Talonbooks Spring 2015 catalogue by Talonbooks

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Talonbooks Awards and Prizes, Recent Highlights 2014 BC Book Prize, Poetry: Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps (Winner) BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist) Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist) City of Victoria Butler Book Prize: M.A.C. Farrant, The World Afloat (Winner) George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)

Contents 1 16 19 27 34 53 62 64 72

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

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award: Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps, (Finalist) Governor General’s Literary Award, Translation: Michel Marc Bouchard, Christina, The Girl King, translated by Linda Gaboriau (Finalist) Governor General’s Literary Award, Translation: Michel Nadeau, And Slowly Beauty, translated by Maureen Labonté (Finalist) Lambda Literary Award, Drama: Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm, translated by Linda Gaboriau (Winner) ReLit Award, Fiction: Garry Thomas Morse, Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour, (Shortlist) Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award: bill bissett (Winner)

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BC Book Prize, Poetry: Colin Browne, The Properties (Finalist) ReLit Award, Fiction: Garry Thomas Morse, Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus, (Shortlist) Sunburst Award: Martine Desjardins, Maleficium, translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel (Winner)

2012 BC Book Prize, Poetry: Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages (Finalist) Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Memoir: Jane Rule, Taking My Life (Finalist)

2011 Alcuin Book Design Award: Stan Douglas, ed., Vancouver Anthology (Honourable Mention) 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) 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)

Talonbooks gratefully acknowledges 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.

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As Always Memoir of a Life in Writing

Madeleine Gagnon Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott Afterword by Maïr Verthuy

Madeleine Gagnon’s novels, poetry, and non-fiction are recognized across Canada and around the world, with many publications in France and some fifteen translations into English, Spanish, and Italian. Born in Amqui, a little village on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, she decided at the age of twelve to be a writer, and after her early education with the Ursuline nuns, went on to study literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis at the Université de Montréal, the Sorbonne, and the Université d’Aix-en-Provence, where she received her doctorate. Since 1969, she has published more than thirty books while at the same time teaching literature in several Quebec universities. Among her many awards are the prestigious Athanase-David Prize (2002) for her lifetime body of work and the Governor General’s Award for Poetry (1990) for Chant pour un Québec lointain (translated by Howard Scott as Song for a Far Quebec). Phyllis Aronoff’s translation of The Wanderer by Régine Robin won the 1998 Jewish Book Award for fiction.

One of Canada’s greatest literary figures reflects on life at the centre of Quebec literary arts. Re-examining the influences of her early life in a large, rural Catholic family, Madeleine Gagnon explores not only her rejection of unexamined values as part of her intellectual development but also her refusal to be categorized by her gender. Karl Marx replaced Paul Claudel in Gagnon’s intellectual pantheon. Psychoanalysis gave rise to the desire to write, and her first works poured out in a torrent. She describes the friendships that played such a large part in her life and the feminist battles of the time, with all their hopes and disappointments. At the same time, she casts a sharp eye on contemporary Quebec society, tracing the emergence of a distinct Canadian literature. This is an account of a life well lived, told with candour, wisdom, and an inextinguishable sense of wonder.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything as beautiful and luminous as this book.” – Manon Trépanier, Radio-Canada “A portrait of a changing Quebec. And an account of the life of a woman who, at nearly seventy-five, is examining who she has become in the light of who she has been ... little girl, sister, lover, mother, intellectual, feminist, writer. They are all present in this book.” – Danielle Laurin, Le Devoir “She always wanted to learn. She always wanted to write. She always wanted to fight injustice. The autobiography of Madeleine Gagnon, one of our greatest literary figures, takes us through the private life and the intellectual and artistic career of a passionately committed woman in a Quebec undergoing a major transformation … not to be missed.” – Chantal Guy, La Presse

Howard Scott received the prestigious Governor General’s Translation Award for his work on Louky Bersianik’s The Euguelion (1997).

ISBN 978-0-88922-896-2; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-897-9 Biography & Autobiography 5.5 × 8.5; 336 pp; Trade paper; Photos $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US June

Madeleine Gagnon’s Against the Wind, My Name Is Bosnia, and Women in a World at War are also available from Talonbooks.

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Canada: A New Tax Haven How the Country That Shaped Caribbean Tax Havens Is Becoming One Itself

A l a i n D e n e au lt Translated by Catherine Browne

Alain Deneault completed a research doctorate at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin and the Université de Paris 8, where he received his PhD in philosophy. In 1999, as a member of the Cross-Canada Caravan, which included organizations such as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Council of Canadians, Deneault visited many Canadian cities before attending the Millennium Round of the World Trade Organization Conference in Seattle, where he spoke about globalization and the World Trade Organization. Deneault’s research and writing practices are diverse and often collaborative, focusing on how international financial and legal agreements increasingly foster the interests of “stateless” transnational corporations over those of nation states and the interests of their human communities. Born in Indiana, Catherine Browne grew up in Montreal. She has a degree in history from the Université de Provence. A professional translator since the 1980s, for the past fifteen years she has conducted guided tours designed to provide Montrealers with new ways of thinking about their city’s past and present. In this book, she helped write the chapter on the history of Canadian banks in the Caribbean.

ISBN 978-0-88922-836-8; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-837-5 Non-fiction: Business and economics 5.5 × 8.5; 400 pp; Trade paper; Photos $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US May

In Canada: A New Tax Haven, Alain Deneault traces Canada’s relationship with Commonwealth Caribbean nations back through the last half of the twentieth century, arguing that the involvement of Canadian financiers in establishing and maintaining Caribbean tax havens has predisposed Canada to become a tax haven itself – a metamorphosis well under way. Canada was linked to Caribbean nations long before they became tax havens. In the 1950s, an ex-governor of Canada’s central bank attempted to establish a low taxation regime in Jamaica. In the 1960s, the transformation of the Bahamas into a tax haven characterized by impenetrable banking secrecy was shaped by a minister of finance who sat on the Royal Bank of Canada’s board of directors. A Calgary lawyer and former Conservative Party heavyweight drew up the clauses that transformed the Cayman Islands into an opaque offshore jurisdiction. For years, Canadian politicians have debated annexing tax havens such as the Turks and Caicos Islands, making them part of Canadian territory. Canada has signed a free-trade agreement with Panama and is currently seeking a wider agreement with countries in CARICOM, the Caribbean economic community. And, notably, Canada currently shares its seat at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund with a group of Caribbean tax havens. These exercises in fostering fiscal and banking leniency have predisposed Canada to become one of the most attractive tax havens to foreign interests. Not only does Canada offer one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world, but a number of loopholes also encourage companies to relocate to Canada as if it were Barbados or Bermuda. Canada: A New Tax Haven is an attempt to analyze the situation and address its implications for Canadians.

Alain Deneault’s Imperial Canada Inc. and Paul Martin & Companies are also available from Talonbooks.

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I, Bartleby Meredith Quartermain

Meredith Quartermain is celebrated across Canada for her depictions of places and their historical hauntings. Vancouver Walking (NeWest, 2005) won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Nightmarker (NeWest, 2008) was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, and Recipes from the Red Planet (BookThug, 2010), her book of flash fiction, was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Quartermain was the 2012 writer-in-residence at the Vancouver Public Library, where she led workshops on song writing and writing about neighbourhoods, and enjoyed doing manuscript consultations with writers from throughout the Lower Mainland. She’s now continuing these activities as poetry mentor in the Writer’s Studio Program at Simon Fraser University. Quartermain has taught English at the University of British Columbia and Capilano College and led workshops at the Naropa Summer Writing Program, the Kootenay School of Writing, and the Toronto New School of Writing. In 2002, she and her husband, Peter Quartermain, founded Nomados Literary Publishers.

ISBN 978-0-88922-918-1; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-919-8 Fiction: Literary 5 × 8.5; 112 pp; Trade paper; Photos $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US April

In these quirkily imaginative short stories about writing and writers, the scrivener Quartermain (our “Bartleby”) goes her stubborn way haunted by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin Blaser, Daphne Marlatt, and a host of other literary forebears. Who is writing whom, these stories ask in their musing reflections – the writer or the written? The thinker or the alphabet? The calligrapher or the pictograms hidden in her Chinese written characters? Intimate jealousies between writers, wagers of courage and ambition, and histories of the colours violet and yellow are some of the subjects in the first section, “Caravan.” Struggles of mothers, fathers, and sisters (and the figures drawn in the Chinese written characters that represent them) unfold as tales of love, death, and revenge in the group of stories in the second section, “Orientalisme.” In “Scriptorium,” the third section, we find out how Bartleby’s father, a Caucasian cook specializing in Chinese cuisine, got Bartleby into writing in the first place. In the fourth series of stories, “How to Write,” we learn how Bartleby loses her I while meeting Allen Ginsberg, Alice B. Toklas, and a real Chinese cook who works in a fictional house of Ethel Wilson, and how Malcolm Lowry’s life came to an end. The fifth and last section, “Moccasin Box,” investigates how a Sebaldesque Bartleby is silenced by Pauline Johnson. Taking its cue from genre-bending writers like Robert Walser and Enrique Vila-Matas, I, Bartleby cunningly challenges boundaries between fiction and reality.

“Short stories? Prose poems? Feuilletons? These evocative meditations are imaginative flânerie, each one opening a portal to a world of personal nuance, archival investigation, the mysteries of marking, writing, and interpreting, and the cost these exact … Each is a portal to the foreignness and oddness of the everyday, the paths walked … With rich and quirky metaphors evoked by passing encounters, with her proud gendered sensibility while facing culture, with vivid details of the real and the imagined looping excitingly together – Quartermain has created a writerly book of great panache.” – Rachel Blau DuPlessis

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The Keeper’s Daughter Jean-François Caron Translated by W. Donald Wilson

Jean-François Caron was born in La Pocatière, Quebec, in 1978. In 2005, he became editor-in-chief of Voir Saguenay/ Alma, where he spent five years as a cultural correspondent and columnist. In 2010, he assumed responsibility for communications and audience development at La Rubrique Theatre. Currently editor-in-chief of the journal of the Quebec Union of Writers, he also belongs to the editorial board of Lettres québécoises. Caron is the author of two books of poetry and a previous novel. He holds a master’s degree in literary studies from the Université du Québec and lives and works in the relative isolation of Sainte-Béatrix, Quebec. W. Donald Wilson holds a degree in modern languages from Trinity College, Dublin, where he also completed a Ph.D. in French literature. He has taught at universities in the West Indies, the United Kingdom, and at the University of Waterloo. In 2011 and 2013, two of Wilson’s translations were long-listed for the Best Translated Book Award in the United States, and in 2013 he was a finalist for the FrenchAmerican Foundation translation prize.

ISBN 978-0-88922-920-4; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-921-1 Fiction: Literary 5 × 8.5; 160 pp; Trade paper $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US May

As a way to draw visitors to their isolated fishing village on Quebec’s North Shore, the tourist bureau commissions a documentary film recreating life as it was lived there in the 1940s and ’50s. To gather material for the project, the filmmaker is sent in search of Rose Brouillard, now an old woman but raised on an island just offshore by Onile, a local fisherman. Rose is finally tracked down in Montreal, where she lives a solitary life fogged by one of the inevitabilities of old age – failing memory. “Dorothea” (the name Rose gives the young filmmaker), takes her back to scenes from her childhood and invites her to tell her story as they go, and so we return to a past assembled from Rose’s fragmented recollections. Structured as a series of short cinematic “takes,” this novel about recovering both personal and shared histories is told in a polyphony of voices, including Rose herself (as a child, an adolescent, and in her old age), the sexton of the village church, his three female cousins, an elderly neighbour, a villager who passes time on the harbour wall, and Rose’s long-deceased mother. We see fishermen on the docks with their nets, hard-at-work villagers with shirtsleeves rolled up to the elbow, leafy gardens, and tree-lined streets, all recreated during Rose’s reminiscences. The problem is that many of these scenes are invented, not real. Does that matter? Or are the stories we tell more important?

“Jean-François Caron has given us one of the most accomplished novels of the season … The writing is certainly poetic, but it is also funny and surprising, precise and fluid, brilliant and arresting.” – La Presse “Sheer joy to read.”

– Châtelaine

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Un/inhabited Jordan Abel With an Essay by Kathleen Ritter Afterword by Tracy Stefanucci

Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. His debut poetry collection, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks, 2013), was awarded the BC Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Abel is an editor for Poetry Is Dead magazine and the former poetry editor for PRISM international and Geist. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a BA from the University of Alberta. His work has been published in journals and magazines across Canada, including CV2, The Capilano Review, Prairie Fire, dANDelion, ARC Poetry Magazine, Descant, Broken Pencil, OCW Magazine, filling Station, Grain, and Canadian Literature. His chapbooks Scientia and Injun have been published by above/ground press and JackPine Press, respectively.

Award-winning Nisga’a poet Jordan Abel’s second collection of poetry, Un/inhabited, maps the terrain of the public domain to create a layered investigation of the interconnections between language and land. Abel constructed the book’s source text by compiling in their entirety ninety-one western novels found on the website Project Gutenberg, an online archive of works whose copyright has expired. Using his word processor’s Ctrl-F function, he searched the compilation for words that relate to the political and social aspects of land, territory, and ownership. Each search query represents a study in context (How was this word deployed? What surrounded it? What is left over once that word is removed?) accumulating toward a representation of the public domain as a discoverable and inhabitable body of land. Featuring a text by independent curator Kathleen Ritter – the ﬁrst piece of critical scholarship on Abel’s work – Un/inhabited reminds us of the power of language as material and invites us to reﬂect on what is present in the empty space when we see nothing.

“He pokes holes into these frontier stories – revealing the sublimated horror in their comic gothic conventions. This isn’t conceptual writing so much as foundational writing. Defoundational. Unsettling. He graphically strip-mines texts – interrupts their ideology, and asks you to fill in – suture – the blanks. Rush into this necessary, (de)literary landscape.” – Gregory Betts “At once graphic art, anti-poetry, a trace history of reading, and sociological groundwork, Un/inhabited is something entirely new that defies easy categorization or description. This is art working its hardest edge to build an understanding of how our present and past continue to shape and reshape each other.” – Shane Rhodes

ISBN 978-0-88922-922-8 Poetry 5.5 × 8.5; 240 pp; Trade paper $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US January

Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps is also available from Talonbooks.

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page as bone – ink as blood Jonina Kirton

Jonina Kirton is a Métis / Icelandic poet and author who lives and works in Vancouver. She graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio in 2007 and attended the Emerging Aboriginal Writer’s Residency at the Banff Centre in 2008. Actively involved with the Aboriginal Writers Collective – West Coast, she coordinated the first National Indigenous Writers Conference in Vancouver 2013. Kirton’s work has been featured in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including Ricepaper’s Asian/Aboriginal issue, V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out, Pagan Edge, First Nations Drum, Toronto Quarterly, and Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine. She won first prize and two honourable mentions in the 2013 Royal City Literary Arts Society’s Write On Contest and was a finalist in the 2013 Burnaby Writers’ Society Writing Contest. Awarded a Canada Council grant in 2009 to complete page as bone – ink as blood, she is currently researching her next book.

ISBN 978-0-88922-923-5 Poetry 6 × 9; 96 pp; Trade Paper $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US April

Death, desire, and divination are the threads running through Jonina Kirton’s debut collection of poems and lyric prose. Delicate and dark, the pieces are like whispers in the night – a haunted, quiet telling of truths the mind has locked away but the body remembers. Loosely autobiographical, these are the weavings of a wagon-goddess who ventures into the double-world existence as a mixed-race woman. In her struggle for footing in this in-between space, she moves from the disco days of trance dance to contemplations in her dream kitchen as a mother and wife. With this collection, Kirton adds her voice to the call for the kind of ﬁerce honesty referred to by Muriel Rukeyser when she asked, What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. Kirton tells her truth with gentleness and patience, splitting the world open one line at a time.

“Jonina Kirton’s memoir in verse could be an epic novel, a haunting ballad, a film noir. What it is: a visitation by ghosts and spirits, familial secrets, and retrieved historical mis-memories. As intermediaries between European and Indian cultures, she retraces her Métis inheritance and her own arduous journey to becoming a twenty-first-century guide we are much in need of.” – Betsy Warland “page as bone – ink as blood is restorative, intimate poetry, drawing down ancestral ideas into the current moment’s breath. Writing from a place of ‘curious contradiction,’ ‘of skin a little wild,’ Kirton begins by re-spinning the threads of indigenous immigrant, and poem by poem shoves the shuttle forward and back, remaking human integrity from ghosts and bloody matter. In these words, skin is not a barrier but a doorway through which the worlds stride. Kirton’s poems are peacemaking, both generous gesture and muchneeded literary poultice.” – Joanne Arnott “Jonina Kirton sifts through her life – our lives – picking up piercing images and sorting stories of the senses, exploring the push-pull of being human, the delight and ambivalence of being in our own skin. Slowly, by being faithful to the moments, her poems find fragments of freedom by telling the truth.” – Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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Limbinal O a n a Ava s i l i c h i o a e i

Exploring the infinite social, political, intimate possibilities of language, Oana Avasilichioaei’s work traverses textual architecture, orality and multilingualism, translation and collaboration, and geography and public space. In recent years, Avasilichioaei has also been mapping poetry into performative sound work (oanalab.com). Born in Romania and living in Montreal, Canada, she has translated poetry and prose from Romanian (Nichita Stanescu’s Occupational Sickness and the work of Paul Celan) and from French (Louise Cotnoir’s The Islands, Daniel Canty’s Wigrum, and Bertrand Laverdure’s Universal Bureau of Copyrights). Avasilichioaei has edited several magazine issues, including the Poetry in Translation from Quebec issue of Aufgabe (New York, 2013) and the Mapping issue of Dandelion (Calgary, 2011). Current projects include Thresholds, which transposes some of the work in Limbinal into sound performances and immersive installations, as well as a collaborative translation with Ingrid Pam Dick of Suzanne Leblanc’s The House as P’s Thinking, upcoming 2015. ^

ISBN 978-0-88922-924-2 Poetry 5.5 × 8; 128 pp; Trade paper; Colour photos $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US April

Limbinal, as its hybrid title suggests, speaks in the porous space between a limb’s articulations and a liminal border. Formally diverse, the pieces in Limbinal intersect prose fragments with incantatory dialogues, poetic footnotes with photographic phrases, rebellious translations with liquid transpositions. Against a backdrop of globalization fantasies heralding the new utopia, the fallout of nationalistic impulses, conflicts repeatedly arising out of rigid entrenchment, and the increasingly hazy distinction between public and private, voices struggle to cross, to intersect, to overlap. It is the permeable spaces arising between these voices that matter. Here, linguistic limbs fold and migrate, a distant border politicks and trips over the horizon, a river overflows, floods, palimpsests another river, Arendt’s responsibility touches Deleuze’s fold, the body, changeable, restless, searches for resonances. New translations of Paul Celan’s Romanian poems become a generative field of language that sprout other limbs and broach other thresholds. A voice intimately addresses the border while multilingual subjectivities tackle radical responses. So the mouth, possibly hungering, possibly melodic, is always present, ready to disarticulate in order to articulate before the city gates, wobbly with struggle.

“Limbinal tenaciously delineates and explores the zone(s) encountered when the poetic imagination meets the materiality of its practice. The writing is boundary walking, blindfolded and traumatized that ‘this is the moment to speak.’ And the place to speak. The site of Avasilichioaei’s moment buzzes with the anxiety of political, historical, linguistic, and textual boundaries. The contact zone in these exquisite poems is the site of interrogation, a tension between words and mouth, spectacle and spectator, photo and text, invention and translation. Limbinal goes out on a limb and refuses to perform an easy answer.” – Fred Wah

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Get Me Out of Here Sachiko Murakami

Sachiko Murakami is the author of two previous poetry collections with Talonbooks, The Invisibility Exhibit (2008), a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Rebuild (2011). Murakami holds an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University (2006) and is currently pursuing an MFA in the Digital Futures program at OCAN U. She has worked for various Canadian presses, journals, and organizations. She is the creator of the online poetry projects Project Rebuild (projectrebuild.ca), HENKO (powellstreethenko.ca), WIHTBOAM (whenihavethebodyofaman.com), and co-creator of FIGURE (figureoracle.com), an online poetry oracle, with Angela Rawlings. Her website is sachikomurakami.com.

ISBN 978-0-88922-925-9 Poetry 5.25 × 8.75; 80 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US April

Why is it often so diﬃcult to stay present in the moment? Poet Sachiko Murakami asked this question in an open call on the Internet, and in airports across the globe, from YVR (Vancouver) to RKV (Reykjavík), people in transit stopped to note in only one sentence their impressions of things, events, people, and feelings. The poems that result from this experiment in crowd-sourcing content search departures and arrivals for a handhold on the ﬂeeting present. Working within and wriggling out of the formal constraint of fourteen lines, Get Me Out of Here explores what poems need to do to stay when the mind is begging to leave. Get Me Out of Here furthers Murakami’s investigations into collaboration that began with Project Rebuild, the companion website to her 2011 poetry collection Rebuild, and that continued with her online projects HENKŌ: A Powell Street Manyway Renga and WIHTBOAM. Working with the idea that poems arise out of conversation and are built by communities, Murakami continues to invite the public into her poems – to rebuild them, to help write them, and in the case of Get Me Out of Here, to provide the inspiration that is supposed to come to a poet without effort. Murakami also invited observers into the editorial process. A companion website works with the theme of exchanging experience and inspiration. Praise for Murakami’s The Invisibility Exhibit “Murakami is a tightly wound spring finally sprung, releasing ohms of energy and lighting the world of Canadian poetry with a new ampere. She has vaulted into prominence with this her first book.” – Prairie Fire Review of Books

Sachiko Murakami’s The Invisibility Exhibit and Rebuild are also available from Talonbooks.

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The Hatch Colin Browne

Colin Browne is the author of Abraham (Brick Books, 1987); the critically acclaimed collection of poetry Ground Water (Talonbooks, 2002), which was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award and Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; The Shovel (Talonbooks, 2007), shortlisted for the 2008 ReLit Award; and The Properties (Talonbooks, 2012), nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He was an editor of Writing magazine and co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing, Praxis Centre for Screenwriters, and Art of Documentary workshops. Browne’s films include Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye (2003), Father and Son (1992), and White Lake (1989), which was nominated for a Genie for Best FeatureLength Documentary. He is currently working on texts for new operas. His recent work explores the history and legacy of the Surrealist fascination with the art of the Northwest Coast and Alaska, and includes the essay “Scavengers of Paradise.” Browne has recently retired from teaching production, screenwriting, and film history at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

ISBN 978-0-88922-938-9 Poetry 6 × 9.5; 176 pp; Trade paper $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US April

Colin Browne’s new collection, The Hatch, extends his formal engagement with the margins of the new documentary. Myth, history, and the present are contemporaneous in these poems; nothing is ever one thing, and nothing is itself for very long. Figuratively speaking each poem is caught in mid-air, as if delivered in the flash reflected off a twisting sheet of metal. There is new music in these pages, improvisations on the demotic, the lyrical, and the scientific in what amounts to a season of journal entries and field notes. Included are observations of Anna Akhmatova, André Breton, Benjamin Britten, Emily Carr, Blaise Cendrars, Aimé Césaire, Marcel Duchamp, Sorley MacLean, Charles Olson, and others. Certain texts are rooted in the tradition of the garden as observatory. An 1808 sea-otter expedition from New Arkhangel (Sitka) in Alaska all the way to California founders on the coast of early twenty-first century conspiracy theories. Browne’s poems have regularly addressed landscape and the intersections of personal and public history; in The Hatch there is a rhythmic and political urgency in which the exchange of forms is lightning quick. This is a book of transformations. Praise for Browne’s The Properties “There is so much there … Reading silently anywhere in the book, you can feel the words on your lips, he is so attentive to them. And once you sink into reading you know that you could be here forevermore." – George Bowering Praise for Browne’s The Shovel “The epic sweep of pieces is impressive, at times rapturous. They are worth digging for.” – Quill & Quire Praise for Browne’s Ground Water “Browne fosters in Ground Water not only polyvocality but a ranging polyformality of spacious collage, tight lists, knotted rambunctious densities of word and sentence, sonic wordplay, narrative and lyric.” – Publishers Weekly

Colin Browne’s Ground Water, The Properties, and The Shovel are also available from Talonbooks.

