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The publisher would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation, for our publishing activities. BAWAAJIGAN: STORIES OF POWER The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Eighteen Dreams play a powerful role in Indigenous culture, serving as warning, insight, guidance, solace, or hope. OCTOBER 1 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 352 pages 978-1-55096-841-5 $24.95

Edited by Nathan Niigan Noondin Adler Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith Bawaajigan – an Anishinaabemowin word for dream or vision – is a collection of powerful literary short fiction by Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. Stories about the connection between the spirit world and everyday life and the rest of the cosmos; urban-fantasy and high- fantasy worlds; alternative histories, and alternative reali - ties; brushes with the supernatural, the prophetic, the hal - lucinatory, and the surreal. Among these themes we find stories ranging from the gritty, the gothic, the comedic, and the heart-wrenchingly tragic: a tale about the state of sleep-deprivation that conjures an uncertainty as to where dream ends and reality begins; the ominous tension of television static that conjures a certainty of something terrible about to hap - pen; encounters with spirit guides, and spirit enemies; confrontations with ghosts haunting residential school hallways, and ghosts looking on from the afterlife; and with concepts based on Ouija boards, bead-dreamers, Haudenosaunee wizards, talking eagles, giant snakes, sacred white buffalo calves, spider’s silk, a burnt and blood-stained diary, longings for what could-have-been, worm holes fallen through reality, poppy-induced deliri - ums, imaginary friends, and knowledge revealed. Unifying everything: these are stories about the strength and power of dreams.

Marketing Highlights ePUB, KINDLE, PDF • National media mailing. • 978-1-55096-842-2 • Targeted media interviews. • 978-1-55096-843-9 • Co-op available. • 978-1-55096-844-6 Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler is the author of Wrist , an Indigenous monster • Consumer/Trade ads: Books for Everybody ; story written from the monster’s perspective. He holds a B.A. in English and ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue, Q&Q’s Autumn Preview. Native Studies, a B.F.A. in Integrated Media, and is an M.F.A. candidate in • Twitter, Facebook and Goodreads giveaways. Creative Writing. He is Anishinaabe and Jewish, a member of Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation, and resides in Mono, Ontario. Christine Miskonoodinkwe Toronto: book launch in October; Ottawa: book launch in Smith of Toronto is a Saulteaux writer/editor/journalist from Peguis First September and/or literary event in conjunction with the Nation, and holds an M.A. in Education for Social Justice, along with a B.A. in Asinabka Media Arts Festival; Toronto: WOTS (Word On Aboriginal Studies. The Street) Indigenous Voices Stage in September; Radio interviews with Indigenous Waves on CIUT (Toronto) and Contributors: Richard Van Camp, Autumn Bernhardt, Kisha Supernant, CHOUFM (Ottawa) in May; interviews with co-editors Wendy Bone, Delani Valin, Kavelina Torres, Duncan Mercredi, Pisim Maskwa, and selected authors to appear in Shameless Magazine , Katie-Jo Rabbit, Gord Grisenthwaite, David Geary, Francine Cunningham, and Anishinabek News , among others tbd. Karen Lee White, Sara Kathryn, Cathy Smith, J.S. Arnott, Lee Maracle.

1 Fiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies. Fiction/Native American-Aboriginal General Readers HELLO! WIK’SAS? RANDE COOK and LINDA ROGERS Illustrated conversations that reveal the Indigenous way of showing rather than telling. OCTOBER 1 8 x 8 Colour 48 pages 978-1-55096-828-6 $19.95

Hello! Wik'sas? is a book for curious kids who ask big questions – and adults who help them discover the answers. It is an illustrated conversation between Isla and Ethan – son and daughter of Kwakwaka’wakw Chief Rande Ola K'alapa, a much loved artist of mixed European and Indigenous decent – and their invisible friend Siri. Isabel Rogers, also a kid, is part of the storytelling process.

We want this book to be a bridge, a route to one important thing: kindness… There are serious questions asked in this book, which provide an opportunity to discuss bullying, environmental protection, and inclu - sivity – all very important topics for chil - dren. We want lots and lots of kids to share in our fun and to think about their own questions, and discover the answers to them.

This book will also be a useful classroom adjunct to interpersonal relationships and a key to opening the potential for student nar - ratives. Marketing Highlights ePUB, KINDLE, PDF Marketing Highlights • National media mailing. • 978-1-55096-829-3 • September, October and November book events in North Island com - • Targeted media interviews. • 978-1-55096-830-9 munities, Victoria, home of the Songhees/Lekwungen people, and places • Co-op available. • 978-1-55096-831-6 children gather for storytelling. Rande’s galleries, gallery shops, and book - • Consumer/Trade ads: Books for Everybody ; stores will participate. ULS Super Forthcoming Catalogue, Q&Q’s Autumn Preview. • Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Goodread s giveaways. • BC Bookworld, Pacific Rim Review of Books .

Rande Cook is represented by several important galleries which respect his voice as a ground breaker in contemporary Canadian northwest coast culture and urban Indigenous reality. Fluidity of line, innovation in colour and design, and wit are the hallmarks of his art, which is a natural companion to oral storytelling. Next spring, Rande will curate a major show of art by “Coast Protectors,” a personal mis - sion shared by Linda Rogers. He tells the stories of his N’amgis, Ma’amtagila and Mamalilikala people through blending tradition and innovation. Linda Rogers of Victoria, British Columbia, is a past Poet Laureate and Canadian People’s Poet of Victoria who writes poetry, fiction, song lyrics, scripts, and literary criticism. She has been awarded the Gwendolyn MacEwen, Livesay, Leacock, National Poetry, Rukeyser, Acorn, Cardiff, Montreal, Kenney, Voices Israel, Prix Anglais and Bridport literary prizes. Recent titles include Bozuk., Crow Jazz , and Repairing the Hive .

Children through Adult Fiction. Art. BISAC: Fiction/Fantasy/Contemporary. Art/Native American. 2 DREAMERS AND MISFITS OF MONTCLAIR MARK PATERSON Wise and humorous stories that explore people’s extraordinary lives in suburbia’s little wild spaces. OCTOBER 1 5 x 8 TPB 192 pages 978-1-55096-836-1 $19.95

Routinely maligned as a bastion of boredom and con - formity, the suburb is examined in a different light in Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair. At the heart of these fourteen short stories is refusal of the monotonous and the struggle for individuality in a place so relentlessly homogenous. In his third short story collection, Mark Paterson introduces the town of Montclair, a fictional sub - urb of Montreal, where he celebrates characters who, out of restlessness, out of nothing, make their lives on the outskirts of the big city a little bit – or a lot – out of the ordinary. With Paterson’s trademark humour and emo - tion, Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair explores suburbia’s little wild spaces: the places hidden away in overgrown fields behind commercial buildings, beneath concrete schoolyard staircases, and in the hearts and minds of its inhabitants.

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Previous praise: “With this book, Paterson secures his place in the ranks of fellow Montrealers Neil Smith and Barry Webster, of Mark Anthony Jarman and the Americans Dennis Johnson and George Saunders: all writers who trade in the zany, the pell- mell, the lunatic and absurd. It’s a kind of comic writing also committed to the travails of victims, of people who suffer misunderstanding and the razor of their own doubts. Mark Paterson is a funny, often empathetic writer.” —The Malahat Review

“Punchy, off-kilter, and highly imaginative.” — Quill & Quire

“Compellingly narrated with a slacker’s eye for the bizarre, the writing seems effortless.” —Globe and Mail

“Mark Paterson is a great storyteller.” — Montreal Review of Books

Mark Paterson is the author of the short story collections A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine , and Other People’s Showers . He was shortlisted for the $15,000 Carter V Cooper Short Fiction Competition (2018), is a past winner of the 3Macs carte blanche Prize (2010) and the Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest (2009). He lives in Lorraine, Quebec.

