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WOLSAK & WYNN
Catalogue Spring 2018 dedicated to publishing clear, passionate canadian voices.
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.
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 Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Canada for their generous support. Adjacentland
By Rabindranath Maharaj
Today is a new day but yesterday was the same day.
In this disquieting new work from award-winning novelist Rabindranath Maharaj, a man awakens in a strange institution called the Compound with no memory of his past. Struggling to make sense of his surroundings, he is skeptical of the administrators who try to convince him he is mad and dangerous, and suspects he has been the subject of recurring experiments, which have caused episodes of amnesia. In dreamlike prose Maharaj weaves a story of fragments, where our narrator comes to believe that he was once a comic book writer who warned that the reliance on artificial intelligence would make the imagination obsolete and subversive. As the narrator searches for clues he may have left for himself before his memory loss, both he and the reader learn of Adjacentland, a primitive land of misfits and outsiders. It is only in Adjacentland that the imagination has survived. With a motley group of inmates from the Compound, the narrator decides to make his way there, but during the journey he discovers a terrible secret about himself and his companions.
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is may sound desperate but a man with little to remember is forced to remember everything. But you, my friend, already know all of this. Are you disa ppointed that I am here, referring to you? If so, you will be even more distraught to know that I have determined – from your manner of evoking accusations in an abstract and indirect way – that you are secretive and sly. Here is this sentence, for instance: “Once we shared the same thoughts and Other Title of Interest beliefs, complimented each other’s views, made fractions whole but all of that was ripped in half. We each went our separate ways, walking away from ourselves, never looking back.” In another letter, torn into four pieces so I had to Death Valley fit them together was this line: “I have disguised my writing and it is my hope By Susan Perly that by the time you determine my identity you would have understood enough 978-1-928088-10-3 to forgive me. We are the only ones le. Trust no one. Least of all yourself.” 312 pp. $22 2016 Fiction Rabindranath Maharaj is the award-winning aut hor of three short story collections and five novels, includingThe Amazing Absorbing Boy, which won the 2010 Trillium Book Award and the 2011 Toronto Book Award, and was voted a CBC Canada “Hypnotic in its Reads Top 10 for Ontario. In 2012, Maharaj received a Lifetime Literary Award, weirdness, Death administered by the National Library and Information System Authority as part of Valley laments a the commemoration of Trinidad’s fiieth independence anniversary. In 2013, he was world that has awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, which honours significant played host to the contributions and achievements by Canadians. Cold War, the atomic bomb, and wars big and small from Vietnam to Iraq.” – Toronto Star 978-1-928088-56-1 5.5”x 8.5” Paperback 350 pp. $22 May Fiction
Frontlist : Fiction 2 In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo
By Claire Tacon
sometimes you don’t know what you need until you go looking for something else.
