church (and the Pope is not infallible) … Amen. [Blake’s version of the Apostles’ Creed]

Lucia Frangione is an important, post-feminist voice in independent theatre today. Using satire as a tool for critical thought, she boldly questions the institutions of family, religion, and sexual iconography in accessible and entertaining plays. Frangione is the recipient of the 2006 and 1998 Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s Rent Awards and she won the Sydney Risk Playwright Award for Cariboo Magi in 2001. Espresso was nominated for seven Jessie awards, toured Western Canada in 2004, and was translated into Polish and performed for a year at Teatr Jeleniogorski in 2007. Frangione’s twenty-three plays have been produced across North America.

The booming bedroom community outside a large Canadian city is blown apart when fifteen-year-old Blake challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. A student at the local Catholic high school, Blake confides in her best friend, Tracy, that she feels sexually attracted to her. At first encouraged and then rebuffed, Blake is eventually betrayed. Then, increasingly at risk among her peers, Blake finds the watchful and strict eyes of her Catholic school are no protection. Vulnerable to collectivized hatred, she remains unprotected by the adults who guard her freedom – her mother, the school principal, the local priest – all respond in different ways, some liberally supporting her emerging sexuality; others quite conservatively vilifying her as a deviant, outside the church and outside the community. Ultimately, they do not act to protect her, and in their inaction, they are absent, truly unable to help. The audience is left with the question: Like these characters, what have we left undone? What ethics surround the absence of acting in response to another’s need? At the centre of this searing drama of bigotry and transcendence is the brutal dehumanization of the other – of both the bully and the victim. The outcome challenges the Roman Catholic church’s response to the same-sex marriage rulings in Canada. Leave of Absence won the ACTivist theatre Amnesty International Playwright contest in 2011. Cast of 3 women and 2 men. “When the issue of hostility towards gays around the world is viewed alongside the Catholic Church’s views on homosexuality … which state that being gay is an anomaly and intrinsically disordered, the problem is quite large … Socially aware and engaged theatre that strives to make a difference … can create a dialogue for change.” – Mark Robins, GayVancouver.net

ISBN 978-0-88922-753-8 Drama 5.5 x 8.5; 128 pp; Trade paper $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD February

Lucia Frangione’s Cariboo Magi, Espresso, and Paradise Garden are also available from Talonbooks.

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King of Thieves g e o rg e f . wa l k e r

George F. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and widely produced playwrights. His work has been honoured with eight Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards and five Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and his plays Criminals in Love and Nothing Sacred each won Governor General’s Awards for Drama. Zastrozzi has had more than one hundred productions in the English-speaking world. A master of the absurd, Walker has had his plays translated into German, French, Hebrew, Turkish, Polish, and Czech. He has spent a decade writing for television, including the CBC series This Is Wonderland, Living in Your Car, and The Newsroom, as well as CBS’s Due South.

New York City, 1928. Master-thief Mac must join an FBI sting operation against a cadre of corrupt bankers. Music, murder, and mayhem ensue – at the speakeasy where criminals scheme and on Wall Street where financiers conspire. This trenchantly satirical play was first produced at the Stratford Festival in 2009, where director Jennifer Tarver described it as being loosely based on John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera (1728) which was later immortalized in the great Brecht-Weill composition The Threepenny Opera (1928). Readers familiar with these works will delight in Walker’s inspired pairing of Mac and Polly, Peachum and his missus, Jenny Diver, and a host of others within the corrupt world of Wall Street bankers immediately before the 1929 market crash. Readers meeting these characters for the first time will find much to enjoy in Walker’s ready wit and keen sense of story. When the FBI blackmails Peachum into helping bring down a group of corrupt bankers, he partners with Mac, his son-in-law, to discover that the bankers are using their wealth to inflate the market, plotting to pull their assets just before the bubble bursts. They scheme to make new fortunes by providing loans after everyone else goes bankrupt. If all of this sounds distressingly familiar, it should. At its heart, King of Thieves, like both its predecessors, is an examination of criminal behaviour at all levels of society, and of the disturbing truth that everyone can fall prey to dishonesty and corruption. But the element of fun in Walker’s script makes us laugh and his sense of zaniness reflects the bafflement many of us feel when contemplating our own world: a place where men of dubious moral integrity still inhabit the corridors of power and are still not taken to task for their dishonourable – if not downright criminal – behaviour. 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 x 8.5; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD March

George F. Walker’s And So It Goes; The East End Plays: Part I; The East End Plays: Part II; Heaven; The Power Plays; Somewhere Else; and Suburban Motel are also available from Talonbooks.

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Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus

Dispatches from the Occupation A History of Change

garry thomas morse stephen collis

In tribute to surrealist narrative and ﬁlm technique, Minor Episodes documents the serial adventures of Minor, ubiquitous “everymogul,” who embodies the economic 1%. Major Ruckus, a contrapuntal text and parody of the speculative ﬁction genre, follows a frenzied struggle for time-travel. Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus introduces The Chaos! Quincunx novel series. Like a beguiling house of mirrors, Minor Episodes bends, twists, fractures, and deforms reality through phantasmagoric visions, orgiastic inventions, and a mischievous use of language. Don’t be deceived by its title: there is nothing minor about this major accomplishment.” – Martine Desjardins ISBN 978-0-88922-697-5 Fiction 5.5 x 8.5; 288 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

In this collection of essays, award-winning poet, critic, and activist Stephen Collis meditates on the idea of change as it moves through intellectual history, tracing its patterns and comparing its articulation across disciplines. He offers short “dispatches” from his involvement in the Occupy movement, and a long prose-poem examining the philosophical trope of Rome, the “eternal city,” from its imperial past, through republicanism, to the era of modern social movements. Adbusters “Big Ideas of 2013” featured title.

ISBN 978-0-88922-695-1 Non-fiction: History; Political science; Philosophy 5 x 8; 256 pp; Trade paper; Photos $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Tracing the Lines Reﬂections on Contemporary Poetics

The Battle of Batoche

Roy Miki

British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis Second Edition

Edited by maia joseph, christine kim, larissa lai & christopher lee

wa lt e r hildebrandt

and Cultural Politics in Honour of

Passionate critic, principled citizen, attentive reader and editor, energizing teacher – Roy Miki is all these and more, a poet whose writing articulates a moving body of work. The two main areas of his passionate work – social critique and poetics – inform each other in this collection of essays marking a milestone in the life of an important public intellectual.

The Battle of Batoche is the best-known confrontation between Métis and British soldiers in the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It remains one of Canada’s most emotion-laden historical episodes, eloquently revisited in this revised and expanded edition. The strategies of both sides are thoroughly examined, and numerous maps and photographs offer detailed description of the fateful battle. Foreword by Jean Teillet, great-grandniece of Louis Riel.

“Tracing the Lines is a testament to the complexity and commitment of the extraordinary work of Roy Miki. This collection of poetry, art, biotexts, and essays follows the many intersecting paths that cross and converge through critical race theory, social justice, and redress. Every line leaves a trace.” – Lily Cho

“Hildebrandt is one of the few authors that carefully places the events of 1885 in a national and international context.” – Manitoba History

ISBN 978-0-88922-694-4 Non-fiction: Literary criticism; Asian-Canadian studies 6 x 9; 256 pp; Trade paper; Colour photos $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

ISBN 978-0-88922-693-7 Non-fiction: Canadian history; First Nations studies; Military history 10 x 8; 144 pp; Trade paper; Photos & maps $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

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Against the Wind

This Poem

madeleine gagnon

adeena karasick

Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

From the moment Joseph takes drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from violent sexual assault, he ﬁnds himself retreating into an increasingly abstract world. In reaction to his trauma, he sets out to reconcile the contradictory themes in his life, including abandonment, madness, love, and death, as the reader experiences, through letters and journal entries, the development of an artist “in his own words.” “Gagnon’s book is propelled by the tug-of-war of extremes: love and violence, creation and death, madness and sanity, femininity and masculinity, secularism and religion, blood and heritage.” – Montreal Review of Books ISBN 978-0-88922-696-8 Fiction 5.5 x 8.5; 168 pp; Trade paper $14.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

This Poem is a self-reﬂexive romp through fragments of postconsumer culture and the technomedia-saturated world we are enmeshed in. Composed in the style of Facebook updates and extended Tweets, each section infuses itself with continuously shifting tones, styles, and commentary which are in turn provocative, emotive, and deeply satiric. “Karasick’s work, while inspired by the agendas of language poetry, is anything but dry: Funny and playful, it is at all times seductive and filled with naughty innuendos.” – Forward

ISBN 978-0-88922-699-9 Poetry 5.75 x 8.75; 112 pp; Trade paper; Colour illustrations $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Theogony / Works and Days

In Absentia m o r r i s pa n y c h

hesiod Translated by C.S. Morrissey

C.S. Morrissey’s brilliant translations bring a modern, lyrical sensibility to Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod’s two great poems that paved the way for subsequent achievements in Greek philosophy. Theogony tells of the ﬁrst generations of the gods and recollects how Zeus established his cosmic reign of justice. Works and Days examines the two-fold role of competition in life, what Hesiod calls “the bad strife” and “the good strife,” and how they affect our struggle to maintain order in the wake of chaos and the primeval void.

Four seasons after her husband Tom’s disappearance, Colette remains emotionally paralyzed, isolated in a country cottage, waiting for word, or perhaps even more signiﬁcantly, a connection. A young stranger in a jean jacket waves to her from the frozen lake – a sign? She emerges to give him her husband’s parka; strangely, the boy has a likeness to Tom. A moving story of vanished love enlivened by Panych’s trademark humour. Cast of 2 women and 3 men. “While the story deals with profound loss, it’s much more about the redemptive power of love than the difficult process of grief.” – Sacramento Bee

ISBN 978-0-88922-700-2 Poetry 5 x 8.5; 144 pp; Trade paper $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

ISBN 978-0-88922-702-6 Drama 5.5 x 8.5; 128 pp; Trade paper $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

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Seeds

Billy Bishop Goes to War Second Edition

annabel soutar j o h n m ac l ac h l a n g ray with e r i c p e t e r s o n

Seeds presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict. Part courtroom drama and part social satire, Seeds documents the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and biotech multinational Monsanto Inc. In question is the legitimacy of patenting genetically modified food crops. The play takes us back to the seminal moment when a single farmer stood up to international agribusiness and almost won. Cast of 4 women and 3 men.

A memory play about war, Billy Bishop has been going into battle onstage for more than thirty years. The Canadian classic is revisited in this second edition, where war is still a terrible thing, but some men say it was the greatest time of their lives. It’s about war’s ironies and the price of survival. The play format is deceptively simple with a solo narrator who assumes multiple roles while his piano-playing sidekick offers sardonic musical comments. Cast of 2 men.

“Seeds is great journalism, and even better theatre.” – Montreal Gazette

“Billy Bishop has reasserted its right to be called one of the great works in the Canadian theatre canon.” – Toronto Star

ISBN 978-0-88922-701-9 Drama 5.5 x 8.5; 144 pp; Trade paper $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

ISBN 978-0-88922-689-0 Drama 5.5 x 8.5; 128 pp; Trade paper; Photos $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Fronteras Americanas

Imperial Canada Inc.

American Borders

Legal Haven of Choice for the

Second Edition

World’s Mining Industries

guillermo verdecchia

a l a i n d e n e au lt & william sacher Translated by Fred A. Reed & Robin Philpot

Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence, and wit, Fronteras Americanas recreates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and clichés, offers comparative histories, and examines myths and mysticism This revised edition of the 1993 Governor General’s Award–winning play takes into account new economic relations and new material realities. Cast of 1 man. “Funny, fast-paced, smart, and provocative.” ISBN 978-0-88922-705-7 Drama 5.5 x 8.5; 80 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

– Globe and Mail

Imperial Canada Inc. asks: Why is Canada home to more than 70 percent of the world’s mining companies? The authors of Imperial Canada Inc. meticulously research this question and offer four answers: Quebec’s and Ontario’s mining codes; the history of the Toronto Stock Exchange; Canada’s involvement with Caribbean tax havens; and, ﬁnally, Canada’s oﬃcial role of promoting itself to international institutions governing the world’s mining sector. “Imperial Canada Inc. is a wake-up call. It details the scandalous behaviour of Canada’s mining industry and demands greater oversight from our governments. – Canadians for Tax Fairness ISBN 978-0-88922-635-7 Non-fiction: International trade; Economics 5.5 x 8.5; 256 pp; Trade paper $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

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ABC of Reading TRG

Bambi and Me

The New Canadian Criticism Series Peter Jaeger

Michel Tremblay

Edited by Frank Davey

Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay.

Examines the writings of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, with a special focus on their collaborative work as the Toronto Research Group (TRG). ISBN 978-0-88922-423-0; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 1999; 160 pp; Illustrations

Translated by Sheila Fischman

American Notebooks

Baseball Love

A Writer’s Journey Marie-Claire Blais

George Bowering

Translated by Linda Gaboriau An album of finely drawn literary portraits of writers, musicians, artists, and social activists who influenced the life and work of Marie-Claire Blais in the 1960s. “Marvelously constructed … beautifully cadenced – Books in Canada character studies.” ISBN 978-0-88922-358-5; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 1996; 208 pp

George Bowering’s life in love and the game unfolds in a picaresque memoir of a road trip taken through the storied ballparks of the poet’s youthful dreams. “The indispensable George Bowering’s Baseball Love is a winning memoir cum love story, as Canada’s first poet laureate and his lady embark on a memorable – in every sense – baseball trope: the road trip.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-529-9; $19.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2006; 256 pp

Anarcho-Modernism

Beyond Recall

Toward a New Critical Theory in Honour of Jerry Zaslove Edited by Ian Angus

Mary Meigs

Essays exploring key issues of politics and aesthetics in honour of the founding director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.

Edited by Lise Weil A beautiful memoir that reads like the most exquisitely crafted fiction. Lambda Literary Award for Biography Finalist, 2006.

“One cannot deny the generosity of spirit which permeates this text.” – Canadian Literature

“Her real strengths are virtues of drama, colour … and passion that are distilled in succinct images.” – Globe and Mail

Anatolia Junction

Birth of a Bookworm

A Journey into Hidden Turkey Fred A. Reed

Michel Tremblay

As Fred A. Reed travels through the Middle East, the Balkans, and Asia Minor, he concludes that Turkey’s Islamists are reappropriating the culture and beliefs that 70 years of secular fundamentalism have been unable to eradicate.

From Hergé and the Brothers Grimm to Gabrielle Roy and Victor Hugo, a tour of books that inspired Michel Tremblay’s vast imagination.

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Globe and Mail Top 100 Books, 2003. “Quebec’s most celebrated living writer.” “Destined to become a classic.”

– Guardian

– Globe and Mail

Annihilated Time

Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies

Poetry and Other Politics Jeff Derksen

Michel Tremblay

Essays that explore the ways in which poetry, visual art, and critical practices encounter “the long present neoliberal moment” of globalization’s imperialist agenda.

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2006.

“Derksen raises the question of what it means to make art in the present moment in a new and exciting way.” – Sianne Ngai

“Tremblay’s knack for recalling and accessing his boyhood self is uncanny. Assorted Candies is short but sweet.” – Montreal Review of Books

Translated by Linda Gaboriau “The best of Tremblay can be found in these Assorted Candies.” – Voir

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The Box Closet

Canadian Drama and the Critics

Mary Meigs

Revised Edition Edited by L.W. Conolly

A narrative woven of her parents’ diaries and letters that integrates Mary Meigs’s discoveries as a daughter and granddaughter. “Meigs creates a work of considerable insight and – Globe and Mail beauty.” ISBN 978-0-88922-253-3; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 1987; 224 pp; Photos

This lively, updated assortment of critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama is an ideal companion text to Modern Canadian Plays, Volumes I and II. “Fascinating, entertaining, and instructive.” – Max Wyman ISBN 978-0-88922-359-2; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 1987, 1995; 384 pp

bpNichol

Charles Olson at the Harbor

What History Teaches

Ralph Maud

The New Canadian Criticism Series

Stephen Scobie Edited by Frank Davey

Repudiating Tom Clark’s carelessly biased Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life, this diligently researched biography by long-time Olson scholar, friend, and correspondent Ralph Maud redeems the reputation of one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century.

Scobie illuminates bpNichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory, and the writing of Gertrude Stein, positing a cogent argument for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction.

“A balanced and superbly rendered picture of one of America’s greatest poets.” – Peter Anastas

Bridges of Light

The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors

Otto Landauer of Leonard Frank Photos, 1945–1980 Cyril E. Leonoff

Oliver N. Wells

This illustrated biography of one of the last great blackand-white photographers of the Pacific Northwest is also an extraordinary photo art book. City of Vancouver Heritage Award of Merit, 1999.

Active ethnography through conversations, legends, and articles. A naturalist’s guide to the Chilliwack Native people and their area. “Useful for the diligent novice.”

– BC Studies

Building the West

Circumstances Alter Photographs

The Early Architects of British Columbia Second Edition Compiled and edited by Donald Luxton

Captain James Peters’ Reports from the War of 1885 Michael Barnholden

This award-winning revised edition tells the stories, discovers the hopes and aspirations, and celebrates the successes and accomplishments of the early architects of British Columbia.

In April 1885, Captain James Peters of the North West Field Force took the world’s first battlefield photographs under fire at the battle of Fish Creek. He exposed a total of 70 glass plates there and at subsequent battles at Duck Lake and Batoche. These astonishing photographs are presented together here, with an essay by Michael Barnholden.

“For anyone who cares about the built environment, this book is a treasury – and a treasure.” – Vancouver Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-554-1; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD © 2003, 2007; 560 pp; Photos and illustrations

The Burden of Office

Coast Salish Essays

Agamemnon and Other Losers Joseph Tussman

Wayne Suttles

Lucid, original, and ultimately wise, this book is as much a work of literature as it is of philosophy. “These stories are meant to delight as well as instruct.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-265-6; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD © 1989; 168 pp; 2nd printing

A careful selection from the work of one of the foremost ethnographers of the Pacific Northwest. “A major contribution to the study of the Indians of the Northwest Coast.” – Pacific Northwest Quarterly ISBN 978-0-88922-212-0; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 1987; 336 pp; Photos, maps & illustrations; 4th printing

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Cold Comfort

Empire of Desire

Growing Up Cold War Gil McElroy

The Abolition of Time Thierry Hentsch

When his father died, award-winning poet and curator Gil McElroy was given a box of photographs that documented his father’s military career, which began in WWII and continued through to the end of the Cold War. Image by image, McElroy attempts to come to terms with the mysterious photographer, a man better understood by his military compatriots than by his own family.

Translated by Fred A. Reed This second volume in Hentsch’s epic survey of the Western narrative tradition traces Western civilization’s quest for immortality across a further four centuries through an examination of works by Molière, Voltaire, de Sade, Rousseau, Hegel, Melville, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust, and others.

Conversations in Tehran

An English Canadian Poetics

Jean-Daniel Lafond & Fred A. Reed

Vol. 1 – The Confederation Poets Edited by Robert Hogg

Filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond and author Fred A. Reed document the fall of Mohammad Khatami’s reform movement through candid conversations with Iranian artists, journalists, and political activists. “A society like ours, which flirts almost unconsciously with the bullies of ‘political correctness’ … needs men, women, writers, journalists, intellectuals like Fred A. Reed.” – CBC Radio-Canada ISBN 978-0-88922-550-3; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2006; 224 pp; Photos

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2009.

With an introduction by D.M.R. Bentley Essays on poetic theory written by Canadian poets from the late 19th century to 1918 that articulate the specific social, cultural, and political circumstances under which their poetry was created. “Never before or since in Canada have poetry, poetics, environment, identity and national distinctiveness been more closely intertwined.” – D.M.R. Bentley ISBN 978-0-88922-613-5; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD © 2009; 320 pp; Photos

Crimes and Mercies

An Error in Judgement

The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944–1950 James Bacque

The Politics of Medical Care in an Indian /White Community Dara Culhane

More than nine million Germans died from deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after WWII. At the same time, a food-aid program saved an estimated 800 million.

An analysis of the controversy surrounding the death of a Native child in Alert Bay, British Columbia.

“A scholar of great courage and perseverance who deserves to be heard.” – Dr. Dwight D. Murphey

“Successfully forces the liberal white reader to look beyond totem poles and quaint Indian baskets to our common history.” – Vancouver Sun

The Decline of the Hollywood Empire

Essays on George F. Walker

Hervé Fischer

Playing with Anxiety Chris Johnson

Translated by Rhonda Mullins Heralds the inevitable move from 35mm to digital distribution, which has levelled the creative playing field between the towering Hollywood empire and marginalized independent artists and producers. Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2007. “AN ESSENTIAL READ. That sums up the importance of Fischer’s book.” – Le Canada français

The first book-length examination of the work of Canada’s most-produced and internationally recognized playwright, George F. Walker, who has not only created a substantial body of work, but also impressed it all with his unique “Walkeresque” stamp. ISBN 978-0-921368-82-3; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 1999; 272 pp

The Edward Curtis Project

EX MACHINA

A Modern Picture Story Marie Clements & Rita Leistner

Creating for the Stage Patrick Caux & Bernard Gilbert

Marie Clements’s play dramatizes the creation of Edward Curtis’s 20-volume photographic and ethnographic record of the “vanishing” North American Indian. It is presented here alongside Rita Leistner’s parallel investigation of Curtis’s work, which questions the practice of documentary photography with the very medium under scrutiny. Features more than 100 colour photographs.

Translated by Neil Kroetsch This full-colour book documents Robert Lepage’s dynamic creative arts company, Ex Machina, constantly on the move in search of new forms of storytelling. Its frenetic dynamism means the company must constantly move simultaneously between story draft and stagecraft as it invites audiences to witness its theatrical experiments.

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Gabriel Dumont Speaks

How to Write

Second Edition Gabriel Dumont

derek beaulieu

Translated by Michael Barnholden This judicious interpretation of Louis Riel’s adjutant general’s memoirs offers a rare opportunity to view one of the central events in the history of the Métis through the eyes of one of their key heroes. “Fascinating.”

– Quill & Quire

Containing 10 pieces of conceptual prose ranging from the purely appropriated through the entirely recomposed, beaulieu samples Laurence Sterne, Roy Lichtenstein, Agatha Christie, and all the text within one block of his home. W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize Finalist, 2011. “beaulieu produces some of the most baffling, oblique, unreadable – and absolutely logical and necessary – – Craig Dworkin works of conceptual poetry.” ISBN 978-0-88922-629-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2010; 72 pp

George Bowering

In Plain Sight

Bright Circles of Colour

Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver Edited by Leslie A. Robertson & Dara Culhane

The New Canadian Criticism Series

Eva-Marie Kröller Edited by Frank Davey This first book-length study of Bowering explores the relationship between his work and the arts. “Perceptive, highly readable account of the avant-garde – Vancouver Sun scene in Canada.” ISBN 978-0-88922-306-6; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 1992; 144 pp

A remarkable collection of seven life stories from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, giving voice to women who are seldom heard on their own terms. City of Vancouver Book Award Finalist, 2005. ISBN 978-0-88922-513-8; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2005; 180 pp; map; 3rd printing

Great Lakes Suite

In the Company of Strangers

David W. McFadden

Mary Meigs

Specially revised and edited, and for the first time in one complete volume, Great Lakes Suite includes the collective record of three trips: A Trip Around Lake Erie, A Trip Around Lake Huron, and A Trip Around Lake Ontario.

Based on the NFB production of The Company of Strangers, Meigs’s account of the film unfolds in an intricate meditation on time, old age, and bonding.

“Consistently entertaining, consistently engaging.” – Toronto Star

“Her book on the film is exquisitely attuned to the interplay between art and life.” – Boston Globe

“Some of the most fascinating writing being done in this country.” – Windsor Star

QSPELL Award for Non-fiction Winner, 1992.

griddle talk

In the Midst

a yeer uv bill n carol dewing brunch Carol Malyon and bill bissett

Warren Tallman

A series of literary conversations between Malyon, who writes within the objective bounds of standard English usage, and bissett, one of contemporary writing’s most exotic practitioners, working with the visual forms of language in his own non-hierarchic, phonetic orthography.

Warren Tallman was catalyst, shelter, and anchor to a whole generation of writers and poets, from the beat generation poets to the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school writers. In these pieces, Tallman introduces the reader to a world of literary companionship that shaped the language and thought of late 20th-century North America.

A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend Ralph Maud

Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America

Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed, and their work in Indian folklore evaluated in this comprehensive survey of myth-collecting in British Columbia.

A Translation of Franz Boas’ 1895 Edition of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas Franz Boas

“Important not for what it might tell us about Indian culture in the past, but for what these myths may tell us about our society. This book goes some way toward that goal.” – Vancouver Sun

Edited and annotated by Randy Bouchard & Dorothy Kennedy; Translated by Dietrich Bertz

“The equal of any heroic literature you’ll ever read … a stunning legacy.” – Vancouver Sun

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Justice in Our Time

Living by Stories

The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement Roy Miki & Cassandra Kobayashi

A Journey of Landscape and Memory Harry Robinson

How a community brought the issue of redress for the injustices of the 1940s to the forefront of public debate. “A powerful and moving testament to the successful efforts of the NAJC.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-292-2; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 1991; 160 pp; Cloth; Photos & illustrations

Compiled and edited by Wendy Wickwire This third collection documents how the arrival of whites forever altered the Salish cultural landscape. “Whenever I need to be reminded that language is magic and that stories can change the world, I go – Thomas King to Robinson.” ISBN 978-0-88922-522-0; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 2005; 288 pp; 3rd printing

Lasagna

Making Theatre

The Man Behind the Mask Ronald Cross & Hélène Sévigny

A Life of Sharon Pollock Sherrill Grace

A biography of the most notorious of the 1990 Oka warriors, leader of the Mohawk armed resistance.

The story of Pollock’s life from her family roots in New Brunswick through her pioneering years as a Canadian playwright to the present as she continues to make theatre.

Ann Saddlemyer Award Winner, 2009. “Grace’s insightful exploration of … theatrical performance and the traces of Pollock’s successive re-inventions of herself is unrivalled.” – Patricia Demers ISBN 978-0-88922-586-2; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD © 2008; 480 pp; Photos

The Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack

Margaret Atwood

Dorothy Kennedy & Randy Bouchard

A Feminist Poetics

Dorothy Kennedy and Randy Bouchard record and recontextualize many Lil’wat stories as told to them by respected Lil’wat elder Charlie Mack over a two-decade period of friendship and ethnographic research.

The New Canadian Criticism Series

“Kennedy and Bouchard act with subtlety as informative editors giving insight into their own development as ethnographers through the teachings of Charlie Mack.” – Canadian Literature

Frank Davey Davey reveals Margaret Atwood’s extraordinary facility with language as well as her mistrust of it, and offers a “glossary” of recurrent Atwood images and symbols that unveil the hidden level in her writing. ISBN 978-0-88922-217-5; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD © 1984; 178 pp; 2nd printing

Lily Briscoe

Meanwhile

A Self-Portrait Mary Meigs

The Critical Writings of bpNichol bpNichol

A compelling autobiography about the exercise of will, friendships, and dreaming.

Edited by Roy Miki

A thoughtful and provocative 30-year record of Nichol’s approaches to textual production. “Almost 15 years after his untimely death, Nichol is being recognized as a major Canadian literary figure.” – National Post ISBN 978-0-88922-447-6; $34.95 CAD / $29.95 USD © 2002; Photos & illustrations; 496 pp

Lions Gate

The Medusa Head

Lilia D’Acres & Donald Luxton

Mary Meigs

Like all great historic landmarks, the Lions Gate Bridge remains a source of powerful, sometimes illuminating, sometimes mysterious stories of the people and times which gave birth to it.