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The Shoplifters M o r r i s Pa n y c h

Playwright, actor, and director Morris Panych has been described as “a man for all seasons in Canadian theatre.” The Shoplifters adds to the more than two dozen plays he has written, many of which have been translated and produced throughout the world. His plays have twice won the Governor General’s Award for Drama and he has won the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award fourteen times for acting and directing. Panych has directed more than ninety theatre productions and been nominated six times for Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Award and three times for the Chalmers Award for his more than fifty acting roles in theatre, television, and film. Productions of Panych’s much-lauded Vigil, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Gordon, The Trespassers, and Lawrence and Holloman are being mounted throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand in 2014–2015.

In this riotously funny new comedy from Morris Panych, we meet Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the ﬁve-ﬁnger discount over some lousy seniors’ day deal. But it’s not just an empty wallet that leads Alma to a life of petty crime – it’s also her strong convictions about social justice and economic inequality. Along for the ride is Phyllis, Alma’s frazzled accomplice who lacks her mentor’s cool demeanour and snappy comebacks. It’s Alma who does the talking when the pair is apprehended at the grocery store by Dom, an overzealous rookie security guard. Guided by the strictness of his born-again Christian belief, Dom is ready to handcuff the culprits and call the police, but his affable senior partner, Otto, intervenes with a more sympathetic view of the crime: “It’s just a couple a steaks.” As Alma, Phyllis, Dom, and Otto share their wildly different takes on the situation, complex views on morality and ethics begin to emerge. With its cast of oddball characters, Panych’s comedy offers biting observations about society’s haves and have-nots and how much they might actually have in common. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

“Economic inequality isn’t funny. Thank God The Shoplifters is …” – Washington City Paper “The Shoplifters gives a woman of a certain age the kind of riveting gravitas almost always written for men.” – metroweekly.com “The Shoplifters packs a comic punch.”

– DC Theatre Scene

“The Shoplifters is a hoot … a hysterically funny play, with biting wit and sharply rendered characters.” – womanaroundtown.com

ISBN 978-0-88922-926-6; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-927-3 Drama 5.5 × 8.5; 128 pp; Trade paper $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US March CAN / April US

Please see page 69 of this catalogue or visit talonbooks.com for a complete listing of Morris Panych’s available books.

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Dead Metaphor Three Plays

G e o r g e F. Wa l k e r

George F. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights. He has written more than twenty plays and has created screenplays for several award-winning Canadian television series. Part Kafka, part Lewis Carroll, Walker’s distinctive, gritty, fast-paced comedies satirize the selfishness, greed, and aggression of contemporary urban culture. Among his bestknown plays are Gossip (1977); Zastrozzi, the Master of Discipline (1977); Criminals in Love (1984); Better Living (1986); Nothing Sacred (1988); Love and Anger (1989); Escape from Happiness (1991); Suburban Motel (1997, a series of six plays set in the same motel room); Heaven (2000); and King of Thieves (2013). He has won the Governor General’s Award three times, the Dora Mavor Moore Award five times, the Chalmers Award nine times (the latest for The End of Civilization from the Suburban Motel series), and is a member of the Order of Canada. His plays have been performed across Canada as well as in the United States, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. They have been translated into German, French, Hebrew, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian, Mandarin, and Japanese.

ISBN 978-0-88922-928-0; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-929-7 Drama 6 × 9; 208 pp; Trade paper $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US May

Canada’s top playwright sears the page with three new darkly comic plays that denounce political culture, individualism, and the accompanying moral depravity. The title play, Dead Metaphor, examines the collision of a politician’s personal and professional lives, complicated by a son’s return from Afghanistan. In The Ravine, a mayoral candidate learns that his ex-wife is living in a gully nearby and wants to put a hit on him. The Burden of Self-Awareness has money at the centre of a dramatic conﬂict of values. Each of the three plays is populated by characters trying to navigate the increasingly blurred lines of what’s right and wrong – trying to always stay informed, alert, and ready to act for the common good. Or just to get even. Praise for Dead Metaphor “Dead Metaphor’s tenacious sociopolitical context does more than target the mad, mad world we read about in the daily newspapers, it offers a brilliant satirical refuge in which to take cover.” – TorontoStage.com Praise for The Ravine “Walker is talking about how power corrupts, what people will do to get it and how only the pure of heart and offbeat of mind can ever set things right. It’s vintage Walker: funny, violent, compassionate, and thought-provoking.” – Toronto Star Praise for The Burden of Self-Awareness “The show keeps you continually off-balance, searching for true north on the characters’ moral compasses and on your own. You also have no inkling of how the story will end until it does, an apt comment by Walker, a writer not unfamiliar with apt comments, on the futility of trying to control life through artificial constructs like money.” – Ottawa Citizen

George F. Walker’s And So It Goes, The East End Plays (Parts 1 and 2), Heaven, King of Thieves, The Power Plays, Somewhere Else, and Suburban Motel are also available from Talonbooks.

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The St. Leonard Chronicles Steve Galluccio

Steve Galluccio started his career in Montreal’s underground theatre scene in 1990. He burst into the mainstream with Mambo Italiano, one of the most successful plays in Canadian theatre history. The play was made into a feature film that became an international hit, sold in more than fifty-three countries. Galluccio followed Mambo with the award-winning TV series Ciao Bella, which was broadcast in the United States, Europe, and Canada. His second feature film, Surviving My Mother, won the audience favourite award at the Montreal Film Festival and was featured in many prestigious film festivals the world over. Galluccio’s third feature, the bilingual Funkytown, opened in 2011. In Piazza San Domenico, Galluccio’s ninth play, was the number-one comedy in Montreal in the fall of 2009, selling out most of its extended run. In 2012, Galluccio released Montréal à la Galluccio, a whimsical guide of his beloved hometown of Montreal.

From the award-winning author of stage hits Mambo Italiano and In Piazza San Domenico comes a delicious, saucy new comedy about Terry and Robert, a young couple with roots in the Italian neighbourhood of St. Leonard in Montreal. The couple’s newly renovated duplex has barely a hint of gilded rococo – not just a cultural infraction, but also an ominous sign that all is not as it should be. Eager to break free of family ties that are bound too tight, Terry and Robert announce they’re moving to the affluent anglophone suburb of Beaconsfield – tantamount to committing a mortal sin in the eyes of their more traditional Italian relatives. When they confess their plans to their parents over dinner one night, floodgates open to other unspoken desires and revelations, turning conservative St. Leonard values upside down. The St. Leonard Chronicles opened the 2013–14 season at Montreal’s venerable Centaur Theatre and sold out before its run. The play was extended and went on to sell more than twenty thousand tickets. The French version of the Chronicles, translated by Galluccio himself, premiered at Theâtre Jean Duceppe in Montreal in December 2014 and then in 2015 embarked on a twenty-four-city tour. Cast of 4 women and 3 men.

“The St. Leonard Chronicles … grapples with what has been the major theme of this country’s drama since its birth – how first-generation Canadian values clash with those of their children (and, in this case, grandchildren). The tension between assimilation and cultural preservation has [long] been the subject of comedy-inflected dramas … The St. Leonard Chronicles may be a comedy, but it’s not in any way escapist. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a play on a Canadian stage right now that’s more au courant.” – Globe and Mail “Deliciously heartwarming and disarmingly poignant.”

ISBN 978-0-88922-930-3; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-931-0 Drama / Humour 5.5 × 8.5; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US May

– The Métropolitain

Steve Galluccio’s In Piazza San Domenico and Mambo Italiano are also available from Talonbooks.

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Winners and Losers M a r c u s Yo u s s e f & J a m e s L o n g Foreword by Jenn Stephenson

Marcus Youssef is the associate artistic producer at Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre, though he is currently teaching in the theatre department at Concordia University in Montreal. A graduate of the National Theatre School (Acting, 1992) and the University of British Columbia (MFA, 2002), he co-founded CRANK magazine with Matt Hern and Rich Lawley as well as the Reclaiming Project – a nationally recognized, immigrant-centred oral history program – with Mercedes Baines. James Long has been making theatre since 1995 and artistic directs Theatre Replacement with Maiko Bae Yamamoto. As a freelance actor and director, he has had the pleasure of working with Rumble Productions, Neworld Theatre, Cindy Mochizuki, urban ink, Leaky Heaven Circus, The Chop, The Only Animal, Stan’s Cafe, CBC Radio, and Electric Company Theatre, among many others. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University.

Two buddies, theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus and James, sit at a table and pass the time together playing a made-up game in which they name people, places, or things – Pamela Anderson, microwave ovens, their fathers, Goldman Sachs – and debate whether they are successful or not; in other words, whether they are winners or losers. Each friend seeks to defeat the other, and because one of these men grew up economically privileged, and the other did not, the competition very quickly adds up. Winners and Losers showcases the work of two giants of the Vancouver indie theatre scene. James Long’s Theatre Replacement develops work speciﬁc to particular places and the people who live in them. Marcus Youssef’s Neworld Theatre investigates questions of power, culture, and belonging. Their ﬁrst collaborative work is a staged conversation that embraces the ruthless logic of capitalism, and tests its impact on our closest personal relationships as well as our most intimate experiences of self. Cast of 2 men. “A sly theatrical microcosm of how people (particularly men reaching middle age) compete.” – New Yorker “What starts as a sly and often funny game of differences ends up as a nuanced and unsettling show. Definitely a winner.” – Village Voice “As the gloves come off, the intensity increases. The guiding theory behind the game is that you can’t have two winners sitting next to each other; for there to be a winner, the men reason, there has to be a loser.” – Globe and Mail “Winners and Losers is the kind of play that makes you want to talk and, better still, to listen.” – Time Out New York “Winners and Losers looks a lot like open heart surgery. Metaphoric blood is spilled but, strangely, the experience for the audience is exhilarating.” – Vancouver Courier

ISBN 978-0-88922-932-7; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-933-4 Drama 5.5 × 8.5; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US May

Marcus Youssef’s Adrift and co-authored works The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings, and A Line in the Sand are also available from Talonbooks.

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Odd Ducks Bryden MacDonald

Bryden MacDonald is a playwright, director, dramaturge, and teacher. His published plays are Whale Riding Weather (1994), The Weekend Healer (1995), Divinity Bash / nine lives (1998), and With Bated Breath (2010). He has created and directed theatrical interpretations of the words and music of Leonard Cohen (The Light Gets In), Carol Pope and Rough Trade (Shaking the Foundations), and Joni Mitchell (When All the Slaves Are Free). His latest play, Stained Glass, is in the works, as is his first novel, The Old Marsh Road. He has taught and coached students at the National Theatre School of Canada and McGill University, served as resident dramaturge at Playwrights Workshop Montreal, and was the mentoring director for Imago Theatre’s Inaugural Directors’ Gym. He has conducted workshops or been artist-in-residence or guest artist at a number of theatres and festivals across the country, including the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Factory Theatre, and Neptune Theatre. He has juried Canada Council for the Arts awards and been a member of the board of directors for the Quebec Drama Federation.

ISBN 978-0-88922-934-1; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-935-8 Drama / Humour 5.5 × 8.5; 96 pp; Trade paper $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US March CAN / April US

Welcome to the small town of Tartan Cross, Nova Scotia, where skeletons rattle in closets and past histories are so intertwined that the lives of four fortysomething, eccentric characters have become so complicated that something needs to change. In the comedy Odd Ducks, award-winning playwright Bryden MacDonald positions his four characters at the brink of existential angst – and the action unfolds from there. At the centre of the drama is Ambrose, an irredeemable reprobate and the type of guy who rants philosophically at the bar while mooching beer from his friends. He’s a narcissist who thinks he’s God’s gift to women. And he’s having an affair with Mandy Menzies, a charming and beautiful brunette who was the high school beauty queen but is now stuck in a marriage of convenience and a life of boredom. Her housekeeper, Estelle Carmichael, has seen it all, but her prickly exterior belies a loving heart. The dryly funny Freddy Durdle is the perfect counterbalance to over-the-top Ambrose. All four oddballs seem stuck in their lives, but searing sarcasm relieves the boredom and crazy, everyday dramas aid their struggle to move on and keep things light.

“Odd Ducks is a tragedy that is essentially a comedy because really, without comedy, nothing can be taken seriously … The writing sizzles and sings … the play builds to a great finish.” – The Chronicle Herald (Halifax) “The dialogue is snappy, the laughs are frequent.”

– The Coast (Halifax)

Bryden MacDonald’s Divinity Bash / nine lives, The Weekend Healer, Whale Riding Weather, and With Bated Breath are also available from Talonbooks.

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The Commons Second Edition

Stephen Collis

Stephen Collis has written three parts of the Barricades Project – a wayward and disorderly poetic history of commoners, insurrectionary movements, and radical social transformation: Anarchive (New Star, 2005), The Commons (Talonbooks, 2008, 2014), and To the Barricades (Talonbooks, 2013). He is a climate justice activist and a professor of poetry at Simon Fraser University. In 2014, Collis was an organizer and key spokesperson in protests against expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline into the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area. He lives with his family in Tsawwassen, Coast Salish Territories.

Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries the majority of the English common lands were enclosed, by decree and by force, depriving communities of their independence and self-suﬃciency. The resistance to capitalism’s “primitive accumulation,” registered in recurring peasant revolts and nighttime attacks on hedges and fences, failed to stem the tide of what we now call “privatization” – but it spilled over into Romanticism’s own advocacy of a kind of literary commons. Underground in poetry since the nineteenth century, the ﬁght against enclosure resurfaces today amidst continuing accumulation and a renascent sense of the commons under globalization. In The Commons we wander the English countryside with the socalled mad peasant poet John Clare, pick wild fruit with Henry David Thoreau, and comb the Lake District with a host of authors of Romantic guides and tours, undermining William Wordsworth’s proprietary claim to the region. Somewhere along the way Robert Frost’s wall falls down, the Zapatistas make their appearance, and Gerrard Winstanley reclaims the earth as a “Common Treasury.” This expanded second edition includes the essay “Of Blackberries and the Poetic Commons,” which, taking the invasive Himalayan blackberry as its symbolic guide, explores alternatives to capitalism and private property.

“Words like beauty, pleasure, and liberty do not sound hackneyed. Instead, their writing sounds synonymous with persistence. Collis is slightly off-step/ beat, just out of range of any comfortable assumption, and a good shuffle away from clear understanding. This is not poetry that leads, but includes. It is a welcome philosophical divergence in popular culture.” – Prairie Fire Review of Books

ISBN 978-0-88922-915-0 Poetry 6 × 8.5; 152 pp; Trade paper $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Stephen Collis’s Dispatches from the Occupation, On the Material, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good, and To the Barricades are also available from Talonbooks.

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Birth of a Bridge

Fortifed Castles

M ay l i s d e K e r a n g a l

r ya n f i t z pa t r i c k

Translated by Jessica Moore

From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes this saga about a dozen nomads who converge on a small town in California to build a colossal bridge. They occupy a surreal space outside the boundaries of ordinary life, and everyone and everything converges towards the bridge as a metaphor of globalization today. “The story … will stay with readers long after the book is closed and the bridge is built.” – Publishers Weekly ISBN 978-0-88922-889-4; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-890-0 Fiction: Literary; 5 × 8.5; 256 pp; Trade paper; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

North American culture is saturated with discourses of selfimprovement and self-awareness at the same time that it stiffens with anxiety over the things keeping us apart. Using the lyric statement to interrogate this duality, Fortified Castles asks what causes one to retreat into the comforting walls of the self. The poems stage impasse after impasse, locating the Western subject, between the ramparts it walks and the barricades it erects.

ISBN 978-0-88922-909-9 Poetry; 5 × 8.5; 112 pp; Trade paper; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Christina, The Girl King

Minor Expectations

Michel Marc Bouchard

Garry Thomas Morse

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

In 1649, Sweden’s unconventional Queen Christina summoned René Descartes to her palace to share with her the radical new ideas emerging from science and philosophy at the time. Theories about free will and reason appealed to Christina, who secretly struggled to reconcile her rational, thinking self with passions she dared not name. Cast of 4 women and 6 men.

In this ﬁfth instalment of The Chaos! Quincunx series, cheeky diva Diminuenda discovers that she stands to win a vast inheritance from her father, Minor, if she ventures into the past to collect a number of objets d’art. Her travels through eras from classical Greece to WWII Britain satirize literary genres and themes of the period.

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2014. “A regal romance … deftly peppered with biting wit.” – Montreal Gazette

“The multitude of identifications, both literal and figurative, is layered, clever, and complex – cross threads pinned over a star map.” – Sonia Di Placido

ISBN 978-0-88922-898-6; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-899-3 Drama; 5.5 × 8.5; 96 pp; Trade paper; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

ISBN 978-0-88922-891-7; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-892-4 Fiction: Literary; 5.5 × 8.5; 232 pp; Trade paper; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Crossing the City

Tear the Curtain!

M i c h e l T r e m b l ay

J o n a t h o n Yo u n g & K e v i n K e r r with Kim Collier

Translated by Sheila Fischman

In the second novel of the Desrosiers Diaspora series, we ﬁnd Nana in 1914. Only days away from her twelfth birthday, she must care for her new baby brother while her mother works, yet she longs to be reunited with the sisters and grandparents she left behind in the ﬁrst novel, Crossing the Continent. Now in Montreal, the city of the period comes alive through Nana’s young eyes and Tremblay fans will delight in this backstory to their beloved Plateau characters.

In this brilliant fusion of live and cinematic action set in a fictionalized 1930s Vancouver, troubled but passionate theatre critic Alex Braithewaite finds himself caught between two warring mob families: one controls the city’s playhouses; the other, its cinemas. At the dawn of the talkies, can Alex tear through the artifice of these art forms and save the city’s art community from ripping itself apart? Cast of 2 women and 8 men.

ISBN 978-0-88922-893-1; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-894-8 Fiction: Literary; 5.5 × 8.5; 192 pp; Trade paper; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

ISBN 978-0-88922-904-4; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-905-1 Drama; 5.5 × 8.5; 160 pp; Trade paper; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

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War Cantata / Child Object

Assembling the Morrow

L a r r y T r e m b l ay

A Poetics of Sleep

Translated by Keith Turnbull (War Cantata) & Chantal Bilodeau (Child Object)

Sandra Huber

Two intense, choral works by award-winning playwright Larry Tremblay interrogate the place of children in contemporary society: one stages a poetic discourse about the children we want to have, to possess, to transform; the other questions the ways one generation transmits the impulse for violence to the next. War Cantata – Cast of 2 men and a chorus. Child Object – Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.

ISBN 978-0-88922-906-8; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-907-5 Drama; 5.5 × 8.5; 144 pp; Trade paper; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

What happens when the line of Berger’s wave (an EEG recording of brainwaves in sleep) turns into a line of poetry, an act of focused consciousness? Since words are essentially awake, sleep rouses beneath them. In her ﬁrst book, the result of a residency in the Swiss Artists-in-Labs program, Sandra Huber sculpts a long poem onto the neural oscillations of sleep in order to explore what is beneath them both: the conscious organism, the writer, and the written. ISBN 978-0-88922-910-5 Poetry; 5.5 × 9; 144 pp; Trade paper; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Michel and Ti-Jean

Peacock Blue

George Rideout

The Collected Poems

Phyllis Webb Edited by John F. Hulcoop This play imagines the 1969 meeting of two lions of twentiethcentury literature – Jack Kerouac, the creator of the most dazzling novels and sound movies and a voice of America, and Michel Tremblay, the maker of the most marvellous choral conjurings and a voice for Quebec. Together they discover a shared love of cartoons and mothers and, most formidably, literature, and Kerouac’s work becomes more French Canadian through Tremblay’s eyes. Cast of 2 men. ISBN 978-0-88922-902-0; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-903-7 Drama; 5.5 × 8.5; 128 pp; Trade paper; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Peacock Blue compiles in a single volume all of Phyllis Webb’s published, unpublished, and uncollected works from a writing career that spanned ﬁfty years. The collection ranges from the minimalist language of Naked Poems (1965) to the postmodernist prose poems of Hanging Fire (1990), offering readers the opportunity to relish the arc of Webb’s entire poetic oeuvre. “Seductive drift, critical cavorting, fine lines, and prose tempered to the rhythmic mettle of a remarkable poet’s mind.” – Daphne Marlatt ISBN 978-0-88922-912-9 Poetry; 6 × 9; 512 pp; Cloth; $45.00 CAN / $45.00 US

[OR]

Peace in Duress

Brian Henderson

Janet Rogers

[OR] might be a book of steganography. Or not. Ciphertexts seem to abound. As the poems take up their concealing/revealing, coded/decoded, intelligence/counter-intelligence themes, borders and borderlands appear, are crossed, or are closed. Many of the borderlands turn out to be their own interiors – “secret” workings of the codes ghosting through them. Are they abject cast-offs, lost possibilities, proscribed mutations, or future events? ISBN 978-0-88922-908-2 Poetry; 5 × 8; 144 pp; Trade paper; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Mohawk-Tuscarora spoken-word artist Janet Rogers’s poetry pulses with the rhythm of the drum and the beat of the heart. Rogers combines confessional love with learned survival and ardent resistance in a collection that engages the steadfast vocality of activism. These poems demand to be spoken – out loud. “Rogers’s poetry … soars like the songs of a politically tuned cosmic map-maker who dares to delve into personal journey. Lyrically astute, faithful, and full of fire.” – Lillian Allen ISBN 978-0-88922-911-2 Poetry; 5.25 × 8.75; 128 pp; Trade paper; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

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dream / arteries

A Matter of Gravity

Phinder Dulai

H é l è n e Va c h o n Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

In his third poetry collection, Phinder Dulai connects the Sikh, Muslim, and Hindu migrants onboard the Komagata Maru with other New World settlers who travelled on the same ship throughout its thirty-six-year history. By drawing on ship records, nautical maps, passenger manifests, and the ship’s rich, detailed record, Dulai demonstrates how the 376 passengers refused entry at Vancouver between May and July 1914 encapsulate a broader narrative of migration throughout the New World. ISBN 978-0-88922-913-6 Poetry; 5.75 × 8.75; 136 pp; Trade paper; Photos; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage Ludovic Fouquet Translated by Rhonda Mullins

Robert Lepage’s dynamic multimedia performance works have been produced on stages around the world, breaking barriers in theatre and expanding the genre into other forms of expression, such as photography, cinema, and video. The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage identiﬁes themes and explores practices that mark Lepage as one of the most highly original creators today. “Essential reading for anybody interested in new-media performance.” – Aleksander Sasa Dundjerovic ISBN 978-0-88922-774-3; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-775-0 Non-fiction: Stagecraft; 6 × 9.5; 416 pp; Photos; Trade paper; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

This charming intrigue starts with an enigmatic manuscript that brings together two disparate characters. The ﬁrst is an embalmer who, unable to look after the living, devotes himself to the dead. The other is an ailing concert pianist consorting with the ghosts of his past. Their tragic encounter is brilliantly illuminated by black humour and compassion. “A beautiful, surprising novel that speaks with tenderness and dark humour.” – La Semaine ISBN 978-0-88922-840-5; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-841-2 Fiction: Literary; 5 × 8.5; 256 pp; Trade paper; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

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

Bev Sellars

Chief Bev Sellars tells of three generations of women who attended St. Joseph’s Mission, interweaving the personal histories of her grandmother and her mother with her own. In this frank and poignant memoir, she breaks her silence about the institution’s lasting effects and shares her own path to healing. Winner, 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Third Prize Winner, 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature. Finalist, 2014 BC Book Prize. ISBN 978-0-88922-741-5; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-742-2; 6th printing Non-fiction: Autobiography; 5.5 × 8.5; 256 pp; Trade paper; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

The World Aﬂoat

After Completion

M . A . C . Fa r r a n t

The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff

Edited by Sharon Thesen & Ralph Maud

In The World Afloat, a collection of seventy-ﬁve irreverent and humorous “miniature” stories, M.A.C. Farrant coaxes readers from their well-worn, earthbound narratives and into a world aﬂoat on satire, absurdity, and, in her most brilliant moments, expansive joy. City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Winner (2014). “Just as the woman on the cover appears to drift effortlessly among the cosmos, each micro-story in The World Afloat is deftly captured with grace, humour, and enviable creativity. It is the book any writer wished she wrote.” – City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Jury ISBN 978-0-88922-838-2; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-839-9 Fiction: Short Stories; 5 × 8.5; 112 pp; Trade paper; $12.95 CAN / $12.95 US

In the 150 letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff’s later correspondence we witness their relationship ﬂare intermittently, sometimes explosively, as they try to maintain some continuity in newfound separateness. 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.