When Henry Robinson’s daughter Starr is born with Williams Syndrome, he swears to devote his life to making her happy. More than twenty years later, Henry works at Frankie's Funhouse, where he repairs the animatronic band that Starr loves, wrestling with her attempts at living outside the family home. Hi s wife wishes he would allow Starr more independence and turn his attention a little more to their own relationship and their other daughter, who is pregnant. As tensions mount Henry’s young co- worker, Darren, reveals he needs to get to Chicago Comic Con to win back his ex-girlfriend, so Henry packs Starr (and her pet turtles) and Darren (still dressed as Frankie the mascot) into the van for a road trip no one was prepared for. Told in multiple points of view, we hear from Henry, Darren and Starr as they all try to find their place in the world. In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo is a charming, tender and oen funny story of a father struggling to let his daughters grow up and of a family struggling against hard odds, taking care of each other when the world lets them down. excerpt
I see the ad early in the day. A Frankie’s Funhouse fiy miles out of Chicago is converting a Niy Trio Set to Digital One. ey’ve got an old Franny Feathers, Starr’s favourite character, as is. Hasn’t worked right since the “Spooky Good Time” show was loaded in last Halloween. $1900 – fire sale rate – pick it up by the end of the month. Buyer beware, she lurches more than a stick shi in January. ey’ve had her off-grid for the past three months, draped with a spare curtain. My wife’s already drawn the line in the sand. We’re running out of basement Other Title of Interest square footage. ere’s Frankie on vocals, Tops the Turtle on stand-up bass and e Rattlers on drums. In the middle is Starr’s mic stand, a barbell weight threaded onto the base for extra stability. An old desktop is off to the side, with a The Capacity for Infinite three knob panel – junked panic buttons from elevators – that lets her run the Happiness system. Green plays the music on her computer through the speakers, yellow By Alexis von Konigslow makes the band play along, red shuts it all down. 978-1-894987-97-4 320 pp. $22 2015 Claire Tacon’s first novel, In the Field, was the winner of the 2010 Metcalf-Rooke Fiction Award. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace Award, the CBC Literary Prize and the Playboy College Fiction Contest, and has appeare d in journals and anthologies such as The New Quarterly, SubTerrain and Best Canadian Short “At this novel’s heart Stories. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia is a mystery, one and is a past fiction editor of PRISM international. Claire is a lecturer at St. Jerome’s that can sustain University and runs the fiction podcastThe Oddments Tray with Chioke I’Anson. propelling the story forward and back. It’s Arcadia for the connected age.” – Globe and Mail 978-1-928088-57-8 5.5”x 8.5” Paperback 224 pp. $20 May Fiction
3 Frontlist : Fiction Out of Line: Daring to be an Artist Outside the Big City By Tanis MacDonald
When you are an outsider, everything looks like a garrison.
Poet and scholar Tanis MacDonald has taught creative writing for twenty years all across Canada: in small community workshops, large university classes and everything in between. The question she’s heard the most is “How can I be a writer?” and she realized early on that this question had nothing to do with putting words on a page. Out of Line is her answer to this question. In this wide-ranging work MacDonald looks at our societal preconceptions about the artist lifestyle and examines how real artists fit into the everyday world. Along the way she walks the reader through the steps that must be taken for an idea to make it from a concept to a finished piece and what happens once the work is out in the world. Out of Line opens up the arts to everyone who might dream of creating.
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I wrote this book because the questions that my students were asking me were oen variations on How do I learn to be a writer? is is a broader question than How do I write? and more complex than the writing exercises I could teach in class. It had more varied answers than the conversations that I invited in class about the nature and purpose of art. It was a complex, book-length question. is was also the kind of question I’d see reflected on social media, by people older than my students, some with books, some without, some jockeying for position in the spring and fall book seasons and every time in between, fighting about privilege and qualifications and style and coteries and publications and reviewing and sexism and racism and history and violence. If you spend much time thinking about this, you’ll see the ways that class Other Title of Interest privilege looms large: that almost immeasurable whiff of the right to be here, the right to attend the right events in the right city with the right people, wear the right thing to the right party where the right people you met at the other event The Other 23 & a Half introduce you to someone else who gives you your “big break.” Writers dream of Hours: Or Everything You that too, as naive in our ways as Hollywood starlets, each of us thinking our own Wanted to Know that Your version of “and when my book’s published I’ll be famous and admired!” MFA Didn’t Teach You By Catherine Owen Originally from Winnipeg, Tanis MacDonald now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, where 978-1-928088-00-4 she teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at Wilfrid Laurier University. 210 pp. $20 2015 She won the Bliss Carman Poetry Prize in 2003, was a finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Non-fiction Prize in 2013 for her book The Daughter’s Way and was the recipient of the R obert Kroetsch Teaching Award in 2017. She is co-editor (with Rosanna Deerchild and “Engaging, Ariel Gordon) of GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times for Frontenac House. informative, concise, Widely published as a scholar and a reviewer, her fourth poetry book, Mobile, is evocative – Catherine coming out with Bookug in Fall 2019. Owen’s The Other 23 & a Half Hours is a clear, keen contemporary snapshot of Canada’s 978-1-928088-59- 2 5.5” x 8.5” Paperback 250 pp. $20 May Non-fiction vibrant poetry community. A must read for any new, emerging poet.” – Urban Graffiti
Frontlist : Non-fiction 4 Ten-Headed Alien
By David James Brock
A lyrical adventure of music, mayhem and an alien invasion.