A sensitive psychological portrait of a stormy three-way lesbian relationship.

Winner of the Vancouver Heritage Award; BC Historical Federation Writing Competition; Heritage Society of BC Award; City of Vancouver Book Award, 2000; BC Book Prize Finalist, 2000.

“Shaped with intelligence, honesty and humor.” – Ottawa Citizen

“An unsparing account of love, jealousy and hate.” – Toronto Star

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Muthologos

Outsider Notes

Lectures and Interviews, Second Edition Charles Olson

Feminist Approaches to Nation State Ideology, Writers / Readers and Publishing

Edited by Ralph Maud

The New Canadian Criticism Series

Charles Olson once defined “muthologos” as “what is said about what is said.” Revised and expanded.

Lynette Hunter

“Document[s] the processual nature and intellectual hunger that situate [Olson’s] poetic imagination not only in the poem but in the range of perception that – Fred Wah can be talked about ‘with some life.’”

Tough-minded reappraisals of canonicity, modernism, postmodernism, marginality and post-coloniality in Canadian writing.

Edited by Frank Davey

Nature Power

Paul Martin & Companies

In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller Second Edition Harry Robinson

Sixty Theses on the Alegal Nature of Tax Havens Alain Deneault

Compiled and edited by Wendy Wickwire

Translated by Rhonda Mullins

Features tales of the shoo-MISH, or “nature helpers.”

A piercing look at what it means when a Canadian prime minister puts his own private interests first.

BC Book Prize Winner, 1993. “Epic, mesmerizing tales by a great Okanagan storyteller that lift [one] eerily and movingly, into a different world.” – Toronto Star

“Stands as an example and a rebuke to the watery discourse that passes for ‘political’ commentary in the – Geist anglophone press.”

NEWS

Peregrinations

Postcards from the Four Directions Drew Hayden Taylor

Conversations with Contemporary Artists Robert Enright

In this collection of short, humorous essays originally written for the popular media, playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor sends his readers fascinating and exotic postcards from his globe-trotting adventures, always on the lookout for the NEWS about Aboriginal peoples around the world.

Informed and considered interviews with the most influential artists of our time. Enright takes us into the environments, both imaginative and actual, that have shaped their personal and artistic histories. “Marvellous interviews … the mind and the world of the artist flooded with light.” – Arthur Danto

No Plaster Saint

Performing National Identities

The Life of Mildred Osterhout Fahrni Nancy Knickerbocker

International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre Edited by Sherrill Grace & Albert-Reiner Glaap

A crusading socialist and an absolute pacifist, Mildred Osterhout Fahrni walked with J.S. Woodsworth, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. The extraordinary story of one of Canada’s pioneer peacemakers. ISBN 978-0-88922-452-0; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2001; 288 pp; Photos

A collection of 18 original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by scholars and drama specialists in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Japan. ISBN 978-0-88922-475-9; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2003; 324 pp; Photos

Other Losses

Persian Postcards

An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II James Bacque

Iran After Khomeini Fred A. Reed

This third edition updates Bacque’s research into KGB archives, which meticulously documents proof that nearly one million German POWs died in U.S. and French camps between 1944 and 1949. “A hornet’s nest.”

– Globe and Mail

“An excellent guide to the people, religion, politics and world view of modern Iran.” – Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin “Both accessible to the uninitiated and a valuable resource.” – Quill & Quire “Assumptions about Iran shattered.”

– Toronto Star

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Phyllis Webb and the Common Good

Re: Producing Women’s Dramatic History

Poetry / Anarchy / Abstraction Stephen Collis

The Politics of Playing in Toronto D.A. Hadfield

“As much about Webb as about the cultural and political milieu of her time, this book is necessary reading for anyone interested in Canadian poetry and the ethics of writing as criticism.” – Smaro Kamboureli

Hadfield traces the process of creating a theatrical “success” and investigates how the politics involved influences what we perceive as “good” playwriting.

The Pleasure of the Crown

A Record of Writing

Anthropology, Law and First Nations Dara Culhane

An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering Roy Miki

An in-depth analysis of the 130-year history of the Aboriginal title issue in British Columbia, focusing in particular on the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en case.

Traces the development of poet laureate Bowering’s many writings through four decades.

“Explores fundamental questions … The Pleasure of the Crown is a book that everyone interested in – Vancouver Sun ‘justice for all’ will want to read.”

Gabrielle Roy Prize Winner, Best Critical Book in English.

Poet to Publisher

The Recovery of the Public World

Charles Olson’s Correspondence with Donald Allen Edited by Ralph Maud

Essays on Poetics in Honour of Robin Blaser Edited by Charles Watts & Edward Byrne

Documents Olson’s influence on The New American Poetry, Allen’s visionary and revolutionary anthology.

“An extraordinary contribution to this field.” – Canadian Library Journal

A collection of texts and talks which address the work of poet Robin Blaser.

“The letters make fascinating reading for their commentary on writers … and literary issues from 1957 to 1969.” – Canadian Literature

“Poets and thinkers describe his work, assess his accomplishments and contribute reflections on the literary projects and subjects Blaser has helped to construct.” – Publishers Weekly

The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories

The Salish People

The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate Edited and annotated by Ralph Maud

Volume I: The Thompson and the Okanagan Charles Hill-Tout

Henry W. Tate, who died in 1914, was an important Tsimshian informant to ethnographer Franz Boas.

Edited by Ralph Maud

The first volume of a four-volume set rich in stories and factual information on the Salish people of the Pacific Northwest. ISBN 978-0-88922-148-2; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1978; 176 pp; Photos, maps & illustrations; 2nd printing

Rational Geomancy

The Salish People

The Kids of the Book-Machine The Collected Research Reports of the Toronto Research Group, 1973–1982 Steve McCaffery & bpNichol

Volume II: The Squamish and the Lillooet Charles Hill-Tout

Edited by Steve McCaffery Reports on translation, the-book-as-machine, and the search for non-narrative prose. ISBN 978-0-88922-300-4; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD © 1992; Photos & illustrations; 320 pp; 2nd printing

Edited by Ralph Maud Includes the Origin Myth as recounted by a storyteller whose mother saw Captain Vancouver sail into Howe Sound in 1792. ISBN 978-0-88922-149-9; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD © 1978; 176 pp; Photos, maps & illustrations

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The Salish People

Strange Comfort

Volume III: The Mainland Halkomelem Charles Hill-Tout

Essays on the Work of Malcolm Lowry Sherrill Grace

Edited by Ralph Maud Stories of the people of the Fraser Valley from Vancouver to Chilliwack, with the earliest account of BC archaeological sites.

Strange Comfort collects Sherrill Grace’s best essays on Malcolm Lowry, exploring his most important themes: the role of the artist, the nightmare of history, the pressures of memory, and the need to protect the garden of our world.

The Salish People

Subject to Change

Volume IV: The Sechelt and the South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island Charles Hill-Tout

Renee Rodin

Edited by Ralph Maud

Comprising stories that sketch the resonant heights and depths of an autobiography, Subject to Change is a series of self-portraits along the road of a life well lived.

“The rescuing of unorthodox anthropology from the conspiracy of silence that academics have woven around it.” – Vancouver Sun

“A delightful testament to the complexity of people and the many roles we play in our lifetimes.” – Telegraph-Journal

Salonica Terminus

Takeover in Tehran

Travels into the Balkan Nightmare Fred A. Reed

The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy Capture Massoumeh Ebtekar

In his extensive travels in the Balkans, Reed encounters a landscape inscribed with a shocking testimony of ethnoracialist aspirations.

as told to Fred A. Reed

“The good and evil aspects of nationalism … [A] compassionate account of one of the world’s most difficult regions.” – Toronto Star

A revealing first-hand insider account by Iran’s first female vice-president, Massoumeh Ebtekar, of the 1979 revolutionary student movement which captured the American embassy in Tehran.

Shattered Images

Taking My Life

The Rise of Militant Iconoclasm in Syria Fred A. Reed

Jane Rule

Discusses all of the major Islamic faiths in its search for the origins of contemporary fundamentalist movements. “A striking intellectual travelogue … a useful contribution to the literature of interfaith dialogue.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-485-8; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 2003; 260 pp; map

Discovered among her papers as a handwritten manuscript, Jane Rule’s moving, witty memoir of the first two decades of her life probes in emotional and intellectual terms the philosophical questions that were to preoccupy her throughout her literary career. Afterword by Linda M. Morra. Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2012. “A beautiful piece of dryly ironic writing, deeply thought out and intellectually honest.” – Quill & Quire ISBN 978-0-88922-673-9; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2011; 288 pp; Photos

Signs of Literature

The Terror of the Coast

Language, Ideology and the Literary Text Kenneth James Hughes The history of language as a made thing – a linguistic and structuralist primer.

Land Alienation and Colonial War on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1849–1863 Chris Arnett

“It’s tough reading but worth a look if you’re into the study of words.” – Vancouver Province

An extensively detailed reconstruction of the war between the First Nations and Vancouver Island’s colonial government.

“A scholarly, yet compelling account of a neglected and shameful chapter in BC’s history.” – CBRA ISBN 978-0-88922-318-9; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1999; 382 pp; Photos, maps & illustrations; 2nd printing

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textual vishyuns image and text in the work of bill bissett Carl Peters Drawing on aesthetic manifestos, modern poetics, and film theory, Carl Peters locates bill bissett’s textual and visual work within the larger context of art history, criticism, and practice. “textual vishyuns is not only a book on bill bissett, but also a way of bringing modernist thought and vision together without taking either apart.” – Jerry Zaslove ISBN 978-0-88922-661-6; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 2011; 224 pp; Colour photos

Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism Intertextual Collaboration and Resistance The New Canadian Criticism Series

Anne Geddes Bailey Edited by Frank Davey Investigates the troubling relationship between narrative meaning and representations of violence within Timothy Findley’s novels. ISBN 978-0-88922-386-8; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 1998; 256 pp

Theatre and AutoBiography

Too Good to Be True

Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice Edited by Sherrill Grace & Jerry Wasserman

Alcan’s Kemano Completion Project Bev Christensen

This groundbreaking exploration of an increasingly prominent interdisciplinary realm draws on a wide range of contemporary theorists and playwrights. The breadth of styles and performances discussed here is extraordinary.

Examines the question of who is to control North America’s vital water and power resources in the 21st century. BC Book Prize Finalist, 1996. “This is an essential story, and a fascinating one” – Books in Canada

Then We Were One

Tracing the Paths

Fragments of Two Lives Fred A. Reed

Reading =/ Writing The Martyrology Edited by Roy Miki

Shocked by his brother’s death from injuries sustained in the Vietnam War, Fred A. Reed sets out on a journey of personal discovery. By way of Iran in the aftermath of the Revolution, the Anatolian highlands of the mystic Said Nursi, and in pursuit of ancient and modern iconoclasts, he comes under the spell of Islam. In its embrace he find renewed brotherhood; in its discipline, liberation.

A wide spectrum of readings of bpNichol’s challenging and innovative long poem. “A stimulating companion to those reading, and rereading, Nichol’s quirky, honest, and experimental work.” – Books in Canada ISBN 978-0-88922-256-4; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 1988; 344 pp

They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia Annie York, Richard Daly & Chris Arnett “An invaluable record … of a vanishing culture.” – Toronto Star “[A] combination of academic exposition and plainfolks narrative that entertains while it educates.” – Georgia Straight ISBN 978-0-88922-331-8; $60.00 CAD / $40.00 USD © 1993; 320 pp; Cloth; Photos & illustrations

Transmission Difficulties Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology Ralph Maud Ralph Maud delves into the mystery of Boas’s alleged “translations” of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate. “A useful contribution to BC anthropology.” – Victoria Times-Colonist

This Is My Own

Truth or Death

Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941–1948 Muriel Kitagawa

The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition Thierry Hentsch

Edited by Roy Miki

Translated by Fred A. Reed

Letters written following the uprooting of the JapaneseCanadian community in late 1941.

QWF Translation Award Winner, 2005.

“This collection is skillfully woven together.” – Amerasia Review

“A work of great depth, magnificently written.” – Le Devoir

Governor General’s Translation Award Winner, 2005.

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Twelve Opening Acts

Vancouver Anthology

Michel Tremblay

Second Edition Edited by Stan Douglas

Translated by Sheila Fischman An account of Tremblay’s discovery of the theatre, from his first recognition at the age of six of how the imagination is actually a public construct, to his winning of a drama competition with his first play. Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2002. ISBN 978-0-88922-466-7; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD © 2002; 192 pp

Essays on the institutional politics of art, from the 1991 lecture series Vancouver Anthology. Contributors include Marcia Crosby, Sara Diamond, Maria Insell, Robert Linsley, Robin Peck, Nancy Shaw, Keith Wallace, Scott Watson, Carol Williams and William Wood. This redesigned edition features new colour reproductions and a new afterword by Stan Douglas. Co-published with the Or Gallery. Alcuin Book Design Award Honourable Mention, 2011. ISBN 978-0-88922-614-2; $35.00 CAD / $35.00 USD © 1991, 2011; 320 pp; Cloth; Colour photos

Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand

Women in a World at War

Oral Traditions of the Hul’q’umi’num’ Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island Beryl Cryer

Seven Dispatches from the Front Madeleine Gagnon

Compiled and edited by Chris Arnett

Governor General’s French Non-Fiction Award Finalist, 2001.

A vital collection of writings collected during the Depression, first published in Victoria’s oldest newspaper.

Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

“An engrossing and delightful book.” – Georgia Straight

“An extraordinary work … the book crosses borders of country, culture and language to touch fundamental truths in lyrical and haunting prose …” – Quill & Quire

Vancouver

Write It on Your Heart

A Visual History Bruce Macdonald

The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller Harry Robinson

This stunning full-colour historical atlas brings alive Vancouver’s first 14 decades.

BC Book Prize Finalist, 1990.

Compiled and edited by Wendy Wickwire

“Bruce Macdonald breaks new ground with an impressive multi-disciplinary atlas.” – Globe and Mail

“An important addition to Canadian literature … In reading Robinson, one is virtually forced to read the story out loud, thereby closing the circle, the oral becoming the written becoming the oral.” – Thomas King

City of Vancouver Book Award Winner, 1993. BC Book Prize Finalist, 1993.

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All That Glitters

The Bicycle Eater

Martine Desjardins

Larry Tremblay

Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Haunted by the iron jealousy of their commanding officer, Dulac and Nell must risk everything to pursue their desires.

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2006.

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2005. “Compels and disturbs, leaving us with questions about chance and fate, love and war.” – Montreal Review of Books

“There is something poetic about the way the narrative slips back and forth as easily as a dream, transcending the limits of linear thinking.” – Montreal Review of Books

And Other Stories

The Black Notebook

Edited by George Bowering

Michel Tremblay

Taking the theme of postmodernity one step further with 23 short stories edited by Canada’s first poet laureate: Alexis, Arnason, Atwood, Blaise, Bowering, Burnham, Cohen, Dorsey, Elliot, Farrant, Fawcett, Findley, Fraser, Goto, King, Laferrière, Mayr, Rooke, Schoemperlen, Thomas, Verdecchia and Watson.

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Governor General’s French Fiction Award Finalist, 2003.

A young waitress recounts her trials and surprising allies in a lifelong battle against social stigma. “Emerges as a powerful character study, a social history – as always with Tremblay, the political content is there, but always as an organic element of the story.” – Montreal Review of Books ISBN 978-0-88922-543-5; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2006; 224 pp

The Angel of Solitude

The Blue Notebook

Marie-Claire Blais

Michel Tremblay

Translated by Laura Hodes

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Eight lesbian women strive to achieve an all-female utopia within which homophobia and their own pasts and differences are abolished.

In this third instalment of the Notebook trilogy, Fine Dumas’s Boudoir is shut down and Céline must return to waitressing at the Sélect, where she meets a gorgeous musician and begins a sexual and loving relationship for the first time. As she has done twice before, Céline records the events and adventures of her life in a notebook, but now steps outside herself, using a narrator to tell her story.

The Athabasca Ryga

The Breakdown So Far

George Ryga

M.A.C. Farrant

Edited by E. David Gregory

Farrant continues her assault on the unaccountably disaffected and disillusioned of the Western world with her eighth volume of extremely short stories.

From his farm-boy childhood to his struggles as a classconscious wage labourer, Ryga’s early work is offered in a collection of essays, short stories, plays and novels. “It makes you want to read and re-read everything the man ever wrote.” – Vancouver Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-276-2; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 1990; 224 pp

ReLit Award Nominee, 2008. “If, as Nabokov advises, the monster of grim common sense must be ‘shot dead,’ then Farrant is, indeed, a crack shot.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-556-5; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2007; 160 pp

The Baldwins

Cambodia

Serge Lamothe

A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow Brian Fawcett

Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel Set in the post-apocalyptic future, this is a novel of fragments that represents contemporary prose at its most daring and experimental. “Serge Lamothe’s novel falls under the sign of utter creative freedom and is filled with word and language play, evocative imagery and poetic moods.” – Le Devoir ISBN 978-0-88922-544-2; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 2006; 96 pp

Investigative fictions that examine the intentions of the information revolution. “Cambodia is urgent, blunt, difficult – and vitally necessary.” – Canadian Forum ISBN 978-0-88922-237-3; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1986; 208 pp; 9th printing

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Capital Tales

Crossing the Continent

Brian Fawcett

Michel Tremblay

A collection of stories that form tough, uncompromising portraits of people discovering the illusions they live by.

Translated by Sheila Fischman

“Fawcett’s work expands into a well-earned and genuine visionary criticism of the deadly – Books in Canada contradictions within society.” ISBN 978-0-88922-221-2; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 1984; 204 pp

In this, the first of the Crossings novels, which give the backstory to the characters of Tremblay’s Chronicles series, young Nana embarks on an epic train journey from her grandparents’ Prairie farm to Montreal, when the mother who left her five years before calls her “home.” “The empathy and tenderness that Tremblay has for his characters is evident on every page.” – Le Devoir ISBN 978-0-88922-676-0; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD © 2011; 272 pp

Chameleon & Other Stories

Darwin Alone in the Universe

Bill Schermbrucker

M.A.C. Farrant

A collection of short stories from the point of view of a young man growing up in Kenya during the time of Mau Mau.

A brilliant collection of satirical short stories.

“Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic, visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer.” – Globe and Mail “M.A.C. Farrant is a wonderful writer of domestic – Bill Richardson, CBC comedy.” “A brave iconoclast.”

– Publishers Weekly

The Circus Performers’ Bar

Death in Vancouver

David Arnason

Garry Thomas Morse

Witty and formally innovative stories that examine social, political and sexual assumptions with an ironic eye.

This brilliant collection of avant-garde fiction reveals edgy new voices that reflect the cultural simultaneity of our cosmopolitan everyday.

“Morse’s particular genius is his ability to deliver pitch perfect equivalences of whatever he touches or touches him … not mere impressions or impersonations but rather powerful transversals that combine with but do not displace.” – LINE Magazine ISBN 978-0-88922-607-4; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2009; 320 pp

Citizen Suárez

Death of the Spider

Guillermo Verdecchia

Michèle Mailhot

Short stories about people travelling, wandering or lost between countries and languages – people caught between the impulse to flee and the desire to belong.

Translated by Neil B. Bishop Introduction by Marie-Claire Blais A solitary woman’s interior journey of self-discovery.

“At times hilarious, at times moving. A great read!” – Ariel Dorfman

Governor General’s French Fiction Award Winner for Le Passé Composé, 1990.

“Humorous and strongly political.” – Vancouver Magazine

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 1992.

A Covenant of Salt

Desert of the Heart

Martine Desjardins

Jane Rule

Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. Set in the late 1950s, this classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule’s first novel.

“Mining from the past, Desjardins extracts treasures without ‘getting caught,’ and surfaces like a breath of fresh air. A Covenant of Salt marries literary traditions in a sleek gothic ceremony, silvery salt sprinkled like confetti and the Saint Lawrence coursing through.” – Montreal Review of Books ISBN 978-0-88922-566-4; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2007; 160 pp

“Cool, clear-eyed, compassionate and unsentimental.” – Margaret Laurence, Globe and Mail “An intelligent and utterly believable novel.” – Joyce Carol Oates ISBN 978-0-88922-301-1; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1964, 1991; 224 pp; 5th printing

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Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

Douglas Glover

Michel Tremblay

Urbane, stylish and slightly offbeat stories that touch on the myth-making many of us call reality.

Translated by Sheila Fischman

“Glover is preoccupied with the complicated inter-weavings of good and evil, and he juggles – Globe and Mail language superbly.” “Glover … seeks to combine a metaphysical approach and style with the nitty-gritty details of daily life. It works.” – Books in Canada

Tremblay’s first novel is an affectionate and funny chronicle of the lives of a family in Plateau Mont-Royal. CBC Canada Reads Finalist, 2009. “A comic tour de force covering one day in the life of – University of Toronto Quarterly a Montreal street.” ISBN 978-0-88922-190-1; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1981; 256 pp; 9th printing

Down the Road to Eternity

Fearless Warriors

M.A.C. Farrant

Second Edition Drew Hayden Taylor

Indelibly marked by wit, humour, irony, playfulness and a blend of parody and science fiction, these stories celebrate the literary imagination as an antidote to the popular media. “Short and sharp, wacky and wonderful.” – Globe and Mail “M.A.C. Farrant is a trapeze artist of the imagination, – BC Bookworld swinging over the existential void.” ISBN 978-0-88922-615-9; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2009; 288 pp; Illustrations

By degrees dramatic, shocking, tender, affirmative and tragic, each of these stories takes on a different cliché of inter-racial and inter-cultural relations, all of them suffused with the incomparable wit, generous humour, critical edge and profound emotional empathy of a master storyteller. “Taylor’s … stories will make you cringe, cry, and when you really need it, laugh a little.” – Windspeaker ISBN 978-0-88922-597-8; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1998, 2008; 192 pp; 2nd printing

The Duchess and the Commoner

The First Quarter of the Moon

Michel Tremblay

Translated by Sheila Fischman

This third volume in the Chronicles of the Plateau MontRoyal – an epic series of novels which imagines the lives of the characters of Tremblay’s plays – deals with an explicitly gay thematic: Tremblay’s metaphor for the Québécois desire for a more glamorous identity on the world stage.

The fifth novel in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal juxtaposes the childhood experiences of the fat woman’s son and his gifted cousin.

“Touching and extra-real.”

– Quill & Quire

Dürer’s Angel

The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky

Marie-Claire Blais

Karen X. Tulchinsky

Translated by David Lobdell

This sweeping, epic novel takes us inside the life of one immigrant Jewish family, from the pivotal 1933 Toronto race riots through the war years and into the early 1950s, creating a stunning fictional statement of a defining moment for a family, a city and a nation struggling with ideas of freedom, tolerance and identity in a world broken by war.

This third novel in the trilogy of Pauline Archange expresses her desire to translate the events of her life into words. “A writer who stands head and shoulders above her contemporaries.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-111-6; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1976; 112 pp; 2nd printing

Fairy Ring

George Ryga

Martine Desjardins Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

The Prairie Novels Edited by James Hoffman

A compulsively readable, beautiful and dark novel of stormy relationships and all-consuming desires.

This collection includes Hungry Hills, Ballad of a Stonepicker, and Night Desk.

Governor General’s Translation Award Winner, 2001. “Fairy Ring sets up familiar targets, tilts at them with wonderful panache and scores weirdly compelling hits.” – Globe and Mail

“Propelled by compassion and moral outrage, but also by a peculiar and personal awareness of the life and death of human cultures and the values they contain.” – Globe and Mail

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Get on Top

Hell & Other Novels

David Homel

Beverley Daurio

In this startlingly original and penetrating novel, the Messiah appears as a woman who shows up in rural America instead of Jerusalem, preaching moral licence, not repentance.

In these haunting, often chilling short stories, Daurio maps the subatomic space of contemporary alienation.

“Wonderfully evocative images … well worth – Quill & Quire reading.” “Poetic in their brevity and chilling in their intensity.” – Aritha van Herk ISBN 978-0-88910-421-1; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 1990; 160 pp

Go Figure

Heroine

Réjean Ducharme

Gail Scott

Translated by Will Browning

A woman tries to negotiate her personal passage from Quebec’s politically turbulent 1970s to the threatening bleakness of the 1980s.

A hauntingly beautiful tale of a Montreal couple alienated from each other after suffering the miscarriage of twins.

“Boasts complex flavours that are so savoury and sustaining you may be compelled to go back for seconds.” – Montreal Review of Books

“Each page steams with images, echoes, actions and reactions … a magnificent view of a woman’s perception of life, love and la belle province.” – Toronto Star

The Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories

The Hunting Ground

David Arnason

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A witty, articulate raconteur takes a hilarious yet compassionate look at the new male consciousness taking shape in a “post-feminist” world.

Remarkably engaging stories recounted by different residents of a northern Canadian village that face a gradual but devastating transformation.

“A wonderful book.”

“[Lise Tremblay presents] a fictional world in precise, lucid language of a simple, graceful fluidity. A world in which the spirit of being is laid bare.” – Le Devoir

Governor General’s French Fiction Award Finalist, 1994.

– Globe and Mail

Lise Tremblay

Harry’s Fragments

In the Shadow of the Vulture

A Novel of International Puzzlement George Bowering

George Ryga

In a parody of a thriller novel, Harry the Hack, newly recruited literary spy, follows a mystery woman seeking wisdom and sanity. “Deconstructs the sexy spy thriller in a clever pastiche of literary styles.” – Ottawa Citizen

Set in the desert at the Mexico–U.S. border, this novel deals with the hope and despair of immigrant labourers. “A striking novel that wrestles with important and difficult problems.” – Canadian Literature ISBN 978-0-88922-233-5; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1985; 288 pp

The Heart Laid Bare

Judith’s Sister

Michel Tremblay

Lise Tremblay

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A fusty academic has fallen in love with a young actor who works as a salesman while waiting for his big break; however, the academic must learn to make room in his life for the actor’s four-year-old son. This is Tremblay’s first novel to be inspired by experiences from his own life.

In this moving coming-of-age novel set in the summer of 1968, a twelve-year-old girl contemplates with dread her impending high school enrolment.

“[A] simply written, but highly topical and touching tale.” – London Times

“Explores the delicate passage from childhood to adolescence, that critical period in life which … often contains the seeds of the inevitable betrayals of friends, neighbourhood and social background.” – Le Devoir

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Latakia

Mimosa

Audrey Thomas

Bill Schermbrucker

A brilliant and intense journey through a relationship, and through language and myth, spanning three continents.

An authentic recreation through sweeping prose of an extraordinary life set against the turbulent backdrop of colonial Africa.

BC Book Prize Winner, 1988. “It’s an impressive debut … deceptively subtle and – Globe and Mail finely crafted.” “Intelligent, humane … universal and accessible.” – Quill & Quire ISBN 978-0-88922-254-0; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1988; 320 pp

Like a Child of the Earth

Miss Take

Jovette Marchessault

Réjean Ducharme

Translated by Yvonne M. Klein

Translated by Will Browning

The first volume of Jovette Marchessault’s autobiographical trilogy.

Teenagers Miles and Chateaugué have run away to Montreal, where they construct a chaste life for themselves. They form a suicide pact to preserve their fleeting innocence but their refusal of the adult world soon confronts physical need.

