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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 Arts Council, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation, for our publishing activities. $16.95US$ y r t e o P TO YOUR SCATTERED BODIES GO BRIAN BRETT Writing so vivid, observations so telling, these poems are a thoroughly perceptive appreciation of the human predicament that it is all together sobering and profound. OCTOBER 15 5 x 7.5 TPB 144 pages 978-1-55096-889-7 $19.95

Born to be an outsider because of a rare genetic dis - order, Kallmann syndrome, Brian Brett lived an androgy - nous childhood of abuse and sexual harassment. In his teen years he slid into the waterfall of poetry, becoming an auto-didactic polymath, writing – as he says – “side - ways” to the academic poetry of his times. Though raised into manhood in the back of a boot - legger’s truck, Brett, as the hometown outsider, took on the outside world, delving into ancient alchemical mys - teries, the poètes maudits of Jean-Arthur Rimbaud’s days, the rhythms of various tribal cultures, the talking blues, the rhapsodic illuminations of jazz – all the while gathering field notes from nights around camp fires. To Your Scattered Bodies Go is a collection of poems written over the past twenty years, a collection that speaks with a child’s open directness, in fierce ironies, a sometimes bent logic, a justifiable fear of his body, of loves won and lost, and the hallelujahs of a man standing on the lip of the grave. Brett has a unique spirit, a unique musical voice.

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Brian Brett is a poet, fictionist, memoirist, journalist, and former chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada. His fourteen books include The Colour of Bones in a Stream, Coyote: A Mystery, and the Globe book-of-the year, Uproar’s Your Only Music . His best-selling Trauma Farm won numerous prizes, including the Writers’ Trust Award for best Canadian non-fiction. To Your Scattered Bodies Go won the CBC Poetry Prize. His last collection of poems, The Wind River Variations, was released in 2014. The final book in his trilogy of memoirs, the award-winning Tuco , was published in 2015. He is also the recipient of the Lieutenant- General’s Award and the Lifetime Achievement award. He is currently finishing a new novel, and always, new poems.

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THE SECRET LIFE / n o i t c i F

OF DORIS MELNICK / GAIL PRUSSKY INTRODUCED BY DAVID CRONENBERG FINAL WORDS BY TERRY GRAFF A poignant illustrated story about an aging woman’s life as she reflects on passing her years in anonymity. Includes over 50 colour and 20 black-and-white illustrations and paintings. OCTOBER 15 8 x 8.25 COLOUR TPB 144 pages 978-1-55096-893-4 $26.95

This robust satire of a woman fiercely alive explores the heartbreaking pathos of growing old and being alone.

“Doris? You asked me who was Doris?” And then I remembered. “Doris was the woman who worked one of our cash registers at FoodWorld, forever and maybe even longer. But nobody knew a thing about her, or even wanted to because she was plain as a post, always kept to herself, with buttoned lip saying nothing. And then we guessed one day she must be dead because for a whole week she wasn’t there at the Cash. No warning, no nothing about her, not till we heard rumour she’d left behind her house to someone she’d never known, who’d found in the house this journal full of crazy stories Doris had written, and piles and piles of drawings and paintings so fantastic you’d never believe anyone could see herself like that. The secret life of Doris Melnick! The woman not one of us knew though she’d been there all that time. So what does that mean, I wonder?” —Statement by Alice Geerson, FoodWorld clerk

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BROKEN BALLOONS Beautifully drawn and painted, accompanied by stories and poems, Gail Prussky’s first book is a won - derful menagerie of insects, animals, and people are startling, at times frightening, but always grin-inducing over the pages. These 54 black- and-white and 16 colour works of art see the artist-author take her place alongside Edward Gorey, Ralph Steadman, Gary Larson, Robert Crumb and Maurice Sendak. Foreword by auteur David Cronenberg . (2016) 8 x 8.25 COLOUR TPB 978-1-55096-545-2 $19.95

Gail Prussky is an ex-addiction therapist who moved from Toronto to rural Ontario in 2007. In this slowed- down setting, it suddenly occurred to her that if she didn’t write and make art (a new-found passion), she’d probably become a serial killer. Taking this into consideration, she owes much of her creative side to her desire to never experience incarceration. The fact that many people enjoy her work has been a bonus. Gail’s art has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, and is in collections around the world.

