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Raymond Beauchemin, Dead Cars in Managua Stuart Ross, p. 34 Iridium Steve Luxton, p. 29 280 pp, 6 x 9, September 1993, Anthology, 104 pp, 5 x 8, April 2008, Poetry, 80 pp, 6 x 9, November 1993, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-38-1, 978-0-919688-38-4 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 1-897190-33-6, 978-1-897190-33-3 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 0-919688-42-x, 978-0-919688-42-1 (pbk) $9.95 ISBN 0-919688-36-5, 978-0-919688-36-0 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 1-897190-38-7, 978-1-897190-38-8 (HC) $31.95 ISBN 0-919688-40-3, 978-0-919688-40-7 (HC) $29.95 The Aftermath: a survivor’s odyssey Dead White Males Ann Diamond, jacks: a gothic gospel Anne Stone, through war-torn Europe Henry Lilienheim, 150 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2000, Novel, 92 pp, 5 x 8, November 1998, Novel, 181 pp, 5.5 x 9, November 1994 ISBN 0-919688-70-5, 978-0-919688-70-4 (pbk) $17.95 ISBN 0-919688-23-3, 978-0-919688-23-0 (pbk) $14.95 ISBN 0-919688-44-6, 978-0-919688-44-5 (pbk) $15.95 ISBN 0-919688-72-1, 978-0-919688-72-8 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 0-919688-25-x, 978-0-919688-25-4 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 0-919688-45-4, 978-0-919688-45-2 (HC) $29.95 (Box-set The Aftermath & Dark Lullabies) $39.95 Dk / Some Letters of Ezra Pound L. Dudek, ed., p. 36 Kate Wake Mariianne Mays Wiebe, p. 7 149 pp, 6 x 9, 1974, Belles Lettres 273 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, December 2019, Movel, Acqua Sacra Keith Henderson, p. 14 ISBN 0-919688-05-5, 978-0-919688-05-6 (pbk) $14.95 978-1-927599-46-4 (pbk) $21.95 200 pp, 5.5 x 9, November 2016, Novel, ISBN 978-1-927599-37-2 (pbk) $21.95 The Dying Meteorologist Steve Luxton, p. 10 Ladonian Magnitudes Bryan Sentes, ISBN 978-1-927599-38-9 (HC) $36.95 130 pp, 5 x 8, October 2018, Poetry, 124 pp, 5 x 8, May 2006, Poetry, 978-1-927599-47-1 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 1-897190-11-5, 978-1-897190-11-1 (pbk) $16.95 All I Can Say For Sure John McAuley, p. 23 ISBN 1-897190-10-7, 978-1-897190-10-4 (HC) $29.95 134 pp, 5 x 8, November 2013, Poetry, Earthbound Ken Radu, p. 28 ISBN 978-1-927599-16-7 (pbk) $17.95 176 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2012, Short Stories, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Zsolt Alapi, p. 6 ISBN 978-1-927599-17-4 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 1-897190-87-5, 978-1-897190-87-6 (pbk) $18.95 273 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, March 2020, Movel, ISBN 1-897190-88-3, 978-1-897190-88-3 (HC) $32.95 978-1-927599-50-1 (pbk) $23.95 All I Want is a Walk-On Part LaMonte Palmer, 85 pp, 6 x 9, July 2000, Poetry, Earth’s Waters Nicole Blades, Listen, Honey Shelley A. Leedahl, p. 30 ISBN 0-919688-58-6, 978-0-919688-58-2 (pbk) $14.95 206 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2006, Novel, 140 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2012, Short Stories, ISBN 0-919688-60-8, 978-0-919688-60-5 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 1-897190-21-2, 978-1-897190-21-0 (pbk) $21.95 ISBN 1-897190-79-4, 978-1-897190-79-1 (pbk) $18.95 US $19.95 ISBN 1-897190-80-8, 978-1-897190-80-7 (HC) $32.95 And Sometimes They Fly Robert Edison Sandiford, p. 25 ISBN 1-897190-22-0, 978-1-897190-22-7 (HC) $32.95 195 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2013, Novel, Literature and the Press Louis Dudek ISBN 978-1-897190-94-4 (pbk) $19.95 The Emperor’s Sofa Greg Santos, p. 28 242 pp, 5.5 x 8.75, 1960, Non-Fiction, ISBN 978-1-897190-95-1 (HC) $32.95 92 pp, 5 x 8, November 2010, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-50-0, 978-0-919688-50-6 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 1-897190-67-0, 978-1-897190-67-8 (pbk) $16.95 And to Say Hello Scott Randall, p. 18 ISBN 1-897190-68-9, 978-1-897190-68-5 (HC) $31.95 Love in the Age of Confusion Byron Ayanoglu, p. 35 230 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2014, Short Stories, 258 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2001, Novel, ISBN 978-1-927599-28-0 (pbk) $21.95 England is Mine Todd Swift, p. 32 ISBN 0-919688-88-8, 978-0-919688-88-9 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 978-1-927599-29-7 (HC) $36.95 106 pp, 5 x 8, November 2011, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-90-x, 978-0-919688-90-2 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 1-897190-61-1, 978-1-897190-61-6 (pbk) $16.95 The Animal Library Jason Camlot, p. 35 ISBN 1-897190-62-x, 978-1-897190-62-3 (HC) $31.95 The Lower Provinces Daniel O’Leary, p. 35 111 pp, 6 x 9, November 2000, Poetry, 84 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2012, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-62-4, 978-0-919688-62-9 (pbk) $16.95 Eternal Conversations: Remembering ISBN 1-897190-81-6, 978-1-897190-81-4 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 0-919688-64-0, 978-0-919688-64-3 (HC) $29.95 Louis Dudek ed. Collins, Gnarowski, & Skarstedt, ISBN 1-897190-82-4, 978-1-897190-82-1 (HC) $31.95 100 illustrations, October 2003, 288 pp, 6 x 9, Biography, Attention All Typewriters Jason Camlot, p. 35 ISBN 0-919688-75-6, 978-0-919688-75-9 (pbk) $23.95 Luna Moth Steve Luxton, p. 29 116 pp, 5 x 8, August 2005, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-77-2, 978-0-919688-77-3 (HC) $32.95 92 pp, 5 x 8, December 2004, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-01-2, 978-0-919688-01-8 (pbk) $15.95 ISBN 0-919688-91-8, 978-0-919688-91-9 (pbk) $14.95 ISBN 0-919688-02-0, 978-0-919688-02-5 (HC) $29.95 Excitement Tax, John Emil Vincent, p. 12 ISBN 0-919688-92-6, 978-0-919688-92-6 (HC) $29.95 100 pp., 5 x 8, Poetry, November 2017 At the Bottom of the Sky Peter Dubé, p. 33 ISBN: 978-1-927599-44-0 (paper) . . . $18.95 The Madonna of the St. Denis Bar-B-Q 128 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, May 2007, Short Stories, Huguette O’Neil, 95 pp, 5 x 8, September 2004, ISBN 1-897190-19-0, 978-1-897190-19-7 (pbk) $18.95 Failure to Thrive Jeff Oliver, p. 30 Biography and Personal Memoir, ISBN 1-897190-20-4, 978-1-897190-20-3 (HC) $32.95 180 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2011, Novel ISBN 0-919688-93-4, 978-0-919688-93-3 (pbk) $15.95 ISBN 1-897190-75-1, 978-1-897190-75-3 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 0-919688-95-0, 978-0-919688-95-7 (HC) $29.95 The Beekeeper Keith Henderson, p. 31 ISBN 1-897190-76-x, 978-1-897190-76-0 (HC) $32.95 150 pp, 5.5 x 9, 6 illustrations Mammoth Larissa Andrusyshyn, p. 33 July 1990, Novel, Fairfield Robert Edison Sandiford, p. 15 72 pp, 5 x 8, April 2010, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-21-7, 978-0-919688-21-6 (pbk) $17.95 160 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2015, Short Stories, ISBN 1-897190-63-8, 978-1-897190-63-0 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 0-919688-22-5, 978-0-919688-22-3 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 978-1-927599-35-8 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 1-897190-64-6, 978-1-897190-64-7 (HC) $31.95 ISBN 978-1-927599-36-5 (HC) $36.95 The Birth of Reason Louis Dudek The Mechanics of Submission Phil Tabakow, 111 pp, 5.25 x 9, December 1994, Belles Lettres, Fish Bones Gillian Sze, p. 35 64 pp, 6 x 9, September 2004, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-41-1, 978-0-919688-41-4 (pbk) $12.95 80 pp, 5 x 8, April 2009, Poetry ISBN 0-919688-87-x, 978-0-919688-87-2 (pbk) $14.95 ISBN 0-919688-43-8, 978-0-919688-43-8 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 1-897190-46-8, 978-1-897190-46-3 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 0-919688-89-6, 978-0-919688-89-6 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 1-897190-49-2, 978-1-897190-49-4 (HC) $31.95 Blackbodying Dimitri Nasrallah The Moosehead Anthology 5 224 pp, 5.5 x 8.5 , 7 illustrations, Ghost Face Greg Santos, p. 5 ed. The staff of The Moosehead Review, December 2004, Novel, 130 pp, 5 x 8, May 2020, Poetry, 112 pp, 6 x 9, December 1994, Fiction, ISBN 0-919688-94-2, 978-0-919688-94-0 (pbk) $21.95 978-1-927599-51-8 (pbk) $19.95 ISBN 0-919688-39-x, 978-0-919688-39-1 (pbk) $12.95 ISBN 0-919688-96-9, 978-0-919688-96-4 (HC) $32.95 Graffiti Pierre DesRuisseaux, The Moosehead Anthology 6 Brick, Looking Up Grant Loewen, 92 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2002, Poetry ed. R. E. N. Allen & Grant Loewen, 190 pp, 5.5 x 9, 1 illustration ISBN 0-919688-65-9, 978-0-919688-65-0 (pbk) $14.95 96 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, January 1997, Fiction, September 1992, Novel, ISBN 0-919688-67-5, 978-0-919688-67-4 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 0-919688-37-3, 978-0-919688-37-7 (pbk) $13.95 ISBN 0-919688-32-2, 978-0-919688-32-2 (pbk) $14.95 Grand Gnostic Central & Other Poems Bryan Sentes, Moosemilk: The Moosehead Anthology 7 Budavox Todd Swift, p. 32 Poetry, 64 pp, 6 x 9, December 1997, ed. Patti Sonntag & Grant Loewen, 100 pp, 5 x 8, August 1999, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-29-2, 978-0-919688-29-2 (pbk) $12.95 114 pp, 6 x 9, November 1999, Anthology, ISBN 0-919688-46-2, 978-0-919688-46-9 (pbk) $14.95 ISBN 0-919688-27-6, 978-0-919688-27-8 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 0-919688-52-7, 978-0-919688-52-0 (pbk) $14.95 ISBN 0-919688-48-9, 978-0-919688-48-3 (HC) $29.95 the hills that pass by Steve Luxton, p. 29 The Moosehead Anthology 8: The Matrix Butterfly in Amber Ken Radu, p. 19 79 pp, 6 x 9, August 1987, Poetry, Interviews ed. R.E.N. Allen & Angela Carr, 240 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2014, Novel, ISBN 0-919688-14-4, 978-0-919688-14-8 (pbk) $9.95 182 pp, 6 x 9, July 2001, Anthology, ISBN 1-897190-87-5, 978-1-927599-24-2 (pbk) $21.95 ISBN 0-919688-86-1, 978-0-919688-86-5 (pbk) $14.95 ISBN 1-897190-88-3, 978-1-927599-25-9 (HC) $36.95 Hovering World Peter Dubé, p. 33 158 pp, 5 x 8, November 2002, Novel, The Moosehead Anthology 9: Café Alibi Todd Swift, p. 32 ISBN 0-919688-61-6, 978-0-919688-61-2 (pbk) $17.95 Career Suicide! ed. Jon Paul Fiorentino, 76 pp, 5 x 8, September 2002, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-63-2, 978-0-919688-63-6 (HC) $29.95 August 2003, 152 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Anthology, ISBN 0-919688-53-5, 978-0-919688-53-7 (pbk) $14.95 ISBN 0-919688-69-1, 978-0-919688-69-8 (pbk) $15.95 ISBN 0-919688-55-1, 978-0-919688-55-1 (HC) $29.95 I Can See You Being Invisible Andy Brown, 188 pp, 5 x 8, December 2003, Fiction, The Moosehead Anthology 10: Clinical Studies George Slobodzian, ISBN 0-919688-83-7, 978-0-919688-83-4 (pbk) $15.95 Future Welcome ed. Todd Swift, 78 pp, 6 x 9, November 2001, Poetry ISBN 0-919688-85-3, 978-0-919688-85-8 (HC) $29.95 December 2005, 205 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Anthology, ISBN 0-919688-82-9, 978-0-919688-82-7 (pbk) $14.95 ISBN 1-897190-06-9, 978-1-897190-06-7 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 0-919688-84-5, 978-0-919688-84-1 (HC) $29.95 In the Vision of Birds Steve Luxton, p. 29 100 pp, 5 x 8, April 2012, Poetry, ISBN 1-897190-83-2, 978-1-897190-83-8 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 1-897190-84-0, 978-1-897190-84-5 (HC) $31.95 LIST OF TITLES (CON’T)