“To read Ducharme … is to get luxuriously lost in a chaotic mass of simultaneous, tangential and sometimes conflicting ideas.” – Rain Review of Books ISBN 978-0-88922-669-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2011; 272 pp

Main Brides

Mother of the Grass

Gail Scott

Jovette Marchessault

The portrait of a woman who is facing the end of the century and creating a history of the present that lifts her out of fear.

The second volume of Marchessault’s turbulent autobiographical trilogy.

“Gail Scott has an extraordinary ability to compress scenic observations … into short, jewel-like notations.” – Hugh Hood

“Has enlarged the dimensions of the autobiographical novel by introducing elements of myth and visionary experience.” – Gloria Orenstein

“Scott is one of the most gutsy writers around.” – Globe and Mail

Translated by Yvonne M. Klein

Maleficium

Motortherapy

Martine Desjardins

Bill Schermbrucker

Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

A frank and intensely personal book about human relationships.

In 19th-century Montreal, seven penitents afflicted with curious maladies confess their encounters with an enigmatic young woman in the Near East. Each man succumbs to a secret vice and suffers her punishments. “Lust, greed, retribution, and shame – Maleficium reads like a flesh-bound catalogue of my favourite sins.” – Jenn Farrell ISBN 978-0-88922-680-7; $14.95 CAD / $14.95 USD © 2012; 160 pp; 2nd printing

“[Stories] stir and shift with deftly-rendered subtleties which at their best recall … Norman Levine and … Alice Munro.” – Quill & Quire “One of the best works of fiction of 1993.” – U of T Quarterly ISBN 978-0-88922-330-1; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD © 1993; 176 pp

Mile End

Mrs. Blood

Lise Tremblay

Audrey Thomas

Translated by Gail Scott

“Mrs. Blood wears her nerve ends outside her skin like an updated Katherine Mansfield heroine – and responds intensely to her external environment and to her subconscious. The effect is to create a vivid impression of a personality in crisis … A spectacular tour de force, this.” – New York Times Book Review

A chilling and masterful look at the interior landscapes of psychosis which mirror so perfectly the emptiness of the exterior surfaces they reflect. Governor General’s French Fiction Award Winner, 1999. ISBN 978-0-88922-467-4; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 2002; 144 pp

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My Career with the Leafs & Other Stories

The Pagan Wall

Brian Fawcett

David Arnason

Fawcett’s first book of stories examines growing up, and learning – literally and figuratively – the rules of the game.

Written in the tradition of Umberto Eco and Manuel Puig, The Pagan Wall is a first novel by one of Canada’s master storytellers.

My Name Is Bosnia

The Painter’s Wife

Madeleine Gagnon

Monique Durand

Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Translated by Sheila Fischman

A young woman escapes the genocide in her homeland in search of a peaceful new life.

An extraordinary novel about art and passion inspired by the lives of two great artists, Evelyn Rowat and René Marcil.

IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist, 2007. “Movingly captures the transformative effect of war – Publishers Weekly on human consciousness.”

“Resonant, ethereal, poignant. Here is a novel of rare aesthetic intelligence.” – La Provence (France)

“In Gagnon’s deft hands the narrative is stirring but never maudlin.” – Quill & Quire

“A delight!”

– Nuit blanche

News from Édouard

Piercing

Michel Tremblay

Larry Tremblay

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

This fourth novel in the Chronicles of the Plateau MontRoyal follows Édouard, the fat woman’s brother-in-law, as he explores Paris.

Three tales spin a web of suspense, impending violence and tragedy that haunt the sleek façade of a city. The three stories in this volume are linked through a shared subtext – that in contemporary urban environments, the only way people break through alienation is through some form of violence.

“Michel Tremblay’s long labour of love … is a lasting study of and tribute to his own working-class origins that should stand in time as a literary landmark.” – Toronto Star ISBN 978-0-88922-435-3; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 2000; 224 pp; 2nd printing

novel

The Rain Barrel

bill bissett

George Bowering

In this “novel with konnecting pomes n essays,” bill bissett interweaves fact and fiction – what is considered the conventionally real with the imagined – creating a narrative for the reader that is redolent with surprise and discovery.

Ten years in the making, these stories display Bowering’s meticulous attention to the details of his craft.

“These essays are rich with information about bissett, but most importantly they revive and re-examine significant moments from his life and career. It is a must-read.” – Broken Pencil ISBN 978-0-88922-671-5; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2011; 176 pp; Illustrations

“Enough irony, subversion and playfulness for any postmodern fan.” – Books in Canada “Bowering’s sure touch brings uncanny overtones even to tales that would seem in synopsis to be shaggy-dog stories.” – Canadian Literature ISBN 978-0-88922-345-5; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1994; 272 pp

Nuri Does Not Exist

Real Mothers

Sadru Jetha

Audrey Thomas

In these beautifully crafted and understated stories, Nuri comes of age on the fabled “spice island” of Zanzibar. We accompany him on his quest to understand how servitude transcends slavery and fealty transcends servitude. “A sharply intelligent and genuinely moving exploration of identity and displacement.” – Canadian Literature ISBN 978-0-88922-655-5; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2011; 152 pp

Short stories about mothers and the politics of the family. “These stories are for … anyone who admires a writer in masterly control of her material.” – Globe and Mail “Thomas demands more of her readers than most writers, but the rewards are much greater too.” – Books in Canada ISBN 978-0-88922-191-8; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD © 1981; 176 pp; 3rd printing

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The Red Notebook

A Slight Case of Fatigue

Michel Tremblay

Stéphane Bourguignon

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

The second in the Notebook trilogy follows Céline Poulin as she becomes hostess in a transvestite bordello. Tremblay celebrates how it is possible for Céline to embrace her difference and to flourish with transcendent eloquence and compassion.

Eddy is in existential crisis. He once had an enviable life, but now he’s separated from his wife, estranged from his son and his garden’s grown wild – like the rest of his life. Written in multiple voices, with keen psychological insight, this examination of relationships and past wounds is filled with raucous warmth and humanity – and dark humour.

“Tremblay’s characters don’t merely exist, they live out complex, sprawling lives.” – Globe and Mail

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2009.

Scattered in a Rising Wind

Some Night My Prince Will Come

Jean Marc Dalpé

Michel Tremblay

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Translated by Sheila Fischman

The rush of events in a small-town apocalypse is recorded barely at the edge of syntax, with a teeming imagination always just ahead of the ability to articulate.

This urban epic of love and desire brings us a burlesque world of transgression and madness, where pleasures are far from simple, and love is somewhat less than pure. An evocative account of romantic adventure stamped with Tremblay’s signature wit and ironic humour.

The School-Marm Tree

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Howard O’Hagan

Audrey Thomas

A novel about mountains by one of Canada’s greatest writers on nature, depicting the “presence” in mountains and the heart’s desire to go beyond mountains.

Republished with a new introduction, this is Audrey Thomas’s classic coming-of-age novel about madness, loneliness, despair and escape.

“Testimony to O’Hagan’s intelligence as a novelist.” – Globe and Mail

“Traps in amber that strange distant decade of the Forties.” – George Woodcock, Maclean’s

“As basic and enduring a tale as a Greek tragedy.” – Vancouver Province

The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie

The Strange Truth About Us A Novel of Absence M.A.C. Farrant

Brian Fawcett An industrial biography that investigates personal myths and the great “machines” that drive the world to the abyss of development. BC Book Prize Finalist, 1986. “A wonderful book.”

– Kootenay Reporter

A three-part novel-length work of prose fragments, snippets, questions and speculations, The Strange Truth About Us attempts to imagine a multitude of possible futures for our garrisoned Western world. “M.A.C. Farrant is a master of the literary equivalent of a waking dream, creating subtle insurrections disguised as prose.” – Toronto Star ISBN 978-0-88922-668-5; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2011; 216 pp

Shinny’s Girls and Other Stories

Summerland

Mary Burns

George Ryga

These stories all re-examine the myths of mother-daughter relationships, both in the classical sense of “myth” and in the modern sense of “myth” (lies about relationships). “An accomplished and memorable collection.” – Katherine Govier “Blood bonds, Burns seems to be saying, are usually obscured by routine … and it takes a crisis … to force consciousness of those bonds.” – Canadian Literature ISBN 978-0-88922-272-4; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 1989; 208 pp; 2nd printing

Edited by Ann Kujundzic Summerland presents largely unpublished selections from essays, short stories, plays, novels and poems that George Ryga wrote in Summerland, British Columbia, from 1963 until his untimely death in 1987. ISBN 978-0-88922-313-4; $34.95 CAD / $29.95 USD © 1992; 448 pp

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Tchipayuk

The Time Being

or The Way of the Wolf Ronald Lavallée

Mary Meigs

Translated by Patricia Claxton A sweeping historical novel about the collision of Native and colonial cultures. Winner of the Prix Jules-Verne, Prix Champlain and the Prix Riel. Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 1994. ISBN 978-0-88922-338-7: $34.95 CAD / $29.95 USD © 1994; 480 pp

An affair born of a correspondence with a distant admirer leads the lovers to an arranged meeting in Australia. “The reader is left with an elaboration of the impulse towards, and the slow collapse of, a love affair … Meigs has also left us in the company of two – Montreal Review of Books unforgettable women.” ISBN 978-0-88922-374-5; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 1997; 160 pp

Theme for Diverse Instruments

Trees Are Lonely Company

Jane Rule

Howard O’Hagan

Jane Rule’s first collection of short stories.

This collection of O’Hagan’s short fiction includes stories spanning the decades of his experience as mountain guide, gentleman adventurer and storyteller.

“Jane Rule’s work compares very well with the best – Globe and Mail fiction being written anywhere.” “Rule weaves a delicate pattern … that culminates in a self-portrait which depicts a woman who has confronted sex, career, money, identity, etc., and emerged as a loving, honest person.” – Canadian Literature

Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel

Turkana Boy

Michel Tremblay

Translated by Jessica Moore

Translated by Sheila Fischman

In this contemplative novel-poem, we share in the inner world of a man grieving his lost young son. Through reference to the two-million-year-old remains of a boy unearthed in Kenya, Beauchemin addresses processes of memory and the long history of human evolution.

In this second Plateau Mont-Royal novel, three schoolgirls live the mysteries of their rites of passage. “Includes some subtler melodies in counterpoint to the main theme of this symphonic masterpiece.” – Vancouver Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-198-7; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 1996; 256 pp

Jean-François Beauchemin

A Thing of Beauty

White Pebbles in the Dark Forests

Michel Tremblay

Jovette Marchessault

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Translated by Yvonne M. Klein

A coda to his great Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal cycle of novels. Tremblay creates, with grace and tenderness, a fictionalized account of the death of his own mother.

The third novel in Marchessault’s autobiographical trilogy: a reconciliation between women and men, children and parents, animals and humans.

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Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre

All Fall Down

Larry Tremblay

Wendy Lill

Translated by Chantal Bilodeau

A “crucible-inspired” drama surrounding an inquiry into a doubtful molestation incident in a small-town daycare. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

A theatre director draws inspiration from Lincoln’s assassination to stage the schizophrenia of America. Absurd, hilarious and haunting, this play asks the question: How can we ever know who we are and what is true when the world we know is shifting beneath us? Cast of 3 men. “Explores the wellsprings of psychic and social violence.” – Canadian Encyclopedia ISBN 978-0-88922-649-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2010; 96 pp

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1994. “Lill’s masterful, soberingly intelligent play … goes beyond its surface subject – pedophilia.” – Theatrum ISBN 978-0-88922-336-3; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1994; 128 pp

Adrift

All the Verdis of Venice

Marcus Youssef

Normand Chaurette

In this play inspired by the novel Adrift on the Nile, by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, a group of urban Egyptian hipsters engages in debates about secularism and “fundamentalism” with tragic consequences.” Cast of 4 women and 6 men.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

“Adrift highlights the way we suffer the same losses over and over again, raining revenge on revenge. Our struggle, in essence, never changes.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-585-5; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2008; 128 pp

Cast of 1 woman and 4 men. “Invites its audience to think about the nature of self and its socio-cultural construction, as well as the nature of fame, the role of cultural iconography, but doesn’t presuppose answers. The play is never didactic, and more enjoyable for it.” – Rain Taxi ISBN 978-0-88922-442-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 2000; 112 pp

The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil

alterNatives

A Divertimento for Warlords Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia & Camyar Chai

Native activists and environmentally concerned vegetarians are invited to a dinner party, where irreconcilable cultural differences clash over moose roast and vegetarian lasagna. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

This hard-hitting and hilarious satire inverts the clichés that define the geopolitics of the Middle East. Cast of 4 men. “[A] clever, cutting cabaret act … that entertains as it tries to enlighten.” – Vancouver Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-516-9; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2005; 128 pp; 4th printing

Drew Hayden Taylor

Albertine in Five Times

Amigo’s Blue Guitar

Michel Tremblay

Joan MacLeod

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A college student’s life changes when he chooses to sponsor a Salvadoran refugee as a class project. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

Tremblay presents the powerful story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life. Together, the five Albertines provide a moving portrait of an extraordinary “ordinary” woman in this Chalmers Award–winning play. Cast of 6 women. “A remarkable play … The conception is brilliant.” – New Statesman

Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 1991. “Theatre of exceptional power … [A] subtle, often funny and ultimately moving play.” – Maclean’s ISBN 978-0-88922-371-4; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 1990, 1997; 96 pp; 3rd printing

Albertine in Five Times

And So It Goes

Michel Tremblay

George F. Walker

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco

The parents of schizophrenic Karen discover her life as a drug-addicted prostitute, and its threats both real and invisible. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

The powerful story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life. Cast of 6 women. “The right play at the right time … A story of life, told by Tremblay with immense compassion.” – Toronto Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-234-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 1986; 80 pp; 7th printing

“Walker’s questions are, as always, more philosophical than political, and the answers are hidden far from sight in the dark corners and alleyways of the urban landscape … Oh – and did I mention it’s a comedy?” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-654-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2010; 128 pp

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Another Country / bloom

Banana Boots

Guillermo Verdecchia

David Fennario

Two plays, one on Argentina’s Dirty War of 1976–83, the other on hope flowering in the midst of destruction, constitute an unsparing interrogation of a world perpetually at war. Another Country cast: 3 women and 2 men. bloom cast: 2 women and 4 men.

A one-man-show/memoir in which Fennario recounts, with astonishing insight and wit, the phenomenon of taking his famous bilingual play, Balconville, to Belfast on a British/Canadian cultural mission. Cast of 1 man.

“Verdecchia … know[s] how to modulate emotional tones beautifully … bloom is a poetic look at a world where hope must grow in sandy soil.” – NOW

Another Home Invasion

BASH’d

Joan MacLeod

A Gay Rap Opera Chris Craddock & Nathan Cuckow

In this perceptively poignant play, the word “another” conveys both its meanings – something commonplace and something entirely different; MacLeod questions who the real perpetrators are of the heartless betrayal against the elderly Jean and her ailing husband. Cast of 1 woman. Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2009. “A startling commentary on aging and elder care.” – CBC ISBN 978-0-88922-622-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2009; 64 pp

The angelic personae of a gay-bashing victim and his avenging lover enthrall audiences with the rap opera rhymes of their tragic tale. Cast of 2 men. GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding N.Y. Theater, 2007. “BASH’d shows its rage, its grief and its driven, heartfelt determination.” – New York Times ISBN 978-0-88922-656-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2011; 96 pp

Assorted Candies for the Theatre

Beating the Bushes

Michel Tremblay

Steven Bush

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Steven Bush is on a mission to confront the skeletons in his family closet. Did his very own cousins occupy the White House? What can he, a distant relation of the “Bushes” do to redeem the family name? This stand-up comedy, rant, political protest and call to action is a brash theatrical tour de force. Cast of 1 man.

An exquisite remembrance of childhood past in Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, adapted and recrafted to the stage. Cast of 3 women and 4 men. “It’s vintage Tremblay (out-Prousting Proust), filled with primal privations and inspirations of awe, a family’s love and terrors … the whole enthralling works.” – Globe and Mail

“This is less satire than entertaining polemic, leavened by memoir.” – Globe and Mail

The Baby Blues

Les Belles Soeurs

Drew Hayden Taylor

Revised Michel Tremblay

A highly wrought farce of patrimony in a stifling, politically correct, post-colonial milieu of “fancy dancers” of every stripe on the powwow trail. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco

“A rowdy and often moving journey off the highway and onto the dirt roads of memory.” – NOW

Raucous, reckless and ribald, Les Belles Soeurs celebrates the working-class lives of 15 Montreal women. It was the first play written in the vernacular French of Quebec to achieve popular success and critical acclaim. Cast of 15 women.

Balconville

Benevolence

David Fennario

Morris Panych

Canada’s first bilingual play set on the balconies of Montreal. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.

Full of excruciating twists of fate and malice, this dark comedy of “trading places” resonates with uncomfortable truths about how we see (or don’t see) the people we live with every day. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1979. “Balconville is a work of genius. It’s angry, bitter, cruel and funny.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-145-1; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 1980; 128 pp; 9th printing

“A lethal mixture of black humour and social observation. When it comes to sparkling, erudite, bitchy dialogue, Panych, as a playwright, has few equals.” – Toronto Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-584-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2008; 128 pp

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The Berlin Blues

Bonjour, Là, Bonjour

Drew Hayden Taylor

Revised Michel Tremblay

Concluding Taylor’s Blues Quartet, German developers here show up on the “Otter Lake Reserve” proposing “OjibwayWorld,” a Native theme park designed to attract Europeans tourists to this destination resort. Cast of 3 women and 3 men. “This can be taken as a funny series of events. Those hoping for something deeper can find allegories and metaphors running through history.” – LA Splash

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco A beloved brother returns to his family. Cast of 6 women and 2 men. “Theatre does not often touch the heart the way this succeeds in doing.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-252-6; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 1982, 1990; 92 pp; 3rd printing

Bethune

The Book of Esther

Rod Langley

Leanna Brodie

Set in landscapes which move from Detroit to China, Bethune is a study of how one man’s vision may shape the world. In this play, Rod Langley attempts to chronicle the journey of Dr. Norman Bethune toward his final destiny. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.

With the help of a brash young hustler and a gay man who takes in street kids, fifteen-year-old runaway Esther confronts her conservative-Christian parents – farmers on the brink of financial ruin – and begins to find her way home. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

“A portrait of an enormously complex man.” – Vancouver Sun

“The Book of Esther is filled with tenderness, heart, and humour. It is also an eloquent plea for understanding.” – Sky Gilbert

Billy Bishop Goes to War

Bordertown Café

John MacLachlan Gray with Eric Peterson

Kelly Rebar

A musical play chronicling the exploits of Canada’s famous World War I flying ace. Cast of 2 men.

Young Jimmy faces a dilemma: embrace the hero of American popular myth as embodied by his father, or engage the task of building a different identity, embodied by his mother “on the Canadian side of nowhere.” Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 1982. “A delightful – and cunningly wrought – work of art.” – New Yorker “A superb mixture of laconic irony and white-knuckle tale-telling.” – Globe and Mail

“[A] humorous, human, touching and recognizable look at one family’s search for individual identity.” – Hamilton Spectator

Boiler Room Suite

The Boy in the Treehouse / Girl Who Loved Her Horses

Rex Deverell The broken lives and the heroic struggle for joy of two “tramps” in a hotel boiler room. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men. Canadian Authors Association Drama Award Winner, 1978. “A beautiful tragicomic look at a couple of losers.” – NBC ISBN 978-0-88922-137-6; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 1978; 96 pp

Drew Hayden Taylor In The Boy in the Treehouse, Simon pursues a vision quest in an attempt to reclaim his mother’s First Nations heritage. In Girl Who Loved Her Horses, a non-status girl finds people on the Reserve understand her remarkable talent and strong spirit more than those around her. The Boy in the Treehouse cast: 1 woman and 4 men. Girl Who Loved Her Horses cast: 2 women and 3 men. ISBN 978-0-88922-441-4; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD © 2000; 160 pp; 4th printing

Bolsheviki

Burning Vision

A Dead Serious Comedy David Fennario

Marie Clements

WWI veteran Rosie Rollins’s clattering, fast-paced recollection of life and death in the trenches debunks every sentimental notion of duty, heroism, and warfare. Cast of 1 man.

Dene miners, radium painters and people of Hiroshima labour under the false sun of uranium, which poisons their relationships to the earth and to each other. Cast of 5 women and 12 men.

“Bolsheviki is vintage Fennario, gritty, authentic, touching, replete with one-liners, never boring … making its radical-pacifist point while paying due respect to veterans.” – Montreal Gazette

Canada–Japan Literary Award Winner, 2004. Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2003.

“[A] brave new play that bombards the senses and fires up the mind.” – Globe and Mail

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The Buz’Gem Blues

The Carpenter

Drew Hayden Taylor

A Carpenter’s Trilogy, A Chronicle in Three Plays, Part III Vittorio Rossi

The third play in Taylor’s ongoing zany, often farcical examination of both Native and non-Native stereotypes in what is to become what he calls his “Blues Quartet.” Cast of 3 women and 3 men. “He skewers liberal and native stereotypes, preferring to deal on a more human level.” – Hamilton Examiner ISBN 978-0-88922-462-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2002; 128 pp; 3rd printing

This heart-wrenching but beautifully cathartic story of a family coming to grips with itself unfolds with unmistakably poignant honesty. Cast of 4 women and 5 men. “Rossi’s plays represent the heftiest addition to the Canadian dramatic canon since David French’s Mercer Cycle or George F. Walker’s East End Plays.” – CBC ISBN 978-0-88922-609-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2009; 128 pp; Photos

Can You See Me Yet?

Chimera

Timothy Findley

Wendy Lill

A search for sanctuary in an Ontario insane asylum in 1938. Cast of 7 women and 4 men.

This compelling drama by a former parliamentary critic for persons with disabilities explores the ethical controversy and public policy surrounding reproductive technologies, particularly cross-species chimeras. Cast of 2 women and 5 men.

“Seems to me to be an astonishing work, richly textured, sombre, and yet possessing a relieving wit.” – Margaret Laurence

– The Scientist

Les Canadiens

Cold Comfort

Rick Salutin

Jim Garrard

Introduction by Ken Dryden

The third in Garrard’s quartet of “bondage” plays explores the complex relationships among three characters at the geographic centre of Canada. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.

A play that uses hockey and the “team to beat” as metaphors for the history of Quebec and Canada. Cast of 7 men. Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1978. “An examination of the Canadiens has never been mastered so well.” – Montreal Gazette ISBN 978-0-88922-122-2; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD © 1977; 192 pp; 4th printing

“A remarkable achievement … a solid and memorable show.” – Toronto Star “Sheer genius!”

– Arts National, CBC Radio

Cariboo Magi

Colours in the Dark

Lucia Frangione

James Reaney

Hilarious drama ensues when a bedraggled troupe of players heads into the wilds of the Cariboo to perform a Christmas pageant. Set in the gold rush era, Cariboo Magi is an unabashed celebration of the power of theatre to renew our lives and banish our cares. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

A theatrical portrayal of the mosaic of experiences that form a childhood. Cast of 2 women, 2 men, 1 girl and 1 boy.

“A beautifully written tribute to the strength of the human spirit.” – Vancouver Sun

Carmela’s Table

The Concise Köchel

A Carpenter’s Trilogy, A Chronicle in Three Plays, Part II Vittorio Rossi

Normand Chaurette

Italian war veteran Silvio now lives in Montreal with his new family and his mother. Deeply traumatized by his wartime experiences, Silvio’s gradual unravelling ultimately threatens to destroy his family. Cast of 3 women and 2 men. “Second time out, the volatile Rosato family still offers passion through familial drama.” – Variety.com ISBN 978-0-88922-594-7; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2008; 128 pp; Photos

Translated by Linda Gaboriau A lifetime’s devotion to the music of Mozart conceals a gruesome secret. Cast of 4 women. “The situation and dialogue are intriguing … The play may be difficult, but Chaurette’s unnerving climax should lead to heated and extended discussions in the lobby after the play is over.” – Stage Directions ISBN 978-0-88922-518-3; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 2005; 96 pp

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Consecrated Ground

Cruel Tears

George Boyd

Ken Mitchell

In 1965, Africville, Canada’s largest and oldest black community was razed. What was lost to the politicians of Halifax was an inconvenience, an eyesore. What was lost to the people whose roots ran deep through the community was an entire way of life. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

An innovative “country opera” set in Saskatoon, with a captivating parallel to Shakespeare’s Othello. Cast of 5 women, 10 men and a band.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2000. “Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, – George Elliott Clarke and epic activism.” ISBN 978-0-88922-666-1; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 1999, 2011; 96 pp

Copper Thunderbird

Cul-de-sac

Marie Clements

Daniel MacIvor

A multi-layered and visionary drama of a life wracked by both triumph and ordeal, based on the persona of famed Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau. Cast of 5 women and 4 men.

Introduction by Daniel Brooks Through this dazzling one-man show we understand that everyone’s story inevitably reflects the preconceptions they bring to its telling. Cast of 1 man.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2008.

Siminovitch Prize in Theatre Finalist, 2005.

“Marie Clements … is building a powerful reputation for her innovative approaches to … theatre on – Vancouver Sun aboriginal themes.”

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2005.

“Wickedly funny.”

Corker

Cyrano de Bergerac

Wendy Lill

Edmond Rostand

Corker uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous 19thcentury device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. Cast of 2 women and 4 men. Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1999. “Tough, compassionate and surprisingly funny.” – Sunday Daily News ISBN 978-0-88922-394-3; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1998; 128 pp

– National Post

Translated by John Murrell An epic and heroic tale that has enchanted generations, in an English prose translation that is immanently readable and stageable. Cast of 5 women, 12 men and many minor characters. “[Cyrano de Bergerac is a] brilliant … unforgettable … impressive achievement.” – Edmonton Journal ISBN 978-0-921368-43-4; $10.95 CAD / $7.95 USD © 1995; 160 pp

The Coronation Voyage

Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra

Michel Marc Bouchard

Michel Tremblay

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Translated by John Van Burek

Will a Montreal Mafioso sacrifice his young son for safe conduct to England? Cast of 6 women and 8 men.

Two interweaving monologues on the sacred and the profane. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

“Tackles the themes of sacrifice and forgiveness, the interpretation of history, the lost (i.e., sacrificed) generation, innocence, family and love.” – La Presse

“One of the best plays of Michel Tremblay.”

“Brilliant, artful, satirical.”

– Fugues

“A hauntingly powerful evening of theatre.” – Vancouver Express

– CBC Radio

Crabdance

Dancock’s Dance

Beverley Simons

Guy Vanderhaeghe

A woman forces the men in her life into assuming the stereotypical privatized roles of husband, lover, father and son. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

Shell-shocked, judged unfit for society and haunted by the sins of war, Lieutenant John Carlyle Dancock finds himself committed to an insane asylum where he cannot escape the confines of righteous authority or his own conscience. Cast of 1 woman and 5 men.

“An unusual and searing play about a woman caught in a cage of frustration and neglect.” – Vancouver Sun “One of the most theatrical contemporary plays that I have ever read.” – Malcolm Black ISBN 978-0-88922-016-4; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 1972; 128 pp; 7th printing

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Dead White Writer on the Floor

Divinity Bash / nine lives

Drew Hayden Taylor

Bryden MacDonald

A funny yet thought-provoking play about identity politics in which Pocahontas, Tonto and other First Nations characters rewrite their stereotyped roles. Cast of 3 men and 5 women.

