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Goose Lane Editions Spring 2021 Prize winners Canadian Museum Association Award for Research in Art: Anthropocene Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing: “Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers” Governer General’s Award for Visual Arts and Media: Marlene Creates IPPY Award for Best First Book — Fiction: Crow Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Speculative Fiction: Different Beasts Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction: Crow Finalists City of Vancouver Book Award: The Forbidden Purple City Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry: Crow Gulch Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Hymnswitch First Nation Community READ Award: Crow Gulch Gerald Lampert Memorial Award: These are not the potatoes of my youth International Dublin International Literary Award: Uncertain Weights and Measures Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award: Crow Leacock Medal for Humour: Crow New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction: Fishing the High Country New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction: Slow Seconds Newfoundland Reads: Crow Gulch Ottawa Book Award for Fiction: The High-Rise in Fort Fierce Raymond Souster Award: Crow Gulch RBC Taylor Prize: The Mongolian Chronicles Trillium Book Award for Poetry: These are not the potatoes of my youth Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction: I Am Herod Media Where You Find Us Winnipeg RCI Quill & Quire The Globe The Walrus Free Press and Mail Literary Review The Wall Street The Guardian Journal [EDIT] of Canada World Canadian Notes Literature EVENT Magazine Canadian Geographic Today & Queries South Asia Canada’s History Toronto Star The Vancouver Morning Post New York Sun Calgary Herald The Fiddlehead Times GridCity The East CBC Magazine Miramichi Ottawa Reader Atlantic The San Francisco Chronicle LitHub Citizen Books Canadian Today The Narwhal Chronicle Herald Literature Staff Contents SUSANNE ALEXANDER, Publisher 2 Biography | Art History [email protected] 4 Memoir | Indigenous History JULIE SCRIVER, Creative Director [email protected] 6 Biography | Politics ALAN SHEPPARD, Production Editor 8 Memoir & Biography [email protected] 10 Recent Non-fiction ANGELA WILLIAMS, Publishing Assistant [email protected] 12 Fiction JEFF ARBEAU, Senior Publicist 16 Recent Fiction [email protected] 17 icehouse poetry COREY REDEKOP, Social Media Maven [email protected] 20 Recent poetry MEAGHAN LAAPER, Editorial and Publicity Intern [email protected] 21 Art AURIANNA McLAUGHLIN, Digital Content 28 Recent Art and Social Media Coordinator [email protected] 32 Travel | Trail and Field Guides BETHANY GIBSON, Fiction Editor 36 Recent Trail and Field Guides [email protected] 37 Order Information | Sales Reps MATTHEW HALLIDAY, Non-fiction Acquisitions Editor [email protected] BRENT WILSON, Military History Acquisitions Editor [email protected] HOLLY MILLER, Financial Administrator [email protected] Goose Lane Editions is located on the traditional unceded territory of the W last kwiyik whose ancestors along with the Mi'kmaq and Passamaquoddy Nations signed Peace and Friendship Treaties with the British Crown in icehouse poetry board | [email protected] the 1700s. ROSS LECKIE (chair) We acknowledge with gratitude the assistance of the Canada Council for the KAYLA CZAGA Arts, the Government of Canada, and the Government of New Brunswick. JIM JOHNSTONE KIRBY LAUREN KORN Goose Lane Editions MICHAEL PRIOR 500 Beaverbrook Court, Suite 330 Fredericton, New Brunswick CANADA E3B 5X4 T. 506.450.4251 | Toll-free 888.926.8377 gooselane.com goose_lane Cover image: Nicholas Guitard, Autumnal Flow Big Falls (Shogomoc), River Valley Scenic Drive, New Brunswick @goose_lane GooseLaneEditions BIOGRAPHY | ART HISTORY 9781773100920 hc | $35 EXCERPT 9781773100937 e | $19.95 9781773100944 k | $19.95 392 pages, 6 x 9 | World March 16, 2021 ˥ Molly Lamb was the first official Anything but a Still Life female Canadian war artist. The Art and Lives of Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak ˥ Bruno Bobak was the youngest NATHAN M. GREENFIELD Canadian war artist in the Second World War. Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during ˥ Molly and Bruno both received the Second World War. Marrying shortly after the end of the war, they the Order of Canada in 1995. moved first to Vancouver and then, in 1960, to Fredericton, where they settled permanently. Molly’s paintings were vibrant and colourful, ˥ Paintings by Molly and Bruno featuring dynamic crowd scenes and wildflowers that seem to wave on have appeared on Canadian the page. In contrast, Bruno painted near-abstract cityscapes, stunning stamps and are included in landscapes, and distorted bodies wracked with inner torment, work that major public, private, and is unique in Canadian art. corporate collections. In this book, acclaimed author Nathan M. Greenfield brings to light the private and public lives of two of the most important figures in 20th century