ISBN 978-0-88922-706-4 Non-fiction; 6 × 9; 304 pp; Trade paper; Photos; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

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ABC of Reading TRG

The Battle of Batoche

The New Canadian Criticism Series

British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis Walter Hildebrandt

Peter Jager Examines the writings of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, with a special focus on their collaborative work as the Toronto Research Group (TRG).

In this revised and expanded edition, the strategies of both sides are examined, and numerous maps and photographs describe in detail the fateful battle. Foreword by Jean Teillet, great-grandniece of Louis Riel.

American Notebooks

Beyond Recall

A Writer’s Journey Marie-Claire Blais

Mary Meigs

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

A beautiful memoir that reads like the most exquisitely crafted fiction.

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.

Edited by Lise Weil

Lambda Literary Award for Biography Finalist, 2006.

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.

“Succeeds in showing readers … that Islam is not a monolith, but ‘a rich and complex mosaic.’” – CBRA

“Quebec’s most celebrated living writer.”

“Marvelously constructed … beautifully cadenced character studies.” – Books in Canada

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Globe and Mail Top 100 Books, 2003. – Guardian

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

Bambi and Me

The Box Closet

Michel Tremblay

Mary Meigs

Translated by Sheila Fischman

A narrative woven of her parents’ diaries and letters that integrates Mary Meigs’s discoveries as a daughter and granddaughter.

Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay. Governor General’s Translation Award Winner, 1998. “This translation captures the vigour and vinegar of the original.” – Montreal Gazette

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

“Meigs creates a work of considerable insight and beauty.” – Globe and Mail

Baseball Love

bpNichol

George Bowering

What History Teaches

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; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-798-9 © 2006; 256 pp; $19.95 CAN / $17.95 US

The New Canadian Criticism Series

Stephen Scobie 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. ISBN 978-0-88922-220-5; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-879-5 © 1984; 154 pp; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

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Canadian Drama and the Critics

Conversations in Tehran

Revised Edition Edited by L.W. Conolly

Jean-Daniel Lafond & Fred A. Reed

This lively, updated assortment of critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama is an ideal companion text to Modern Canadian Plays, Volumes I and II.

Filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond and author Fred A. Reed document the fall of Mohammad Khatami’s reform movement through candid conversations.

“Fascinating, entertaining, and instructive.” – Max Wyman

“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

Charles Olson at the Harbor

Crimes and Mercies

Ralph Maud

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

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.

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.

The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors

The Decline of the Hollywood Empire

Oliver N. Wells

Hervé Fischer

Active ethnography through conversations, legends, and articles. A naturalist’s guide to the Chilliwack Native people and their area.

Translated by Rhonda Mullins

“Useful for the diligent novice.”

– BC Studies

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.

Circumstances Alter Photographs

Dispatches from the Occupation

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

A History of Change Stephen Collis

In 1885, Captain James Peters took the world’s first battlefield photographs 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 photographs are presented here, with a critical essay by Michael Barnholden.

In these essays, 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 prose poem examining the philosophical trope of Rome.

Coast Salish Essays

The Edward Curtis Project

Wayne Suttles

A Modern Picture Story Marie Clements & Rita Leistner

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

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.

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. Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2009. ISBN 978-0-88922-587-9 © 2008; 336 pp; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

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An English Canadian Poetics

Great Lakes Suite

Vol. 1 – The Confederation Poets Edited by Robert Hogg

David W. McFadden

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.

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. “Consistently entertaining, consistently engaging.” – Toronto Star

An Error in Judgement

griddle talk

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

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

An analysis of the controversy surrounding the death of a Native child in Alert Bay, British Columbia. “Successfully forces the liberal white reader to look beyond totem poles and quaint Indian baskets to our common history.” – Vancouver Sun

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.

Essays on George F. Walker

A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend

Playing with Anxiety Chris Johnson

Ralph Maud

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.

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. “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.” – Vancouver Sun

EX MACHINA

How to Write

Creating for the Stage Patrick Caux & Bernard Gilbert

derek beaulieu

Translated by Neil Kroetsch

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.

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. ISBN 978-0-88922-617-3 © 2009; 84 pp; Colour photos; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Gabriel Dumont Speaks

Imperial Canada Inc.

Second Edition Gabriel Dumont

Legal Haven of Choice for the World’s Mining Industries Alain Deneault & William Sacher

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. ISBN 978-0-88922-625-8 © 2003, 2009; 96 pp; Photos; 2nd printing $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

George Bowering Bright Circles of Colour The New Canadian Criticism Series

W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize Finalist, 2011.

Translated by Fred A. Reed & Robin Philpot Why is Canada home to more than 70 percent of the world’s mining companies? Canada’s imperial heritage continues to offer a politicized legal haven from litigious recourse attempted by any community seriously affected by these industries. ISBN 978-0-88922-635-7; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-770-5 © 2012; 256 pp; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America

This first book-length study of Bowering explores the relationship between his work and the arts.

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

“Perceptive, highly readable account of the avant-garde scene in Canada.” – Vancouver Sun

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

Eva-Marie Kröller

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In Plain Sight

Lily Briscoe

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

A Self-Portrait Mary Meigs

A remarkable collection of seven life stories from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, giving voice to women who are seldom heard on their own terms.

A compelling autobiography about the exercise of will, friendships, and dreaming. “A series of landscapes and life drawings, skillfully created.” – Humanities and Applied Arts

In the Company of Strangers

Lions Gate

Mary Meigs

Lilia D’Acres & Donald Luxton

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.

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.

QSPELL Award for Non-fiction Winner, 1992. “Her book on the film is exquisitely attuned to the interplay between art and life.” – Boston Globe

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

In the Midst

Living by Stories

Warren Tallman

A Journey of Landscape and Memory Harry Robinson

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.

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 to Robinson.” – Thomas King

Justice in Our Time

Making Theatre

The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement Roy Miki & Cassandra Kobayashi

A Life of Sharon Pollock Sherrill Grace

How a community brought the issue of redress for the injustices of the 1940s to the forefront of public debate.

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.

“A powerful and moving testament to the successful efforts of the NAJC.” – Globe and Mail

Lasagna

Margaret Atwood

The Man Behind the Mask Ronald Cross & Hélène Sévigny

A Feminist Poetics

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

Frank Davey

The New Canadian Criticism Series

“The book’s 248 pages are, to put it simply, credible. Read this book – it will open your eyes too.” – Alberta Native News

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.

The Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack

Meanwhile

Dorothy Kennedy & Randy Bouchard

The Critical Writings of bpNichol bpNichol

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.

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

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The Medusa Head

Paul Martin & Companies

Mary Meigs

Sixty Theses on the Alegal Nature of Tax Havens Alain Deneault

A sensitive psychological portrait of a stormy three-way lesbian relationship. “An unsparing account of love, jealousy and hate.” – Toronto Star “Shaped with intelligence, honesty and humor.” – Ottawa Citizen

Translated by Rhonda Mullins A piercing look at what it means when a Canadian prime minister puts his own private interests first. “Rebuke to the watery discourse that passes for ‘political’ commentary in the anglophone press.” – Geist

Muthologos

Peregrinations

Lectures and Interviews, Second Edition Charles Olson

Conversations with Contemporary Artists Robert Enright

Edited by Ralph Maud

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.

“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 can be talked about ‘with some life.’” – Fred Wah

“Marvellous interviews … the mind and the world of the artist flooded with light.” – Arthur Danto

Nature Power

Performing National Identities

In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller Second Edition Harry Robinson

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

Compiled and edited by Wendy Wickwire

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.

Features tales of the shoo-MISH, or “nature helpers.” BC Book Prize Winner, 1993.

NEWS

Persian Postcards

Postcards from the Four Directions Drew Hayden Taylor

Iran After Khomeini Fred A. Reed

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.

“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

Other Losses

Phyllis Webb and the Common Good

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

Poetry / Anarchy / Abstraction Stephen Collis

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.

“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

Outsider Notes

The Pleasure of the Crown

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

Anthropology, Law and First Nations Dara Culhane

The New Canadian Criticism Series

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. “Explores fundamental questions … The Pleasure of the Crown is a book that everyone interested in ‘justice for all’ will want to read.” – Vancouver Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-315-8; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-864-1 © 1998; 416 pp; map; 2nd printing; $34.95 CAN / $29.95 US

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The Salish People

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

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

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

The first volume of a four-volume set rich in stories and factual information on the Salish people of the Pacific Northwest.

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

Edited by Ralph Maud

The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories

The Salish People

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

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

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

Edited by Ralph Maud

“Maud acts as restorer, stripping away attitudes and prosody to reveal the vitality of the original text.” – Vancouver Sun

Includes the Origin Myth as recounted by a storyteller whose mother saw Captain Vancouver sail into Howe Sound in 1792.

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 III: The Mainland Halkomelem Charles Hill-Tout

Edited by Steve McCaffery Reports on translation, the-book-as-machine, and the search for non-narrative prose.

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

Re: Producing Women’s Dramatic History

The Salish People

The Politics of Playing in Toronto D.A. Hadfield

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

By analyzing publicity materials, photos, programs, reviews, and box office and theatre records, D.A. Hadfield traces the process of creating a theatrical “success” and investigates how the politics involved influences what we perceive as “good” playwriting.

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

A Record of Writing

Salonica Terminus

An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering Roy Miki

Travels into the Balkan Nightmare Fred A. Reed

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

In his extensive travels in the Balkans, Reed encounters a landscape inscribed with a shocking testimony of ethnoracialist aspirations. “The good and evil aspects of nationalism … [A] compassionate account of one of the world’s most difficult regions.” – Toronto Star

Gabrielle Roy Prize Winner, Best Critical Book in English. “An extraordinary contribution to this field.” – Canadian Library Journal ISBN 978-0-88922-263-2; $39.95 CAN / $34.95 US © 1990; 404 pp; Cloth; Photos & illustrations

The Recovery of the Public World

Shattered Images

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

The Rise of Militant Iconoclasm in Syria Fred A. Reed

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

Discusses all of the major Islamic faiths in its search for the origins of contemporary fundamentalist movements.

“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

“A striking intellectual travelogue … a useful contribution to the literature of interfaith dialogue.” – Globe and Mail

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Signs of Literature

textual vishyuns

Language, Ideology and the Literary Text Kenneth James Hughes

image and text in the work of bill bissett Carl Peters

The history of language as a made thing – a linguistic and structuralist primer.

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.

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

“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

Strange Comfort

Theatre and AutoBiography

Essays on the Work of Malcolm Lowry Sherrill Grace

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

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.

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.

Subject to Change

Then We Were One

Renee Rodin

Fragments of Two Lives Fred A. Reed

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

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.

Takeover in Tehran

They Called Me Number One

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

Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School Bev Sellars

as told to Fred A. Reed 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.

Bev Sellars tells of three generations of women who attended St. Joseph’s Mission, breaking the silence about the institution’s lasting effects and eloquently articulating her path to healing. George Ryga Award Winner, 2014. Burt Award Third-Place Winner, 2014. BC Book Prize Finalist, 2014.

Taking My Life

They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever

Jane Rule

Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia Annie York, Richard Daly & Chris Arnett

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.

“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

The Terror of the Coast

This Is My Own

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

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

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

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

Edited by Roy Miki

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Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism

Twelve Opening Acts

Intertextual Collaboration and Resistance

Translated by Sheila Fischman

The New Canadian Criticism Series

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.

Anne Geddes Bailey Investigates the troubling relationship between narrative meaning and representations of violence within Timothy Findley’s novels.

Michel Tremblay

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2002.

Too Good to Be True

Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand

Alcan’s Kemano Completion Project Bev Christensen

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

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

Compiled and edited by Chris Arnett A vital collection of writings collected during the Depression, first published in Victoria’s oldest newspaper.

Tracing the Lines

Vancouver

Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki Edited by Maia Joseph, Christine Kim, Larissa Lai & Christopher Lee

A Visual History Bruce Macdonald

The two main areas of poet Roy Miki’s passionate work – social critique and poetics – inform each other in this collection of 26 essays, poems, and interviews marking a milestone in the life of an important public intellectual.

City of Vancouver Book Award Winner, 1993.

This stunning full-colour historical atlas brings alive Vancouver’s first 14 decades. BC Book Prize Finalist, 1993.

Tracing the Paths

Vancouver Anthology

Reading =/ Writing The Martyrology Edited by Roy Miki

Second Edition Edited by Stan Douglas

A wide spectrum of readings of bpNichol’s challenging and innovative long poem.

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 includes a new afterword by Stan Douglas.

Transmission Difficulties

Women in a World at War

Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology Ralph Maud

Seven Dispatches from the Front Madeleine Gagnon

Ralph Maud delves into the mystery of Boas’s alleged “translations” of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate.

Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

“A useful contribution to BC anthropology.” – Victoria Times-Colonist

“An extraordinary work … the book crosses borders of country, culture and language to touch fundamental truths in lyrical and haunting prose …” – Quill & Quire ISBN 978-0-88922-483-4

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

Truth or Death

Write It on Your Heart

The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition Thierry Hentsch

The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller Harry Robinson

Translated by Fred A. Reed

BC Book Prize Finalist, 1990.

Governor General’s Translation Award Winner, 2005.

“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 ISBN 978-0-88922-502-2; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-875-7 © 1989, 2004; 320 pp; Photos; 3rd printing $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Compiled and edited by Wendy Wickwire

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Against the Wind

The Bicycle Eater

Madeleine Gagnon

Larry Tremblay

Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Through poetic letters and journal entries, the reader experiences one man’s coming into being an artist, and out of the trauma he experienced as a young boy, when he was forced to defend his mother from violent sexual assault.

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2006. Governor General’s French Fiction Award Finalist, 2003. “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

“An intuitive novel, a spellbinding look into the mind of a man who is a son, an artist, a lover, and a father.” – Toronto Star ISBN 978-0-88922-696-8; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-721-7 © 2012; 168 pp; $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US

All That Glitters

The Black Notebook

Martine Desjardins

Michel 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.

A young waitress recounts her trials and surprising allies in a lifelong battle against social stigma.

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

“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

And Other Stories

The Blue 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

The Angel of Solitude

The Breakdown So Far

Marie-Claire Blais

M.A.C. Farrant

Translated by Laura Hodes

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

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, Céline must return to waitressing at the Sélect, where she meets a handsome musician and begins an intimate 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.

ReLit Award Longlist, 2008.

“The narrative voice is wise and fatalistic and full of religiosity.” – Paragraph

“If, as Nabokov advises, the monster of grim common sense must be ‘shot dead,’ then Farrant is, indeed, a crack shot.” – Globe and Mail

The Athabasca Ryga

Cambodia

George Ryga

A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow Brian Fawcett

Edited by E. David Gregory 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.

Investigative fictions that examine the intentions of the information revolution.

“It makes you want to read and re-read everything the man ever wrote.” – Vancouver Sun

“Cambodia is urgent, blunt, difficult – and vitally necessary.” – Canadian Forum

The Baldwins

Capital Tales

Serge Lamothe

Brian Fawcett

Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

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

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; E-ISBN 978-0-89922-797-2 © 2006; 96 pp; $15.95 CAN / $15.95 US

“Fawcett’s work expands into a well-earned and genuine visionary criticism of the deadly contradictions within society.” – Books in Canada

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Chameleon & Other Stories

Death in Vancouver

Bill Schermbrucker

Garry Thomas Morse

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

“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

The Circus Performers’ Bar

Death of the Spider

David Arnason

Michèle Mailhot

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

Translated by Neil B. Bishop Introduction by Marie-Claire Blais

“This is clever, trenchant stuff, by a master of the art.” – Globe and Mail

A solitary woman’s interior journey of self-discovery. Governor General’s French Fiction Award Winner for Le Passé Composé, 1990. Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 1992.

Citizen Suárez

Desert of the Heart

Guillermo Verdecchia

Jane Rule

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

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.

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

“Cool, clear-eyed, compassionate and unsentimental.” – Margaret Laurence

A Covenant of Salt

Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon

Martine Desjardins

Douglas Glover

Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

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

“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

“An intelligent and utterly believable novel.” – Joyce Carol Oates

“Glover is preoccupied with the complicated inter-weavings of good and evil, and he juggles language superbly.” – Globe and Mail

Crossing the Continent

Down the Road to Eternity

Michel Tremblay

M.A.C. Farrant

Translated by Sheila Fischman

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.

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.”

“Short and sharp, wacky and wonderful.” – Globe and Mail “M.A.C. Farrant is a trapeze artist of the imagination, swinging over the existential void.” – BC Bookworld

Darwin Alone in the Universe

The Duchess and the Commoner

M.A.C. Farrant

Michel Tremblay

A brilliant collection of satirical short stories.

Translated by Sheila Fischman

“Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic, visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer.” – Globe and Mail

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.

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Dürer’s Angel

George Ryga

Marie-Claire Blais Translated by David Lobdell

The Prairie Novels Edited by James Hoffman

This third novel in the trilogy of Pauline Archange expresses her desire to translate the events of her life into words.

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

“A writer who stands head and shoulders above her contemporaries.” – 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

Fairy Ring

Get on Top

Martine Desjardins

David Homel

Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

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.

A compulsively readable, beautiful and dark novel of stormy relationships and all-consuming desires. Governor General’s Translation Award Winner, 2001.

“His novels are acts of witnessing, and his characters carry the conscience of our times.” – Marie-Claire Blais

“Fairy Ring sets up familiar targets, tilts at them with wonderful panache and scores weirdly compelling hits.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-449-0 © 2001; 224 pp; 2nd printing; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

Go Figure

Michel Tremblay

Réjean Ducharme

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Translated by Will Browning

Tremblay’s first novel is an affectionate and funny chronicle of the lives of a family in Plateau Mont-Royal in the 1940s.

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

CBC Canada Reads Finalist, 2009.

Governor General’s French Fiction Award Finalist, 1994.

“A comic tour de force covering one day in the life of a Montreal street.” – University of Toronto Quarterly

Fearless Warriors

The Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories

Second Edition Drew Hayden Taylor

David Arnason

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, generosity, and humour.

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

– Globe and Mail

“Taylor’s … stories will make you cringe, cry, and when you really need it, laugh a little.” – Windspeaker ISBN 978-0-88922-597-8; E-ISBN 978-0-88922- 802-3 © 1998, 2008; 192 pp; 3rd printing; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

The First Quarter of the Moon

Harry’s Fragments

Michel Tremblay Translated by Sheila Fischman

A Novel of International Puzzlement George Bowering

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.

In a parody of a thriller novel, Harry the Hack, newly recruited literary spy, follows a mystery woman seeking wisdom and sanity.

“Touching and extra-real.”

“Deconstructs the sexy spy thriller in a clever pastiche of literary styles.” – Ottawa Citizen

– Quill & Quire

The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky

The Heart Laid Bare

Karen X. Tulchinsky

Michel Tremblay

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.

Translated by Sheila Fischman

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.

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Hell & Other Novels

Latakia

Beverley Daurio

Audrey Thomas

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

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

“Wonderfully evocative images … well worth reading.” – Quill & Quire

“An evocative fictional voice that is one of the most powerful in Canadian fiction.” – Vancouver Sun

hungree throat

Like a Child of the Earth

bill bissett

Jovette Marchessault

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 fear and terrible memories. 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.

Translated by Yvonne M. Klein The first volume of Jovette Marchessault’s autobiographical trilogy. Prix France-Québec Winner, 1976.

The Hunting Ground

Main Brides

Lise Tremblay

Gail Scott

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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.

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

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

In the Shadow of the Vulture

Maleficium

George Ryga

Martine Desjardins

Set in the desert at the Mexico–U.S. border, this novel deals with the hope and despair of immigrant labourers.

Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel

“A striking novel that wrestles with important and difficult problems.” – Canadian Literature

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. “Maleficium reads like a flesh-bound catalogue of my favourite sins.” – Jenn Farrell

Judith’s Sister

Mile End

Lise Tremblay

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Translated by Gail Scott

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 chilling and masterful look at the interior landscapes of psychosis which mirror so perfectly the emptiness of the exterior surfaces they reflect.

"Never has Lise Tremblay’s writing been so sober, minimalist or refined. And never more real.” – Danielle Laurin, Le Devoir

Governor General’s French Fiction Award Winner, 1999.

Kafka’s Hat

Mimosa

Patrice Martin

Bill Schermbrucker

Translated by Chantal Bilodeau

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

In Patrice Martin’s tip of the hat to the writing of Franz Kafka, we follow the comical misadventures of a bureaucrat – aptly named “P.”– as he embarks on the illustrious task of retrieving an important literary relic for his boss. P.’s earnest endeavours derail when he encounters the systematic difficulty in modern bureaucracies. ISBN 978-0-88922-743-9; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-744-6 © 2013; 144 pp; $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US

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Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus

My Name Is Bosnia

Garry Thomas Morse

Madeleine Gagnon

In tribute to surrealist narrative and film technique, Minor Episodes documents the serial adventures of Minor, ubiquitous “everymogul,” who embodies the economic 1 percent. Major Ruckus, a contrapuntal text parodying the speculative fiction genre, follows a frenzied struggle for time travel. Introduces The Chaos! Quincunx novel series.

Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott A young woman escapes the genocide in her homeland in search of a peaceful new life. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist, 2007. “Movingly captures the transformative effect of war on human consciousness.” – Publishers Weekly

Miss Take

News from Édouard

Réjean Ducharme

Michel Tremblay

Translated by Will Browning

Translated by Sheila Fischman

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.

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

“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 © 2000; 224 pp; 2nd printing; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Mother of the Grass

novel

Jovette Marchessault

bill bissett

Translated by Yvonne M. Klein

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.

The second volume of Marchessault’s turbulent autobiographical trilogy. “Has enlarged the dimensions of the autobiographical novel by introducing elements of myth and visionary experience.” – Gloria Orenstein ISBN 978-0-88922-267-0 © 1989; 176 pp; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

“These essays are rich with information about bissett, but most importantly they revive and re-examine significant moments from his life and career.” – Broken Pencil ISBN 978-0-88922-671-5 © 2011; 176 pp; Illustrations; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Motortherapy

Nuri Does Not Exist

Bill Schermbrucker

Sadru Jetha

A frank and intensely personal book about human relationships.

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.

“[Stories] stir and shift with deftly-rendered subtleties which at their best recall … Norman Levine and … Alice Munro.” – Quill & Quire

“A sharply intelligent and genuinely moving exploration of identity and displacement.” – Canadian Literature

Mrs. Blood

The Obese Christ

Audrey Thomas

Larry Tremblay

“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

Translated by Sheila Fischman A brilliant exercise in unease and paranoia, The Obese Christ demonstrates Tremblay’s powerful ability to evoke dread and fear, while immersing the reader in a warped and putrid world told from the narrator’s sanctified point of view. This novel situates itself squarely within the realm of Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, and Stephen King.

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.

“Fawcett sings sweetly and sourly about growing up.” – Vancouver Sun

“If this is the overture, you can’t even imagine what he may eventually do for a finale.” – John Moore

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The Painter’s Wife

Scattered in a Rising Wind

Monique Durand

Jean Marc Dalpé

Translated by Sheila Fischman

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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

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.

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

Governor General’s French Fiction Award Winner, 2000.

Piercing

The School-Marm Tree

Larry Tremblay

Howard O’Hagan

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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.

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. ISBN 978-0-88922-645-6; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-801-6 © 2010; 128 pp; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

The Rain Barrel George Bowering Ten years in the making, these stories display Bowering’s meticulous attention to the details of his craft. “Enough irony, subversion and playfulness for any postmodern fan.” – Books in Canada

“Testimony to O’Hagan’s intelligence as a novelist.” – Globe and Mail “As basic and enduring a tale as a Greek tragedy.” – Vancouver Province ISBN 978-0-88922-129-1 © 1977; 256 pp; 2nd printing; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie 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.

Real Mothers

Shinny’s Girls and Other Stories

Audrey Thomas

Mary Burns

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

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).

“Thomas demands more of her readers than most writers, but the rewards are much greater too.” – Books in Canada

“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

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. This examination of relationships and past wounds is filled with raucous warmth and humanity – and dark humour.

Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour

Some Night My Prince Will Come

Garry Thomas Morse

Michel Tremblay

Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour resumes The Chaos! Quincunx novel series and presents two ironically dystopic visions of the speculative future: a “First” nation at war with the mysterious territory Nutella, and a “green” world of aquaculture, bio-material, and grim labour conditions.

Translated by Sheila Fischman

“A wonderful book.”

– Kootenay Reporter

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2009.

ReLit Award Shortlist, 2014.

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.

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Songs My Mother Taught Me

A Thing of Beauty

Audrey Thomas

Michel Tremblay

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

Translated by Sheila Fischman

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

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. “Sheila Fischman’s sensitive translation is wonderfully assured.” – Canadian Book Review Annual

The Strange Truth About Us

The Time Being

A Novel of Absence M.A.C. Farrant

Mary Meigs

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.

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 unforgettable women.” – Montreal Review of Books

Summerland

Trees Are Lonely Company

George Ryga

Howard O’Hagan

Edited by Ann Kujundzic

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

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.

“At their best these stories are as stark as anything Camus or Sartre wrote.” – George Woodcock

Tchipayuk

Turkana Boy

or The Way of the Wolf Ronald Lavallée

Jean-François Beauchemin

Translated by Patricia Claxton

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.

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.

Translated by Jessica Moore

Theme for Diverse Instruments

White Pebbles in the Dark Forests

Jane Rule

Jovette Marchessault

Jane Rule’s first collection of short stories.

Translated by Yvonne M. Klein

“Jane Rule’s work compares very well with the best fiction being written anywhere.” – Globe and Mail

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

“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 ISBN 978-0-88922-060-7 © 1975; 192 pp; 5th printing; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel Michel Tremblay Translated by Sheila Fischman 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 © 1996; 256 pp; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Wigrum Daniel Canty Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei In October 1944, Sebastian Wigrum disappears into the London fog. Very little is known about him except his intense curiosity about the world and perhaps his disillusionment in love. The legacy of this man, who lived to collect, is an eclectic inventory of some one hundred objects that shed light on the history of our time. ISBN 978-0-88922-778-1; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-779-8 © 2013; 200 pp; Illustrations; $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US

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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. 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?

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1994.

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

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.

“Explores the wellsprings of psychic and social violence.” – Canadian Encyclopedia

This hard-hitting and hilarious satire inverts the clichés that define the geopolitics of the Middle East. Cast of 4 men.

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

Drew Hayden Taylor

“Drew Hayden Taylor has a deft touch for mixing comedy and commentary in … social satire.” – Vancouver Sun

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.

Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 1991. “Theatre of exceptional power … [A] subtle, often funny and ultimately moving play.” – Maclean’s

Albertine in Five Times

And Slowly Beauty

Michel Tremblay

Michel Nadeau

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco

Translated by Maureen Labonté

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

A middle-aged, middle-management type who has lost touch with his job, his family, and the rest of his urban life unexpectedly wins tickets to see Chekhov’s Three Sisters and recognizes aspects of his own life in the classic’s themes of forgotten beauty. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

Ali & Ali

And So It Goes

The Deportation Hearings Caymar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia & Marcus Youssef

George F. Walker

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2014.

It’s November 2008. Ali Hakim and Ali Ababwa, refugee entertainers from a fictitious, war-torn country, write a stage play to celebrate the new U.S. president’s message of “hope and change.” Hilariously comic, slapstick, and exuberant. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

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.

“Razor-sharp timing in a play loaded with controversy.” – Globe and Mail

“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

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Another Country / bloom

BASH’d

Guillermo Verdecchia

A Gay Rap Opera Chris Craddock & Nathan Cuckow

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. “bloom is a poetic look at a world where hope must grow in sandy soil.” – NOW

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.

Another Home Invasion

Beating the Bushes

Joan MacLeod

Steven Bush

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.

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.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2009. “A startling commentary on aging and elder care.” – CBC

Assorted Candies for the Theatre

Les Belles Soeurs

Michel Tremblay

Revised Michel Tremblay

Translated by Linda Gaboriau An exquisite remembrance of childhood past in Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, adapted and re-crafted to the stage. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco Raucous, reckless and ribald, Les Belles Soeurs celebrates the working-class lives of 15 Montreal women. Cast of 15 women.

“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 ISBN 978-0-88922-572-5 © 2007; 96 pp; $15.95 CAN / $15.95 US

The Baby Blues

Benevolence

Drew Hayden Taylor

Morris Panych

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.

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.

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

“A tart but human satire on Canadian life and aspirations.” – Vancouver Sun

“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 © 2008; 128 pp; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Balconville

The Berlin Blues

David Fennario

Drew Hayden Taylor

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

Concluding Taylor’s Blues Quartet, German developers here show up on the “Otter Lake Reserve” proposing “OjibwayWorld,” a Native theme park designed to attract European tourists to this destination resort.

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1979. “Balconville is a work of genius. It’s angry, bitter, cruel and funny.” – Globe and Mail

“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

Banana Boots

Bethune

David Fennario

Second Edition Rod Langley

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. “Fennario is, to put it lightly, a phenomenon.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-396-7 © 1998; 64 pp; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Chronicles the life of Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor who died a national hero in the Republic of China. In the 1930s, his socialist convictions took him to Spain, where he supported the resistance during the civil war, then to China, where he came to embody the “barefoot doctor” movement later upheld by Mao Zedong. Cast of 3 women and 6 men. ISBN 978-0-88922-858-0 © 1975, 2013; 128 pp; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

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Billy Bishop Goes to War

Bordertown Café

Second Edition John MacLachlan Gray with Eric Peterson

Kelly Rebar

A memory play about war, Billy Bishop documents the glorious exploits of World War I flying ace Billy Bishop. In this second edition of the Canadian musical theatre classic, war remains a terrible thing, but some men say it was the greatest time of their lives. Cast of 2 men. “Thirty years on, Billy Bishop still soars.” – Globe & Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-689-0; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-716-3 © 1981, 2012; 128 pp; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Blue Box Carmen Aguirre

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. “[A] humorous, human, touching and recognizable look at one family’s search for individual identity.” – Hamilton Spectator ISBN 978-0-88922-477-3 © 2003; 128 pp; 3rd printing; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

The Boy in the Treehouse / Girl Who Loved Her Horses

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

Drew Hayden Taylor

Boiler Room Suite

Burning Vision

Rex Deverell

Marie Clements

The broken lives and the heroic struggle for joy of two “tramps” in a hotel boiler room. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.

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.

Canadian Authors Association Drama Award Winner, 1978. “A beautiful tragicomic look at a couple of losers.” – NBC

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.

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

Bolsheviki

The Buz’Gem Blues

A Dead Serious Comedy David Fennario

Drew Hayden Taylor

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.

The Buz’Gem Blues is the third instalment in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Blues Quartet plays, which offer up a zany, often farcical examination of both Native and non-Native stereotypes. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

“Bolsheviki is vintage Fennario, gritty, authentic, touching, replete with one-liners, never boring.” – Montreal Gazette

“He skewers liberal and native stereotypes, preferring to deal on a more human level.” – Hamilton Examiner

Bonjour, Là, Bonjour

Can You See Me Yet?

Revised Michel Tremblay

Timothy Findley

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

A search for sanctuary in an Ontario insane asylum in 1938. Cast of 7 women and 4 men. “Seems to me to be an astonishing work, richly textured, sombre, and yet possessing a relieving wit.” – Margaret Laurence

The Book of Esther

Les Canadiens

Leanna Brodie

Rick Salutin

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.

Introduction by Ken Dryden

“The Book of Esther is filled with tenderness, heart, and humour. It is also an eloquent plea for understanding.” – Sky Gilbert ISBN 978-0-88922-682-1; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-710-1 © 2012; 128 pp; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

“An examination of the Canadiens has never been mastered so well.” – Montreal Gazette

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.

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Cariboo Magi

The Concise Köchel

Lucia Frangione

Normand Chaurette

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.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau A lifetime’s devotion to the music of Mozart conceals a gruesome secret. Cast of 4 women.

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

“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

Carmela’s Table

Consecrated Ground

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

George Boyd

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.

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. Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2000.

The Carpenter

Copper Thunderbird

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

Marie Clements

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.

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. Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2008. “Marie Clements … is building a powerful reputation for her innovative approaches to … theatre on aboriginal themes.” – Vancouver Sun

Chimera

Corker

Wendy Lill

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.

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.

“The play comes at a propitious time.”

– The Scientist

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1999. “Tough, compassionate and surprisingly funny.” – Sunday Daily News

Cold Comfort

The Coronation Voyage

Jim Garrard

Michel Marc Bouchard

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.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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

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

“Sheer genius!”

– Arts National, CBC Radio

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

“Brilliant, artful, satirical.”

– CBC Radio

Colours in the Dark

Crabdance

James Reaney

Beverley Simons

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

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.

“Both funny and touching … intriguingly original in its conception.” – Quill & Quire

“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

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Cruel Tears

The Death of René Lévesque

Ken Mitchell

David Fennario

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

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 © 2003; 72 pp; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Cul-de-sac

Democracy

Daniel MacIvor

John Murrell

Introduction by Daniel Brooks

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.

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. Siminovitch Prize in Theatre Finalist, 2005.

Alberta Writers’ Guild Prize Winner for Drama.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2005.

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

Cyrano de Bergerac

Diplomacy

Edmond Rostand

Tim Carlson

Translated by John Murrell An epic and heroic tale that has enchanted generations, in an English prose translation that is eminently readable and stageable. Cast of 5 women, 12 men, and many minor characters.

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.

“[Cyrano de Bergerac is a] brilliant … unforgettable … impressive achievement.” – Edmonton Journal

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

Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra

The Dishwashers

Michel Tremblay

Morris Panych

Translated by John Van Burek

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.

Two interweaving monologues on the sacred and the profane. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man. “One of the best plays of Michel Tremblay.”

– Fugues

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

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

Dancock’s Dance

Divinity Bash / nine lives

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Bryden MacDonald

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.

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.

“Highly imaginative, vividly written play …” – Saskatoon Star Phoenix

“A carnivalesque expression of contemporary zeitgeist.”

Dead White Writer on the Floor

Doctor Thomas Neill Cream

Drew Hayden Taylor

(Mystery at McGill) David Fennario

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. “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 ISBN 978-0-88922-663-0 © 2011; 112 pp; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

– CBC

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 © 1994; 112 pp; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

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Down Dangerous Passes Road

The East End Plays

Michel Marc Bouchard Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Part I George F. Walker

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.

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.

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2000.

“One of theatre’s most important voices.”

The Driving Force

The East End Plays

Michel Tremblay

Part II George F. Walker

– Maclean’s

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.

Three plays exploring characters who live in extremity: Beautiful City (1987), Love and Anger (1989), and Tough! (1993)

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

“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

La Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays

The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Michel Tremblay

George Ryga

Translated by John Van Burek

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.

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

“Scenes of shattering impact … and passages of a purity and intensity that catch you off guard and keep you there.” – Washington Post

The Dunsmuirs

The Edward Curtis Project

Alone at the Edge Rod Langley

A Modern Picture Story Marie Clements & Rita Leistner

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

The Dunsmuirs

En Pièces Détachées

A Promise Kept Rod Langley

Michel Tremblay

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

The life of a working-class family on “The Main” in East End Montreal. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

Translated by Allan Van Meer

“The writing is tight and lively.” – Victoria Times-Colonist

“Tremblay courageously insists on the relevance and dilemma of neo-colonial French Canada.” – Books in Canada

Earshot

The Ends of the Earth

Morris Panych

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.

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

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Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout

Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass

Tomson Highway

Tom Hendry

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.

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.

Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk

15 Seconds

Herschel Hardin

François Archambault

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.

Translated by Bobby Theodore

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

– CBC

“The play presents the different Eskimo attitude to human life and hence to human relationships.” – Canadian Literature ISBN 978-0-88922-018-8

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. Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2000. “Funny, thought-provoking, poignant, and often dark …” – CBRA

Espresso

The Fighting Days

Lucia Frangione

Wendy Lill

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.

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

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

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

The Execution

For Home and Country

Marie-Claire Blais

Leanna Brodie

Translated by David Lobdell

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.

Two school boys plot and enact the murder of a classmate. Cast of 3 women and 17 men. “A brilliant play about the maturation of evil.” – CHQM

The Fairies Are Thirsty

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again

Denise Boucher

Michel Tremblay

Translated by Alan Brown

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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.

Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

“A powerful script and an important play.” – Montreal Gazette

“In Quebec, a new Tremblay play is like a fresh tablet from Moses.” – Montreal Gazette

The Faraway Nearby

Forever Yours, Marie-Lou

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 John Van Burek & Bill Glassco

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 © 1975, 1994; 80 pp; 7th printing; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

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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.

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

Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists

Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 2004.

The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum A Stage Play Based on the Novel by Sheldon Currie Wendy Lill

Normand Chaurette Translated by Linda Gaboriau 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. Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1996. “A tender, romantic triumph over the genre.” – Eye Weekly

Fronteras Americanas

God and the Indian

American Borders Guillermo Verdecchia

Drew Hayden Taylor

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

While panhandling outside of a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman, is shocked to run into George King, who was a priest at the Indian residential school that she was sent to as a child. Desperate to hear him acknowledge the injustices endured by children at the school, she follows him to his office to confront him. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

Fronteras Americanas

Goodnight Disgrace

American Borders Second Edition Guillermo Verdecchia

Michael Mercer

Updated to reflect the new global realities of the 21st century, and altered conceptions of borderlands, this 2nd edition of Verdecchia’s acclaimed Fronteras Americanas examines the fraught intercultural space where one Latino man finds himself. Cast of 1 man.

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

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

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

Gideon’s Blues

The Great Wave of Civilization

George Boyd

Herschel Hardin

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.

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.

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The Gull

The Hope Slide / Little Sister

Daphne Marlatt

Joan MacLeod

With a Japanese translation by Toyoshi Yoshihara

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

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.

“A passionate and rich examination of the human condition’s precariousness.” – Victoria Times-Colonist

Uchimura Naoya Prize Winner, 2008.

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.

Halo

Hosanna

Josh MacDonald

Third Edition Michel Tremblay

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.

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco

Claude’s illusions about himself shatter when, painstakingly remade as his idol Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, he arrives at a party themed on “great women of history” and is mocked for his glamorous aspirations. Written during Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, Tremblay’s political allegory about the authenticity of self resonates ever more so today. Cast of 2 men ISBN 978-0-88922-831-3; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-832-0 © 1984, 1991, 2013; 96 pp; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Heaven

The Impromptu of Outremont

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

“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

“A clear delineation of the problems faced by any colonial culture.” – Vancouver Province

Hellfire Pass

Impromptu on Nuns’ Island

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

Michel Tremblay

Merritt Theatre Award Nominee for Best Play, 2004. “Halo successfully melds faith, drama and humour … very funny and quite moving.” – Halifax Daily News

Three sisters have an “impromptu” and re-examine their personal and social problems. Cast of 4 women.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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.

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.

Winner of the 2006 Montreal English Critics’ Circle Award.

Governor General’s Translation Award Finalist, 2002.

“A powerful, memorable drama.”

– Variety

The Heretic

In a World Created by a Drunken God

John Murphy

Drew Hayden Taylor

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.

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.

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

– CBC

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2006.

Homechild

In Absentia

Joan MacLeod

Morris Panych

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

Four seasons after her husband Tom’s disappearance, Colette remains emotionally paralyzed, isolated in a country cottage. She waits in anguish, not knowing whether he is dead or alive, but clinging to hope. Part mystery, part moving story of vanished love, In Absentia explores the notion of disappearance, articulated in very personal terms. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

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In Piazza San Domenico

Joe Beef

Steve Galluccio

David Fennario

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.

Desperately poor immigrants find refuge in Montreal’s legendary barkeep, Joe Beef. Cast of 5 women and 5 men.

In the Eyes of God

King of Thieves

Raul Sanchez Inglis

George F. Walker

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. “[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

New York City, 1928. Master-thief Mac is coerced into joining an FBI sting operation against a cadre of corrupt financiers. Music, murder, and mayhem ensue, both at the speakeasy where criminals scheme and on Wall Street where bankers conspire. This trenchantly satirical play exposes the world of corporate crime and examines criminal behaviour at all levels of society. Cast of 5 women and 10 men.

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

Jacob’s Wake

Lawrence & Holloman

Michael Cook

Morris Panych

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

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.

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

The United Steel Workers’ Union Pauline Julien Prize Winner, 1987.

“Amusingly inventive.”

– Globe and Mail

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

Je me souviens

Leave of Absence

Lorena Gale

Lucia Frangione

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.

A small prairie community is blown apart when an audacious teenaged girl challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. Suspected of being gay, she is tormented by her classmates. 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. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.

Jitters

Legoland

David French

Jacob Richmond

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.

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.

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The Leisure Society

Ludwig & Mae

François Archambault

Louis Patrick Leroux

Translated by Bobby Theodore

Translated by Shelley Tepperman & Ellen Warkentin

A dark and thoroughly contemporary comedy. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

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.

“A vicious, erotically charged spectacle full of cynical disdain and gripping pathos.” – Montreal Gazette “A dark, twisted and brilliant take on modern marriage.” – Calgary Sun ISBN 978-0-88922-531-2 © 2005; 96 pp; $15.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Life Without Instruction

The Madonna Painter

Sally Clark

Michel Marc Bouchard

A woman’s struggle for freedom, identity and dignity. Cast of 3 women and 5 men.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

“audacious avant-garde spectacles.”

– Jane Moss

“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

To protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic, a young priest commissions a church fresco of the Virgin by a wandering Italian painter. The presence of the artist, his choice of a local 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.

A Line in the Sand

The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr

Guillermo Verdecchia & Marcus Youssef

Jovette Marchessault

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 worthy trip home for one of Canada’s greatest painters.” – Globe and Mail

“[A] powerful story.”

– CBRA

Marchessault evokes the doubts, the trials and the joys of this singular existence. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.

Listen to the Wind

La Maison Suspendue

James Reaney

Michel Tremblay

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

Translated by John Van Burek

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

A rich, emotional, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. Cast of 3 women, 4 men and 1 boy. Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1990. “A full and resounding resonance.”

– Theatrum

Local Boy Makes Good

Mambo Italiano

John MacLachlan Gray

Steve Galluccio

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

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.

Canadian Authors Association Drama Award Winner, 1988 (Rock and Roll). “John Gray is the most original artist working in the musical theatre in this country.” – Globe and Mail

“Manages to combine the sentimental, the silly and the sexy.” – Toronto Star

Lost Souls and Missing Persons

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds

Sally Clark

Michel Tremblay

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.

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco

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

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 © 1996; 80 pp; 2nd printing; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

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Marion Bridge

Modern Canadian Plays

Daniel MacIvor Includes screenplay and stage play. Cast of 3 women.

Volume II, Fifth Edition Edited by Jerry Wasserman

“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

Collects and comments on the work of playwrights since 1988: Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard; Morris Panych; Daniel MacIvor; Wendy Lill; Rahul Varma; George F. Walker; Djanet Sears; Ronnie Burkett; Joan MacLeod; Robert Chafe; Wajdi Mouawad; Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Camyar Chai; Linda Griffiths; Theatre Replacement; Marie Clements; and Ins Choi.

Memories of You

Mom’s the Word

Wendy Lill

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

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. “Beautifully written … its pleasure, its sensuality and its pain. A courageous and profoundly moving play …” – Robert Enright, CBC

Humorous stories, bittersweet monologues, poetic reflections and revelatory anecdotes about motherhood. Cast of 6 women.

Miss Julie

Moo

August Strindberg

Sally Clark

An adaptation by David French

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.

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. “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 ISBN 978-0-88922-549-7

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1990.

Modern Canadian Plays

Motherhouse

Volume I, Fourth Edition Edited by Jerry Wasserman

David Fennario

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.

Gives voice to the disillusioned working-class women employed at the British Munitions Factory in Verdun, Quebec, during the First World War – while their beloved sons and husbands died on battlefields overseas. Debunks sentimental notions of duty, heroism, and nationhood, as does its companion play Bolsheviki. Cast of 1 woman.

