New Star Books Fall 2017 New Titles + Recent Highlights + Complete Backlist

New Titles 1 Anarchy Explained to My Father by Thomas Déri and Francis Dupuis-Déri 2 Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots by Erín Moure 3 The Receiver by Sharon Thesen

Recent Fiction 4 A Short Sad Book by George Bowering 4 Dance Moves of the Near Future by Tim Conley 4 Piranesi’s Figures by Hannah Calder 4 The Shiva by Michael Tregebov

Recent Non-fiction 5 Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the 6 Greatly Exaggerated by Marc Edge Yalakom Valley by Judith Plant 7 Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? by W.F. Garrett- 5 The Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed by Andrew Petts, James Hoffman and Ginny Ratsoy, eds. Struthers 7 Svend Robinson by Graeme Truelove 5 Maria Mahoi of the Islands (2nd ed.) by Jean 7 Mac-Pap: Memoir of a Canadian in the Barman Spanish Civil War by Ronald Liversedge and 5 The News We Deserve by Marc Edge David Yorke, ed. 6 A Series of Dogs by John Armstrong 7 Rebel Life by Mark Leier 6 Soviet Princeton by Jon Bartlett and Rika 8 Seize the Time: Photographed, Ruebsaat 1967–1974 by Vladimir Keremidschieff 6 Around the World on Minimum Wage by 8 Voyage Through the Past Century by Rolf Andrew Struthers Knight

Recent Poetry 8 if wants to be the same as is: Essential Poems 10 North of California St. by George Stanley of David Bromige by David Bromige 10 Posh Lust by Louis Cabri 8 A perimeter by Julie Emerson and Roxanna 10 Parkway by Peter Culley Bikadoroff, illus. 10 Rua da Felicidade by Ken Norris 9 Clean Sails by Gustave Morin 11 sybil unrest by Larissa Lai and Rita Wong 9 Twenty Seven Stings by Julie Emerson and Roxanna Bikadoroff 11 After Desire by George Stanley 9 The World, I Guess by George Bowering 11 Indigena Awry by Annharte 9 Loitersack by Donato Mancini 11 Franzlations by Gary Barwin, Craig Conley & Hugh Thomas 12 Complete backlist 14 Ordering information NEW RELEASE :: political movements

Thomas Déri and Francis Dupuis-Déri Anarchy Explained to My Father Translated from the French by John Gilmore

Anarchy Explained to My Father (first published as L’anarchie PUBLICATION DATE expliquée à mon père by Lux Éditeur, 2014) is a provocative and access- SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 ible discussion of the revolutionary mode of thought that rejects SPECS all forms of domination and seeks, in the words of Louise Michel, Trade ppb, 224 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” “order through harmony.” Francis Dupuis-Déri, a professor of polit- PRICE ical science and a radical anarchist, reveals through dialogue with $20 CAD • $18 USD his father the deeply humanistic and peaceful roots of anarchism— ISBN beyond the caricature of anarchists as proponents of chaos and 978-1-55420-137-2 violence is a movement based on ideals of equality, co-operation, and autonomy. CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER FROM The wide-ranging conversation covers the ideas of classic writers NEWSTARBOOKS.COM such as Proudhon, Bakunin, and Goldman, as well as contempor- ary thinkers like Taiaiake Alfred, Patricia Hill Collins, and Randall Amster; the main flavours of anarchism, from anarcho-syndicalism to anarcha-feminism; anarchist views on oppressive systems like the state, capitalism, and patriarchy; the tremendous achievements that anarchist activists have contributed to, such as labour unions and eight-hour work days; and the recent resurgence of anarchism in pro- test movements and activist groups around the world. With temper- atures rising and authoritarianism flourishing near and far, Anarchy Explained to My Father is a timely initiation to a way of thinking that’s more relevant than ever. Francis Dupuis-Déri teaches political science at Université du Québec à Montréal and is the author of numerous books and articles about anarchism, including Who’s Afraid of the Black Blocs? Anarchy in Action Around the World (Between the Lines, 2013). His father Thomas Déri is a former publisher, an editor and translator, co-founder of the Librairie du Québec bookstore in Paris, and former director of the Salon du livre book fair in .