Bryden MacDonald’s most extreme venture into the world of the theatre to date: a play in which everything, and therefore nothing, is sacred. Cast of 3 women, 5 men and 1 transgendered person.

“Abstract theatre is not generally associated with comedy … but judging by the laughter issuing from the packed house at Magnus’ opening night of the show, it is also dropdead hilarious.” – The Argus

“A carnivalesque expression of contemporary zeitgeist.”

– CBC

The Death of René Lévesque

Doctor Thomas Neill Cream

David Fennario

(Mystery at McGill) David Fennario

An astonishingly profound and prophetic political drama that delivers the powerful and cathartic stillbirth of a nation, stripped of both pity and fear. Cast of 2 women and 4 men. “When a final analysis is made of 20th-century Canadian theatre, the most significant political playwright will undoubtedly be David Fennario.” – CBRA ISBN 978-0-88922-480-3; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 2003; 72 pp

In 1876, Jack the Ripper, a.k.a. Canadian Dr. Cream, graduated from McGill’s Faculty of Medicine. Cast of 4 women and 6 men. Arthur Ellis Award Nominee, 1994. “Fennario’s in-your-face irreverence [is] ferociously funny.” – U of T Quarterly ISBN 978-0-88922-332-5; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1994; 112 pp

Democracy

Down Dangerous Passes Road

John Murrell

Michel Marc Bouchard

In the midst of the American Civil War, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson discuss the past, the future, life, love and what it means to be human. Cast of 4 men. Alberta Writers’ Guild Prize Winner for Drama.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau Fifteen years after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened: an old fishing spot on the river down Dangerous Passes Road. Cast of 3 men.

“Even the simplest lines have a quiet eloquence … soft explosions of the heart.” – Quill & Quire

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2000.

Diplomacy

The Driving Force

Tim Carlson

Michel Tremblay

Nominally about North American military involvement in Middle East wars, this graphic, conflict-fuelled drama scrutinizes the part the media plays in manufacturing our private reactions to foreign policy. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau The stormy and angst-filled relationship between Claude and his father, Alex, is compellingly played out with cruel and disconsolate irony in an Alzheimer’s ward. Cast of 2 men.

“It’s a rare thing – the well-argued blast of political outrage. – Globe and Mail

“The text is as severe, intense and implacable as the reality of each character.” – CBC Radio-Canada

The Dishwashers

La Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays

Morris Panych

Michel Tremblay

Haplessly determined to have his own miserable authority vindicated, chief dishwasher Dressler presides over the steam-choked basement of an upscale restaurant, tyrannizing his co-workers with his rants of pride of craft and Marxist rhetoric. Cast of 3 men.

A collection of five short plays by Quebec’s best-known playwright: La Duchesse de Langeais; Berthe; Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs; Surprise, Surprise; and Gloria Star.

“Funny, sad, strange and uplifting, sometimes in the same breath.” – Vancouver Sun

“The plight of the Duchesse mirrors the plight of a society.” – Canadian Literature

Translated by John Van Burek

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The Dunsmuirs

The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Alone at the Edge Rod Langley

George Ryga

The first play in this saga of one of Canada’s wealthiest and most ruthless families. Cast of 2 women and 6 men. “The story of the Dunsmuirs is a hell of a tale that’s got everything.” – Victoria Times-Colonist ISBN 978-0-88922-297-7; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1991; 104 pp

A lyric documentary about a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row. Cast of 5 women and 15 men. “Scenes of shattering impact … and passages of a purity and intensity that catch you off guard and keep – Washington Post you there.” “It was – and remains – a play for all seasons and for all peoples.” – Vancouver Province ISBN 978-0-88922-000-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 1970; 128 pp; 26th printing

The Dunsmuirs

The Edward Curtis Project

A Promise Kept Rod Langley

A Modern Picture Story Marie Clements & Rita Leistner

A dark family secret emerges in this second play about the wealthy and ill-fated Dunsmuir family. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.

Earshot

En Pièces Détachées

Morris Panych

Michel Tremblay

Doyle has a very funny problem: he hears too much. He can hear the most intimate details of the lives of everyone living in his apartment building. He blames his hypersensitive condition on a physical abnormality, but we’re not so certain. Cast of 1 man. “A superbly mounted Panych attack.”

Translated by Allan Van Meer The life of a working-class family on “The Main” in East End Montreal. Cast of 4 women and 2 men. “Tremblay courageously insists on the relevance and dilemma of neo-colonial French Canada.” – Books in Canada

The East End Plays

The Ends of the Earth

Part I George F. Walker

Morris Panych

Contains the Governor General’s Award–winning Criminals in Love (1984), Better Living (1986) and Escape from Happiness (1987). With an introduction by Jerry Wasserman.

Panych’s brilliant tale reminds us all that fear can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cast of 2 women and 3 men. Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 1994. “Panych’s witty script is full of laughs and packed with action.” – Globe and Mail

“One of theatre’s most important voices.” – Maclean’s

The East End Plays

Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout

Part II George F. Walker

Tomson Highway

Three plays exploring characters living in extremity include Beautiful City, Love and Anger and Tough!

Based on the signing of the Laurier Memorial, this play is a ritualized retelling of how the Native peoples of British Columbia lost their land, rights and language – in one of the most tragic cases of cultural genocide to emerge from the history of colonialism. Cast of 4 women.

“Walker writes with unprecedented directness … [His] characters think and feel out loud in a perpetual present-tense fever because life, and often more, is on the line.” – Village Voice

“The play is both laugh-out-loud funny and a precarious high-wire act.” – Globe and Mail

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Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk

Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass

Herschel Hardin

Tom Hendry

A classic tragedy about Inuit life and how it is affected by white settlers, priests and government officials. Cast of 6 women and 9 men.

Set in Winnipeg in 1945, this CBC-commissioned work looks at postwar Canada through the eyes of a kid just out of high school. “There I was just out of high school, all eager for the future, and there was the road to the future stretching out in front of me like fifteen miles of broken glass.” Cast of 2 women and 9 men.

“A fascinating, moving, and ultimately a very beautiful play.”

– CBC

Espresso

15 Seconds

Lucia Frangione

François Archambault

Sexy, provocative and challenging, Espresso inverts the Catholic stereotypes of feminine sexuality to boldly examine their corresponding masculine sexual emblems of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

A young female advertising copywriter, her sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum loser and his brother with cerebral palsy. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

Translated by Bobby Theodore

“Espresso is a high-quality blend of bitter, dark comedy and subtle literary complexities that packs a strong punch.” – Globe and Mail

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2000.

The Execution

The Fighting Days

Marie-Claire Blais

Wendy Lill

Translated by David Lobdell Two school boys plot and enact the murder of a classmate. Cast of 3 women and 17 men.

The polarities of public and private lives, and issues of racism and pacifism in the suffragette movement. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.

“A brilliant play about the maturation of evil.” – CHQM

“An unusually insightful investigation of social conscience.” – Arts Manitoba

“Funny, thought-provoking, poignant, and often dark …” – CBRA

The Fairies Are Thirsty

For Home and Country

Denise Boucher

Leanna Brodie

Translated by Alan Brown

The rise of an urban and radicalized feminist agenda in the latter part of the 20th century leads to a head-on collision with its much more conservative, rural roots in the Women’s Institute, founded in 1897. Cast of 16 women and 3 men.

Three women – a housewife, a whore and the Virgin Mary – fight to break out of the stereotypes in which they have been imprisoned for years. Cast of 3 women. “A powerful script and an important play.” – Montreal Gazette ISBN 978-0-88922-200-7; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 1982; 64 pp; 4th printing

The Faraway Nearby

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again

John Murrell

Michel Tremblay

Georgia O’Keeffe resigns herself to an old age spent alone in the auburn and tawny light of her beloved Faraway mountains, in the desert’s dangerous energies and its desolate beauty, until a stranger enters her life. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man. “In Quebec, a new Tremblay play is like a fresh tablet from Moses.” – Montreal Gazette ISBN 978-0-88922-389-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 1998, 96 pp; 4th printing

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Forever Yours, Marie-Lou

Gideon’s Blues

Michel Tremblay

George Boyd

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco

The profound humanity of Boyd’s characters reminds us that while neither drug abuse nor the breakdown of the traditional family is exclusive to the black community, racism accelerates their destructive effects in ghastly measures. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

Raw and brutal, Tremblay’s penetrating analysis of a Quebec family unit remains one of the great plays of this country’s dramatic literature. Cast of 3 women and 1 man. “Brilliantly insightful, uncompromising drama.” – Detroit News “One of Tremblay’s infinitely hot and dense family dramas.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-349-3; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 1975, 1994; 82 pp; 6th printing

400 Kilometres

Girl in the Goldfish Bowl

Drew Hayden Taylor

Morris Panych

The third play in Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, an urban professional who has discovered her roots as the Ojibway orphan Grace Wabung, is pregnant and must come to grips with the question of her true identity. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.

It’s into the goldfish bowl of a dysfunctional family that the audience peers with acute recognition, hysterical laughter and an overwhelming sense of the creative healing power of the imagination. Cast of 3 women and 2 men. Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 2004.

“Sharply written … Warm and funny.” – Halifax Daily News

“An uncommon, quirky blend of humour and compassion.” – National Post

Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists

The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A Stage Play Based on the Novel by Sheldon Currie Wendy Lill

A dramatized inquiry in which five geologists are interrogated on the death of one of their colleagues in the Mekong Delta. Cast of 1 woman and 6 men.

A story of the ill-fated love between a wandering musician social-idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner’s daughter. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

Normand Chaurette

Fronteras Americanas

Goodnight Disgrace

American Borders Guillermo Verdecchia

Michael Mercer

One man’s struggle to find a home between two cultures, exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. Cast of 1 man. Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 1993. “Outrageous, funny, devastatingly witty.”

– CBC

From his wheelchair in a nursing home, Conrad Aiken recalls his long, stormy relations with Malcolm Lowry. Cast of 3 women and 4 men. “Knocked out by the richness of its language.” – Vancouver Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-238-0; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1986; 120 pp

George Ryga

Gordon

The Other Plays Edited by James Hoffman

Morris Panych

“Hoffman provides an effective and multifaceted description for the student seeking a quick understanding of Ryga’s stature as a playwright.” – Canadian Literature ISBN 978-0-88922-500-8; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 2004; 416 pp

Gordon and his former cellmate, Carl, break into Gordon’s family home, wherein they confront some very disturbing metaphors. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men. “A beautifully dark and chillingly funny exploration of … the implications of bringing children into this world.” – Segal Centre for the Performing Arts ISBN 978-0-88922-664-7; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2011; 128 pp

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The Great Wave of Civilization

The Heretic

Herschel Hardin

John Murphy

The Great Wave of Civilization is about the destruction of the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy by the 19th-century liquor trade in Montana and Alberta. Little Dog of the Northern Blackfoot tribe vs. Snookum Jim, free trader, I.G. Baker, merchant prince of Fort Benton, and the rest of the “great wave of civilization.” Cast of 5 women and 13 men.

“If there is a God, why would He create us? If He’s perfect, all-knowing, there’s nothing he can gain from us.” Murphy’s play, centred around the playwright’s assumed persona of “Jesus Murphy,” opens up a discourse where creation interrogates religion, atheists engage believers, and secularists confront theists. Cast of 1 man.

“A fable of genocide with conscience-raising fervour.” – Books in Canada

“A scary, brave and ferocious attack on JudeoChristian religion and its doctrines.”

The Gull

Homechild

Daphne Marlatt

Joan MacLeod

With a Japanese translation by Toyoshi Yoshihara

Between 1860 and 1930, more than eighty thousand unaccompanied British children were “exported” to Canadian factories and farms, often exploited there as indentured child labourers. Cast of 5 women and 3 men.

Performed in classical Noh style, The Gull, set in the aftermath of wartime Japanese-Canadian internment, dramatizes the historical link between the fishing village of Steveston, BC, and the coastal village of Mio, Japan. Cast of 1 woman, 4 men, and a chorus. Winner of the 2008 Uchimura Naoya Prize. “A masterpiece.”

– CBC

“MacLeod has written a moving story of huge implications – what family, identity and personal history mean.” – CBC

– UNESCO

Halo

The Hope Slide / Little Sister

Josh MacDonald

Joan MacLeod

When an image of Jesus appears on the wall of a Tim Hortons restaurant, the town inhabitants are challenged to ask difficult questions about faith, life, and love. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

In The Hope Slide, natural disaster becomes a metaphor for the AIDS crisis. Winner of a 1993 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Cast of 1 woman.

Merritt Theatre Award Nominee for Best Play, 2004. “Halo successfully melds faith, drama and humour … very funny and quite moving.” – Halifax Daily News ISBN 978-0-88922-469-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2002; 128 pp; 4th printing

“A passionate and rich examination of the human condition’s precariousness.” – Victoria Times-Colonist Little Sister, MacLeod’s first script for young audiences, tackles the issues of self-image, weight preoccupation and eating disorders. Cast 3 women and 2 men. ISBN 978-0-88922-411-7; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1999; 128 pp

Heaven

Hosanna

George F. Walker

Michel Tremblay

Instantly recognizable multicultural characters play out their coincidental relationships in a park on the outskirts of a city. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco A transvestite’s illusion of herself is shattered when she goes to a costume party dressed up as Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. Cast of 2 men.

“Leavened with Walker’s dizzying sense of humour. It is also shot through with hot anger at an uncaring society and with compassion for the disenfranchised and the spiritually maimed.” – Toronto Star

“Written by a real playwright who can write poetic prose, handle literary technique and create character.” – New York Post

Hellfire Pass

The Impromptu of Outremont

A Carpenter’s Trilogy, A Chronicle in Three Plays, Part I Vittorio Rossi

Michel Tremblay

Silvio Rosato shows up at the house of his estranged father and meets the family he raised in Chicago after leaving Silvio in Italy thirty-six years ago. Cast of 3 women and 4 men. Winner of the 2006 Montreal English Critics’ Circle Award. “A powerful, memorable drama.”

– Variety

Translated by John Van Burek Three sisters have an “impromptu” and re-examine their personal and social problems. Cast of 4 women. “A clear delineation of the problems faced by any colonial culture.” – Vancouver Province ISBN 978-0-88922-185-7; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 1981; 96 pp; 3rd printing

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Impromptu on Nuns’ Island

Jacob’s Wake

Michel Tremblay

Michael Cook

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A Maritime family’s tragedy, set in a raging storm. Cast of 2 women and 5 men.

In an impromptu get-together in an opera diva’s Nuns’ Island penthouse, on the afternoon of her return from Paris, her celebrity mother and her idealistic daughter lie in wait for her. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.

“A powerful play, deeply rooted in its regional context, but universal enough to appeal to an – Canadian Literature audience anywhere.”

In a World Created by a Drunken God

Je me souviens

Drew Hayden Taylor

Lorena Gale

This play by one of Canada’s best-loved Native playwrights raises powerful questions that transcend issues of culture, race and history, cutting to the ethical quick of what it means to be human in a chaotic world stripped of the comfortable security of identity politics. Cast of 2 men.

In this powerful dramatic monologue, Lorena Gale reconstructs for the audience her childhood and the experience of coming of age as an African Canadian in Montreal. Cast of 1 woman.

In Piazza San Domenico

Jitters

Steve Galluccio

David French

This comedy of misunderstandings that takes place in bustling 1952 Naples recounts how one broken engagement ripples throughout friends and family, affecting each of their lives in different ways. Cast of 4 women and 4 men.

This sophisticated backstage comedy opens on the night of a preview of a new play. Within minutes, the audience is plunged into the world of the theatre, a world of loves and hates, easily bruised egos, contradictory interpretations of role and script – all complicated by crises and all magnified by opening night “jitters.” Cast of 3 women and 6 men.

“Three cheers for light-hearted entertainment! Billed as a romantic comedy inspired by Feydeau, Goldoni and Sophia Loren, it bears the mark of all three, with a dash of trademark Galluccio.” – Montreal Gazette

“Jitters is witty, affectionate, bitchy; bitterly touching.” – Toronto Star

In the Eyes of God

Joe Beef

Raul Sanchez Inglis

David Fennario

A vicious and unsparing look at the talent agencies that remake the Hollywood stars out of the willing clay of their own flesh. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

Desperately poor immigrants find refuge in Montreal’s legendary barkeep, Joe Beef. Cast of 5 women and 5 men. The United Steel Workers’ Union Pauline Julien Prize Winner, 1987.

“[This] terrific play … is one of the most vicious exposes of Hollywood venality, misogyny and the social Darwinism that drives the star-making machinery that you’ll ever see.” – Vancouver Province

“An evening of political theatre with both guts and skill is a rare commodity these days.” – Montreal Gazette

In the Eyes of Stone Dogs

The Lady Smith

Daniel Danis

Andrew Moodie

Translated by Linda Gaboriau Before fleeing her eccentric island community, Djouke is determined to discover the mystery of her paternity. Cast of 4 women and 5 men.

Rather than confront her husband when she sees him with another woman, a blues singer follows the woman and insinuates herself into the other woman’s life. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.

“A skillful blend of lyricism and cruelty, of the tragic and the poetic.” – Voir

“No question, playwright Andrew Moodie has a gift for naturalism.” – Toronto Star

“Strange, haunting and unforgettable.” – Stage Directions

“Amusingly inventive.”

– Globe and Mail

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Lawrence & Holloman

Listen to the Wind

Morris Panych

James Reaney

Lawrence and Holloman, a hapless nerd and a loquacious salesman, meet by chance. From this fleetingly irritating and insignificant encounter comes a viciously murderous and incredulously bizarre plot. Cast of 2 men.

Two stories intertwine and illuminate the relationship of life to its creative dream. Cast of 4 women, 4 men, 1 girl, and 1 boy.

“Lawrence & Holloman is slick stuff indeed.” – Toronto Sun

“Keeps reminding us that the way through our world of sickness and breakdown is play.” – Profiles in Canadian Drama

Legoland

Local Boy Makes Good

Jacob Richmond

John MacLachlan Gray

When Mom and Dad are busted for growing pot, Penny and Ezra Lamb embark on the wild road trip that comprises this vaudeville-inspired one-act play. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

Three musicals by John Gray: 18 Wheels, Rock and Roll and Don Messer’s Jubilee.

“Legoland is like a variety show version of South Park.” – Globe and Mail

“John Gray is the most original artist working in the – Globe and Mail musical theatre in this country.”

The Leisure Society

Lost Souls and Missing Persons

François Archambault

Sally Clark

Translated by Bobby Theodore A dark and thoroughly contemporary comedy. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

A comic, biting, surreal investigation of the question of self and identity in the North American middle class. Cast of 9 women and 11 men.

“A vicious, erotically charged spectacle full of cynical disdain and gripping pathos.” – Montreal Gazette

“Essentially a serious story told in a tremendously comical way.” – Jerry Wasserman, CBC

“A dark, twisted and brilliant take on modern marriage.” – Calgary Sun

Canadian Authors Association Drama Award Winner, 1988 (Rock and Roll).

Life Without Instruction

Ludwig & Mae

Sally Clark

Louis Patrick Leroux

A woman’s struggle for freedom, identity and dignity. Cast of 3 women and 5 men. “Sally Clark’s great talents as a playwright are her seemingly effortless ability to shift from light to dark and her finely tuned understanding of life’s rich ambiguities.” – Toronto Star

Translated by Shelley Tepperman & Ellen Warkentin Three plays include Embedded, which establishes Ludwig and Mae’s Strindbergian relationship; Apocalypse, a monodrama in which Ludwig stages his own suicidal ceremonial; and Redemption, Mae’s testimonial, where she finally comes into her own. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man. “audacious avant-garde spectacles.”

A Line in the Sand

The Madonna Painter

Guillermo Verdecchia & Marcus Youssef

Michel Marc Bouchard

A young Palestinian is befriended, then tortured and murdered by Canadian soldiers during Operation Desert Storm. Cast of 3 to 5 men.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1997. “[A] powerful story.”

– CBRA

– Jane Moss

To protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic, a young Quebec priest commissions a church fresco of the Virgin Mary by a wandering Italian painter. The presence of the foreign artist, his choice of a local virgin to serve as a model and the frighteningly strange nature of his work upsets the lives and changes the fate of the entire community. Cast of 4 women and 3 men. ISBN 978-0-88922-641-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2010; 96 pp

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The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr

Memories of You

Jovette Marchessault

Wendy Lill

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

The life of Elizabeth Smart pivoted on a turbulent affair that produced four children and her one book. This is a portrayal of the book as a record of one great life lived. Cast of 4 women and 1 man.

Marchessault evokes the doubts, the trials and the joys of this singular existence. Cast of 3 women and 1 man. “A worthy trip home for one of Canada’s greatest – Globe and Mail painters.” ISBN 978-0-88922-314-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1992; 104 pp; 2nd printing

La Maison Suspendue

Miss Julie

Michel Tremblay

August Strindberg

Translated by John Van Burek

An adaptation by David French

A rich, emotional, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. Cast of 3 women, 4 men and 1 boy.

A riveting adaptation of a theatre classic about an affair between the daughter of a count and the count’s manservant. Cast of 2 women and 1 man.

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1990.

“Direct, accessible and strangely contemporary, [this adaptation of] Miss Julie is a … blast of dramatic fresh air which retains its provocative power.” – Halifax Chronicle Herald

“A full and resounding resonance.”

– Theatrum

Mambo Italiano

Modern Canadian Plays

Steve Galluccio

Volume I, Fourth Edition Edited by Jerry Wasserman

Outrageous pathos and hilarity is unleashed when Nino informs his very traditionally Italian parents that he is gay. A perfect balance of fast-paced comedy and poignant drama that explores family dynamics and the vast spaces between the old world and the new. Cast of 4 women and 3 men. “Manages to combine the sentimental, the silly and the sexy.” – Toronto Star ISBN 978-0-88922-494-0; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2004; 128 pp; 2nd printing

This fourth edition contains The Ecstasy of Rita Joe; Fortune and Men’s Eyes; Les Belles Soeurs; Leaving Home; 1837: The Farmer’s Revolt; The St. Nicholas Hotel; Zastrozzi; Billy Bishop Goes to War; Balconville; Doc; Drag Queens on Trial; and The Occupation of Heather Rose. ISBN 978-0-88922-436-0; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD © 2000; 464 pp; 7th printing

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds

Modern Canadian Plays

Michel Tremblay

Volume I, Fifth Edition Edited by Jerry Wasserman

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco How our “innocent” childhood games and fantasies come back to haunt us in adult life. Cast of 4 women and 1 adolescent male. “Tremblay’s grip on matters of the human heart is as precise, knowing and unforgiving as ever.” – Quill & Quire ISBN 978-0-88922-326-4; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1996; 80 pp; 2nd printing

This fifth edition contains The Ecstasy of Rita Joe; Les Belles Soeurs; Leaving Home; Sticks and Stones (The Donnellys, Part One); Zastrozzi; Billy Bishop Goes to War; Balconville; Blood Relations; Drag Queens on Trial; Bordertown Café; Toronto, Mississippi; Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet); Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing; Lion in the Streets, and Life Without Instruction. ISBN 978-0-88922-678-4; $49.95 CAD / $49.95 USD © 2012; 560 pp

Marion Bridge

Modern Canadian Plays

Daniel MacIvor

Volume II, Fourth Edition Edited by Jerry Wasserman

Includes screenplay and stage play. Cast of 3 women. “In some ways, this moving drama, which tiptoes toward sentimentality without ever reaching it, is the most surprising play that [MacIvor’s] ever written. When was the last time you saw a drama about three distinct, complex women that had nothing to do with their relationships with men?” – New York Times ISBN 978-0-88922-552-7; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 1999, 2006; 192 pp; 3rd printing

This fourth edition contains Bordertown Café; Polygraph; Moo; The Orphan Muses; 7 Stories; Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing; Amigo’s Blue Guitar; Lion in the Streets; Never Swim Alone; Fronteras Americanas; Harlem Duet; and Problem Child. ISBN 978-0-88922-437-7; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD © 2001; 408 pp; 7th printing

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Mom’s the Word

The Occupation of Heather Rose

Linda A. Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard & Deborah Williams

Wendy Lill

Humorous stories, bittersweet monologues, poetic reflections and revelatory anecdotes about motherhood. Cast of 6 women. “I’d almost forgotten what it’s like to enjoy a show this much.” – Georgia Straight ISBN 978-0-88922-431-5; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 2000; 112 pp; 2nd printing

Young, naive and inadequately trained nurse Heather Rose arrives in a remote Native community hoping to improve the lives of its residents, but ends up utterly disillusioned by the impotence of her interventions. Cast of 1 woman. “An achingly honest reminder of the naively enthusiastic attempts that each of us has made to wade bravely into unfamiliar territory.” – Toronto Star ISBN 978-0-88922-593-0; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2008; 64 pp; Photos

Moo

Omniscience

Sally Clark

Tim Carlson

When the feisty and rebellious Moragh (Moo) MacDowell meets the intriguing Harry Parker, she decides nothing will ever separate them. Harry has been running ever since. Cast of 5 women and 3 men.

The play begs the question of how many of our freedoms have been lost to the institutions engaged in surveillance “for our own protection.”Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1990. “Well written, laced with black humour and filled with a host of sharply drawn characters.” – Toronto Star ISBN 978-0-88754-476-7; $12.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1984; 132 pp; 4th printing

“This assault on the modern media makes a clever stab at warning its audience of what’s to come on this crazy granite planet.” – Vancouver Sun “Never less than intelligently provocative.” – Georgia Straight ISBN 978-0-88922-562-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2007; 96 pp; 2nd printing

1949

On the Job

David French

David Fennario

Newfoundland joins Confederation in the continuing saga of the Mercer family. Cast of 6 women, 6 men and 2 boys.

On Christmas Eve the workers in a Montreal shipping room get drunk and go on strike. Cast of 8 men.

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Finalist, 1988.

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1976.

“Told with French’s warm humour and effortless command of stage convention.” – Globe and Mail

“Vibrates with the rough and ready energy of a street fight.” – Quill & Quire

The Noam Chomsky Lectures

One Crack Out

Daniel Brooks & Guillermo Verdecchia

David French

An innovative, multi-layered deconstruction of mass media and politics. Cast of 2 men.

Charlie Evans, a pool shark, has two days to pay off a debt or have his legs broken by a psychotic debt collector who is also having an affair with his wife. Cast of 2 women and 8 men.

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1992. Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1992. “A … sharp and funny ‘lecture’ on cultural politics and political culture.” – Now “An anti-imperialist primer.”

– Socialist Worker

Nothing to Lose

Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

David Fennario

Drew Hayden Taylor

Working-class survivors of the 1960s stage a workers’ sit-down strike. Cast of 9 men.

A Native woman who was adopted by a white family struggles to acknowledge her birth family. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

James Buller Award for Playwright of the Year, 1997. Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Small Theatre Division, 1996. “This is not just a great Native production. This is a great production. Period.” – CBC ISBN 978-0-88922-384-4; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 1998; 112 pp; 8th printing

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Other Schools of Thought

The Power Plays

Morris Panych

George F. Walker

Dramas that encourage adults to reflect on their past and young people to reflect on their future: Life Science, 2B WUT UR and Cost of Living.

First published as a trilogy in 1986, The Power Plays contains Gossip (1977), Filthy Rich (1979) and The Art of War (1983). These three plays showcase the development and the culmination of Walker’s film-noir style.

Paradise by the River

The Queens

Vittorio Rossi

Normand Chaurette

After Canada officially declares war with Italy, Romano, a recent immigrant, is arrested without charge in his own home. Cast of 2 women and 8 men.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau The shifting passions and ambitions of six women drawn from Shakespeare’s theatre. Cast of 6 women.

