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New Books Spring 2020 Astonished midstream…

In 1990, Anvil Press wasn’t much more than a dream. A small, second floor, one-room office on Main Street for $350 a month, a couple of desks, two PC home computers (as they were called), a light table, waxer, coffee-maker, sign for the door, and suddenly we were (sort of) legit. The plan was to produce a lit-mag and a list of literary books (ambitious, yes, but we didn’t know any better!).

Flyers were made, calls went out, manuscripts slowly began rolling in. Much reading ensued, potential acquisitions were argued over and finally settled on. Sketches, photographs, and cover mock-ups began to appear on the wall above the art table; books were designed — it was all DIY, right? We had no idea. A stroll down a blind alley. But we were young(ish), time was on our side. It was all very organic — fuelled by pots of coffee, day-old baked goods, cigarettes, whisky. Sheafs of paper were handed around — handfuls of poems, stories, novels-in-progress, rants, unclassifiable prose. Ideas, critiques, feedback, revisions, edits, draft upon draft, and finally books being laid out, manuscripts typeset, galleys proofed, corrected, saved as postscript files, and soon, haltingly, nervously sent off on disk by courier to printers across the country where the files would be ripped, output, shot to film, burned to plates, and onto a press that would set the whole process in stone — well, ink and paper.

Then, some weeks later, a truck driver appeared in the office doorway, waybill dangling from his hand, announcing a delivery. Alertness. Silence. Excitement. Boxes carried up the flight of stairs and into the office, the X-Acto knife — carefully — to the tape, and the opening of the box to reveal its contents: books. Brand new, perfect looking books. And wafting from the cases, the unmistakable scent of a freshly printed book. A beautiful sight to behold. We all snapped one up, fingered the pages, admired the cover, raised it to our faces for a smell of the thing — all the work, all the steps, all the hours, now manifest before our eyes.

We were hooked. And 30 years later we still are.

— Brian Kaufman, Publisher

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Fiction Anvil Press • Spring 2020

Czech Techno & Other Stories of Music by Mark Jarman

From the author of 19 Knives and My White Planet comes a brilliant suite of stories built around music and travel. Whether it’s a band coming apart at the ruins of Pompeii, or tours through Napoli’s “volcanic dust and volcanic drugs” or a stroll through Victoria’s inner harbour while “gentle Tunisian techno” rides the breeze where the addicted are as weighted as Shakespear- ean characters — “lit rock and tiny chalice hidden under his shirt,get it all, draw every wisp of the wreath and heavy is the head that wears the crown, that lights the lighter.” Or it’s Steppenwolf or The Youngbloods drifting from a car radio as “an ambulance siren and lights fly our street … a flash- ing mime show of grief’s rocket.” Or, maybe they’re in Iceland, or Den- Also by this author: mark, “somewhere seriously lunar and attractive” spending wheelbarrows Salvage King, Ya! of cash the record execs didn’t give them. Or it’s the Viper Room, Sunset 978-1-895636-56-7 Boulevard, a bar in Butte, Montana, or Johnny Cash in Tijuana.

The five stories that compriseCzech Techno are replete with the sizzle and spark we have come to expect in a Mark Jarman story, his herky-jerky emblematic style in full roar. And matters of the heart, the quest for love, is ever- present, weaving through these stories like a knife blade through sand.

PRAISE FOR JARMAN’S WORK:

“He writes with immediacy and verve, cutting out the unnecessary 96 pages to leave only the most vivid.” — Literary Review of Canada $18 CAN / $15 USA 7 x 10 “a brilliant work . . . a postmodern Canadian classic” — National Post Paperback “relentlessly, dizzyingly energetic” — Globe & Mail 978-1-77214-138-2 July 2020 About the Author: Stories Mark Anthony Jarman is the author of Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, My White Planet, 19 Department of Small Works, #1 Knives, New Orleans Is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca’s Promotional Plans list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the » ARCs number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction. His work has been published » National review copy mailing widely in magazines and journals, including » Regional media relations The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Brick, and » Fredericton book launch American Short Story. He has twice won the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award as well as the Jack Hodgins Fiction » Reading events in Toronto, Montreal, Prize. Mark is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Yaddo fellow, Vancouver, Victoria and currently teaches at the University of New Brunswick. His Selected Stories is forthcoming from Biblioasis Press. » Social media campaign 1 30

Fiction Anvil Press • Spring 2020

...And This Is the Cure by Annette Lapointe

... And This Is the Cure follows Allison Winter, public radio pop-culture journalist and former riot grrrrrl as she regains custody of her adolescent daughter, Hanna, following the murder of her ex-husband. She is unprepared to deal with either the demands of parenting or the fury of her ex-husband’s religiously conservative, grieving family, so she pulls up roots and moves Hanna from Winnipeg to Toronto. Allison’s sweet-natured partner, Eden, struggles to take on the day-to- day parenting while Allison resumes her career and avoids the chaos building at home. Despite all efforts, tensions swell and Hanna’s rage over her disrupted life eventually erupts in episodes of violence. Allison’s past histories return to haunt her present life. Her former bandmates want to reunite for a tour of Japan, and her sister demands Also by this author: help in caring for their difficult and aging mother. Allison decides it Stolen would be best for them all to return to Winnipeg, but this only sparks 978-1-927380-49-9 a whole new chapter of familial conflict, and precipitates a disastrous Whitetail Shooting Gallery event that forces Allison to confront her estranged relationship with 978-1-897535-98-1 her mother and come to terms with her own troubled past. You Are Not Needed Now ...And This Is the Cure is a novel about the weight of unresolved baggage 978-1-77214-093-4 — its pain and trauma — and working through the process of healing and moving on. 320 pages Praise for Annette Lapointe: $22 CAN / $18 USA For Stolen: “The Saskatoon writer’s exceptional first novel should be taught in 6 x 9 high schools…” — The Globe & Mail Paperback 978-1-77214-151-1 For Whitetail Shooting Gallery: “Wintry, notably offbeat, written with an elegant August 2020 precision, and at times slyly funny … Lapointe’s beautiful treatment of poète Novel maudit subject matter never fails to impress.” — The Vancouver Sun