Modern Canadian Plays

My TWP Plays

Volume I, Fifth Edition’ Edited by Jerry Wasserman

A Collection Including Ten Lost Years Jack Winter

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 © 2012; 568 pp; $49.95 CAN / $49.95 US

This collection presents five important plays Jack Winter wrote while he was resident playwright at Toronto Workshop Productions, one of the first great troupes of experimental theatre: Before Compiègne (1963), The Mechanic (1964), The Death of Woyzeck (1965), Ten Lost Years (1974), and You Can’t Get Here from There (1975). ISBN 978-0-88922-784-2; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-785-9 © 2013; 336 pp; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Modern Canadian Plays

1949

Volume II, Fourth Edition Edited by Jerry Wasserman

David French

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 © 2001; 408 pp; 7th printing; $39.95 CAN / $39.95 US

Newfoundland joins Confederation in the continuing saga of the Mercer family. Cast of 6 women, 6 men and 2 boys. Chalmers Canadian Play Award Finalist, 1988. “Told with French’s warm humour and effortless command of stage convention.” – Globe and Mail

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The Noam Chomsky Lectures

Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

Daniel Brooks & Guillermo Verdecchia

Drew Hayden Taylor

An innovative, multi-layered deconstruction of mass media and politics. Cast of 2 men. Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1992.

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

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1992.

James Buller Award for Playwright of the Year, 1997.

“A … sharp and funny ‘lecture’ on cultural politics and political culture.” – Now

Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Small Theatre Division, 1996.

Nothing to Lose

Other Schools of Thought

David Fennario

Morris Panych

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

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.

“Restores one’s faith in theatre as a medium of continuing vitality and relevance.” – Southam News Service

“Cost of Living is a brilliant play about growing up.” – Globe and Mail

The Occupation of Heather Rose

Paradise by the River

Wendy Lill

Vittorio Rossi

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.

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.

“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

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

Omniscience

Paradise Garden

Tim Carlson

Lucia Frangione

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.

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.

“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

“Playwright and actor Lucia Frangione enters risky emotional territory in Paradise Garden.” – Georgia Straight

On the Job

Past Perfect

David Fennario

Michel Tremblay

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

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Chalmers Canadian Play Award Winner, 1976. “Vibrates with the rough and ready energy of a street fight.” – Quill & Quire

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

One Crack Out

Playing Bare

David French

Dominic Champagne

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.

Translated by Shelley Tepperman

“A definite winner that will be around for a long time.” – Ottawa Citizen

“It celebrates theatre by paying tribute to Godot, one of its most brilliant gems.” – Vancouver Sun

A mordant satire on the relation between theatre and life. Cast of 2 women and 4 men. Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1994.

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The (Post) Mistress

The Riddle of the World

Tomson Highway

David French

In this one-woman musical tour de force, Marie-Louise confides in us the interwoven stories sealed in the envelopes she has sorted every day for thirty years and she tells the stories of the lives of everyone in town, vicariously experiencing their loves, losses, and personal dramas. Cast of 1 woman.

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.

The Power Plays

Rose

George F. Walker

Tomson Highway

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.

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.

“French is one of Canada’s most acclaimed playwrights and an accomplished explorer of the power of memory.” – Quill & Quire

“Walker has an eye for the ridiculous and an imagination that packs his plays with action.” – New York Times

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

The Queens

Saga of the Wet Hens

Normand Chaurette

Jovette Marchessault

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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

Four Quebec women writers meet at the centre of a fabulous vortex. Cast of 4 women.

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

“Potent feminist literature.”

The Real World?

Saint Frances of Hollywood

Michel Tremblay

Sally Clark

Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco

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.

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.

– Quill & Quire

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

“A virtuoso piece of writing by a master craftsman.” – Toronto Star

“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

The Refugee Hotel

Sainte-Carmen of the Main

Carmen Aguirre

Michel Tremblay

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.

Translated by John Van Burek

“A searing tragedy.”

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

– Toronto Star

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

Remember Me

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons

Michel Tremblay

James W. Nichol

Translated by John Stowe

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.

Two ex-lovers meet and compare and confess their fears and disillusionments. Cast of 2 men. “[Tremblay] has entered a new phase of his dramatic art.” – Canadian Literature

“The play has a burning sincerity … A fascinating glimpse of two totally different cultures.” – Ottawa Citizen

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Salt-Water Moon

7 Stories

David French

Morris Panych

The third book of the Mercer family saga. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.

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

Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Drama Award, Dora Mavor Moore Award, Hollywood DramaLogue Critics Award and ACTRA Award. “A gem of a play … affecting, funny and as evocative as a dream.” – Globe and Mail

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

– CBC

The Satchmo’ Suite

The Shape of a Girl / Jewel

Hans Böggild & Doug Innis

Joan MacLeod

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.

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. “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. ISBN 978-0-88922-460-5 © 2002; 96 pp; 10th printing; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Saucy Jack

Silver Dagger

Sharon Pollock

David French

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.

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

“Brings those hideously murdered women to such authentic life that we feel a stab of guilt.” – Quill & Quire

“[A] meta-murder mystery.” – Canadian Theatre Review

Schoolhouse

Sisters

Leanna Brodie

Wendy Lill

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 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.

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

Arthur Ellis Award Nominee, 1994.

“A moving theatrical experience.”

– Theatrum

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 version in North America.” – Canadian Theatre Review

“One of the great men of Canadian drama.” – Books in Canada

Seeds

Skydive

Annabel Soutar

Kevin Kerr

Part courtroom drama, part political satire, Seeds shows farming and scientific communities in conflict, while at the same time penetrating the complex science of genetically modified crops. The play documents the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and biotech multinational Monsanto – a David-and-Goliath struggle. Cast of 4 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.

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Soldier’s Heart

Suburban Motel

David French

George F. Walker

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.

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.

“When it comes to playwriting, David French is perhaps … the most celebrated in English Canada.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-463-6

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

Somewhere Else

The Tale of Teeka

George F. Walker

Michel Marc Bouchard

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).

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

“No other living playwright pushes the boundaries of comedy as far, with often stunning results.” – Chicago Sun Times

“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

Song of the Say-Sayer

Talking Bodies

Daniel Danis

Larry Tremblay

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Translated by Sheila Fischman

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.

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.

“At once sinister and hilariously funny, darkly ominous and positively hopeful.” – Canadian Theatre Review

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.

Spectacle of Empire

That Summer

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

David French

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.

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. “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

Still Laughing

That Woman

Morris Panych

Daniel Danis

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.

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

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

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

Studies in Motion

Tiln & Other Plays

The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge Second Edition Kevin Kerr

Michael Cook

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

“Evocative imagery, poignant character portrayal.” – Canadian Literature

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.

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

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Tom at the Farm

Twenty Years at Play

Michel Marc Bouchard

A New Play Centre Anthology Edited by Jerry Wasserman

Translated by Linda Gaboriau Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2014. As an unexpected guest at his lover’s funeral, Tom is blindsided by the man’s legacy of untruth. With the mother expecting a girlfriend, and the older brother determined to preserve a facade, Tom is coerced into participating in a savage game rooted in the rural family’s dark past. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

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

Tombs of the Vanishing Indian

Two Plays

Marie Clements

George Woodcock

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.

This volume contains two uniquely Canadian stories of exile: The Island of Demons and Six Dry Cakes for the Hunted. “Voices from the past that haunt us still.” – Essays in Canadian Writing

Toronto, Mississippi

2000

Joan MacLeod

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.

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.

“See this play and fall in love.”

“Full of good insights … good lines.” – University of Toronto Quarterly

– Georgia Straight

“2000 is a remarkable achievement.” – Canadian Book Review Annual

The Trespassers

Unity (1918)

Morris Panych

Kevin Kerr

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.

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.

The Trial of Judith K.

The Unnatural and Accidental Women

Sally Clark

Marie Clements

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.

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.

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1991.

“An impressive, powerful work.”

The Trigger

The Valley

Carmen Aguirre

Joan MacLeod

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. “The Trigger is a knockout … intelligent, powerful, funny, horrific, theatrically stunning and utterly free of victimology.” – Jerry Wasserman

Inspired by the 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport, The Valley dramatizes the often volatile relationship between law enforcement and people in the grip of mental illness. The play connects both sides of this relationship by portraying two families embattled with depression, each guided by good intentions but challenged by their own flawed humanity. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 2002.

“A beautifully presented and acted play.” – Raven’s Eye – Eye Weekly

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The Ventriloquist

Warriors

Larry Tremblay

Michel Garneau

Translated by Keith Turnbull

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Theatre of innovation. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

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.

“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

“If you want a challenging piece of theatre prepare for Warriors.” – Calgary Sun

The Vic

WASPs

Leanna Brodie

Sally Clark

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.

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.

“Leanna Brodie has made a promising debut, and her best work here shows real talent.” – Toronto Star

“Clark skewers our nicey-nice apologist culture … It’s camp, it’s funny, and it’s nasty.” – Georgia Straight

Vigil

The Weekend Healer

Second Edition Morris Panych

Bryden MacDonald

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.”

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. “If Tennessee Williams were from the Maritimes and writing today, he’d sound a lot like Bryden MacDonald.” – Richard Ouzounian, CBC

– Globe and Mail

Waiting for the Parade

Westray

John Murrell

The Long Way Home Chris O’Neill & Ken Schwartz

Set in Calgary during WWII, five women work for the war effort while their men are away. Cast of 5 women. “Waiting for the Parade is an honest play that captures precisely the texture of ordinary hopes and despairs.” – Guardian

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

Walsh

Whale Riding Weather

Sharon Pollock

Bryden MacDonald

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.

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.

“Undefinable magic that is the essence of art.” – Ottawa Citizen

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 1994.

Wanted

What Lies Before Us

Sally Clark

Morris Panych

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.

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] entirely original historical drama … an intriguing addition to Clark’s canon.” – Globe and Mail

“Powerfully written.”

– Toronto Star

Governor General’s Drama Award Finalist, 2007.

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Where the Blood Mixes Kevin Loring 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. Governor General’s Drama Award Winner, 2009. “The best of a stream of plays tackling [the Residential Schools’] disastrous legacy.” – Globe and Mail ISBN 978-0-88922-608-1; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-768-2 © 2009; 96 pp; 5th printing; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Whereverville Josh MacDonald 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. “Fresh and direct, with clear-eyed compassion and a surprising amount of humour.” – Halifax Daily News ISBN 978-0-88922-506-0 © 2004; 96 pp; 2nd printing; $15.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Willful Acts Margaret Hollingsworth 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, 1985 (War Babies). ISBN 978-0-88922-385-1 © 1998; 256 pp; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

With Bated Breath Bryden MacDonald 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. Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2011. ISBN 978-0-88922-651-7; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-816-0 © 2010; 128 pp; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Written on Water Michel Marc Bouchard Translated by Linda Gaboriau 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. “A profound reflection on memory and on the act of writing … told with Michel Marc Bouchard’s characteristic humour and poetry.” – CBC ISBN 978-0-88922-492-6 © 2004; 96 pp; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

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After Jack

Back to the War

Garry Thomas Morse

Frank Davey

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.

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

“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 a deep breath. Now dive back in.” – Stephen Collis

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

– Arc

– abcbookworld.com

All Is Flesh

Bardy Google

Yannick Renaud

Frank Davey

Translated by Hugh Hazelton

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.

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.

Amuse Bouche

Blonds on Bikes

Adeena Karasick

George Bowering

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.

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.

“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 © 2009; 108 pp; Colour illustrations; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Asian Skies

bpNichol Comics

Ken Norris

bpNichol

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.

Edited by Carl Peters

“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 ISBN 978-0-88922-633-3

Nichol’s comics (1960 –1980) informed not only his work in other genres but also the work of other writers. “Nichol engages in visual wordplay and defies the conventional restraints of space and structure in comic books.” – National Post

Aurora

Bread and Salt

Sharon Thesen

Renee Rodin

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.

Bread and Salt – what you bring for luck to a new house – is a joyous affirmation of vision and courage in hard times.

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

“Rodin uses the banal as a way to ground the text, weaving the everyday and the terrible together to create understanding.” – Hour

b leev abul char ak trs

Cartouches

bill bissett

Lola Lemire Tostevin

“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

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

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

– Books in Canada

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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. “Finally, what’s left is an irresistible, irrepressible read that’s bound to raise eyebrows.” – Monday Magazine

“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 ISBN 978-0-88922-497-1 © 2004; 192 pp; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

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

“Cochrane’s blast-furnace intelligence … consumes everything in its path.” – BC Bookworld

“Zomparelli’s knowledge of place and community is profound.” – Rachel Rose

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.

“Chan continues to write some of the edgiest lyrics in Canadian poetry, lyrics filled with science and music.” – Prairie Fire ISBN 978-0-88922-681-4; E-ISBN 978-0-88922-709-5 © 2012; 128 pp; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

“[Belford’s poems] read with the kind of inevitability of image and rhythm that makes other poets grit their teeth with envy.” – Margaret Atwood ISBN 978-0-88922-631-9 © 2010; 96 pp; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

The Collected Books of Artie Gold

Discovery Passages

Compiled & edited by Ken Norris & Endre Farkas

Garry Thomas Morse

A collection of Artie Gold’s eight published books of poetry.

BC Book Prize Finalist, 2011.

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

“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 © 2010; 304 pp; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Coping with Emotions and Otters

Dominican Moon

Dina Del Bucchia

Ken Norris

Appropriating the template of the contemporary self-help book, with its neatly numbered and ordered rules on how to change and improve our lives, Dina Del Bucchia fashions this satirical and punchy guide for coming to terms our most difficult emotions.

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.

“Del Bucchia deftly holds a comic mirror to our own awkward lives in this exciting, accomplished debut.” – Marita Dachsel ISBN 978-0-88922-764-4

Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 2011. BC Book Prize Finalist, 2012.

“Ken Norris … has been hailed as Canada’s premier romantic poet.” – Toronto Star

– Matrix

Corked

Down Time

Catriona Strang

Jeff Derksen

In Corked, Catriona Strang, in an impressive display of poetic ingenuity, “fabricates her own reality” in her letters to Marcel Proust. In this thoughtful response to Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Proust himself serves not only as Strang’s addressee, but also as harbour or mooring place for powerful and focused meditations on the female condition.

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

BC Book Prize Winner, 1991. “Wrenching intellectual and emotional dislocation that redefines the act of reading.” – Vancouver Sun

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DOWNVERSE

Fifty

Nikki Reimer

Ken Norris

In this quick-witted collection of poems, Nikki Reimer mines the language of new media – hashtags, YouTube comments, Twitter updates – to defamiliarize the very substance of modern life: the constellation of mediaenforced ideals that barrage our newsfeeds, daily commutes to #work, and (mostly online) excursions to the (Apple) store. #nuffsaid

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.

Dream Pool Essays

Five Star Planet

Gil McElroy

David W. McFadden

An active multiple streaming of apparently disparate sources: astronomy, theoretical cosmology and quantum physics, and the literary and visual arts. Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Finalist, 2002.

The poems in this third volume of McFadden’s Terrafina Trilogy – which began with Gypsy Guitar and There’ll Be Another – suggest the earth is an exotic way station, a hotel.

“The expected subjects of faith, work, nature, solitude, and writing itself are represented with clarity and beauty.” – Canadian Literature

“Two qualities … shine in all his works – a laser-like and sometimes uncomfortable honesty and his childlike sense of wonder.” – Windsor Sun

Dwell

Floating Up to Zero

Jeff Derksen

Ken Norris

An ironically revealing, humorous, and analytic book.

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.

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

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

Dyssemia Sleaze

fractal economies

Adeena Karasick

derek beaulieu

Cf. SEMA, unit of meaning: i.e., Dyssemia: (flawed information reception) Sleaze / sli:z/ v. Rough with projecting fibres. Bumbershoot Most Adventurous Publication Award Winner, 2000.

beaulieu pushes the limits of poetry and poetics, challenging the status quo of the genre and the politics of language itself. “Never read a book of concrete poetry before? This might be the one to hook you.” – FFWD

The Empress Has No Closure

From the Poplars

Adeena Karasick

Cecily Nicholson

The Empress Has No Closure contains, as a centrepiece, the “Alefbet Transfers,” a meditative, spatial explication of the 22 figures of the Hebrew alphabet.

At one end of the North Arm of the Fraser River lies an uninhabited island. It is lush and unspoken, but storied. From the Poplars is the poetic outcome of archival research and of listening to these stories – both old and new. Present in efforts of decolonization, reconciliation, and land protection, this text tempers a silence that inevitably will be broken.

“All of it hums with intellectual energy, much of it is even funny.” – Books in Canada “An impressive deconstruction of language and meaning.” – Canadian Literature ISBN 978-0-88922-307-3 © 1992; 100 pp; 2nd printing; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

A Few Words Will Do

Genrecide

Lionel Kearns

Adeena Karasick

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.

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

“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 © 2007; 128 pp; Illustrations; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

“Bridging the genre gap.”

“Beautiful linguistic carnage.”

“Visually striking.”

– Word – The Link – Jewish Post and News

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gifts

Hotel Montreal

rob mclennan

New and Selected Poems Ken Norris

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

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 revelation.” – Montreal Review of Books

Glengarry

The House That Hijack Built

rob mclennan

Adeena Karasick

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.”

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.

“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 ISBN 978-0-88922-662-3 © 2011; 160 pp; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

“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 © 2004; 128 pp; Colour illustrations $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US; ISBN 978-0-88922-511-4

Going Home

hypoderm

Ken Norris

notes to myself Weyman Chan

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. “[Norris] is profoundly original, open, and vulnerable, with a unique personal note that speaks to the heart of the reader.” – Poetry Canada ISBN 978-0-88922-573-2 © 2007; 192 pp; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

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. “maps the borders and the fence; the lines between friends and family, between forgive and forget.” – derek beaulieu ISBN 978-0-88922-637-1 © 2010; 96 pp; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Ground Water

I. Another. The Space Between

Colin Browne

Selected Poems Jamie Reid

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. BC Book Prize Finalist, 2003.

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

“[Reid] engages readers in a conversation, asking them always to try to make their neighbourhood, their city, their world a better place.” – Georgia Straight ISBN 978-0-88922-512-1 © 2004; 192 pp; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Gypsy Guitar

In the Dog House

David W. McFadden

Wanda John-Kehewin

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

Poet Wanda John-Kehewin combines elements of First Nations oral tradition with a style of dramatic narrative that originates from the earliest forms of storytelling yet keeps pace with the rhythms and undulations of contemporary Canadian poetry. Her poems ask us to acknowledge the deplorable conditions on First Nations reserves and to explore ameliorative processes of restorative justice.

Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 2002.

Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 1988. “An exhilarating immersion in a uniquely bizarre and irrepressible imagination.” – Canadian Literature

harvest

th influenza uv logik

a book of signifiers rob mclennan

bill bissett

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. “For mclennan, there are no rules. His poetry defies convention or classification.” – Room Magazine ISBN 978-0-88922-455-1 © 2001; 128 pp; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Canada’s most linguistically innovative poet takes on the “linear binary traps” of conventional logic, history, and politics. “An important book … this is a sumptuous and satisfying sampling of beautifully crafted work.” – Books in Canada ISBN 978-0-88922-357-8 © 1995; 144 pp; Illustrations; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

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inkorrect thots

Last Scattering Surfaces

bill bissett

Gil McElroy

When bill bissett thinks “inkorrect thots” anything can happen.

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

BC Book Prize Winner, 1993. “bissett could be our (Canadian, late 20th-century) answer to e.e. cummings.” – Whig Standard

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

– Arc

Internodes

Limbo Road

Ken Belford

Ken Norris

Moving with nomadic grace across the terrain of British Columbia, Ken Belford’s poetic language presses onward through Hazleton, the Bulkley Valley, and the unroaded headwaters of the Nass River in the Damdochax Valley.

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

“A rare and fierce book of poetics: one of dispersals and laments and ambiguities – and also one of gatherings, celebrations and visions.” – Jake Kennedy

“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

The Invisibility Exhibit

Liquidities

Sachiko Murakami

Vancouver Poems Then and Now Daphne Marlatt

Murakami’s first book of poetry was written in the political and emotional wake of Vancouver’s “Missing Women.” It investigates the troubled relationship between a marginalized neighbourhood’s “invisible” populations and the city that surrounds them. Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 2008.

Liquidities gathers many of the poems from Marlatt’s Vancouver Poems, in some cases substantially revised, and follows them with “Liquidities,” a series of recent poems about Vancouver’s incessant transformations both on the ground and in urban imagining.

is a door

Love and Savagery

Fred Wah

Des Walsh

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. BC Book Prize Winner, 2010.

This finely crafted book of poems, adapted as 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.

Kerrisdale Elegies

loving without being vulnrabul

George Bowering

bill bissett

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.

Poems that tell stories on many different levels: through sound, visual images, political insights, non-narrative fusion, and linguistic music.

“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 ISBN 978-0-88922-590-9

“Anybody who’s never heard [bissett] really ought to, because you’ll never think of poetry the same way after you hear him.” – Citylife

th last photo uv th human soul

Mêmewars

bill bissett

Adeena Karasick

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.

Mêmewars is a book writing against itself.

BC Book Prize Finalist, 1994. “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 ISBN 978-0-88922-344-8 © 1994; 120 pp; Illustrations; 2nd printing $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

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The Monument Cycles

Noise from the Laundry

Mariner Janes

Weyman Chan

Mariner Janes’s first book of poetry investigates our relation to monuments and works of public art: Why do we make these representations of people, history, and place? 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 into societal invective.

Weyman Chan’s poems elaborate his singular and solitary work on the renaissance of the contemporary lyric form. Governor General’s Poetry Award Finalist, 2008. Alberta Literary Awards Shortlist, 2009.

“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 ISBN 978-0-88922-626-5 © 2008, 2009; 104 pp; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

The Moustache

NonZero Definitions

Memories of Greg Curnoe George Bowering

Gil McElroy

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

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. “In NonZero Definitions, McElroy really hits his stride.” – Toronto Review of Books

My Darling Nellie Grey

northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing

George Bowering 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.

bill bissett 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 © 2005; 160 pp; Illustrations; $17.95 CAN / $15.95 US

narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane

On the Material

bill bissett

Stephen Collis

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

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

“Touches on the great themes of humanity … in bissett’s inimitable way.” – Monday Magazine

“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

BC Book Prize Finalist, 2011.

BC Book Prize Winner, 2011.

The New Long Poem Anthology

Ordinary Time

Second Edition Edited by Sharon Thesen

Gil McElroy

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.

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.

News & Smoke

Pacific Windows

Selected Poems Sharon Thesen

Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka Roy K. Kiyooka

“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 & Smoke.” – Toronto Star

Edited by Roy Miki

The most important poetic works of Kiyooka. Association for Asian American Studies Outstanding Book Award Winner, 1998. “All of Kiyooka’s writing … was made up of exquisite moments.” – Ottawa XPress ISBN 978-0-88922-378-3 © 1997; 320 pp; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

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Pell Mell

The Rap Canterbury Tales

Robin Blaser

Baba Brinkman

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).

Hip-hop artist Brinkman resurrects Chaucer’s brilliant stories into visible and audible contemporary forms.

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

“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

peter among th towring boxes / text bites

Rebuild

bill bissett

Sachiko Murakami

bissett’s deliciously comic interrogation of the sociopolitical 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.

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.

BC Book Prize Winner, 2003.

“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

The Place of Scraps

The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh

Jordan Abel

rob mclennan

Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps explores the relationship between First Nations cultures and the ethnography of Marius Barbeau. Through poetic erasure techniques, Abel carves out new and unexpected understandings of Barbeau’s writing.

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.

BC Book Prize Winner, 2014.