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WorksThe Moosehead byAnthology 11: Louis DudekRue du Regard Todd Swift, p. 32 without cease the earth faintly trembles Dingers – Contemporary Baseball Writing 96 pp, 5 x 8, September 2004, Poetry, Amanda Marchand, September 2003, ed. David McGimpsey, ISBN 978-1-897190-96-8 (pbk) $16.95 144 pp, 5 x 8, Fiction, December 2007, 166 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Anthology, ISBN 978-1-897190-97-5 (HC) $31.95 ISBN 0-919688-71-3, 978-0-919688-71-1 (pbk) $15.95 ISBN 1-897190-15-8, 978-1-897190-15-9 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 0-919688-73-x, 978-0-919688-73-5 (HC) $29.95 Prose and Poetry The Saddest Place on Earth Kathryn Mockler, p. 27 The Moosehead Anthology 12: Illustrated by David Poolman, Message to Erin ed. Daniel O’Leary, 84 pp, 5 x 8, November 2012, Poetry, November 2009, 202 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Anthology, ISBN 1-897190-32-8, 978-1-897190-32-6 (pbk) $17.95 ISBN 1-897190-54-9, 978-1-897190-54-8 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 1-897190-89-1, 978-1-897190-89-0 (HC) $31.95 Napoleon’s Retreat Robert Allen, Sanctuary and Other Stories Jennifer Duncan, p. 36 312 pp, 5.375 x 8, December 1997, Novel, 188 pp, 5 x 8, December 1999, Short Stories, ISBN 0-919688-35-7, 978-0-919688-35-3 (pbk) $19.95 ISBN 0-919688-54-3, 978-0-919688-54-4 (pbk) $17.95 ISBN 0-919688-56-x, 978-0-919688-56-8 (HC) $29.95 Nearly Terminal Eleni Zisimatos, p. 8 100 pp, 5 x 8, April 2019, Poetry, Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle Robert 978-1-927599-49-5 (pbk) $18.95 Edison Sandiford, December 2003, p. 25 188 pp, 5 x 8, Biography & Travel, Net Worth Kenneth Radu, p. 11 ISBN 0-919688-79-9, 978-0-919688-79-7 (pbk) $15.95 130 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2018, Short Stories, ISBN 0-919688-81-0, 978-0-919688-81-0 (HC) $29.95 978-1-927599-45-7 (pbk) $21.95 Sasquatch and the Green Sash Keith Henderson, p. 9 Of Water and Rock Thomas Armstrong, p. 36 130 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, October 2018, A Romance, Introduc- 334 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2010, Novel, tion by K.S. Whetter 978-1-927599-40-2 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 1-897190-59-x, 978-1-897190-59-3 (pbk) $19.95 ISBN 1-897190-60-3, 978-1-897190-60-9 (HC) $34.95 Sex in Russia Kenneth Radu, p. 28 202 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2010, Short Stories, The Originals L.E. Vollick, p. 26 ISBN 1-897190-65-4, 978-1-897190-65-4 (pbk) $18.95 264 pp, 5 x 8, July 2002, Novel, ISBN 1-897190-66-2, 978-1-897190-66-1 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 0-919688-47-0, 978-0-919688-47-6 (pbk) $17.95 ISBN 0-919688-49-7, 978-0-919688-49-0 (HC) $29.95 Short Accounts of Tragic Occurrences Nick McArthur, The Pagan Nuptials of Julia and Other Stories, p. 31 88 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2009, Short Stories, Keith Henderson, ISBN 1-897190-50-6, 978-1-897190-50-0 (pbk) $16.95 116 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, August 2005, Short Stories, ISBN 1-897190-51-4, 978-1-897190-51-7 (HC) $31.95 ISBN 0-919688-98-5, 978-0-919688-98-8 (pbk) $17.95 ISBN 0-919688-99-3, 978-0-919688-99-5 (HC) $32.95 Squishy Arjun Basu, p. 34 150 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2008, Short Stories, Passport Angela Hibbs, ISBN 1-897190-36-0, 978-1-897190-36-4 (pbk) $18.95 102 pp, 5 x 8, December 2006, Poetry, ISBN 1-897190-37-9, 978-1-897190-37-1 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 1-897190-12-3, 978-1-897190-12-8 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 1-897190-18-2, 978-1-897190-18-0 (HC) $31.95 Staying Canadian: the Struggle against UDI Keith Henderson, Political Essays p. 31 Pastels are Pretty Much the Polar Opposite of Chalk 258 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, December 1997, Nathaniel G. Moore, ISBN 0-919688-31-4, 978-0-919688-31-5 (pbk) $19.95 88 pp, 5 x 8, November 2009, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-33-0, 978-0-919688-33-9 (HC) $36.95 ISBN 1-897190-57-3, 978-1-897190-57-9 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 1-897190-58-1, 978-1-897190-58-6 (HC) $31.95 Suddenly the Minotaur Marie Hélène Poitras, p. 33 162 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, December 2006, Novel, The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa Barrie Sherwood p. 36 ISBN 1-897190-16-6, 978-1-897190-16-6 (pbk) $18.95 164 pp, 5 x 8, August 2000, Novel, ISBN 1-897190-17-4, 978-1-897190-17-3 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 0-919688-66-7, 978-0-919688-66-7 (pbk) $17.95 ISBN 0-919688-68-3, 978-0-919688-68-1 (HC) $32.95 Syzygy Louise Bak, p. 35 85 pp, 5 x 8, April 2011, Poetry, Plenty of Harm in God Dana Bath, ISBN 1-897190-69-7, 978-1-897190-69-2 (pbk) $16.95 216 pp, 5 x 8, July 2001, Novel, ISBN 1-897190-70-0, 978-1-897190-70-8 (HC) $31.95 ISBN 0-919688-78-0, 978-0-919688-78-0 (pbk) $17.95 ISBN 0-919688-80-2, 978-0-919688-80-3 (HC) $29.95 Through the Eyes Don Druick, 80 pp, 5 x 8, November 2004, Drama, Pluto’s Gate L.E. Sterling, p. 26 ISBN 0-919688-15-2, 978-0-919688-15-5 (pbk) $15.95 200 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2013, Novel, ISBN 0-919688-97-7, 978-0-919688-97-1 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 978-1-897190-90-6 (pbk) $19.95 ISBN 978-1-897190-91-3 (HC) $34.95 The Tree of Youth and Other Stories Robert Edison Sandiford, p. 25 Pollen Tom Abray, p. 30 136 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, December 2005, Short Stories, 192 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2011, Short Stories, ISBN 1-897190-04-2, 978-1-897190-04-3 (pbk) $17.95 ISBN 1-897190-73-5, 978-1-897190-73-9 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 1-897190-05-0, 978-0-919688-05-0 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 1-897190-74-3, 978-1-897190-74-6 (HC) $32.95 two eyes are you sleeping Heather O’Neill, p. 34 Porny Stories Eva Moran, 80 pp, 5 x 8, November 1998, Poetry, 193 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2008, Short Stories, ISBN 0-919688-17-9, 978-0-919688-17-9 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 1-897190-44-1, 978-1-897190-44-9 (pbk) $18.95 ISBN 0-919688-19-5, 978-0-919688-19-3 (HC) $29.95 ISBN 1-897190-45-x, 978-1-897190-45-6 (HC) $32.95 Unisex Love Poems Angela Szczepaniak, p. 34 Radius of Light Joshua Auerbach, 193 pp, 5 x 8, November 2008, Poetry, 88 pp, 5 x 8, December 2007, Poetry, ISBN 1-897190-39-5, 978-1-897190-39-5 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 1-897190-34-4, 978-1-897190-34-0 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 1-897190-40-9, 978-1-897190-40-1 (HC) $31.95 ISBN 1-897190-35-2, 978-1-897190-35-7 (HC) $31.95 walking: not a nun’s story Concetta Principe, p. 27 The Restoration: the Referendum Years, p. 31 100 pp, 5 x 8, April 2013, Poetry, Keith Henderson, Second Printing, 978-1-897190-85-2 (pbk) $17.95 200 pp, 5.25 x 9, July 1994, Novel, 978-1-897190-86-9 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 0-919688-10-1, 978-0-919688-10-0 (pbk) $16.95 ISBN 0-919688-51-9, 978-0-919688-51-3 (HC) $32.95 Where I Wanted To Be Tom Abray, p. 13 192 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, November 2011, Short Stories, The Roof Walkers Keith Henderson, p. 24 ISBN 1-897190-73-5, 978-1-897190-73-9 (pbk) $18.95 280 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, April 2013, Novel, ISBN 1-897190-74-3, 978-1-897190-74-6 (HC) $32.95 ISBN 978-1-897190-96-8 (pbk) $21.95 ISBN 978-1-897190-97-5 (HC) $36.95 Winter Tennis Todd Swift, p. 32 ISBN 978-1-927599-42-6 (Epub) $8.99 102 pp, 5 x 8, August 2007, Poetry, ISBN 1-897190-29-8, 978-1-897190-29-6 (pbk) $16.95 Ricky Ricardo Suites Robert Allen, ISBN 1-897190-30-1, 978-1-897190-30-2 (HC) $29.95 85 pp, 6 x 8.5, November 2000, Poetry, ISBN 0-919688-74-8, 978-0-919688-74-2 (pbk) $13.95 ISBN 0-919688-76-4, 978-0-919688-76-6 (HC) $29.95 ORDERING DC BOOKS