“Tale of imprisoned Italians delivers explosive, full throttle energy … he succeeds at giving authentic voice to a specific community.” – Montreal Gazette

“This is a theatre of allusions, metaphysical playwriting of a literary richness which has yet to find its equal in Quebec drama.” – Le Devoir

Paradise Garden

The Real World?

Lucia Frangione

Michel Tremblay

The McKinnons have fallen on hard times and must sell half of their generations-old West Coast estate to a Turkish immigrant family. Cast of 1 woman and 4 men. “Playwright and actor Lucia Frangione enters risky emotional territory in Paradise Garden.” – Georgia Straight

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco A play within a play. A young playwright draws on his family as the raw material for his first work. Cast of 4 women and 3 men. “A virtuoso piece of writing by a master craftsman.” – Toronto Star ISBN 978-0-88922-260-1; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 1988; 80 pp; 3rd printing

Past Perfect

The Refugee Hotel

Michel Tremblay

Carmen Aguirre

Translated by Linda Gaboriau Unleashing the dark secret of her being, Albertine, one of Tremblay’s most unforgettable heroines, sets out to reconquer the beau she has lost to her younger sister. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.

More than a dark comedy about a group of Chilean refugees who arrive in Vancouver in 1974 after Pinochet’s coup, this play is Carmen Aguirre’s attempt to give voice to refugee communities from all corners of the globe. Cast of 5 women, 5 men, 1 girl , 1 boy and 1 male dancer.

“The really scary, or beautiful, part is how much Albertine there is in every one of us.” – Globe and Mail

“A humorous and heartbreaking look at life in exile.” – Mark Taper Forum

Playing Bare

Remember Me

Dominic Champagne

Michel Tremblay

Translated by Shelley Tepperman

Translated by John Stowe

A mordant satire on the relation between theatre and life. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.

Two ex-lovers meet and compare and confess their fears and disillusionments. Cast of 2 men.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1994.

“[Tremblay] has entered a new phase of his dramatic art.” – Canadian Literature

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The Riddle of the World

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons

David French

James W. Nichol

A stockbroker and an ex-priest get together to console themselves after being abandoned by their mates and are forced to come to terms with their fragile natures as men. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.

A play about the conscience of a priest during the disastrous mission the Jesuits made to the Huron Indians in the 17th century. Cast of 11 men.

Rose

Salt-Water Moon

Tomson Highway

David French

A musical set on the Wasaychigan Hill Reserve in 1992. The battle for the future of the community builds to a shattering climax. Cast of 10 women and 7 men.

The third book of the Mercer family saga. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man. Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Drama Award, Dora Mavor Moore Award, Hollywood DramaLogue Critics Award and ACTRA Award.

“Tomson Highway has been a groundbreaking, foundational dramatist – the inaugural voice of a generation of First Nations playwrights in Canada.” – Canadian Literature

“A gem of a play … affecting, funny and as evocative as a dream.” – Globe and Mail

Saga of the Wet Hens

The Satchmo’ Suite

Jovette Marchessault

Hans Böggild & Doug Innis

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A black cellist invokes the ghost of Louis Armstrong to help him with a difficult passage from Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello. The highly mythologized spirit of “the father of jazz himself” takes form in the cellist’s hotel room, where the lives of the characters intertwine and begin to play off each other. Cast of 1 man.

Four Quebec women writers meet at the centre of a fabulous vortex. Cast of 4 women. “Potent feminist literature.”

– Quill & Quire

“[Marchessault’s] fiction is lyrical and heartfelt, her drama literary, allusive, and absolutely original.” – Books in Canada

“An irresistible meeting of music and drama, The Satchmo’ Suite really swings.” – Montreal Gazette

Saint Frances of Hollywood

Saucy Jack

Sally Clark

Sharon Pollock

The tragic life of Frances Farmer, the raucous, idealistic, non-conforming movie star of the 1930s and 1940s. Cast of 4 women and 4 men.

While a scholar and the nephew of Queen Victoria dance around the truth of the identity of Jack the Ripper, a hired London actress impersonates each of the seven murdered prostitutes. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

“It is this mix of fact and fantasy that Clark has captured so brilliantly and used to striking advantage … the effect is brutally chilling.” – Variety “A searing tragedy.”

– Toronto Star

Sainte-Carmen of the Main

Schoolhouse

Michel Tremblay

Leanna Brodie

Translated by John Van Burek

Full of warmth and poignant humour, this drama set in a one-room schoolhouse evokes a way of life shared by generations of rural North Americans, exploring timeless themes of rejection, of compassion, of damage, of hope. Cast of 5 women and 7 men.

A play about cultural identity and cultural awakening based on a country and western singer of Montreal’s “The Main.” Cast of 4 women, 13 men and a chorus. “An absolutely fascinating gesture by a powerful playwright.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-181-9; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 1981; 80 pp; 4th printing

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The Seagull

Six Plays by Mavor Moore

Anton Chekhov

Mavor Moore

Translated by David French

In these theatre pieces stripped to the essentials of character sketches in quick, subtle lines, the emphasis is on the performer’s resources as an actor, rather than the externals of scene changes and stage contexts.

A revitalization of a Russian theatre classic. Cast of 5 women and 8 men. “Witty, while preserving the historical integrity of the characters … French’s effective translation should make this edition the favoured teaching and acting – Canadian Theatre Review version in North America.”

7 Stories

Skydive

Morris Panych

Kevin Kerr

In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man’s contemplation of suicide leads to a charming and surprising ending. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

Two brothers reconnect after many years of separation to fulfill a life-long ambition to go skydiving. Yet we realize that something is being subverted as we watch this highstakes adventure occur in the final seconds of a daring adventure gone horribly wrong. Written for one ablebodied and one differently-abled actor. Cast of 2 men.

Winner of 6 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, 1989. “One of the best plays of the ’80s.”

– CBC

The Shape of a Girl / Jewel

Soldier’s Heart

Joan MacLeod

David French

The Shape of a Girl examines the code of silence and tacit complicity that surrounded the sensationalized murder of Reena Virk by school-aged bullies in 1997. Cast of 1 girl.

Esau Mercer, a veteran of WWI, tries to persuade his alienated 16-year-old son, Jacob, not to leave. Slowly Esau’s devastating and unsparing account of what secrets lie in his soldier’s heart brings father and son together. Cast of 3 men.

“Brilliant.”

– Globe and Mail

Jewel is based on the real-life catastrophe of the 1982 sinking of the Ocean Ranger, an oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland. Cast of 1 woman.

“When it comes to playwriting, David French is perhaps … the most celebrated in English Canada.” – Globe and Mail

Silver Dagger

Somewhere Else

David French

George F. Walker

French delivers a thriller guaranteed to have audiences perched on the edge of their seats. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

Contains Walker’s own selection of his early plays that matter, that for him have stood the test of time: Beyond Mozambique (1974), Zastrozzi (1977), Theatre of the Film Noir (1981) and Nothing Sacred (1988).

Sisters

Song of the Say-Sayer

Wendy Lill

Daniel Danis

A tough, uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. The soul-destroying devastation caused by these institutions from the point of view of the nuns running the school. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

“A moving theatrical experience.”

– Theatrum

Three brothers strive to unite and care for their ailing sister after the death of their adoptive parents. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men. “At once sinister and hilariously funny, darkly ominous and positively hopeful.” – Canadian Theatre Review ISBN 978-0-88922-419-3; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 1999; 96 pp

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Spectacle of Empire

Talking Bodies

Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France Edited by Jerry Wasserman

Larry Tremblay

Arguably the first North American play, this edition includes the original French script, two English translations, Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness and an extensive historical and critical introduction.

Translated by Sheila Fischman A collection of Larry Tremblay’s four memorable solo performances for the stage: A Trick of Fate, Anatomy Lesson, The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi and Ogre. With an introduction by Jane M. Moss.

“The French play by Lescarbot is a significant literary and cultural artifact.” – Dalhousie Review

“The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi is surely unique … This is a play that laments rather than preaches.” – Globe and Mail

Still Laughing

That Summer

Morris Panych

David French

Just for laughs, Morris Panych updated three comedy classics from a century ago: Gogol’s The Government Inspector, Feydeau and Desvallières’s Hotel Peccadillo, and Schnitzler’s The Amorous Adventures of Anatol.

A woman returns to the cottage country of Ontario where, 32 years before, she vacationed with her family. Cast of 5 women and 2 men.

“A summer without a deviceful staging by dauntless extrasensory Morris Panych is … wrong.” – Torontostage.com

“That Summer is a lyrical and beautifully constructed meditation on the passage of time and the transition from one generation to the next. David French is a playwright at the height of his powers.” – CBRA

Studies in Motion

That Woman

Kevin Kerr

Daniel Danis

Adultery, jealousy, murder and an abandoned child haunt the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Cast of 5 women and 7 men.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau The story of a woman sent away from her family by her brother the Bishop after she is found exploring her sexuality at age 17. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.

“A complex, thoughtfully layered script that makes us laugh and care about this deeply troubled man.” – Globe and Mail

“It is a tale of heartbreak spun out of an endless golden thread called hope.” – See Magazine

Suburban Motel

Tiln & Other Plays

George F. Walker

Michael Cook

Six plays that take place in the same hotel room: Problem Child, Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Adult Entertainment, Featuring Loretta, and The End of Civilization.

Three short plays by Cook: Tiln, Quiller, and Therese’s Creed.

“We’re back in the strange world of George Walker, where humour and horror waltz drunkenly around in each other’s arms.” – Washington Post

The Tale of Teeka

Tombs of the Vanishing Indian

Michel Marc Bouchard

Marie Clements

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Three young Native American sisters and their mother leave home as part of a 1950s government mandate to relocate reserve Indians to urban centres. As the women try to establish connections to a new land, each finds herself lost. Cast of 4 women and 3 men.

A play set in rural Quebec in the 1950s in which a battered child, Maurice, seeks refuge in a fantasy world. Cast of 1 man and 1 boy. “A play so achingly beautiful, restrained and moving that it clings to the heart and mind long after the last words are spoken.” – Vancouver Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-410-0; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 1999; 64 pp

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Toronto, Mississippi

Two Plays

Joan MacLeod

George Woodcock

Drawing from MacLeod’s experience working with mentally handicapped adults and children, this play celebrates the personal challenges of both self-destruction and selfaffirmation so vital to the process of identity creation. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

This volume contains two uniquely Canadian stories of exile: The Island of Demons and Six Dry Cakes for the Hunted.

“See this play and fall in love.”

“Voices from the past that haunt us still.” – Essays in Canadian Writing

– Georgia Straight

The Trespassers

2000

Morris Panych

Joan MacLeod

Poignant, thought-provoking and sharply sardonic, The Trespassers focuses on the relationship between 15-yearold Lowell, and his grandfather, Hardy. Lowell is no average teenager and Hardy is no conventional role model – much to the consternation of Lowell’s born-again mother, Cash. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

The relationships of the young, the aging and the middleaged, and between urban life and nature at the end of the millennium. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.

The Trial of Judith K.

Unity (1918)

Sally Clark

Kevin Kerr

Roughly based on Kafka’s The Trial, this black comedy transforms the lead character into a modern business woman who finds herself accused of an unknown crime. Cast of 4 women and 3 men.

In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plague. As fear of the dreaded “Spanish” flu begins to fill the town of Unity with paranoia, drastic measures are taken. Cast of 6 women and 3 men.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1991. “The futility of the individual before a dehumanizing bureaucracy has never been so funny.” – Toronto Tonight

Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 2002.

The Trigger

The Unnatural and Accidental Women

Carmen Aguirre

Marie Clements

Based on the author’s own experience as a victim of the Paper Bag Rapist, The Trigger is a play written for anyone who has ever dealt with sexual violation and who continues to live with it at their core. Cast of 5 women.

A surrealist dramatization of a notorious 30-year murder case involving many mysterious deaths in the “Skid Row” area of Vancouver. Cast of 11 women and 2 men.

“The Trigger is a knockout … intelligent, powerful, funny, horrific, theatrically stunning and utterly free of victimology.” – Jerry Wasserman ISBN 978-0-88922-591-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2008; 64 pp

“[A] work of powerful and moving familiarity.” – Globe and Mail

“A beautifully presented and acted play.” – Raven’s Eye “An impressive, powerful work.”

Twenty Years at Play

The Ventriloquist

A New Play Centre Anthology Edited by Jerry Wasserman

Larry Tremblay

This collection of eight of the finest plays produced by Vancouver’s New Play Centre marks the company’s 20th year. “Wasserman provides a fascinating history of the NPC … This book is essential.” – BCLA Reporter ISBN 978-0-88922-275-5; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 1990; 346 pp

– Eye Weekly

Translated by Keith Turnbull Theatre of innovation. Cast of 2 women and 2 men. “What lingers is a degree of delight at Tremblay’s ability not so much to weave a storyline as to unravel one with such finesse and beauty.” – Toronto Sun “This is the best new Quebec play in many years.” – CBC Radio-Canada ISBN 978-0-88922-536-7; $15.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 2006; 64 pp

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The Vic

Warriors

Leanna Brodie

Michel Garneau

The Vic creates an ensemble of eight ethnically diverse women ranging in age from their teens to their fifties, each of them eager to claim the entitlement they feel their status as victim has “naturally” conferred upon them. Cast of 8 women.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Warriors enters the world of advertising where even if the product is war, it is still a product that can be sold. Cast of 2 men. “If you want a challenging piece of theatre prepare – Calgary Sun for Warriors.” ISBN 978-0-88922-282-3; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1989; 104 pp

Vigil

WASPs

Second Edition Morris Panych

Sally Clark

In Morris Panych’s classic black comedy, Kemp returns after 30 years to be with his aunt Grace on her death bed. Problem is, she’s not dying fast enough. Callous Kemp uses acid wit to cover up his growing discomfort as the death watch stretches from days to months. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man. “A small masterpiece.”

– Globe and Mail

A play about the elements of our constructed tribal identities: incest, fashion, fetishism, style, populist art, amateur psychobabble and a fascination with the other. Cast of 4 women and 2 men. “Clark skewers our nicey-nice apologist culture … It’s camp, it’s funny, and it’s nasty.” – Georgia Straight ISBN 978-0-88922-398-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1998; 128 pp

Waiting for the Parade

The Weekend Healer

John Murrell

Bryden MacDonald

Set in Calgary during WWII, five women work for the war effort while their men are away. Cast of 5 women.

The disappearance of a young man acts as a catalyst for a drama that questions the nature of family and “traditional values.” Cast of 2 women and 1 man.

Walsh

Westray

Sharon Pollock

The Long Way Home Chris O’Neill & Ken Schwartz

A historical documentary of Sitting Bull’s exile in Canada after the Montana massacre at Little Big Horn. Cast of 3 women and 11 men. “Undefinable magic that is the essence of art.” – Ottawa Citizen ISBN 978-0-88922-215-1; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD © 1973, 1983; 136 pp; 13th printing

Although the Westray mine is dangerously mismanaged, a young father descends under the ground again to support his family. Cast of 2 women and 3 men. “Crisp, thoughtful, and entertaining, and every bit deserving of a standing ovation.” – Ottawa Citizen ISBN 978-0-88922-491-9; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 1994, 2004; 96 pp

Wanted

Whale Riding Weather

Sally Clark

Bryden MacDonald

Set during the Klondike gold rush, Wanted is a celebration of one woman’s determination to triumph over all who seek to possess her in a harsh social climate of chaos, opportunism, raw desire, greed and lust. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.

A faded old man finds his life slipping away from him along with his young male lover, who meets a new, younger man. Cast of 3 men.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1994. “Powerfully written.”

– Toronto Star

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What Lies Before Us

Willful Acts

Morris Panych

Margaret Hollingsworth

Two–time Governor General’s Award–winning playwright Panych has turned Waiting for Godot into a comedy while simultaneously heightening the profound existential questions it asks. Cast of 3 men.

An expanded and updated collection of Margaret Hollingsworth’s best known and most popular plays, including The Apple in the Eye, Everloving, Diving, Islands, War Babies and Commonwealth Games.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2007.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1985 (War Babies).

“Panych is … ambitious, talented, funny, feared, beloved … and altogether impossible to ignore.” – Toronto Life

Where the Blood Mixes

With Bated Breath

Kevin Loring

Bryden MacDonald

Can a person survive their past; can a people survive their history? Irreverently funny and brutally honest, this play about loss and redemption takes us to the bottom of a river, to the heart of a People. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.

A poignant look at the disappearance of a shy, young gay man who starts a new life in the big city. Caught in the cynical and brutalizing cash-economy of the city’s red light district, he retreats ever further into a world of fantasy and anonymity. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 2009.

Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2011.

“Where the Blood Mixes … was the best of a stream of plays tackling [the Residential Schools’] disastrous – Globe and Mail legacy.”

“Quite stunning … full of one-liners and dark – Daniel MacIvor poetry.”

Whereverville

Written on Water

Josh MacDonald

Michel Marc Bouchard

On the evening of Loam Bay’s vote on resettlement, schoolteacher Abby Shea, herself “from away,” must struggle with her own phantom attachment to the community before casting her deciding vote. Cast of 1 woman and 4 men.

A group of seniors struggles to rescue and rewrite their memories when torrential rains wash away all records of their past. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

“Fresh and direct, with clear-eyed compassion and a surprising amount of humour.” – Halifax Daily News

“A profound reflection on memory and on the act of writing … told with Michel Marc Bouchard’s characteristic humour and poetry.” – CBC

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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After Jack

b leev abul char ak trs

Garry Thomas Morse

bill bissett

An homage to poet Jack Spicer and a tribute to his concept of the serial poem, this bristling polyphony jostles the reader with dark undertones.

“Themes of love, lust and the degradation of nature’s order. bissett captures the loneliness of his characters and often the black humour that they reckon from their situations. His syntax at first seems like a wall to understanding but once on the other side the bricks become windows to a fantastic imagination.” – filling Station

“In After Jack … translation crosses boundaries of space, time, culture and language, laying the common property of the poem bare – and gasping for air. Take – Stephen Collis a deep breath. Now dive back in.” ISBN 978-0-88922-630-2; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2010; 184 pp

All Is Flesh

Back to the War

Yannick Renaud

Frank Davey

Translated by Hugh Hazelton

A careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence assembled by a youthful imagination blossoming during WWII.

The first English translation of this acclaimed Québécois poet. Includes the book-length prose-poem collections Taxidermy and The Disappearance of Ideas. Afterword by Étienne Lalonde. “Renaud’s poetic phrasing is finely chiselled, down to the ellipses which give rise to the book’s most powerful thoughts.” – Voix et images ISBN 978-0-88922-672-2; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2011; 160 pp

“Davey has given us a rare album of verbal photographs.” “A haunting poetic memoir.”

– Arc

– abcbookworld.com

Amuse Bouche

Bardy Google

Adeena Karasick

Frank Davey

Mashing up the lexicon of war with post-industrial consumerism, haute cuisine, couture, language, Eros and desire, Karasick’s sixth book is at once dark and satirical, exuberant and amorously rigorous.

Bardy Google reinvents poetry’s formal boundaries within the frame of our wired world. With only one hidden exception, this book was constructed through Frank Davey’s use of specifically devised Internet searches. Because the content of the Internet, and the search-engine priorities assigned to it change continuously, these texts are unique and unrepeatable.

“Her writing is an extraordinary tour de force in the new paraliterary initiative of ‘fiction/theory’ that blends various genres and revels in their ‘contamination.’” – CBRA ISBN 978-0-88922-604-3; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2009; 108 pp; Colour photos & illustrations

Asian Skies

Blonds on Bikes

Ken Norris

George Bowering

In this third book of Norris’s travel trilogy, he searches for the spiritual “inside passage,” the illusory transcendence of “a passage to India” from the post-industrial world, setting out for that most foreign of shores to the West: Asia.

Characteristic of Bowering’s other work, this book is largely made up of sequences. The longest one, the title poem, is a composition of daily riffs during an autumn in Denmark and Italy. “Pictures” is an album of verbal portraits by a husband and wife who see differently. There is a series of tributes to other writers on special occasions.

“In this series of poems, Norris … provides a crafty indictment against societal ills and imbalances without appearing on the surface to do so.” – Garry Thomas Morse

“Bowering … can turn a reader’s head inside out with the turn of a phrase.” – Ottawa XPress

Aurora

bpNichol Comics

Sharon Thesen

bpNichol

Sharon Thesen’s poems express the pleasure and magic of a language fully engaging the world, rewarding the reader with daily moments transformed into visions of grace.

Edited by Carl Peters

“In mind and heart and laughter, it’s a big book, full of surprises.” – Robin Blaser

“Nichol engages in visual wordplay and defies the conventional restraints of space and structure in comic books.” – National Post

Nichol’s comics (1960–1980) informed his work in other genres as well as the work of other writers.

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Bread and Salt

The Collected Books of Artie Gold

Renee Rodin

Compiled & edited by Ken Norris & Endre Farkas

Bread and Salt – what you bring for luck to a new house – is a joyous affirmation of vision and courage in hard times. “Rodin uses the banal as a way to ground the text, weaving the everyday and the terrible together to create understanding.” – Hour ISBN 978-0-88922-367-7; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1996; 112 pp

A collection of Artie Gold’s eight published books of poetry. “Don’t come to these poems expecting to find a reference to the world, or a reference to Artie Gold’s world of feeling & perceptions. Be prepared to step into a world. The poem is, as Jack Spicer said to Lorca, ‘a collage of the real.’” – George Bowering ISBN 978-0-88922-652-4; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD © 2010; 304 pp

Cartouches

The Commons

Lola Lemire Tostevin

Stephen Collis

The recent deaths of her father and several friends at the time of a trip to Egypt have led the author to write about the essential relation between language and death.

Tearing down (intellectual) property’s fencing, Collis’s poems demonstrate that what we call, in less inspired moments, “allusion,” “borrowing,” or even (pretentiously) “intertextuality” is just what poetry itself proves time and again: our languages are common. Shared. Un-enclosable.

“Lola Lemire Tostevin is an incisive, intelligent, and sharply observant writer.” – Quarry “Lovely, nape-tingling work.”

– Books in Canada

The Centre

Cultural Mischief

Poems 1970–2000 Barry McKinnon

A Practical Guide to Multiculturalism Frank Davey

“Barry McKinnon’s great skills as a poet make substantial all that living meets with and defines, and must finally accept willy-nilly.” – Robert Creeley

A collection of prose poems on the hyperbolic absurdities of multiculturalism in action.

“His poems are a radical ‘placing’ of a poetics, but also an act of displacing language from civics … [McKinnon is] absolutely central to Canadian poetics.” – American Book Review

Change Room

Davie Street Translations

Mark Cochrane

Daniel Zomparelli

The body is here fetishized by the creative power of desire to the point where the love of perfection crosses the boundaries of gender and polity.

With versified musical machismo following the San Francisco Renaissance poets, Daniel Zomparelli’s witty, lively, documentary-style series of poems about gay male culture in Vancouver grapples with HIV fears, drug culture, porn fantasy, gay bashing, and online hookups.

“Mark Cochrane is a glorious writer.”

– Quill & Quire

Chinese Blue

Decompositions

Weyman Chan

Ken Belford

In Chinese Blue, the poet “character” sifts through the earth’s history of geological layering and forgetting, drawing upon ancient Chinese traditions that present diverse philosophical modes of being.

Belford’s careful (de)compositions disclose the land as a complex living organism, articulate the names of it, see the whole of it, with a vision and voice that is unique and new. BC Book Prize Finalist, 2011.

“Chan continues to write some of the edgiest lyrics in Canadian poetry, lyrics filled with science and music.” – Prairie Fire

“[Belford’s poems] read with the kind of inevitability of image and rhythm that makes other poets grit their teeth with envy.” – Margaret Atwood

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Discovery Passages

Dyssemia Sleaze

Garry Thomas Morse

Adeena Karasick

First Nations poet Garry Thomas Morse sets out to recover the appropriated, stolen and scattered world of his ancestral people, the Kwakwaka’wakw, from Alert Bay to Quadra Island to Vancouver.

Cf. SEMA, unit of meaning: i.e. Dyssemia: (flawed information reception) Sleaze / sli:z/ v. Rough with projecting fibres.

Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 2011. BC Book Prize Finalist, 2012. “A master of tonal balance, a virtuoso composer with – Canadian Literature an ear for epic contrast.” ISBN 978-0-88922-660-9; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2011; 128 pp; Colour photos; 2nd printing

Bumbershoot Most Adventurous Publication Award Winner, 2000. “Her most visually compelling, over-the-top collection – Publishers Weekly to date.” ISBN 978-0-88922-434-6; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD © 2000; 96 pp; Colour illustrations; 2nd printing

Dominican Moon

The Empress Has No Closure

Ken Norris

Adeena Karasick

Composed like a dark novel-in-verse, the second book in Norris’s travel trilogy is an unsettling story of the deficiencies of love steeped in a clash of cultures between the third world and the first.

The Empress Has No Closure contains, as a centre-piece, the “Alefbet Transfers,” a meditative, spacial explication of the 22 figures of the Hebrew alphabet.

“Ken Norris … has been hailed as Canada’s premier romantic poet.” – Toronto Star “One of the best poets of his generation.”

– Matrix

“All of it hums with intellectual energy, much of it is even funny.” – Books in Canada “An impressive deconstruction of language and – Canadian Literature meaning.”

Down Time

A Few Words Will Do

Jeff Derksen

Lionel Kearns

Proposes a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in without returning to a garrison mentality.

When one person writes “this is what happened, this is what I know,” any reader stands in for the absent “I” or “eye” of that text. This inescapable process of language, preoccupies Kearns in these brief but concentrated pieces.

BC Book Prize Winner, 1991. “Wrenching intellectual and emotional dislocation that redefines the act of reading.” – Vancouver Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-278-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 1990; 92 pp; 3rd printing

“Lionel Kearns has been hovering over our poetry scene for years. Now we have his selected poems at last, and the bird has landed.” – George Bowering ISBN 978-0-88922-558-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2007; 128 pp; Illustrations

Dream Pool Essays

Fifty

Gil McElroy

Ken Norris

An active multiple streaming of apparently disparate sources: astronomy, theoretical cosmology and quantum physics, and the literary and visual arts.

Among its widely diverse poetic forms, the book constructs odes, elegies, sonnets, and long poem sequences, as Norris travels from Maine to Santo Domingo, from Phnom Penh to Montreal, and from the shorelines of the Caribbean to the banks of the Mekong River.

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Finalist, 2002. “The expected subjects of faith, work, nature, solitude, and writing itself are represented with clarity and beauty.” – Canadian Literature

“He is, in short, a poet, and a good one.” – Hiram Poetry Review

Dwell

Five Star Planet

Jeff Derksen

David W. McFadden

An ironically revealing, humorous and analytic book.

This third volume in McFadden’s Terrafina Trilogy – which began with Gypsy Guitar and There’ll Be Another – is shaped by a wealth of poetic forms.

Alberta Writers’ Guild Award Finalist, 1994. “[A] canny text, astute and sharp. This is a brilliant mind at work, dwelling in, dwelling on.” – Books in Canada “Language that’s resolute in its probe for meaningful co-ordinates.” – Fred Wah ISBN 978-0-88922-328-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 1993; 108 pp; 2nd printing

“Two qualities … shine in all his works – a laser-like and sometimes uncomfortable honesty and his childlike sense of wonder.” – Windsor Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-468-1; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 2002; 136 pp

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Floating Up to Zero

Going Home

Ken Norris

Incisive and light in their touch, these poems meditate on the here and now: the present moment, precariously balanced between a certain frozen past and an uncertain fluid future.