About the author: Promotional Plans Annette Lapointe is the author of two acclaimed novels, » ARCs Stolen and Whitetail Shooting Gallery, and the short story collection, You Are Not Needed Now. She has » National review copy mailing lived in rural Saskatchewan, Quebec City, St John’s, » Regional media relations Saskatoon, Winnipeg (where she earned her PhD), and South Korea. She now lives in Treaty 8 territory, on the » Winnipeg book launch traditional lands of the Beaver people, and teaches at » Reading events in Winnipeg, Grande Prairie Regional College. In her remaining free Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver time, she edits The Waggle magazine. » Social media campaign 2 30

Fiction – Translation Anvil Press • Spring 2020

The Lily Pad and the Spider by Claire Legendre Translated by David Homel

You’re afraid of spiders, heights, sickness, and the way other people look at you. Afraid you’ll be betrayed, abandoned, and that the fortune-tell- er’s predictions will come true. You stop smoking, you avoid insects and medical advice, you stop going on stage, taking the airplane, falling in love, leaning over the balcony rail. You don’t take your driving test and you start reading novels from the end, as if putting on a chastity belt. You think you are well protected, you will never be caught off-guard, nothing will surprise you. Then a butterfly is discovered in your chest, and you feel its wings beating. It is too late to ignore the sensation.

An autobiographical essay on fear, The Lily Pad and the Spider (Le nénuphar et l’araignée) explores the symptoms, sources, and genesis of anxiety, from the most intimate to the most ordinary kind. Using short chapters that are fragments of her life, Claire Legendre breaks down the psychological, physical, and social mechanisms associated with that emotion. Her style is lively, often funny, sometimes dark though never complacent, and the story traces a unique path between France and Canada and the Czech Republic, casting a defiant yet vulnerable gaze upon the world.

The Lily Pad and the Spider (Le nénuphar at l’araignée) was a finalist for the 2016 Quebec Booksellers’ Prize in the Quebec novel category.

Praise for The Lily Pad and the Spider: 96 pages “With the same humour present in her previous books, Legendre observes and $18 CAN / $15 USA recounts her panics with the sharpness of an entomologist dissecting a beetle.” 5 x 8 — Le Devoir Paperback “Claire Legendre explores skillfully and sincerely the symptoms, the sources and 978-1-77214-152-8 the origins of anxiety, from the most ordinary to the most private.” June 2020 — Le journal de Montreal Novel/Translation

About the Author: Claire Legendre was born in Nice in 1979. From her first Promotional Plans book, Making-Of, published when she was only eighteen, » ARCs the writer has worked both the detective and confessional » National review copy mailing fields, with Viande, La méthode Stanislavski, L’écorchée vive, and Photobiographies. She lived in Rome, at the » Regional media relations Villa Medicis in 2000, and in Prague, before settling in » Montreal book launch Quebec, where she has taught creative writing at the Université de Montréal since 2011. » Social media campaign

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Poetry Anvil Press • Spring 2020

Outlasting the Weather Selected & New Poems 1994-2020 by Patrick Friesen

There is something of the elemental in Outlasting the Weather, Patrick Friesen’s Selected and New poems 1994-2020. Over time, the elements shape new worlds. Wind carves a stone bowl, the earth receives our dead. The poems are archaeological digs through layers of a life lived without the certainty of belief. Covering twenty-six years and selected from eight previous volumes, the poems in this collection reject wisdom; rather, they are infused with the kind of knowledge that comes from having weathered many seasons yet still remaining open to wonder. Perhaps, writes Friesen of his late father, you are in that grave where we laid you but I am child enough to think the sky. And for a moment we all look up, trans- ported, filled with the endless possibilities offered by a poet for whom Also by this author: poetry is a way of thinking. A Dark Boat 978-1-897535-91-2 The volume wraps up with, “New Work,” twenty-seven new poems that wholly display the poet’s vast and prodigious talents.