“Just the right combination of details … carefully crafted, each line shifting the image slightly.” – Books in Canada ISBN 978-0-88922-424-7

Archibald Lampman Award Finalist, 2000.

Popular Narratives

scars on th seehors

Frank Davey

bill bissett

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.

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 ium alredee in it.”

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

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

Post-Prairie

Selected Poems

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

The Arches Frank Davey

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.

Selections from seven of this important poet and editor’s long poems. “Possesses a concentrated power that is rarely evident.” – Montreal Gazette

The Properties

Selected Poems

Colin Browne

Beyond Even Faithful Legends bill bissett

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.

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

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Selected Poems

Singed Wings

Loki Is Buried at Smoky Creek Fred Wah

Lola Lemire Tostevin

Poems of landscape, language, and memory from Wah’s earlier books. “Wah’s poems continually return us to the act of communion and the realization of our shared, not individual, life.” – Montreal Gazette

Responding to the creative vitality of women artists from Camille Claudel to Frida Kahlo, Betty Goodwin, and Louise Bourgeois, poet Lola Lemire Tostevin finds the inspiration and determination to move her own art forward. “Lola Lemire Tostevin is an incisive, intelligent, and sharply observant writer.” – Quarry

Selected Poems

The Singer’s Broken Throat

The Vision Tree Phyllis Webb

Des Walsh

Poetry distinguished by its attention to form and thought. Governor General’s Poetry Award Winner, 1982. “Phyllis Webb … is one of the finest poets now writing in Canada.” – Books in Canada

Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador Heritage and History Award Finalist, 2005. “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

Selected Writing

Specks

As Elected bpNichol

Second Edition Michael McClure

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

Specks assumes the form of a blastula, offering a poetic model of embryonic development that arises from the cellular division known as “cleavage.”

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

“McClure’s poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy.” – Allen Ginsberg

Selected Writing

Sticks & Stones

Net Work Daphne Marlatt

George Bowering

Poetry and prose with an instantaneous recognition of perceptions and thought.

George Bowering’s first book of poetry. With a preface by Robert Creeley and original line drawings by Gordon Payne.

“Confronts political realities on the level in which they impinge upon people’s lives.” – Montreal Gazette

“His feeling for form, for poetry as something made, is what gives his early pieces their ability to endure.” – Vancouver Province

Sentenced to Light

sublingual

Fred Wah

bill bissett

An astonishing series of collaborative image-text projects, Sentenced to Light offers the reader a glimpse into the dialectic of larger conversations, the unpredictable, improvisatory bavardage that whispers between words and pictures in an intrinsically poetic space. “An accessible and beautifully produced introduction to a major poet.” – Boog City

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

Theogony / Works and Days

Colin Browne

Hesiod

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.

Philosopher C.S. Morrissey adapts Hesiod’s two great works, Theogony and Works and Days, taking into account the poet’s essential meditative insights that paved the way for the subsequent achievements of Greek philosophy, most notably of Plato, and thereby gave shape to all of Western philosophy.

ReLit Award Shortlist, 2008. “The epic sweep of pieces is impressive, at times rapturous. They are worth digging for.” – Quill & Quire ISBN 978-0-88922-574-9 © 2007; 192 pp; Photos; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

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There’ll Be Another

To the Barricades

David W. McFadden

Stephen Collis

Three books in one: Heavy-Hearted in Havana, Sex with a Sixteen Year Old, and Anonymity Suite Part II.

In To the Barricades we move back and forth between historical and contemporary scenes of revolt, shifting along the active seam between poetry and revolution. At once elegy for past revolutionary figures and a call for renewed struggle, this collection of “social lyrics” seeks to drive apathy from the field and to recover forgotten “radical ideas” in the midst of our current “amnesiac condition.”

This Poem

Transnational Muscle Cars

Adeena Karasick

Jeff Derksen

This Poem is an ironic investigation of contemporary culture and the technomedia-saturated world in which we are enmeshed. Composed in the style of Facebook updates and extended tweets, each section infuses itself with continuous shifting tones, styles, and commentary, which are in turn provocative, emotive, and deeply satiric.

“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

This Tremor Love Is

Triage

Daphne Marlatt

Cecily Nicholson

This Tremor Love Is is a memory book – an album of love poems spanning 25 years, from Marlatt’s first writing of what was to become the opening section, A Lost Book, to its latest, most recent sequences.

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.

BC Book Prize Finalist, 2002. ReLit Award Longlist, 2002.

“This is the heart of Vancouver, beating bravely in the tent village, attesting to daily poverty, daily ingenuity …” – Rita Wong

Thrum

Vermeer’s Light

Natalie Simpson

Poems 1996–2006 George Bowering

Thrum reveals how making sense is not always the same as making meaning. Here, a sentence is no longer a sentence, but “a word in pieces, plastered, faster” on the page in luminous syntactical patterns that create new pathways for meaning. “A collection to keep close by, to remind that wonders are still being worked in the world.” – Sachiko Murakami

“Accessible in themes, comfortably paced and motored by an anti-heroic punk sensibility.” – Publishers Weekly

“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.”

ths is erth thees ar peopul

The Vestiges

bill bissett

Jeff Derksen

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.

Engaging the tensions between expressionism and conceptualism, the research-based poems of The Vestiges mine diverse source texts, from Craigslist to Jane Jacobs, from Karl Marx to contemporary real-estate promotions.

ReLit Award Longlist, 2008.

“Jeff Derksen’s poetry provides footholds of humor, criticism, stealth analysis, and wild observation to address neoliberalism’s violent wake.” – Cindi Katz

time

what’s left

bill bissett

rob mclennan

In time, bissett explores the flux of life and fleeting nature of the universe. time is a 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.

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 © 2004; 144 pp; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

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Booklist Index by Title A ABC of Reading TRG .......................... 19 Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre .................................... 34 Adrift ................................................. 34 Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, The ......................................... 34 After Completion ............................... 18 After Jack .......................................... 53 Against the Wind ............................... 27 Albertine in Five Times (translated by Gaboriau) ...................................... 34 Albertine in Five Times (translated by Van Burek & Glassco) ............................ 34 Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings .... 34 All Fall Down ..................................... 34 All Is Flesh .......................................... 53 All That Glitters .................................. 27 All the Verdis of Venice ...................... 34 alterNatives ........................................ 34 American Notebooks ......................... 19 Amigo’s Blue Guitar ........................... 34 Amuse Bouche ................................... 53 Anatolia Junction ............................... 19 And Other Stories .............................. 27 And Slowly Beauty .............................. 34 And So It Goes ................................... 34 Angel of Solitude, The ....................... 27 Annihilated Time ............................... 19 Another Country / bloom ................... 35 Another Home Invasion ..................... 35 As Always ............................................ 1 Asian Skies ......................................... 53 Assembling the Morrow ..................... 17 Assorted Candies for the Theatre ....... 35 Athabasca Ryga, The ......................... 27 Aurora ............................................... 53

B b leev abul char ak trs ........................ 53 Baby Blues, The .................................. 35 Back to the War ................................. 53 Balconville .......................................... 35 Baldwins, The .................................... 27 Bambi and Me ................................... 19 Banana Boots ..................................... 35 Bardy Google ..................................... 53 Baseball Love ..................................... 19 BASH’d .............................................. 35 Battle of Batoche, The ........................ 19 Beating the Bushes ............................ 35 Belles Soeurs, Les ............................... 35 Benevolence ...................................... 35 Berlin Blues, The ................................ 35 Bethune ............................................. 35 Beyond Recall .................................... 19 Bicycle Eater, The ............................... 27 Billy Bishop Goes to War, 2nd ed. ....... 36 Birth of a Bookworm .......................... 19 Birth of a Bridge ................................. 16 Black Notebook, The .......................... 27 Blonds on Bikes .................................. 53 Blue Box ............................................ 36 Blue Notebook, The ........................... 27 Boiler Room Suite .............................. 36 Bolsheviki ........................................... 36 Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies ........................... 19

Bonjour, Là, Bonjour ........................... 36 Book of Esther, The ............................ 36 Bordertown Café ............................... 36 Box Closet, The .................................. 19 Boy in the Treehouse, The / Girl Who Loved Her Horses ............ 36 bpNichol Comics ................................ 53 bpNichol: What History Teaches ...................................................... 19 Bread and Salt ................................... 53 Breakdown So Far, The ....................... 27 Burning Vision ................................... 36 Buz’Gem Blues, The ........................... 36

C Cambodia .......................................... 27 Can You See Me Yet? ........................ 36 Canada: A New Tax Haven ................... 2 Canadian Drama and the Critics ....................................................... 20 Canadiens, Les ................................... 36 Capital Tales ....................................... 27 Cariboo Magi ..................................... 37 Carmela’s Table .................................. 37 Carpenter, The ................................... 37 Cartouches ........................................ 53 Centre, The: Poems 1970–2000 ....................................................... 54 Chameleon & Other Stories ................ 28 Change Room .................................... 54 Charles Olson at the Harbor ............... 20 Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors, The . 20 Chimera ............................................. 37 Chinese Blue ...................................... 54 Christina, The Girl King ...................... 16 Circumstances Alter Photographs ...................................................... 20 Circus Performers’ Bar, The ................ 28 Citizen Suárez .................................... 28 Coast Salish Essays ............................. 20 Cold Comfort .................................... 37 Cold Comfort: Growing Up Cold War ....................................... 20 Collected Books of Artie Gold, The ....................................................... 54 Colours in the Dark ............................ 37 Commons, The, 2nd ed. ..................... 15 Concise Köchel, The ........................... 37 Consecrated Ground .......................... 37 Conversations in Tehran ..................... 20 Coping with Emotions and Otters ...... 54 Copper Thunderbird .......................... 37 Corked .............................................. 54 Corker ............................................... 37 Coronation Voyage, The .................... 37 Covenant of Salt, A ............................ 28 Crabdance ......................................... 37 Crimes and Mercies ........................... 20 Crossing the City ............................... 16 Crossing the Continent ...................... 28 Cruel Tears ......................................... 38 Cul-de-sac ......................................... 38 Cultural Mischief ................................ 54 Cyrano de Bergerac ........................... 38

D Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra ......... 38 Dancock’s Dance ................................ 38 Darwin Alone in the Universe ............. 28 Davie Street Translations .................... 54 Dead Metaphor ................................. 11 Dead White Writer on the Floor ......... 38 Death in Vancouver ............................ 28 Death of René Lévesque, The ............. 38 Death of the Spider ............................ 28 Decline of the Hollywood Empire, The ................................................ 20 Decompositions ................................. 54 Democracy ......................................... 38 Desert of the Heart ............................ 28 Diplomacy .......................................... 38 Discovery Passages ............................. 54 Dishwashers, The ............................... 38 Dispatches from the Occupation ........ 20 Divinity Bash / nine lives ..................... 38 Doctor Thomas Neill Cream ............... 38 Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon .................................. 28 Dominican Moon ............................... 54 Down Dangerous Passes Road ........... 39 Down the Road to Eternity ................. 28 Down Time ........................................ 54 DOWNVERSE ..................................... 55 dream / arteries .................................. 18 Dream Pool Essays ............................. 55 Driving Force, The .............................. 39 Duchess and the Commoner, The ...... 28 Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays, La ............................... 39 Dunsmuirs, The: Alone at the Edge .......................... 39 Dunsmuirs, The: A Promise Kept .............................. 39 Dürer’s Angel ..................................... 29 Dwell ................................................. 55 Dyssemia Sleaze ................................. 55

E Earshot .............................................. 39 East End Plays, The: Part I ................... 39 East End Plays, The: Part II .................. 39 Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The ...................... 39 Edward Curtis Project, The ........... 20, 39 Empire of Desire ................................. 20 Empress Has No Closure, The ............. 55 En Pièces Détachées ........................... 39 Ends of the Earth, The ........................ 39 English Canadian Poetics, An ............. 21 Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout .............................................. 40 Error in Judgement, An ...................... 21 Esker Mike & His Wife, Agiluk ............ 40 Espresso ............................................. 40 Essays on George F. Walker ................ 21 EX MACHINA ..................................... 21 Execution, The ................................... 40

F Fairies Are Thirsty, The ........................ 40 Fairy Ring ........................................... 29 Faraway Nearby, The .......................... 40 Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant, The ...................................................... 29 Fearless Warriors ................................ 29

Few Words Will Do, A ........................ 55 Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass ............. 40 15 Seconds ........................................ 40 Fifty ................................................... 55 Fighting Days, The ............................. 40 First Quarter of the Moon, The ........... 29 Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, The ..... 29 Five Star Planet .................................. 55 Floating Up to Zero ............................ 55 For Home and Country ...................... 40 For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again . 40 Forever Yours, Marie-Lou ................... 40 Fortified Castles ................................. 16 400 Kilometres .................................. 41 fractal economies ............................... 55 Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists ..................................... 41 From the Poplars ................................ 55 Fronteras Americanas, 1st ed. ............ 41 Fronteras Americanas, 2nd ed. ........... 41

G Gabriel Dumont Speaks ..................... 21 Genrecide .......................................... 55 George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour ....................................... 21 George Ryga: The Other Plays ............ 41 George Ryga: The Prairie Novels ......... 29 Get Me Out of Here ............................. 8 Get on Top ......................................... 29 Gideon’s Blues ................................... 41 gifts ................................................... 56 Girl in the Goldfish Bowl .................... 41 Glace Bay Miners’ Museum, The ........ 41 Glengarry ........................................... 56 Go Figure ........................................... 29 God and the Indian .............................. 7 Going Home ...................................... 56 Goodnight Disgrace ........................... 41 Gordon .............................................. 41 Great Lakes Suite ............................... 21 Great Wave of Civilization, The .......... 41 griddle talk ........................................ 21 Ground Water .................................... 56 Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend, A ....................................................... 21 Gull, The ............................................ 42 Gypsy Guitar ...................................... 56

H Halo ................................................... 42 Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories, The .................................... 29 Harry’s Fragments .............................. 29 harvest ............................................... 56 Hatch, The .......................................... 9 Heart Laid Bare, The ........................... 29 Heaven .............................................. 42 Hell & Other Novels ............................ 30 Hellfire Pass ....................................... 42 Heretic, The ....................................... 42 Homechild ......................................... 42 Hope Slide, The / Little Sister .............. 42 Hosanna ............................................ 42 Hotel Montreal .................................. 56 House That Hijack Built, The ............... 56 How to Write ..................................... 21 hungree throat ................................... 30 Hunting Ground, The ......................... 30 hypoderm .......................................... 56

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I. Another. The Space Between .......... 56 I, Bartleby ............................................ 3 Imperial Canada Inc. .......................... 21 Impromptu of Outremont, The ........... 42 Impromptu on Nuns’ Island ................ 42 In a World Created by a Drunken God ............................................... 42 In Absentia ........................................ 42 In Piazza San Domenico ..................... 43 In Plain Sight ...................................... 22 In the Company of Strangers ............. 22 In the Dog House ............................... 56 In the Eyes of God ............................. 43 In the Eyes of Stone Dogs ................... 43 In the Midst ....................................... 22 In the Shadow of the Vulture ............. 30 Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America ................ 21 influenza uv logik, th ......................... 56 inkorrect thots ................................... 57 Internodes ......................................... 57 Invisibility Exhibit, The ........................ 57 is a door ............................................ 57

Madonna Painter, The ........................ 44 Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr, The ................................................ 44 Main Brides ........................................ 30 Maison Suspendue, La ....................... 44 Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock ....................................................... 22 Maleficium ......................................... 30 Mambo Italiano ................................. 44 Marcel Pursued by the Hounds ........... 44 Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics ........................................... 22 Marion Bridge .................................... 45 Matter of Gravity, A ........................... 18 Meanwhile ......................................... 22 Medusa Head, The ............................. 23 Mêmewars ......................................... 57 Memories of You ............................... 45 Michel and Ti-Jean ............................. 17 Mile End ............................................ 30 Mimosa ............................................. 30 Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus ...................................................... 31 Minor Expectations ............................ 16 Miss Julie ........................................... 45 Miss Take ........................................... 31 Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. I, 4th ed. ................................. 45 Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. I, 5th ed. ................................. 45 Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. II, 4th ed. ................................ 45 Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. ||, 5th ed. ................................ 45 Mom’s the Word ................................ 45 Monument Cycles, The ...................... 58 Moo .................................................. 45 Motherhouse ..................................... 45 Mother of the Grass ........................... 31 Motortherapy .................................... 31 Moustache, The ................................. 58 Mrs. Blood ......................................... 31 Muthologos ....................................... 23 My Career with the Leafs & Other Stories ....................................................... 31 My Darling Nellie Grey ....................... 58 My Name Is Bosnia ............................. 31 MY TWP Plays .................................... 45

Obese Christ, The .............................. 31 Occupation of Heather Rose, The ....... 46 Odd Ducks ......................................... 14 Omniscience ...................................... 46 On the Job ......................................... 46 On the Material ................................. 58 One Crack Out ................................... 46 Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth ...................................................... 46 [OR] .................................................... 17 Ordinary Time .................................... 58 Other Losses ...................................... 23 Other Schools of Thought .................. 46 Outsider Notes ................................... 23

Saga of the Wet Hens ........................ 47 Saint Frances of Hollywood ................ 47 Sainte-Carmen of the Main ................ 47 Sainte-Marie among the Hurons ........ 47 Salish People, The, Vol. I ..................... 24 Salish People, The, Vol. II .................... 24 Salish People, The, Vol. III ................... 24 Salish People, The, Vol. IV .................. 24 Salonica Terminus .............................. 24 Salt-Water Moon ............................... 48 Satchmo’ Suite, The ........................... 48 Saucy Jack ......................................... 48 scars on th seehors ............................ 59 Scattered in a Rising Wind ................. 32 Schoolhouse ...................................... 48 School-Marm Tree, The ...................... 32 Seagull, The ....................................... 48 Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie, The ................................................ 32 Seeds ................................................. 48 Selected Poems: The Arches ............... 59 Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends ......................................... 59 Selected Poems: Loki Is Buried at Smoky Creek ............................................. 60 Selected Poems: The Vision Tree ......... 60 Selected Writing: As Elected ............... 60 Selected Writing: Net Work ................ 60 Sentenced to Light ............................. 60 7 Stories ............................................ 48 Shape of a Girl, The / Jewel ................ 48 Shattered Images ............................... 24 Shinny’s Girls and Other Stories .......... 32 Shoplifters ......................................... 10 Shovel, The ........................................ 60 Signs of Literature .............................. 25 Silver Dagger ..................................... 48 Singed Wings ..................................... 60 Singer’s Broken Throat, The ................ 60 Sisters ................................................ 48 Six Plays by Mavor Moore .................. 48 Skydive .............................................. 48 Slight Case of Fatigue, A .................... 32 Soldier’s Heart .................................... 49 Some Night My Prince Will Come ...................................................... 32 Somewhere Else ................................. 49 Song of the Say-Sayer ........................ 49 Songs My Mother Taught Me ............. 33 Specks ............................................... 60 Spectacle of Empire ........................... 49 St. Leonard Chronicles, The ................ 12 Sticks & Stones .................................. 60 Still Laughing ..................................... 49 Strange Comfort ................................ 25 Strange Truth About Us, The .............. 33 Studies in Motion ............................... 49 Subject to Change ............................. 25 sublingual .......................................... 60 Suburban Motel ................................. 49 Summerland ...................................... 33

J Jacob’s Wake ..................................... 43 Je me souviens ................................... 43 Jitters ................................................. 43 Joe Beef ............................................. 43 Judith’s Sister ..................................... 30 Justice in Our Time ............................. 22

K Kafka’s Hat ........................................ 30 Keeper’s Daughter, The ....................... 4 Kerrisdale Elegies ............................... 57 King of Thieves .................................. 43

L Lady Smith, The ................................. 43 Lasagna ............................................. 22 last photo uv th human soul, th ...................................................... 57 Last Scattering Surfaces ..................... 57 Latakia ............................................... 30 Lawrence & Holloman ........................ 43 Leave of Absence ............................... 43 Legoland ............................................ 43 Leisure Society, The ............................ 44 Life Without Instruction ..................... 44 Like a Child of the Earth ..................... 30 Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack, The ...... 22 Lily Briscoe ......................................... 22 Limbinal ............................................... 7 Limbo Road ....................................... 57 Line in the Sand, A ............................. 44 Lions Gate ......................................... 22 Liquidities .......................................... 57 Listen to the Wind ............................. 44 Living by Stories ................................. 22 Local Boy Makes Good ....................... 44 Lost Souls and Missing Persons .......... 44 Love and Savagery ............................. 57 loving without being vulnrabul ........... 57 Ludwig & Mae ................................... 44

P Pacific Windows ................................ 58 Pagan Wall, The ................................. 31 page as bone – ink as blood ................. 6 Painter’s Wife, The ............................. 32 Paradise by the River .......................... 46 Paradise Garden ................................. 46 Past Perfect ........................................ 46 Paul Martin & Companies .................. 23 Peace in Duress .................................. 17 Peacock Blue ...................................... 17 Pell Mell ............................................. 59 Peregrinations ..................................... 23 Performing National Identities ............ 23 Persian Postcards ............................... 23 peter among th towring boxes / text bites ....................................................... 59 Phyllis Webb and the Common Good 23 Piercing .............................................. 32 Place of Scraps, The ........................... 59 Playing Bare ....................................... 46 Pleasure of the Crown, The ................ 23 Poet to Publisher ................................ 24 Popular Narratives .............................. 59 Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories, The ....................................................... 24 (Post) Mistress, The ............................ 47 Post-Prairie ......................................... 59 Power Plays, The ................................ 47 Properties, The ................................... 59

Q N narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane ....................................... 58 Nature Power ..................................... 23 New Long Poem Anthology, The .........58 NEWS ................................................ 23 News & Smoke .................................. 58 News from Édouard ........................... 31 1949 .................................................. 45 Noam Chomsky Lectures, The ............ 46 Noise from the Laundry ...................... 58 NonZero Definitions ........................... 58 northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing ......................................... 58 Nothing to Lose ................................. 46 novel ................................................. 31 Nuri Does Not Exist ............................ 31

Queens, The ...................................... 47

R Rain Barrel, The .................................. 32 Rap Canterbury Tales, The .................. 59 Rational Geomancy ............................ 24 Re: Producing Women’s Dramatic History 24 Real Mothers ..................................... 32 Real World?, The ............................... 47 Rebuild .............................................. 59 Record of Writing, A .......................... 24 Recovery of the Public World, The ...... 24 Red Notebook, The ............................ 32 Refugee Hotel, The ............................ 47 Remember Me ................................... 47 Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhhhhh, The . 59 Riddle of the World, The .................... 47 Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour ............ 32 Rose .................................................. 47

T Takeover in Tehran ............................. 25 Taking My Life .................................... 25 Tale of Teeka, The .............................. 49 Talking Bodies .................................... 49 Tchipayuk ........................................... 33