3 Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Short Stories. Fiction/Urban. General Readers CRACKER JACKS FOR MISFITS CHRISTINE OTTONI Cracker Jacks for Misfits is the Millennial story of four people who find themselves caught in the crosshairs of modern-day chaos as they discover independence, strength, and the power to love. OCTOBER 1 5 x 8 TPB 180 pages 978-1-55096-832-3 $19.95

In a series of interconnected short stories, Christine Ottoni tells the tale of a highly sensitive caregiver, Naomi, and her relationship with her reclusive, artistic mother, Joanne. From a whirlwind romance with a manic bartender named Marce, to an intense friendship with an ineffectu - al alcoholic named Jake, Naomi’s search for intimacy and home is marked by urban claustrophobia and loneliness. The characters of Cracker Jacks for Misfits are hungry for human connection. They look for it online, in the unfamil - iar bedrooms of Toronto, and in hushed conversations with strangers. Their stories are real – so real that we can all identify with their struggle. A portrait of Millennial discontent and overconnectedness, Cracker Jacks for Misfits is about the moment when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments and responsibilities. These stories are about the strange, intimate worlds we share with others, in dive bars, on road trips, and on the curb outside house parties. Ottoni presents a distinctive look at the struggle of a generation, and asks if we can every truly realise our - selves through our ability or inability to break free. This work of contemporary insight illuminates what is at the core of today's society: how important it is to understand and respect the sensibilities, goodness, strengths and frailties of those who we call friends, fam - ily, and the other. Cracker Jacks for Misfits is a moving and engaging narrative of a young person who finds their independence, strength, and power to love.

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Christine Ottoni has had work appear in the pages of untethered journal and The Alaska Quarterly Review. She was shortlisted for PEN Canada’s nomination to the New Voices Award and was featured at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festivals in the emerging writers set, 2018. She lives in Toronto.

General Readers / LGBTQ Fiction. Womens Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Short Stories. Fiction/General. 4 FACETS OF EROS THE DRAWINGS OF CLAIRE WILKS DAVID SOBELMAN An insightful and authoritative look at a singular woman artist who broke conventions. SEPTEMBER 1 8 x 8 TPB 96 pages 978-1-55096-824-8 $24.95

42 B&W DRAWINGS By CLAIRE WILKS

With no dominant art form in the 1970s and early ’80s the Toronto art scene was in forma - tion. This was a time when there were no models and anything was possible. During this key period Toronto thought itself Canada’s most important art centre, but history has shown that the nascent downtown art com - munity – not the established uptown scene of commercial galleries – was where it was hap - pening. Claire Wilks was a part of that down - town community, except she was a woman in what was often a "man’s world," drawing nude women and men, alone and together; passion and aggression and compassion; the beauty of the human body expressed... something not readily accepted in those days! This period was the beginning of her 40-year career.

In Facets of Eros , David Sobelman, explores the early drawings of Canadian artist Claire Wilks, their presciently feminist visual vocabu - lary. He does so by looking at the drawings – so open in their sexuality, so puzzling in their vision of motherhood, so sensually affirming in Marketing Highlights ePUB, KINDLE, PDF their engagement with death in the Shoah camps – through the lens of • National media mailing. • 978-1-55096-825-5 • Targeted media interviews. • 978-1-55096-826-2 that ancient figure Eros, as first discussed by Plato. This is a startling, orig - • Co-op available. • 978-1-55096-827-9 inal approach to a startling, original artist, the meta-portrait of a singular • Consumer/Trade ads: Geist, Write, ULS Super woman who expressed the world she saw around her with her hands. Forthcoming Catalogue.

David Sobelman is an award-winning writer of feature documentaries ( Runaways: 24 Hours on the Street, 1987; McLuhan’s Wake , 2002; Samuel Bak: Painter of Questions, 2004). His first book of poetry, After the End, was published in 2006. He has also published several literary and philosoph ical essays. Born to an old Jewish French family in Haifa, Israel, Sobelman was schooled in Europe. In 1972, he moved to Toronto to study film and literature at york University. After graduating, he decided to stay in exile and make his home in Canada. He lives in Oakville, Ontario.

Claire Wilks was a Canadian artist who worked in conté drawing, brush drawing, lithography, mono - printing, and sculpture in bronze and clay. Her works are in numerous private collections in Canada and abroad, and have been exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada, and in Toronto, Calgary, Stockholm, New york, Jerusalem, Venice, Rome, Zagreb, Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico . She died in 2017.

5 Women’s Studies. Erotica. BISAC: Art/Canadian. Art/Women Artists. General Readers CVC8 CARTER V. COOPER SHORT FICTION ANTHOLOGY SERIES: BOOK EIGHT From the annual short fiction competition that has awarded $100,000 to Canadian writers. SEPTEMBER 1 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 176 pages 978-1-55096-845-3 $19.95

SELECTED AND PRESENTED By GLORIA VANDERBILT

The CVC Anthology series features each year's finalists from the annual $15,000 Carter V. Cooper (CVC) Short Fiction Competition, held in memory of Carter Cooper ($10,000 for the best story by an emerging writer, and $5,000 for the best story by a writer at any career point).

From writer, artist, philanthropist – and mother of Carter – Gloria Vanderbilt, who sponsors the largest literary prize for all-new fiction by emerging writers in Canada: “I am proud and thrilled that all these wonderful writers are presented in the CVC Anthology. Carter, my son, Anderson Cooper's brother, was just 23 when he died in 1988. He was a promising editor, writer, and, from the time he was a small child, a voracious reader. Carter came from a fam - ily of storytellers, and stories were a guide which helped him discover the world. Though I, and those who loved Carter, still hear his voice in our heads and in our hearts, my son's voice was silenced long ago. I hope this prize helps other writers find their voice, and through inclusion in the annual anthology helps them touch others' lives with the mystery and magic of the written word."

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Contributors : Leanne Milech (Emerging winner: $10,000), Edward Brown (Any Point split winner: $2,500), Priscila Uppal (Any Point split winner: $2,500), Andrea Bradley, William John Wither, Mark Paterson, Christine Miscione, Martha Bátiz, Bruce Meyer, Cara Marks, Lorna Crozier.

Notable previous winners/shortlisted: among the emerging writers are Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Christine Miscione, Veronica Gaylie, Matthew R. Loney (each with a follow-up book from Exile Editions), Matthew Heiti, Lisa Foad, Leigh Nash, and Amy Stuart; among the established writers are Austin Clarke, George McWhirter, Leon Rooke, Hugh Graham (each with a follow-up books from Exile Edition), Helen Marshall, Nicholas Ruddock, Linda Rogers, Josip Novakovich, Greg Hollingshead, Richard Van Camp, Seán Virgo and Priscila Uppal.

General Readers Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Literary. Fiction/Anthologies. 6 THE HERMIT SAYS GOODBYE RICHARD TELEKY Daring, delicate, unguarded, and tender, the author has crafted a collection that is equally buoyant, forthright, and clear-eyed in richness as it transforms experience into the keen pleasure of language, OCTOBER 1 4.75 x 7.75 TPB 80 pages 978-1-55096-853-8 $19.95

The Hermit Says Goodbye completes the triptych Richard Teleky began with The Hermit’s Kiss , followed by T he Hermit in Arcadia. Through the persona of the hermit, the author explores the nature of love, loss, solitude and mortality, asking what people can be to each other and what they are for themselves. As the hermit quests for understanding, he revels in – and meditates on – what the world has to tell us and what we might do with that knowledge.

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Richard Teleky of Toronto is a professor in the Humanities Department of york University, and a critically acclaimed fiction writer, poet and critic. His books include the novels The Blue Hour, Winter in Hollywood, Pack Up the Moon , the award-winning The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin , and a collection of short fiction, Goodnight, Sweetheart and Other Stories ; the poetry collections The Hermit in Arcadia and The Hermit’s Kiss ; and nonfiction studies The Dog on the Bed: A Canine Alphabet and Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Identity, Ethnicity and Cultur e. He is also the editor of The Exile Book of Canadian Dog Stories and The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories. His work has appeared in numerous journals in Canada and the United States, and he is a frequent contributor to Queen’s Quarterly.

7 Poetry. BISAC: Poetry/General. Poetry/Canadian. General Readers I DO REMEMBER THE FALL M.T. KELLY Told in an inimitable style, this is a wild and viscerally exciting story set in the Canadian prairies. Number Thirty in the Exile Classics Series: Keeping culturally important works in print. OCTOBER 1 5.25 x 7.5 TPB 176 pages 978-1-55096-869-9 $19.95

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS IN CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

WITH 8 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS By CATHERINE P. W ILSON

This is an original, wild, and often funny story about Randy Gogarty. He is a free spirit, full of lust, full of himself, and he's lonely. He sets out for Elk Brain, Saskatchewan, intent on setting the newspaper world ablaze. But it is he who goes up in flames. Confused by idealism and loyalties, he gets fired and then tries to survive a prairie winter through hard drinking, road trips across wide open empty spaces, travelling with his beloved whom he tells ”lovely women eat a crazy salad with their meat" as he pours canola oil on her body in a cold bedroom. Not surpris - ingly, Randy suffers salvation in a most unexpected way.

