Talonbooks 2021 Winter Talonbooks Awards and Prizes, Recent Highlights

Talonbooks 2021 Winter Talonbooks Awards and Prizes, Recent Highlights 2020 The BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award: Bill Richardson, I Saw Three Ships (Short-listed) The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour: Drew Hayden Taylor, Cottagers and Indians (Short-listed) The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour: Bill Richardson, I Saw Three Ships (Long-listed) The Sunburst Award for Adult Fiction: Christian Guay-Poliquin, The Weight of Snow (Long-listed) Acknowledgment of First Peoples and 2019 Traditional Territories Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize: Stephen Collis (Winner) Talonbooks gratefully acknowledges the traditional, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC and Yukon Book Prizes): Fred Wah and Rita ancestral, and unceded Territories of the Coast Wong, beholden (Finalist) Salish Peoples, including those of the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama: Tetsuro Shigematsu, 1 Hour (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Photo (Finalist) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, on whose Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama: Kevin Loring, Thanks for traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories we are Giving (Finalist) privileged to live, work, read, and write. Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation: Pablo Strauss, Synapses (Finalist) Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English: Wanda John-Kehewin, Seven Sacred Truths (Finalist) Talonbooks 9259 Shaughnessy St. GST is not included in Vancouver, BC V6P 6R4 Canadian prices quoted 2018 phone: 604-444-4889 in this catalogue. toll-free: 888-445-4176 GST # R88535-3235 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC and Yukon Book Book Prizes): Mercedes Eng, fax: 604-444-4119 All information in this Prison Industrial Complex Explodes (Winner) [email protected] catalogue is subject to Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry: Cecily Nicholson, Wayside www.talonbooks.com change without notice. Sang (Winner) Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC and Yukon Book Book Prizes): Jónína Kirton, An Honest Woman (Finalist) First Nation Communities READ – Periodical Marketers of Canada Aboriginal Literature Award: Bev Sellars, Price Paid (Finalist) Talonbooks Griffin Poetry Prize: Donato Mancini, Same Diff (Finalist) Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer: Joshua Whitehead, full-metal indigiqueer (Finalist) On the cover: Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry: Joshua Whitehead, full-metal Matt Lamers indigiqueer (Finalist) “Dart River-Te Awa Whakatipu, New Zealand” 2018 Talonbooks also gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, and the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit. Talonbooks Winter Releases 1 One Good Thing One Good Thing A Living Memoir m.a.c. farrant One Good Thing is a delightful hybrid of creative non-fiction and memoir coming into contact with the living, exuberant, and vulnerable natural world. Written in sixty short epistolary chapters, M.A.C. Farrant’s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society. One Good Thing is also a book of homage to gardening columnist extraordinaire Helen Chesnut of M.A.C. FARRANT Victoria’s Times Colonist, as each section focusses and expands on a particular gardening column of hers. M.A.C. Farrant is the author of seventeen works of fiction, Using a familiar “Dear Helen” structure, almost every piece in One Good non-fiction, memoir, two plays, and over one hundred book Thing intimately and playfully relates to the gardening article that gave reviews and essays. The World Afloat: Miniatures, a collec- rise to it while simultaneously ranging into myriad other topics, including tion of very short fiction, and volume one in a trilogy of the author’s creative practice, personal and familial details, and comic miniature fiction, was published by Talonbooks in 2014 and riffs on a number of close-to-the-heart themes. The book thrives, with won the City of Victoria Book Butler Book Prize for that year. a mindful persistence that’s often hilarious, on finding personal “calm The Days: Forecasts, Warnings, Advice, volume two in the abidance” through the practice of gardening as mediated by the universal series, was published by Talon in 2016 and was a finalist for and personal practice of writing. the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for 2017 and the 2017 ReLit Award. The third collection in the series, The Great Perhaps it was the optimistic headline – “Seedy Connections Yield Happiness, appeared in the spring of 2019. “Farrant’s work Refreshing Results” – that drew me in, and the focus you applied to is infused with iconoclastic innovation” (Globe and Mail). producing one good thing: a cucumber. I read the column as if it were The Ottawa Citizen has called Farrant “one of the best hu- a