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Wolsak and Wynn is an eccentric literary press based in the heart of Hamilton, Ontario. With steel mills on one side of us, the Niagara Escarpment on the other and Toronto somewhere off in the distance, we spend our time producing brilliant, highly individual and sometimes provocative books. With over thirty years of publishing behind us, we’ve won a number of awards for our books, from the Governor General’s Award for Poetry to the Pigskin Peter’s Award for Nominally Narrative Canadian Cartooning. Wolsak and Wynn publishes poetry, fiction and non-fiction for nearly every taste.

About our imprints:

Buckrider Books features cutting-edge poetry and genre- bending fiction that challenge everyday literary conventions. On the outskirts of the mainstream, we feel these books represent the best that contemporary literature has to offer. In 2017, senior editor Paul Vermeersch announced the formation of an editorial advisory board made up of poet Canisia Lubrin, novelist Jen Sookfong Lee and Griffin Prize– winning poet Jordan Abel.

James Street North Books focuses on telling the stories of Hamilton, and the area around it, by the authors who live here. From histories of our institutions to collections of poems that capture the essence of our neighbourhoods, these books know our city intimately.

Poplar Press is devoted to books you want to read, rather than the books you perhaps should be reading. Whether the stories involve young heroes fending off giant centipedes or childhood memories of snails escaping the cooking pot, along with a recipe for the snails, these books will keep you turning pages.

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Wolsak and Wynn gratefully acknowledges the Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support. e Western Alienation Merit Badge By Nancy Jo Cullen

A queer daughter returns home to save her family from the National energy Program.

Set in Calgary in 1982, during the recession that arrived on the heels of Canada’s National Energy Program, The Western Alienation Merit Badge follows the Murray family as they struggle with grief and find themselves on the brink of financial ruin. After the death of her stepmother, Frances “Frankie” Murray returns to Calgary to help her father, Jimmy, and her sister, Bernadette, pay the mortgage on the family home. When Robyn, a long-lost friend, becomes their house guest old tensions are reignited and Jimmy, Bernadette and Frances find themselves increasingly alienated from one another. Part family drama, part queer coming-of-age story, e Western Alienation Merit Badge explores the complex dynamics of a small family falling apart.

Praise for Nancy Jo Cullen “The book combines a plenitude of characters infrequently thrown together in CanLit with themes that have universal and enduring appeal. The 978-1-928088-78-3 5.5” x 8.5” Paperback collection balances a sensitive understanding of the perils and challenges 240 pp. $20 May Fiction women face with a sympathetic and affectionate take on flawed male characters; there’s not a weak story in the bunch. Cullen is a writer to watch out for.” – Quill & Quire on Canary Other Title of Interest:

The Fishers of Paradise “Good fiction – and this collection is very good – concentrates the By Rachael Preston extraordinary in any given life. Overdone, the result can be mere 978-1-928088-16-5 eccentricity, a pitfall Cullen avoids. We have encountered her people in our 356 pp. $22 2016 lives. They stand frozen on street corners, unsure of their next move.” Fiction – Winnipeg Review on Canary

“It’s the characters Nancy Jo Cullen is the fourth recipient of the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie that bring this Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing landscape to life; from the University of Guelph-Humber and her short story collection, characters whose motivations and Canary , was the winner of the 2012 Metcalf-RookeAward. Her poetry has needs are as multi-layered and murky been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s as the swamp that gives the book its Stephan G. Stephansson Award and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book name.” – Hamilton Public Library’s Prize. She lived in Calgary for over two decades and still returns regularly to Voice of Older Adults Blog connect with family and friends. She now lives in Kingston, Canada.

Frontlist : Fiction 2 Proof I Was Here By Becky Blake

starting from scratch isn’t easy, but Barcelona might be the right place to try.

What’s the point of trying to leave a mark when everything disappears? This question is at the heart of Proof I Was Here , a novel that tells the picaresque coming-of-age story of a young thief and aspiring artist who attempts to reboot her life on the streets of Barcelona after an unexpected breakup. Hailing from Toronto, where she has criminal charges waiting, Niki is outside of Canada for the first time. The pickpockets, squatters and graffiti artists she meets challenge her to reassess her ideas about luck and art. With the help of a passionate Catalan separatist who dreams of building a new country from the ground up, Niki realizes that starting her life over from scratch could be an opportunity – if she can just get back to Toronto in time to clear her name.

Praise for Becky Blake “Becky Blake, a Toronto writer who is working on her first novel, has won the CBC Short Story Prize. Her winning short story ‘The Three Times Rule’ plunges readers into an encounter between a woman and her new lover with 978-1-928088-77-6 5.5” x 8.5” Paperback clear signs that the relationship is not going to work out.” 240 pp. $20 May Fiction – CBC Books on the 2013 CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction

Becky Blake is a two-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize (for non-fiction Other Title of Interest: in 2017 and short fiction in 2013). Her fiction and essays have appeared in publications across Canada. She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph, In Search of the and teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Perfect Singing Continuing Education. Becky currently lives in Toronto where she’s working Flamingo on a second novel and a memoir-in-essays. By Claire Tacon 978-1-928088-57-8 272 pp. $20 2018 Fiction

“e plot twists here are hilarious and hopeful, even through excellently drawn, spine- tingling conflicts. Dialogue is snappy, and inner monologues humanize the characters, even as they make decisions with bad consequences.” – Foreword Reviews

3 Frontlist : Fiction TREATY# By Armand Garnet Ruffo

Ruffo’s poetry is itself a treaty between art and its capacity to inform and heal.