General Readers Fiction. Humour. Illustrated Satire . BISAC: Fiction/Satire. Art/Women Artists. 2 $18.95US$ n o i t c i F PARADISE ISLAND AND OTHER GALAXIES MICHAEL MIROLLA “Michael Mirolla’s forays into the multiverse of imaginative fiction are both cerebral and playful, replete with painterly imagery and whimsically creepy irony.” —Claude Lalumière, author of Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment. OCTOBER 15 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 176 pages 978-1-55096-885-9 $22.95

Vivid language powers the highly inventive narrative of Michael Mirolla’s new collection as he navigates vast science and speculative fiction territories. These are bold voyages, to limitless expanses that defy convention – travels beyond the boundaries of the familiar, to cosmic atolls where the reader will take in the wonders of imagination let loose.

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“The vivid writing and the psychological intrigue…will pull readers through to the last page.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Mirolla is a master storyteller [sure to] make you laugh, cry, and cringe.” — TORONTO SUN

“[His] writing is a funny, tragic glimpse into the territory of the absurd, somewhere between Kafka and Vonnegut.” —

Michael Mirolla is the author of a clutch of novels, plays, short story collections and books of poetry. He has been awarded three Bressani Prizes for Berlin (2010), the poetry collection The House on 14th Avenue (2014) and the short story collection, Lessons in Relationship Dyads (2016). “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence” was selected for The Prize Anthology ; and “The Sand Flea” was a U.S. Pushcart Prize nominee. In the fall of 2019, Michael served a three-month writer’s residency at the Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver, during which time he finished the first draft of a novel, T he Second Law of Thermodynamics. Born in Italy and raised in Montreal, Michael now makes his home in the Greater Toronto Area. For more information, www.michaelmirolla.com

3 Fiction. Science Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Literary. Fiction/Science Fiction/General. General Readers $19.95US$ n o i t c i FOOD OF MY PEOPLE F The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Nineteen A delicious collection that serves up a wonderful range of all-new speculative storytelling. NOVEMBER 15 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 340 pages 978-1-55096-909-2 $24.95

Eating is a symbolic and magical act, a transformation, a covenant, a ritual, a comfort, a necessity – but all through history, food-themed stories have also had their dark sides. Food can be integral to the magic, the meetings, the processes of fantastical fiction: from myth and legend to high fantasy, from hard-science speculative fiction to post- modern magic realism, from Hansel and Gretel to Soylent Green , from Persephone to 2001 , from Alice in Wonderland to Alien . In this anthology, Ursula Pflug and Candas Jane Dorsey, two award-winning senior writers of literary speculation, have gathered a range of speculative writing that recognizes both our attraction to the candy coating and our fascination with the poisoned apple. Paired with each story is a recipe, real or fantastical, for food mentioned in the story: consume at your own risk!

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Candas Jane Dorsey works across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, mainstream and speculative, short and long form, arts journalism and arts advocacy. She has also written television and stage scripts, mag - azine and newspaper articles, and reviews. Ursula Pflug is the author or editor of ten novels, novellas, anthologies and story collections. Her fiction has appeared in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K., in award-winning genre and literary publications including Lightspeed, Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Postscripts, Leviathan, and Bamboo Ridge. Her short stories have been taught in universities in Canada and India, and she has collaborated with filmmakers, playwrights, choreographers, and installation artists.