Kelly, according to the Vancouver Sun “…never writes a boring sentence…” This is certainly true in this story, a series of sublime ruminations told in an inimitable style— full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irre - pressible humour. No reader will forget this satirical, des - perate, beautiful fiction debut, voted best first novel of the year when originally published.

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M.T. (Terry) Kelly was born in and still lives in Toronto. His debut novel, I Do Remember The Fall (1977) was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. This was followed by two novels: The More Loving One and The Ruined Season . Kelly’s third novel, A Dream Like Mine (1987 – and available in the Exile Classics series: 978-155096-132-4), won the Governor General’s Award for fiction, and was made into the movie Clearcut . He wrote two other novels – Out of the Whirlwind and Save Me Joe Louis (forthcoming in the Exile Classics Series for 2020) – as well as a book of stories, All that Wild Wounding . He has remained silent after his wife’s death in 2005, except for Downriver (2009; Exile Editions), which contained poetry, a memoir, and a short story about the people in the memoir.

General Readers Fiction. BISAC: Literary Fiction. Urban Fiction. 8 THREE BOOKS WINTER IN THE COUNTRY ON “THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH” AN ATOMIC CAKE VLADIMIR AZAROV Azarov explores decades living under Stalin, through Khrushchev and “The Thaw,” and most recently from his new life in Toronto. A unique reading experience. SEPTEMBER 1 5.25 x 7.25 TPB 276 pages 978-1-55096-849-1 $19.95

PREFACE By BARRy CALLAGHAN With these three books Vladimir Azarov moves toward the completion of what is now a most extraordinary 19-book autobiography, the recollections of a young man in Moscow during the tumultuous times after Joseph Stalin’s death, known as Khrushchev’s “Thaw.” In the first book, Winter in the Country , he imagines the enormous presence of the great poet, Pushkin, and his influ - ence on the development of the modern Russian psyche. Pushkin, alone out in the countryside, a writer in exile in his own country, transformed the language, and thereby the peo - ples’ perceptions of themselves, including the young Azarov. In On “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” Azarov – then a profes - sional architect – imagines himself exchanging personalities with Tolstoy’s great character, Ivan Ilyich, who suffered and died from a terminal illness. In doing so, he enlarges his own personal experience by giving the death of a close friend a mythic dimension. In the third book, An Atomic Cake , he explores a Moscow world of wild contradictions. A police state given to bouts of politics by brute force and politics by a sterile force majeure, to moments of surreal social hysteria and periods of massive malaise, all occurring under the cloud of atomic bomb testing. This is when he met a passionate com - puter specialist whose father had witnessed the American atomic testing at Bikini Atoll. Together, trying to make sense of such a world, they talked, imagining into existence the spirit of Rita Hayworth as she rode on the side of the bomb in her negligée. Marketing Highlights ePUB, KINDLE, PDF • National media mailing. • 978-1-55096-850-7 • Ontario readings. • 978-1-55096-851-4 • Co-op available. • 978-1-55096-852-1 Vladimir Azarov is an architect and poet, formerly from Moscow, who lives in Toronto. He has published Of Architecture (with illustrations by Nina Bunjevac), Seven Lives, Sochi Deterium, Broken Pastries, Mongolian Études, Night Out, Dinner With Catherine the Great, Imitation, Of Life and Other Small Sacrifices, The Kiss from Mary Pickford: Cinematic Poems , and Voices in Dialogue: Dramatic Poems – and with Barry Callaghan, Strong Words, translations in an English/Russian bilingual edition, of Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Pushkin and Andrei Voznesensky.

9 Poetry. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General. Fiction/General. General Readers MUSIC IS EVERYTHING SELECTED POEMS OF SLAVKO MIHAL IC´ Translated by DASHA C. NISULA Mihal i´c is one of the giants in Croatian literature, and a musician of the word who depicts the human condition in an edition that seeks its readers. SEPTEMBER 1 5.25 x 7.75 TPB 184 pages 978-1-55096-857-6 $23.95

Slavko Mihal i´c (1928-2007), upon finishing high school, moved to Zagreb where he worked for a newspaper and published his first book of poetry, Komorna muzika (Chamber Music ) in 1954. During the course of his life, he worked as an anthologist, publisher, editor, critic, writer for children, authored over twenty books of poetry, and established sev - eral literary journals and the literary review Most (Bridge), which brought Croatian literature to international readers. Translated into major world languages, Slavko Mihali c´ is a recipient of numerous literary awards, among them Tin Ujev i´c, City of Zagreb, Matica Hrvatska, Miroslav Krleža, Goranov Vjenac, Vladimir Nazor and others. Early on in his life Slavko Mihalić also became a musi - cian. Bach and Mozart inspired him and the musicality of these masters he applied to the word. And through the word in this volume one can detect the wondrous nature of this artist. The poems in this edition are taken from his last three publications: Sabrane pjesme (Collected Poems ), 1998; Akordeon (Accordion ), 2000; and Moc˘vara (Marsh ), 2004.

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Dasha C. Nisula (translator) taught Russian and Croatian languages, literature, and culture. She is a translator of poetry and short stories from these languages, and the author of four books, numerous articles, reviews, and translations. Her work has appeared in An Anthology of South Slavic Literatures , and the literary journals Modern Poetry in Translation, Southwestern Review, International Poetry Review , and Massachusetts Review , among others. She is a member of the American Literary Translators Association, living and working in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

General Readers Poetry. European Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General. Poetry/European/General. 10 YOU WITH HANDS MORE INNOCENT SELECTED POEMS OF VESNA PARUN Translated by DASHA C. NISULA Poetry that once enraged the social-realist critics of her country is now recognized and respected for its romantic lyrical accomplishment. (APRIL 2018) 5.25 x 7.5 TPB 144 pages 978-1-55096-729-6 $23.95

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS By MARKO MARIAN

Vesna Parun was born in 1922 on the island of Zlarin, on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. She made her literary debut in 1947 with the coll ection of poems, Zore i vihori (Dawns and Hurricanes ), and over the next 60 years went on to publish more than twenty books of poetry, as well as essays, criticism, and children's books. Although Croatian lyrical is a strong and fruitful tradition, until Vesna Parun there was not a single female poet with such developed sensibilities and poetic expressiveness: Parun's modus vivendi was "it is love that makes and keeps us human." And while there are many poets in Croatian literature who have written collections of love poetry, about love of a woman as an object, here we have poems about love with a woman as subject. The poems in this edition are deeply moving, and great examples of language that exposes Eastern European culture to the English-speaking world – a vol - ume that captures the feeling, essence, rhythm, and depth of the author's words as best as English can through superb translations.

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This book was originally to be a bilingual edition for 2018. It is now an English-only edition, to complement the . Slavko Mihal i´c Music Is Everything edition.

11 Poetry. European Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General. Poetry/European/General. General Readers Pages 11 onward are RAILTRACKS Recent Highlights ANNE MICHAELS / JOHN BERGER Prose with an enormous reach, compassion, and wisdom. This Canadian edition follows the acclaimed releases in the U.K. and U.S. (NOVEMBER 2018) 4.25 x 7 TPB 104 pages 978-1-55096-778-4 $19.95

The book takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors, here rendered simply as J and A, infusing them with a fictive resonance as well as the weight of their reputations, accomplishments and auto - biographies. Railtracks is a unique collaboration, a profound meditation on exile and migration, separation and consolation, reunions and rail - ways, love and loss. It moves from the industrial to the metaphysical. And from the present to a past that still exists in vivid, essential traces. It asks what we carry with us when we must leave everything behind. It fuses longing and intimacy, distance and presence. Railtracks is the original text of the London stage production, Vanishing Points , per - formed by the authors and Theatre Complicite, and directed by Simon McBurney. With 16 B&W photographs by Janice Johnson

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Infinite Gradation (May 2018) is an astonishing meditation on what art makes of death, and the moral, emotional, and philo - sophical implications of love and the creative act, especially those creative works that. In lines as precise and profound as any Michaels has written, it is also a lyrically compelling praise song to love and the enduring mysteries at the core of exis - tence. Asking urgent questions, she explores how art might serve as a witness in extremis , and she examines the nature of ePUB, KINDLE, PDF responsibility, and the form it takes in poetry, fiction and image-making when everything is at stake. • 978-1-55096-775-3 (APRIL 2018) 4.25 x 7 TPB 104 pages 978-1-55096-774-6 $19.95 • 978-1-55096-776-0 • 978-1-55096-777-7 Anne Michaels is an internationally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and poet. Her books have been translated into over 45 languages, and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and longlisted for the IMPAC Award (twice). Her novel, Fugitive Pieces , was adapted as a feature film. Her latest book of poetry, All We Saw , was published in 2017.