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POETRY BY GREG SANTOS

Ghost Face

In his third DC Books title Greg Santos explores what it means to have been a Cambodian infant adopted by a Canadian family.

Through a uniquely playful and Greg Santos self-reflective series of poems that Greg Santos is the author of pay moving homage to his adop- Blackbirds (Eyewear, 2018), Rabbit tive parents, and explore the fan- Punch! (DC Books, 2014), and The tasies of a lost family and life in Emperor’s Sofa (DC Books, 2010). Cambodia, Santos leads the reader He is of Cambodian, Portuguese, through his visceral process of and Spanish descent. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from unlearning and relearning who he Greg Santos, May 2020, Poetry, The New School. He regularly is and who he might become. 100 pages, 5 x 8 978-1-927599-51-8 paper- works with at-risk communities, back $19.95 and teaches at the Thomas More Institute. He is the poetry editor of carte blanche. Santos lives in Montreal with his wife and two children.

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1-800-387-9777 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

A NOVEL BY ZSOLT ALAPI

Landscape with the Fall of a mysterious phone call that leads Icarus him to an exploration of his failed relationships with women and The protagonist of this novel, a final surprise resolution to his Stephen, twice exiled, first from search for meaning and redemp- his birthplace, Hungary, and tion. Set primarily in Montreal, then from the United States as a the novel also travels to the places Vietnam draft resistor who settles of Stephen’s past: the Hungary in Montreal, Quebec, becomes of his childhood, Europe, the obsessed with W.H. Auden’s United States, and the Montreal poem, ‘Musėe des Beaux Arts’ and of his youth through his memories Bruegel’s painting “Landscape and reflections. Despite its comic with the Fall of Icarus”, an obses- undertone, the novel explores the sion about the nature of suffering illusions we construct to provide and art that leads to his attempted value to our lives, the nature of Zsolt Alapi, March 2020, Novel, suicide and to the subsequent love and the erotic, and the path 273 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 978-1-927599-50-1 paperback $23.95 chaos of his life. Upon his dis- towards compassion and meaning. charge from a mental institute, he attends several sessions with his psychiatrist with whom he has a Zsolt Alapi comically adversarial relationship Zsolt Alapi is a short story writer, wherein they explore his false reli- editor, and critic whose stories, ance on literature as the only way articles, and reviews have appeared to define and relate to the world. widely in Canada, the U.S., Great Britain, and France. Born in Told through the first-person Budapest, Hungary, Alapi moved narrator, the novel explores the to Montreal, Quebec during the nature of suffering, of authentic- Vietnam War and finished his Ph.D. at McGill University. He ity, and of the value of the writ- taught literature at college and uni- ten word as Stephen reflects on versity for three decades. his past life, the dissolution of his marriage, and his abiding yet potentially destructive passion for books. After his discharge from the mental institute and while undergoing therapy and merciless self-evaluation, Stephen receives DC Books 6 NEW

1-800-387-9777 Kate Wake

A NOVEL BY MARIIANNE MAYS WIEBE

Kate Wake that unfolds its narrative mystery to reveal a shocking core.” Kate Wake is a tender and deeply engaging novel from a distinctive – George Elliott Clarke new voice.

It’s 2008. Blue Hills is a haunted place. Katie fights to reclaim her life from the grip of a profound psychological crisis, tracing back a maternal thread through a stumbled-upon and uncertain family history at the nearby, now- Mariianne Mays Wiebe abandoned prairie mental asylum. Mariianne Mays Wiebe is a pub- Mariianne Mays Wiebe, December 2019, As Katie seeks to rehabilitate the Novel, 273 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 978-1-927599- lished poet and professional editor 46-4 paperback $21.95 present by understanding the with a lively interest in history, past, her fate becomes imagina- performance and visual art, about tively intertwined with that of her which she has written extensively. great-grandmother Kate Wake, an She lives in Winnipeg. Kate Wake enigmatic independent-minded is her first novel. artist with a remarkable story of her own.

In returning to a scene of loss, this elegant variation on the Eurydice- Orpheus myth reconsiders, with a fresh, unsentimental vision, the roles of trauma, madness, creativ- ity and memory in relation to art and literary form.

“Sharply realized and fortified by a fierce, poetic grace, Kate Wake tes- tifies to the timeless, urgent power of art and music with a delicately experimental, multi-genre story

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1-800-387-9777 Nearly Terminal

POETRY BY ELENI ZISIMATOS

Nearly Terminal objects that poke out of the drifts, like inukshuks, suggesting direc- Nearly Terminal resonates with tions and meanings that are impos- a sense of foreboding at what sible to pinpoint, to pin down, may be seen as the social col- because they are jests of gestures, lapse of the individual self in a as revealing in their amplitude society that is being “whitened as are ‘Cut up clouds.’ Nearly out.” Incorporating and inter- Terminal recalls Dame Atwood’s twining aspects of the personal Journals of Susanna Moodie, but love relationship with a sense of a also John Thompson’s barely self under scrutiny, by itself and there ghazals, all that blank space an imagined Other, the focus Blitzkrieg’d by incandescent ink- becomes one of loss, solitude, and lings, those dark flashes of insight the existential sense of being in amid the vacant, Arctic desert of a vast universe that is defined by ‘Such white,’ ‘much despair,’ where Eleni Zisimatos, April 2019, Poetry, traces of life increasingly lived as winter means erasure, ‘a white 100 pages, 5 x 8, 978-1-927599-49-5 paperback $18.95 forms of abstraction within a vir- eclipse.’ tual, disembodied reality. With a – George Elliott Clarke younger audience in mind, with poetic diction that is not afraid to be bold and experimental in its statements and claims, and with a delicate use of techniques evok- ing lacunae and erasure to con- vey the unanswerability of some basic existential questions, Eleni Zisimatos presents a bleak and Eleni Zisimatos uncertain view of the world. Eleni (Helen) Zisimatos is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Vallum “Eleni Zisimatos opens Nearly Magazine, has been nominated Terminal with a Dantean warning: for a National Magazine Award in ‘The death of human conscious- poetry, and was short-listed for the ness is white.’ Yes: To venture Robert Kroetsch Award, the Irving onto these imposing white pages Layton Awards (in both poetry and is to navigate a blinding snows- fiction), and the Santa Fe Writers’ Awards. She holds degrees in cape where words are the sparse Creative Writing and English Lit. DC Books 8 NEW