Contributors: Joe Davies, Richar d Van Camp, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Lee Maracle, Lisa Carreiro, Geoffrey W. Cole, Melissa Yuan Innes, Colleen Anderson, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Chris Kuriata, Colleen Anderson, Tapanga Koe, Elisha May Rubacha, Sally McBride, Sheung-King, Karen Lee White, Casey June Wolf, Wendy Bone, Gord Grisenthwaite, Sang Kim, Kate Story, Kathy Nguyen, Desirae May.

General Readers Speculative Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies (Multiple Authors). Science Fiction/General 4 n o i t c i F CVC9 CARTER V. COOPER SHORT FICTION ANTHOLOGY: BOOK NINE A unique Canadian literary prize, with $100,000 awarded to Canadian writers. This year’s celebration to be hosted by Bank of Montreal at their Toronto First Canadian Place Tower. OCTOBER 30 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 176 pages 978-1-55096-913-9 $19.95

Preface by JOYCE CAROL OATES

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 began one of the largest literary prizes for 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 family 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." CVC9 stories and authors: • The Critics by Katie Zdybel – $10,000 winner, Emerging Writer • Honey Maiden by Katie Zdybel (emerging) • Wata Tika Dan Blood by Lue Boileau (emerging) • The Poet of Blind River by Katte Felix (emerging) • Newton’s Law by Darlene Madott • All That Can Be Done by A.S. Penne (emerging) • Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road by Marion Quednau (emerging) • Precor by Sarah Tolmie (emerging) Joyce Carol Oates , who selected the winning stories, lives in Princeton, New • Rapunzel by Linda Rogers – $5,000 ($2,500) Jersey, where she teaches at the university, as well as at New York University co-winner, Any Career Point Writer as Distinguished Writer in the Graduate Writing Program. A member since • Plastic by Christine Ottoni (emerging) 1978 of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is a recent inductee • The Oil Man’s Tale by Susan Swan – $5,000 ($2,500) into the American Philosophical Society. Her most recent titles are My Life as co-winner, Any Career Point Writer a Rat (novel), Pursuit (novella), and Beautiful Days (stories). She received the Jerusalem Prize in 2019 and the Cino del Duca World Prize in 2020. Marketing Highlights ePUB, KINDLE, PDF • National media mailing. • 978-1-55096-914-6 • Targeted media interviews. • 978-1-55096-915-3 • Ottawa Writers Festival. • 978-1-55096-916-0 • Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Goodread s giveaways.

5 Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/General. Fiction/Anthologies (Multiple Authors) General Readers y r t e o 100 LOVE SONNETS P PABLO NERUDA Bilingual English and Spanish edition. Part of the Exile Classics Series . Translated by Gustavo Escobedo. Introduction by Rosemary Sullivan. Reflections on reading Neruda by , Beatriz Hausner and A.F. Moritz. Includes four colour paintings on gloss paper by Gabriela Campos, the cover artist. AUGUST 15 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 248 pages 978-1-55096-387-8 $24.95

Third printing of the expanded New Edition.

Pablo Neruda is still one of the most widely read, influen - tial and beloved 20th-century poets. He was a Nobel Laureate, famous for his politically engaged lyrics. He also wrote bold and sensual sonnets. Now, almost 50 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.

“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

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General Readers Poetry. Women’s Studies. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General 6 y r t e o P CLOSE TO THE BONE DAVID LAMPE PREFACE BY A.F. MORITZ COVER LITHOGRAPH AND SEVEN INTERIOR INK DRAWINGS BY GABRIELA CAMPOS OCTOBER 15 5 x 7.5 TPB 120 pages 978-1-55096- 881-1 $19.95

“A Lampe poem, down through its entire substance, sings a specific fact of person and place, which at the same time is an ars poetica, which at the same time is a vision of the unseen in the seen, a vision which Lampe distin - guishes from yet joins with the vision of Yeats.” —A.F. Moritz

The song of the lark, that exhilarating voice of liberation through

service to and with others resounds for me here today

and echoes beyond this world and into the next.