John Berger (1926-2017) was a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and critic, and one of the most internationally influential writers of the last 50 years. His many books include Ways of Seeing ; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet ; the Booker Prize–winning novel G. ; the Man Booker–longlisted From A to X ; and A Seventh Man .

General Readers Fiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Literary. Fiction/Visionary & Metaphysical. 12 ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE COLLECTED STORIES BARRY CALLAGHAN Short stories, like tiny novels you drown in, filled with people of our modern moment who find in every instance some trick of survival, that remarkable homage to human resourcefulness. (NOVEMBER 2018) 5.5 x 8 HC 504 pages 978-1-55096-790-6 $37.95

PREFACE By MARGARET ATWOOD

Callaghan’s writing is wide-ranging but often takes the perspective of a marginal individual's view of the human experience. These tales are told in a variety of voices – street hustlers, priests, blues singers, Holocaust survivors, cross-dressers, paramilitary snipers, even those we may euphemistically consider the “ordinary” – all of them authentic, and all would subscribe to the maxim that “happiness is overrated.” The dialogue is true to speech as it is spoken, shot through with humour, piercing sad - ness and puzzling beauty .

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“The final words in All the Lonely People , Barry Callaghan’s magisterial collected short fiction, are “once upon a time.” This would at first appear an odd way to end a volume of close to 500 pages, one that comprises a career-spanning overview of the author’s work in this particular genre. But the invocation of an old-world fairy-tale formula tilts in the direction of memory and the past, which is appropriate for the current volume in general and the specific concerns con - tained in many individual stories.” — TORONTO STAR

Previous praise: “His is one of the few story collections I’ve seen that even begins to pick up from the method of Dubliners . Like Joyce, Callaghan gets so deeply and honestly into the local world that it is the international place we all inhabit.” —American critic, M.L. Rosenthal

Barry Callaghan , of Toronto, is the well-known novelist, poet, and man of letters who has been included in every major Canadian anthology, and his fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages. His works include The Black Queen Stories, The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings, When Things Get Worst, A Kiss Is Still a Kiss, Barrelhouse Kings, Between Trains , and Beside Still Waters .

13 Fiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Short Stories. Fiction/General. General Readers RAISE YOU ON THE RIVER ESSAYS AND ENCOUNTERS 1964 –2018 BARRY CALLAGHAN The modern-day raconteur who deftly samples the movement, colour, and sensuality of people, places and times with a geographical range of language that is voluptuous, erotic, and even fanciful. (NOVEMBER 2018) 6 x 9 HC 472 pages 978-1-55096-786-9 $37.95

For some six decades Barry Callaghan has been a sin - gular presence in Canada. His distinctive literary style, tone and temperament reveal him to be an inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman celebrated for his sharp intellect and startling imagination. Always attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure, he is also a public scholar, unflinching before the harsh complexities of our time. Raise You on the River is the newest volume of essays from Canada’s Man of Letters, and takes the series to new heights – following the critically acclaimed Raise You Ten (2006) and Raise You Five (2005).

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Previous praise: “Raise You Five gathers together, for the first time, a gener - ous sample of Callaghan’s protean journalistic output: book reviews, profiles, literary criticism, travel reporting, polemics, even memorials. Taken in conjunction with his numerous books of fiction and poetry, Raise You Five con - firms that Barry Callaghan…is that rarest of writers, one capable of creating art out of whatever raw material he chooses or is chosen for him.” — Quill & Quire

“[The series] is literary criticism and cultural history of a high order, in turn joyous, acerbic, celebratory.” —Globe and Mail

"Callaghan is a writer whose style is laced with a biting, satir - “Barry Callaghan holds a position in the Canadian literary firma - ical outlook on contemporary urban life…by turns funny, ment that is at once praiseworthy… He has been referred to, in morbid, and raunchy, Callaghan’s acid flowing prose pulls the this magazine, as ‘one of Canada’s pre-eminent persons of let - reader along effortlessly.” —Saskatoon Star Phoenix ters’, on a level with Margaret Atwood and Mordecai Richler.” —Quill & Quire “Callaghan’s is an intensely visual and tactile style…” —The Boston Globe SEE THE FULL QUILL & QUIRE REVIEW (JANUARy 2019) OF BOTH BOOKS, ON PAGE 30 OF THIS CATALOGUE.

General Readers Essays. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Literary Criticism/General. Literary Criticism/Canadian. 14 OVER THE RAINBOW FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE MARGINS The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Seventeen ~ Edited by Derek Newman-Stille Fairy tales explore social situations, how to find one’s place in society, how to deal with difficult times. They are images of different phases of experiencing reality, explanations of the self newly seen. (DECEMBER 2018) 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 256 pages 978-1-55096-712-8 $19.95

Fairy tales tell us the stories we need to hear, the truths we need to be aware of. A rising from oral narrative, born of imagination, they are constantly being adapted to fit new cultural contexts. They shapeshift just like their characters. Their plots, motifs, and elements often serving as warnings. Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins is a collection of adult stories that invite us to imagine new possibilities for our contemporary times. And much is happening in these times! Cultural diversification and increased societal awareness of personal differences is allowing voices that tend to be silenced by mainstream society to come to the forefront. Collected by seven-time Prix Aurora Award-winner Derek Newman-Stille, these are edgy stories, tales that invite us to walk out of our comfort zone and see what resides at the margins. Over the Rainbow is a gathering of modern literature that brings together views and per - spectives of the under-represented, from the fringe, those whose narratives are at the core of today’s conversa - tions – voices that we all need to hear.

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Contributors : Nathan Caro Fréchette, Fiona Patton, Ace Jordyn, Rati Mehrotra, Robert Dawson, Richard Keelan, Nicole Lavigne, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Kate Heartfield, Evelyn Deshane, Lisa Chen, Tamara Vardomskaya, Chadwick Ginther, Karin Lowachee, Kate Story, Ursula Pflug, Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy, Sean Moreland.

Derek Newman-Stille is a queer, nonbinary (preferring they/them for pronouns), disabled author, editor, artist, academic, and activist living in Peterborough, Ontario. Derek is a Ph.D (ABD) candidate, and the eight-time Prix Aurora Award- winning creator of the digital humanities site Speculating Canada and associated radio show. They are also the creator of the digital humanities site Dis(Abled) Embodiment, and co-creator of the sites QueerPop and the fairy tale site Through the Twisted Woods. Derek teaches at Trent University in the English Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Department. They have been published in Quill & Quire, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, The Canadian Fantastic in Focus, Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journa l, and Misfit Children: An Inquiry Into Childhood Belongings. 15 Fiction, Folklore and Mythology. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction/Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology General & Genre Readers and Young Adults WE LEFT THE CAMP SINGING THE ETTY HILLESUM POEMS AND DRAWINGS JANICE KULYK KEEFER / CLAIRE WILKS “One must not die while still alive. One has to live one’s life to the full and to the end.” —Etty Hillesum (NOVEMBER 2018) 6 x 9 TPB 120 pages 978-1-55096-802-6 $19.95

4 COLOUR / 7 B&W ARTWORKS By CLAIRE WILKS INTRODUCTION By DIANA KUPREL 2018 marked the tenth anniversary of an international congress that gathered in Ghent to celebrate and discuss the work of Etty Hillesum, a woman who died in Auschwitz, whose diaries and letters have been trans - lated into 67 languages. In her home country, Holland, there is a major research centre and a museum devoted to her work, there is a monument to her, and secondary schools are named after her. She is unquestionably one of the most singular voices from the Shoah (the Holocaust). But most in our country have never heard of her. So, who was Etty Hillesum? She was a Dutch Jew who died at the age of 29, leav ing behind deeply moving, intellectually profound diaries and letters written during the last two years of her life under Nazi occupation. We only have these works because she threw them from a train on her way to the death camp, along with a postcard on which she had written: “The Lord is my high tower. In the end, the departure came without warning… We left the camp singing… Thank you for all your kindness and care.” The Hillesum writings have deeply affected readers around the world, especially women. Two are Canadians: one the remarkable poet Janice Kulyk Keefer, the other a singular artist Claire Wilks. We Left the Camp Singing , is their visionary responses to Etty Hillesum.