A treaty is a contract. A treaty is enduring. A treaty is an act of faith. A treaty at its best is justice. It is a document and an undertaking. It is connected to place, people and self. It is built on the past, but it also indicates how the future may unfold. Armand Garnet Ruffo’s TREATY# is all of these. In this far-ranging work, Ruffo documents his observations on life – and in the process, his own life – as he sets out to restructure relationships and address obligations nation-to-nation, human-to-human, human-to-nature. Now, he undertakes a new phase in its restoration. He has written his TREATY# like a palimpsest over past representations of Indigenous bodies and beliefs, built powerful connections to his predecessors, and discovered new ways to bear witness and build a place for them, and all of us, in his poems. This is a major new work from an important, original voice.

Praise for Armand Garnet Ruffo “Ruffo verbally renders the mystical, visual experiences created by his tribal kinsman, whose paintings sustain the worlds the artist dreamed as he 978-1-928088-76-9 5.75” x 8.5” Paperback 80 pp. $18 March Poetry sought spiritual knowledge and struggled with alcoholism. In each poem, Ruffo connects an evocative painting with episodes in Morrisseau’s life. . . Ruffo’s own gift to the painter he admired is a compassionate representation Other Title of Interest: of his difficult life and celebrated work in verbal imagery accentuating the ‘dignity and bravery’ of the ‘Great Ojibway’ people.” A Difficult Beauty – Canadian Literature on The Thunderbird Poems By David Groulx 978-1-894987-57-8 Armand Garnet Ruffo was born and raised in northern Ontario and draws upon 104 pp. $17 2011 his Ojibwe heritage for much of his writing. A multi-genre writer, he is the author Poetry of Grey Owl: e Mystery of Archie Belaney and Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird , a finalist for the 2015 Governor General’s Literary “ere is Awards. His latest collection of poetry is The Thunderbird Poems . Other projects include “Sounding under: e Song of Francis Pegahmagabow,” a musical tenderness in drama that premiered in the summer of 2018, and “On the Day the World Begins Groulx; there is Again,” a short film about Indigenous incarceration that will premiere in October beauty alongside of 2018. His writing most recently appeared in ARC Poetry , GRANTA : Canada difficulty. But he has thunderbolts to issue, EVENT and 150, Canada’s History in Poetry (Nimbus Publishing). Ruffo throw – to illuminate consciousness is the recipient of a Honourary Life Member Award from the League of Canadian and rock consciences – and he throws Poets and an inaugural Mayor’s Arts Award from the City of Kingston. He is them, to overthrow complacency.” currently the Queen’s National Scholar in Indigenous Literature at Queen’s – Chronicle Herald University in Kingston. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. Frontlist : Poetry 4 e Dark Set: New Tenderman Poems By Tim Bowling

idiosyncratic and haunting, e Dark Set takes Tim Bowling’s breathtaking poetry to new heights.

A tenderman is a crew member of a fishing vessel, a fisherman, someone who hauls live fish to the shore every day. In The Dark Set , the Tenderman is a character from another time, a worker in a lost resource culture, who is both a breathing artifact of a rough-edged, wilder past and a representative of uncomfortable human traits that rise out of ignorance and a failure of empathy. A fiercely independent everyman, the Tenderman is Bowling’s way of wrestling with his own conflicted feelings about masculinity, history, citizenship and power. The division between the poet and the tenderman is wide, but he is a kind of shadow brother, a solitary visitor from a world North America repeatedly tries, and fails, to leave behind.

Praise for Tim Bowling “The collection is full of vividly drawn characters and themes that give it real life, albeit a dark and by times merciless life... Bowling’s Tenderman is a tremendous collection of poems – relevant, outspoken and composed with a sharp blade, indeed.” 978-1-928088-81-3 5.75” x 8.5” Paperback – Ottawa Citizen on Tenderman 80 pp. $18 March Poetry

“A seasoned poet, Bowling’s lyrical skills are clearly exhibited in his latest collection, which will be appreciated by anyone who wishes to have a scrutinizing reflection on their place in the world.” Other Title by This Author: – Where Edmonton on The Duende of Tetherball The Heavy Bear By Tim Bowling Tim Bowling ’s nineteen books have been shortlisted for major national 978-1-928088-32-5 prizes in fiction (the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for e Tinsmith in 234 pp. $20 2017 2012), non-fiction (the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize) and poetry (the Fiction Governor General’s Award and Canadian Authors Association Award), and in 2008 the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Bowling a fellowship recognizing his entire body of work. His writing has “Bowling takes also been nominated twelve times for the Alberta Literary Awards and nine readers on a zany times for the City of Edmonton Book Prize. He currently lives in Edmonton, Joycean journey through the streets of Alberta. Edmonton.” – Publishers Weekly

5 Frontlist : Poetry With My Back to the World By Sally Cooper

An expansive novel that delves deeply into the lives of fascinating women.