Ten-Headed Alien draws from sci-fi and poli-sci, prog rock and politics, climate fiction and ancient mythology to create poems that are at once global and personal. The opening sections of the book take the reader on a harrowing sea-to-sky epic, from a drunken plane crash in the BC interior to a ruined picnic on the Rhone. Mythological creatures battle in subway stations, bionic pigeons flee their crea,tors barflies conjure soulmates, balloon farms exist on the moon and pigs, of course, fly. From Lake Nipissing to the moons of Jupiter, these poems travel around the world (and off it) united by the language of human fragility, and a sense of the body as engineered, temporary and exquisitely sad. e book’s final section brings an uncanny ten-headed alien to Earth and the apocalypse that unfolds is complex and devastating. Ten-Headed Alien, broad in scope, revels in strange, protean imagery to explore the swamps between our natural and technological worlds. excerpt from “i love the laser”
I love the laser that kills the man in the first minutes of the movie. I love the laser’s boom.
I love the elephant ivory grip of the laser held at the cowboy’s thigh. He didn’t know he’d kill
a bunch today – with the laser – but there is pink blood in the dirt of a Mexican cantina. Other Title by This Author ere is a laser in the backdrop of the sunset. ere is a blue eye aiming at the back of the Everyone is CO2 laser’s barrel. e casings clunk on the horse By David James Brock trough’s oak. A man’s skull is deleted over yonder. 978-1-894987-83-7 64 pp. $18 2014 Poetry David James Brock is a playwright, poet and librettist whose plays and operas have been performed in cities across Canada and the UK. He is the winne r of the 2011 “e poems in Herman Voaden Canadian National Playwriting Award for his play Wet. Brock’s David James Brock's debut poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, was released by Wolsak & Wynn in spring debut collection 2014. He is co-creator of Breath Cycle, a multimedia operatic song cycle developed never rest, ranging with cystic fibrosis patients that was nominated for a 2014 Royal Philharmonic in time, place, and Society Award. He lives in Toronto. subject. Topics and themes switch a break-neck speed, united only by a sharp eye for dramatic imagery.” – This 978-1-928088-55-4 5.75” x 8.5” Paperback 90 pp. $18 March Poetry magazine
5 Frontlist : Poetry Listen Before Transmit By Dani Couture
Poems of cunning intelligence that connect us to the world and each other.
Dani Couture’s latest poems are transmissions that travel across the cosmos and the spaces we live in, as well as within the more intimate distances we navigate between one another. Distances we hope to bridge with contact, often to profound or disastrous effects. With language rooted in science, sociology, memoir and aesthetics, she questions the limits of our bodies, both human and celestial. Like the subtle cues we lend one another and the hopeful messages we send into deep space, these poems broadcast our greatest aspirations and vulnerabilities.
excerpt from “listen Before Transmit”
e connection severs itself due to your finger hovers A pause inactivity of a predetermined kind exhalation of the hesitation that More so to know what their patterns Confute yourself who can identify what's missing room unknown to him alone Buried in you like a tumour for What we call, the good kind
Dani Couture is the author of three collections of poetry and the novel Algoma. Her work has been nominated for the Trillium Award for Poetry, received an honour of distinction from the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging Other Title of Interest LGBTQ Writers and won the ReLit Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in publicat ions in Canada, the US and the UK, and in several editions of Best Canadian Poetry in English. She lives in Toronto. Kids in Triage By Kilby Smith-McGregor 978-1-928088-12-7 72 pp. $18 2016 Poetry
“Smith-McGregor's Kids in Triage shows a bone-deep understanding of history, both personal and public. And yet the poet somehow balances the necessary emotional 978-1-928088-54-7 5.75” x 8.5” Paperback 90 pp. $18 March Poetry distance with empathy, tenderness and dark wit.” – Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander
Frontlist : Poetry 6 Divisions By Linda Frank
like pinned butterflies, these poems elegantly display our complex interaction with nature.