1-800-387-9777 Sasquatch and the Green Sash

A ROMANCE BY KEITH HENDERSON

Sasquatch and the Green Sash ous ceintures flechées, all in the stunning panorama of Canada’s Sasquatch and the Green Sash is at Northwest where “Magic ovals once a translation and adaptation and circles decorate the northern of the medieval English poem land, interlink one with another; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in secret hollows, nests, and caves, from a time when parts of English in birds’ eggs and in the bellies of culture were closer to Old Norse foxes, field mice, and bears, small roots. Novelist Keith Henderson heads grow and acquire their fea- has chosen to Canadianize the tures, fleeting as a gust of wind.” original and set it among the native Dene of the Northwest Territories’ Nahanni National Park, a place with its own suggestive tradition of beheading stories. Keith Henderson, October 2018, Romance, 122 pages, 6.75 x 10, 978-1- 927599-40-2 Hardcover $29.95 The rich alliterative language of the original has been retained Keith Henderson With an Introduction by K.S. Whetter, and modernized. The setting has distinguished medievalist at Acadia been edged further north, darker, University and 4 full colour illustrations colder, sub-arctic, with “the omi- Keith Henderson has pub- by Steve Adams lished four previous novels, (The nous green and violet and pink of Restoration, 1994, The Beekeeper, Aurora Borealis” and the addition- 1990, The Roof Walkers, 2013, and al dimension of the ancient Green Acqua Sacra, 2016), a collection Man’s Muslim origins as Al Khidr, of political essays from when he vizier of Alexander the Great. was Quebec columnist for the Together, in the lands where it’s Financial Post (Staying Canadian, dark at mid-day, they once sought DC Books, 1997), and a prize- winning book of short stories (The the Fountain of Youth. Pagan Nuptials of Julia, DC Books, 2006). For many years he taught Here is much that is vivid, English Literaure at Vanier College intriguing, and deeply morally sat- (Montreal), is the managing editor isfying: Sasquatches, beheadings, of DC Books and Chairman of the Turkish scimitars, caribou hunts, Special Committee for Canadian a young RCMP officer involved Unity. in illicit love affairs and mysteri-

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1-800-387-9777 The Dying Meteorologist

POETRY BY STEVE LUXTON

The Dying Meteorologist this collection’s title, The Dying Meteorologist, is drawn, the poet Someone observed Canadians are describes the winter-long illness the only people to talk about the and death of a dear friend with weather and mean it. Certainly, whom he has shared countless our dramatic meteorological con- different temperatures and forays ditions provide a ready and easy into wild air. Their relationship conversational topic. Like hockey, began and thrived in the profound wide spaces, and clean water, our natural metaphor. The eulogistic weather is a cliché at home and pieces that reflect and celebrate abroad, something which, with its their bond suggest the moods of stark, primordial dramas, cracks irrevocably changeful skies and our flesh and bones, bundles up the music of weather breeding our feelings, and inflicts itself on winds…. our imaginations. This is equally Steve Luxton, October 2018, Poetry, true whether we are outdoorsy 130 pages, 5 x 8, 978-1-927599-47-1 paperback $18.95 types who embrace it, or indoorsy ones who shrink from it. (Another wag remarked that Canadians are less concerned with Revolution, than with Insulation….)

We are dealing here with both an Steve Luxton irreducible element and searching metaphor of the Canadian condi- tion…. In Steve Luxton’s poems, Steve Luxton was born in Coventry, lyric and narrative, the weather, England in 1946. He is the author its beauty and duress, its interplay of five previous poetry collections: Late Romantics (with Robert Allen with light and land, appears eve- and Mark Teicher), the hills that rywhere. His facility for express- pass by, Iridium, Luna Moth and ing our native sky, land and air Other Poems and most recently, is evident whatever the central In the Vision of Birds: new and concern of the poem: Time, Love, selected poems. He lives in the vil- Loss, or that Big Cold: Death. lage of Hatley in Quebec’s Eastern In the moving poetic sequence Townships. containing the piece from which

DC Books 10 NEW 1-800-387-9777 Net Worth SHORT STORIES BY KENNETH RADU

Net Worth

Net Worth is Kenneth Radu’s newest collection of stories depict- ing the all-consuming passion of money and its influence on emo- tions, relationships, aspirations and disappointments. Linked by a common need or lack of money, the stories move with grace and subtlety into the mind and heart of a disparate range of characters Kenneth Radu from the impoverished to the wealthy, and often lead to unex- Kenneth Radu is a seasoned, pected but convincing conclusions. Kenneth Radu, April 2018, Short Stories, award-winning writer of novels, Rare is the Canadian work of fic- 130 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-927599-45-7 short stories, non-fiction, and Paperback $21.95 tion that in a series of thematically poetry. His first novel, Distant linked stories focuses so pointedly Relations, received the Quebec and powerfully on the role of Writers’ Federation Award for money in our lives. Best English-language Fiction. A collection of stories, A Private Net Worth continues Radu’s tradi- Performance, was also honoured tion of well-crafted and necessary with the award. A previous collec- stories. tion, The Cost of Living, was nominated for the Governor General’s Award. His most recent work includes two collections of stories, Sex in Russia and Earthbound, both published by DC Books, as well as the novel Butterfly in Amber.

DC Books 11 NEW 1-800-387-9777 Excitement Tax

POETRY BY JOHN EMIL VINCENT

Excitement Tax

Dara Wier has written about Cheshirization: “In nine poems whose tones, tempers, tonics and contents exquisitely mesh, John Emil Vincent carries on an extended conversation with any one of us who wishes to take up where what’s proposed poem by poem takes off into heretofore unexplored zones of our own. We frame what’s next as each new John Emil Vincent poem frames its contents in ele- gantly surprising, slightly raucous John Emil Vincent is a Montreal- John Emil Vincent, November 2017, configurations.” based poet, editor, and archivist. Poetry, 110 pages, 5 x 8, 978-1-927599-44- 0 Paperback $18.95 He’s taught literature, queer His previous books are criti- theory, and poetry writing at cal. His first book, Queer Lyrics, Concordia and Queen’s in Canada was chosen as a CHOICE and at Wesleyan, Haverford, and Outstanding Academic Title. University of Miami in the US. Vincent’s second book is John Ashbery and You. His most recent He served as Editor-at-Large for critical book is an edited collec- the Massachusetts Review, where tion of essays about the poet Jack he edited a double “especially Spicer, entitled AFTER SPICER. queer issue” packed with queer Brian Reed at University of literary luminaries. He has pub- Washington writes: “After Spicer ... lished poems in jubilat, Denver covers everything from detective Quarterly, BlazeVOX, Slope, fiction to his gay rights activism. Spork, failbetter, Drunkenboat, Afterward you will know why so and many other journals. With many of today’s poets consider Factory Hollow Press, he him an indispensable precursor.” recently published a chapbook Excitement Tax is Vincent’s first Cheshirization containing 9 poems book of poetry. from Excitement Tax.

DC Books 12 RECENT 1-800-387-9777 Where I Wanted To Be

A NOVEL BY TOM ABRAY

Where I Wanted To Be

Dispirited by his performance review, Will Gough sets out to redeem himself by updating his company’s quality control proce- dures, while casting a hopeful eye toward other career opportunities. WHERE I WANTED TO BE Despite his best intentions, his A NOVEL work troubles follow him home- -to his wife and two sons, where

TOM ABRAY empty yogurt containers are half- Tom Abray sacred, technology a source of childhood wonder, and the busi- Tom Abray grew up near Strathroy, ness of the world bumps against Ontario, and then moved to Tom Abray, April 2017, Novel, the quiet walls that protect the 150 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-927599-20-4 Montreal to study English at Paperback $21.95 rhythms of family life. McGill University. After com- pleting his M.A. in creative writ- It’s difficult to pull off a portrait ing at Concordia University he 978-1-927599-21-1 Hardcover * $36.95 of a nice guy in ordinary circum- began teaching at John Abbott stances, going through the stress College. His collection of short * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on of daily living and tensions sur- stories, Pollen (DC Books, 2011), hard cover, no dust jacket. rounding job and career oppor- was shortlisted for the Concordia tunities, and he does it very well University First Book Prize, as in simple, understated prose. No well as the Paragraphe Hugh sensationalism or alien beings or MacLennan Prize for Fiction. He suicidal desperation or academic also written and directed a number angst or terrorist attacks or other of short films that have screened assorted rampages and violations: at festivals in North America and just a life without earthshaking Europe. incident, but subtly humourous and convincing.