PRAISE FOr Patrick Friesen:

“I read these poems with the utter conviction that Friesen had crossed barriers of time, place, and culture to draw forth poems out of the heart of mystery.” — Marilyn Bowering

“Friesen writes about a world that is ‘quiet’ but teeming with emo- 208 pages tion; this world is alive and ‘writhing’ with lust, obsession, inspira- $20 CAN / $17 USA tion, suffering, and yearning.” — Vancouver Weekly (online) 5.25 x 8 Paperback About the Author: 978-1-77214-153-5 Patrick Friesen has published more than a dozen books of poetry, a book of essays, stage and radio August 2020 plays, three CDs of text and music, and has co- Poetry translated five books of Danish poetry. He won the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award in 1994, and was runner-up for the Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Award in Promotional Plans 1996. Friesen has twice been a Dorothy Livesay » National review copy mailing Poetry Award nominee and once a Governor » Regional media relations General Poetry’s Award nominee. He won the P. K. Page Founders Award for Poetry in 2012, and the ReLit Award for Poetry the same year. In 2016 » Victoria book launch his co-translation of Ulrikka Gernes’ Frayed Opus With Strings and Wind » Reading events in Vancouver, Instruments was short-listed for the Griffin Trust Poetry Prize. He won the Most Outstanding New Work Award for Winnipeg Theatre Awards in 2018. Winnipeg, Toronto He lives in Victoria, BC. » Social media campaign

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Poetry Anvil Press • Spring 2020

Low Centre of Gravity by Michael Dennis

Low Centre of Gravity finds Michael Dennis in familiar territory. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Dennis’ poems continue to be the narratives of movies you’d like to someday see. These poems ask the questions you’d really like answered, sauntering into the room and staking claim. The story- telling continues — the good, the bad and the sadly tragic. With Low Centre of Gravity Dennis remains “direct, curious, pissed off and honest.”

Praise for Michael Dennis’s previous work:

“Michael Dennis is a no-nonsense and straightforward poet of plain- speak and the immediate, and there is something curious about how not a single piece in this collection feels dated, irregardless of date of composition.” — rob mclennan’s blog Also by this author: Bad Engine “Bad Engine is one handsome beast all around, from its cover stock to 978-1-77214-077-4 its papers, from its visual design elements to its hard-to-describe-just- how-satisfying-it-is trim size. This classy presentation brings together some forty years of work from this heart-smart poet...” — David Clewell, author and director of the Creative Writing Program at Webster University in Saint Louis

“Dennis covers racism, abuse, death, loss, insignificance, and the absurdity of humans throughout the collection and still leaves me in wonder at the poet’s ability to delight in the world around him.” 96 pages — The Pacific Rim Review of Books $18 CAN / $15 USA 5.25 x 8.25 Paperback About the Author: Born in London, Ontario, in 1956, Michael 978-1-77214-154-2 Dennis published his first poems in the early June 2020 ’70s. He has published eight books of poetry and more than 25 chapbooks. His working life Poetry has included everything from building engines for Ford and working for Falconbridge Copper in a northern Ontario mine to washing dishes in Promotional Plans a strip club. He ran a boutique hotel in the ’80s, » National review copy mailing was the Santa for the Kmart in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and opened a non-profit » Regional media relations ESL school in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia, immediately following » Ottawa book launch the Velvet Revolution. Michael has driven a taxi and a truck and had a brief stint as a private chauffeur. Now semi-retired, he lives in Ottawa, where he » Reading events in Toronto, Kingston writes the popular blog Today’s book of poetry. » Social media campaign

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Poetry Anvil Press • Spring 2020

The Headless Man by Peter Dubé

The book-length prose poem The Headless Man takes up Georges Bataille’s subversive image of the acéphale and turns him into an outsider “everyman” to explore the paradoxes of identity, the body, and desire. This oddly fractured tale centres the monster, both human and inhuman, recognizable yet strange, in a labyrinth of ex- perience. The Headless Man awakens in a place that, although based on our own world, is unfamiliar to him. Moving through this strange landscape, he must make sense of it through his actions, striving to determine whether there is a place for him in a world not made in his image, or whether he must imagine something different in order to be. Having no head, he cannot speak, see, or hear in the usual ways, so he must learn to do these things using other parts of his body — which leads him to a fuller sense of himself. In this gothic, picaresque narrative, laced with horror and humour, Montreal sur- realist Peter Dubé addresses his concern with queer challenges to A Feed Dog Book identity and sexual boundaries, exploring questions about insider and outsider, what constitutes the “normal,” and what is relegated to the realm of the “monstrous.”

PRAISE FOR DUBé’S PREVIOUS WORK:

“…Vivid images that, in their fantastical energy and kaleidoscopic 80 pages forms, just about leap off the page… Talk about Rimbaud’s ‘derange- $18 CAN / $15 USA ment of the senses’!” — Lambda Book Report 5.25 x 8.25 “… Peter Dubé manages an unusual juxtaposition of the mundane Paperback and the sublime.” — THIS Magazine 978-1-77214-155-9 June 2020 Poetry About the Author: Peter Dubé is the author, co-author, or editor of eleven books, including the novels Promotional Plans Hovering World and The City’s Gates, the short fiction collection At the Bottom of the » National review copy mailing Sky, the novella Subtle Bodies (a finalist for » Regional media relations the Shirley Jackson Award), and Conjure: a » Montreal book launch Book of Spells, a collection of prose poems that was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein » Reading events in Ottawa, Toronto, Cobourg Prize. His most recent work is the short » Social media campaign fiction collection Beginning with the Mirror. Peter lives in Montreal.

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Recent Releases – Poetry Anvil Press • Spring 2020

Float and Scurry Heather Birrell A Feed Dog Book

Acclaimed short-fiction writer Heather Birrell’s tender and exuberant debut poetry collection. Here, Mr. T, Joni Mitchell, Fidel Castro, and the poet’s mother (among others) barge in to distract and derail her dreams. The poems in this book are playful, hallucinatory, and often funny. They explore the far-fetchedness and perseverance of love between friends and family members, the importance of libraries and locked mental health wards, and ways to live with meaning in the face of a looming apocalypse. A Feed Dog Book.