The whole manufactured unreality of our world falls away in these poems, leading us both toward and away from being “at home” in the present.

“He is, in short, a poet, and a good one.” – Hiram Poetry Review

“[Norris] is profoundly original, open and vulnerable, with a unique personal note that speaks to the heart – Poetry Canada of the reader.”

fractal economies

Ground Water

derek beaulieu

Colin Browne

beaulieu pushes the limits of poetry and poetics, challenging the status quo of the genre and the politics of language itself.

Investigates the elements of the spiritual topography of the 20th century and closely examines the conventional symbology passed on to the poet/map-maker by his ancestors.

“Never read a book of concrete poetry before? This might be the one to hook you.” – FFWD “Represent[s] truly the best of beaulieu’s poetic – Prairie Fire Review of Books practice.” ISBN 978-0-88922-539-8; $15.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 2006; 96 pp; Illustrations

BC Book Prize Finalist, 2003. Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 2002. “You are different after you have read this book.” – Georgia Straight ISBN 978-0-88922-465-0; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 2002; 208 pp; Illustrations

Genrecide

Gypsy Guitar

Adeena Karasick

David W. McFadden

Explores through play and pun the intersection of multiple cultures, codes, idioms, and constructs that have an impact on female identity.

100 poems of love and betrayal – all presented in the unmistakable McFadden style.

“Beautiful linguistic carnage.” “Bridging the genre gap.” “Visually striking.”

– Word – The Link – Jewish Post and News

Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 1988. “An exhilarating immersion in a uniquely bizarre and irrepressible imagination.” – Canadian Literature ISBN 978-0-88922-250-2; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD © 1987; 112 pp; 3rd printing

gifts

Hanging Fire

rob mclennan

Phyllis Webb

Unifying this book is the persona of the lover: as an intimate; as an interruption of the determinative self; as an unattainable weightlessness; and as the gravitational pull of the landscape itself.

Astonishingly beautiful entrances into the personae of lost companions who reappear, animated by a voice in love with the music of their speaking.

“rob mclennan is one of the best contemporary poets in Canada.” – Barry McKinnon

“Few poets take us through the disasters of the world … with such exquisite moral precision.” – Rosemary Sullivan

Glengarry

harvest

rob mclennan

a book of signifiers rob mclennan

Glengarry is a memory book composed of three parts, in which each new poem appears as “an illusion against destructive slide,” because “what else is human hope but momentarily borne.”

What is harvested here are the signifiers for journeys: tickets, postcards, letters – recording unseemly haste, enforced idleness, losing one’s way and sometimes finding it again.

“mclennan is a poet of place, always finding his voice out of the material of his surroundings, the continuity of its existence through history.” – Ottawa Xpress

“For mclennan, there are no rules. His poetry defies convention or classification” – Room Magazine

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Hotel Montreal

inkorrect thots

New and Selected Poems Ken Norris

bill bissett

Selections from 19 groundbreaking books of poetry that draw together the very best of Norris’s lyric poetry from a 25-year period, while offering the reader an indispensible panoramic view of the work of a poet at the height of his creative powers. “Unlock[s] a chrysalis of perplexity, awe, joy, and – Montreal Review of Books revelation.”

When bill bissett thinks “inkorrect thots” anything can happen. BC Book Prize Winner, 1993. “bissett could be our (Canadian, late 20th-century) answer to e.e. cummings.” – Whig Standard ISBN 978-0-88922-303-5; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 1992; 136 pp; Illustrations; 2nd printing

The House That Hijack Built

The Invisibility Exhibit

Adeena Karasick

Sachiko Murakami

Explores the possibilities of meaning production when language is pushed to its limits of normative semantic patterns. Includes a homolinguistic “trans’elation” of the Sefer Yetzirah.

Murakami’s first book of poetry, written in the political and emotional wake of Vancouver’s “Missing Women,” this project investigates the troubled relationship between a marginalized neighbourhood’s “invisible” populations and the city that surrounds them.

“Perhaps the strangest, most irreverent and utterly shameless of possible responses to a tragedy, Karasick’s is also, finally, deeply and compellingly human.” – Publishers Weekly

Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 2008. “An articulate and expertly rendered protest against – Jon Paul Fiorentino the violence of erasure.”

hypoderm

is a door

notes to myself Weyman Chan

Fred Wah

Chan’s idea for this book is simple – approach the world as metaphor, and it will come to you. hypoderm is a manifesto of intimations, observations and recognitions of mortality that get under the poet’s skin.

Grounded in his encounter with the smashed and broken doors along the hurricane-devastated waterfront of Telchac Puerto on the Yucatàn peninsula, Fred Wah’s prize-winning poetry watches both sides of the doorway – for the sudden question, the sudden turn, the sudden opening.

“hypoderm … maps the borders and the fence; the lines between friends and family, between forgive and forget.” – derek beaulieu

“Without a doubt, [is a door] is a dazzler … thoughtful, playful and stunningly skillful.” – Globe and Mail

I. Another. The Space Between

Kerrisdale Elegies

Selected Poems Jamie Reid

George Bowering

BC Book Prize Winner, 2010.

“Jamie Reid’s later political writing packs a punch, often a dada-esque one … No topic falls beyond Reid’s scope.” – BC Bookworld

Bowering responds to Rilke’s Duino Elegies. In the intertextuality of these two great works can be found postmodern writing that is self-aware, where the other is discovered in the process of the writer writing.

“[Reid] engages readers in a conversation, asking them always to try to make their neighbourhood, their city, their world a better place.” – Georgia Straight

“A lyricism that is spring-sweet and without boast or threat … Bowering has poured all his considerable power into one vessel, and he must be read.” – Globe and Mail

th influenza uv logik

th last photo uv th human soul

bill bissett

Canada’s most linguistically innovative poet takes on the “linear binary traps” of conventional logic, history, and politics.

bill bissett has remained on a permanent world tour for over 30 years; he wrote this book while on a European reading circuit that included performances in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Dublin, Paris, Mainz, Trier, and Berlin.

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Last Scattering Surfaces

The Moustache

Gil McElroy

Memories of Greg Curnoe George Bowering

These poems map out zones of interaction which took place in the “surface of last scattering” – the first formation of matter in the universe.

Bowering and Greg Curnoe became friends when their art was in its youth, and for 26 years they grew up parallel, inside each other’s work.

ReLit Longlist, 2008. “A master of the craft … [McElroy] is very, very intelligent and his ear is infallible.”

– Arc

“Documents a friendship through the kinship of the creative spirit.” – Kitchener-Waterloo Record

Limbo Road

My Darling Nellie Grey

Ken Norris

George Bowering

Limbo Road – as divorce journal, meditation, travel poem – chronicles the search for the new beloved.

Stalled on a novel he was writing, Bowering thought he needed a challenge, so he made a New Year’s resolution: write a poem for every day of 2006, adhering to a different set of poetic conventions for each month. The result of this uncompromising personal and formal discipline is one of the most fascinating books of poetry ever written.

“I get a better sense, a tragic and painful sense, of the age we are living in than I do from the daily and nightly broadcasts of world news … profoundly original, open and vulnerable … speaks to the heart of the reader.” – Louis Dudek, Poetry Canada

BC Book Prize Finalist, 2011.

Love and Savagery

narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane

Des Walsh

bill bissett

This finely crafted book of poems, adapted to a feature film in 2009, is a sustained adoration of the beloved that echoes the work of the troubadours. The unnamed Irish woman of this collection leads the narrator on a spiritual quest from the streets of St. John’s to the seemingly impenetrable evergreen thickets of Ireland.

Through narrative, non-narrative, sound, song, meditation, metaphysical, spiritual, political, and visual poems, bissett explores the fragility and incompletion of all narratives.

“Touches on the great themes of humanity … in bissett’s inimitable way.” – Monday Magazine “bissett is one of the leading performance poets in Canada.” – Flak Magazine ISBN 978-0-88922-507-7; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 2004; 144 pp; Illustrations

loving without being vulnrabul

The New Long Poem Anthology

bill bissett

Second Edition Edited by Sharon Thesen

Poems that tell stories on many different levels: through sound, visual images, political insights, non-narrative fusion, and linguistic music. “Anybody who’s never heard [bissett] really ought to, because you’ll never think of poetry the same way after you hear him.” – Citylife

Features the work of Blaser, Bowering, Brand, Carson, Derksen, Dudek, Dewdney, Friesen, Hartog, Kiyooka, Kroetsch, Marlatt, McCaffery, McFadden, McKay, McKinnon, Mouré, Nichol, Ondaatje, Robertson, Stanley, Tostevin, Villemaire, Wah, and Webb.

Mêmewars

News & Smoke

Adeena Karasick

Selected Poems Sharon Thesen

Mêmewars is a book writing against itself.

“Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best … This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.” – Nicole Brossard

“A compact and beautifully designed collection, nicely fleshed out with a broad selection of poems previously published only in journals and periodicals, not to mention its tantalizing sampling of new fare. Many will discover plenty to admire in News and Smoke.” – Toronto Star

BC Book Prize Finalist, 1994.

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Noise from the Laundry

Pacific Windows

Weyman Chan

Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka Roy K. Kiyooka

Weyman Chan’s poems elaborate his singular and solitary work on the renaissance of the contemporary lyric form.

Edited by Roy Miki

Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 2008.

The most important poetic works of Kiyooka.

Alberta Literary Awards Short List, 2009.

Association for Asian American Studies Outstanding Book Award Winner, 1998.

“The deepest blues on prairie snow are Weyman Chan’s inks, his pen as precise and as elusive as the silken threads of a ‘tiny spider.’” – Sharron Proulx-Turner

NonZero Definitions

Pell Mell

Gil McElroy

Robin Blaser

The language of poetics emerges into the light of the purely formalist and luminous “definitions” of things and their movements as they engage in the ceaseless metamorphosis of replication in all of their endlessly unfolding possibilities.

Pell Mell, the middle voice, the syntax meeting its astonishments in its forward stride looking backwards, imagining an image nation where the heart is always torn, to pieces possessed by the other(s).

“A master of the craft … [McElroy] is very, very intelligent and his ear is infallible.”

“Robin Blaser became a source for poetry’s authority beyond any simplifying place or time.” – Robert Creeley

– Arc

northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing

peter among th towring boxes / text bites

bill bissett

bissett’s deliciously comic interrogation of the socio-political events towering around us like so many boxes we need constantly to imagine our way out of, is counterpoised in this collection by a recurring dream of a future locked in a global war.

His rejection of the limiting conventions of written language has allowed bissett to foreground the appearance of any linguistic event as a living performance. “[bissett’s] poetry addresses the limitless discussion of the boundaries between the personal and the political.” – National Post ISBN 978-0-88922-532-9; $17.95 CAD / $15.95 USD © 2005; 160 pp; Illustrations

bill bissett

On the Material

Popular Narratives

Stephen Collis

Frank Davey

Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on geography, socio-economics, the body, and grief.

This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society’s “popular narratives.” A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.

BC Book Prize Winner, 2011. “On the Material is a fine, smart book, indeed … a profound testing of the ability of an innovative poetry (and innovative poet) to address the most urgent and emotional of subjects” – Hank Lazer

“Risqué metaphors … scandalously unpoetic … a powerful alternative to the orthodoxy of poetic beauty.” – Smaro Kamboureli

Ordinary Time

Post-Prairie

Gil McElroy

An Anthology of New Poetry Edited by Jon Paul Fiorentino & Robert Kroetsch

These poems set out to give shape to time. The collection opens with childhood memories of impending Cold War Armageddon. The second section, counted on the Julian calendar, discovers that our movement through space gives time dimensionality. The last section works with the Anglican lectionary to make manifest the arc of a complete yearlong cycle of both “sacred” and “ordinary” time.

Twenty-five individual talents come together in this groundbreaking collection for a rare literary event: the transition of a cultural identity primarily rooted in place to one that is rooted in a rapidly fragmenting, technologybased globalization.

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The Properties

Selected Poems

Colin Browne

The Arches Frank Davey

The poems in The Properties record encounters between desire and the repressed or suppressed interstices of social, economic, political, and unconscious forces. They’re alert to correspondences, attentive to the lines of force to which the poet’s family quietly assented in the contested place that is the northwest coast of North America. “A major work from a poet writing at the peak of both outrage and love.” – Daphne Marlatt

Selections from seven of this important poet and editor’s long poems. “Possesses a concentrated power that is rarely evident.” – Montreal Gazette ISBN 978-0-88922-174-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 1980; 112 pp

The Rap Canterbury Tales

Selected Poems

Baba Brinkman

Beyond Even Faithful Legends bill bissett

Hip-hop artist Brinkman resurrects Chaucer’s brilliant stories into visible and audible contemporary forms. “It’s a fun, crisp, non-literal translation of Chaucer’s work that, at its very best, captures the verve and stylized rhymes of its inspiration.” – Bloomsbury Review ISBN 978-0-88922-548-0; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD © 2006; 352 pp; Illustrations; 3rd printing

This volume represents the most definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett’s writing from the 1960s and 1970s, in voices “erotik, politikul, humorous, lyrikul, sound-vizual, narrative, meditative, konkreet, collage, nd song-chants.“ “Represents a literary revolution.”

– Montreal Gazette

Rebuild

Selected Poems

Sachiko Murakami

Loki Is Buried at Smoky Creek Fred Wah

Sachiko Murakami approaches the urban centre through its inhabitants’ greatest passion: real estate, where the drive to own engages the practice of tearing down and rebuilding.

Poems of landscape, language and memory from Wah’s earlier books.

“These are angry poems. Proud and angry. But smart and quirky, too, daring us to tear up our death pledge to real estate, and rethink our citizenship in scandalous cities.” – Meredith Quartermain

“Wah’s poems continually return us to the act of communion and the realization of our shared, not individual, life.” – Montreal Gazette

The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh

Selected Poems

rob mclennan

The Vision Tree Phyllis Webb

Thoroughly grounded in the media culture of television and film, mclennan’s language casts a deceptively familiar veil over the breadth and depth of reading which inform this work.

Poetry distinguished by its attention to form and thought. Governor General’s Poetry Award Winner, 1982.

Archibald Lampman Award Finalist, 2000.

“Phyllis Webb … is one of the finest poets now writing in Canada.” – Books in Canada

“Just the right combination of details … carefully crafted, each line shifting the image slightly.” – Books in Canada

scars on th seehors

Selected Writing

bill bissett

As Elected bpNichol

bissett’s metric performs a kind of absence of narrative intent that lets everyone and everything speak for itself. As bissett puts it, “eye dont have 2 invent th world iumalredee in it.”

Selections from visual poetry to translations by one of the most important poets in the 20th century writing in English.

“I find his work … very spiritual, very funny, and very astute.” – Alma Lee

“bpNichol’s work is the most courageous body of work in Canadian literature.” – Frank Davey

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Selected Writing

Sticks & Stones

Net Work Daphne Marlatt

George Bowering

Poetry and prose with an instantaneous recognition of perceptions and thought. “Confronts political realities on the level in which they impinge upon people’s lives.” – Montreal Gazette ISBN 978-0-88922-175-8; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD © 1980; 144 pp

George Bowering’s first book of poetry. With a preface by Robert Creeley and original line drawings by Gordon Payne. “His feeling for form, for poetry as something made, is what gives his early pieces their ability to endure.” – Vancouver Province ISBN 978-0-88922-268-7; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 1989; 64 pp; Illustrations

Sentenced to Light

sublingual

Fred Wah

bill bissett

An astonishing series of unique collaborative image-text projects, Sentenced to Light privileges its poetic and formal textual space outside most of the images that are its original twins and offers the reader a glimpse of the dialectic of larger conversations, the unpredictable, improvisatory bavardage that whispers between words and pictures in an intrinsically poetic space.

sublingual is perhaps the most highly structured yet of bissett’s “textual visions.” Its first seven poems construct a Genesis, beginning with a poem of birth – our pre- or sublingual first breath, a phenomenological gesture of recognition, of both being and belonging, in and of the world. Following this short creation story, the book continues to unfold in luminous and lucid delight.

The Shovel

There’ll Be Another

Colin Browne

David W. McFadden

In this extraordinary book, Colin Browne inverts the traditional ways we define and privilege forms of the English language; self-expression becomes prosaic, the recording of history poetic.

Three books in one: Heavy-Hearted in Havana, Sex with a Sixteen Year Old and Anonymity Suite Part II.

ReLit Award Short List, 2008. “The epic sweep of pieces is impressive, at times rapturous. They are worth digging for.” – Quill & Quire

The Singer’s Broken Throat

This Tremor Love Is

Des Walsh

Daphne Marlatt

Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador Heritage and History Award Finalist, 2005.

This Tremor Love Is is a memory book – an album of love poems spanning twenty-five years, from Marlatt’s first writing of what was to become the opening section, A Lost Book, to its latest, most recent sequences.

“Alternatively tender and bitter, this collection is at once a prayer for love’s endurance and a lament for a nation.” – Fiddlehead “Walsh is, and always has been, Newfound-land’s poet.” – Sunday Independent ISBN 978-0-88922-478-0; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD © 2003; 64 pp

Specks

ths is erth thees ar peopul

Second Edition Michael McClure

bill bissett

Specks assumes the form of a blastula, offering a poetic model of embryonic development that arises from the cellular division known as “cleavage.” “McClure’s poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy.” – Allen Ginsberg ISBN 978-0-88922-688-3; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 1985, 2012; 96 pp; Illustrations

The quest in this latest fusion of song, sound, performance, and visual poetry from bill bissett is for a human condition outside the perpetual terror of the 21st century. ReLit Award Nominee, 2008. “His poetry addresses the limitless discussion of the boundaries between the personal and the political.” – National Post ISBN 978-0-88922-557-2; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD © 2007; 144 pp; Illustrations

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time

Vermeer’s Light

bill bissett

Poems 1996–2006 George Bowering

In time, bissett explores the Heraclitean flux of life and fleeting nature of the universe and, specifically, love in the non-particular universal sense. time is question-and-answer period, asking how much time we have for our fellow humans and how much time we have for our planet and how much time we have for our shared love. The answer is quite simply so long as there is language, so long as there are words dancing in space, so long as there is time.

“Harrowing and heartbreaking, these pages walk the tightrope of sentiment without falling into sentimentality … [T]he volume is characterized by the terse honesty, purity of voice, and wry humour that are Bowering’s trademark … It’s a tour de force, and a window into the mind of one of Canada’s most significant poets.” – Quill & Quire

Transnational Muscle Cars

what’s left

Jeff Derksen

rob mclennan

“Plays ‘chicken’ with postmodernism, hurtling itself with its hard, glossy, and state-of-art body in a challenge to see who will swerve first.” – Sianne Ngai

Presents us with cues and clues to the poet’s compositional strategies.

“mclennan works with a genuine verbal invention and his cultural ephemera laid out in pastiche make a strong impression.” – University of Toronto Quarterly “mclennan is one of the most promising voices of his generation.” – Toronto Star ISBN 978-0-88922-498-8; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD © 2004; 144 pp

Triage Cecily Nicholson Triage documents the resilience of people refusing disposability on the brutal margins of society, and articulates commonalities in their struggle to resist interventions of commercial enterprise in their lives. “This is the heart of Vancouver, beating bravely in the tent village, attesting to daily poverty, daily ingenuity …” – Rita Wong ISBN 978-0-88922-657-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD © 2011; 96 pp

66 Talonbooks Booklist Index by Title

Booklist Index by Title A ABC of Reading TRG .................. 17 Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre ............................ 35 Adrift ......................................... 35 Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, The ............................. 35 After Completion ......................... 2 After Jack .................................. 56 Against the Wind ....................... 15 Albertine in Five Times (translated by Gaboriau) .......................... 35 Albertine in Five Times (translated by Van Burek & Glassco) ......... 35 All Fall Down ............................. 35 All Is Flesh .................................. 56 All That Glitters .......................... 27 All the Verdis of Venice .............. 35 alterNatives ................................ 35 American Notebooks ................. 17 Amigo’s Blue Guitar ................... 35 Amuse Bouche ........................... 56 Anarcho-Modernism .................. 17 Anatolia Junction ....................... 17 And Other Stories ...................... 27 And So It Goes ........................... 35 Angel of Solitude, The ............... 27 Annihilated Time ....................... 17 Another Country / bloom ........... 36 Another Home Invasion ............. 36 Asian Skies ................................. 56 Assorted Candies for the Theatre ............................................... 36 Athabasca Ryga, The ................. 27 Aurora ....................................... 56

B b leev abul char ak trs ................ 56 Baby Blues, The .......................... 36 Back to the War ......................... 56 Balconville .................................. 36 Baldwins, The ............................ 27 Bambi and Me ........................... 17 Banana Boots ............................. 36 Bardy Google ............................. 56 Baseball Love ............................. 17 BASH’d ...................................... 36 Battle of Batoche, The ................ 14 Beating the Bushes .................... 36 Belles Soeurs, Les ....................... 36 Benevolence .............................. 36 Berlin Blues, The ........................ 37 Bethune ..................................... 37 Beyond Recall ............................ 17 Bicycle Eater, The ....................... 27 Billy Bishop Goes to War, 1st ed. 37

Billy Bishop Goes to War, 2nd ed. ............................................... 16 Birth of a Bookworm .................. 17 Black Notebook, The .................. 27 Blonds on Bikes .......................... 56 Blue Notebook, The ................... 27 Boiler Room Suite ...................... 37 Bolsheviki ................................... 37 Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies ................... 17 Bonjour, Là, Bonjour ................... 37 Book of Esther, The .................... 37 Bordertown Café ....................... 37 Box Closet, The .......................... 18 Boy in the Treehouse, The / Girl Who Loved Her Horses ..... 37 bpNichol Comics ........................ 56 bpNichol: What History Teaches .............................................. 18 Bread and Salt ........................... 57 Breakdown So Far, The ............... 27 Bridges of Light .......................... 18 Building the West ...................... 18 Burden of Office, The ................. 18 Burning Vision ........................... 37 Buz’Gem Blues, The ................... 38

C Cambodia .................................. 27 Can You See Me Yet? ................ 38 Canadian Drama and the Critics ............................................... 18 Canadiens, Les ........................... 38 Capital Tales ............................... 28 Cariboo Magi ............................. 38 Carmela’s Table .......................... 38 Carpenter, The ........................... 38 Cartouches ................................ 57 Centre, The: Poems 1970–2000 ............................................... 57 Chameleon & Other Stories ........ 28 Change Room ............................ 57 Charles Olson at the Harbor ....... 18 Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors, The ........................................ 18 Chimera ..................................... 38 Chinese Blue .............................. 57 Circumstances Alter Photographs .............................................. 18 Circus Performers’ Bar, The ........ 28 Citizen Suárez ............................ 28 Coast Salish Essays ..................... 18 Cold Comfort ............................ 38 Cold Comfort: Growing Up Cold War ................................ 19 Collected Books of Artie Gold, The ............................................... 57 Colours in the Dark .................... 38

Commons, The .......................... 57 Concise Köchel, The ................... 38 Consecrated Ground .................. 39 Conversations in Tehran ............. 19 Coping with Emotions and Otters ................................................. 7 Copper Thunderbird .................. 39 Corker ....................................... 39 Coronation Voyage, The ............ 39 Covenant of Salt, A .................... 28 Crabdance ................................. 39 Crimes and Mercies ................... 19 Crossing the Continent .............. 28 Cruel Tears ................................. 39 Cul-de-sac ................................. 39 Cultural Mischief ........................ 57 Cyrano de Bergerac ................... 39

D Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra .............................................. 39 Dancock’s Dance ........................ 39 Darwin Alone in the Universe ..... 28 Davie Street Translations ............ 57 Dead White Writer on the Floor ............................................... 40 Death in Vancouver .................... 28 Death of René Lévesque, The ..... 40 Death of the Spider .................... 28 Decline of the Hollywood Empire, The ........................................ 19 Decompositions ......................... 57 Democracy ................................. 40 Desert of the Heart .................... 28 Diplomacy .................................. 40 Discovery Passages ..................... 58 Dishwashers, The ....................... 40 Dispatches from the Occupation .............................................. 14 Divinity Bash / nine lives ............. 40 Doctor Thomas Neill Cream ....... 40 Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon .......................... 29 Dominican Moon ....................... 58 Down Dangerous Passes Road ... 40 Down the Road to Eternity ......... 29 Down Time ................................ 58 Dream Pool Essays ..................... 58 Driving Force, The ...................... 40 Duchess and the Commoner, The .............................................. 29 Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays, La ....................... 40 Dunsmuirs, The: Alone at the Edge .................. 41 Dunsmuirs, The: A Promise Kept ...................... 41 Dürer’s Angel ............................. 29

Dwell ......................................... 58 Dyssemia Sleaze ......................... 58

E Earshot ...................................... 41 East End Plays, The: Part I ........... 41 East End Plays, The: Part II .......... 41 Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The .............. 41 Edward Curtis Project, The ... 19, 41 Empire of Desire ......................... 19 Empress Has No Closure, The ..... 58 En Pièces Détachées ................... 41 Ends of the Earth, The ................ 41 English Canadian Poetics, An ..... 19 Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout ...................................... 41 Error in Judgement, An .............. 19 Esker Mike & His Wife, Agiluk .... 42 Espresso ..................................... 42 Essays on George F. Walker ........ 19 EX MACHINA ............................. 19 Execution, The ........................... 42

F Fairies Are Thirsty, The ................ 42 Fairy Ring ................................... 29 Faraway Nearby, The .................. 42 Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant, The ........................................ 29 Fearless Warriors ........................ 29 Few Words Will Do, A ................ 58 Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass ..... 42 15 Seconds ................................ 42 Fifty ........................................... 58 Fighting Days, The ..................... 42 First Quarter of the Moon, The ... 29 Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, The ........................................ 29 Five Star Planet .......................... 58 Floating Up to Zero .................... 59 For Home and Country .............. 42 For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again ..................................... 42 Forever Yours, Marie-Lou ........... 43 400 Kilometres .......................... 43 fractal economies ....................... 59 Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists ......................... 43 Fronteras Americanas, 1st edition .............................................. 43 Fronteras Americanas, 2nd edition .............................................. 16

G Gabriel Dumont Speaks ............. 20 Genrecide .................................. 59 George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour ............................... 20

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George Ryga: The Other Plays .... 43 George Ryga: The Prairie Novels .............................................. 29 Get on Top ................................. 30 Gideon’s Blues ........................... 43 gifts ........................................... 59 Girl in the Goldfish Bowl ............ 43 Glace Bay Miners’ Museum, The .............................................. 43 Glengarry ................................... 59 Go Figure ................................... 30 Going Home .............................. 59 Goodnight Disgrace ................... 43 Gordon ...................................... 43 Great Lakes Suite ....................... 20 Great Wave of Civilization, The .. 44 griddle talk ................................ 20 Ground Water ............................ 59 Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend, A .............................. 20 Gull, The .................................... 44 Gypsy Guitar .............................. 59

H Halo ........................................... 44 Hanging Fire .............................. 59 Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories, The .................. 30 Harry’s Fragments ...................... 30 harvest ....................................... 59 Heart Laid Bare, The ................... 30 Heaven ...................................... 44 Hell & Other Novels .................... 30 Hellfire Pass ............................... 44 Heretic, The ............................... 44 Heroine ...................................... 30 Homechild ................................. 44 Hope Slide, The / Little Sister ...... 44 Hosanna .................................... 44 Hotel Montreal .......................... 60 House That Hijack Built, The ....... 60 How to Write ............................. 20 hungree throat ............................. 9 Hunting Ground, The ................. 30 hypoderm .................................. 60