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Janice Kulyk Keefer is the award-winning author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, including The Paris-Napoli Express, Transfigurations, Travelling Ladies, Rest Harrow, White of the lesser angels, Marrying the Sea, Thieves , and a memoir, Honey and Ashes . She currently teaches literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University of Guelph, and lives in Toronto. Claire Wilks was a Canadian artist who worked in drawing, brush drawing, lithography, monoprinting, and sculpture in bronze and clay. Her works are in numerous private collections in Canada and abroad, and have been exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada, and in Toronto, Calgary, Stockholm, New york, Jerusalem, Venice, Rome, Zagreb, Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico . She died in 2017.

General Readers Poetry. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General. History/Holocaust. 16 THE SILENCE KAREN LEE WHITE Karen Lee White holds the torch brightly as a new and powerful voice, her style and sensibility encompassing the traditional and the contemporary. (DECEMBER 2018) 5.5 x 8 TPB 176 pages 978-1-55096-794-4 $21.95

Into a second printing: The Silence, with the yukon as a canvas, White engages in a deep empathy for characters, emergent Indigenous identity, and discovery that employs dreams, spirits, songs, and journals as foundations for dia - logue between cultures, immersing the reader in a tran - sitional world of embattled ethos and mythos. Her first novel is a cri de coeur that lives alongside Smart ’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and Kogawa ’s Obasan .

Leah Redsky is a Salteaux/Salish woman living in Vancou- ver who struggles with identity and difficult intercultural dynamics. Often conflicted, at odds with her past and current life, things unravel and she suffers a breakdown – the unexpected life twist that is the key to coming to terms with her past. Through a diary, she discovers something terrible happened, yet what that is is unclear until she begins to have dream encounters with Tlingit/Tagish spirits who she knew in the north when she lived a traditional life on the land. It takes over a year, and finally a visit to the north for the elders’ memorial potlatch, before Leah finds the strength to accept and integrate past and present so she may move into the future… She finds her power as an Indigenous woman, heals her spiritual and psychological wounds through the resolution of previous traumas, and reconciles her ability to communicate with those in the next world as she comes to understand she has been chosen to be a Medicine Woman/Elder/Cultural Leader.

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Karen Lee White is a Northern Salish, Tuscarora, Chippewa and Scots writer from Vancouver Island, B.C. She was adopted into the Daklaweidi clan of the Interior Tlingit Tagish people on whose land the story unfolds. In 2017 Karen was awarded an Indigenous Art Award for Writing by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Her work has appeared in Exile’s That Dammed Beaver: Canadian Humour; Laughs and Gaffs anthology; the collection of Indigenous writers Impact, Colonialism in Canada , and literary journals. She has been commis - sioned as a playwright by theatres in Vancouver and Victoria, and was commissioned by the Banff Centre to produce a story for the “Fables of the 21st Century” special edition, to be released in 2018.

17 Fiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Cultural Heritage. Fiction/Native American-Aboriginal. General Readers DAMIANA’S REPRIEVE MARTHA BÁTIZ Winner of the Casa de Teatro Prize (Dominican Republic). Plaza Requiem : Winner, 2018 International Latino Book Award for Best Popular Fiction. (NOVEMBER 2018) 5.5 x 8 TPB 144 pages 978-1-55096-798-2 $18.95

A candid look at a young opera singer, what happens backstage before and during performances, and what happens when unexpected turns in life leave one fac- ing the not-so-cliché reality that the show must go on… Damiana is the lead in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and leading up to the opening day’s performance a sequence of unexpected events – from a surprise fam- ily reunion that forces her to analyze her past, to facing the consequences of the domestic abuse she and her sib- lings endured, on through finding the answer to a very painful question – culminate to leave her world forever altered.

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Selected by the CBC as: One of 2018’s 14 great Canadian collections to read to celebrate Short Story Month!

In Plaza Requiem Martha Bátiz has crafted stories that are most often about women who are trapped in vio - lent relationships, facing dangerous political situations, or learning to live with the pain of betrayal. These sto - ries shimmer with the surge of vindication that women attain after a powerful exploration of their darkest moments. As an emerging writer, Bátiz is reminiscent of Joyce Carol Oates, Shirley Jackson, and the Cuban author Leonardo Padura:, sharing their qualities of precision, haunting vision, and will to survive against all odds.

Martha B átiz was born and raised in Mexico City, but has been living in Toronto since 2003. Her articles, chronicles, reviews and short stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines in her homeland as well as in Spain, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Peru, Ireland, England, the United States and Canada. She holds a PhD in Latin American Literature, is an instructor of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto, and is a part-time professor at york University/Glendon College, where she teaches Spanish and Literary Translation. She lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

General Readers Fiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/General. Fiction/Contemporary Women. 18 WHAT THE HAND SEES CLAIRE WILKS For most artists, the challenge is to find their voice. From the beginning, Claire had her voice, her line. In four decades she produced a thousand brilliant works in many mediums, exhibiting around the world. (NOVEMBER 2018) 12.25 x 12.25 TPB 176 pages 978-1-55096-733-3 $34.95

157 COLOUR AND B&W DRAWINGS , L ITHOGRAPHS , MONOPRINTS , S CULPTURES , AND PHOTOGRAPHS

A celebration of the whole of Claire Wilks’ work, and her presence in the world as a woman of great character and a singular artist. The book presents her career – with ample selections of her drawings, sculptures, and mono - prints – including appearances in Rome, Stockholm, Jerusalem, Zagreb, New york, Venice, Mexico City and, of course, her hometown, Toronto. In the company of her works are commen - taries, critical responses, poems, photo - graphs, and art by many who were touched by her career and personality: Anne Michaels, John Montague, Priscila Uppal, D.M. Thomas, Timothy Findley, Mary Meigs, Charles Pachter, William Ronald, John Reeves, Nigel Dickson, Tom Sandler, Branko Gorjup, S.W. Hayter, Ludwig Zeller, Michel Christensen, Deborah Samuel, Aleksandar T iˇsma, Slavko Mihal i´c, Stephanie Rayner, Charles Pachter, Vera Frenkel, Gloria Vanderbilt and more.

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Claire Wilks is a Canadian artist who worked in drawing, brush drawing, lithography, monoprinting, and sculpture in bronze and clay. Her works are in numerous private collections in Canada and abroad, and have been exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada, and in Toronto, Calgary, Stockholm, New york, Jerusalem, Venice, Rome, and Zagreb – where she is the only Canadian to have been given a one-woman retro spective in the State National Museum – and in Mexico City and Monterrey – where she represented Canada during a month-long celebration of Canada In The World as “a woman of great character and a singular artist.”

19 Nonfiction/Biography/Cultural BISAC: Art/Canadian. Art/Individual Artists/General. General Readers CITY POEMS JOE FIORITO Preface by A.F. Moritz His writing is tight, his wit oblique, his humanity large. Fiorito's unforced, unsentimental style strikes the perfect tone with a keen sense of place to anchor each poem in a compelling emotional realm. (APRIL 2018) 4.75 x 7.25 TPB 120 pages 978-1-55096-770-8 $18.95

CBC PICK FOR BEST POETRy: A TOP 12 CANADIAN WORKS IN 2018.

Joe Fiorito’s powerful City Poems is new with the freshness of sudden light on what was always beside us, but we became dulled to it, or turned away: it was too constantly troubling, too difficult. Searing in subject matter, profound in meaning and sympathy, the poems are also wonderfully inventive and skillful in poetic form, while remaining casual, colloquial: the art of the street’s voice. They’re very short: shooting stars. But they constitute pinpoint windows on vast regions, unknown or ignored worlds: struggling people, obscurely dying peo - ple, their full reality: the body-and-soul details of pain and loss, endurance, heroism, joys, ugliness and beauty, in the rough corners, wastelands, and crevices where insulted, injured life manages to per - sist amid the expanse of glass, steel, and money. —from the Preface

“Former Toronto Star columnist Joe Fiorito often observed Toronto through the lens of the most vulnerable people, unafraid to bash the sys - temic complications that placed them there in the first place. Knowing this is necessary, given his new book – City Poems – is some - what of a distillation of his newspaper years into honed verse (Fiorito retired about a year-and-a-half ago from the Star after about 14 years). Over Fiorito’s career, column writing and poetry often fed into each other… this marriage of the written word coalesces in his new book.” —Toronto Star

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Joe Fiorito is a journalist who has worked as a city columnist for the Montreal Gazette , The Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star newspapers. He won the National Newspaper Award for Columns in 1995; the Bressani Prize for Short Fiction in 2000; and the City of Toronto Book Award in 2003. He is the author of seven books: Comfort Me with Apples (collection of columns), Tango on the M ain (col - lection of columns), The Closer We Are to Dying (memoir), The Song Beneath the Ice (novel), Union Station (nonfiction), Rust Is a Form of Fire (nonfiction). His most recent work – co-authored with Richard Atkinson – The Life Crimes and Hard Times of Ricky Atkinson, Leader of the Dirty Tricks Gang , was released in the summer of 2017.