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David Lampe is a native Iowan who lives in Buffalo. Now professor emeritus, he taught Medieval and Modern literature at Buffalo State College for 40 years. He has edited four collections of Irish literature and one of Canadian short stories, and has published three chapbooks of poetry: The Tree Walked, Selected Quarrels and Quivers of Anonymous of Elmwood , and Like A Lark Singing in the Open Sky.

7 Poetry. American Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General. Poetry/American General. General Readers n o i t c i ON THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH F VLADIMIR AZAROV English and Russian bilingual edition. An innovative fictional account about dying, friendship, and making sense of life – and death. OCTOBER 15 5 x 8 TPB 198 pages 978-1-55096-917-7 $19.95

In On The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Azarov imagines himself exchanging personalities with Tolstoy’s great character, Ivan Ilyich, who – as the story progresses – becomes more and more introspective and emotional as he ponders the rea - son for his own agonizing illness and death. In doing so, Azarov enlarges his personal experience by giving the most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terri - ble death of a close friend a mythic dimension… Azarov’s fear of death leaves him, and as Tolstoy suggested, the terror attached to death itself disappears.

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This dual book has English one side, Russian the other.

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.

General Readers Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Literary. Fiction/Psychological. 8 y r t e o P THE OLD MAN IN THE MIRROR ISN’T ME: LAST CALL HAIKU RAY ROBERTSON Poems about getting old and not liking it. JULY 15 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 96 pages 978-1-55096-873-6 $18.95

“A haiku by Ray Robertson, like a novel by Ray Robertson, is the language we actually speak – whether by ‘language’ you mean what it sounds like, or what life seems to us, given that we talk this way. ‘Corn Flakes before bed / Zoloft for breakfast / I’m doing the best I can.’ The language is so mordant, relaxed, flint-chip shapely and edged, I think Sam Spade must have said these haiku first, between gun-butts to the skull, and Robertson channelled them. ‘Telling yourself it’s going to be okay / Over and over and over.’ They’re the alleys, sidewalks, offices, subways of modern Toronto, and they have the Zen poet’s reverence for the world as presence of the All (‘Sleet storm / Tin roof / Who needs Mozart?’). Their search for a way out only momentarily succeeds, and never ends, but it hovers around ecstasy. ‘Gasoline rain - bows / Exist / Look! ’ ” — A. F. M ORITZ Poems about getting old and not liking it. About getting high on Christmas Eve. About a hole in the sky where Honest Ed’s used to be. About killing mosquitoes and petting strange dogs, and a homeless man who feeds the pigeons who are always happy to see him. About tuning out and turning off and unplugging. About friends who’ve died, and confused skyscrapers on foggy days, and Nabokov in his underwear. About shame in the evening, regret in the morning, and, if there’s time, a nap in the afternoon. About a world where the Clash is classic rock and experience killed curiosity and the corpse wondered what’s next. “Why I Am Not a Poet” is the lively preface -memoir about growing up and becoming a writer in Toronto in the ’80s and ’90s, and being influenced by it’s long-gone bars, bookstores, and people.

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Ray Robertson is the author of eight novels and four collections of nonfiction, among them: Moody Food, 1979, and Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live . His work has been translated into several languages. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, he lives Toronto.

9 Poetry and Autobiography. BISAC: Poetry/General. Poetry/Canadian. General Readers n o i t c i AMUN F MICHEL JEAN / KATHRYN GABINET-KROO “Ten different stories set in multiple epochs and contexts, offering glimpses of lives that provide a wider view and understanding of Indigenous experiences.” — Montreal Review of Books JUNE 15 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 114 pages 978-1-55096-877-4 $22.95

In the Innu language, amun means “gathering.” Under the direction of Innu writer and journalist Michel Jean, this collection brings together Indigenous authors from different backgrounds, First Nations, and generations. Their works of fiction sometimes reflect history and traditions, other times the reality of First Nations in Canada. Offering the various perspectives of well-known creators, this book presents the theatre of a gathering and the speaking out of people who are too rarely heard.