From fireflies to the use of feathers to adorn hats, Linda Frank looks deeply into humanity’s interactions with the animal world, considering both our fascination with and fear of it, and our exploitation of all species. These poems investigate the fearsomeness of nature, cataloguing its shimmering beauty in crisp lines before showing the uncompromising endings. Nabokov’s butterflies live on beside flea circuses while the habits of the jewel wasp are detailed along with the end of tadpoles captured by a child. This is a collection written with a botanist’s eye and a scientist’s attention to cause and effect, both a lament and paean to a world that is vanishing.
Jesus Bugs
Striders live upon reflection. An aquatic glissade. Skip like rain.
Is the sky water
or the water sky?
At night they spider dance on t he milky way. Hunt their living prey.
Linda Frank was born in Montreal and now lives in Hamilton, Ontario. A retired Other Title of Interest professor from Mohawk College, she has written three books of poetry: Cobalt Moon Embrace, Insomnie Blues and Kahlo: The World Split Open, which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. She is a past winner of the Banff Centre’s Bliss Carman Invasive Species Poetry Award and has been shortlisted for the National Magazine Awards. By Claire Caldwell 978-1-894987-87-5 72 pp. $18 2014 Poetry
“Claire Caldwell’s musical sensibility is well served in her debut, Invasive Species, where doom wrought by climate change and other too-human bad 978-1-928088-58-5 5.75 ” x 8.5” Paperback 88 pp. $18 March Poetry behaviour is brought to the intimacy of the laundry line, of one’s desk drawer full of inert pencils.” – National Post
7 Frontlist : Poetry Has the World Ended Yet? By Peter Darbyshire
In these astonishing tales, Has the World Ended Yet? mashes up scheming ghosts, travelling deity salesmen, deadly supermodels, a troubled hit man and his sex doll partner, old gods and avenging angels in a Twilight Zone–style collection that is as absurd as the real world yet profoundly human. We follo w characters that are larger than life with tragic flaws that would put the Greek myths to shame, as they move through a broken, corrupted version of our lives.
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 incanta- What if prison was the only tions of a furious imagining. . . . world that existed for you now Here is a brilliant new and everything else was a Canadian voice, in the lyric lineage of Dionne Brand and story? What if you weren’t sure if you were guilty but M. NourbeSe Philip, raising up language like a shield wanted forgiveness in any form? If you had only twelve against European histories and sciences, raising up hours left to live, what would you have to say? poetry like a sacrifice of sweat and blood.” – Sonnet L’Abbé, author of Killarnoe 978-1-928088-43-1 248 pp. $20 Fiction October 2017 978-1-928 088-42-4 96 pp. $18 Poetry October 2017
e Celery But It’s So Silly Forest By JonArno Lawson By Catherine Graham
How are ideas of play shaped by “The Celery Forest is a book of culture? What is imagination, or enacted grace, poetic resource- creativity, and where does poetry fulness and imaginative fit into this mix? For the past courage. It is also, regarding decade, award-winning children’s its subject and its author’s author JonArno Lawson has been experience, a genuine and intensely compelling work of collecting children’s poetry, lap rhymes and finger games art.” – Robert Wrigley, author of Anatomy of Melancholy from across the world for this wide-ranging collection. and Other Poems 978-1-928088-45-5 320 pp. $22 Non-fiction October 2017 978-1-928088-41-7 74 pp. $18 Poetry October 2017
Recent Titles 8 Malled By Kit Dobson
“A thoughtful meditation on the place of shopping in Canadian life, it is also deeply political, but free of the easy moralizing that marks so much writing about consumption and the shopping mall. As he moves from city to city, and mall to mall, Dobson reflects in honest and inventive ways about his complex relationship to shopping and the places in which it happens.” – Will Straw, author ofCyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America
978-1-928088-46-2 230 pp. $20 Non-fiction October 2017 Following the e Wolf is River Back By Lorri Neilsen Glenn By Robert Priest Digging deep into the history of Rupert’s Land, Neilsen Glenn traces From the walk of the Nishiyuu five generations of grandmothers to the return of the wolves to back to the Red River Settlement. Yellowstone National Park But details of the lives of these Robert Priest’s inspiring new Indigenous women and their collection for children crafts contemporaries are sparse: sexism, story poems that illustrate how colonial biases, and religious and class conflict threaten to erase nature works or how one person can make a difference their stories. In elegant prose and poetry, she reflects on the in the world. These are poems that celebrate our importance of remembering and honouring women whose environment and the everyday people who dare to strength and resilience have survived generations. challenge injustice or invent something new.