General Reader Poetry. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Poetry/Canadian. Poetry/General. 20 THAT DAMMED BEAVER NEW CANADIAN COMEDY The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Fifteen ~ Edited by Bruce Meyer “What exactly makes Canadians funny? This effort from long-standing independent press Exile Editions takes a wry look at what makes us laugh and what makes us laughable.” — Toronto Star (AVAILABLE) 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 384 pages 978-1-55096-691-6 $24.95

Humour is at the core of Canadian identity, our greatest joy found in poking fun at our own stereotypes with irony, parody, and satire. What a nation finds funny, and how it embraces humour is key to what makes a nation great. And we are a great nation!

A unique collection of stories and art. Margaret Atwood, Austin Clarke, Leon Rooke, Priscila Uppal, Jonathan Goldstein, Paul Quarrington, Morley Callaghan, Jacques Ferron, Marsha Boulton, Joe Rosen- blatt, Barry Callaghan, Linda Rogers, Steven Hayward, Andrew Borkowski, Helen Marshall, Gloria Sawai, David McFadden, Myna Wallin, Gail Prussky, Louise Maheux- Forcher, Shannon Bramer, James Dewar, Bob Armstrong, Jamie Feldman, Claire Dé, Christine Miscione, Larry Zolf, Anne Dandurand, Julie Roorda, Mark Paterson, Karen Lee White, Heather J. Wood, Marty Gervais, Matt Shaw, Alexandre Amprimoz, Darren Gluckman, Gustave Morin, and the country’s greatest cartoonist, Aislin.

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“While the Aislin cartoon of an earmuffed beaver on the cover marks this paperback as an airport favourite, the bill of fare inside is much more esoteric and wide-ranging. “As Ernest Hemingway said (albeit in a different con - text), it’s not what you leave in, but what you take out that matters. Ergo, the exclusion of noted Canadian authors and humorists Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies, Mordecai Richler et al – ubiquitous elsewhere – makes room for lesser-known writers and a healthy complement of women.” — Winnipeg Free Press

Bruce Meyer , of Barrie, Ontario, is the author and/or editor of over 50 books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto where he teaches in the Vic One Program. He was inaugural Poet Laureate of the city of Barrie.

21 Humour/Fiction/Stories. BISAC: Humour/General. Fiction/Humourous/General. General Readers ALICE UNBOUND BEYOND WONDERLAND The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Sixteen ~ Edited by Colleen Anderson “This tremendously entertaining anthology…will delight both lovers of Carroll’s works and fans of inventive genre fiction.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review (AVAILABLE) 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 320 pages 978-1-55096-766-1 $24.95

Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) explored childlike won - der and the bewildering realm of adult rules and status, which clashed in bizarre ways. Many characters in his tales are anthropomorphic, whether talking cards, crying Mock Turtles or saucy Tiger-Lilies. Alice Unbound is a collection of all-new speculative, fabulist, weird, myth, sci-fi, fantasy, steampunk and horror stories set in our modern or slightly futuristic world. We might not truly want to live in the world of Alice or have to deal with mad Queens and Bandersnatches, but what if that Wonderland ceased to exist on a separate plain, and melded with our world? How would these characters fit in, and what would they bring or change? Are we ready to let the Jabberwock in the back door?

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Introduced by Colleen Anderson Preface by David Day Contributors : Dominik Parisien, Kate Heartfield, Catherine MacLeod, Bruce Meyer, Andrew Robertson, Patrick Bollivar, Linda DeMeulemeester, Nicole Iversen, Danica Lorer, J.y. T. Kennedy, James Wood, Costi Gurgu, Mark Charke, Christine Daigle, Sara C. Walker, Cait Gordon, Elizabeth Hosang, Lisa Smedman, Pat Flewwelling, Geoff Gander and Fiona Plunkett, Robert Dawson, Alexandra Renwick.

Colleen Anderson is a three-time Prix Aurora Award finalist (twice in poetry), was longlisted for the Stoker Award in fiction and the Rhysling Award in poetry. She placed second in the Rannu and Crucible poetry competitions, and has performed and read her work before audiences in the U.S,. U.K. and Canada. Colleen also co-edited two Canadian anthologies, Playground of Lost Toys (Exile Editions – Aurora nominated) and Tesseracts 17 . Some of Colleen’s fiction and poetry can be found in Grievous Angel, Polu Texni, The Future Fire, The Food of My People (Exile Editions, spring 2019), By the Light of Camelot, The Sum of Us and others. She is working on a collection of poetry and several longer works of fiction.

General & Genre Readers and Young Adults Fiction, Folklore and Mythology. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction/Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology 22 CLI-FI CANADIAN TALES OF CLIMATE CHANGE The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Fourteen ~ Edited by Bruce Meyer A diverse literary genre that is becoming more important to writers, critics and journalists around the world, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Amitav Ghosh and Margaret Atwood. (AVAILABLE) 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 304 pages 978-1-55096-670-1 $19.95

With the world facing the greatest global crisis of all time – climate change – personal and political indiffer - ence has wrought a series of unfolding complications that are altering our planet, and threatening our very existence. Reacting to the warnings sounded by scien - tists and thinkers, writers are responding imaginatively to the seriousness of changing ocean conditions, the widening disappearance of species, genetically modified organisms, increasing food shortages, mass migrations of refugees, and the hubris behind our provoking Mother Earth herself. These stories of climate fiction (cli-fi) fea - ture perspectives by culturally diverse Canadian writers of short fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and futurist works, and transcend traditional doomsday stories by inspiring us to overcome the bleak forecasted results of our cur - rent indiffere nce.

“Meyer has gathered an eclectic variety of eco-fictions from some of Canada’s top genre writers, each of which, he writes, reminds readers that ‘the world is speaking to us and that it is our duty, if not a covenant, to listen to what it has to say.’… The anthology may be inescapably dark, but it is a necessary read, a clarion call to take action rather than, as a character in Seán Virgo’s ‘My Atlantis’ describes it, ‘waiting unknowingly for the plague, the hive collapse, the entropic thunderbolt’. Luckily, it’s also vastly entertaining. It appears there’s nothing like catastrophe to bring the best out in authors in describing the worst of humankind.” —Publishers Weekly

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Contributors : George McWhirter, Richard Van Camp, Holly Schofield, Linda Rogers, Seán Virgo, Rati Mehrotra, Geoffrey W. Cole, Phil Dwyer, Kate Story, Leslie Goodreid, Nina Munteanu, Halli Villegas, John Oughton, Frank Westcott, Wendy Bone, Peter Timmerman, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, with an afterword by internationally acclaimed writer and filmmaker, Dan Bloom.

Bruce Meyer , of Barrie, Ontario, is the author and/or editor of over 50 books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto where he teaches in the Vic One Program. He was inaugural Poet Laureate of the city of Barrie.

23 Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies (multiple authors). Fiction/Alternative History. General Readers THE LIFE CRIMES AND HARD TIMES OF RICKY ATKINSON LEADER OF THE DIRTY TRICKS GANG A TRUE STORY RICHARD ATKINSON WITH JOE FIORITO A breathtakingly scandalous story, and a tale of redemption after having been drawn into a life of crime. (AVAILABLE) 6 x 9 TPB 366 pages (8 pages colour photos) 978-1-55096-674-9 $24.95

A sober memoir that provides a solid understanding of how crime is situated in structural, cultural, historical, and situational contexts. This is the life story of Ricky Atkinson, leader of the Dirty Tricks Gang, who grew up fast and hard in one of Toronto’s toughest neighbour - hoods during the social ferment of the Sixties, during the fledgling Black Power Movement in Canada. His life was made all the more difficult coming from a black, white and aboriginal mixed family. Under his leadership, the gang eventually robbed more banks and pulled off so many jobs that it is unrivalled in Canadian history. Follow him from the mean streets to backroom plot - ting, to jail and back again, as he learns the hard lessons of leadership, courage and betrayal. Today, after reconciling his past and life, he works to educate youth and people from all backgrounds a bout the no-win choice of being a criminal.