In an ambitious, yet intimate novel set in Taos, New Mexico, and Hamilton, Ontario, Sally Cooper explores unexpected motherhood, creativity, race, love and faith. With My Back to the World tells the stories of three women: Rudie, who is editing a documentary in Hamilton in 2010; historical artist Agnes Martin, who decides in 1974 after seven years’ exile in New Mexico to begin painting again; and Ellen, a black woman burying her husband in 1870 on an Ontario homestead. Each of these women is waiting for the arrival of an unexpected child and their interconnected stories explore how society’s, and our own, ideas of what it means to be a woman, a mother and an artist change over time. Evocative and introspective, With My Back to the World tells the complicated stories of how different women find faith in themselves in extraordinary circumstances.

Praise for Sally Cooper “In Sally Cooper’s stories, love is elusive, unpredictable and often misshapen, but that doesn’t stop her characters from trying for it… Her 978-1-928088-80-6 5.5” x 8.5” Paperback ability to unflinchingly peel back the skin of her characters to look at the 300 pp. $22 May Fiction darkness underneath has earned her acclaim and a committed readership.” – Winnipeg Free Press on Smells Like Heaven

“Hamilton writer Sally Cooper’s second novel...is courageous.” Other Title of Interest: – National Post on Tell Everything The Capacity for Infinite Happiness Sally Cooper is the author of two acclaimed novels, Love Object and Tell By Alexis Von Konigslow Everything , and the linked story collection Smells Like Heaven . Her writing 978-1-894987-97-4 has appeared in CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries; Electric Literature; Event; 320 pp. $22 2015 e Feathertale Review; Globe & Mail; Grain; e Millions and e New Fiction Quarterly . In 2017, her writing was longlisted for the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, the Short Works Prize and the Vancouver Women in Film and “e dexterity of Television From Our Dark Side Contest. Sally is a senior editor of Hamilton Von Konigslow’s Review of Books . She lives in Hamilton, Ontario. storytelling produces a narrative that will not easily be forgotten.” – Canadian Literature

Frontlist : Fiction 6 Treed By Ariel Gordon

With muddy knees and a poet’s eye, Gordon takes readers deep into the urban woods.

With intimacy and humour award-winning poet Ariel Gordon walks us through the streets of Winnipeg and into the urban forest that is, to her, the city’s heart. Along the way she shares with us the lives of these urban trees, from the grackles and caterpillars of the spring to the red-stemmed dogwood of the winter, and helps us to consider what we expect of nature. Whether it is the fogging of mosquitoes, family farms and their futures, squirrels at loose in living rooms or infestations of teenagers at a lake when she is looking for quiet, Gordon delves into our relationships with the natural world with heart and style. In the end, the essays circle back to the forest, where the weather is always better and where the reader can see how to remake even the trees that are lost.

Praise for Ariel Gordon “Stowaways is a clever and often hilarious collection with its occasional tenderness let slip amidst a clearly unromantic stance and matter-of-fact prairie landscape. With its freshness of metaphor and crazy juxtapositions, 978-1-928088-75-2 5.5” x 8.5” Paperback its ironic and often comic twists in narrative, Stowaways is a collection that 160 pp. $18 May Non-fiction will hold readers’ eyes and play with their wits to the end.” – The Goose Other Title of Interest:

“Adept and assured, Stowaways swaggers.” Yardwork: A Biography – Winnipeg Free Press of an Urban Place By Daniel Coleman 978-1-928088-28-8 Ariel Gordon is the author of two collections of urban-nature poetry, both 272 pp. $20 2017 of which won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Recent projects include the Non-fiction anthology GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times , co-edited with Tanis MacDonald and Rosanna Deerchild, and the third installment of the National “Well-researched Poetry Month in the Winnipeg Free Press project. She lives in Winnipeg, into the local lore Manitoba. of Hamilton, the families who settled there, and the Indigenous people who lived on the land prior to European settlement. [Coleman] is inclusive of those stories; of recorded family history in old Bibles, the ceremonial and oral narratives of Indigenous peoples.” – e Goose

7 Frontlist : Non-fiction Love in the Chthulucene (Cthulhucene) By Natalee Caple

With fierce lines caple connects readers to the pain of the world, searching for hope.

In a collection grappling with #MeToo, climate change and political turmoil, Natalee Caple strives to discover a way forward in charged times. These poems look to acknowledge struggle, to re-evaluate society and to rethink our approach to art. This is a challenging collection, but also a personal one. As Caple explains in her acknowledgements, she “wrote these poems as gifts.” They were gifts to the people who have shaped her as a writer and a thinker, and now they are gifts to readers to show how one might try and find a way to keep creating that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all things, human and non-human.