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Tear the Curtain!................................. 16 Terror of the Coast, The ..................... 25 textual vishyuns ................................. 25 That Summer ..................................... 49 That Woman ...................................... 49 Theatre and AutoBiography ............... 25 Theme for Diverse Instruments ........... 33 Then We Were One ........................... 25 Theogony / Works and Days ............... 60 There’ll Be Another ............................ 61 Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel .............................. 33 They Called Me Number One ....... 18, 25 They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever ........................................ 25 Thing of Beauty, A ............................. 33 This Is My Own .................................. 25 This Poem .......................................... 61 This Tremor Love Is ............................. 61 Thrum ................................................ 61 ths is erth thees ar peopul .................. 61 Tiln & Other Plays .............................. 49 time ................................................... 61 Time Being, The ................................. 33 Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism .......................................... 26 To the Barricades ................................ 60 Tom at the Farm ................................. 50 Tombs of the Vanishing Indian ........... 50 Too Good to Be True .......................... 26 Toronto, Mississippi ............................ 50 Tracing the Lines ................................ 26 Tracing the Paths ................................ 26 Transmission Difficulties ..................... 26 Transnational Muscle Cars .................. 61 Trees Are Lonely Company ................. 33 Trespassers, The ................................. 50 Triage ................................................. 61 Trial of Judith K., The ......................... 50 Trigger, The ........................................ 50 Truth or Death ................................... 26 Turkana Boy ....................................... 33 Twelve Opening Acts .......................... 26 Twenty Years at Play ........................... 50 Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand ......... 26 Two Plays ........................................... 50 2000 .................................................. 50

W Waiting for the Parade ....................... 51 Walsh ................................................ 51 Wanted .............................................. 51 War Cantata / Child Object ................ 17 Warriors ............................................. 51 WASPs ............................................... 51 Weekend Healer, The ......................... 51 Westray ............................................. 51 Whale Riding Weather ....................... 51 What Lies Before Us ........................... 51 what’s left .......................................... 61 Where the Blood Mixes ...................... 52 Whereverville ..................................... 52 White Pebbles in the Dark Forests ...... 33 Wigrum ............................................. 33 Willful Acts ........................................ 52 Winners and Losers ............................ 13 With Bated Breath ............................. 52 Women in a World at War ................. 26 World Afloat, The ...............................18 Write It on Your Heart ........................ 26 Written on Water ............................... 51

Booklist Index by Author

Other Losses: An Investigation into

All books are published in trade paperback unless otherwise indicated. ISBNs indicated refer to print editions.

the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II ............................... 23 978-0-88922-665-4; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Bailey, Anne Geddes

Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of

Abel, Jordan

Fascism: Intertextual Collaboration

The Place of Scraps ............................ 59 978-0-88922-788-0; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US Un/inhabited......................................... 5 978-0-88922-922-8; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Aguirre, Carmen

and Resistance 26 978-0-88922-386-8; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Barnholden, Michael Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters’ Reports from

Blue Box ............................................ 36

the War of 1885 ............................ 20

978-0-88922-757-6; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Cloth: 978-0-88922-621-0; $35.00 CAN / $35.00 US

The Refugee Hotel

978-0-88922-650-0; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US The Trigger ......................................... 50 978-0-88922-591-6; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Archambault, François

Beauchemin, Jean-François Turkana Boy ....................................... 33 978-0-88922-690-6; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

beaulieu, derek fractal economies ............................... 55

15 Seconds ........................................ 40

978-0-88922-539-8; $15.95 CAN / $13.95 US

978-0-88922-427-8; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

How to Write ..................................... 21

The Leisure Society ............................. 44 978-0-88922-531-2; $15.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Arnason, David

978-0-88922-629-6; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Belford, Ken Decompositions ................................. 54

The Circus Performers’ Bar ................. 28

978-0-88922-631-9; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-218-2; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Internodes ......................................... 57

The Happiest Man in the World and

978-0-88922-792-7; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Other Stories ................................. 29

bissett, bill

978-0-88922-269-4; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

b leev abul char ak trs ........................ 53

The Pagan Wall .................................. 31

978-0-88922-433-9; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

978-0-88922-312-7; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

hungree throat ................................... 30

Arnett, Chris The Terror of the Coast: Land Alienation

978-0-88922-745-3; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US th influenza uv logik .......................... 56

and Colonial War on Vancouver Island

978-0-88922-357-8; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

and the Gulf Islands, 1849–1863 ... 25

inkorrect thots ................................... 57

978-0-88922-318-9; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral

978-0-88922-303-5; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US th last photo uv th human soul .......... 57

Traditions of the Hul’q’umi’num’

978-0-88922-322-6; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Coast Salish of Kuper Island and

loving without being vulnrabul ........... 57

Un/inhabited ........................................ 5 Unity (1918) ....................................... 50 Unnatural and Accidental Women, The ....................................................... 50

978-0-88922-555-8; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Vancouver Island ........................... 26

Arnett, Chris, Richard Daly & Annie York They Write Their Dreams on the Rock

V Valley, The .......................................... 50 Vancouver: A Visual History ................ 26 Vancouver Anthology ......................... 26 Ventriloquist, The ............................... 51 Vermeer’s Light .................................. 61 Vestiges, The ...................................... 61 Vic, The ............................................. 51 Vigil ................................................... 51 Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage, The ........................ 18

978-0-88922-372-1; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane .................... 58 978-0-88922-507-7; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US northern wild roses / deth interrupts th

Forever ......................................... 25

dansing ......................................... 58

Cloth: 978-0-88922-331-8; $60.00 CAN / $40.00 US

978-0-88922-532-9; $17.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Avasilichioaei, Oana

novel ................................................. 31

Limbinal .............................................. 7

978-0-88922-671-5; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-924-2; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

peter among th towring boxes / text bites ...................................................... 59

978-0-88922-464-3; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Bacque, James Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation,

scars on th seehors ............................ 59 978-0-88922-387-5; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful

1944–1950 .................................... 20

Legends ....................................... 59

978-0-88922-567-1; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

978-0-88922-172-7; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

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sublingual .......................................... 60 978-0-88922-589-3; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US ths is erth thees ar peopul .................. 61 978-0-88922-557-2; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Bouchard, Randy & Dorothy Kennedy

Brooks, Daniel & Guillermo Verdecchia

Indian Myths & Legends from the North

The Noam Chomsky Lectures ............. 46

978-0-88922-681-4; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-405-6; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

hypoderm .......................................... 56

Pacific Coast of America:

time ................................................... 61

A Translation of Franz Boas’

Browne, Colin

978-0-88922-653-1; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

1895 Edition of Indianische

Ground Water .................................... 56

bissett, bill & Carol Malyon

Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste

griddle talk: a yeer uv bill n carol

Amerikas ....................................... 21

dewing brunch .............................. 21 978-0-88922-606-7; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Blais, Marie-Claire American Notebooks: A Writer’s Journey

978-0-88922-553-4; $39.95 CAN / $39.95 US The Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack ..................................................... 22 978-0-88922-640-1; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Boucher, Denise

978-0-88922-358-5; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

The Fairies Are Thirsty ........................ 40

The Angel of Solitude ........................ 27

978-0-88922-200-7; $15.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-88922-337-0; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

A Slight Case of Fatigue ..................... 32

978-0-88922-111-6; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

978-0-88922-596-1; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-103-1; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Blaser, Robin

978-0-88922-938-9; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

978-0-88922-451-3; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-574-9; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Geologists ..................................... 41

Shinny’s Girls and Other Stories .......... 32

978-0-88922-400-1; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-272-4; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

The Queens ....................................... 48

Bush, Steven Beating the Bushes ............................ 35 978-0-88922-647-0; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Byrne, Edward & Charles Watts The Recovery of the Public World ...................................................... 24

978-0-88922-529-9; $19.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-388-2; $39.95 CAN / $29.95 US

A Translation of Franz Boas’ Indianische Sagen von der NordPacifischen Küste Amerikas .......... 201 978-0-88922-553-4; $39.95 CAN / $39.95 US

978-0-88922-381-3; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US 978-0-88910-387-0; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US Kerrisdale Elegies ............................... 57 978-0-88922-590-9; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

978-0-88922-403-2; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Chekhov, Anton The Seagull ........................................ 48 978-0-88922-324-0; $16.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Christensen, Bev Too Good to Be True .......................... 26 978-0-88922-354-7; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Clark, Sally

Blonds on Bikes .................................. 53 Harry’s Fragments .............................. 29

978-0-88922-518-3; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by

Burns, Mary

Baseball Love ..................................... 19

Pacific Coast of America:

All the Verdis of Venice ...................... 34 978-0-88922-442-1; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

978-0-88922-601-2; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US Indian Myths & Legends from the North

978-0-88922-626-5; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Chaurette, Normand

The Concise Köchel ............................ 37

Pell Mell ............................................. 59

Boas, Franz

978-0-88922-637-1; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Noise from the Laundry ...................... 58

978-0-88922-685-2; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US The Shovel ......................................... 60

Bowering, George And Other Stories .............................. 27

Chinese Blue ...................................... 54

The Properties .................................... 59

Bourguignon, Stéphane

Dürer’s Angel ..................................... 29 The Execution .................................... 40

978-0-88922-465-0; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US The Hatch ............................................ 9

Chan, Weyman

Life Without Instruction ...................... 44

Canty, Daniel Wigrum ............................................. 33 978-0-88922-778-1; $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Carlson, Tim

978-0-88922-347-9; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US Lost Souls and Missing Persons .......... 44 978-0-88922-397-4; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US Moo .................................................. 45

Diplomacy .......................................... 38

978-0-88754-476-7; $12.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Greg Curnoe ................................. 58

978-0-88922-611-1; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Saint Frances of Hollywood ................ 47

The Satchmo’ Suite ............................ 48

978-0-88910-457-0; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Omniscience ...................................... 46

978-0-88922-366-0; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-88922-648-7; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

My Darling Nellie Grey ....................... 58

978-0-88922-562-6; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

The Trial of Judith K. .......................... 50

Böggild, Hans & Doug Innis

Boldereff, Frances & Charles Olson After Completion: The Later Letters of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff ........................... 18 978-0-88922-706-4; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Bouchard, Michel Marc Christina, The Girl King ...................... 16 978-0-88922-898-6; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

The Moustache: Memories of

978-0-88922-634-0; $39.95 CAN / $39.95 US The Rain Barrel ................................... 32 978-0-88922-345-5; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US Sticks & Stones .................................. 60 978-0-88922-268-7; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US Vermeer’s Light: Poems 1996–2006 ................................... 61 978-0-88922-565-7; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Boyd, George

Caron, Jean-François The Keeper’s Daughter ......................... 4 978-0-88922-920-4; $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US

McCaffery, Steve & bpNichol Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book-Machine ............................... 24

Carson, Linda A. et al.

978-0-88922-472-8; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Caux, Patrick & Bernard Gilbert

978-0-88922-666-1; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Down Dangerous Passes Road ........... 39

Gideon’s Blues ................................... 41

Stage ............................................ 21

978-0-88922-440-7; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-496-4; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

978-0-88922-617-3; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

The Rap Canterbury Tales ................... 59 978-0-88922-548-0; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Burning Vision ................................... 36 Copper Thunderbird ............................ 37

Consecrated Ground, 2nd ed. ............ 37

Brinkman, Baba

978-0-88922-398-1; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Clements, Marie

978-0-88922-431-5; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

978-0-88922-422-3; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-641-8; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US The Tale of Teeka ............................... 49

978-0-88922-503-9; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US WASPs ............................................... 51

Mom’s the Word ................................ 45

The Coronation Voyage ..................... 37

The Madonna Painter ......................... 44

978-0-88754-465-1; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US Wanted .............................................. 51

EX MACHINA: Creating for the

Chai, Camyar, Guillermo Verdecchia & Marcus Youssef The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes

978-0-88922-568-8; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Tombs of the Vanishing Indian ............. 50 978-0-88922-686-9; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US The Unnatural and Accidental Women ......................................... 50 978-0-88922-521-3; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Clements, Marie & Rita Leistner

Brodie, Leanna

of Evil .............................................. 34

Tom at the Farm ................................. 50

The Book of Esther ............................. 36

978-0-88922-516-9; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-759-0; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-682-1; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Written on Water ............................... 52

For Home and Country ...................... 40

...................................................... 34

Cochrane, Mark

978-0-88922-492-6; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-508-4; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

978-0-88922-782-8; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Change Room .................................... 54

978-0-88922-410-0; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Schoolhouse ...................................... 48

Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings

Champagne, Dominic

978-0-88922-571-8; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Playing Bare ....................................... 46

The Vic .............................................. 51

978-0-88922-335-6; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

978-0-88922-459-9; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story ........... 20, 39 978-0-88922-642-5; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

978-0-88922-432-2; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

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Collier, Kim, Jonathon Young, & Kevin Kerr

Tear the Curtain! ................................ 16

Lions Gate ......................................... 22

978-0-88922-904-4; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Dwell ................................................. 55

D’Acres, Lilia & Donald Luxton

Dalpé, Jean Marc

The Commons, 2nd ed. ..................... 15

Scattered in a Rising Wind ................. 32

978-0-88922-915-0; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

A Novel of Absence ....................... 33

Transnational Muscle Cars .................. 61

978-0-88922-668-5; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-473-5; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

The World Afloat: .............................. 18

Cloth: 978-0-88922-416-2; $34.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Collis, Stephen

978-0-88922-484-1; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

The Strange Truth About Us:

978-0-88922-328-8; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Vestiges, The ...................................... 61 978-0-88922-794-1; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Desjardins, Martine

978-0-88922-838-2; $12.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Fawcett, Brian Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find

All That Glitters .................................. 27

Television Too Slow ........................ 27

A History of Change ...................... 20

Daly, Richard, Chris Arnett & Annie York

978-0-88922-520-6; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

978-0-88922-237-3; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-695-1; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

They Write Their Dreams on the Rock

A Covenant of Salt ............................. 28

Capital Tales ....................................... 27

Dispatches from the Occupation:

On the Material ................................. 58

Forever ......................................... 25

978-0-88922-566-4; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-632-6; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Cloth: 978-0-88922-331-8; $60.00 CAN / $40.00 US

Fairy Ring ........................................... 29

Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry / Anarchy / Abstraction ....... 23

Danis, Daniel In the Eyes of Stone Dogs .................. 43

978-0-88922-559-6; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

978-0-88922-519-0; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

To the Barricades ................................ 61

Song of the Say-Sayer ........................ 49

978-0-88922-747-7; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-419-3; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Conolly, L.W. Canadian Drama and the Critics, Revised Edition .......................................... 20

Daurio, Beverley

978-0-88922-359-2; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Hell & Other Novels ............................ 30

Cook, Michael Jacob’s Wake ..................................... 43

978-0-88922-449-0; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Other Stories ................................... 31

Maleficium ......................................... 30

978-0-88922-199-4; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

978-0-88922-680-7; $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US

978-0-88910-421-1; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Davey, Frank

The Secret Journal of Alexander

Deverell, Rex

Mackenzie ..................................... 32

Boiler Room Suite .............................. 36

978-0-88922-227-4; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-88922-137-6; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

That Woman ...................................... 49 978-0-88922-399-8; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-221-2; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US My Career with the Leafs &

Douglas, Stan

Fennario, David Balconville .......................................... 35

Vancouver Anthology, 2nd ed. ............ 26

978-0-88922-145-1; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Cloth: 978-0-88922-614-2; $35.00 CAN / $35.00 US

Banana Boots ..................................... 35

Ducharme, Réjean Go Figure ........................................... 29

978-0-88922-396-7; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US Bolsheviki: A Dead Serious Comedy

978-0-88922-097-3; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Back to the War ................................. 53

978-0-88922-482-7; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

.......................................................36

Tiln & Other Plays .............................. 49

978-0-88922-514-5; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Miss Take ........................................... 31

978-0-88922-687-6; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-107-9; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Bardy Google ..................................... 53

978-0-88922-669-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

The Death of René Lévesque .............. 38

Craddock, Chris & Nathan Cuckow

978-0-88922-636-4; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Cultural Mischief ................................ 54

BASH’d .............................................. 35

978-0-88922-364-6; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

978-0-88922-656-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics 22

Dulai, Phinder dream / arteries .................................. 18 978-0-88922-913-6; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Dumont, Gabriel

978-0-88922-480-3; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US Doctor Thomas Neill Cream (Mystery at McGill) .......................................... 38 978-0-88922-332-5; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Cross, Ronald & Hélène Sévigny

978-0-88922-217-5; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Lasagna: The Man Behind the Mask

Popular Narratives .............................. 59

...................................................... 21

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Selected Poems: The Arches ............... 59

Cryer, Beryl Mildred Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral Traditions of the Hul’q’umi’num’

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Gabriel Dumont Speaks, 2nd ed.

Durand, Monique The Painter’s Wife .............................. 32

Del Bucchia, Dina

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Vancouver Island ........................... 26

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Cuckow, Nathan & Chris Craddock

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Paul Martin & Companies: Sixty Theses

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Peregrinations: Conversations with

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Deneault, Alain & William Sacher

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Contemporary Artists .................... 21 978-0-921368-67-0; $24.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Findley, Timothy Can You See Me Yet? ........................ 36 978-0-88922-119-2; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Fiorentino, Jon Paul & Robert Kroetsch Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry ...................................................... 59 978-0-88922-523-7; $19.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Fischer, Hervé The Decline of the Hollywood Empire . 20

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The Breakdown So Far ....................... 28

Fortifed Castles .................................. 16

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The Pleasure of the Crown:

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Culhane, Dara & Leslie A. Robertson In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver ...................................................... 22 978-0-88922-513-8; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Derksen, Jeff Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics ........................................... 19

Darwin Alone in the Universe ............. 28 978-0-88922-471-1; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US Down the Road to Eternity:

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New & Selected Fiction .................. 28

Down Time ........................................ 54

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Fouquet, Ludovic The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage 18 978-0-88922-545-9; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Frangione, Lucia Cariboo Magi ..................................... 37 978-0-88922-527-5; $15.95 CAN / $13.95 US

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Glaap, Albert-Reiner & Sherrill Grace

Leave of Absence ............................... 43

Performing National Identities:

Espresso ............................................. 40

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French, David Jitters ................................................. 43 978-0-88922-242-7; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Outsider Notes ................................... 23

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Hentsch, Thierry

Contemporary Canadian Theatre

Empire of Desire:

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The Abolition of Time ....................... 20

Inglis, Raul Sanchez

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Glover, Douglas Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon ...................................... 28

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Hunter, Lynette

Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass ............. 40

International Perspectives on

1949 .................................................. 45 One Crack Out ................................... 46

Hendry, Tom

Gold, Artie The Collected Books of Artie Gold

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Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition ........ 26

Innis, Doug & Hans Böggild

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The Satchmo’ Suite ............................ 48

Hesiod

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Theogony / Works and Days ............... 60 978-0-88922-700-2; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

The Riddle of the World ..................... 47

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Highway, Tomson

Jaeger, Peter

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Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout

ABC of Reading TRG .......................... 19

Salt-Water Moon ............................... 48 978-0-88922-257-1; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Grace, Sherrill Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock 22

Silver Dagger ..................................... 48

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Strange Comfort: Essays on the Work of

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Malcolm Lowry .............................. 25

That Summer ..................................... 49

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Grace, Sherrill & Albert-Reiner Glaap Performing National Identities:

Gagnon, Madeleine

International Perspectives on

Against the Wind ............................... 27

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Janes, Mariner The Monument Cycles ....................... 58

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Jetha, Sadru Nuri Does Not Exist ............................ 31

Hildebrandt, Walter The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the

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John-Kehewin, Wanda In the Dog House ............................... 56

Entrenched Métis .......................... 19 978-0-88922-693-7; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

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Johnson, Chris

Contemporary Canadian Theatre

Hill-Tout, Charles

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The Salish People (ed. Ralph Maud)

Anxiety .......................................... 21

As Always: Memoir of a Life in Writing 1

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Vol. I: The Thompson and the Okanagan

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Grace, Sherrill & Jerry Wasserman Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front ............. 26

Theory and Practice ....................... 25

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Gale, Lorena

Gray, John Maclachlan

Je me souviens ................................... 43

Local Boy Makes Good ....................... 44

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Galluccio, Steve In Piazza San Domenico ..................... 43 978-0-88922-674-6; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Gray, John MacLachlan, with Eric Peterson Billy Bishop Goes to War, 2nd ed.

Mambo Italiano ................................. 44

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The St. Leonard Chronicles.................. 12 978-0-88922-930-3; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Joseph, Maia, et al.

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Tracing the Lines: Reflections on

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Karasick, Adeena

...................................................... 24

Amuse Bouche ................................... 53

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Hogg, Robert An English Canadian Poetics Vol. I: The Confederation Poets

Gilbert, Bernard & Patrick Caux EX MACHINA: Creating for the Stage ............................................ 21 978-0-88922-617-3; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Hardin, Herschel Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk ........ 40 978-0-88922-018-8; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US The Great Wave of Civilization ........... 51 978-0-88922-106-2; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

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Genrecide .......................................... 55

Willful Acts ........................................ 52

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Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island

Hollingsworth, Margaret

Cold Comfort .................................... 34

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...................................................... 24

Re: Producing Women’s Dramatic History: The Politics of Playing in Toronto ..... 24

Roy Miki ........................................ 26

Vol. III: The Mainland Halkomelem

Hadfield, D.A.

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Politics in Honour of

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Warriors ............................................. 51 978-0-88922-282-3; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Contemporary Poetics and Cultural

Vol. II: The Squamish and the Lillooet . 24

Garneau, Michel

Garrard, Jim

Essays on George F. Walker: Playing with

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Homel, David

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Get on Top ......................................... 29

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This Poem .......................................... 61

Huber, Sandra Assembling the Morrow ..................... 17 978-0-88922-910-5; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Henderson, Brian

Hughes, Kenneth James

[OR] ................................................... 17

Signs of Literature .............................. 25

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Kearns, Lionel A Few Words Will Do ......................... 59 978-0-88922-558-9; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

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Kennedy, Dorothy & Randy Bouchard Indian Myths & Legends from the North

Lamothe, Serge

MacDonald, Bryden

McFadden, David W.

The Baldwins ..................................... 27

Divinity Bash / nine lives ..................... 30

Five Star Planet .................................. 55

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Odd Ducks ......................................... 14

Great Lakes Suite ............................... 21

Pacific Coast of America:

Langley, Rod

A Translation of Franz Boas’

Bethune ............................................. 35

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978-0-88922-382-0; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

1895 Edition of Indianische

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The Weekend Healer .......................... 51

Gypsy Guitar ...................................... 56

Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste

The Dunsmuirs: Alone at the Edge

Amerikas ....................................... 21 978-0-88922-553-4; $39.95 CAN / $39.95 US The Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack ...................................................... 22 978-0-88922-640-1; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Kerangal, Maylis de

...................................................... 39

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Whale Riding Weather ....................... 51

There’ll Be Another ............................ 61

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The Dunsmuirs: A Promise Kept ......... 39

With Bated Breath ............................. 52

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Lavallée, Ronald

MacDonald, Josh

Tchipayuk: or The Way of the Wolf

Halo ................................................... 42

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McKinnon, Barry The Centre: Poems 1970–2000 .......... 54 978-0-88922-497-1; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

mclennan, rob

Birth of a Bridge ................................. 16

...................................................... 33

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Whereverville ..................................... 52

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Kerr, Kevin

Leistner, Rita & Marie Clements

978-0-88922-506-0; $15.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Glengarry ........................................... 56

Skydive .............................................. 48

The Edward Curtis Project:

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A Modern Picture Story ........... 20, 39 978-0-88922-642-5; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Eadweard Muybridge .................... 49 978-0-88922-810-8; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US Unity (1918) ....................................... 50 978-0-88922-461-2; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

MacIvor, Daniel Cul-de-sac ......................................... 38 978-0-88922-515-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Marion Bridge .................................... 45

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Leroux, Louis Patrick

MacLeod, Joan

Ludwig & Mae ................................... 44

Amigo’s Blue Guitar ........................... 34

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gifts ................................................... 56

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Kerr, Kevin, Kim Collier & Jonathon Young

Lill, Wendy

Tear the Curtain! ................................ 16

All Fall Down ..................................... 34

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Homechild ......................................... 42

Chimera ............................................. 37

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page as bone – ink as blood ................. 6

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The Hope Slide / Little Sister ............... 42

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Corker ............................................... 37

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The Shape of a Girl / Jewel ................. 48

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Kirton, Jonina

Kitagawa, Muriel

Another Home Invasion ..................... 35

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Mailhot, Michèle Death of the Spider ............................ 28 978-0-88922-298-4; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Malyon, Carol & bill bissett griddle talk: a yeer uv bill n carol

Marchessault, Jovette

This Is My Own .................................. 25

The Fighting Days .............................. 40

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Toronto, Mississippi ............................ 50

The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum ......... 41

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Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy

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The Valley .......................................... 50

K. Kiyooka ..................................... 58

Memories of You ............................... 45

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Emily Carr ...................................... 44

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2000 .................................................. 50

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Mother of the Grass ........................... 31

Kiyooka, Roy K.