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Erín Moure Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots

“A beautiful testimony to a life bravely lived on the edges PUBLICATION DATE of contemporary values.” —Aaron Peck SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 SPECS Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots is the story of a man who Trade ppb, 128 pages, 6” x 9” had no obituary and no funeral and who would have left no trace if PRICE it weren’t for the woman he’d called Toots, who took everything she $21 CAD • $19 USD remembered of him and — for seven days — wrote it down. ILLUSTRATIONS Erín Moure, a poet who once lived in Vancouver, begins this 12 b&w “work of the imagination” (“minto,” in Galician, means “I’m lying”) ISBN with a quote from Judith Butler about those persons who have “come 978-1-55420-141-9 to belong to the ungrievable,” though there may be some that grieve them. CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER FROM In recording the tale of the little man, through memories and Goo- NEWSTARBOOKS.COM gle searches, the book gives a glimpse into an entire era of urban Canada, from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and Main Street and Chinatown to a long-ago Montreal between the Great Depression and Expo ’67. Erín Moure is a poet and translator whose most recent book of poems is Planetary Noise: The Poetry of Erín Moure, edited and intro- duced by Shannon Maguire (Wesleyan University Press). No one alive now knows who Toots is.

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Sharon Thesen The Receiver

The Receiver is Sharon Thesen’s thirteenth book, and the first from PUBLICATION DATE the three-time G–G finalist sinceOyama Pink Shale, six years ago. AUGUST 31, 2017 More formally various than Thesen’s recent books, The Receiver SPECS includes the short lyrics documenting the poet’s witnessing that Trade ppb, 128 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” readers of her work will recognize, as well as various kinds of found PRICE poems, translations, prose poems, alongside some brief essays or $19 CAD • $17 USD memoirs. ISBN Thesen’s mother and father, friends, poets in her own life, their 978-1-55420-140-2 poems, might form the immediate subject of the poems here, but above all, The Receiver is about poetic imagination: CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER FROM The body is the receiver of all that is; poetic imagination the NEWSTARBOOKS.COM transmitter of the world. A memoir about poetic imagination, about the transmission of language / energy (the poet will have had “some several causations”), contagion, ancestral / cellular memory, what is received through books, reading, talk, voices, rhythms of thought & experience. The education / mis-­education of a poet “by ear”; transmission/transcription/telephone/tele- graph; annunciation as method. (Sharon Thesen)

A native of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Sharon Thesen grew up in Prince George and has been a resident ever since. She now lives in Lake Country in the West Okanagan, and is professor emerita of creative writing at the UBC Okanagan in Kelowna. Three of Sharon Thesen’s previous books have been finalists for the Governor-General’s Award for Literature — The Good Bacteria (2006), The Beginning of the Long Dash (1987) and Confabulations (1984). She has also won the Pat Lowther Award (for A Pair of Scissors, 2006), and been a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (for Oyama Pink Shale, 2011, and The Good Bacteria).

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A Short Sad Book Piranesi’s Figures Dance Moves of the The Shiva George Bowering Hannah Calder Near Future Michael Tregebov Tim Conley Playful, amusing – but with a Reading Calder is to move Chock full of dialogue so rich darkly serious undertone...A through the world barefoot A wild ride through the absurd, and smooth it’s like you’re Short Sad Book is a delightful over asphalt, grass, sand and the surreal and the specula- eavesdropping rather than picaresque romp that borrows water. This is sensual, insightful tive . . . What is Conley doing reading . . . In many ways, a freely in matters of style from writing. that’s so effective? It’s part completely legal Ocean’s Eleven Gertrude Stein: the spirit of Ca- — Michael Turner, author of 8 X 10 story t­elling prowess, part replete with a cadre of colourful nadian literature is chased up, and The Pornographer’s Poem hitting the sweet spot between cronies . . . Reading their back- down and across the country, Piranesi’s Figures is a romp through realism and the weird (and the and-forth is like listening to the “sought in vain, with both the “ “opening scene in Reservoir Dogs the magnificent psychological weird is almost always played author and his readers learning ruins of at least two marriages “straight), part dedication to if Woody Allen took a crack at much about what it means to and one attempt at child–rearing, the aesthetic as overriding rewriting it. —Winnipeg Review be Canadian in the process... and a gleefully reckless contortion function . . . The overall effect Above all, this book fairly brims of novelistic conventions, sexual It’s Tregebov’s obvious affection of these 24 experiments isn’t for all of his characters, his over with invention. practices, and family dynamics. an idea but a feeling: an As in her first novel, More House, willingness to indulge them— — James W. Wood, unsettling, a strangely pleasant Hannah Calder peers into hidden their crazy schemes and crazier Forty years ago, George Bowering corners and under creaking beds unease. —Globe & Mail conversations—that make saw a country still struggling to with such relentless abandon that this novel a distinct pleasure to SPECS ppb, 160 pp, 6” x 9” find itself in its books, and decided even her own characters bristle at read. — to write A Short Sad Book about her advances. The result is a dense PRICE $18 CAD • $16 USD it. Did he know he was writing witches-brew of storytelling, a ISBN 978-1-55420-097-9 “Like Michael Tregebov’s debut if not The Great Canadian Novel feminist-tinged fairytale. PUBLISHED 2014 novel The Briss, which was a final- something like it? ist for the Commonwealth First SPECS ppb, 234 pp, 5.5" x 8.5" Novel Award (Canada–Caribbean SPECS ppb, 224 pp, 5.5" x 8.5" PRICE $21 CAD • $19 USD Region), The Shiva is a fast-paced PRICE $19 CAD • $17 USD ISBN 978-1-55420-112-9 character-driven novel. ISBN 978-1-55420-129-7 PUBLISHED 2016 PUBLISHED March 2017 SPECS ppb, 272 pp, 5.5” x 8.5” PRICE $21 CAD • $21 USD ISBN 978-1-55420-063-4 PUBLISHED 2012