Praise for Natalee Caple “In Caple’s poems, the writer, alchemist, journalist, librarian, painter, father, servant’s son and husband is pieced together, ironically and tenderly, anew. . . . Through lists, found poems, timelines, letters, stage plays and lyrics, Caple divines an evocative collection as undecided and evolving in form and tone as 978-1-928088-79-0 5.75” x 8.5” Paperback Strindberg himself.” 96 pp. $18 March Poetry – Winnipeg Free Press on The Semiconductor Dictionary, Our Strindberg

Other Title of Interest: Natalee Caple is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction. Her work Divided has been nominated for the KM Hunter Award, the RBC Bronwen Wallace By Linda Frank Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the ReLit Award and the Walter 978-1-928088-58-5 Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Her latest novel, In Calamity’s Wake , was 96 pp. $18 2018 Poetry published in Canada by HarperCollins and in the US by Bloomsbury. e novel in translation was published by Boréal and has been sold separately for “Wonderstruck publication in France. Natalee lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, and is an by nature and associate professor at Brock University. science, [Frank] uses them beautifully in this book to draw out the most myriad and finely observed insights, on everything from sexual politics and bedroom intimacy (or the lack of it) to species extinction, the swiness of life, religion, control, capture, the call of the wild and children.” – Hamilton Spectator

Frontlist : Poetry 8 From My Mother’s Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada By Njoki Wane A generously told story of one woman’s journey from fetching water in her childhood village in Kenya to lecturing at the University of Toronto.

In this warm and honest memoir, celebrated academic Njoki Wane shares her journey from her parents’ small coffee farm in Kenya, where she helped her mother in the fields as a child, to her current work as a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Moving smoothly between time and place, Wane uses her past to illuminate her present. e childhood confusion caused by nuns at her boarding school dismissing her proper name and demanding she give them a Christian first name she did not possess, which resulted in many unexpected consequences, leads dely to her requirement as a professor that her students, and all her colleagues, learn to use and correctly pronounce her first name of Njoki. In similar ways, Wane uses other memories, painful and tender, to show how her early lessons and the support given by her family allowed her to succeed as a woman of colour in the academy and to later li up her students facing their own difficult journeys. Yet Wane does not gloss over her own growing pains as a young woman, and as an established professor she still questions whether or not her attachment to Western conveniences is wise. For, in the end, Wane never 978-1-928088-73-8 5.5” x 8.5” Paperback forgets that her story started with the feeling of safety and the clear field of 175 pp. $18 March Memoir view she received as a child carried on her mother’s back.

Njoki Wane is a professor in the Department of Humanities, Social Science Other Title of Interest: and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She lives in Pickering, Ontario. Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir By Julie Salverson 978-1-928088-25-7 214 pp. $20 2016 Non-fiction

“Her excursion takes her into some of the darkest reaches of recent history, but also illuminates the human spirit with hope and humour.” – Quill & Quire

9 Recently Announced: memoir e Grimoire of Kensington Market By Lauren B. Davis

“Davis confidently paints a magical world rich in detail where human trials unfold against a fairy- tale tapestry. Weaving a fresh legend from a mosaic of ancient stories, she creates a bold new world where wit equals witchery and kindness is as valued as courage.” – John C. Foster, author of Mister White

978-1-928088-70-7 328 pp. $22 Fiction October 2018 e Death We Like Scene Artist Feelings. By Andrew Wilmot We Are Serious. By Julie McIsaac “From the jaw-dropping opening pages when we meet a protagonist perusing their “McIsaac’s work is searing, remarkable inventory of relentlessly tense, sharp and ‘outfits,’ up to the very last daring with clear-eyed defiance. page, this novel kept me riveted. This is a wonderful Dauntless, it bristles with fury, and irreverent badass book, surreal, disturbing and liberating in the very best wit. . . . There is no silencing here – We Like Feelings. way.” We Are Serious. catches in your throat.” – Suzette Mayr, author of Monoceros – Sandra Ridley, author of Silvija

978-1-928088-71-4 258 pp. $20 Fiction October 2018 978-1-928088-69-1 152 pp. $18 Poetry October 2018

Some of Us and Daylighting Most of You Chedoke Are Dead By John Terpstra By Peter Norman In elegant, seamless prose award-winning author John These are poems with past lives Terpstra attempts to trace – animated by rhythm while Chedoke’s afflicted waters back haunted by memory; poems to their source, searching that conjure moments of the supernatural while they through historical archives and city documents, and wrestle with the boundary between our world and the even walking up the great storm drains that collect the half-remembered one lurking just beneath its surface. water that spills from the escarpment.