DC Books 13 FRONTLIST 1-800-387-9777 Acqua Sacra

A NOVEL BY KEITH HENDERSON

Acqua Sacra

Everything seems broken in Suzanna Ricci’s life. Only 42, her marriage to Len has disintegrated. Her relationship to their teen- age boys, Robin and Logan, is in need of repair. Now her mother, ‘that martial soul,’ wants her to restore the family home in Acqua Sacra, damaged by earthquake. And she doesn’t care how many when the mob and their extralegal trips from Montreal to their vivid cross-border political shenanigans Italianpatriaof Abruzzo her daugh- invade her life? While Montreal’s ter has to make. underworld seems as full of ven- Keith Henderson, November 2016, Novel, 236 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-927599-37-2 omous snakes and mean dogs as Paperback $21.95 At least when Len, a dodgy the Abruzzo mountains, Roman accountant, encourages her to history, Italian mafiosi, dutiful take a job with a Montreal law Canadians, and migrant African 978-1-927599-38-9 Hardcover * $36.95 firm headed by a man named workers collide, headlong and Robert Bliss, Suzanna feels hope- bizarrely comedic. At the centre of * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on ful of being freer of her ex. Until the crash, stunned and sheep-like, hard cover, no dust jacket. she realizes the crazy cost of disen- lies Suzanna. tangling herself, and not just from him or his ‘associates.’ Henderson, the author of The Roof Walkers, again delivers an Old World skepticism kicks at entertaining and perceptive story New World concerns in Acqua in Acqua Sacra about the nature of Sacra, Keith Henderson’s brisk personal responsibility, this time new novel about private decep- in an age of multinational delin- tion and public corruption. His quency. If Suzanna survives the cast includes an honest architect, wreckage, it’ll be by honouring the a gutsy office clerk, the modern- true meaning of “family” in any day witch of a drained lake, and at global village. least one (reformed) dirt-digging lawyer. But what is Suzanna to do

DC Books 14 RECENT 1-800-387-9777 Fairfield

SHORT STORIES BY ROBERT EDISON SANDIFORD

Fairfield: the last sad stories of G. Brandon Sisnett

When G. Brandon Sisnett dies at his computer ‘a mild spring day in March,’ he leaves behind two unfinished works in his Montreal home. One, a political tract typi- cal of the kind of rant the reclu- sive writer was famous for, the other an unexpected box of short fiction none of his publishers was aware existed. At first read a Robert Edison Sandiford seemingly ‘random collection of . . . fragments and miscellanea,’ Robert Edison Sandiford is the Robert Edison Sandiford, November 2015, it soon becomes clear the stories Short Stories, 160 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1- author of The Tree of Youth 927599-35-8 Paperback $18.95 contain a mystery surrounding (2005), a travel memoir, Sand the sad death of the Barbadian- for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian born author’s four-year-old daugh- Chronicle (2003), and the novel 978-1-927599-36-5 Hardcover * $36.95 ter, his retreat from society, and And Sometimes They Fly. He the recurring name of ‘Fairfield.’ is a founding editor of ArtsEtc: * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on Sandiford’s newest collection is The Premier Cultural Guide to hard cover, no dust jacket. an intimate, insightful look at Barbados (artsetcbarbados.com), how we all strive to live with the and has worked as a journalist, memory of love and loss. book publisher, video producer with Warm Water Productions, and teacher. He has won awards for both his writing and editing, including Barbados’ Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts and the Harold Hoyte Award, and been shortlisted for the Frank Collymore Literary Award. He divides his time between Canada and Barbados.

DC Books 15 RECENT 1-800-387-9777 A Hamburger in a Gallery

POETRY BY STUART ROSS

A Hamburger in a Gallery

Stuart Ross’s eighth collection of poems delivers a gallery of emotionally charged poetry experiments along with a series of philosophical meditations on the aesthetically contrived and sometimes downright quirky poetic processes that were followed to generate the poems in this book. A Hamburger in a Gallery is deeply engaged in demonstrating how Stuart Ross art happens, especially through a poet’s immediate aesthetic engage- Stuart Ross is author of five previ- Stuart Ross, April 2015, Poetry, ment with other works of art. ous poetry collections, three works 68 pages, 5 x 8, 978-1-927599-33-4 Paperback $17.95 Comprised of poems written ‘after’ of fiction, a collection of essays, the lines and language of other editor of Surreal Estate (anthol- artists’ works, ‘during’ sessions ogy of Canadian surrealist poetry), 978-1-927599-34-1 Hardcover * $32.95 of listening to other poets read- poetry and fiction editor of This ing their poems, or constructed Magazine, and a regular columnist * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on ‘from’ the parts and pieces of other for sub-Terrain. hard cover, no dust jacket. artists’ words, A Hamburger in a Gallery provides a distinctive experience of the relationship between the finished poem and the process that informed its creation. Blurring the boundaries between creative writing and creative reading, Ross has once again created an utterly original, accessible, moving and avant-garde classic.

DC Books 16 RECENT 1-800-387-9777 Proof

POETRY BY LARISSA ANDRUSYSHYN

Proof

Proof explores the worlds of ento- mology, memory and mathemat- ics. What can be proven with empirical evidence and what demands reason. The poems examine the means of observation from the entomologist to the grief stricken mathematician. From break-ups to Dung Beetles, these poems move from microscope to recollection and from the abstract Larissa Andrusyshyn math proof to the visceral sting of the wasp’s barbed quill. Larissa Andrusyshyn, November 2014, Larissa Andrusyshyn’s first book Poetry, 68 pages, 5 x 8, 978-1-927599-30-3 Mammoth (DC Books 2010) was Paperback $17.95 shortlisted for the QWF First Book Prize and the Kobzar Literary Award. Her poems have been short- 978-1-927599-31-0 Hardcover * $32.95 listed for Arc Magazine’s Poem of the Year and the Malahat Review’s * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on hard cover, no dust jacket. Open Season Award. She works with a local non-profit to offer creative writing workshops to at- risk youth. She lives, writes and is planning her zombie apocalypse survival strategy in Montreal.

DC Books 17 RECENT 1-800-387-9777 And to Say Hello

SHORT STORIES BY SCOTT RANDALL

And to Say Hello

The twelve stories in And to Say Hello investigate the hazards of men and women becoming fathers and mothers: the immediate harm and the long-term damage. In “Mass Graves,” a new mother’s stay-at-home anxieties are amplified by the ominous chipmunk infestation overtaking her townhouse. In “Gestation,” a father-to-be nurtures the idea Scott Randall of his ex-girlfriend’s imagined infidelity until it matures into Scott Randall, November 2014, Short Scott Randall has previously a fully grown mania. In “Six,” a Stories, 230 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-927599- published two short story collec- 28-0 Paperback $21.95 deceased woman’s biography and tions: Last Chance to Renew and failings as a mother are commu- Character Actor. The title story nicated piecemeal through the from Last Chance to Renew was 978-1-927599-29-7 Hardcover * $36.95 ruminations of her pallbearers. In broadcast on CBC Radio’s Between “The Vasectomy Doctor’s Online the Covers, and Character Actor * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on Presence,” the professional and hard cover, no dust jacket. was shortlisted for the fiction cat- familial successes of an urologist egory of the Ottawa Book Award. are cruelly and publicly undercut He has been twice nominated for Awards by his failed musical aspirations. the Journey Prize, and his fiction And in the title story, a mother’s has appeared in numerous literary And to Say Hello won the City irrational worry about her son’s journals such as The Antigonish of Ottawa’s best fiction award for language development puts irrepa- Review, Event Magazine, The 2015 as well as the US IndieFab rable strain upon her marriage. Malahat Review, The Dalhousie award for best fiction from Eastern Review, and The New Quarterly. Canada. He has taught Literature and Writing at Seneca College, York University, Concordia University, and Algonquin College. He currently lives in Ottawa with his wife and daughter.

DC Books 18 RECENT 1-800-387-9777 Butterfly in Amber

A NOVEL BY KENNETH RADU

Butterfly in Amber KENNETH RADU age to act according to one’s desires, the consequences be damned, Delia, an independent-minded although discretion is always advis- Montreal woman of sixty and able, if not always followed. sexually experienced, leaves her married lover to go on a cruise along the Volga and enters into a forbidden but lustful and satisfy- ing liaison with Kostya, a young member of the ship’s crew. Kostya, BUTTERFLY IN AMBER looking out for the best oppor- A NOVEL tunity to leave his country, is in it for more than erotic pleasures, Kenneth Radu something Delia understands and acts accordingly. Inappropriate Kenneth Radu, April 2014, Novel, Twice recipient of the Quebec dalliance, however, on board and 200 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-927599-24-2 Writers’ Federation award for Best Paperback $21.95 ports of call in a Russia at war English-language fiction, Kenneth with Chechnya is not the sole Radu has published novels, short narrative engine of this acutely stories, and non-fiction. His last 978-1-927599-25-9 Hardcover * $36.95 written novel. Memory and iden- books include two collections tity, the inexorable passing of of stories, Earthbound, and Sex * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on time, and the desire to be more in hard cover, no dust jacket. in Russia, also published by DC imagination than in actuality, are Books. He taught for many years at driving motivators in the lives of John Abbott College and lives near such characters as the brilliantly Montreal. conceived, and possibly lunatic Frank, an elderly gentleman who believes himself to be the son of the murdered tsarevitch Alexis and has designs on Delia. Kostya’s col- ourful mother and the mysterious, threatening man who seems to follow Delia also have their own plans. Butterfly in Amber is a novel about choices, sex, living life on unfamiliar terrain, and the cour-

DC Books 19 RECENT 1-800-387-9777 Why Cats Hate Birds

SHORT STORIES BY THOMAS ARMSTRONG

Why Cats Hate Birds Thomas Armstrong

The title of Why Cats Hates Birds Thomas Armstrong grew up in the very much reflects the collection’s suburbs of Toronto and earned themes. Are we trapped by our a degree in Physics from the nature? And what is our under- University of Toronto and later standing of nature? What is black a degree in Computer Science and white, straight and gay, real- from York University. He worked WHY CATS HATE BIRDS ity and fantasy, Canadian and as a computer programmer and A NOVEL Barbadian? The stories in Why software writer, primarily in the Cats Hate Birds are Armstrong’s financial services area. He began to

THOMAS ARMSTRONG way of saying that such distinc- write fiction in 2002. In 2009, Of tions are not natural but of our Water and Rock was shortlisted (2nd own construction. The work Place) for the Frank Collymore spans the length of Armstrong’s Literary Award. The novel was pub- Thomas Armstrong, April 2014, Short writing career. The earliest, ‘Flying lished by DC Books in 2010. Later Stories, 200 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-927599- 26-2 Paperback $18.95 in God’s Face,’ which inspired his that same year, it won The George novel Of Water and Rock, is set in Lamming Award for Literary the 1960s, though the majority Excellence. Armstrong passed away 978-1-927599-27-3 Hardcover * $34.95 take place in a today familiar to us at the age of 60 in 2013. all. Three stories in particular are * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on linked by the character Charles hard cover, no dust jacket. Blackette: ‘Kingdom of Fools,’ ‘Invention,’ and ‘Blood is Thick.’ They explore Blackette’s life as a black man who battles his notion of self. But, at heart, all the stories in Why Cats Hate Birds, perceptive, resonant, emotionally honest, are an attempt to break those silos that separate us and make us real- ize that other people’s stories are our stories.