“Atkinson’s memoir is as riveting as true crime gets. He’s a veteran of gangland Toronto and as gifted as a storyteller as he was a street hustler. Working with journalist Fiorito, he recounts all the bloody brawls and fast scores of Hogtown’s gritty streets in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. Atkinson’s book describes an outlaw’s life and is also a rich depiction of Toronto’s history; readers learn, for example, that the now- hip Kensington Market neighbourhood was once a multi - ethnic enclave where livestock was butchered on the side - walks. It is also a reckoning of the city’s racist sins. Atkinson has mixed black, white, and First Nations heritage; his family had to cope with the prevalent prejudice of the day, and Ricky was particularly abused by police: ‘Black rage was not just an American thing… We took up their chant in Toronto – the cops were pigs. They were racist oppressors and imperialists.’ Through four decades, Atkinson mixes it up with Black Power radicals, forms the Dirty Tricks Gang, commits a string of larcenies, dodges bullets, and takes multiple trips to prison before leaving the criminal life in his later years. Though he takes responsibility for his own actions, Atkinson makes the convincing connection between societal prejudice and crime in minority communities. It’s a revelatory and fascinating story told from a rare perspective.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review ePUB, KINDLE, PDF • 978-1-55096-675-6 Now into a second printing after over 2,000 sold via trade distribution and events sales. • 978-1-55096-676-3 • 978-1-55096-677-0

General Reader Autobiography. True Crime. BISAC: Biography/Criminals and Outlaws/Personal Memoir. 24 LIVING ART INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY JEAN-PHILIPPE WARREN Translated by STEVEN URQUHART An original, extremely well-researched and illustrated book that uses multiple perspectives to bring the reader closer to the experience of Borduas’ contemporaries, and a new understanding of the period. (AVAILABLE) 6 x 9 TPB 256 pages 978-1-55096-716-6 $24.95

IN TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH 19 COLOUR AND 18 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS

Paul- Émile Borduas had both successes and failures as he tried to express in artwork and words his vision of a gen - erous, spontaneous, creative society. He was the catalyst for events that led to the writing of an important social and artistic manifesto, Refus global (Total Refusal , in trans- lation with Exile Editions), published in 1948 by the move- ment known as Les automatistes. Jean-Philippe Warren shows us the reversals and con - tradictions that make up this cultural figure, renowned for both his art and his thought. How his early hopes and doubts fermented in the crucible that is the mind of a young man. And how his attempts to find a new voice reflect the changes of a society trying to come to terms with a troubling and elusive modernity. Ultimately, Warren looks to understand the path that led Borduas to adopt a pictorial approach that was a clean break with the academicism of his time. He stud - ies a man who broke early with the Catholic religion of his childhood, and who tried to replace it with a radically different ethic. At the same time, he suggests that Borduas came from an ambiance of Catholic intellectuals and artists who shared many of his progressive views and were also critical of the Church's attitude to society and art. This is a remarkable portrait of one of our greatest artists and intellectuals, and shines a new light on a cru - cial turning point in the history of Quebec and Canada.

Marketing Highlights ePUB, KINDLE, PDF • National media mailing. • 978-1-55096-717-3 • Targeted media interviews. • 978-1-55096-718-0 • Co-op available. • 978-1-55096-719-7 Jean-Philippe Warren is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University where he is the Chair of Quebec Studies. He has previously published L'Engagement sociologique, la traditons sociologique du Québec francophone , which received the Prix Clio and Prix Michel-Brunet,

About Paul- Émile Borduas (November, 1905 - February 22, 1960): Borduas was a Québécois painter, now known internationally for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement, and the chief author of the 1948 Refus global manifesto – an anti- establishment and anti-religious text. Borduas had a profound impact on the development of the arts and of thought, in the province of Quebec, Canada, and around the world.

In 2015 Jean-Philippe Warren won the Governor General’s Award for his biography of Honoré Beaugrand.

25 Social Science. Cultural Studies. BISAC: History/Canada/General. History/Social History . General Readers COYOTE CITY / BIG BUCK CITY DANIEL DAVID MOSES Number twenty-nine in the Exile Classics Series : keeping culturally important works in print. (AVAILABLE) 5.5 x 8.5 Trade Paperback 232 pages 978-1-55096-678-7 $24.95

A respected First Nations playwright and Governor General’s Award finalist, Daniel David Moses is known for using storytelling and theatrical conventions to explore the consequences of the collision between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures. Coyote City and Big Buck City are the first two in his series of four City Plays that track the journey of one particular Native family between a world of Native spiritual traditions and the materialist urban landscape in which we all attempt to survive. Coyote City , a tragedy, begins with a phone call from a ghost that sends a young Native woman, Lena, and her family in pursuit, on a search in the city for her missing lover, Johnny. Big Buck City, a farce, tells the story of Lena’s subsequent Christmas reunion in that city with her family just in time for the birth of her own miraculous child.

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“Coyote City …in performance clearly would become a poem in its entirety… I’ve read nothing that conveys so powerfully how Canada and the future look to young Native men and women who choose the company of their own dead in preference to life in a society with no role or place for them. It’s not just the best Canadian play I’ve read this year but the best in several years.” —RONALD BRyDEN , Globe and Mail

“While he offers plenty of pratfalls and broad caricatures, Moses ultimately aims for something darker, more complex, something magical. Big Buck City is a strangely powerful, disturbing piece of work…life and death and money and magic swirl around each other…an amus - ing but familiar farce [turns] into something more powerful and more difficult to pin down.” — CHRIS DAFOE , Globe and Mail

Daniel David Moses, of Toronto and Kingston, is a Delaware from the Six Nations lands on the Grand River. He lives in Toronto where he writes, and Kingston where he teaches playwrighting as an assistant profes - sor, and Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University. Along with 15 books, Moses has also appeared in Prism International, ARC, Atlanta Review, The Fiddlehead, Poetry Canada Review, Impulse Magazine, Prairie Fire, QUARRY and Exile, the Literary Quarterly , and the collec - tions Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature, Native Poetry in Canada, A Contemporary Anthology, Native Writers and Canadian Writing, The Last Blewointment Anthology and First People, First Voices.

General Readers Drama. Performing Arts. BISAC: Drama/Canadian. Drama/General. 26 LAWREN HARRIS CONTRASTS: IN THE WARD LAWREN HARRIS Part of the Exile Classics series New and Expanded Edition, includes 16 colour reproductions of the artist’s paintings. (AVAILABLE) 7 x 7 Trade Paperback 168 pages 978-1-55096-308-3 $24.95

In 1922, while the Group of Seven was emerg - ing as a national phenomenon, Lawren Harris published his only book of poems – Contrasts – the first modernist exploration of Canadian urban space in verse. Harris also wandered the streets of Toronto, sketching and creating a powerful set of city paintings. This edition brings together Harris’ original self-published book of poems, and sixteen paintings of the artist’s early urban works in a compact, beautiful-to-hold- and-read collection. The book also contains a fourteen-page walking tour of the “relics of Lawren Harris’ Toronto,” including historical and biographical tidbits, as well as sections of further readings in relation to Harris, the Group of Seven, Toronto and the Ward, and other Toronto walks, over 65 questions for discussion, and a complete listing of the paintings that provides details on size, medium and current location. Unlike any other book on Harris, this edition offers a new view of Harris’ pre-Group of Seven career, while presenting an exciting window into city life at the turn of the century. .

Over 2,500 copies sold with this and two previous editions.

“This small album of poetry, paintings, and biographical walking tour ought to be on every ‘Welcome to Toronto’ (and ‘Canada’) book list. Gregory Betts’s smart, illustrative writing, which convinces by style as well as content, and Exile Editions’ winning presentation, combine to make Lawren Harris: In the Ward a fresh look at the early work of one of Canada’s most iconic modernists.” — Open Book Toronto , Elana Wolff

Gregory Betts is an assistant professor at Brock University, where he teaches Canadian and avant-garde literature. He also edited for this series After Exile: A Raymond Knister Poetry Reader (Exile Classics Series 21). He lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Always available at the Art Gallery of Ontario

27 Poetry. Canadian Art. BISAC: Poetrty: Canadian. Cultural Studies General Readers 100 LOVE SONNETS PABLO NERUDA (AVAILABLE) 5.5 x 8.5 Trade Paperback 248 pages 978-1-55096-387-8 $24.95

A new and expanded edition. Translated by Gustavo Escobedo. Introduction by Rosemary Sullivan. Reflections on reading Neruda by George Elliott Clarke, Beatriz Hausner and A.F. Moritz. Includes four interior colour paintings by cover artist Gabriela Campos.