978-1-928088-68-4 86 pp. $18 Poetry October 2018 978-1-928088-72-1 144 pp. $18 Non-fiction October 2018

Recent Titles 10 Adjacentland By Rabindranath Maharaj

“A talented and at times poetic writer whose referential style is rooted in psychological realism but gleefully borrows from a range of forms. [… Maharaj’s] gift for creating sharp, poignant portraits is a useful counterpoint to the emotional pall that hangs over the characters.” – Sean Cranbury, Quill & Quire

978-1-928088-56-1 322 pp. $22 Fiction May 2018 Obras completas / In Search of the Complete Works, Perfect Singing Volume 1 Flamingo By Oliverio Girondo, By Claire Tacon Translated by

Hugh Hazelton “A novel that manages to be clever and funny and Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, wrenching and captivating all at Oliverio Girondo was a key figure in the Argentine once. Tacon’s writing is full of avant-garde movement. He is considered one of the quiet magic, mixing the ordinary with the extraordinary great poets of Latin America, but has only had portions as only great fiction can do. I couldn’t put it down until of his work translated into English. This is the first I’d reached its final page.” volume of a two-volume facing-page translation done – Amy Stuart, author of Still Mine by award-winning translator Hugh Hazelton. 978-1-928088-57-8 272 pp. $20 Fiction May 2018 978-1-928088-74-5 350 pp. $25 Poetry November 2018

Ten-Headed Listen Before Alien Transmit By David James By Dani Couture Brock “The poems in Listen Before Transmit exist in the slippage “This is war poetry that white- between language, experience knuckles the horror story of and memory – deftly moving normal life, where the most one way, then another, in a human thing about a robot is its lack of function. Here, call-and-response to the human condition. A beautiful language is a junkyard drum set of evil sounds, let and accomplished collection.” loose in pursuit of an enemy half-machinic, half- – Helen Humphreys, author of The Ghost Orchard mythic. Success is mutually assured destruction.” – Linda Besner, author of Feel Happier in Nine Seconds 978-1-928088-54-7 72 pp. $18 Poetry March 2018 978-1-928088-55-4 96 pp. $18 Poetry March 2018 11 Recent Titles Out of Line By Tanis MacDonald

In Out of Line MacDonald draws on her years of experience teaching writing at a small university – where students often asked her how they could “be writers” – to hold a magnifying glass up to artistic communities and demystify artistic practice.

978-1-928088-59-2 196 pp. $20 Non-fiction June 2018

Divided Has the World By Linda Frank Ended Yet? By Peter Linda Frank looks deeply into humanity’s interactions with Darbyshire the animal world, considering both our fascination with and “Darbyshire delights in fear of it, and our exploitation mashing pop-culture genres of all species. These poems together, exposing profound investigate the fearsomeness truths beneath classic tropes in ways at once hilarious, of nature, cataloguing its shimmering beauty in crisp weird, and heart-breaking.” lines before showing the uncompromising endings. – Publishers Weekly

978-1-928088-58-5 96 pp. $18 Poetry April 2018 978-1-928088-44-8 312 pp. $22 Fiction October 2017

e Prisoner Voodoo and the Hypothesis Chaplain By Canisia Lubrin By Michelle Berry “Canisia Lubrin’s lush, winding poetic lines are the incantations “A tightly paced, story- of a furious imagining. . . . Here is conversation set in a prison a brilliant new Canadian voice . . . death row, with one heck of a raising up language like a shield twist ending.” – Metro News against European histories and sciences, raising up 978-1-928088-43-1 248 pp. $20 Fiction October 2017 poetry like a sacrifice of sweat and blood.” – Sonnet L’Abbé, author of Killarnoe