112 pages | $18 can/usa | 5 x 7.5 | Paperback | 978-1-77214-145-0 | Available Now | Poetry (A Feed Dog Book)

Pineapple Express Evelyn Lau

Pineapple Express is Evelyn Lau’s eighth collection of poetry. The collection is rooted in the mind and its disorders. Depression, anxiety, and obsessive thinking have been explored widely in fiction and non-fiction, much less so in poetry. Pineapple Express explores moods, medications and side effects, capturing the flatness of depression while still making the language sing. It also explores the notion of mid-life, in all its manifestations: physical changes, psychological upheaval, the notion of becoming “invisible,” aging and loss, the haunting of family and cultural history, and mortality.

80 Pages | $18 CAN/USA | 5.25 x 8.25 | Paperback | 978-1-77214-147-4 | April, 2020 | Poetry

Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse Kevin Spenst

In language that twists together hobo slang and flights of troubadourish diction, Hearts Amok scrutinizes the history of the love sonnet in Surrey, England and simultaneously celebrates the tickings and tollings of one love-struck heart in Surrey, British Columbia. Examining the underpinnings of love, this book journeys from the Middle Ages to the present where Spenst dates his way through Vancouver to finally find the love of his life.

80 Pages | $18 CAN/USA | 5 x 8 | Paperback | 978-1-77214-149-8 | April, 2020 | Poetry

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Recent Releases – Non-Fiction Anvil Press • Spring 2020

Land of Destiny Fool’s Gold the life and legacy a history of vancouver real estate of vancouver’s official town fool Jesse Donaldson Jesse Donaldson Ever since Europeans first On April 1, 1968, a tall, bespecta- laid claim to the Squamish cled, thirty-five-year-old former Nation territory in the 1870s, social worker named Joachim the real estate industry has Foikis received $3,500 from the held the region in its grip. Canada Council for the Arts in Its influence has been gro- order to finance a unique, self- tesquely pervasive at every imposed mission unseen since level of civic life, determin- Elizabethan England: reinvent ing landmarks like Stanley the vanished tradition of “Town Park and City Hall, as well Fool.” Foikis, who held two as street names, neighbour- university degrees, was already hoods — even the name well known throughout the city “Vancouver” itself. Land of Destiny explores that influence, for his off-kilter antics. His aim, according to interviews, was starting in 1862, and continuing up until the housing crisis “to spread joy and confusion” while at the same time “mock of today. 49.2 Series, #1 the four pillars of society: money, status, respectability, and 256 pages | $20 Can/usa | 978-1-77214-144-3 | Cultural Studies/History conformity.” 160 Pages | $18 CAN/USA | 978-1-77214-146-7 | Cultural Studies/History

Rain City: Against Death: Vancouver Reflections 35 Essays On Living John Moore Edited by Elee Kraljii Gardiner From its Coast Moun- Against Death is an anthol- tain skyline to its seedy ogy of creative non-fiction waterfront tattoo parlours, exploring the psychological from the private down- shifts that occur when we town booze-cans of the prematurely or unexpect- city’s business elite and edly confront death, and the Faux Chateau enclave articulates the personal of Whistler, to the riot- experiences of each author’s shaken streets of the early “neardeathness,” utilizing Sixties and the history of fresh and inventive language pipe bomb attacks in the to represent what “magical city, Moore has been there, thinking” proposes. These done that. Whether he’s pieces are incisive and artic- writing about delivering the news of imminent Nucle- ulate, avoiding the usual platitudes, feel-good bromides, ar Armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the and pep talks associated with near-death encounters. history of umbrellas, the vanishing game of Cribbage, The writing moves past the sob story and confronts X-treme Sports, or the proliferation of anti-depressant the tough circumstance of facing death with truth and meds, he’s still ‘that a--hole who’s always sticking his compassion, no matter how ugly or (in)convenient. nose into other peoples’ business.’ 356 pages | $22 CAN/USA | 978-1-77214-127-6 | Non-Fiction 256pages | $20 CAN/USA | 978-1-77214-139-9 | Non-Fiction

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Recent Releases – Fiction Anvil Press • Spring 2020

Fontainebleau Mysterious Dreams Madeline Sonik of the Dead The city of Fontainebleau, Terry Watada situated on the banks of the At the heart of Mysterious Dreams Detroit River, is undergoing of the Dead is the spiritual search growing pains and strange for a father who died in a plane things are happening. crash north of Lake Superior There’s something poisonous when his son was fifteen. Mike in the water, something men- Shintani decides in his early acing in the sky, and the soil, thirties to address the curious laced with an ancient curse, is circumstances surrounding his yielding up unidentified father’s death; his body was bones along with corn. In this never found, and wolves circled collection of linked stories— the crash site as if guarding the part surreal picaresque, part area. Mysterious Dreams of the dark comedy, and part murder mystery—magic meets Dead is an imaginative examina- the mundane as misfits and miscreants struggle to free tion of the effects of exile, internment, and dispersal on the themselves from untenable situations. third-generation of Japanese Canadians. 224 Pages | $20 CAN/USA | 978-1-77214-148-1 | Stories 320 Pages | $24 CAN/USA | 978-1-77214-150-4 | Novel