I I. Another. The Space Between .. 60 Imperial Canada Inc. .................. 16 Impromptu of Outremont, The ... 44 Impromptu on Nuns’ Island ........ 45 In a World Created by a Drunken God ....................................... 45 In Absentia ................................ 15 In Piazza San Domenico ............. 45 In Plain Sight .............................. 20 In the Company of Strangers ..... 20 In the Dog House ......................... 5

In the Eyes of God ..................... 45 In the Eyes of Stone Dogs ........... 45 In the Midst ............................... 20 In the Shadow of the Vulture ..... 30 Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America .............................................. 20 influenza uv logik, th ................. 60 inkorrect thots ........................... 60 Invisibility Exhibit, The ................ 60 is a door .................................... 60

J Jacob’s Wake ............................. 45 Je me souviens ........................... 45 Jitters ......................................... 45 Joe Beef ..................................... 45 Judith’s Sister ............................. 30 Justice in Our Time .................... 21

K Kafka’s Hat .................................. 8 Kerrisdale Elegies ....................... 60 King of Thieves .......................... 13

L Lady Smith, The ......................... 45 Lasagna ..................................... 21 last photo uv th human soul, th .............................................. 60 Last Scattering Surfaces ............. 61 Latakia ....................................... 31 Lawrence & Holloman ................ 46 Leave of Absence ....................... 12 Legoland .................................... 46 Leisure Society, The .................... 46 Life Without Instruction ............. 46 Like a Child of the Earth ............. 31 Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack, The ................................................ 21 Lily Briscoe ................................. 21 Limbo Road ............................... 61 Line in the Sand, A ..................... 46 Lions Gate ................................. 21 Liquidities .................................... 3 Listen to the Wind ..................... 46 Living by Stories ......................... 21 Local Boy Makes Good ............... 46 Lost Souls and Missing Persons .. 46 Love and Savagery ..................... 61 loving without being vulnrabul ... 61 Ludwig & Mae ........................... 46

M Madonna Painter, The ................ 46 Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr, The ........................................ 47 Main Brides ................................ 31

Maison Suspendue, La ............... 47 Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock ....................... 21 Maleficium ................................. 31 Mambo Italiano ......................... 47 Marcel Pursued by the Hounds ... 47 Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics ................................... 21 Marion Bridge ............................ 47 Meanwhile ................................. 21 Medusa Head, The ..................... 21 Mêmewars ................................. 61 Memories of You ....................... 47 Mile End .................................... 31 Mimosa ..................................... 31 Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus .............................................. 14 Miss Julie ................................... 47 Miss Take ................................... 31 Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. I, 4th ed. ......................... 47 Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. II, 4th ed. ......................... 47 Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. I, 5th ed. ......................... 47 Mom’s the Word ........................ 48 Moo .......................................... 48 Mother of the Grass ................... 31 Motortherapy ............................ 31 Moustache, The ......................... 61 Mrs. Blood ................................. 31 Muthologos ............................... 22 My Career with the Leafs & Other Stories .................................... 32 My Darling Nellie Grey ............... 61 My Name Is Bosnia ..................... 32

N narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane ................................ 61 Nature Power ............................. 22 New Long Poem Anthology, The ...............................................61 NEWS ........................................ 22 News & Smoke .......................... 61 News from Édouard ................... 32 1949 .......................................... 48 No Plaster Saint .......................... 22 Noam Chomsky Lectures, The .... 48 Noise from the Laundry .............. 62 NonZero Definitions ................... 62 northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing .............................. 62 Nothing to Lose ......................... 48 novel ......................................... 32 Number One ................................ 1 Nuri Does Not Exist .................... 32

O Occupation of Heather Rose, The ............................................... 48 Omniscience .............................. 48 On the Job ................................. 48 On the Material ......................... 62 One Crack Out ........................... 48 Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth ................................ 48 Ordinary Time ............................ 62 Other Losses .............................. 22 Other Schools of Thought .......... 49 Outsider Notes ........................... 22

P Pacific Windows ........................ 62 Pagan Wall, The ......................... 32 Painter’s Wife, The ..................... 32 Paradise by the River .................. 49 Paradise Garden ......................... 49 Past Perfect ................................ 49 Paul Martin & Companies .......... 22 Pell Mell ..................................... 62 Peregrinations............................. 22 Performing National Identities .... 22 Persian Postcards ....................... 22 peter among th towring boxes / text bites ................................ 62 Phyllis Webb and the Common Good ..................................... 23 Piercing ...................................... 32 Playing Bare ............................... 49 Pleasure of the Crown, The ........ 23 Poet to Publisher ........................ 23 Popular Narratives ...................... 62 Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories, The ........................................ 23 Post-Prairie ................................. 62 Power Plays, The ........................ 49 Properties, The ........................... 63

Q Queens, The .............................. 49

R Rain Barrel, The .......................... 32 Rap Canterbury Tales, The .......... 63 Rational Geomancy .................... 23 Re: Producing Women’s Dramatic History ................................... 23 Real Mothers ............................. 32 Real World?, The ....................... 49 Rebuild ...................................... 63 Record of Writing, A .................. 23 Recovery of the Public World, The .............................................. 23 Red Notebook, The .................... 33 Refugee Hotel, The .................... 49

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Remember Me ........................... 49 Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh, The ........................................ 63 Riddle of the World, The ............ 50 Rose .......................................... 50

S Saga of the Wet Hens ................ 50 Saint Frances of Hollywood ........ 50 Sainte-Carmen of the Main ........ 50 Sainte-Marie among the Hurons .............................................. 50 Salish People, The, Vol. I ............. 23 Salish People, The, Vol. II ............ 23 Salish People, The, Vol. III ........... 24 Salish People, The, Vol. IV .......... 24 Salonica Terminus ...................... 24 Salt-Water Moon ....................... 50 Satchmo’ Suite, The ................... 50 Saucy Jack ................................. 50 scars on th seehors .................... 63 Scattered in a Rising Wind ......... 33 Schoolhouse .............................. 50 School-Marm Tree, The .............. 33 Seagull, The ............................... 51 Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie, The ...................... 33 Seeds ......................................... 16 Selected Poems: The Arches ....... 63 Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends ..................... 63 Selected Poems: Loki Is Buried at Smoky Creek .......................... 63 Selected Poems: The Vision Tree .............................................. 63 Selected Writing: As Elected ....... 63 Selected Writing: Net Work ........ 64 Sentenced to Light ..................... 64 7 Stories .................................... 51 Shape of a Girl, The / Jewel ........ 51 Shattered Images ....................... 24 Shinny’s Girls and Other Stories .............................................. 33 Shovel, The ................................ 64 Signs of Literature ...................... 24 Silver Dagger ............................. 51 Singer’s Broken Throat, The ........ 64 Sisters ........................................ 51 Six Plays by Mavor Moore .......... 51 Skydive ...................................... 51 Slight Case of Fatigue, A ............ 33 Soldier’s Heart ............................ 51 Some Night My Prince Will Come .............................................. 33 Somewhere Else ......................... 51 Song of the Say-Sayer ................ 51 Songs My Mother Taught Me ..... 33 Specks ....................................... 64

Spectacle of Empire ................... 52 Sticks & Stones .......................... 64 Still Laughing ............................. 52 Strange Comfort ........................ 24 Strange Truth About Us, The ...... 33 Studies in Motion ....................... 52 Subject to Change ..................... 24 sublingual .................................. 64 Suburban Motel ......................... 52 Summerland .............................. 33

Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand .............................................. 26 Two Plays ................................... 53 2000 .......................................... 53

U Unity (1918) ............................... 53 Unnatural and Accidental Women, The ........................................ 53

V T Takeover in Tehran ..................... 24 Taking My Life ............................ 24 Tale of Teeka, The ...................... 52 Talking Bodies ............................ 52 Tchipayuk ................................... 34 Terror of the Coast, The ............. 24 textual vishyuns ......................... 25 That Summer ............................. 52 That Woman .............................. 52 Theatre and AutoBiography ....... 25 Theme for Diverse Instruments ... 34 Then We Were One ................... 25 Theogony / Works and Days ....... 15 There’ll Be Another .................... 63 Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel ....................... 34 They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever ......................... 25 Thing of Beauty, A ..................... 34 This Is My Own .......................... 25 This Poem .................................. 15 This Tremor Love Is ..................... 64 ths is erth thees ar peopul .......... 64 Tiln & Other Plays ...................... 52 time ........................................... 65 Time Being, The ......................... 34 Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism .............................. 25 To the Barricades .......................... 4 Tom and the Coyote .................. 11 Tombs of the Vanishing Indian ... 52 Too Good to Be True .................. 25 Toronto, Mississippi .................... 53 Tracing the Lines ........................ 14 Tracing the Paths ........................ 25 Transmission Difficulties ............. 25 Transnational Muscle Cars .......... 62 Trees Are Lonely Company ......... 34 Trespassers, The ......................... 53 Triage ......................................... 65 Trial of Judith K., The ................. 53 Trigger, The ................................ 53 Truth or Death ........................... 25 Turkana Boy ............................... 34 Twelve Opening Acts .................. 26 Twenty Years at Play ................... 53

Vancouver: A Visual History ........ 26 Vancouver Anthology ................. 26 Ventriloquist, The ....................... 53 Vermeer’s Light .......................... 65 Vic, The ..................................... 54 Vigil ........................................... 54

W Waiting for the Parade ............... 54 Walsh ........................................ 54 Wanted ...................................... 54 Warriors ..................................... 54 WASPs ....................................... 54 Weekend Healer, The ................. 54 Westray ..................................... 54 Whale Riding Weather ............... 54 What Lies Before Us ................... 55 what’s left .................................. 65 Where the Blood Mixes .............. 55 Whereverville ............................. 55 White Pebbles in the Dark Forests .............................................. 34 Willful Acts ................................ 55 With Bated Breath ..................... 55 Women in a World at War ......... 26 Write It on Your Heart ................ 26 Written on Water ....................... 55

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Booklist Index by Author All books are published in trade paperback unless otherwise indicated.

Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II ............................22

ths is erth thees ar peopul............64

978-0-88922-665-4; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

griddle talk: a yeer uv bill n carol dewing brunch ........................20

Aguirre, Carmen

Bailey, Anne Geddes

Blue Box ......................................10

Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism: Intertextual Collaboration and Resistance ...25

978-0-88922-757-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

The Refugee Hotel .......................49 978-0-88922-650-0; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

The Trigger...................................53 978-0-88922-591-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Angus, Ian Anarcho-Modernism: Toward a New Critical Theory in Honour of Jerry Zaslove ....................................17 978-0-88922-457-5; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Archambault, François 15 Seconds ..................................42 978-0-88922-427-8; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-386-8; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Barnholden, Michael

Beauchemin, Jean-François Turkana Boy .................................34 978-0-88922-690-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

beaulieu, derek fractal economies.........................59

978-0-88922-629-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Belford, Ken

978-0-88922-218-2; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Decompositions ...........................57

The Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories............................30

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bissett, bill

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b leev abul char ak trs ..................56

The Pagan Wall ............................32

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hungree throat...............................9 978-0-88922-745-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

The Terror of the Coast: Land Alienation and Colonial War on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1849–1863 ..........24

th influenza uv logik ....................60

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th last photo uv th human soul ....60

Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral Traditions of the Hul’q’umi’num’ Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island.......................................26

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They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever ...........................25 Cloth: 978-0-88922-331-8; $60.00 CAD / $40.00 USD

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Blais, Marie-Claire American Notebooks: A Writer’s Journey ....................................17 978-0-88922-358-5; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-111-6; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-539-8; $15.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Arnett, Chris, Richard Daly & Annie York

bissett, bill & Carol Malyon

Cloth: 978-0-88922-621-0; $35.00 CAD / $35.00 USD

How to Write...............................20

Arnett, Chris

978-0-88922-653-1; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

The Angel of Solitude ..................27

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The Circus Performers’ Bar ...........28

time.............................................65

Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters’ Reports from the War of 1885 ..............18

The Leisure Society.......................46

Arnason, David

978-0-88922-557-2; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-357-8; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

inkorrect thots .............................60 978-0-88922-303-5; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

loving without being vulnrabul.....61

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Dürer’s Angel ...............................29 The Execution ..............................42 978-0-88922-103-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Blaser, Robin

Bouchard, Randy & Dorothy Kennedy Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America: A Translation of Franz Boas’ 1895 Edition of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas .......................19 978-0-88922-553-4; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

Boucher, Denise The Fairies Are Thirsty ..................42 978-0-88922-200-7; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Bourguignon, Stéphane A Slight Case of Fatigue...............33 978-0-88922-596-1; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Bowering, George And Other Stories ........................27 978-0-88922-451-3; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Baseball Love ...............................17

Pell Mell.......................................62

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Blonds on Bikes............................56

Boas, Franz Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America: A Translation of Franz Boas’ Indianische Sagen von der NordPacifischen Küste Amerikas ......20 978-0-88922-553-4; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

Böggild, Hans & Doug Innis The Satchmo’ Suite ......................50 978-0-88922-648-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

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Harry’s Fragments ........................30 978-0-88910-387-0; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Kerrisdale Elegies .........................60 978-0-88922-590-9; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe............................61 978-0-88910-457-0; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

My Darling Nellie Grey .................61 978-0-88922-634-0; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

Boldereff, Frances & Charles Olson

The Rain Barrel.............................32

After Completion: The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff ................2

Sticks & Stones ............................64

978-0-88922-706-4; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Bouchard, Michel Marc The Coronation Voyage ...............39

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Vermeer’s Light: Poems 1996–2006..............................65 978-0-88922-565-7; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Boyd, George Consecrated Ground, 2nd ed.......39

978-0-88922-372-1; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

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narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane...............61

Down Dangerous Passes Road .....40

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978-0-88922-440-7; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Gideon’s Blues .............................43

978-0-88922-507-7; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

The Madonna Painter...................46

northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing ...............................62

978-0-88922-641-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

The Tale of Teeka .........................52

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novel ...........................................32

Tom and the Coyote ....................11

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Brinkman, Baba The Rap Canterbury Tales.............63 978-0-88922-548-0; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Brodie, Leanna The Book of Esther.......................37

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peter among th towring boxes / text bites..................................62

Written on Water.........................55

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978-0-88922-492-6; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

For Home and Country ................42

978-0-88922-464-3; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-508-4; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Bacque, James

scars on th seehors ......................63

Schoolhouse ................................50

Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation, 1944–1950 ..........19

978-0-88922-387-5; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-571-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends......................63

The Vic ........................................54

978-0-88922-567-1; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-172-7; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

sublingual ....................................64 978-0-88922-589-3; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

978-0-88922-459-9; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

70 Talonbooks Booklist Index by Author

Brooks, Daniel & Guillermo Verdecchia

The Queens .................................49

The Noam Chomsky Lectures .......48

Chekhov, Anton

978-0-88922-405-6; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Browne, Colin Ground Water..............................59

978-0-88922-403-2; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Jacob’s Wake ...............................45 978-0-88922-097-3; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

The Seagull ..................................51

Tiln & Other Plays ........................52

978-0-88922-324-0; $16.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

978-0-88922-107-9; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Christensen, Bev

978-0-88922-465-0; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Too Good to Be True ....................25

The Properties..............................63

978-0-88922-354-7; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-685-2; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Cook, Michael

Clark, Sally

Craddock, Chris & Nathan Cuckow

That Woman................................52 978-0-88922-399-8; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Daurio, Beverley Hell & Other Novels......................30 978-0-88910-421-1; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Davey, Frank Back to the War ...........................56

BASH’d ........................................36

978-0-88922-514-5; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-656-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Bardy Google...............................56

The Shovel ...................................64

Life Without Instruction ...............46

Cross, Ronald & Hélène Sévigny

978-0-88922-636-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-574-9; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-347-9; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Cultural Mischief..........................57 Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics .....................................21

Lost Souls and Missing Persons ....46

Lasagna: The Man Behind the Mask ................................................21

Shinny’s Girls and Other Stories....33

978-0-88922-397-4; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-348-6; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-272-4; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Moo ............................................48

Burns, Mary

Bush, Steven

Cryer, Beryl Mildred

Beating the Bushes ......................36

Saint Frances of Hollywood ..........50

978-0-88922-647-0; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

978-0-88922-366-0; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Byrne, Edward & Charles Watts

The Trial of Judith K. ....................53

The Recovery of the Public World ................................................23

978-0-88754-465-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral Traditions of the Hul’q’umi’num’ Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island.......................................25

Wanted........................................54

978-0-88922-555-8; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

978-0-88922-388-2; $39.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

978-0-88754-476-7; $12.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-503-9; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

WASPs .........................................54

978-0-88922-398-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Carlson, Tim

Clements, Marie

Diplomacy....................................40

Burning Vision .............................37

978-0-88922-611-1; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-472-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Omniscience ................................48

Copper Thunderbird ......................39

978-0-88922-562-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-568-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Carson, Linda A. et al.

978-0-88922-656-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Culhane, Dara An Error in Judgement: The Politics of Medical Care in an Indian / White Community ........19 978-0-88922-246-5; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-431-5; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Caux, Patrick & Bernard Gilbert

The Unnatural and Accidental Women....................................53

EX MACHINA: Creating for the Stage .......................................19

Clements, Marie & Rita Leistner

The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil ................................35 978-0-88922-516-9; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-642-5; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Cochrane, Mark Change Room..............................57

978-0-88922-174-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Del Bucchia, Dina

Deneault, Alain

The Pleasure of the Crown: Anthropology, Law and First Nations ....................................23

The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story......18, 41

Selected Poems: The Arches.........63

BASH’d ........................................36

978-0-88922-686-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-617-3; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

978-0-88922-285-4; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Coping with Emotions and Otters ..7

Tombs of the Vanishing Indian.......52

Chai, Camyar, Guillermo Verdecchia & Marcus Youssef

978-0-88922-217-5; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Popular Narratives

Cuckow, Nathan & Chris Craddock

Mom’s the Word ..........................48

978-0-88922-521-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-364-6; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-315-8; $34.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Culhane, Dara & Leslie A. Robertson In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver ................................................20 978-0-88922-513-8; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-764-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Paul Martin & Companies: Sixty Theses on the Alegal Nature of Tax Havens..............................22 978-0-88922-538-1; $15.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Deneault, Alain & William Sacher Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World’s Mining Industries ...............................16 978-0-88922-635-7; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Derksen, Jeff Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics .....................................17 978-0-88922-612-8; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Down Time ..................................58 978-0-88922-278-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Dwell ...........................................58

978-0-88922-432-2; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Champagne, Dominic

Collis, Stephen

Playing Bare .................................49

The Commons .............................57

D’Acres, Lilia & Donald Luxton

978-0-88922-328-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Transnational Muscle Cars............65

978-0-88922-580-0; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Lions Gate ...................................21 Cloth: 978-0-88922-416-2; $34.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Chinese Blue................................57

A History of Change: Dispatches from the Occupation................14

978-0-88922-681-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-695-1; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Scattered in a Rising Wind ...........33

978-0-88922-520-6; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

hypoderm ....................................60

On the Material ...........................62

978-0-88922-484-1; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

A Covenant of Salt.......................28

978-0-88922-335-6; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Chan, Weyman

978-0-88922-637-1; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-632-6; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Noise from the Laundry................62

Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry / Anarchy / Abstraction ..............................23

978-0-88922-626-5; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Chaurette, Normand All the Verdis of Venice ................35

978-0-88922-559-6; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-442-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

To the Barricades............................4

The Concise Köchel......................38 978-0-88922-518-3; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-747-7; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Conolly, L.W.

Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists ...........................43

Canadian Drama and the Critics, Revised Edition.........................18

978-0-88922-400-1; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-359-2; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Dalpé, Jean Marc

978-0-88922-473-5; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Desjardins, Martine All That Glitters............................27

Daly, Richard, Chris Arnett & Annie York

Fairy Ring.....................................29

They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever ...........................25

Maleficium...................................31

Cloth: 978-0-88922-331-8; $60.00 CAD / $40.00 USD

978-0-88922-566-4; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD 978-0-88922-449-0; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD 978-0-88922-680-7; $14.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Danis, Daniel

Deverell, Rex

In the Eyes of Stone Dogs ............45

Boiler Room Suite ........................37

978-0-88922-519-0; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Song of the Say-Sayer ..................51 978-0-88922-419-3; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-137-6; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Douglas, Stan Vancouver Anthology, 2nd ed. .....26 Cloth: 978-0-88922-614-2; $35.00 CAD / $35.00 USD

Talonbooks Booklist Index by Author 71

Ducharme, Réjean

The Death of René Lévesque ........40

Go Figure.....................................30

978-0-88922-480-3; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-482-7; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Doctor Thomas Neill Cream (Mystery at McGill)...................40

Miss Take .....................................31 978-0-88922-669-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Dumont, Gabriel

978-0-88922-332-5; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Joe Beef.......................................45

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front........26 978-0-88922-483-4; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Gale, Lorena Je me souviens.............................45 978-0-88922-453-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Galluccio, Steve

Gray, John Maclachlan Local Boy Makes Good.................46 978-0-88922-248-9; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Gray, John MacLachlan, with Eric Peterson Billy Bishop Goes to War, 1st ed. ................................................37

Gabriel Dumont Speaks, 2nd ed. ................................................20

Nothing to Lose ...........................48

In Piazza San Domenico ...............45

978-0-88922-196-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-625-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-121-5; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-674-6; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

On the Job...................................48

Mambo Italiano ...........................47

Billy Bishop Goes to War, 2nd ed. ................................................16

978-0-88922-494-0; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-689-0; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Durand, Monique The Painter’s Wife ........................32 978-0-88922-535-0; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

978-0-88922-291-5; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-102-4; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Findley, Timothy

Garneau, Michel

Can You See Me Yet? ..................38

Warriors.......................................54

978-0-88922-119-2; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

978-0-88922-282-3; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Ebtekar, Massoumeh, with Fred A. Reed

Fiorentino, Jon Paul & Robert Kroetsch

Takeover in Tehran: The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy Capture ...................................24

Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry ......................................62

978-0-88922-443-8; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Enright, Robert Peregrinations: Conversations with Contemporary Artists...............22 978-0-921368-67-0; $24.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

978-0-88922-523-7; $19.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Fischer, Hervé The Decline of the Hollywood Empire .....................................19 978-0-88922-545-9; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Frangione, Lucia Cariboo Magi...............................38

F Farrant, M.A.C.

978-0-88922-527-5; $15.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Espresso.......................................42

The Breakdown So Far .................27

978-0-88922-495-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-556-5; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Leave of Absence.........................12

Darwin Alone in the Universe.......28

978-0-88922-753-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-471-1; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Paradise Garden...........................49

Down the Road to Eternity: New & Selected Fiction ............29

Garrard, Jim Cold Comfort ..............................38 978-0-88922-201-4; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Gilbert, Bernard & Patrick Caux EX MACHINA: Creating for the Stage .......................................19 978-0-88922-617-3; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

H Hadfield, D.A. Re: Producing Women’s Dramatic History: The Politics of Playing in Toronto ....................................23 978-0-88922-563-3; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Hardin, Herschel Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk ..42 978-0-88922-018-8; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Glaap, Albert-Reiner & Sherrill Grace

The Great Wave of Civilization .....44

Performing National Identities: International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre ................................................22

Hendry, Tom

978-0-88922-475-9; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Glover, Douglas Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon.................................29

978-0-88922-106-2; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass .......42 978-0-88922-096-6; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Hentsch, Thierry Empire of Desire: The Abolition of Time .................19 978-0-88922-587-9; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

French, David

Gold, Artie

Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition.......................25

The Collected Books of Artie Gold ................................................57

Hesiod

978-0-88922-658-6; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-615-9; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Jitters...........................................45

The Strange Truth About Us: A Novel of Absence .................33

978-0-88922-242-7; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

1949............................................48

978-0-88922-668-5; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-266-3; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

978-0-88922-228-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-652-4; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Grace, Sherrill

978-0-88922-509-1; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

Theogony / Works and Days.........15 978-0-88922-700-2; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Fawcett, Brian

One Crack Out.............................48

Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow ...........27

978-0-88922-488-9; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock.....................................21

The Riddle of the World ...............50

978-0-88922-586-2; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout ...............................................41

978-0-88922-237-3; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-487-2; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Capital Tales.................................28

Salt-Water Moon .........................50

Strange Comfort: Essays on the Work of Malcolm Lowry...........24

Rose ...........................................50

978-0-88922-221-2; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-257-1; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

My Career with the Leafs & Other Stories..............................32

Silver Dagger ...............................50

978-0-88922-199-4; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Soldier’s Heart..............................51

The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie ...............................33

That Summer ...............................52

978-0-88922-227-4; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-439-1; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-325-7; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD 978-0-88922-463-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Fennario, David Balconville....................................36 978-0-88922-145-1; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-618-0; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Grace, Sherrill & Albert-Reiner Glaap Performing National Identities: International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre ................................................22 978-0-88922-475-9; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

G Gagnon, Madeleine

Grace, Sherrill & Jerry Wasserman

Banana Boots...............................36

Against the Wind.........................15

978-0-88922-396-7; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-696-8; $14.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Bolsheviki: A Dead Serious Comedy ................................................37

My Name Is Bosnia.......................32

Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice..................25

978-0-88922-542-8; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-540-4; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-687-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Highway, Tomson

978-0-88922-525-1; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD 978-0-88922-490-2; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

Hildebrandt, Walter The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis ....................14 978-0-88922-693-7; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Hill-Tout, Charles The Salish People (ed. Ralph Maud) Vol. I: The Thompson and the Okanagan ................................23 978-0-88922-148-2; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Vol. II: The Squamish and the Lillooet ....................................23 978-0-88922-149-9; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

72 Talonbooks Booklist Index by Author

Vol. III: The Mainland Halkomelem ................................................24

K Karasick, Adeena

Kroetsch, Robert & Jon Paul Fiorentino

Sisters ..........................................51

Loring, Kevin

978-0-88922-150-5; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Amuse Bouche.............................56

Vol. IV: The Sechelt and the SouthEastern Tribes of Vancouver Island ................................................24

978-0-88922-604-3; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry ......................................62

Dyssemia Sleaze...........................58

978-0-88922-523-7; $19.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-151-2; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

The Empress Has No Closure........58

Hogg, Robert An English Canadian Poetics Vol. I: The Confederation Poets ................................................19 978-0-88922-613-5; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Hollingsworth, Margaret

978-0-88922-307-3; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour ......................................20

Genrecide ....................................59

978-0-88922-306-6; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2nd ed.....................................18

978-0-88922-370-7; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

The House That Hijack Built..........59 978-0-88922-511-4; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Mêmewars...................................61

978-0-88922-385-1; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

This Poem ....................................15

978-0-7737-6048-6; $22.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

Hughes, Kenneth James

978-0-88922-608-1; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Luxton, Donald

978-0-88922-344-8; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Get on Top...................................30

Where the Blood Mixes................55

Kröller, Eva-Marie

978-0-88922-434-6; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Willful Acts ..................................55

Homel, David

978-0-88922-289-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-699-9; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Kearns, Lionel A Few Words Will Do...................58

978-0-88922-554-1; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

Luxton, Donald & Lilia D’Acres

Lafond, Jean-Daniel & Fred A. Reed

Lions Gate ...................................21 Cloth: 978-0-88922-416-2; $34.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Conversations in Tehran ...............19 978-0-88922-550-3; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Lamothe, Serge

Macdonald, Bruce

The Baldwins ...............................27

Vancouver: A Visual History..........26

978-0-88922-544-2; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Cloth: 978-0-88922-311-0; $60.00 CAD / $40.00 USD

Langley, Rod

MacDonald, Bryden

Kennedy, Dorothy & Randy Bouchard

Bethune.......................................37

Divinity Bash / nine lives ...............40

978-0-88922-088-1; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-408-7; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America: A Translation of Franz Boas’ 1895 Edition of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas .......................19

The Dunsmuirs: Alone at the Edge ................................................41

The Weekend Healer....................54

978-0-88922-297-7; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Whale Riding Weather .................54

In the Eyes of God .......................45

978-0-88922-553-4; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

978-0-88922-561-9; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

The Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack ................................................21

Tchipayuk: or The Way of the Wolf ................................................34

Signs of Literature........................24 978-0-88922-236-6; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Hunter, Lynette Outsider Notes.............................22 978-0-88922-363-9; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

I Inglis, Raul Sanchez

Innis, Doug & Hans Böggild The Satchmo’ Suite ......................50 978-0-88922-648-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-558-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-640-1; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Kerr, Kevin Skydive ........................................51

978-0-88922-638-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Jaeger, Peter

Studies in Motion.........................52

ABC of Reading TRG....................17

978-0-88922-592-3; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

978-0-88922-423-0; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Unity (1918) .................................53

Janes, Mariner The Monument Cycles ...................6 978-0-88922-751-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Jetha, Sadru Nuri Does Not Exist ......................32 978-0-88922-655-5; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

John-Kehewin, Wanda In the Dog House...........................5 978-0-88922-749-1; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Johnson, Chris Essays on George F. Walker: Playing with Anxiety ............................19 978-0-921368-82-3; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Joseph, Maia, et al. Tracing the Lines: Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki ..................................14 978-0-88922-694-4; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-461-2; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Kitagawa, Muriel This Is My Own ............................25 Cloth: 978-0-88922-231-1; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Kiyooka, Roy K. Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka ....................62 978-0-88922-378-3; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Knickerbocker, Nancy

978-0-88922-360-8; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

The Dunsmuirs: A Promise Kept ...41

978-0-88922-353-0; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-304-2; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

With Bated Breath .......................55

Lavallée, Ronald

978-0-88922-651-7; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

MacDonald, Josh Halo.............................................44

978-0-88922-338-7; $34.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

978-0-88922-469-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Leistner, Rita & Marie Clements

Whereverville ...............................55

The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story......18, 41

MacIvor, Daniel

978-0-88922-642-5; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Leonoff, Cyril E.