4 newstarbooks.com RECENT NON-FICTION TRANSMONTANUS Culture Gap TRANSMONTANUS The Sacred Herb / Maria Mahoi of The News We Deserve Towards a New World The Devil’s Weed the Islands The Transformation of Canada’s in the Yalakom Valley Media Landscape Andrew Struthers Jean Barman Judith Plant Marc Edge Since its original publication 22 All about nuance and wit . . . 13 in 2004, Maria Mahoi of the George Ryga Award long-listed Judith Plant takes us on a infused with mental playful- Islands has become a classic in its journey we’re not likely to ness . . . This charming book Marc Edge is one of the most forget, one that deepens our field, and an important document will have special appeal for on the history of Indigenous prescient and provocative ob- own search for relevance in a those who have experienced servers of the Canadian media radically changing world. Hawaiians known as Kanakas, the pleasures and perils of who had an early presence across scene. The News We Deserve is a —Joanna Macy, author of cannabis use, but it is deftly the Pacific Northwest and are compelling book showing how Widening Circles: A Memoir enough written to provide now part of the broader Hawaiian money, policy, and education “ diaspora across North America. have aligned to give Canadians “Decades ago, out back of pleasure to even the drug naïve. beyond, Camelsfoot, a philo- —Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun Drawing on information that poorer journalism than they has come to light since the book’s “deserve. Anyone concerned sophical commune, aspired to The Sacred Herb answers all your first publication—and sometimes about the role journalism plays “self-conscious culture making.” questions about the world’s most as a result of it—Jean Barman in Canadian politics, culture, Imbued with her conviction misunderstood plant, from how has updated and expanded her that “a meaningful and caring “the bikers of the Stone Age” account, and written a new Fore- and society will find his critique life with others is our natural spread it across Europe to why it word talking about the life that deeply unsettling. right,” Judith Plant’s memoir of makes music sound better. The the book has taken on. —Robert G. Picard, Reuters Institute “its fleeting achievement and Devil’s Weed is a non-stop trip as for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford many uncommon good times Struthers weaves together true SPECS ppb, 116 pp, 6.75” x 9.75” glows with wisdom, complex- stories, collected from 100 friends, PRICE $19 CAD • $17 USD SPECS ppb, 224 pp, 6” x 9” of marijuana-inspired misadven- ity, and compassion. A noble ISBN 978-1-55420-132-7 PRICE $24 CAD • $24 USD tures. read. —Stephanie Mills, author of PUBLISHED April 2017 ISBN 978-1-55420-121-1 Epicurean Simplicity and In Service of PHOTOGRAPHS 12 B&W SPECS double-sided ppb, 208 pp, the Wild 5.5” x 8.5” PUBLISHED 2016 PRICE $19 CAD • $18 USD SPECS ppb, 112 pp, 6.75” x 9.75” ISBN 978-1-55420-115-0 PRICE $19 CAD • $17 USD ILLUSTRATIONS 12 B&W ISBN 978-1-55420-133-4 PUBLISHED April 2017 PHOTOGRAPHS 25 B&W PUBLISHED May 2017