Borderline Skin House a novel by Marie-Sissi Labrèche Michael Blouin Translated by Melissa Bull Skin House is a story about Marie-Sissi Labrèche’s auto- two guys who end up in the fictional novel, Borderline, same bar they started out in. describes a young girl’s Maybe they’re slightly better experience growing up in off than they were at the Montreal’s working-class start. Or maybe not. One has neighbourhood of Hochel- a girlfriend though. They aga-Maisonneuve. Raised both have a little extra cash, by her “two mothers” — a enough to order nachos stern grandmother and a whenever they want to mother struggling with without going through their schizophrenia — the story’s pockets first. They’re not protagonist, Sissi, is artistic, dead, and that’s something feral, fragile, insightful, and wild. The novel flicks right there. And they’re not arrested, which is the quite between the traumas of Sissi’s young childhood and surprising part. early adulthood, spinning a web of connections between 320 pages | $20 CAN/USA | 978-1-77214-118-4 | Novel her history and the stories she begins to unspool as she studies writing in school. 160 pages | $18 can/usa | 978-1-77214-143-6 | Novel

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Recent Poetry Anvil Press • Spring 2020

2019 Griffin Poetry Bounce House A Mysterious The Inflatable Life Prize Winner by Jennica Harper Humming Noise by Mark Laba Quarrels ISBN: 978-1-77214-140-5 • $18 by Howard White A Feed Dog Book by Eve Joseph ISBN: 978-1-77214-141-2 • $18 ISBN: 978-1-77214-142-9 • $18 ISBN: 978-1-77214-119-1 • $18

Praise for QuARRELS: “As distillations of life, these poems, with beauty and charm, hold their own credibility: an omnipresent, merely-in- glimpses-tangible marvelousness, miraculously fastened to the pages of a single slender volume that will fit into most pockets and assure magnificent company on any given journey.” (From the Griffin Prize Judges’ Citation)

On the COUNT of NONE

Aison CHISHOLM

Trauma Head On the Count Motel of the I Could Have by Elee Kraljii Gardiner of None Opposable Pretended to Be ISBN: 978-1-77214-122-1 • $18 by Allison Chisholm Thumbs Better Than You: ISBN: 978-1-77214-125-2 • $18 by Stuart Ross New & Selected ISBN: 978-1-77214-126-9 • $18 by Jay MillAr ISBN: 978-1-77214-124-5 • $20

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Backlist – Non-Fiction Anvil Press • Spring 2020

EDITED BY JOHN BELSHAW

VANcouver VANcouver NOIR VANcouver VANISHES AT HOME With HISTORY CONFIDENTIAL by Diane Purvey by Caroline Adderson et al by Eve Lazarus edited by John Belshaw & John Belshaw with photos by Tracey Ayton 978-1-895636-80-9 • $20 978-1-927380-99-4 • $20 978-1-897535-83-7 • $25 978-1-77214-034-7 • $25

SENSATIONAL VANCOUVER SENSATIONAL VICTORIA SUSTENANCE: Writers from BC by Eve Lazarus by Eve Lazarus and Beyond on the Subject of Food 978-1-927380-98-7 • $24 978-1-927380-06-2 • $24 edited by Rachel Rose 978-1-77214-101-6 • $25

HEROINES New Edition PRIVATE GRIEF and WHO KILLED JANET Smith photographs by Lincoln Clarkes Public Mourning by Ed Starkins 978-1-77214-071-2 • $34 by John Belshaw & Diane Purvey 978-1-897535-85-1 • $24 978-1-895636-99-4 • $20 11 30

Complete List of Titles in Print Anvil Press • Spring 2020

Categories: All editions are paperback unless otherwise cited A: Anthology; D: Drama; F: Fiction; N: Non-fiction; P: Poetry * indicates availability in ebook format M: Mixed Media