Authors: Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, Naomi Fontaine, Alyssa Jérôme, Michel Jean, Jean Sioui, Maya Cousineau-Mollen, and Joséphine Bacon.

“Young or old, men or women, Innu, Huron-Wendat or Métis, the ten authors of Amun have one thing in com - mon… they write to a certain extent with their blood: their stories resonate with personal dramas and a memory abused by centuries of oppression… “Not surprisingly, the short stories in Amun lead one after the other to rather sobering observations…” —CHRISTIAN DESMEULES , Le Devoir

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Michel Jean is Innu and a member of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation. He is a news anchor and investigative reporter (notably at Radio-Canada, RDI and TVA), a fiction writer, and the author of nine books. Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo is a translator who works for clients in the public and private sector. Her translations of four novels by Quebec authors have been published by Exile Editions, including her translation of Marc Séguin’s Hollywood , one of five finalists for the Governor General’s Award for French literature in 2013. She is an active member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation, and the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada.

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n STORIES OF POWER o i t The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Eighteen c i F NOVEMBER 2019 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 260 pages 978-1-55096-841-5 $21.95

Edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith Bawaajigan – an Anishinaabemowin word for dream or vision – is a collection of short fiction by Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. Ranging from gritty to gothic, hallucinatory to prophetic, the reader encoun - ters ghosts haunting residential school hallways and ghosts looking on from the afterlife, bead-dreamers, talking eagles, Haudenosaunee wizards, giant snakes, sacred white buffalo calves, spider’s silk, a burnt and blood-stained diary, wormholes, poppy-induced deliri - ums, Ouija boards, and imaginary friends among the many exhilarating forces that drive the Indigenous dream-worlds of today.

“This is, overall, a stunning collection of writing from Indigenous sources, stories with the power to trans - form character and reader alike…the high points are numerous and often dizzying in their force… “As one might expect, contributions from heavy-hitters Richard Van Camp and Lee Maracle are among the many highlights… Just as powerful are stories from lesser- known writers… “This is an inspiring and demanding collection, and that is by design. The stories challenge readers on numerous levels: thematically, narratively, and linguisti - cally… “Anthologies like Bawaajigan can play a significant role in this process of education, removing passivity and dis - tance from what might seem – to outsiders – like fan - tastic events, depicting both horrors and hope with an equal force and vitality.” — Quill & Quire Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler is the author of Wrist , an Indigenous monster story written from the monster’s perspective. He holds a B.A. in English and Scan the code for the complete review. Native Studies, a B.F.A. in Integrated Media, and is an M.F.A. candidate in Creative Writing. He is Anishinaabe and Jewish, a member of Lac des Mille Or read at tinyurl.com/Bawaajigan-Q-Q Lacs First Nation, and resides in Mono, Ontario. Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith of Toronto is a Saulteaux writer/editor/journalist from Peguis First Nation, and holds an M.A. in Education for Social Justice, along with a B.A. in ePUB, KINDLE, PDF Aboriginal Studies. 978-1-55096-842-2 978-1-55096-843-9 Contributors: Richard Van Camp, Autumn Bernhardt, Brittany Johnson, 978-1-55096-844-6 Gord Grisenthwaite, Joanne Arnott, Délani Valin, Cathy Smith, David Geary, Yugcetun Anderson, Gerald Silliker Pisim Maskwa, Karen Lee White, Sara General, Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Francine Cunningham, Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith, Lee Maracle, Katie-Jo Rabbit, Wendy Bone.