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A Series of Dogs Soviet Princeton Around the World on Greatly Exaggerated Slim Evans and the 1932–33 Minimum Wage The Myth of the Death of John Armstrong Miners’ Strike Newspapers Andrew Struthers Leacock Medal long-listed Jon Bartlett & Marc Edge Pretty much guaranteed to Rika Ruebsaat To understand this culture, we Soundly researched . . . delivers make you laugh out loud . . . a BC Book Prizes finalist need writers with a genuine the analytics lacking in many memorable compendium of BCHF Historical Writing Awards sense of humour, such as reports about the ‘death’ of philosophy, social commentary, finalist Struthers. printed news. slobbery kisses and love. —Phillip Marchand, National Post A fascinating chapter in labour —Newspaper Research Journal —Heidi Greco, Vancouver Sun organizing history in Canada. Something of a hybrid spawned of Gulliver’s Travels, William A provocative thesis that Edge John Armstrong uses his wry wit —Literary Review of Canada Kotwinkle’s classic The Fan Man, backs up with reams of data . . . “and vivid prose to evoke a life A carefully documented and “ And he accomplishes this with and National Lampoon mag- “ immeasurably enriched by one well-textured chronicle of a a breezy, readable style. best friend after another. He tells azine . . . I was hooked on his class’ dangerous struggle for —Georgia Straight boyhood tales of romping along manic stream of the sublime, the railroad tracks with Spooky the livable wages set against a the sublimely ridiculous and Demonstrates ample awareness mutt, touching accounts of Sluggo “landscape of political and social much that lies strewn some- and critique of the dangers to the Rottweiler befriending sex unrest. —Penticton Western News “where between the two— “good journalism of excessive workers, howl-inducing memories profit orientation. Required reading for the Cana- especially the delightful of laying a treasured friend to rest —Journalism & Mass Communication dian leftist who is curious as to ­graphics. —BC Studies during a rain- and beer-soaked “ Quarterly night, and many more stories both what exactly was going on west Imagine T.E. Lawrence’s Seven moving and hilarious. of the Rockies during the worst Pillars of Wisdom performed SPECS trade paperback, 320 of the Depression. —Socialist.ca as a Bob and Doug McKenzie “pages, 6” x 9” SPECS ppb, 192 pp, 5.5” x 8.5” sketch, and you’re halfway there. PRICE $21 CAD • $21 USD SPECS ppb, 136 pp, 6” x 9” PRICE $21 CAD • $19 USD —subTerrain ISBN 978-1-55420-102-0 ISBN 978-1-55420-118-1 PRICE $19 CAD • $18 USD PUBLISHED 2014 PUBLISHED 2016 “ISBN 978-1-55420-109-9 SPECS ppb, 304 pp, 5.5” x 8.5” PHOTOGRAPHS 12 B&W PRICE $24 CAD • $21 USD PUBLISHED 2015 “ISBN 978-1-55420-086-3 ILLUSTRATIONS numerous, by the author PUBLISHED 2014

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Whose Culture Is It, Svend Robinson Mac-Pap Rebel Life (2nd ed. rev.) Anyway? A Life in Politics Memoir of a Canadian in the The Life and Times of Robert Community Engagement in Spanish Civil War Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Graeme Truelove Small Cities Labour Spy Ronald Liversedge BC Book Prizes finalist W.F. Garrett-Petts David Yorke (ed.) Mark Leier James Hoffman Informative, interesting and Ginny Ratsoy (eds.) sometimes very moving. A ter- In recognizing Liversedge and More than a biography: a rich rific biography of an amazing his compatriots, we recognize examination of a radical era the centrality of the subjects that students of labour history Addresses important questions man. —Rabble.ca about the contribution of associated with the Great will benefit from . . . [Leier] has arts and culture in small and Readers will learn a great deal Depression to the emergence of shared the details of [Gosden’s] medium sized cities and the about Robinson, his motiva- a vibrant social history on the life with the imagination ethos and ethics of supporting tions, his colleagues and friends, Left Coast and elsewhere. of a mystery writer and the cultural development in these “and gain multiple valuable —BC Studies documentary knowledge of one insights into the internal environments. —BC Studies “of our most seasoned labour “A fascinating and much needed workings of the political system contribution to the slowly historians. —BC Studies “Includes contributions by Bruce during one of the most tumul- growing number of books on tuous eras in Canadian, British Rebel Life plumbs the enigma that Baugh, bill bissett, Ila Crawford, Canada’s role in the Spanish Nancy Duxbury, Alexander Forbes, “Columbian, and NDP history. was Gosden, but it is much more: Civil War —The Volunteer Kathleen Irwin, Terry Kading & —BC Studies an introduction to BC labour his- tory; a trove of rarely seen archival Christopher Walmsley, Caffyn Ronald Liversedge’s (author of photographs, and sidebars rich Kelley, Ernie Kroeger, Lucy Lippard, SPECS trade paperback, 352 Recollections of the On-to- with historical arcana; and, with Adelheid Mers, Judith Miller, pages, 6” x 9” Trek) memoir of his two years at “ its chapter describing the research Bernard Momer, Maureen F. Rogers PRICE $24 CAD • $24 USD the front is richly illustrated and that unearthed Gosden’s story, & Barry P. Brockley, Si Transken, and ISBN 978-1-55420-072-6 annotated by labour historian a rich resource for instructors, Savannah Walling. PHOTOGRAPHS 32 B&W David Yorke. PUBLISHED 2013 students, and trade unionists alike. SPECS trade paperback, 320 SPECS trade paperback, 224 pages, 6.75” x 9.75” SPECS trade paperback, 192 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” pages, 6” x 9” PRICE $35 CAD • $35 USD PRICE $19 CAD • $19 USD PRICE $21 CAD • $21 USD ISBN 978-1-55420-087-0 ISBN 978-1-55420-071-9 ISBN 978-1-55420-058-0 PHOTOGRAPHS 35 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS 19 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS 20 B&W PUBLISHED 2014 PUBLISHED 2013 PUBLISHED 2013