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1-800-387-9777 Rabbit Punch!

POEMS BY GREG SANTOS

Rabbit Punch!

In Greg Santos’s Rabbit Punch!, Marco Polo reminisces on his friendship with Kublai Khan over deli sandwiches, Wilfred Owen and Ernest Hemingway trade war stories at Hooters, and PUNCHY POETRY Senator John McCain remembers Rabbit Punch! that fateful day when his father ABOUT THE AUTHOR took him to eat bubble gum ice Greg Santos is the author of The GREG SANTOS cream. With punchy poems that are intimate, dark, enigmatic, Emperor’s Sofa (DC Books). playful, and surreal, peppered He holds an MFA in Creative Greg Santos, April 2014, Poetry, with pop culture figures ranging Writing from The New School in 100 pages, 5 x 8, 978-1-927599-22-8 Manhattan. Greg is a poetry editor Paperback $17.95 from Batman to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Paris for carte blanche and teaches the art of verse to at-risk youth. He 978-1-927599-23-5 Hardcover * $32.95 Hilton to ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage, Rabbit Punch! delivers a lives in Montreal with his wife and Excerpt poetic KO. two children. We Laughed like Drains

We puffed up our chests and strutted. * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on hard cover, no dust jacket. We talked about our hazy futures and mottled pasts.

We read between the lines and giggled like schoolgirls.

Our sides were aching so many tears cursed our faces.

We kept laughing even when it stopped being funny.

We couldn’t shake off the eternal fatigue in our bones.

Can’t we stay like this forever? DC Books 21 RECENT 1-800-387-9777 A Traveler’s Tale

A NOVEL BY BYRON AYANOGLU

A Traveler’s Tale Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Greek Islands Episode, 2008, host A Traveler’s Tale begins in a small of Roadside Restaurants, a ninety- village in Turkey where the pro- minute restaurant-cooking show tagonist, Jefferson Cooper, finds for PBS, 1997. He is also the himself (despite himself). He writer and producer of Faces of has no idea why he is there, nor Myth (2004), Mimetoliths (2006), who he is. An apparent victim Shapeshifter (2007), and MasterClass of some sort of selective amnesia, with Walter Lassally (2008). with a suitcase full of money and Excerpt demonstrably a shady past, he sets out on a voyage of self-discovery. The ride was long and uneventful. I slept through most of it and only opened my eyes when the engine He travels to Istanbul, Mumbai, gave out a loud sigh before going silent to signify the definitive end of the journey. We had arrived at and Kerala, meeting all manner a bus depot in some desolate part of Istanbul where of people who seem to know him Suleyman the Magnificent wouldn’t have wasted Byron Ayanoglu, November 2013, Novel, even a minute during his continent-rousing mission. 174 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-897190-92-0 so much better than he knows Seemingly untampered suitcase in hand, I was herded into a smaller bus that rattled across terminally Paperback $18.95 himself. Along the way, he falls traffic-congested roads until it reached Taksim, the in love with a slender, ethereal heart of the modern city. It was drizzling, cold, dark, not in the least welcoming. person who keeps reappearing I walked across the crowded square, almost trampled 978-1-897190-93-7 Hardcover * $34.95 just when he seems on the brink by a flock of swirling pigeons, feeling the burden of the suitcase more with every step. To my right was of total desperation. It is Miryam a frilly road with an ancient tramcar its only vehicle * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on who leads him to a realization of and a sea of pedestrians moving in both directions. hard cover, no dust jacket. There were several hotels with luxurious façades to who he is and to his long-sought my left. I applied to three of them in a row, only to be refused check-in because I lacked a credit card redemption. and despite my willingness to prepay the room in American cash. The receptionist of the third one, as haughty as his colleagues in the first two, turned out to be a nice guy and told me to walk down one block Byron Ayanoglu on Istiklal Caddesi (the frilly walking-street with the tramcar), turn left, and try one of the less demanding hotels down there. Fluent in five languages, a I struggled through the thick people-traffic of Istiklal, dwarfed on both sides by its contiguous string of graduate of McGill University, flashy storefronts with window displays alternating widely travelled Byron Ayanoglu between fashion and food, feeling cold, lost, and alienated, getting wet, tired and disoriented, when a is the author of twelve books: fic- seductively curvy brunette in the glory of her early tion, non-fiction, cookbooks and forties, well-dressed in svelte shades of black, furious- ly confronted me and slapped me hard across the face. restaurant guides as well as ‘You bastard!’ she said in Spanish as she brushed by fourteen stage plays, including me brusquely to meld into the crowd and out of my Ordinaryman. He has worked in view. My cheek was burning and my eyes started to water. film and TV, including co-host of DC Books 22 RECENT 1-800-387-9777 All I Can Say For Sure

POEMS BY JOHN MCAULEY

All I Can Say For Sure

The poems in McAuley’s All I Can Say for Sure range from personal archaeology and elegiac fictions of free translations to grammar wordplay for the initiated to a compassionately ironic look at the PUNCHY POETRY passing of life to rewired material All I Can Say extensions of our inner and outer ABOUT THE AUTHOR For Sure spaces. McAuley’s meditations JOHN McAULEY upon the details of quotidian John McAuley was born in life and historical personae are Montreal. He completed an rendered with the syntactical pre- M.A. in creative writing at Sir cision of a linguist and the meta- John McAuley, November 2013, Poetry, George Williams University in 134 pages, 5 x 8, 978-1-927599-16-7 phorical density of a riddler. 1974. During the 1970s, he edited Paperback $17.95 Maker, a magazine dedicated to experimental poetry and prose that 978-1-927599-17-4 Hardcover * $32.95 circulated among poets and writers in 23 countries. He also co-ran * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on hard cover, no dust jacket. a successful poetry reading series at Véhicule Art Inc. As one of the original Vehicule poets, he was Excerpt instrumental in seeing the group’s Familiar Hours landmark anthology, The Vehicule Poets, to publication in 1979 and Its steady hands reckoning our course around the face of time began teaching in Concordia’s make me uneasily aware of my mortality and yours. English Department at about From vague gazes and half-finished sentences the same time. He has published the humming of our travel clock coaxes us to parables, morals, cautionary tales. four books: Nothing Ever Happens Words do not fail this errant reality in Pointe-Claire, Mattress Testing, ever decoded by action and plans for love, for truth, and so on – Hazardous Renaissance, and What for Eden Interruptus. I can see us both coffin-bound Henry Hudson Found. His work wonder if we will meet again has also appeared in a variety of in fate’s garden. I can hear our first conversation smell our impulsive desire anthologies. He continues to live touch our grace to stop the time. in Montreal.

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BY KEITH HENDERSON

Christmas, 1864, in the last years of the civil war, a twenty-year-old Irish Canadian, Eoin O’Donoghue, is newly hired as the personal secretary to the prospective head of the Irish Republican Army in New York, William R. Roberts. Appalled that the mayhem he sees around him is also being planned for his own country, Eoin offers ABOUT THE AUTHOR his services to Gilbert McMicken, head of Canada’s secret police. So Keith Henderson has published begins the trajectory of what Eoin four other novels, (The Restoration, The Roof Walkers himself calls, self-disparagingly, 1994 and The Beekeeper, 1990, his “Judas informantcy.” Against Acqua Sacra, 2016 and Sasquatch “Deirdre and I attended his a backdrop of fusion and col- and the Green Sash, 2018), a collec- lapse, 600,000 Americans dead, funeral.... We walked by his tion of political essays from when one nation, Canada, about to he was Quebec columnist for the house on St. Catherine Street be created, another to its south Financial Post (Staying Canadian, in disarray, Irish militants plan in memory of him and saw the DC Books, 1997), and a prize- northward raids to win a “New winning book of short stories (The stone shamrocks all round the Ireland” on the continent (its Pagan Nuptials of Julia, DC Books, capital, Sherbrooke, QC), to middle. I found myself look- 2006). He led a small provincial split Ireland itself off from Great political party in Quebec during ing upward, to see if he had Britain, and to avenge reverse, the separatist referendum of 1995 cross-border Southern terror plots a widow’s walk and was his and championed English language hatched in Montreal and approved rights and the primacy of the con- poor wife upon it. He was a by Jefferson Davis. Under assumed stitution with regard to secession. roof walker, too, was D’Arcy names, safely housed in the Moffat Mansion on Union Square live the McGee, his doves strangled and secret, illegitimate twin daughters their bodies strewn about....” of James Stephens, IRA leader in Europe. Who will capture Eoin Keith Henderson O’Donoghue’s allegiance–his * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on Publication April 2013 Fenian employer, Deirdre Hopper hard cover, no dust jacket. Fiction, 280 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 (Stephens), accomplished painter 978-1-897190-96-8 and musician and daughter of the Paperback $21.95 leader in Dublin, or Canadian spy- master Gilbert McMicken, who Hard Cover * $34.95 regularly insists his protégé provide 978-1-897190-97-5 “less poetry and more police work?”