978-1-928088-47-9 200 pp. $20 Non-fiction November 2017 978-1-928088-29-5 94 pp. $10 Poetry August 2017
e Heavy Bear No TV for By Tim Bowling Woodpeckers By Gary Barwin “Bowling’s command of language is effortlessly beautiful. . . . A In this collection the lines brilliant novel that successfully between haunting and reads as poetry combined with hilarious, wondrous and weird, aspects of memoir and thought- beautiful and beastly, are provoking cultural critique, The blurred in the most satisfying Heavy Bear promises there is ways. Many of these poems much that is redeemable in life’s next stage.” reveal a submerged reality full of forgotten, unknown or – Starred Review, Quill & Quire invisible life forms that surround us – that are us. Within this reality, Barwin explores the connection between 978-1-928088-32-5 234 pp. $20 Fiction May 2017 bodies, language, culture and the envir onment.
978-1-928088-30-1 96 pp. $18 Poetry April 2017
9 Recent Titles Selected Backlist
Agro, Vince. Brock, David James. In Grace’s Kitchen: Memories and recipes from an Italian-Canadian Everyone is CO2, 2014. childhood, 2014. 978-1-894987-83-7 64 pp. $18 978-1-894987-80-6 272 pp. $20 Brock, David James. Armstrong, Luanne, and Zoë Landale, ed. Ten-Headed Alien, 2018. Slice me some truth: An anthology of Canadian creative 978-1-928088-55-4 90 pp. $18 nonfiction, 2011. 978-1-894987-60-8 402 pp. $29 Butler, Jenna. A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail, Avasilichioaei, Oana. 2015. Abandon, 2005. Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta 978-1-894987-05-9 78 pp. $15 Award / Gold Medalist for the Living Now Book Awards 978-1-928088-08-0 152 pp. $20 Avasilichioaei, Oana. feria: a poempark, 2008. Bydlowska, Jowita. 978-1-894987-29-5 96 pp. $17 Guy, 2016. 978-1-928088-23-3 272 pp. $20 Avasilichioaei, Oana. We, Beasts, 2012. Cahill, Matt. Winner of the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry The Society of Experience, 2015. 978-1-894987-62-2 148 pp. $19 978-1-928088-04-2 248 pp. $22
Barwin, Gary. Caldwell, Claire. No TV for Woodpeckers, 2017. Invasive Species, 2014. 978-1-928088-30-1 96 pp. $18 978-1-894987-87-5 72 pp. $18
Baulcomb, Andrew. Capilongo, Domenico. Evenings & Weekends: Five Years in Hamilton Music, 2006–2011, I thought elvis was italian, 2008. 2016. 978-1-894987-22-6 88 pp. $17 978-1-928088-24-0 264 pp. $20 Chambers, Chris. Berry, Michelle. Thrillows & Despairos, 2015. The Prisoner and the Chaplain, 2017. 978-1-894987-98-1 70 pp. $18 978-1-928088-43-1 248 pp. $20 Charach, Ron. Betts, Gregory, ed. Cowboys & Bleeding Hearts: Essays on Violence, Health and This is Importance: A Students’ Guide to Literature, 2013. Identity, 2009. 978-1-894987-75-2 120 pp. $10 978-1-894987-35-6 188 pp. $19
Bitney, Katherine. Choyce, Lesley. The Boreal Dragon: Encounters with a northern land, 2013. How to Fix Your Head, 2011. 978-1-894987-69-1 168 pp. $19 978-1-894987-54-7 148 pp. $17