A 1-895636-93-0 n aCCELERATED PACES/OATEN* 18.00 1-895636-64-7 f fOOZLERS/OSBORNE* 18.00 978-1-897535-67-7 n afflICTIONS & DEPARTURES/SONIK* 20.00 978-1-77214-015-6 f fOREIGN PARK/STEUDEL 18.00 978-1-77214-127-6 n Against Death/Kraljii Gardiner 22.00 1-895636-02-7 D fraGMENTS . . ./KAUFMAN 6.95 1-895636-22-1 f aIRBORNE PHOTO/BURNHAM* 13.95 978-1-897535-00-4 p frenZY/OWEN 15.00 978-1-77214-151-1 f and This is the Cure/Lapointe 22.00 1-895636-28-0 p fULL MAGPIE DODGE/NEFF 13.95 978-1-897535-01-1 f anIMAL/LEGGATT* 18.00 978-1-77214-018-7 n FURTHER CONFESSIONS.../ROSS* 18.00 1-895636-41-8 D arTICLES OF FAITH/LEIREN-YOUNG 10.00 978-1-77214-048-4 F AS IF/GOULDEN 18.00 G 978-1-897535-71-4 p GALAXY/THOMPSON 16.00 978-1-77214-052-1 P ASSDEEP IN WONDER/GUDGEON 18.00 978-1-77214-050-7 n GARAGE CRITICISM/BABIAK* 20.00 1-895636-80-9 n aT HOME W/HISTORY/LAZARUS 20.00 1-895636-15-9 f GAS TANK & OTHER STORIES/BOLEN 14.95 978-1-77214-103-0 f aTTACK OF THE LONELY.../WAGSTAFF* 16.00 978-1-927380-40-6 p GLOSSOLALIA/DACHSEL 18.00 978-1-77214-113-9 f aTOMIC ROAD/BUDAY 20.00 1-895636-59-0 f GOING TO NEW ORLEANS/TIDLER* 20.00 978-1-927380-43-7 f aTOMIC STORYBOOK/MACDONALD* 20.00 H 978-1-897535-69-1 f HARD HED/TIDLER 20.00 B 978-1-77214-077-4 p BAD ENGINE/DENNIS 18.00 978-1-77214-155-9 p Headless man, the/dubé 18.00 978-1-77214-076-7 f BAD ENDINGS/BAKER* 18.00 978-1-77214-149-8 p Hearts Amok.../Spenst 18.00 1-895636-39-6 f BEAUT...DEAD END, THE/HUTZULAK* 14.95 1-895636-45-0 n HEROINES/CLARKES 29.00 1-895636-66-3 p BIZARRE WINERY TRAGEDY/NEFF 14.00 978-1-77214-071-2 n HEROINES/CLARKES, New Edition 34.00 1-895636-78-7 f BLACK RABBIT/DIFALCO* 18.00 978-1-77214-117-7 f HIDER/SEEKER/CURRIN 20.00 978-1-77214-112-2 f BLACK STAR/MEDVED 20.00 978-1-897535-72-1 n HOUSE W/ THE BROKEN.../COULTER* 18.00 1-895636-86-8 n BODY BREAKDOWNS/HARPER 18.00 978-1-927380-96-3 f HYSTERIC/ARCAN* 20.00 1-895636-09-4 f BODY SPEAKING WORDS/HARRELL 10.95 978-1-77214-116-0 p BOLT/PEACH 18.00 I 978-1-77214-124-5 p I Could Have Pretended.../MillAr 20.00 1-895636-37-X p BOGMAN’S MUSIC/ARMSTRONG 13.95 1-895636-79-5 p I CUT MY FINGER/ROSS 15.00 978-1-77214-143-6 F BORDERLINE/LABRECHE 18.00 978-1-77214-123-8 p I HEARD SOMETHING/FORSYTHE 18.00 978-1-77214-140-5 P BOUNCE HOUSE/HARPER 18.00 978-1-77214-053-8 p IGNITE/SPENST 18.00 1-895636-75-2 D BRAVE NEW PLAY RITES/WADE* 25.00 978-1-927380-94-9 f I’M NOT SCARED/FIORENTINO* 20.00 978-1-77214-011-8 f BREAKNECK/ARCAN* 20.00 978-1-895636-90-1 a IMAGINING../FRANCIS, DANIEL, ED. 18.00 978-1-897535-99-8 f BUDGE/OSBORNE* 20.00 1-895636-33-7 f INANIM...WORLD, THE/STRANDQUIST 16.95 978-1-77214-001-9 n Burqa of Skin/arcan* 18.00 978-1-927380-62-8 f INCOMPARABLES, THE/LEGGAT* 20.00 978-1-77214-142-9 P Inflatable Life, The/Laba 18.00 C 978-1-77214-003-3 M