Canadian art. Combining archival research with Molly’s diaries and letters, interviews with friends and contemporaries, and an analysis of paintings by both artists, he develops an intimate portrait of their life and art: their critical acclaim, commercial success, and a turbulent marriage that lasted over fifty years. NATHAN M. GREENFIELD is the author of eight books, including The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. A regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, Greenfield’s articles have also appeared in the Walrus, Canada’s History, the Globe and Mail, and Maclean’s. 2 | Spring 2021 Goose Lane Editions BIOGRAPHY | ART HISTORY Though nominations to the Order of Canada are anony­ EXCERPT 9781773100mous, Molly had a pretty good idea who had nominated them. The previous December, retired chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Antonio Lamer wrote her, saying that both she and Bruno, who had painted his official portrait four years earlier, should be awarded the Order of Canada. Accordingly, Molly was not surprised in early 1995 when she received a letter from Rideau Hall with the news that the Governor General intended to name her to the rank of Officer of the Order of Canada. She was, however, shocked that Bruno did not receive a similar letter. “The thought that Bruno would not be honoured greatly upset Molly,” says retired art historian Stuart Smith, who was a colleague of Bruno’s at the University of New Brunswick for almost three decades and a friend to both Bobaks. “Molly told me that without Bruno receiving the honour she would refuse it.” ˥ fast factsMolly’s intent might surprise a casual reader of the coming pages, which — drawing from her Diary and letters — tell of the difficulties in her marriage, Bruno’s towering rages, the number of times she wrote of perma­ nently separating, and her escapes to meetings in Ottawa, BRUNO BOBAK, Anniversary, 2005 Montréal, and Toronto as well as months­long visits to her beloved Galiano Island. Nor, as we will see, did Molly think much of Bruno’s recent work. None of this mattered, however, when Molly was offered the Order of Canada’s second­highest honour. “Whatever my personal Advance praise feelings: body of work from Bruno from the 60s, 70s, 80s is stunning. Amazing strength of colour. Not by “A richly drawn portrait of two any remote chance could I compare with this stuff,” she of Canada’s most recognizable believed. artists. Based on new evidence, this book captures the Bobaks’ intertwined lives, their clashing relationship, and the enduring value of their art.” — Tim Cook, author of The Fight for History Goose Lane Editions MEMOIR | INDIGENOUS HISTORY 9781773101989 pb | $19.95 EXCERPT 9781773101996 e | $19.95 9781773102009 k | $19.95 208 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 | Canada March 9, 2021 Simultaneously published in the U.S. by Milkweed Editions ˥ Ali moved to Canada as a young Northern Light child and lived in Winnipeg and Power, Land, and the Memory of Water Jenpeg. KAZIM ALI ˥ From 1975 to 1979, Ali’s s father was an engineer during the Kazim Ali’s earliest memories are of Jenpeg, a temporary town in the construction of the hydroelectric forests of northern Manitoba where his immigrant father worked on the dam across the Nelson River. construction of a hydroelectric dam. As a child, Ali had no idea that the ˥ The Jenpeg dam caused dam was located on the lands of the Indigenous Pimicikamak, the “people considerable environmental and of rivers and lakes.” social harm to the Pimicikamak Northern Light recounts Ali’s memories of his childhood and his return Nation. A formal apology was to Pimicikamak as an adult. During his visit, he searches for the sites issued by the government of of his childhood memories and learns more about the realities of life in Manitoba in 2014. Pimicikamak: the environmental and social impact of the Jenpeg dam, the effects of colonialism and cultural erasure, and the community’s initiatives to preserve and strengthen their identity. Deeply rooted in place, Northern Light is both a stunning exploration of home, belonging, and identity and an immersive account of contemporary life in one Indigenous community. Poet, editor, and prose writer KAZIM ALI was born in the United Kingdom to Muslim parents of Indian, Iranian, and Egyptian descent and raised in Canada and the United States. He is the author of seven kazimali.com poetry collections, two novels, and three works of non-fiction. He teaches at the University of California, San Diego. @kazimalipoet 4 | Spring 2021 Goose Lane Editions MEMOIR | INDIGENOUS HISTORY Amid all these thoughts, standing there on the empty school EXCERPT site, I cannot stop thinking about the visit to the old site of Jenpeg. People here believe that the landscape has its own kind of consciousness, and one can imagine that place holds memory, but I felt empty there: I could feel no trace of the hundreds of people who made it their home, no echo of our voices, no lingering trace of our energy.

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