978-1-928088-42-4 96 pp. $18 Poetry October 2017

Recent Titles 12 Selected Backlist

Agro, Vince. Bowling, Tim. In Grace’s Kitchen: Memories and recipes from an Italian- The Dark Set: New Tenderman Poems, 2019. Canadian childhood, 2014. 978-1-928088-81-3 80 pp. $18 978-1-894987-80-6 272 pp. $20 Bowling, Tim. Armstrong, Luanne, and Zoë Landale, ed. The Heavy Bear, 2017 . Slice me some truth: An anthology of Canadian creative 978-1-928088-32-5 234 pp. $20 nonfiction, 2011 . Brock, David James. 978-1-894987-60-8 402 pp. $29 Everyone is CO 2, 2014 . Avasilichioaei, Oana. 978-1-894987-83-7 64 pp. $18 Abandon, 2005 . Brock, David James. 978-1-894987-05-9 78 pp. $15 Ten-Headed Alien, 2018 . Avasilichioaei, Oana. 978-1-928088-55-4 96 pp. $18 feria: a poempark, 2008 . Butler, Jenna. 978-1-894987-29-5 104 pp. $17 A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Avasilichioaei, Oana. Trail, 2015 . We, Beasts, 2012 . Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Winner of the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry Award / Gold Medalist for the Living Now Book Awards 978-1-894987-62-2 148 pp. $19 978-1-928088-08-0 152 pp. $20 Barwin, Gary. Bydlowska, Jowita. No TV for Woodpeckers, 2017 . Guy, 2016 . 978-1-928088-30-1 96 pp. $18 978-1-928088-23-3 272 pp. $20 Baulcomb, Andrew. Cahill, Matt. Evenings & Weekends: Five Years in Hamilton Music, The Society of Experience, 2015 . 2006–2011, 2016 . 978-1-928088-04-2 248 pp. $22 Winner of the Kerry Schooley Award Caldwell, Claire. 978-1-928088-24-0 264 pp. $20 Invasive Species, 2014 . Berry, Michelle. 978-1-894987-87-5 72 pp. $18 The Prisoner and the Chaplain, 2017 . Capilongo, Domenico. 978-1-928088-43-1 248 pp. $20 I thought elvis was italian, 2008 . Betts, Gregory, ed. 978-1-894987-22-6 88 pp. $17 This is Importance: A Students’ Guide to Literature, 2013 . Caple, Natalee. 978-1-894987-75-2 120 pp. $10 Love in the Chthulucene (Cthulhucene), 2019. Bitney, Katherine. 978-1-928088-79-0 96 pp. $18 The Boreal Dragon: Encounters with a northern land, Chambers, Chris. 2013 . Thrillows & Despairos, 2015 . 978-1-894987-69-1 168 pp. $19 978-1-894987-98-1 70 pp. $18 Blake, Becky. Charach, Ron. Proof I Was Here, 2019. Cowboys & Bleeding Hearts: Essays on Violence, Health 978-1-928088-77-6 240 pp. $20 and Identity, 2009 . 978-1-894987-35-6 188 pp. $19

13 Backlist Choyce, Lesley. Downie, Glen. How to Fix Your Head, 2011 . Loyalty Management, 2007 . 978-1-894987-54-7 148 pp. $17 Winner of the Toronto Book Award 978-1-894987-16-5 120 pp. $17 Choyce, Lesley. Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea, 2009 . Dupré, Louise. Trans. by Erín Moure. 978-1-894987-39-4 250 pp. $19 Just Like Her, 2011 . 978-1-894987-56-1 96 pp. $17 Coleman, Daniel. Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place, 2017 . Easton, Lee, and Richard Harrison. Shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and 978-1-928088-28-8 272 pp. $20 the Superhero, 2010. 978-1-894987-50-9 392 pp. $25 Collier, David. Hamilton Illustrated, 2012 . Ferguson, Jesse Patrick. Winner of the Pigskin Peters Award Mr. Sapiens, 2014 . 978-1-894987-70-7 88 pp. $19 978-1-894987-88-2 86 pp. $18 Cooper, Sally. Fischer Guy, Christine. With My Back to the World, 2019. The Umbrella Mender, 2014 . 978-1-928088-80-6 300 pp. $22 978-1-894987-90-5 300 pp. $22 Cotnoir, Louise. Trans. by Oana Avasilichioaei. Frank, Linda. The Islands, 2011 . Divided, 2018 . 978-1-894987-55-4 96 pp. $17 978-1-928088-58-5 96 pp. $18 Couture, Dani. García, Griselda. Trans. by Hugh Hazelton. Listen Before Transmit, 2018. Hallucinations in the Alfalfa and Other Poems, 2010 . 978-1-928088-54-7 72 pp. $18 978-1-894987-43-1 164 pp. $19 Cullen, Nancy Jo. Girondo, Oliverio. Trans. by Hugh Hazelton. The Western Alienation Merit Badge, 2019. Obras completas / Complete Works, Volume 1, 2018. 978-1-928088-78-3 240 pp. $20 978-1-928088-74-5 350 pp. $25 Darbyshire, Peter. Gordon, Ariel. Has the World Ended Yet?: Stories, 2017. Treed, 2019. 978-1-928088-44-8 312 pp. $22 978-1-928088-75-2 160 pp. $18 Davis, Lauren B. Graham, Catherine. The Grimoire of Kensington Market, 2018 . The Celery Forest, 2017 . 978-1-928088-70-7 328 pp. $22 Shortlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Dempster, Barry. Poetry 978-1-928088-41-7 74 pp. $18 Dying a Little, 2011 . 978-1-894987-58-5 104 pp. $17 Graham, Catherine. Dobson, Kit. Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects, 2013 . 978-1-894987-76-9 60 pp. $17 Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada, 2017. 978-1-928088-46-2 230 pp. $20 Groulx, David. Dopp, Jamie, and Richard Harrison, ed. A Difficult Beauty, 2011 . 978-1-894987-57-8 104 pp. $17 Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey, 2009 . 978-1-894987-34-9 214 pp. $25 Harris, Erina. Downie, Glen. The Stag Head Spoke, 2014 . 978-1-894987-82-0 94 pp. $18 Local News, 2011 . 978-1-894987-52-3 80 pp. $17