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WORKS BY ROBERT EDISON SANDIFORD

ROBERT EDISON SANDIFORD Caribbean folklore creatures.... Set in Bridgetown and Montreal (“where much of the Diaspora live”), And Sometimes They Fly questions notions of the heroic. Where do heroes–a region’s but also a culture’s heroes–come from? George Woodcock once noted About the Author AND SOMETIMES THEY FLY that, unlike Americans or the British, Robert Edison Sandiford is a A NOVEL “Canadians do not like heroes, and so founding editor of ArtsEtc: The they do not have them.” Humanity Premier Cultural Guide to Barbados is in trouble if this is also true about (artsetcbarbados.com) and has worked Barbadians. as a journalist, book publisher, Robert Edison Sandiford, video producer with Warm Water And Sometimes They Fly Spring 2013, Novel, 195 pages, Productions, and teacher. He has won 5.5 x 8.5, 987-1-897190-94-4 awards for both his writing and edit- Paperback $19.95 ing, including Barbados’ Governor The disasters of 9/11 trigger a General's Award of Excellence in Cataclysm that is unleashed every so 978-1-897190-95-1 Hardcover * $34.95 Literary Arts and the Harold Hoyte many cycles. It can only be averted by Award, and been shortlisted for the the selfless act of the Elect, a trio of Sand for Snow Frank Collymore Literary Award. He exceptional humans who are guided still divides his time between Canada Robert Edison Sandiford by Milton, a being known as an and Barbados. Elder. The three, all Barbadians, are moved from Canada David Rayside, Marsha Durant and to his parents’ native The Tree of Youth Franck Hurley. And it is their time: Barbados in 1996. His to save the world before the deadli- journey “Back Home” The thirteen stories in The est characters of their legends and led to a series of insightful and often Tree of Youth have a richly myths–the baccou, the steel donkey, poignant meditations on relation- exotic, sensuous allure: la djablès, and the heart man–destroy ships, island life, and the decline of the landscape shifts from it.... All their lives, the Elect have had his father, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s cosmopolitan Canada their abilities: David, the power of disease twelve years earlier. to beautiful Barbados. They also explore, with understated brilliance, the flight; Marsha, incredible strength; Robert Edison Sandiford, December 2003, elation and defeat men and women and Franck, super speed. With great Travel Memoir, 188 pages, 5 x 8, everywhere experience when they power may come great responsibility, 978-0-919688-79-7 yearn for love and a better life. Here yet the choice to act or not remains Paperback $15.95 is an unblinking vision of the sexual theirs. Milton, like his adversary, exploits of Bajans, young and old, one Mackie (short for Machiavelli), is an 978-0-919688-81-0 Hardcover * $29.95 that restores the redeeming values of Elder who can inform, not influence, children, family, and art. the course of events. Are the Elect * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on hard cover, no dust jacket. mature enough to decide what’s best Robert Edison Sandiford, December 2005, for humanity? The longer they take Short Stories, 136 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, to agree to Milton’s plan, which he 978-1-897190-04-3 Paper $17.95 can’t reveal until they are all on board, the more their world is overrun with 978-1-897190-05-0 Hardcover * $32.95 DC Books 25 RECENT Pluto’s Gate

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Wonder-filled, imaginative, and com- L. E. STERLING pelling, L.E. Sterling’s second novel immerses readers in a magical world where existence itself is ordered by the tenuous balance between light and dark, and the story-filled pages of one remarkable book. About the Author L.E. Sterling, April 2013, Novel, 280 pages, L.E. Sterling earned her M.A. in PLUTO’S GATE 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-897190-90-6 Paperback A NOVEL Creative Writing from Concordia $19.95 University and a PhD in English Literature from McGill University. 978-1-897190-91-3 Hardcover * $34.95 Her first novel, The Originals (DC Books, 2002), was an indie hit, also Pluto’s Gate published in French translation The Originals (Editions Triptyque, 2005) under her In present day Montreal, a young The terror of atomic war, original pen name, L. E. Vollick. Her woman by the name of Percy vanishes a paranoid arms race, poetry, short stories, and a literary from the streets. The woman’s parents a stark divide between essay appear in several anthologies, The –her father, a famous musician, rich and poor–in including Desire, Doom & Vice (2005) Originals, Reagan-era and her mother, a witch–are frantic. and Population Me: Essays on David legacies such as these are Soon after the woman’s disappearance McGimpsey (2010). More recently she seen from the perspective of nightclub strange phenomena sweep the co-wrote the Sci-Fi web-series, Process: subculture and the food bank. Magpie globe: snow and ice fall of season in A Series of Events, slated for release in Smith confronts a street-level zeitgeist record amounts, blanketing whole 2012. When she isn’t working as a of fatalism in the early ’90s, bringing countries. World-wide crop failures communications professional, Erin to life in the process a dysfunctional are announced; droughts become stays busy co-editing a collection of family of disenfranchised youth, from widespread, and then the worst hap- women’s non-fiction dating stories, Benny, the self-glamorizing drug pens: daylight fails to appear.... What and writing her upcoming Urban dealer to Jackson, the overprotective follows is the epic tale of Percy’s voyage Fantasy series,The Voodoo Wars as well bouncer at the Underground. through the Underworld, whose as a Y/A novel involving fairies rules of existence are as unfathomable L.E. Vollick, August 2002, Fiction, 264 pages, and trolls. as the mysterious red flowers that 5 x 8, 978-0-919688-47-6 Paper $17.95 suddenly blanket its fields. As daylight touches the dark realm, Percy 978-0-919688-49-0 Hardcover * $28.95 unwittingly becomes the permanent guest of the Underworld’s charismatic * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on lord Pluto. And when her best friend hard cover, no dust jacket. Simon, a descendent of a long line of shamans, descends in an effort to save her, the three embark on a life and death race to figure out what–or who–has upset the balance between the two worlds…before it’s too late....

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POETRY BY CONCETTA PRINCIPE & KATHRYN MOCKLER

walking Concetta Principe Concetta Principe’s deeply intimate Concetta Principe is the author of walking explores religious difference two previous books-Stained Glass and secular politics, God and prom- (1997) and Interference (1999)-and ises through the meditative lens of has written and directed for TV, prose poetry. walking occurs in the including the Vision TV series on mind through dreams, in memory Biblical archaeology, The Naked and as a relentless process of bear- Archaeologist. She is currently com- PUNCHY POETRY ing witness to the earthly, quotidian pleting her PhD at York University, walking activities that challenge super-natural where her work considers repre- abstractions. As the unconverted pil- sentations of the messiah and the

CONCETTA PRINCIPE grim of the book eats nothing, she is Muselmann in twentieth century led through these poems into encoun- cultural and intellectual works, argu- ters with God, birds, stones, and ing that these figures are evidence of Concetta Principe, April 2013, other humans who inhabit the stair- a trauma of secularism dating to first Poetry, 102 pages, 5 x 8, ways and closed doors of Jerusalem. century Judea. She has managed to 978-1-897190-85-2 Paperback $17.95 Together, this collection of prose find coherence in her unconscious poems functions as a revelatory maze compulsion to think politics and rev- 978-1-897190-86-9 of mystery and discovery. elation together. Hardcover * $32.95 * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on hard cover, no dust jacket.

The Saddest Place on Earth restaurant at the end of a stripmall. When Donald Rumsfeld briefed his Kathryn Mockler’s approach to lan- press secretary on how to deal with guage and the world results in an the media, he said: “Begin with an extremely engaging, moving and illogical premise and proceed perfectly often hilarious poetics of deep disori- logically to an illogical conclusion… entation. They [the media] do it all the time.” Kathryn Mockler’s new collection of Kathryn Mockler poems applies Rumsfeld’s advice to Author of the poetry book Onion Man powerful poetic ends. Deeply inter- (Tightrope Books, 2011). Her writing ested in American politics and the has appeared in such venues as Joyland, absurdity of our mediated relation to The Antigonish Review, This Magazine, the political sphere, the beautiful and The Capilano Review, and Descant. entertaining narrative poems in The Her films have been broadcast on Kathryn Mockler, November 2012, Saddest Place on Earth follow absurd TMN, Movieola, and Bravo and have Poetry, 84 pages, 5 x 8, 978-1-897190-32-6 premises to their most logical conclu- screened at festivals such as the Toronto Paperback $17.95 sions. Here, God appears on Oprah, International Film Festival, Worldfest, Hurt Feelings and Anger rent a cot- and EMAF. Currently, she teaches crea- 978-1-897190-89-0 tage together on Lake Huron for a tive writing at the University of Western Hardcover * $32.95 week in August, and the saddest place Ontario and is the co-editor of the on earth is discovered in a Chinese UWO online journal The Rusty Toque. DC Books 27 AVAILABLESTILL AVAIL- Earthbound, Sex in Russia, & ABLE Works by Steve Luxton The Lower Provinces 1-800-387-9777 Poetry Works by Kenneth Radu and Daniel O’Leary