life raft of hope. One good thing. Planting success, you wrote, comes mourists in the land.” BC Bookworld has called her “Cana- from saving seeds from season to season. Seeds are a kind of life raft da’s most acerbic and intelligent humourist.” She has been too, aren’t they? Promising continuance, promising the future. And described in print on numerous occasions as “the bizarro isn’t that what a gardener is? A futurist who believes passionately in Alice Munro.” tomorrow? This is what I am thinking: What if we could get the same results from seeding hope as you’ve achieved with seeding the Crystal Apple cucumber? What if we could make hope in these times grow as abundant and refreshing and cooling and prevailing as that cucumber? ISBN 978-1-77201-248-2 Visit talonbooks.com for a complete listing of M.A.C. Farrant's Non-fiction available books. 5.5 × 8.5”; 160 pp.; Trade paper $16.95 CAN / $14.95 US Forthcoming February 15, 2021 2 Talonbooks Winter Releases Painting Time maylis de kerangal, trans. Jessica Moore Translated by Jessica Moore From one of the most successful and original French novelists of the last decade comes Painting Time, a literary experience in art and perception. In 2007, Paula Karst begins her studies at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. There she meets two friends, both enigmatic, resourceful, impulsive, and gifted. Together, the three weave a complex relationship that mirrors the interconnectedness of their artistic materials. Replicating the grain of wood, the wear of marble, or the protrusion on a tortoiseshell requires method, technique, talent … but also something else. Paula strives to understand what she’s painting, the “micro” that she is and the “macro” that she contemplates in art history. She chooses the painstaking demands of craftmanship over the abstraction of high art. Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several acclaimed nov- els, including Birth of a Bridge, winner of the Franz Hes- Paula’s apprenticeship is punctuated by hard work, sleepless nights, sore sel Prize and the Médicis Prize in 2010, Mend the Living, muscles, and saturnalian evenings. After completing her studies at the longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize and Institute, she continues to practise her art in Paris, in Moscow, and then winner of the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize, and Painting Time in Italy at Cinécittà, on the sets of great films – dream factories! – as if (2018), all of which were translated by Jessica Moore. Maylis rehearsing for the grand finale: Lascaux IV, a life-sized replica of the de Kerangal lives in Paris, France. world’s most famous paleolithic cave art and a zenith of human cultural expression. Painting Time is an exquisite and highly aesthetic coming-of-age novel by the author of Birth of a Bridge and Mend the Living (Talonbooks, 2014 and 2016). It uses a succession of skillfully crafted trompe-l’oeil techniques to explore a young woman’s art apprenticeship. Maylis de Kerangal, once more, offers the key to the enchanted materialism and sensualism of her writing. ISBN 978-1-77201-283-5 Maylis de Kerangal's Birth of a Bridge and Meng the Living are also Fiction available from Talonbooks. 5.5 × 8.5”; 272 pp.; Trade paper $19.95 CAN Forthcoming March 21, 2021 Talonbooks Winter Releases 3 still Still anahita jamali rad still, Anahita Jamali Rad’s anticipated second book of poetry, is about alienated interiority. It begins with a body, with materiality that slowly morphs, extends, spills, and oozes. A self-withdrawn, hidden presence: silent inactivity, affective and extractive capitalism, surveillance and ANAHITA JAMALI RAD commodification of behaviour, non-participation, withdrawn complicity, non-subjectivity and refusing a gaze, paralysis in time of crisis – what non-doing does. A powerful follow-up to Jamali Rad’s 2016 for love and autonomy, this new volume proposes an alternative to action, a way to un-be or cease, a way Anahita Jamali Rad is a text-forward artist born in Iran and to be the wrench in the cogs of the machine, a way to jam the signal currently based in Tiohtià:ke on the Traditional Territory of by refusing receptivity. still disclaims language, writes without writing, the Kanien’kehá:ka. Informed by anti-imperialist materialist divests in itself, is non-living for unlife. This book begins and ends in theory, Jamali Rad’s work is founded on materiality, history, emptiness. affect, ideology, violence, class, collectivity, desire, place, dis- placement, and silence. She published her first poetry book, for love and autonomy, in 2016. ISBN 978-1-77201-285-9 Anahita Jamali Rad's for love of autonomy is also available Poetry from Talonbooks. 5.5 × 8.5”; 80 pp.; Trade paper $16.95 CAN / $16.95 US Forthcoming March 1, 2021 4 Talonbooks Winter Releases One and Half of You leanne dunic One and Half of You is a poetic memoir by a talented multidisciplinary artist, musician, and writer.

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