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A DOZEN OR SO BOOKS THAt we’ve NEGLECTED TO PRATTLE ON ABOUT UNTIL NOW Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers Books from septemBer 2017 to DecemBer 2018 poetry visual arts 1 Penelope, In First Person 7 Mary Pratt: Still Light Sue Goyette 8 Gerald Ferguson: Thinking of Painting 2 No Meeting Without Body 9 Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind Annick MacAskill Ray Cronin 3 This Kind of Thinking Does No Good 10 Lightfield: The Photography of Thaddeus Holownia Alison Smith Peter Sanger 4 Ghost Estates: A Snakeskin Seminar Sean Howard Natural History 5 Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book 11 Audubon in Nova Scotia: An Excerpt from the Christopher Patton Journals of John James Audubon Eric L. Mills memoir 6 Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal GrapHic arts Brian Bartlett 12 Carl Dair and the Cartier Typeface: Selected Correspondence Kristine Tortora 13 Sixty over Twenty: Letterpress Books & Broadsides Printed at Gaspereau Press, 1997–2017 Andrew Steeves Explore our backlist at www.gaspereau.com Order toll free by calling 1 877 230 8232 sue Goyette aNNick macaskill 1 Penelope, In First Person No Meeting Without Body 2 POETRY Penelope waits for Odysseus’s return, so the story The poems in Annick MacAskill’s debut collection No POETRY Fall 2017 goes, but literary tradition tells us little about this act Meeting Without Body are confident and crisp. Depart- Spring 2018 9781554471744 of waiting, an act every bit as epic as her husband’s ing from works of art and literature, historical figures, 9781554471836 $19.95 exploits. In this suite of poems, Sue Goyette steps myth and anecdote, her poems draw the reader into $19.95 Printed offset into the disorienting world of Penelope’s domestic their subjects with unaffected frankness and intimacy, Printed offset on laid paper upheaval, a world populated by a swarm of opportu- answering society’s most reductive forces with a on laid paper making 96 pp. making 80 pp. Smyth-sewn nistic suitors, a tempestuous teenage son, a goddess resistance rooted in the dignity of human connection. Smyth-sewn paperback and sundry sentient objects and talking creatures. paperback trimmed to Written with a wit and a penchant for magic realism aNNick macaskill is the author of a chapbook trimmed to 6 × 8 inches. 5.3 × 8.5 inches. Letterpress- reminiscent of both Ocean and The Brief Reincarnation entitled Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos Letterpress- printed jacket. of a Girl, Goyette’s Penelope chronicles the human (2016). Her poems have appeared in journals such as printed jacket. Typeset in Bembo qualities of waiting—grief, doubt, depression and Grain, Prism International, Versal, Room Magazine, The Typeset in and Fairbank. Fournier. anger, but also determination, strength and grace—as Fiddlehead, and Arc. She has been selected as a finalist Penelope breaks her long silence and exclaims her for the CBC Poetry Prize, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry own story. Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Originally from Ontario, Also available she currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Brief sue Goyette has published five previous collections Reincarnation of poetry, The True Names of Birds, Undone, Outskirts, of a Girl (2015) Ocean (winner of the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of 9781554471461 $19.95 Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award and finalist for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize) and The Brief Reincarna- Ocean (2013) 9781554471225 tion of a Girl. She has won the Pat Lowther Memorial $19.95 Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the CBC Poetry Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, the ReLit Award and the Bliss Carman Award. Goyette lives in Halifax where she teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University. alisoN smitH seaN HowarD 3 This Kind of Thinking Ghost Estates: 4 Does No Good A Snakeskin Seminar POETRY What will surprise you about Alison Smith’s poems Born of notes scrawled during a lunchtime lecture on POETRY Spring 2018 is the tenaciousness that lies beneath their grace and “Orpheus in Ireland, Seamus Heaney and the Poet’s Fall 2018 9781554471690 wit, their unwillingness to concede the bittersweet Task, and Other Matters,” Ghost Estates dives into the 9781554471898 $18.95 complexity of human experience to either gross shadowy shatter zone where modernity meets myth $19.95 Printed offset reduction or cowed silence. Exploring the domestic and magic. Confronted by our collective implication Printed offset on laid paper epics of relationships, childbirth and parenting, as in a complex web of societal injustice—from global on laid paper making 64 pp. making 80 pp. Smyth-sewn well as societal issues like patriarchy and justice, conflicts, to the Irish Troubles, to the wholesale theft Smyth-sewn paperback Smith discovers that often “we barely know how of aboriginal land that now constitutes ‘Canada’—Sean paperback trimmed to feelings think.” But if our stories sometimes elude Howard asks, What is the poet’s task? These poems trimmed to 5 × 8 inches. 