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Seize the Time Voyage Through the if wants to be A perimeter Vancouver Photographed, Past Century 1967–74 the same as is rob mclennan Esssential Poems of Rolf Knight Vladimir Keremidschieff David Bromige In fatherhood, mclennan has Afterword by Jamie Reid BC Book Prizes finalist David Bromige found a perfect subject for his signature rhythmic gifts: their Rolf Knight’s reflection on Edited by Jack Krick, Bob Perel- Recall[s] a much smaller Van- pause and heft, their sweeping ­seventy years as a labourer, man, and Ron Silliman couver of a much simpler age forward and pulling back. academic, writer, and activist Introduction by George Bowering that was nonetheless far more Listen to A perimeter and you is a fascinating account of a exciting than the present . . . will hear a moment expand, vanishing world of rednecks and Drawn from twenty-two books Full of visual information and a year collapse. This is a book roustabouts, saloon philosophers of poetry published by David social history. . . A handy crash about focus, but also about the and peasant rebels, bohemians Bromige in his lifetime, if wants to course in a period of history be the same as is presents a life’s blur of sleep deprivation. As and activists. His evocative de- that is quickly receding from work that is, in the words of Bob with so much about parenting, “scriptions of life and work in BC, “memory. —Georgia Straight Perelman, “beautiful, deeply amus- it is equal parts gratitude and post-war Berlin, the Colombian ing, continually surprising.” bewilderment. Could it be any These photographs document mountains, New York City, and Bromige’s work holds wide other way? —Marcus McCann Vancouver at a moment of beyond are informed by a deep, appeal and from the start resisted profound change, when the personal appreciation of workers any sort of classification, winning A new child, a new house, a new buttoned-down, rainswept city of and a smart, pugnacious disgust praise across the literary-critical neighbourhood: rob mclennan developer Tom “Terrific” Campbell for capitalism and its apologists. spectrum. His publishers included takes the measure of his environ- was being washed away by the —Mark Leier, author of Rebel Life Black Sparrow Press (Bukowski’s ment in A perimeter, a collection social and cultural wave of the publisher), Sun & Moon, Brick, and of shorter and longer pieces from Sixties. The music festivals, the SPECS ppb, 336 pp, 6” x 9” The Figures, and he won acclaim 2010 to 2014. protests, the squats on the North PRICE $24 CAD • $24 USD from the likes of Robert Hass, Shore mudflats, and the passion of ISBN 978-1-55420-068-9 the Poetry Foundation, and the SPECS ppb, 80 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” that moment in time are indelibly PHOTOGRAPHS 30 B&W National Endowment for the Arts. PRICE $18 CAD • $16 USD captured by his photographs. PUBLISHED 2013 He died in Sebastopol, California, ISBN 978-1-55420-128-0 in 2009. PUBLISHED 2016 SPECS ppb, 128 pages, 8” x 10” PRICE $24 CAD • $24 USD SPECS ppb, 640 pages, 6.75” x ISBN 978-1-55420-074-0 9.75” PHOTOGRAPHS “ 100 B&W PRICE $45 CAD • $35 USD PUBLISHED 2013 ISBN 978-1-55420-134-1 PUBLISHED 2017