Cabalcor/maddocks et.al 24.00 1-895636-47-7 n INTENSIVE CARE/TWIGG 14.00 978-1-77214-078-1 f CHALK/DIACZUK* 16.00 978-1-895636-97-0 p INVENTORY/PIGEON 15.00 978-1-77214-138-2 f Czech Techno/Jarman 18.00 1-895636-16-7 p IVANHOE STATION/NEFF 10.95 1-895636-65-5 n CONFESSIONS . . ./ROSS* 16.00 978-1-897535-86-8 f CREDIT TO YOUR RACE, A/GREEN 18.00 J 978-1-77214-014-9 p jaBBERING WITH BING BONG/SPENST 18.00 978-1-77214-049-1 f CRETACEA/WEST* 20.00 978-1-77214-047-7 f jeTTISON/MOORE 20.00 1-895636-74-4 p CUSP/DETRITUS/OWEN 16.00 K 978-1-897535-05-9 f kaSPOIT!/BOLEN* 20.00 D 1-895636-89-2 a DAMP/HOCKENHULL/MACKENZIE 40.00 978-1-77214-120-7 f knockoff Eclipse, The/Bull 18.00 978-1-897535-91-2 p DARK BOAT, A/FRIESEN 16.00 1-895636-50-7 f knUCKLEHEAD/GILES* 18.00 1-895636-72-8 f DEAD MAN IN .../OSBORNE* 18.00 978-1-77214-072-9 n kUBRICK RED: A MEMOIR/ROY* 18.00 978-1-927380-93-2 f DELUSIONIST, THE/BUDAY* 20.00 978-1-897535-06-6 f DEVIL YOU KNOW, THE/FARRELL* 16.00 L 978-1-77214-144-3 n land of Destiny.../Donaldson 20.00 1-895636-88-4 f DIRTBAGS/MCWHIRTER* 20.00 978-1-77214-102-3 p THE LEAST YOU CAN DO.../VENRIGHT 20.00 1-895636-36-1 n DOOR IS OPEN, THE/CAMPBELL* 16.00 978-1-77214-097-2 p leaVING MILE END/FIORENTINO 18.00 978-1-77214-013-2 f DR. GREENBLATT/BARWIN* 18.00 978-1-77214-152-8 f lily pad & spider, the/Legendre 18.00 1-895636-46-9 f DREAMLIFE OF.../STRANDQUIST* 18.00 1-895636-08-6 p lONESOME MONSTERS/OSBORN 10.95 1-895636-21-3 n DRY SHAVE/FILBRANDT 12.95 978-1-77214-094-1 f lONG RIDE YELLOW/WEST 20.00 978-1-985636-98-7 n lOOP, PRINT, FADE .../HOOLBOOM 15.00 E 1-895636-91-4 f elYSIUM & OTHER.../STEWART* 18.00 978-1-77214-154-2 p low centre of gravity/dennis 18.00 978-1-77214-075-0 f enCYLOPEDIA OF LIES/GUDGEON* 20.00 978-1-77214-096-5 p eSCAPE FROM WRECK CITY/Creary 18.00 M 978-1-897535-29-5 a MAKING WAVES/CAROLAN 20.00 978-1-927380-41-3 n eVERYTHING RUSTLES/SILCOTT* 18.00 978-1-927380-95-6 f MIRROR ON THE FLOOR/BOWERING 18.00 1-895636-29-9 a eXACT FARE ONLY/BUDAY 15.95 1-895636-07-8 f MONDAY NIGHT MAN/BUDAY* 12.95 1-895636-55-8 a eXACT FARE ONLY 2/COCKFIELD 18.00 978-1-77214-002-6 f Moss-Haired Girl/slansky* 16.00 978-1-897535-66-0 f eXIT/ARCAN (HAMILTON, TRANS.) 20.00 978-1-77214-035-4 f MOST HEARTLESS TOWN/MCCLUSKEY 20.00 978-1-77214-126-9 p Motel opposable Thumbs/ROSS 18.00 F 1-895636-48-5 a feD ANTHOLOGY, THE/MUSGRAVE 18.00 978-1-897535-33-2 f MOUNTIE AT NIAGARA.../DIFALCO 18.00 978-1-897535-90-5 f fIVE LITTLE BITCHES/MCWHIRTER* 20.00 978-1-897535-93-6 D MUTANT SEX PARTY/MACDONALD 18.00 978-1-77214-145-0 p float and Scurry/Birrell 18.00 978-1-77214-150-4 f Mysterious Dreams of .../Watada 24.00 978-1-77214-148-1 n fOntainebleau/Sonik 20.00 978-1-77214-141-2 P MYSTERIOUS HUMMING.../WHITE 18.00 978-1-77214-146-7 n fOOl’s Gold.../Donaldson 18.00