6 × 8.5 inches. Letterpress- us—like a skipping rope, where one end is “held slack chart his serpentine quest, following association, Letterpress- printed jacket. / by skeptics, the other turned too fast”—Smith’s incident, murmur and memory backward to the printed jacket. Typeset in poems jump in and find expression’s rhythm. underworld that lurks beneath the facade of our High Typeset in Goluska. Juliana. Estate. alisoN smitH is the author of The Wedding House, Also available Six Mats and One Year, and the chapbook Fishwork, seaN HowarD is the author of three collections of Also available The Wedding Dear. She was shortlisted for the 2013 CBC Poetry poetry, Local Calls, Incitements and The Photographer’s The Photographer's House (2001) Prize. Her poems have appeared in Guernica Maga- Last Picture. As well as appearing in numerous Last Picture (2016) 9781894031301 zine, Fjords Review, Event Magazine, Rusty Toque, literary journals, his work has been featured in The 9781554471607 $12.95 $29.95 Understorey and Lemonhound. She lives in New Best Canadian Poetry in English in both 2011 and 2014. Six Mats and Germany, Nova Scotia. Howard lives in Main-à-Dieu, Cape Breton, and is an Incitements (2011) One Year (2003) 9781554470969 9781894031561 adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton $19.95 $18.95 University. Fishwork, Dear (2010) 9781554470907 $5.95 cHristopHer pattoN BriaN Bartlett 5 Unlikeness Is Us: Branches Over Ripples: 6 Fourteen from the Exeter Book A Waterside Journal POETRY Christopher Patton’s Unlikeness Is Us presents four- Over two years, author and amateur naturalist Brian MEMOIR Fall 2018 teen new translations of Old English poems preserved Bartlett sat down beside various bodies of water (bays, Fall 2017 9781554471751 in the tenth-century Exeter Book, including well- rivers, streams, lakes, waterfalls) to record his impres- 9781554471782 $29.95 known works like “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer,” sions, capturing both sensuous details of natural $29.95 Printed offset as well as others rarely seen in translation. Prioritizing phenomena and reflections on his life and reading. Printed offset on laid paper their integrity as poetry, Patton’s translations work Making a virtue of leisurely digression, Bartlett’s on laid paper making 208 pp. making 272 pp. Smyth-sewn the Anglo-Saxon alliterative line into a patterned, experiment in plein-air writing wanders beyond Smyth-sewn paperback four-beat contemporary English form, retaining the everyday personal journal-keeping into a meditation paperback trimmed to relentless forward drive of the originals and adhering on the rich connections between the seemingly trimmed to 6 × 8.5 inches. 5.3 × 8.5 inches. Letterpress- to sometimes idiosyncratic scribal punctuation. disparate experiences of our days, and on the endur- Letterpress- printed jacket. Through his critical introduction, notes and com- ing value of indulging our curiosity. printed jacket. Typeset in mentary, Patton presents the reader with the complex Typeset in Bunyan. Dante. history of these texts’ transcription, translation BriaN Bartlett has published seven collections and interpretation, departing from long-dominant of poetry (including The Watchmaker’s Table and Also available Augustinian premises in favour of an approach that Wanting the Day: Selected Poems) and two books of Curious Masonry embraces the materiality of text and “a world animate, prose (Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar and All (2011 ) alarming, marvellous, and weird.” Manner of Tackle: Living with Poetry). His writing has 9781554470938 $15.95 won numerous prizes, including the Atlantic Poetry cHristopHer pattoN is a Canadian poet dislocated Prize, The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize and the to Bellingham, Washington. He translates Old English Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry. Bartlett poetry and makes visual poems by distorting lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at Saint handwriting on a photocopier. He has published Mary’s University. two books of poetry, Ox (whose first section won the Paris Review’s long poem prize) and Curious Masonry. Patton lectures on ecopoetics and visual poetry at Western Washington University and blogs at theartofcompost.com. Introducing the first three volumes of the ray croNiN · Gaspereau Field Guides to Canadian Artists, 8 a uniform series of critical essays on Canadian Gerald Ferguson: artists written by Ray Cronin Thinking of Painting Painter and conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson (1937– VISUAL ray croNiN 2009) played a central role in transforming Halifax’s ARTS 7 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design into one of Fall 2018 Mary Pratt: Still Light North America’s leading art schools in the 1970s. Skirt- 9781554471874 ing easy categorization, his work pursued a conflicted, $21.95 anti-romantic, ‘tough’ school of high modernism, one Specifications VISUAL After studying Fine Art at Mount Allison University, which directly challenged the historical context within identical to item 7 ARTS Mary Pratt (b. 1935) settled in Newfoundland with which paintings had been made, collected and discussed Spring 2018 her husband and strove to pursue her passion for for centuries.