Pablo Neruda is still one of the most widely read, influential and beloved 20th-century poets. He was a Nobel Laureate, famous for his politically engaged lyrics. He also wrote bold and sen - sual sonnets. Now, 40 years after his death, this compilation of his sonnets, unlike previous translations, captures the true spirit and verbal dexterity of the lesser-known genre. As part of the Exile Classics Series, the poems are followed by three reflections on reading Neruda by the notable poets and translators A.F. Moritz and Beatriz Hausner, and Toronto’s Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke, an Afterword by the translator, as well as questions for discussion and recommended readings. Over 5,000 copies sold in Exile Editions’ various editions.

“This handsome, bilingual edition...is a worthy tribute and a rollicking good read, staying true to the poet’s expansive, idiosyncratic style.” —Globe and Mail

Poetry. Women’s Studies. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General

THAT SUMMER IN PARIS MORLEY CALLAGHAN (AVAILABLE) 5.5 x 8.5 Trade Paperback 280 pages 978-1-55096-361-8 $19.95

A new and expanded edition of the classic memoir, plus over 60 added pages of Callaghan’s later reflections on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and his own return to the Left Bank 50 years later.

It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America had moved to the Left Bank of Paris. Hemingway was reading proofs to A Farewell to Arms , and a few blocks away Fitzgerald was struggling over Tender Is the Night . And Morley Callaghan, his first book published to acclaim in New york, arrived in Paris to share the felicities of the literary life, not just with his two friends but with James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Robert McAlmon. Amidst these tangled relations, some friendships flourished while others failed . A tragic and sad and unforgettable story told in Callaghan’s lucid, compassionate prose.

ePUB, KINDLE, PDF • 978-1-55096-401-1 A timeless classic. • 978-1-55096-402-8 Over 5,000 copies sold in Exile Editions‘ various editions. • 978-1-55096-400-4 Over 50,000 sold since original publication.

“There are so many interesting characters dropping in and out of the narrative… [enjoy] the personalities, the complicated relationships, the bilateral stories, the history.” — National Post

General Readers Memoir. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Canadian History. European History 28 DEAD NORTH CANADIAN ZOMBIE FICTION The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Eight Zombies in Canada? You better believe it! Coast to coast across the Great White North… 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 336 pages 978-1-55096-355-7 $19.95

An enjoyable and rollicking ride, this collection contains 20 short stories that explore a broad spectrum of the undead, from Romero-style corpses to zom - bies inspired by Canadian Aboriginal mythology, all shambling against the back - ground of the Great White North. The anthology's specific focus on Canadian settings distinguishes it from the pack, and its exploration of many types of zom - bies weaves a vast compendium of fiction. Strong writing and imagination are showcased in clever stories that take readers through thrills, chills, kills, carnage, horror, and havoc wreaked across the country. Tales deal with a lone human chasing zombies across an icy landscape after the apocalypse, whales returning from the depths to haunt the southern coast of Labrador, a marijuana grow-op operation in British Columbia experiencing problems when the dead begin to attack, and a corpse turned into a flesh puppet for part of a depraved sex show, among other topics. Providing a unique location and mythology that has not been tackled before, Dead North will appeal to speculative fiction, horror, and zombie fans. ePUB, KINDLE, PDF • 978-1-55096-382-3 • 978-1-55096-383-0 Like the Energizer Bunny they keep on going: AVAILABLE in 3rd printings • 978-1-55096-381-6

FRACTURED TALES OF THE CANADIAN POST-APOCALYPSE The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Nine We like to imagine the end. How we might survive. How we might live after the fateful moment that changes everything – and that moment has arrived. Welcome to Canada after the apocalypse! 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 360 pages 978-1-55096-409-7 $19.95

Fractured is a collection of stories by 23 writers who imagine life after the end of days. The waters have risen around Vancouver, nuclear disasters have devas - tated the Prairies, a strange sickness has relocated the capital of the nation to yellowknife, aliens have invaded Manitoba, even ghosts have returned to exter - minate the living. Across this vast nation, a country fractured and rent asunder by disasters both natural and unnatural, come the stories of survivors, of the brave and the wicked, the kind and the hostile. These are tales that reveal the secrets at this critical point for humanity, exploring a diversity of scenarios and settings from small rural communities to large cities, and protagonists from all walks of life. ePUB, KINDLE, PDF • 978-1-55096-410-3 • 978-1-55096-411-0 • 978-1-55096-412-7

29 Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies (multiple authors). Fiction/Alternative History. General Readers Reviewer: January, 2019 Robert J. Wiersema

Barry Callaghan holds a position in the Canadian literary firmament that is at once praiseworthy and unenviable. Callaghan wrested himself from the shadow of his father, CanLit icon Morley Callaghan, to create a varied career as poet, fiction writer, anthologist, editor, essayist, journalist, filmmaker, and professor. He has been referred to, in this magazine, as “one of Canada’s pre-eminent persons of letters,” on a level with Margaret Atwood and Mordecai Richler He is also, unfortunately, more written about than read, more discussed than digested. Two new publications will – hopefully – redress that balance, and place Callaghan where he rightfully belongs. All the Lonely People collects Callaghan’s short fiction. This isn’t a “complete works,” but at almost 500 pages it is a rich and enthralling overview. Callaghan writes with a powerful verve, a seeming abandon and heedlessness which upon closer exam - ination reveals itself to be the result of careful, subtle, and unobtrusive skill and care. Stories like “Because y Is a Crooked Letter” seem to ramble unchecked before snapping, in their closing lines, into sharp, breathtaking relief. Callaghan doesn’t write about characters so much as inhabit them, as comfortable in the voice and world of a fading lounge singer as that of an aging hustler or a middle-aged poet. “Drei Alter Kockers” draws together the disparate pasts of three Toronto pensioners – a concentration camp survivor, a capo in the same camp, and a low-level mob killer who dis - patches his victims with a piano-wire garrotte – and builds toward a final confrontation in a Bathurst Street apartment build - ing which one of the characters refers to as “Little Tel Aviv.” It is difficult to find fault with the stories in All the Lonely People , but the collection as a whole suffers from a lack of criti - cal apparatus: there is no information as to the source of the stories, and no dates given for initial publications. The volume, instead, is organized along subtle thematic lines, with elements from individual stories gaining resonance and force from their placement beside or in opposition to other stories. If All the Lonely People highlights Callaghan’s skill at inhabiting the voices of a broad spectrum of humanity, Raise You on the River highlights Callaghan’s own inimitable voice and character. A collection of essays, travel pieces, interviews, and remem - brances, Raise You on the River is another 500-page tome; while some of the entries sprawl, they never fail – individually and collectively – to hold the reader’s attention. The nonfiction volume weaves together motifs and themes, regardless of the ostensible form or purpose of any individ - ual work. Thus, an early encounter with Billie Holliday (which leaves the young Callaghan speechless) serves as a counterpoint to “Fattening Frogs for Snakes,” a winding piece about bluesmen Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGee much later in the volume. Two pieces praise Mavis Gallant and Joyce Carol Oates (the Oates entry is particularly strong), while an analysis of Margaret Atwood’s Morning in the Burned House is at once a cogent piece of critical writing, a powerful dissection of grief, and an investigation into what it means for a writer to put herself in the skin of another. While much of the collection dates from nearly a half-century ago, they remain vital. Callaghan writing about Trudeau (the first one) is a thing of conflicted beauty, while his letter home from the Black September War in 1970 is genuinely sus - penseful, despite its age. Each of the two new volumes serves as a powerful reminder of Callaghan’s consummate skills, but it is when the two books are t aken together that one truly sees the scale and force of Callaghan’s work. As one might expect from any writer, the fiction and nonfiction share a series of concerns, themes, and motifs, including an attention to life in the urban under - belly, the legacy of the Holocaust, and a disconcerting fixation on women’s breasts. But the pieces in these two volumes go beyond that, and begin to engage in a dialogue with one another. Thus, a key turning point in “Because y Is a Crooked Letter” has its roots – and gains its significance – from two selections about Callaghan travelling to Munich and the camp at Dachau. Similarly, a narrative line in the story “Out Thirteenth Summer,” about a father teaching his son to box, resonates against Callaghan’s conversation with Oates. A piece in Raise You on the River even addresses my concern about the fiction collection. As Callaghan recounts help - ing his father collect some of his talks for publication, he reminds the reader of the structure of Morley Callaghan’s Complete Short Stories , “which he insisted were to be printed without the original publication dates. That this process frus - trated a certain kind of professional academic pleased him to no end.” Taken together, these thousand-odd pages are a profound testament to a unique Canadian voice and vision, a keen talent and far-reaching, incisive intellect. 30 There are a lot of great books in this catalogue... keep your notes below.

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