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Complete List of Titles in Print Anvil Press • Spring 2020

Categories: All editions are paperback unless otherwise cited A: Anthology; D: Drama; F: Fiction; N: Non-fiction; P: Poetry * indicates availability in ebook format M: Mixed Media

N 978-1-77214-037-8 n NO FLASH.../VON ESSEN & SAUNDERS 28.00 T 978-1-77214-031-6 f 10 WOMEN/BOWERING* 20.00 978-1-897535-70-7 f nONDESCRIPT... /BATEMAN* 20.00 1-895636-84-1 f TACONES/KLINCK (NEW EDITION)* 16.00 978-1-77214-098-9 p TEMPORARY STRANGER, A/REID 18.00 O 978-1-77214-125-2 p On the Count of None/CHISHOLM 18.00 978-1-927380-42-0 n THIS DAY IN VAN.../DONALDSON 38.00 978-1-77214-153-5 p OUTlasting the weather/friesen 20.00 978-1-927380-45-1 p THIS DRAWN & .../KLIPSCHUTZ* 18.00 978-1-77214-142-9 P THIS INFLATABLE LIFE/LABA 18.00 P 978-1-77214-147-4 p pIneapple Express/Lau 18.00 978-1-927380-54-3 f THORAZINE BEACH/HARRIS* 16.00 978-1-895636-99-4 n prIVATE GRIEF.../BELSHAW & PURVEY 20.00 978-1-77214-095-8 f THREE PLEASURES, THE/WATADA* 24.00 1-895636-49-3 f TIGHT LIKE THAT/CHRISTY* 18.00 Q 978-1-77214-119-1 P Quarrels/Joseph 18.00 1-895636-40-X n TOILET PAPER, A/MINES 7.00 1-895636-95-7 D TORTOISE BOY/TIDLER* 15.00 R 978-1-77214-139-9 N RAIN CITY/MOORE 20.00 1-895636-25-6 f TOUCHED/LUNDGREN 12.95 978-1-897535-32-5 f raVENNA GETS/BURGESS* 16.00 1-895636-68-X f TOY GUN/BOLEN 26.00 1-895636-67-1 n reaDING THE RIOT.../BARNHOLDEN* 18.00 978-1-77214-122-1 p TRAUMA HEAD/GARDINER 18.00 1-895636-38-8 D reD MANGO/TIDLER 11.95 978-1-77214-033-0 f TRAVERSING LEONARD/SAVEL 16.00 1-895636-81-7 p renTAL VAN/BURNHAM 16.00 978-1-897535-97-4 p TROBAIRITZ/OWEN 18.00 978-1-77214-032-3 p REVOLVING CITY/COMPTON&SAKLIKAR 18.00 1-895636-52-3 D TRUE MUMMY/CONE 14.00 978-1-77214-017-0 n ROGUES, RASCALS... /CHRISTY 20.00 978-1-897535-28-8 n rOOM IN THE CITY, A/GASZTONYI 40.00 U 1-895636-24-8 p UNDER THE ABDOMI.../MCCARTNEY 11.95 1-895636-23-X f rUBY, RUBY/HARRIS 12.95 978-1-77214-036-1 f UNDER THE STONE/GEORGES 18.00 978-1-77214-016-3 f rUE/BULL 18.00 1-895636-17-5 f UNDERWOOD, THE/TARR 11.95 1-895636-60-4 p UNRAVEL/ARMSTRONG 16.00 S 1-895636-56-6 f SALVAGE KING,YA!/JARMAN* 20.00 978-1-927380-44-4 p UNUS MUNDUS/ROWLEY 18.00 978-1-927380-55-0 f SAVAGE:1986-2011/MOORE* 20.00 978-1-77214-000-2 f Savour/bateman* 20.00 V 1-895636-06-X f VACANT ROOMS/PARRY 11.95 1-895636-94-9 n SCALAWAGS/CHRISTY 20.00 978-1-897535-89-9 f VALERY THE GREAT/MCCLUSKEY* 20.00 978-1-77214-128-3 f Second Detective/Mullally 18.00 978-1-927380-99-4 n VAN CONFIDENTIAL/BELSHAW 20.00 978-1-77214-012-5 f SEEP/GILES* 20.00 978-1-897535-83-7 n VAN NOIR/PURVEY & BELSHAW 25.00 978-1-927380-98-7 n SENSATIONAL VANCOUVER/LAZARUS 24.00 978-1-77214-034-7 n VAN VANISHES/ADDERSON & AYTON 25.00 978-1-927380-06-2 n SENSATIONAL VICTORIA/LAZARUS 24.00 1-895636-58-2 p VIRAL SUITE/ROWLEY 16.00 978-1-77214-054-5 p SERPENTINE LOOP/GARDINER 18.00 978-1-897535-34-9 p VS./RYAN 16.00 978-1-897535-84-4 f SHAG CARPET ACTION/FIRTH 18.00 1-895636-12-4 D SHYLOCK/LEIREN-YOUNG* 11.95 W 1-895636-96-5 p WHAT IT FEELS LIKE ... /HARPER* 15.00 1-895636-54-X p SIDEWAYS/HALEY 14.00 1-895636-18-3 p WHERE WORDS ... /MCWHIRTER 14.95 1-895636-71-X p SIGNS OF THE TIMES/OSBORN 20.00 1-895636-20-5 f WHITE LUNG/BUDAY* 15.95 1-895636-61-2 p SINGER, AN ELEGY/FETHERLING 14.00 978-1-897535-98-1 f WHITETAIL SHOOTING ... /LAPOINTE* 20.00 1-895636-32-9 f SKIN/BOWMAN* 12.95 978-1-897535-85-1 n WHO KILLED JANET S.../STARKINS* 24.00 978-1-77214-118-4 f Skin House/BLOUIN 20.00 978-1-897535-03-5 n WILD AT HEART/HARRIS & MEDINA 15.00 1-895636-70-1 p SLEEP OF FOUR CITIES/CURRIN 15.00 978-1-897535-30-1 n WOMBAT/FILBRANDT 16.00 978-1-77214-115-3 p SLINKY NAIVE/SZPAK 18.00 978-1-927380-64-2 p WOOD/HARPER 18.00 978-1-927380-63-5 f SMALL APARTMENTS/MILLIS* 16.00 1-895636-69-8 f SMALL DOG BARKING/STRANDQUIST 18.00 Y 978-1-77214-093-4 f YOU ARE NOT NEEDED NOW/LAPOINTE 20.00 1-895636-27-2 p SNATCH/MACINNES 12.95 978-1-897535-92-9 p YOU EXIST. DETAILS FOLLOW./ROSS 16.00 1-895636-42-6 f SOCKET/ZIMMERMAN 11.95 978-1-927380-97-0 p SOME BIRDS WALK.../AVERY 18.00 978-1-927380-50-5 f SOME GIRLS DO/MCWHIRTER* 18.00 978-1-897535-68-4 p SONG COLLIDES, THE/WHARTON 16.00 978-897535-31-8 f SPAT THE DUMMY/MACDONALD* 20.00 978-1-897535-27-1 f SPAZ/BOWMAN* 20.00 978-1-927380-49-9 f STOLEN/LAPOINTE* 20.00 1-895636-06-X f STOLEN VOICES/LUNDIN 11.95 1-895636-87-6 D STONE FACE, THE/MACDONALD* 15.00 978-1-77214-114-6 f STRAIGHT CIRCLES/BATEMAN 20.00 1-895636-53-1 f STRUCK/BROMHEAD 14.00 1-895636-77-9 f SUBURBAN PORNOGRAPHY /FIRTH* 18.00 1-895636-92-2 p SUICIDE PSALMS/ROWLEY 15.00 1-895636-76-0 f SUGAR BUSH/FARRELL* 18.00 978-1-77214-101-6 p SUSTENANCE/ROSE 25.00 978-1-927380-05-5 n SWEET ASSORTED/CHRISTY 20.00 1-895636-34-5 p SWING IN THE HOLLOW/KNIGHTON 13.95

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