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YO! WIKSAS? / HI! HOW ARE YOU? C RANDE COOK and LINDA ROGERS This book is for curious kids who ask big questions, and adults who help them discover the answers. NOVEMBER 2019 8 x 9 Colour TPB 66 pages 978-1-55096-828-6 $19.95

“Squirrel Nation and discerning kids everywhere will be delighted with this fun, fast-paced, and rollick - ing collection of poems by Linda Rogers, accompa - nied by silk screen images by Chief Rande Cook. Yo! Wiksas? is an innovative fusion of Kwakwaka'wakw art, Kwak'wala terms, and delightful English-language verse.” —Richard Mackie, Editor, The Ormsby Review

Illustrated conversations are the Indigenous way of showing rather than telling, and these conversations between Isla and Ethan – son and daughter of Chief Rande Ola K'alapa (Cook), a much loved artist of mixed European and Indigenous decent – and their invisible friend Siri touch on bullying, environmental protection, and inclusivity – all very important top - ics for children. 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… This book will also be a useful classroom adjunct to interpersonal rela - tionships and a key to opening the potential for student narratives.

“This is sound evidence of true reconciliation based on mutual respect and regard, the embodiment of inter-cultural collaboration that – especially for children – is essential in a divided world.” —Karen Lee White, author of The Silence “I received this brilliant book and went through it cover to cover twice now. Wow! What a journey. I will be reading this to my little grandchildren when I see them. The collaboration between Linda, Rande and the kids is amazing.” —Christine Gunsie Hunt, President of the Kwakiutl Fisheries Commission, Commissioner at Agricultural Land Commission, contributor to Awakwis newspaper ePUB, KINDLE, PDF 978-1-55096-829-3 Rande Cook is represented by several important galleries which 978-1-55096-830-9 respect his voice as a ground breaker in contemporary Canadian 978-1-55096-831-6 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/Adult Children’s Fiction. Art. BISAC: Fiction/Fantasy/Contemporary. Art/Native American. 12 n o i t c i F DREAMERS AND MISFITS OF MONTCLAIR MARK PATERSON “When it comes to setting and characters…Paterson offers [stunning] meditations on the lonelines and sadness among those who feel separate…” — Literary Review of Canada NOVEMBER 2019 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 202 pages 978-1-55096-836-1 $19.95

In his third short story collection, Mark Paterson intro - duces the town of Montclair, a fictional yet familiar suburb of Montreal. With distinctive humour and emotion he celebrates the refusal of the monotonous, and the struggle for individuality in a bastion of boredom and conformity. Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair is an exploration of suburbia’s little wild spaces.

“Paterson had me…on the first page of the first story… Throughout this collection, the sweet and bitter, the ordi - nary and odd commingle. Paterson provides us with a lovingly resolute reminder that even in the suburbs, any - thing…is possible. “But it’s in the longer, more reflective narratives that Paterson is at his best – wrestling with his characters’ mixed feelings about who they are, where they come from, and how the two questions invariably collide. Often, Paterson’s protagonists end up surprising them - selves…” —Montreal Review of Books

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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 empa - thetic writer.” — The Malahat Review ePUB, KINDLE, PDF 978-1-55096-837-8 “Punchy, off-kilter, and highly imaginative.” — Quill & Quire 978-1-55096-838-5 “Compellingly narrated with a slacker’s eye for the 978-1-55096-840-8 bizarre, the writing seems effortless.” —Globe and Mail

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.

13 Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Short Stories. Fiction/Urban. General Readers n o i t c i CRACKER JACKS FOR MISFITS F CHRISTINE OTTONI A finely layered narrative of interconnected short stories about discovering independence, strength, and the power to love. NOVEMBER 2019 5 x 8 TPB 198 pages 978-1-55096-832-3 $19.95

Naomi, Joanne, Jake and Marce find themselves caught in the crosshairs of modern-day chaos marked by urban claustrophobia and loneliness. They are searching for inti - macy, hungry for human connection; looking for it online, in dive bars, on road trips, in unfamiliar bedrooms, on curbs outside house parties, and in hushed conversations with strangers.

This is a contemporary and poignant portrait of the moment when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments… Discontent and over-connectivity joust with those responsibilities at the core of today’s society: understanding and respecting the strengths and frailties of those who we call friends, family – and the other.