Kobayashi, Cassandra & Roy Miki Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement ...................................................... 22

The Occupation of Heather Rose ...................................................... 46

McCaffery, Steve & bpNichol

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Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the

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Book-Machine ............................... 24

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Like a Child of the Earth ..................... 30 978-0-88922-261-8; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US The Magnificent Voyage of

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Long, James & Marcus Youssef

McClure, Michael

...................................................... 33

Kroetsch, Robert & Jon Paul Fiorentino

Winners and Losers ............................ 13

Specks, 2nd ed. ................................. 60

978-0-88922-280-9; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry

Loring, Kevin

McElroy, Gil

...................................................... 47

Where the Blood Mixes ...................... 52

Cold Comfort: Growing Up

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Kröller, Eva-Marie

Luxton, Donald & Lilia D’Acres

George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour

Lions Gate ......................................... 22

....................................................... 21

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Cold War ...................................... 20

Marlatt, Daphne The Gull ............................................. 42 978-0-88922-616-6; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and

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Now................................................57

Dream Pool Essays ............................. 55

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978-0-88922-454-4; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Selected Writing: Net Work ................ 60

Last Scattering Surfaces ..................... 57

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This Tremor Love Is .............................. 6`

Macdonald, Bruce

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Vancouver: A Visual History ................ 26

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Ordinary Time .................................... 58

Kafka’s Hat ........................................ 20

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Conversations in Tehran ..................... 20 978-0-88922-550-3; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

NonZero Definitions ........................... 58

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Martin, Patrice

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Maud, Ralph

Discovery Passages ............................. 54

Going Home ...................................... 56

Charles Olson at the Harbor ............. 20

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Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus .......... 31 978-0-88922-697-5; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

A Guide to B.C. Indian Myth and Legend 21

work of bill bissett ......................... 25

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Limbo Road ....................................... 57

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Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour ............ 32

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Murakami, Sachiko

978-0-88922-486-5; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Get Me Out of Here ............................. 8

O’Hagan, Howard

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The School-Marm Tree ....................... 32 978-0-88922-129-1; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

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Trees Are Lonely Company ................. 33

Rebuild ............................................ 59

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978-0-88922-333-2; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US Tsimshian Mythology ..................... 26 978-0-88922-430-8; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Meigs, Mary

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Murphy, John

O’Neill, Chris & Ken Schwartz

978-0-88922-595-4; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Murrell, John

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In the Company of Strangers ..............22

The Faraway Nearby ........................... 40

978-0-88922-183-3; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

The Time Being .................................. 33 978-0-88922-374-5; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Mercer, Michael

After Completion:

Rebar, Kelly

The Later Letters of Charles Olson and

Goodnight Disgrace ........................... 41 978-0-88922-238-0; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Miki, Roy A Record of Writing ........................... 24 Cloth: 978-0-88922-263-2; $39.95 CAN / $34.95 US

978-0-88922-706-4; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Nadeau, Michel 978-0-88922-786-6; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Nichol, bp

978-0-88922-001-0; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US Listen to the Wind ............................. 44

Frances Boldereff ........................... 18

And Slowly Beauty ............................. 27

Colours in the Dark ............................ 37

Olson, Charles & Frances Boldereff

The Medusa Head .............................. 23 978-0-88922-210-6; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

978-0-88922-918-1; $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Reaney, James

978-0-921368-28-1; $10.95 CAN / $7.95 US

978-0-88922-195-6; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

I, Bartleby ........................................... 3

978-0-88922-253-3; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-921368-56-4; $10.95 CAN / $10.95 US

Quartermain, Meredith

Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews, 2nd ed. ......................................... 23

Waiting for the Parade ....................... 51

Olson, Charles

Democracy ......................................... 38

978-0-88922-294-6; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

978-0-88922-215-1; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

978-0-88922-491-9; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

The Box Closet ................................... 19

Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait .................. 22

Walsh ................................................ 51

Westray: The Long Way Home ........... 51

The Heretic ........................................ 42

Beyond Recall .................................... 19 978-0-88922-505-3; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-921368-41-0; $10.95 CAN / $7.95 US

The Invisibility Exhibit ......................... 57

The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories

Pollock, Sharon Saucy Jack ......................................... 48

Donald Allen ................................ 24

Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and

textual vishyuns: image and text in the

978-0-88922-456-8; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Correspondence with

978-0-88922-560-2; $15.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Peters, Carl

Minor Expectations ............................ 16

978-0-88922-189-5; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US Poet to Publisher: Charles Olson’s

Hotel Montreal: New and Selected Poems

What Lies Before Us ........................... 51

978-0-88922-002-7; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US Bordertown Café ............................... 36 978-0-88922-477-3; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Reed, Fred A. Anatolia Junction: A Journey into Hidden

Turkey ........................................... 19

Panych, Morris

978-0-88922-426-1; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Benevolence ...................................... 35

Persian Postcards:

bpNichol Comics ................................ 53

978-0-88922-584-8; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Iran After Khomeini ....................... 23

978-0-88922-448-3; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

The Dishwashers ................................ 38

978-0-88922-351-6; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-524-4; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Salonica Terminus: Travels into the Balkan

Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol ....................................... 22

Earshot .............................................. 39

Nightmare ..................................... 24

978-0-88922-447-6; $34.95 CAN / $29.95 US

978-0-88922-444-5; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-368-4; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Martyrology .................................. 26

Selected Writing: As Elected ............... 60

The Ends of the Earth ......................... 39

978-0-88922-256-4; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

978-0-88922-176-5; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

978-0-88922-334-9; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Iconoclasm in Syria ........................ 24

Girl in the Goldfish Bowl .................... 44

978-0-88922-485-8; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Tracing the Paths: Reading =/ Writing The

Tracing the Lines ................................ 26 978-0-88922-694-4; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Miki, Roy & Cassandra Kobayashi Justice in Our Time: The Japanese

Nichol, bp & Steve McCaffery Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the

978-0-88922-481-0; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Gordon .............................................. 41

978-0-88922-300-4; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

978-0-88922-664-7; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Embassy Capture ........................... 25

In Absentia ........................................ 42

978-0-88922-443-8; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Nichol, James W.

Canadian Redress Settlement ........ 21

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons ........ 47

978-0-88922-702-6; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-147-5; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Lawrence & Holloman ........................ 43

Mitchell, Ken

Nicholson, Cecily

Cruel Tears ......................................... 38

Triage ................................................. 61

978-0-88922-120-8; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US The Lady Smith .................................. 43 978-1-55331-002-0; $14.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Moore, Mavor

978-0-88922-392-9; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US Other Schools of Thought .................. 46

978-0-88922-657-9; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-346-2; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

From the Poplars ................................ 55

7 Stories ............................................ 48

978-0-88922-856-6; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-281-6; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Norris, Ken Asian Skies ......................................... 55

The Shoplifters ................................... 10 978-0-88922-926-6; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Six Plays by Mavor Moore .................. 48

978-0-88922-633-3; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-271-7; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Dominican Moon ............................... 54

Morris Panych ............................... 49

978-0-88922-526-8; $17.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-88922-624-1; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Fifty ................................................... 55

Trespassers, The ................................. 50

Morse, Garry Thomas After Jack .......................................... 53

Takeover in Tehran:

Book-Machine ............................... 24

Cloth: 978-0-88922-292-2; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Moodie, Andrew

Shattered Images: The Rise of Militant

Still Laughing: Three Adaptations by

The Inside Story of the 1979 U.S.

Then We Were One: Fragments of Two Lives .............................................. 25 978-0-88922-667-8; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Reed, Fred A. & Daniel Lafond Conversations in Tehran ..................... 20 978-0-88922-550-3; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Reid, Jamie I. Another. The Space Between: Selected Poems ............................................ 56

Reimer, Nikki DOWNVERSE ..................................... 55 978-0-88922-854-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Renaud, Yannick

978-0-88922-776-7; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-479-7; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-628-9; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

All Is Flesh .......................................... 53

Death in Vancouver ............................ 28

Floating Up to Zero ............................ 55

Vigil, 2nd ed. ..................................... 51

978-0-88922-672-2; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-607-4; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-659-3; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-692-0; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

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Richmond, Jacob

Strindberg, August

Tostevin, Lola Lemire

Legoland ............................................ 43

978-0-88922-000-3; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Miss Julie ........................................... 45

Cartouches ........................................ 53

978-0-88922-610-4; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

George Ryga: The Other Plays ............ 44

978-0-88922-549-7; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

The Ecstasy of Rita Joe ....................... 39

Rideout, George Michel & Ti-Jean ................................ 17

978-0-88922-500-8; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US George Ryga: The Prairie Novels

978-0-88922-902-0; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Robertson, Leslie A. & Dara Culhane

978-0-88922-233-5; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US Summerland ...................................... 33

...................................................... 22

Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape

978-0-88922-313-4; $34.95 CAN / $29.95 US

S Sacher, William & Alain Deneault Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of

978-0-88922-522-0; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Choice for the World’s Mining

Okanagan Storyteller ..................... 23 978-0-88922-504-6; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan

Industries ...................................... 1` 978-0-88922-635-7; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Salutin, Rick

978-0-88922-308-0; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-208-3; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

978-0-88922-528-2; $19.95 CAN / $17.95 US Obese Christ, The .............................. 31 978-0-88922-842-9; $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US

978-0-88922-428-5; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Piercing .............................................. 32

The Baby Blues ................................... 35

978-0-88922-645-6; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-406-3; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Talking Bodies .................................... 49

The Berlin Blues ................................. 35

978-0-88922-445-2; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-88922-581-7; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

The Ventriloquist ................................ 51

The Boy in the Treehouse / Girl Who Loved Her Horses ............ 36 978-0-88922-441-4; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Chameleon & Other Stories ................ 28

978-0-88922-649-4; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US The Bicycle Eater ................................ 27

alterNatives ........................................ 34

The Buz’Gem Blues ............................ 36

Schermbrucker, Bill

Rodin, Renee

In the Midst ....................................... 22

978-0-88922-122-2; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Storyteller ...................................... 26

978-0-88922-790-3; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Tremblay, Larry Theatre ......................................... 34

Tallman, Warren

Les Canadiens .................................... 36

978-0-88922-502-2; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

978-0-88922-790-3; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Singed Wings ..................................... 60

Abraham Lincoln Goes to the

Taylor, Drew Hayden

and Memory ................................. 22 Nature Power: In the Spirit of an

978-0-88922-212-0; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

978-0-88922-501-5; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US In the Shadow of the Vulture ...............30

978-0-88922-513-8; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Robinson, Harry & Wendy Wickwire

Coast Salish Essays ............................. 20

...................................................... 29

In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver

Suttles, Wayne

978-0-88922-462-9; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Dead White Writer on the Floor ...................................................... 38

978-0-88922-536-7; $15.95 CAN / $13.95 US War Cantata / Child Object ................ 17 978-0-88922-906-8; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Tremblay, Lise The Hunting Ground .......................... 30 978-0-88922-534-3; $15.95 CAN / $13.95 US Judith’s Sister ..................................... 30

Bread and Salt ................................... 53

Mimosa ............................................. 30

978-0-88922-663-0; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-677-7; $14.95 CAN / $14.95 US

978-0-88922-367-7; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

978-0-88922-254-0; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Fearless Warriors, 2nd ed. .................... 2

Mile End ............................................ 30

Subject to Change ............................. 25

Motortherapy .................................... 31

978-0-88922-597-8; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-644-9; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

978-0-88922-330-1; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

400 Kilometres .................................. 41

Rogers, Janet

Schwartz, Ken & Chris O’Neill

Peace in Duress .................................. 17

Westray: The Long Way Home ........... 51

God and the Indian .............................. 7

978-0-88922-911-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-491-9; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-844-3; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Rossi, Vittorio

Scobie, Stephen

Carmela’s Table: A Carpenter’s Trilogy, A

bpNichol: What History Teaches

Chronicle in Three Plays, Part II ....... 37

...................................................... 19

978-0-88922-594-7; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-220-5; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

The Carpenter: A Carpenter’s Trilogy, A

Scott, Gail

978-0-88922-517-6; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

In a World Created by a Drunken God 42 978-0-88922-537-4; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US NEWS: Postcards from the Four Directions ............................... 23

978-0-88922-467-4; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Tremblay, Michel Albertine in Five Times (translated by Gaboriau) ...................................... 34 978-0-88922-627-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Albertine in Five Times (translated by Van Burek & Glassco) ........................... 34 978-0-88922-234-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Assorted Candies for the Theatre ....................................................... 35

Chronicle in Three Plays, Part III ......... 37

Main Brides ........................................ 30

978-0-88922-643-2; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

978-0-88922-572-5; $15.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-88922-609-8; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88910-456-3; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth 46

Bambi and Me ................................... 19

Hellfire Pass: A Carpenter’s Trilogy, A Chronicle in Three Plays, Part I

Sellars, Bev They Called Me Number One: Secrets

...................................................... 42

and Survival at an Indian Residential

978-0-88922-564-0; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

School ..................................... 18, 25

Paradise by the River .......................... 46

978-0-88922-741-5; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-393-6; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Sévigny, Hélène & Ronald Cross

Rostand, Edmond Cyrano de Bergerac ........................... 38 978-0-88922-835-1; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Rule, Jane Desert of the Heart ............................ 28 978-0-88922-301-1; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-384-4; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Thesen, Sharon

978-0-88922-380-6; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US Les Belles Soeurs ................................ 35

Aurora ............................................... 53

978-0-88922-302-8; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88910-471-6; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Birth of a Bookworm .......................... 19

The New Long Poem Anthology, 2nd ed. ......................................... 58

978-0-88922-476-6; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US The Black Notebook ........................... 27

Lasagna: The Man Behind the Mask

978-0-88922-438-4; $39.95 CAN / $29.95 US

978-0-88922-543-5; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

...................................................... 22

News & Smoke: Selected Poems ......... 58

The Blue Notebook ............................ 27

Simons, Beverley Crabdance ......................................... 37 978-0-88922-016-4; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Simpson, Natalie

978-0-88922-417-9; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

Thomas, Audrey

978-0-88922-619-7; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US Bonbons Assortis /

Latakia ............................................... 30

Assorted Candies .......................... 19

978-0-88922-167-3; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

978-0-88922-541-1; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US Bonjour, Là, Bonjour ........................... 36

Taking My Life .................................... 25

Thrum ................................................ 61

Mrs. Blood ......................................... 31

978-0-88922-673-9; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US Theme for Diverse Instruments ........... 33

978-0-88922-850-4; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-319-6; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-88922-252-6; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Real Mothers ..................................... 32

Crossing the City ............................... 16

978-0-88922-060-7; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Ryga, George The Athabasca Ryga .......................... 27 978-0-88922-276-2; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Soutar, Annabel Seeds ................................................. 54

978-0-88922-191-8; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

978-0-88922-893-1; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-701-9; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Songs My Mother Taught Me ............. 33

Crossing the Continent ...................... 28

978-0-88922-329-5; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Corked .............................................. 54

978-0-88922-676-0; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra ......... 38

978-0-88922-852-8; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-184-0; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Strang, Catriona

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The Driving Force ............................... 49 978-0-88922-530-5; $15.95 CAN / $13.95 US The Duchess and the Commoner

The Power Plays ................................. 47

Vachon, Hélène

978-0-88922-418-6; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Somewhere Else ................................. 49

Storyteller ...................................... 26

978-0-88922-840-5; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-402-5; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

978-0-88922-502-2; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Vanderhaeghe, Guy Dancock’s Dance ................................ 38

Other Plays .................................... 39 978-0-88922-104-8; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US En Pièces Détachées ........................... 40

The Epic World of an Okanagan

Matter of Gravity, A ........................... 18

...................................................... 28 La Duchesse de Langeais &

Write It on Your Heart:

978-0-88922-414-8; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-88922-533-6; $16.95 CAN / $14.95 US

Verdecchia, Guillermo

Suburban Motel ................................. 49 978-0-88922-412-4; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

Winter, Jack My TWP Plays: A Collection Including Ten

Walsh, Des

Lost Years ...................................... 45 978-0-88922-784-2; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Love and Savagery ............................. 57

Another Country / bloom ................... 35

978-0-88922-599-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Woodcock, George

978-0-88922-092-8; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

978-0-88922-570-1; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

The Singer’s Broken Throat ................. 60

Two Plays ........................................... 50

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant 29

Citizen Suárez .................................... 28

978-0-88922-478-0; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-123-9; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

978-0-88922-190-1; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-391-2; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

The First Quarter of the Moon ............ 29

Fronteras Americanas:

Wasserman, Jerry Modern Canadian Plays:

978-0-88922-352-3; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

American Borders, 1st ed................. 41

Vol. I, 4th ed. ................................ 45

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again . 40

978-0-88922-383-7; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-436-0; $39.95 CAN / $39.95 US

978-0-88922-389-9; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Fronteras Americanas:

Modern Canadian Plays:

Y York, Annie, Chris Arnett & Richard Daly They Write Their Dreams on the Rock

Forever Yours, Marie-Lou ................... 40

American Borders, 2nd ed. .............. 41

Vol. I, 5th ed. ................................ 45

Forever ......................................... 25

978-0-88922-349-3; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-705-7; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-678-4; $49.95 CAN / $49.95 US

Cloth: 978-0-88922-331-8; $60.00 CAN / $40.00 US

Verdecchia, Guillermo & Daniel Brooks

Modern Canadian Plays

Hosanna, 3rd ed. ............................... 42

The Noam Chomsky Lectures ............. 46 978-0-88922-405-6; $15.95 CAN / $15.95 US

978-0-88922-437-7; $39.95 CAN / $39.95 US Modern Canadian Plays Vol. ||, 5th ed. ............................ 45

Tear the Curtain! ................................ 16

978-0-88922-831-3; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-679-1; $49.95 CAN / $49.95 US

Adrift ................................................. 34

The Heart Laid Bare ............................ 29 978-0-88922-425-4; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

The Impromptu of Outremont ............ 42 978-0-88922-185-7; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US Impromptu on Nuns’ Island ................ 42 978-0-88922-470-4; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

Verdecchia, Guillermo, Camyar Chai & Marcus Youssef The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil .............................................. 34 978-0-88922-516-9; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

La Maison Suspendue ........................ 44 978-0-88922-295-3; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US Marcel Pursued by the Hounds ........... 44 978-0-88922-326-4; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings . ..................................................... 34 978-0-88922-782-8; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Vol. II, 4th ed. ................................ 45

Young, Jonathon, Kevin Kerr & Kim Collier 978-0-88922-904-4; $18.95 CAN / $18.95 US

Youssef, Marcus 978-0-88922-585-5; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France . 49

Youssef, Marcus & James Long

978-0-88922-547-3; $21.95 CAN / $21.95 US

Winners and Losers ............................ 13 978-0-88922-932-7; $16.95 CAN / $16.95

Twenty Years at Play: A New Play Centre Anthology ..................................... 50 978-0-88922-275-5; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Youssef, Marcus & Guillermo Verdecchia

Verdecchia, Guillermo & Marcus Youssef

Wasserman, Jerry & Sherrill Grace

A Line in the Sand .............................. 44

Past Perfect ........................................ 46

A Line in the Sand .............................. 44

Theatre and AutoBiography:

978-0-88922-493-3; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-375-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Writing and Performing Lives in

Youssef, Marcus, Camyar Chai & Guillermo Verdecchia

Theory and Practice ....................... 25

The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes

News from Édouard ........................... 31 978-0-88922-435-3; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

The Real World? ................................ 47 978-0-88922-260-1; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US The Red Notebook ............................. 32 978-0-88922-588-6; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US Remember Me ................................... 47 978-0-88922-219-9; $15.95 CAN / $11.95 US

978-0-88922-540-4; $29.95 CAN / $24.95 US

Wah, Fred

Watts, Charles & Edward Byrne

is a door ............................................ 57

The Recovery of the Public World

978-0-88922-620-3; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US Selected Poems: Loki Is Buried at Smoky

. ..................................................... 34 978-0-88922-782-8; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Creek ..............................................60

Webb, Phyllis

978-0-88922-177-2; $16.95 CAN / $12.95 US

Peacock Blue: The Collected Poems

978-0-88922-510-7; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little

Zomparelli, Daniel

..................................................... 17

978-0-88922-577-0; $29.95 CAN; $29.95 US

Cloth: 978-0-88922-912-9; $45.00 CAN / $45.00 US

Davie Street Translations .................... 54

Selected Poems: The Vision Tree ......... 65

978-0-88922-683-8; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

Walker, George F. And So It Goes ................................... 34 978-0-88922-654-8; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

978-0-88922-198-7; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

Dead Metaphor ................................. 11

A Thing of Beauty ............................... 33

978-0-88922-928-0; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-390-5; $19.95 CAN / $15.95 US

The East End Plays: Part I .................... 39

Twelve Opening Acts .......................... 26

978-0-88922-413-1; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

978-0-88922-466-7; $18.95 CAN / $14.95 US

The East End Plays: Part II ................... 39 978-0-88922-404-9; $19.95 CAN / $19.95 US

978-0-88922-202-1; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Wells, Oliver N. The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors ...................................................... 20 978-0-88922-255-7; $24.95 CAN / $19.95 US

Wickwire, Wendy & Harry Robinson Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape

Heaven .............................................. 42

and Memory ................................. 22

...................................................... 29

978-0-88922-429-2; $17.95 CAN / $13.95 US

978-0-88922-522-0; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

978-0-88922-646-3; $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US

King of Thieves .................................. 43

The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky

Sentenced to Light ............................. 60

Hanging Angel .............................. 33

Tulchinsky, Karen X.

978-0-88922-516-9; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings

978-0-88922-388-2; $39.95 CAN / $29.95 US

978-0-88922-181-9; $15.95 CAN / $15.95 US ...................................................... 32

of Evil .............................................. 34

...................................................... 24

Sainte-Carmen of the Main ................ 47 Some Night My Prince Will Come

978-0-88922-375-2; $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US

978-0-88922-755-2; $17.95 CAN / $17.95 US

Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller ..................... 23 978-0-88922-504-6; $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US

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