978-0-88922-506-0; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Cul-de-sac ...................................39 978-0-88922-515-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Bridges of Light: Otto Landauer of Leonard Frank Photos, 1945–1980..............................18

Marion Bridge..............................47

Cloth: 978-0-88922-376-9; $39.95 CAD / $34.95 USD

Amigo’s Blue Guitar .....................35

Leroux, Louis Patrick Ludwig & Mae .............................46 978-0-88922-623-4; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Lill, Wendy

978-0-88922-552-7; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

MacLeod, Joan 978-0-88922-371-4; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Another Home Invasion ...............36 978-0-88922-622-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Homechild ...................................44

All Fall Down ...............................35

978-0-88922-582-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-336-3; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

The Hope Slide / Little Sister .........44

Chimera.......................................38

978-0-88922-411-7; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-569-5; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

The Shape of a Girl / Jewel...........51

No Plaster Saint: The Life of Mildred Osterhout Fahrni......................22

Corker .........................................39

978-0-88922-460-5; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-452-0; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-394-3; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Toronto, Mississippi......................53

Kobayashi, Cassandra & Roy Miki

The Fighting Days ........................42

978-0-88922-583-1; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-226-7; $15.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

2000............................................53

Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement ................................................21

The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum ...43

Cloth: 978-0-88922-292-2; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-489-6; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-369-1; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Memories of You .........................47 The Occupation of Heather Rose ................................................48 978-0-88922-593-0; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-373-8; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

McCaffery, Steve & bpNichol Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book-Machine .........................23 978-0-88922-300-4; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Talonbooks Booklist Index by Author 73

McClure, Michael Specks, 2nd ed. ...........................64

White Pebbles in the Dark Forests ................................................34

978-0-88922-688-3; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-280-9; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

McElroy, Gil

Marlatt, Daphne

Cold Comfort: Growing Up Cold War .................................19

The Gull.......................................44

978-0-88922-684-5; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now....................................3

Dream Pool Essays .......................58

978-0-88922-616-6; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-454-4; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-761-3; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Last Scattering Surfaces ...............61

Selected Writing: Net Work..........64

978-0-88922-575-6; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-175-8; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

NonZero Definitions .....................62

This Tremor Love Is.......................64

978-0-88922-499-5; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Ordinary Time ..............................62 978-0-88922-675-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

McFadden, David W. Five Star Planet ............................58

978-0-88922-450-6; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Miki, Roy & Cassandra Kobayashi Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement...21

978-0-88922-743-9; $12.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Asian Skies...................................56 978-0-88922-633-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Dominican Moon .........................58

Cloth: 978-0-88922-292-2; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Mitchell, Ken

978-0-88922-526-8; $17.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Fifty .............................................58

Cruel Tears...................................39

978-0-88922-479-7; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-120-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Floating Up to Zero ......................59

Moodie, Andrew The Lady Smith ............................45 978-1-55331-002-0; $14.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Moore, Mavor Six Plays by Mavor Moore ............49

Martin, Patrice Kafka’s Hat ....................................8

Norris, Ken

978-0-88922-659-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Going Home ................................59 978-0-88922-573-2; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

Hotel Montreal: New and Selected Poems......................................60

978-0-88922-271-7; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Morse, Garry Thomas

978-0-88922-456-8; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Limbo Road .................................61

After Jack ....................................56

Maud, Ralph

978-0-88922-401-8; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-630-2; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-468-1; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Charles Olson at the Harbor .......18

Death in Vancouver......................28

Great Lakes Suite .........................20

978-0-88922-576-3; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-607-4; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-382-0; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Discovery Passages.......................58

Gypsy Guitar................................59

A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend .....................................20

978-0-88922-660-9; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-129-1; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-250-2; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

978-0-88922-189-5; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus ....14

Trees Are Lonely Company ...........34

There’ll Be Another ......................64

Poet to Publisher: Charles Olson’s Correspondence with Donald Allen...........................23

978-0-88922-361-5; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

McKinnon, Barry

978-0-88922-697-5; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

The Invisibility Exhibit ...................60

Westray: The Long Way Home .....54

978-0-88922-579-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-497-1; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories......................................23

Rebuild ......................................63

978-0-88922-333-2; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

978-0-88922-605-0; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology.........25

Glengarry.....................................59 978-0-88922-662-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

harvest: a book of signifiers .........59

978-0-88922-430-8; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Meigs, Mary

978-0-88922-327-1; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

O’Neill, Chris & Ken Schwartz

978-0-88922-486-5; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

gifts .............................................59

The School-Marm Tree .................33

Murakami, Sachiko

The Centre: Poems 1970–2000....57

mclennan, rob

O’Hagan, Howard

978-0-88922-670-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Murphy, John

978-0-88922-491-9; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Olson, Charles Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews, 2nd ed. ..................22

The Heretic ..................................44 978-0-88922-595-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Murrell, John

978-0-88922-455-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Beyond Recall ..............................17

978-0-921368-28-1; $10.95 CAD / $7.95 USD

The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh .......................63

978-0-88922-505-3; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

The Faraway Nearby.....................42

After Completion: The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff ................2

The Box Closet.............................18

978-0-921368-56-4; $10.95 CAD / $7.95 USD

978-0-88922-706-4; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-424-7; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-253-3; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Waiting for the Parade .................54

what’s left....................................65

In the Company of Strangers .......20

978-0-88922-183-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-498-8; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-294-6; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Mailhot, Michèle

Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait............21

Death of the Spider......................28

978-0-88922-195-6; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-298-4; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

The Medusa Head........................21

Malyon, Carol & bill bissett griddle talk: a yeer uv bill n carol dewing brunch ........................20 978-0-88922-606-7; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

Marchessault, Jovette Like a Child of the Earth...............31

Democracy...................................40

978-0-88922-639-5; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

Olson, Charles & Frances Boldereff

P Panych, Morris

Benevolence ................................36

Nichol, bp bpNichol Comics..........................56

978-0-88922-584-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

The Dishwashers ..........................40

978-0-88922-210-6; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-448-3; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-524-4; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

The Time Being ............................34

Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol ..................................21

Earshot ........................................41

978-0-88922-447-6; $34.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

The Ends of the Earth...................41

978-0-88922-374-5; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Mercer, Michael

978-0-88922-444-5; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Goodnight Disgrace .....................43

Selected Writing: As Elected.........63

978-0-88922-334-9; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-238-0; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-176-5; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Girl in the Goldfish Bowl ..............43

Miki, Roy

Nichol, bp & Steve McCaffery

The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr ................................47

A Record of Writing .....................23

Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book-Machine .........................23

Gordon........................................43

978-0-88922-314-1; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-300-4; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

In Absentia ..................................15

Mother of the Grass.....................31

Tracing the Paths: Reading =/ Writing The Martyrology ......................25

978-0-88922-267-0; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

978-0-88922-256-4; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-261-8; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Saga of the Wet Hens ..................50 978-0-88922-213-7; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Cloth: 978-0-88922-263-2; $39.95 CAD / $34.95 USD

Nichol, James W. Sainte-Marie among the Hurons ..50 978-0-88922-147-5; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Nicholson, Cecily Triage...........................................65 978-0-88922-657-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-481-0; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD 978-0-88922-664-7; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD 978-0-88922-702-6; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Lawrence & Holloman..................46 978-0-88922-392-9; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Other Schools of Thought ............49 978-0-88922-346-2; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

74 Talonbooks Booklist Index by Author

7 Stories ......................................51

Renaud, Yannick

The Ecstasy of Rita Joe .................41

Suttles, Wayne

978-0-88922-281-6; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

All Is Flesh....................................56

978-0-88922-000-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Coast Salish Essays.......................18

Still Laughing: Three Adaptations by Morris Panych ..........................52

978-0-88922-672-2; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

George Ryga: The Other Plays......43

978-0-88922-212-0; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Richmond, Jacob

978-0-88922-624-1; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Legoland......................................46

Trespassers, The ...........................53

978-0-88922-610-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-628-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Vigil, 2nd ed. ...............................54 978-0-88922-692-0; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

What Lies Before Us.....................55 978-0-88922-560-2; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Peters, Carl textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bissett .............25 978-0-88922-661-6; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Pollock, Sharon

Robertson, Leslie A. & Dara Culhane In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver ................................................20

Robinson, Harry & Wendy Wickwire Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory ...........21 978-0-88922-522-0; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-921368-41-0; $10.95 CAD / $7.95 USD

Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller ...............22

978-0-88922-215-1; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

R Reaney, James Colours in the Dark......................38 978-0-88922-001-0; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Listen to the Wind .......................46 978-0-88922-002-7; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Rebar, Kelly Bordertown Café .........................37

George Ryga: The Prairie Novels ................................................29 978-0-88922-501-5; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

In the Shadow of the Vulture .......30 978-0-88922-233-5; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Summerland ................................33 978-0-88922-313-4; $34.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

978-0-88922-504-6; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-635-7; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

The Buz’Gem Blues ......................38

Salutin, Rick

978-0-88922-502-2; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Chameleon & Other Stories..........28

978-0-88922-122-2; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

Schermbrucker, Bill

978-0-88922-367-7; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-254-0; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-517-6; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Subject to Change .......................24

Motortherapy ..............................31

In a World Created by a Drunken God .........................................45

978-0-88922-644-9; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

978-0-88922-330-1; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Persian Postcards: Iran After Khomeini .................22

The Carpenter: A Carpenter’s Trilogy, A Chronicle in Three Plays, Part III .........................................38

bpNichol: What History Teaches ................................................18

Takeover in Tehran: The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S. Embassy Capture .....................23 978-0-88922-443-8; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Then We Were One: Fragments of Two Lives .................................25 978-0-88922-667-8; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Reed, Fred A. & Daniel Lafond

978-0-88922-491-9; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Scobie, Stephen

978-0-88922-220-5; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-384-4; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-609-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Heroine........................................30

Aurora .........................................56

Hellfire Pass: A Carpenter’s Trilogy, A Chronicle in Three Plays, Part I ................................................44

978-0-88922-415-5; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

978-0-88910-471-6; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Main Brides..................................31

The New Long Poem Anthology, 2nd ed. ....................................61

978-0-88922-564-0; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Paradise by the River ....................49 978-0-88922-393-6; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Rostand, Edmond

978-0-88910-456-3; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Sellars, Bev Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School.......1 978-0-88922-741-5; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-438-4; $39.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

News & Smoke: Selected Poems...61 978-0-88922-417-9; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Thomas, Audrey

Cyrano de Bergerac .....................39

Sévigny, Hélène & Ronald Cross

Latakia.........................................31

978-0-921368-43-4; $10.95 CAD / $7.95 USD

Lasagna: The Man Behind the Mask ................................................21

Mrs. Blood ...................................31

Rule, Jane Desert of the Heart ......................28 978-0-88922-301-1; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Taking My Life..............................23

Simons, Beverley Crabdance ...................................39 978-0-88922-016-4; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Soutar, Annabel

978-0-88922-550-3; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Theme for Diverse Instruments.....34

Seeds...........................................16

978-0-88922-060-7; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

978-0-88922-701-9; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

978-0-88922-512-1; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

978-0-88922-643-2; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth...................... ...................48

Thesen, Sharon

978-0-88922-673-9; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

I. Another. The Space Between: Selected Poems........................60

978-0-88922-537-4; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

NEWS: Postcards from the Four Directions ...... ...................22

Scott, Gail

Conversations in Tehran ...............19

Reid, Jamie

978-0-88922-663-0; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Fearless Warriors, 2nd ed. ............29 978-0-88922-597-8; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-594-7; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-485-8; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-462-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Dead White Writer on the Floor ................................................40

400 Kilometres ............................43

978-0-88922-426-1; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Shattered Images: The Rise of Militant Iconoclasm in Syria......24

978-0-88922-441-4; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

978-0-88922-208-3; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Anatolia Junction: A Journey into Hidden Turkey..........................17

978-0-88922-368-4; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-581-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Mimosa .......................................31

Westray: The Long Way Home .....54

Salonica Terminus: Travels into the Balkan Nightmare ....................24

978-0-88922-428-5; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

The Boy in the Treehouse / Girl Who Loved Her Horses ......37

Carmela’s Table: A Carpenter’s Trilogy, A Chronicle in Three Plays, Part II .......................................38

978-0-88922-351-6; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

alterNatives..................................35

Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World’s Mining Industries ...............................16

Schwartz, Ken & Chris O’Neill

Reed, Fred A.

978-0-88922-308-0; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Taylor, Drew Hayden

978-0-88922-406-3; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Rossi, Vittorio

978-0-88922-477-3; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

In the Midst .................................20

The Berlin Blues ...........................37

Les Canadiens..............................38

Bread and Salt .............................57

Tallman, Warren

Sacher, William & Alain Deneault

Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller............. ...................26

Rodin, Renee

The Baby Blues.............................36

978-0-88922-513-8; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Saucy Jack ...................................50 Walsh .........................................54

978-0-88922-500-8; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Ryga, George

Strindberg, August

The Athabasca Ryga ....................27

Miss Julie .....................................47

978-0-88922-276-2; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-549-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-167-3; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD 978-0-88922-319-6; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Real Mothers ...............................32 978-0-88922-191-8; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Songs My Mother Taught Me.......33 978-0-88922-329-5; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Tostevin, Lola Lemire Cartouches ..................................57 978-0-88922-355-4; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Talonbooks Booklist Index by Author 75

Tremblay, Larry Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre ....................................35

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant ..................................29

Verdecchia, Guillermo

Wasserman, Jerry

Another Country / bloom.............36

Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. I, 4th ed. ...........................47

978-0-88922-190-1; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-570-1; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-649-4; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

The First Quarter of the Moon......29

Citizen Suárez..............................28

978-0-88922-436-0; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

The Bicycle Eater ..........................27

978-0-88922-352-3; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-391-2; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-528-2; $19.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Piercing........................................32

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again ......................................42

Fronteras Americanas: American Borders, 1st ed. .........43

Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. II, 4th ed. .........................47

978-0-88922-645-6; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-389-9; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-383-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Talking Bodies ..............................52

Forever Yours, Marie-Lou ............43

978-0-88922-445-2; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-349-3; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Fronteras Americanas: American Borders, 2nd ed. ........16

The Ventriloquist..........................53

The Heart Laid Bare......................30

978-0-88922-705-7; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-536-7; $15.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Tremblay, Lise

978-0-88922-425-4; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Hosanna .....................................44

Verdecchia, Guillermo & Daniel Brooks

978-0-88922-437-7; $39.95 CAD / $39.95 USD

Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. I, 5th ed. ..........................47 978-0-88922-678-4; $49.95 CAD / $49.95 USD

Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France ................................................52

The Hunting Ground....................30

978-0-88922-296-0; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

The Noam Chomsky Lectures .......48

978-0-88922-547-3; $21.95 CAD / $21.95 USD

978-0-88922-534-3; $15.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

The Impromptu of Outremont......44

978-0-88922-405-6; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Twenty Years at Play: A New Play Centre Anthology ...................53

Judith’s Sister ...............................30

978-0-88922-185-7; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-677-7; $14.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

Impromptu on Nuns’ Island..........45

Mile End ......................................31

978-0-88922-470-4; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-467-4; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

La Maison Suspendue ..................47

Tremblay, Michel

978-0-88922-295-3; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Verdecchia, Guillermo, Camyar Chai & Marcus Youssef The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil ................................35 978-0-88922-516-9; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Verdecchia, Guillermo & Marcus Youssef

978-0-88922-275-5; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Wasserman, Jerry & Sherrill Grace Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice .................25

Albertine in Five Times (translated by Gaboriau)............................35

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds.....47

978-0-88922-627-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

News from Édouard .....................32

A Line in the Sand........................46

978-0-88922-540-4; $29.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Albertine in Five Times (translated by Van Burek & Glassco) ..........35

978-0-88922-435-3; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-375-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Watts, Charles & Edward Byrne

Past Perfect..................................49

978-0-88922-234-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

978-0-88922-493-3; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Assorted Candies for the Theatre ................................................36

The Real World? ..........................49

978-0-88922-326-4; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-260-1; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

The Recovery of the Public World ................................................23

Wah, Fred is a door ......................................60

978-0-88922-388-2; $39.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Webb, Phyllis

978-0-88922-572-5; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

The Red Notebook .......................33

978-0-88922-620-3; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Hanging Fire ................................59

Bambi and Me .............................17

978-0-88922-588-6; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-380-6; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Remember Me .............................49

Selected Poems: Loki Is Buried at Smoky Creek ...........................61

Selected Poems: The Vision Tree...63

Les Belles Soeurs ..........................35

978-0-88922-219-9; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-177-2; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-302-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Sainte-Carmen of the Main..........50

Sentenced to Light.......................64

Birth of a Bookworm....................17

978-0-88922-181-9; $15.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

978-0-88922-476-6; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

The Black Notebook.....................27

Some Night My Prince Will Come ................................................33

978-0-88922-543-5; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-510-7; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

978-0-88922-654-8; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

The Blue Notebook ......................27

Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel.........................34

The East End Plays: Part I..............41

978-0-88922-198-7; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

The East End Plays: Part II .............41

978-0-88922-619-7; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-577-0; $29.95 CAD; $29.95 USD

Walker, George F.

978-0-88910-391-7; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD 978-0-88922-202-1; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Wells, Oliver N. The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors ................................................18

And So It Goes.............................35

978-0-88922-413-1; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-255-7; $24.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

Wickwire, Wendy & Harry Robinson Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory ...........21

Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies ....................17

A Thing of Beauty ........................34

978-0-88922-404-9; $19.95 CAD / $19.95 USD

978-0-88922-522-0; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-541-1; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

978-0-88922-390-5; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

Heaven ........................................44

Bonjour, Là, Bonjour.....................37

Twelve Opening Acts....................26

978-0-88922-429-2; $17.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller ...............22

978-0-88922-252-6; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-466-7; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

King of Thieves ............................13

978-0-88922-504-6; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

978-0-88922-755-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller ................................26

Crossing the Continent ................28

Tulchinsky, Karen X. The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky ................................................29

The Power Plays ...........................49

Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra ...39 978-0-88922-184-0; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

978-0-88922-646-3; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

Somewhere Else...........................51

978-0-88922-676-0; $18.95 CAD / $18.95 USD

The Driving Force .........................40 978-0-88922-530-5; $15.95 CAD / $13.95 USD

The Duchess and the Commoner ................................................29

Tussman, Joseph The Burden of Office: Agamemnon and Other Losers......................18 978-0-88922-265-6; $18.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

V Vanderhaeghe, Guy

978-0-88922-104-8; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Dancock’s Dance..........................39 978-0-88922-533-6; $16.95 CAD / $14.95 USD

978-0-88922-502-2; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Woodcock, George

Suburban Motel...........................52

Two Plays .....................................53

978-0-88922-412-4; $29.95 CAD / $29.95 USD

978-0-88922-123-9; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

Walsh, Des 978-0-88922-599-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

En Pièces Détachées.....................41 978-0-88922-092-8; $16.95 CAD / $12.95 USD

978-0-88922-402-5; $24.95 CAD / $24.95 USD

Love and Savagery .......................61

978-0-88922-418-6; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

La Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays ..............................40

978-0-88922-414-8; $19.95 CAD / $15.95 USD

The Singer’s Broken Throat...........64 978-0-88922-478-0; $15.95 CAD / $11.95 USD

Y York, Annie, Chris Arnett & Richard Daly They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever ...........................25 Cloth: 978-0-88922-331-8; $60.00 CAD / $40.00 USD

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Youssef, Marcus Adrift...........................................35 978-0-88922-585-5; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Youssef, Marcus & Guillermo Verdecchia A Line in the Sand........................46 978-0-88922-375-2; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

Youssef, Marcus, Camyar Chai & Guillermo Verdecchia The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil ................................35 978-0-88922-516-9; $17.95 CAD / $17.95 USD

Z Zomparelli, Daniel Davie Street Translations ..............57 978-0-88922-683-8; $16.95 CAD / $16.95 USD

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Booklist Index by Translator

Aronoff, Phyllis & Howard Scott Against the Wind.....................15 My Name Is Bosnia ..................32 A Slight Case of Fatigue...........33 Women in a World at War .......26

Barnholden, Michael Gabriel Dumont Speaks ...........20

Bertz, Dietrich Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America ...............................20

Bilodeau, Chantal Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre ..........................35 Kafka’s Hat ................................8

Bishop, Neil B. Death of the Spider..................28

Brown, Alan The Fairies Are Thirsty ..............42

Browning, Will Go Figure.................................30 Miss Take .................................31

Claxton, Patricia Tchipayuk.................................34

Fischman, Sheila Bambi and Me .........................17 The Bicycle Eater ......................27 Birth of a Bookworm................17 The Black Notebook.................27 The Blue Notebook ..................28 Crossing the Continent ............28 The Duchess and the Commoner ....................29 The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant...........................29 The First Quarter of the Moon .29 The Heart Laid Bare..................30 News from Édouard .................32 The Painter’s Wife ....................32 The Red Notebook ...................33 Some Night My Prince Will Come ...........................33 Talking Bodies ..........................52 Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel ............34 A Thing of Beauty ....................34 Twelve Opening Acts ...............26

French, David Miss Julie .................................46 The Seagull ..............................51

Gaboriau, Linda Albertine in Five Times .............35 All the Verdis of Venice ............35

American Notebooks ...............17 Assorted Candies for the Theatre ..........................36 Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies ...............................17 The Concise Köchel .................38 The Coronation Voyage ...........39 Down Dangerous Passes Road ...........................................40 The Driving Force .....................40 For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again ............................42 Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists ..............43 The Hunting Ground................30 Impromptu on Nuns’ Island......45 In the Eyes of Stone Dogs ........45 Judith’s Sister ...........................30 The Madonna Painter ..............46 The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr ............................47 Past Perfect..............................49 Piercing....................................32 The Queens .............................49 Saga of the Wet Hens ..............50 Scattered in a Rising Wind .......33 Song of the Say-Sayer ..............51 The Tale of Teeka .....................52 That Woman............................52 Tom and the Coyote ................11 Warriors...................................54 Written on Water.....................55

Glassco, Bill & John Van Burek Albertine in Five Times .............35 Les Belles Soeurs ......................36 Bonjour, Là, Bonjour ................37 Forever Yours, Marie-Lou .........43 Hosanna ..................................44 Marcel Pursued by the Hounds ...........................................47 The Real World? ......................49

Hazelton, Hugh All Is Flesh................................56

Hodes, Laura The Angel of Solitude ..............27

Homel, David & Fred A. Reed All That Glitters........................27 The Baldwins ...........................27 A Covenant of Salt...................28 Fairy Ring.................................29 Maleficium...............................31

Klein, Yvonne M. Like a Child of the Earth ..........31 Mother of the Grass.................31 White Pebbles in the Dark Forests .................................................34

Kroetsch, Neil EX MACHINA ..........................19

Lobdell, David Dürer’s Angel ...........................29 The Execution ..........................42

Moore, Jessica Turkana Boy.............................34

Morrissey, C.S. Theogony / Works and Days.....15

Mullins, Rhonda The Decline of the Hollywood Empire................19 Paul Martin & Companies ........22

Murrell, John Cyrano de Bergerac .................39

Philpot, Robin & Fred A. Reed Imperial Canada Inc. ................16

Reed, Fred A. Empire of Desire ......................19 Truth or Death .........................25

Reed, Fred A. & David Homel All That Glitters........................27 The Baldwins ...........................27 A Covenant of Salt...................28 Fairy Ring.................................29 Maleficium...............................31

Reed, Fred A. & Robin Philpot Imperial Canada Inc. ................16

Scott, Gail Mile End ..................................31

Scott, Howard & Phyllis Aronoff Against the Wind.....................15 My Name Is Bosnia ..................32 A Slight Case of Fatigue...........33 Women in a World at War .......26

Stowe, John Remember Me .........................49

Tepperman, Shelley Playing Bare .............................49

Tepperman, Shelley & Ellen Warkentin Ludwig & Mae .........................46

Theodore, Bobby 15 Seconds ..............................42 The Leisure Society...................46

Turnbull, Keith The Ventriloquist......................53

Van Burek, John Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra ...........................................39 La Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays ..........................40 The Impromptu of Outremont ...........................................44 La Maison Suspendue ..............47 Sainte-Carmen of the Main......50

Van Burek, John & Bill Glassco Albertine in Five Times .............35 Les Belles Soeurs ......................36

Bonjour, Là, Bonjour ................37 Forever Yours, Marie-Lou .........43 Hosanna ..................................44 Marcel Pursued by the Hounds.47 The Real World? ......................49

Van Meer, Allan En Pièces Détachées.................41

Warkentin, Ellen & Shelley Tepperman Ludwig & Mae .........................46

Yoshihara, Toyoshi The Gull...................................44

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