Bowling, Tim. Choyce, Lesley. The Heavy Bear, 2017. Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea, 2009. 978-1-928088-32-5 234 pp. $20 978-1-894987-39-4 250 pp. $19
Backlist 10 Coleman, Daniel. Fischer Guy, Christine. Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place, 2017. The Umbrella Mender, 2014. 978-1-928088-28-8 272 pp. $20 978-1-894987-90-5 300 pp. $22
Collier, David. Frank, Linda. Hamilton Illustrated, 2012. Divisions, 2018. Winner of the Pigskin Peters Award 978-1-928088-58-5 88 pp. $18 978-1-894987-70-7 88 pp. $19 García, Griselda. Trans. by Hugh Hazelton. Cotnoir, Louise. Trans. by Oana Avasilichioaei. Hallucinations in the Alfalfa and Other Poems, 2010. The Islands, 2011. 978-1-894987- 43-1 164 pp. $19 978-1-894987-55-4 96 pp. $17 Graham, Catherine. Couture, Dani. The Celery Forest, 2017. Listen Before Transmit, 2018. 978-1-928088-41-7 74 pp. $18 978-1-928088-54-7 90 pp. $18 Graham, Catherine. Darbyshire, Peter. Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects, 2013. Has the World Ended Yet?: Stories, 2017. 978-1-894987-76-9 60 pp. $17 978-1-928088-44-8 312 pp. $22 Groulx, David. Dempster, Barry. A Difficult Beauty, 2011. Dying a Little, 2011. 978-1-894987-57-8 104 pp. $17 978-1-894987-58-5 104 pp. $17 Harris, Erina. Dobson, Kit. The Stag Head Spoke, 2014. Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada, 2017. 978-1-894987-82-0 94 pp. $18 978-1-928088-46-2 230 pp. $20 Harrison, Richard. Dopp, Jamie, and Richard Harrison, ed. Hero of the Play: 10th Anniversary Edition, 2004. Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey, 2009. 978-0-919897-95-3 96 pp. $15 978-1-894987-34-9 214 pp. $25 Harrison, Richard. Downie, Glen. On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood, 2016. Local News, 2011. Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry / 978-1-894987-52-3 80 pp. $17 Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 978-1-928088-22-6 84 pp. $18 Downie, Glen. Loyalty Management, 2007. Harrison, Richard. Winner of the Toronto Book Award Worthy of his Fall, 2005. 978-1-894987-16-5 120 pp. $17 978-1-894987-04-2 78 pp. $15
Dupré, Louise. Trans. by Erín Moure. Haskins, David. Just Like Her, 2011. This House is Condemned, 2013. 978-1-894987-56-1 96 pp. $17 978-1-894987-78-3 176 pp. $19
Easton, Lee, and Richard Harrison. Hilles, Robert. Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and Cantos from a Small Room, 1993. the Supe rhero, 2010. Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry 978-1-894987-50-9 392 pp. $25 978-0-919897-37-3 88 pp. $15
Ferguson, Jesse Patrick. Hoogland, Cornelia. Mr. Sapiens, 2014. Woods Wolf Girl, 2011. 978-1-894987-88-2 86 pp. $18 978-1-894987-53-0 96 pp. $17