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Clean Sails Twenty Seven Stings The World, I Guess Loitersack Gustave Morin Julie Emerson George Bowering Donato Mancini Illustrated by Alcuin Book Design Awards, Roxanna Bikadoroff Bowering’s candour is be- Packed full of quotations, analy- honourable mention guiling. He gives you a good ses, and deconstructions of and Stunningly complex, hyp­ Carefully crafted, lapidary time with his writing, you feel about poetry, and yet it never notic visual poems composed poems . . . illustrated with comfortable, even chummy, in gets old . . . the effect is just as manually on modified type­ powerful drawings . . . Deft his presence; he’s playful, but perplexing and just as thrilling writers . . . A major entry into and austere, evoking the gaudy then he nails you with some as sitting down with the work Canada’s corpus of typewriter horrors of war and what it does hard truths. —Vancouver Sun of a well-loved scholar. The best poetry, a strange, stunning book to women . . . The voices that part of Loitersack is that Donato “The World, I Guess is a substantial “ where every page impresses drive and inform her poems are Mancini makes it fun. The book book that commands a broad strong and fierce, and women is simultaneously a theatrical with its meticulous patterning. poetic range, a catholic span of in- —Winnipeg Free Press “are agents as well as objects. play, a grocery list, a decon- “ terests, and echoes of a lifetime of —Vancouver Sun struction of laughter (you have An epic of oddball sights, a saga reading and learning from Pound, Williams, Stanley, and others. to read it to understand), and of unstable figures, and a co- Twenty Seven Stings is a suite of The centrepiece is “The Flood,” uniquely poetic. At times it is al- lossus of concrete poems made seventeen poems inspired by roles of women in wars, and the a long, complex, discursive poem most nonsensical, but charming from an arsenal of typewriters whose subject is poesis and whose all the same. with names like Tooth Courier, cultural histories and military strategies that have led us into interest is in the world around the —Contemporary Verse 2 Hector Wheat-Gomez, and Cy wars throughout history, from writer. But the book ends with a Machina. —subTerrain sixth-century BCE China to Alex- suite of translations of the “mod- SPECS trade paperback, 128 ander the Great to contemporary ern” Canadian poetry canon, from pages, 6” x 9” “SPECS ppb, 164 pp, 6.5” x 8.75” Charles G.D. Roberts and Archibald PRICE $21 CAD • $19 USD American drone warfare. PRICE $24 CAD • $21 USD Lampman to Irving Layton and ISBN 978-1-55420-085-6 PUBLISHED 2014 ISBN 978-1-55420-108-2 SPECS ppb, 72 pages, 6” x 9” Phyllis Webb. PUBLISHED 2015 PRICE $18 CAD • $16 USD SPECS trade paperback, 160 ISBN 978-1-55420-107-5 pages, 6” x 9” PUBLISHED 2015 PRICE $18 CAD • $16 USD ISBN 978-1-55420-096-2 PUBLISHED 2015

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North of California St. Posh Lust Parkway Rua da Felicidade Selected Poems 1975–1999 (Hammertown, Part 3) Louis Cabri Ken Norris George Stanley Peter Culley Introduction by Sharon Thesen Smart, sometimes silly, and A lonesome travelogue that always biting, Cabri’s poems Culley’s poetry is remarkable explores loss, place, and poetic A rich selection of [Stanley’s] are poetic products par excel- for its suspension of rhetorical form . . . His awareness is what much earlier work, some of it lence . . . Posh Lust resembles elegance, together with all the makes this collection shine. dating back 40 years, with an a compost heap of poetic stubborn rawness of the refusal Rua Da Felicidade is a formal incisive introduction . . . His po- language. Cabri’s primary target to stop seeing. The inconsisten- and thematic battle against ems are often like slide shows, is neo-liberal capitalism, which cies and ravelled edges result- (and growing understanding kaleidoscopic and discontin- “is happy to destroy the world ing from this charged refusal “of) a postmodern world . . . We uous . . . at times he rises to for you as long as you fill out are themselves the troubled hear the voices of the many, as great beauty. —Vancouver Sun its satisfaction survey: “Most “condition of “being,” which is opposed to just the one. And “ Satisfying Rubble: / (a) chunks but one refraction among many all of them are shouting out for North of California St. will be (b) dust.” —Winnipeg Free Press in natural history. creation. —Contemporary Verse 2 most useful to newcomers —Lisa Robertson, Lemonhound to Stanley’s work, readers People study poetry and some Rua Da Felicidade celebrates mem- who may have missed the read it. Poetry is a pinnacle Parkway is suffused with ory and desire precisely in their publication of the four out-of- art — as in “a small ornamental impulses of loyalty, generosity, immateriality and impermanence, turret” — even when it’s a drunk seeking to constantly immerse print books from which this and discovery, all of which imaginary communist, or just a can be found in moments of itself in the uncertain materiality collection is drawn. Thesen’s drunk imaginary. Kitsch makes of the here and now. As such, it laughter, nostalgia, or learning. introduction helps place this the serious art of poetry bearable, challenges Williams’s dictum “no “selection of poetry in the con- —subTerrain so that poetry may become a ideas but in things”: “You’ll sail text of Stanley’s larger career, situation where one is entertained SPECS trade paperback, 96 the world / in your paper boat, / as “a retrospective reading” of by many an aspirational boner or “pages, 6” x 9” eventually throwing out / your Stanley’s first few Canadian becuntment in the literary field. PRICE $18 CAD • $18 USD cordless anchor.” decades. —Malahat Review ISBN 978-1-55420-076-4 SPECS trade paperback, 96 PUBLISHED 2013 SPECS trade paperback, 96 SPECS trade paperback, 192 pages, 6” x 9” pages, 5.5” x 8.5” pages, 6” x 9” PRICE $18 CAD • $18 USD PRICE $18 CAD • $18 USD PRICE $21 CAD • $21 USD ISBN 978-1-55420-083-2 ISBN 978-1-55420-073-3 ISBN 978-1-55420-082-5 PUBLISHED 2014 PUBLISHED 2013 PUBLISHED 2014