“Ottoni weaves a symphonic tapestry of strength and courage.” —Bruce Meyer, author/editor of over 60 books.

“Ottoni’s style is subtle and direct, evoking a trace of Mary Karr and the cleanness of Cormac McCarthy.” —Teresa Toten, author of The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B.

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Christine Ottoni has had work appear in the pages of untethered journal and The 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. Women’s Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Short Stories. Fiction/General. 14 n o i t c i f n

o FACETS OF EROS N THE DRAWINGS OF CLAIRE WILKS DAVID SOBELMAN An insightful and authoritative look at a singular Canadian woman artist who broke conventions. SEPTEMBER 2019 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 their engagement with death in the Shoah camps – through the lens of ePUB, KINDLE, PDF that ancient figure Eros, as first discussed by Plato. This is a startling, orig - 978-1-55096-825-5 978-1-55096-826-2 inal approach to a startling, original artist, the meta-portrait of a singular 978-1-55096-827-9 woman who expressed the world she saw around her with her hands.

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, City and Monterrey, Mexico . She died in 2017.

15 Women’s Studies. Erotica. BISAC: Art/Canadian. Art/Women Artists. General Readers n o i t c i

INFINITE GRADATION f n ANNE MICHAELS o N WINNER: 2019 $10,000 VINE AWARD FOR NONFICTION At a time when facing death has become an unavoidable topic around the world, this book is a surprising meditation on death which is to be read as a celebration of life. April 2019 4.25 x 7 TPB 88 pages 978-1-55096-774-6 $19.95

Infinite Gradation is an astonishing meditation on what art makes of death, and the moral, emotional, and philosophical 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 existence. Asking urgent questions, she explores how art might serve as a witness in extremis , and she examines the nature of responsibility, and the form it takes in poetry, fiction and image- making when everything is at stake.

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General Readers Nonfiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Nonfiction/Literary.

RAILTRACKS n o

ANNE MICHAELS / i t c i

Prose with an enormous reach, compassion, and wisdom. F This Canadian edition follows the acclaimed releases in the U.K. and U.S. October 2019 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 ren - dered simply as J and A, infusing them with a fictive resonance as well as the weight of their reputations, accomplishments and autobiographies. Railtracks is a unique collaboration, a profound meditation on exile and migration, separa - tion and consolation, reunions and railways, 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 every - thing behind. It fuses longing and intimacy, distance and presence. Railtracks is the original text of the London stage production, Vanishing Points , performed by the authors and Theatre Complicite, and directed by Simon McBurney. With 16 B&W photographs by Janice Johnson

ePUB, KINDLE, PDF 978-1-55096-779-1 978-1-55096-780-7 978-1-55096-781-4 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 , 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, , was adapted as a feature film. Her latest book of poetry, All We Saw , was published in 2017.

General Readers Fiction, Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Literary. Fiction/Visionary & Metaphysical. 16 n o i t c i

F ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE BARRY CALLAGHAN 2018 5.5 x 8 HC 504 pages 978-1-55096-790-6 $37.95

PREFACE BY Callaghan’s writing is wide-ranging but often takes the perspective of a mar - ginal 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 consid - er 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 sadness and puzzling beauty .

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“Barry Callaghan holds a position in the Canadian literary firmament… [He] writes with a powerful verve, a seeming abandon and heedlessness which upon closer examination reveals itself to be the result of careful, subtle, and unobtrusive skill and care… Fiction. Cultural Studies. General Readers “T aken together, these thousand-odd pages are a profound tes - tament to a unique Canadian voice and vision, a keen talent and far- reaching, incisive intellect.” —Robert J. Wiersema, Quill & Quire n o i t c i f n o RAISE YOU ON THE RIVER N ESSAYS AND ENCOUNTERS 1964 –2018 BARRY CALLAGHAN 2018 6 x 9 HC 472 pages 978-1-55096-786-9 $37.95

For some six decades Barry Callaghan has been a singular 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.