11 Backlist 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 2016 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 Cit y, 2018. Einstein’s Cat, 2012. 978-1-928088-59-2 250 pp. $20 978-1-894987-67-7 88 pp. $17 Maharaj, Rabindranath. Landale, Zoë. Adjacentland, 2018. Once a Murderer, 2008. 978-1-928088-56-1 350 pp. $22 978-1-894987-23-3 96 pp. $17 Mann, Douglas. Lawson, JonArno. Great Power and Great Responsibility: The Philosophical But It’s So Silly: A Cross-cultural Collage of Nonsense, Play and Politics of Comics, 2014. Poetry, 2017. 978-1-894987-79-0 430 pp. $25 978-1-928088-45-5 320 pp. $22 Maylor, Micheline. Lawson, JonArno. Full Depth: The Raymond Knister Poems, 2007. Enjoy It While It Hurts, 2013. 978-1-894987-17-2 86 pp. $17 Winner of the Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry McConnell, Kathleen. 978-1-894987-77-6 118 pp. $17 Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight, 2012. Lee, David Neil. 978-1-894987-68-4 194 pp. $19 The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and McMillan, Amber. the New Yo rk Jazz Field, 2014. 978-1-894987-85-1 152 pp. $20 We Can’t Ever Do This Again, 2015. 978-1-894987-99-8 68 pp. $18 Lee, David Neil. McOrmond, Steve. The Midnight Games, 2015. Winner of the Kerry Schooley Award 2016 Primer on the Hereafter, 2006. 978-1-894987-96-7 212 pp. $12 Winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize 978-1-894987-12-7 88 pp. $17 Lemm, Richard. McRae, Christina. Burning House, 2010. 978-1-894987-40-0 126 pp. $17 Next to Nothing, 2009. 978-1-894987-38-7 72 pp. $17 Lindsay, James. Midgley, Peter. Our Inland Sea, 2015. 978-1-928088-06-6 80 pp. $18 Counting Teeth: A Namibian Story, 2014. 978-1-894987-89-9 272 pp. $22 Lubrin, Canisia. Midgley, Peter. Voodoo Hypothesis, 2017. 978-1-928088-42-4 96 pp. $18 Unquiet Bones, 2015. Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Lynes, Jeanette. Prize Archive of the Undressed, 2012. 978-1-928088-07-3 70 pp. $18 978-1-894987-66-0 80 pp. $17
Backlist 12 Miller, D. D. David Pannell, Chris. Foster Wallace Ruined My Suicide and Other Stories, 2014. Drive, 2009. 978-1-894987-84-4 248 pp. $20 Winner of the Acorn-Plantos Award 978-1-894987-33-2 102 pp. $17 Miller, D. D. Eight-Wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd’s Short History of Flat Pannell, Chris. Track Roller Derby, 2016. Love, Despite the Ache, 2016. 978-1-928088-13-4 242 pp. $20 978-1-928088-15-8 72 pp. $18
Moore, Robert. Pannell, Chris. Figuring Ground, 2009. A Nervous City, 2013. 978-1-894987-32-5 88 pp. $17 Winner of the Kerry Schooley Award 978-1-894987-74-5 80 pp. $17 Neilsen Glenn, Lorri. Following the River: Traces of Red River Women, 2017. Perly, Susan. 978-1-928088-47-9 200 pp. $20 Death Valley, 2016. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Noteboom, Erin. 978-1-928088-10-3 312 pp. $22 The Mongoose Diaries: Excerpts from a mother’s first year, 2007. Preston, Rachael. 978-1-894987-15-8 248 pp. $15 The Fishers of Paradise, 2016. 978-1-928088-16-5 356 pp. $22 Noteboom, Erin. Seal up the Thunder, 2005. Priest, Robert. Illustrated by Joan Krygsman. 978-1-894987-00-4 80 pp. $15 Rosa Rose, 2013. Silver medalist for the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Owen, Catherine. 978-1-894987-73-8 56 pp. $10 Catalysts: Confrontations with the muse, 2012. 978-1-894987-59-2 144 pp. $17 Priest, Robert. Illustrated by Joan Krygsman. The Wolf is Back, 2017. Owen, Catherine. 