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sybil unrest After Desire Indigena Awry Franzlations The Imaginary Kafka Parables Larissa Lai & George Stanley Annharte Rita Wong Gary Barwin, Craig Conley In tandem with being or Blue Metropolis First Peoples Literary Prize winner (2015) & Hugh Thomas A witty, often trenchan­ tly funny becoming invisible as an object repar­tee on main­tain­ing a of desire as he ages, Stanley’s This book directly responds to Filled with modest poetry and resis tan­ t spirit in an envi­ron­ poetry also ruminates on the the injustices facing Aboriginal literary frills at every turn; their ment of aggres­sive glob­al­ized process of making poetic mean- people. It is revolutionary sounds echo and whisper, not con­sumerism. ing itself when the impetus— literature. —Contemporary Verse 2 unlike Kafka himself, across —Canadian Literature desire—abates. [The poem] is generational gaps . . . Conley, Saturated with rejection of the gift that the poet can offer Barwin, and Thomas induce you A lively, feminist foray into an “honest Injun” clichés and of “others, having lived through into a willing hypnosis as you avant-garde poetics of cultural ageist and sexist stereotypes “ the mysteries of desire, having ponder over the pithy blocked and political critique . . . Lever- not yet, not ever solved the from settler culture . . . The “ “ letters, scattered scraps of sen- ages multiple identities as an ‘experimental’ is never separate pull to beauty, to youth, to the tences, and gothic illustrations. opening from which to shake consolations of old age. from a passionate rejection of —Paper Street Journal up and transmute political and ­—Canadian Literature white bourgeois aesthetics. cultural structures, even to the —Canadian Literature Takes the work of Kafka into a wholly other sphere of (up)root(ing) of language and The poems in After Desire might “Never veers into polemic— “form. The romp and sounds be sparked by the beauty of a meaning . . . to a space where Annharte pays too much the imagination can be freed of language are joyful, funny, waiter in a restaurant in Stanley’s attention to language for this Kitsilano neighbourhood, by a by virtue of the play of images, rousing, agitating, shifting the work to be mere treatise. Here possibilities, recanting the line conversation in his neighbourhood text, and history. pub, by a glance exchanged with too there is pleasure in sound —Schlemielintheory.com of logic. —Herizons a baby or a teenager on the bus, and language, sultry sexual by a failing vacuum cleaner, or by exultations, strength and pride. “SPECS trade paperback, 104 SPECS trade paperback, 128 pages, 6” x 9” pages, 6” x 9” another poet’s poem. Whichever —The Rusty Tuque the case may be, Stanley’s poetry “ PRICE $19 CAD • $19 USD PRICE $18 CAD • $18 USD remains solidly embedded in the SPECS trade paperback, 144 ISBN 978-1-55420-062-7 ISBN 978-1-55420-069-6 material city in which he lives. pages, 6” x 9” ILLUSTRATIONS Profuse, PUBLISHED 2013 PRICE $19 CAD • $19 USD throughout SPECS ppb, 96 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” ISBN 978-1-55420-067-2 PUBLISHED 2011 PRICE $18 CAD • $18 USD PUBLISHED 2012 ISBN 978-1-55420-070-2 PUBLISHED 2013