Backlist 14 Harrison, Richard. Lee, David Neil. Hero of the Play: 10th Anniversary Edition, 2004 . The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and 978-0-919897-95-3 96 pp. $15 the New York Jazz Field, 2014 . 978-1-894987-85-1 152 pp. $20 Harrison, Richard. On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood, 2016 . Lee, David Neil. Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry / The Midnight Games, 2015 . Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry Winner of the Kerry Schooley Award 978-1-928088-22-6 84 pp. $18 978-1-894987-96-7 212 pp. $12 Harrison, Richard. Lemm, Richard. Worthy of his Fall, 2005 . Burning House, 2010 . 978-1-894987-04-2 78 pp. $15 978-1-894987-40-0 126 pp. $17 Haskins, David. Lindsay, James. This House is Condemned, 2013 . Our Inland Sea, 2015 . 978-1-894987-78-3 176 pp. $19 978-1-928088-06-6 80 pp. $18 Hilles, Robert. Lubrin, Canisia. Cantos from a Small Room, 1993 . Voodoo Hypothesis, 2017 . Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award 978-0-919897-37-3 88 pp. $15 978-1-928088-42-4 96 pp. $18 Hoogland, Cornelia. Lynes, Jeanette. Woods Wolf Girl, 2011 . Archive of the Undressed, 2012 . 978-1-894987-53-0 96 pp. $17 978-1-894987-66-0 80 pp. $17 Howe, Ken. Lynes, Jeanette. The Civic-Mindedness of Trees, 2013 . Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare Poems, 2015 . Winner of the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry Winner of the Saskatchewan Arts Board Poetry Award 978-1-894987-72-1 102 pp. $17 978-1-928088-05-9 80 pp. $18 Kennedy, Brian, ed. Lynes, Jeanette. Coming Down the Mountain: Rethinking the 1972 The New Blue Distance, 2009 . Summit Series, 2014 . 978-1-894987-31-8 104 pp. $17 978-1-894987-86-8 324 pp. $25 MacDonald, Tanis. Landale, Zoë. Out of Line: Daring to Be an Artist Outside the Big City, Einstein’s Cat, 2012 . 2018 . 978-1-894987-67-7 88 pp. $17 978-1-928088-59-2 196 pp. $20 Landale, Zoë. Maharaj, Rabindranath. Once a Murderer, 2008 . Adjacentland, 2018. 978-1-894987-23-3 96 pp. $17 978-1-928088-56-1 322 pp. $22 Lawson, JonArno. Mann, Douglas. But It’s So Silly: A Cross-cultural Collage of Nonsense, Play Great Power and Great Responsibility: The Philosophical and Poetry, 2017 . Politics of Comics, 2014 . 978-1-928088-45-5 320 pp. $22 978-1-894987-79-0 430 pp. $25 Lawson, JonArno. Maylor, Micheline. Enjoy It While It Hurts, 2013 . Full Depth: The Raymond Knister Poems, 2007 . Winner of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in 978-1-894987-17-2 86 pp. $17 North American Poetry 978-1-894987-77-6 118 pp. $17

15 Backlist McConnell, Kathleen. Noteboom, Erin. Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from The Mongoose Diaries: Excerpts from Pygmalian to Twilight, 2012 . a mother’s first year, 2007 . 978-1-894987-68-4 194 pp. $19 978-1-894987-15-8 248 pp. $15 McIsaac, Julie. Noteboom, Erin. We Like Feelings. We Are Serious., 2018. Seal up the Thunder, 2005 . 978-1-928088-69-1 152 pp. $18 978-1-894987-00-4 80 pp. $15 McMillan, Amber. Owen, Catherine. We Can’t Ever Do This Again, 2015 . Catalysts: Confrontations with the muse, 2012 . 978-1-894987-99-8 68 pp. $18 978-1-894987-59-2 144 pp. $17 McOrmond, Steve. Owen, Catherine. Primer on the Hereafter, 2006 . Dear Ghost, 2017 . Winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize Winner of the Alcuin Society Award for Poetry / 978-1-894987-12-7 88 pp. $17 Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 978-1-928088-31-8 104 pp. $18 McRae, Christina. Next to Nothing, 2009 . Owen, Catherine. 978-1-894987-38-7 72 pp. $17 The Other 23 & a Half Hours: Or Everything You Wanted Midgley, Peter. to Know that Your MFA Didn’t Teach You, 2015 . 978-1-928088-00-4 210 pp. $20 Counting Teeth: A Namibian Story, 2014 . 978-1-894987-89-9 272 pp. $22 Owen, Catherine. Midgley, Peter. Seeing Lessons, 2010 . 978-1-894987-48-6 96 pp. $17 Unquiet Bones, 2015 . Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Owen, Catherine. Edmonton Book Prize Shall: ghazals, 2006 . 978-1-928088-07-3 70 pp. $18 978-1-894987-08-0 88 pp. $17 Miller, D. D. Page, Edita, ed. David Foster Wallace Ruined My Suicide and Other The Baltic Quintet: Poems from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Stories, 2014 . Lithuania and Sweden, 2008 . 978-1-894987-84-4 248 pp. $20 978-1-894987-26-4 192 pp. $25 Miller, D. D. Pannell, Chris. Eight-Wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd’s Short History of Drive, 2009. Flat Track Roller Derby, 2016 . Winner of the Acorn-Plantos Award 978-1-928088-13-4 242 pp. $20 978-1-894987-33-2 102 pp. $17 Moore, Robert. Pannell, Chris. Figuring Ground, 2009 . Love, Despite the Ache, 2016 . 978-1-894987-32-5 88 pp. $17 Winner of the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry 978-1-928088-15-8 72 pp. $18 Neilsen Glenn, Lorri. Following the River: Traces of Red River Women, 2017. Pannell, Chris. 978-1-928088-47-9 335 pp. $22 A Nervous City, 2013 . Winner of the Kerry Schooley Award Norman, Peter. 978-1-894987-74-5 80 pp. $17 Some of Us and Most of You are Dead, 2018. 978-1-928088-68-4 86 pp. $18