978-1-928088-29-5 94 pp. $10 Dear Ghost, 2017. 978-1-928088-31 -8 104 pp. $18 Rideout, Tanis. Arguments with the Lake, 2013. Owen, Catherine. 978-1-894987-71-4 72 pp. $17 The Other 23 & a Half Hours: Or Everything You Wanted to Know that Your MFA Didn’t Teach You, 2015. Ross, Stuart. 978-1-928088-00-4 210 pp. $20 A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent, 2016 Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry 2017 Owen, Catherine. 978-1-928088-11-0 68 pp. $18 Seeing Lessons, 2010. 978-1-894987-48-6 96 pp. $17 Salverson, Julie. Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir, 2016. Owen, Catherine. 978-1-928088-25-7 214 pp. $20 Shall: ghazals, 2006. 978-1-894987-08-0 88 pp. $17 Sel way, Shawn. Nobody Here Will Harm You: Mass Medical Evacuation from the Page, Edita, ed. Eastern Arctic, 1950–1965, 2016. The Baltic Quintet: Poems from Estonia , Finland, Latvia, 978-1-928088-09-7 280 pp. $25 Lithuania and Sweden, 2008. 978-1-894987-26-4 192 pp. $25 Simmers, Bren. Night Gears, 2010. 978-1-894987-49-3 80 pp. $17
13 Backlist Skibsrud, Johanna. Terpstra, John. The Description of the World, 2016. The Church Not Made with Hands, 1997. Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry / 978-0-919897-56-4 88 pp. $15 Finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 978-1-928088-21-9 88 pp. $18 Terpstra, John. Naked Trees, 2012. Smith, Douglas Burnet. 978-1-894987-65-3 88 pp. $17 Sister Prometheus: Discovering Marie Curie, 2008. 978-1-894987-28-8 104 pp. $17 Terpstra, John. This Orchard Sound, 2014. Smith-McGregor, Kilby. 978-1-894987-92-9 36 pp. $10 Kids in Triage, 2016 978-1-928088-12-7 72 pp. $18 Tregebov, Rhea. (alive): Selected and new poems, 2004. Spears, Heather. 978-0-919897-98-4 120 pp. $15 I can still draw, 2008. 978-1-894987-27-1 112 pp. $17 Von Konigslow, Alexis. The Capacity for Infinite Happiness, 2015. Spears, Heather. 978-1-894987-97-4 320 pp. $22 The Word for Sand, 1988. Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry / Wakan, Naomi Beth. Winner of the Pat Lowther Award Book Ends: A year between the covers, 2010. 978-1-894987-42-4 254 pp. $19 978-0-919897-10-6 82 pp. $15 Wakan, Naomi Beth. Stenson, Susan. Compositions: Notes on the Written Word, 2008. My mother agrees with the dead, 2007. 978-1-894987-25-7 228 pp. $19 978-1-894987-18-9 72 pp. $17 Wakan, Naomi Beth. Surani, Moez. Late Bloomer: On Writing Later in Life, 2006. Floating Life, 2012. 978-1-894987-11-0 182 pp. $19 978-1-894987-63-9 96 pp. $17 Wakan, Naomi Beth. Tacon, Claire. A Roller-coaster Ride: Thoughts on aging, 2012. In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo, 2018. Silver medalist for the Living Now Book Awards 978-1-928088-57-8 224 pp. $20 978-1-894987-64-6 230 pp. $19 Tavares, Zulmira Ribeiro. Trans. by Hugh Hazelton. Wakan, Naomi Beth. Vesuvius, 2015. 978-1-894987-81-3 128 pp. $20 Segues, 2005. 978-1-894987-01-1 88 pp. $15
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