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Piranesi’s Figures F 978-1-55420-112-9 2016 $21 / $19 Sweet England F 978-1-55420-055-9 2010 $19 / $19 Hannah Calder Steve Weiner Posh Lust P 978-1-55420-083-2 2014 $18 / $18 sybil unrest P 978-1-55420-069-6 2013 $18 / $18 Louis Cabri Larissa Lai and Rita Wong Rebel Life (2nd ed.) F 978-1-55420-058-0 2012 $21 / $21 There P 978-1-55420-026-9 2006 $18 / $16 Mark Leier Roy Miki Robin Blaser N 978-1-55420-052-8 2010 $16 / $16 Tom Thomson’s Shack N 978-0-921586-75-3 2000 $20 / $20 Stan Persky and Brian Fawcett Harold Rhenisch Rua da Felicidade P 978-1-55420-073-3 2013 $18 / $18 Topic Sentence N 978-1-55420-028-3 2007 $21 / $21 Ken Norris Stan Persky Sacred Herb The / The Devil’s Weed N 978-1-55420-115-0 2017 $19 / $18 Tungsten John N 978-0-921586-70-8 2000 $21 / $21 Andrew Struthers John Harris Seize the Time N 978-1-55420-074-0 2013 $24 / $24 Twenty Seven Stings P 978-1-55420-107-5 2015 $18 / $16 Vladimir Keremidschieff Julie Emerson Sentences and Paroles N 978-0-921586-63-0 1998 $24 / $24 Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time N 978-0-921586-84-5 2001 $29 / $29 P.J. Murphy, Jennifer Murphy (eds.) Judith Williams Series of Dogs A N 978-1-55420-118-1 2016 $21 / $19 Vancouver: A Poem P 978-1-55420-038-2 2008 $18 / $16 John Armstrong George Stanley Shiva The F 978-1-55420-063-4 2012 $21 / $21 Voice Great Within Us A N 978-0-921586-56-2 1998 $16 / $16 Michael Tregebov Charles Lillard Shoot! F 978-1-55420-041-2 2008 $19 / $19 Voyage Through the Past Century N 978-1-55420-068-9 2013 $24 / $24 George Bowering Rolf Knight Short Sad Book A F 978-1-55420-129-7 2017 $19 / $17 Wages N 978-1-55420-029-0 2007 $21 / $21 George Bowering John Armstrong Short Version The N 978-1-55420-016-0 2005 $21 / $21 Weather The P 978-0-921586-81-4 2001 $16 / $16 Stan Persky Lisa Robertson Social Work With Rural Peoples (3rd ed.) N 978-1-55420-020-7 2006 $20 / $20 What Species of Creatures N 978-1-55420-040-5 2008 $19 / $19 Ken Collier Sharon Kirsch Soviet Princeton N 978-1-55420-109-9 2015 $19 / $18 Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? N 978-1-55420-087-0 2014 $35 / $35 Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat W.F. Garrett-Petts, James Hoffman, and Ginny Ratsoy (eds.) Stranger on a Strange Island N 978-1-55420-057-3 2011 $19 / $19 Words, Words, Words N 978-1-55420-066-5 2012 $19 / $19 Grant Buday George Bowering Stranger Wycott’s Place N 978-1-55420-037-5 2008 $19 / $19 World, I Guess The P 978-1-55420-096-2 2015 $21 / $21 John Schreiber George Bowering Sturgeon Reach N 978-1-55420-060-3 2012 $19 / $19 Wreck Beach N 978-1-55420-031-3 2007 $19 / $19 Terry Glavin and Ben Parfitt Carellin Brooks Subway Under Byzantium P 978-1-55420-035-1 2008 $18 / $16 Writing Class P 978-0-921586-68-5 1999 $21 / $21 Maxine Gadd Andrew Klobucar and Michael Barnholden (eds.) Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics N 978-1-55420-072-6 2013 $24 / $24 XEclogue P 978-0-921586-72-2 1999 $16 / $16 Graeme Truelove Lisa Robertson

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In 1969, a group of writers and editors continue under a new imprint, Vancou- 1990, when Rolf Maurer assumed the published the first of several literary ver Community Press, based at “the York role. This last change coincided with a supplements inserted into the weekly St. commune.” return to the press’s literary roots: while Straight. The Georgia Straight Writing By 1974, the press began to empha- New Star continues to publish books Supplement featured work by writers size non-fiction titles about current about politics and social issues, it also such as Straight editor/publisher Dan affairs and politics. One of these books, resumed publishing poetry, as well as MacLeod, Stan Persky, Milton Acorn, Two Roads by Jack Scott, a largely prose fiction and non-fiction. As well, Gerry Gilbert, Jack Spicer, George positive account of the People’s Repub- books on local history and culture be- Stanley, Robin Blaser, Maria Hindmarch, lic of China (Scott was one of the first came an important component of New Jim Herndon, Dennis Wheeler, and Colin westerners to visit, and write an account Star’s list. Stuart. of, the China of Mao Zedong and the In 1998, New Star moved across Soon the GSWS began publishing Cultural Revolution) inspired another town to its current location, at 18th and books, including works by bill bissett, name change, to New Star Books. Commercial Street in East Vancouver. Judith Copithorne, Fred Wah, Brian By 1978, the York Street commune Today, New Star Books publishes four to Fawcett, George Bowering, and Daphne was no more, and Lanny Beckman, who ten new titles per year. Marlatt. Within another year, many of had joined the press in 1974, became the GSWS writers left the Straight to publisher, a position he held until

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