Barry Callaghan , of Toronto, is the well-known novelist, poet, and person 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 .

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F CLI-FI CANADIAN TALES OF CLIMATE CHANGE The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Fourteen A diverse literary genre that is becoming more Important to writers, critics and journalists around the world, 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 304 pages 978-1-55096-670-1 $19.95

“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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Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies. Fiction/Alternative History. General Readers

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i CANADIAN HUMOUR, LAUGHS AND GAFFS t c i The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Fifteen F “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.” — 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 384 pages 978-1-55096-691-6 $24.95

Margaret Atwood, , , Priscila Uppal, Jonathan Goldstein, , , Jacques Ferron, Marsha Boulton, Joe Rosen-blatt, Barry Callaghan, Linda Rogers, Steven Hayward, Andrew Borkowski, Helen Marshall, , 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.

“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..” — Winnipeg Free Press

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LAWREN HARRIS: &

y r t CONTRASTS IN THE WARD e o 7x7 16 8 pages COLOUR TPB 978-1-55096-308-3 $24.95 P

In 1922, while the Group of Seven was emerging as a national phenomenon, Lawren Harris published his only book of poems – Contrasts – the first modernist exploration of Canadian urban in verse. Harris also wandered the streets of Toronto, sketching and creating a powerful set of city paintings. This edi - tion 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, genre-crossing collection. The book also contains a fourteen-page walking tour of the “relics of Lawren Harris’ Toronto,” including historical and biogra - phical 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, medi - um 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.

General Readers Poetry. Cultural-Urban Studies. Canadian Art. BISAC: Poetry/General Second printings

THAT SUMMER IN PARIS r i

MORLEY CALLAGHAN o m e

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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’s 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 narra - tive… [enjoy] the personalities, the complicated relationships, the bilateral stories, the history.” — National Post

General Readers Memoir. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Canadian History. European History 20 n o i t c i F 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.

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n FRACTURED o i t TALES OF THE CANADIAN POST-APOCALYPSE c i F 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 $24.95

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.

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21 Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies. Fiction/Alternative History. General Readers r i o m e

THE LIFE CRIMES AND HARD TIMES OF M RICKY ATKINSON LEADER OF THE DIRTY TRICKS GANG RICHARD ATKINSON WITH JOE FIORITO A breathtakingly scandalous story, and a tale of redemption after having been drawn into a life of crime. 6 x 9 TPB 376 pages (plus 8 pages colour photos) 978-1-55096-674-9 $29.95

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 multie thnic enclave where livestock was butchered on the sidewalks. 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 preva - lent 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 Now into a second printing after 2,000 copies sold via trade distribution and at events. 978-1-55096-675-6 978-1-55096-676-3 978-1-55096-677-0

General Readers Autobiography. True Crime. BISAC: Biography/Criminals and Outlaws/Personal Memoir. 22 There are a lot of great books in this catalogue... keep your notes below.

Exile Editions is a Canadian literary press that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, drama, and graphic books, with some 500 titles released since 1975.

By Deborah Dundas – Books Editor Fri., Nov. 22, 2019 Time: 9 min. read

THE ‘I NTREPID CALLAGHANS ’ A DD A NEW CHAPTER TO THEIR MASSIVE LITERARY IN CANADA Feeling an exile in their own home has informed the lives – and the myth – of Toronto’s Callaghan family. You’ll have heard of them: Morley Callaghan, short-story writer; his son Barry, also a writer but a professor, too, the founder of a magazine and publishing house called Exile; and Barry’s son Michael, the third generation of the “intrepid Callaghans,” as poet Anne Michaels referred to them in a celebratory event a year or two back. The family is that rarity in Canada: three generations who have lived, and are living, the writing life…

Read the complete article at www.tinyurl.com//Intrepid-Callaghans – or scan the code with your phone