Backlist 16 Perly, Susan. Smith-McGregor, Kilby. Death Valley, 2016 . Kids in Triage, 2016 Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 978-1-928088-12-7 72 pp. $18 978-1-928088-10-3 312 pp. $22 Spears, Heather. Preston, Rachael. I can still draw, 2008 . The Fishers of Paradise, 2016. 978-1-894987-27-1 112 pp. $17 978-1-928088-16-5 356 pp. $22 Spears, Heather. Priest, Robert. Illustrated by Joan Krygsman. The Word for Sand, 1988 . Rosa Rose, 2013 . Winner of the Governor General’s Award Silver medalist for the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards for Poetry / Winner of the Pat Lowther Award 978-1-894987-73-8 56 pp. $10 978-0-919897-10-6 82 pp. $15 Priest, Robert. Illustrated by Joan Krygsman. Stenson, Susan. The Wolf is Back, 2017 . My mother agrees with the dead, 2007 . Gold medalist for the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 978-1-894987-18-9 72 pp. $17 978-1-928088-29-5 94 pp. $10 Surani, Moez. Rideout, Tanis. Floating Life, 2012 . Arguments with the Lake, 2013 . 978-1-894987-63-9 96 pp. $17 978-1-894987-71-4 72 pp. $17 Tacon, Claire. Ross, Stuart. In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo, 2018. A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent, 2016 . 978-1-928088-57-8 272 pp. $20 Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry Tavares, Zulmira Ribeiro. Trans. by Hugh Hazelton. 978-1-928088-11-0 68 pp. $18 Vesuvius, 2015 . 978-1-894987-81-3 128 pp. $20 Ruffo, Armand Garnet. Terpstra, John. TREATY#, 2019. 978-1928088-76-9 80 pp. $18 The Church Not Made with Hands, 1997 . 978-0-919897-56-4 88 pp. $15 Salverson, Julie. Terpstra, John. Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir, 2016 . 978-1-928088-25-7 214 pp. $20 Daylighting Chedoke: Exploring Hamilton's Hidden Creek, 2018. Selway, Shawn. 978-1-928088-72-1 144 pp. $18 Nobody Here Will Harm You: Mass Medical Evacuation Terpstra, John. from the Eastern Arctic, 1950–1965, 2016 . Winner of the Hamilton Literary Award for Non-fiction Naked Trees, 2012 . 978-1-928088-09-7 280 pp. $25 978-1-894987-65-3 88 pp. $17 Simmers, Bren. Terpstra, John. Night Gears, 2010 . This Orchard Sound, 2014 . 978-1-894987-49-3 80 pp. $17 978-1-894987-92-9 36 pp. $10 Skibsrud, Johanna. Tregebov, Rhea. The Description of the World, 2016 . (alive): Selected and new poems, 2004 . Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry / 978-0-919897-98-4 120 pp. $15 Finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award Von Konigslow, Alexis. 978-1-928088-21-9 88 pp. $18 The Capacity for Infinite Happiness, 2015 . 978-1-894987-97-4 320 pp. $22 Smith, Douglas Burnet. Sister Prometheus: Discovering Marie Curie, 2008 . 978-1-894987-28-8 104 pp. $17

17 Backlist Wakan, Naomi Beth. Wakan, Naomi Beth. Book Ends: A year between the covers, 2010 . Segues, 2005 . 978-1-894987-42-4 254 pp. $19 978-1-894987-01-1 88 pp. $15 Wakan, Naomi Beth. Wane, Njoki. Compositions: Notes on the Written Word, 2008 . From My Mother’s Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada, 978-1-894987-25-7 228 pp. $19 2019. 978-1-928088-73-8 175 pp. $18 Wakan, Naomi Beth. Late Bloomer: On Writing Later in Life, 2006 . Wilmot, Andrew. 978-1-894987-11-0 182 pp. $19 The Death Scene Artist, 2018. 978-1-928088-71-4 258 pp. $22 Wakan, Naomi Beth. A Roller-coaster Ride: Thoughts on aging, 2012 . Silver medalist for the Living Now Book Awards 978-1-894987-64-6 230 pp. $19

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