Kenneth Radu

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GreG SantoS

Earthbound Sex in Russia The Emperor’s Sofa

With surgical precision and under- These mostly new (and a few award- The Emperor’s Sofa is a sprawling stated humour, Radu once again winning stories) adroitly combine gift of outrageous artifice, a world demonstrates his remarkable ability to accessibility and subtlety, understated of Mad Magazine intensity en- portray ordinary people in sometimes wit and restrained emotion with a riched by Ashberyian ironies and extraordinary circumstances. Whether predilection for the slightly off-cen- McGimpseyian pleasures. Santos it’s the story of an old woman who tred. The collection explores a range imagines a poetic land of deranged has given birth, or a professor grieving of human experiences locally and heroes and unmasked anti-heroic over the death of his child, or a porn internationally. From a gifted student marvels – funny, poignant, and shop owner fighting off the financial of science embarrassed by his parents, profound. Behind the façade of the predations of his brother, these stories to a musician who loses his son to Emperor’s restless opulence stands collectively dramatize the conflict a different kind of music, to an old this collection’s insight; a new poetics between personal wishes and the woman reluctant to leave her Chinese has landed, after the wars – a copious hard facts of reality. What we dream prison, Radu’s stories often begin with Montreal Style of styles, where, from or think about ourselves may well be a seemingly minor detail or event and its royal mount, “the view is indeed pulled down to earth, sometimes with travel from there to the heart of disaf- magnificent.” This marks the spot a thud, by the gravitational energy of fection, despair, hope, and unusual where a brilliant poet debuts – fully emotion, relationships, unexpected forms of recovery and understanding. cognizant of the clash between the events, and inescapable truth. trashy new and the zany old, and of Kenneth Radu, April 2010, Short Stories, all the useless beauty in between. Kenneth Radu, November 2012, Short 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-897190-65-4 Greg Santos, November 2010, Poetry, Stories, 180 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-897190- Paperback $18.95 92 pages, 5 x 8, 978-1-897190-67-8, 87-6 Paperback $18.95 Paperback $16.95 978-1-897190-66-1 978-1-897190-88-3 Hard Cover * $32.95 978-1-897190-68-5 Hardcover * $32.95 Hardcover * $31.95

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DC Books 28 AVAILABLERECENT InCornwall the Vision Street of Birds Railway 1-800-387-9777 ...and and Self-Propelled other works Cars of the BYRAILWAY STEVE ANDLUXTON TRACTION HISTORY BY ANTHONY CLEGG

Luna Moth and Other Iridium Poems Beautifully shaped In this collection, Steve and with language full Luxton navigates the mid- of sensuous intima- passages, facing what his tions. . . . From the tensile favourite character, the short lyrics of “Hermit notorious Doc Holliday, terms “the Crab Song” to the loosely sashay- wasting diseases: Life, sonofabitch ing rhythms of “Morning After: At Fate, Love.” Pieces both lyrical and se- the Dacha,” Luxton’s sustained vi- rio-comic weigh sickness and personal sion compels and fascinates. As G.V. mortality, the death of a shell-shocked Downes comments in Canadian father, and the shenanigans of this Literature, Luxton is both original Age’s public life. With both formal and aware, a poet “who sees with pre- In the Vision of Birds and experimental elements, these viv- cision” the Canadian landscape. Like the being in the title poem “Iridium,” An avid fisherman, canoeist, and idly figured, emotionally compelling the reader is urged for a moment to hiker, Luxton explores and records in poems tantalizingly sing and tartly relinquish the grotesque world of ap- memorable detail the region around satirize. pearances to find shapes that sound, his home in Eastern Canada. This December 2004, Poetry, 92 pages, 5 x 8 touch, and endure. collection brings together for the 0-919688-91-8, 987-0-919688-91-9 first time 35 years of his best nature November 1993, Poetry, 80 pages, 6 x 9 Paperback $16.95 poems, including new and previously 0-919688-42-x, 978-0-919688-42-1 unpublished work. Influenced by Paperback $9.95 0-919688-92-6, 987-0-919688-92-6 fellow Eastern Townshippers, F. R. Hardcover * $29.95 Scott, Louis Dudek, Ralph Gustafson, 0-919688-40-3, 978-0-919688-40-7 and D.G. Jones, Luxton has devel- Hardcover * $29.95 oped a mature and authoritative voice uniquely his own. Rich in language * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on the hills that pass by hard cover, no dust jacket. and metaphor, these poems dazzle at A Romantic through and times with their depth and dissolve through, Luxton trains IN THE VISION OF BIRDS the barrier between Man and Nature. a steady eye on Nature, With a true and finely honed poetic his chief solace from the A blackbird on a cattail gift, unsentimentally post-pastoral, “Gagworld” of personal Luxton vividly portrays the natu- and political relations. Though he Cocks his head and stares. ral world’s green particulars–what questions his allegiance to the chaste the Zen Buddhists term “The Ten meditations of Wordsworth, and It is a pleasure to be Thousand Things”. wonders whether Berryman’s manic Steve Luxton, April 2012, wordplay is an equally outdated lega- Again in the vision of birds. Poetry, 100 pages, 5 x 8, 1-897190-83-2, cy, these two poets remain the presid- 978-1-897190-83-8, Paper $16.95 ing spirits of the book, and define the poles of its dialectic. DC Books is proud to announce that Editor-in-chief, Steve Luxton, was the recipient of the 2012 QWF Community Award for 25 1-897190-84-0, 978-1-897190-84-5 August 1987, Poetry, 79 pages, 6 x 9 years of service to Quebec’s English language writers. Hardcover * $31.95 0919688-14-4, 978-0919688-14-8 Paperback $9.95

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FICTION BY SHELLEY A. LEEDAHL, TOM ABRAY, AND JEFF OLIVER

SHELLEY A. LEEDAHL

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With grit, humour, and tenderness, in With wit and sensitivity, these tales When Canadian reality TV producer Listen, Honey, this western Canadian portray moments of suffering, confu- Jonathan Farb finds out that he may writer exposes the emotionally electric sion, and discovery and introduce the be dying of a brain tumor on the lives of men, women, and children. reader to worlds as widely various as same day that he catches his wife hav- Familial and romantic relationships Japanese kite-making, bees, daycare, ing an affair with her obstetrician, turn strange or go altogether awry; alcohol, and motorcycle maintenance. he makes a pledge: to raise his five wild idiosyncrasies develop, and char- Abray’s stories push full-on into the month-old son Elliot to manhood acters navigate their personal joys, iro- world of obsessions. A new vacuum before his time is up. Farb’s list of nies, and crashing disasters with cour- cleaner becomes a pawn in a just- parenting goals range from instilling a age and grace. These finely crafted ended relationship. Riding a motor- religious identification (can a baby be stories resonate with emotion, reject bike becomes the way brothers bond Bar Mitzvahed?), to the importance of sentimentality, and, like life itself, are over their troubled relationship with Education (The Birds & The Bees), impossible to predict. Listen, Honey their father. A wise naturalist takes the and onto more pressing pursuits like is an entertaining, thoughtful, and reader on a comic tour of an animal- amassing capital for his son’s inherit- downright sexy book. filled mall, and a bee infestation in a ance. Can Farb succeed in getting his Shelley A. Leedahl, April 2012, kitchen forces three urban apartment- reality TV pitch “Canada’s Next Great Short Stories, 140 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, sharing youths to suddenly confront Apologist” greenlit despite the opposi- 978-1-897190-79-1 Paperback $18.95 nature and their own changing relation of his antagonistic boss, a patho- tionship. logical fear of public speaking, and his 978-1-897190-80-7 Tom Abray, October 2011, declining mental and physical health? Hardcover * $32.95 Short Stories, 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, An energetic and ultimately poignant 978-1-897190-73-9 Paperback $18.95 literary debut. * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on Jeff Oliver, November 2011, hard cover, no dust jacket. 978-1-897190-74-6 Novel, 180 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, Hardcover * $32.95 978-1-897190-75-3 Paperback $18.95

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Attention All Typewriters The Lower Provinces The Animal Library Lewis Carroll meets Allen This new collection of The Animal Library marks Ginsberg. . . . This is po- dramatic poems combines the debut of a remarkable etry about an angel-poet, scholarly recovery of early poet – a poet of the flesh, wings paper-clipped, Canadian visionary expe- his own and that of the seeking spiritual food rience and new transla- animals he has lived with in the modern office cubicle. He tions of early French-Canadian poems all his life, whether real or imaginary. pecks away at office-machinery (à la and documents, to create a series of Camlot’s father was a furrier and he Dilbert) and dreams among his fel- dramatic settings presenting a revived grew up in a world where, inevitably, low stick men and women of being a Canadian poetic ethos. O’Leary “baby fur gets in your eyes” or in Wordsworthian visionary – or at least presents an imaginative, frequently “your mouth.” And as the boy grows an “action figureen.” humourous cast of early Canadian up, images, at once curiously literal Jason Camlot, August 2005, voices who reflect as much on our and yet surreal – images of being Poetry, 116 pages, 5 x 8, own as on previous times. In both devoured or skinned alive – stay with 978-0-919688-01-8 Paperback $15.95 visionary recovery and faux antique him. 978-0-919688-02-5 Hardcover * $29.95 pastiche, O’Leary examines the claims Jason Camlot, November 2000, of the present and calls for a deeper Poetry, 111 pages, 6 x 9, appreciation of the insight welling up 978-0-919688-62-9 Paperback $16.95 Fish Bones from Canada’s past. 978-0-919688-64-3 Hardcover * $29.95 In Fish Bones Gillian Daniel O’Leary, April 2012, Sze takes a random walk Poetry, 84 pages, 5 x 8, through the art museum 978-1-897190-81-4 Paperback $17.95 Syzygy and finds the drama of 978-1-879190-82-1 Hardcover * $31.95 Bak continues to reinvent life framed in a series of the English language as precisely rendered and moving arte- punchy poetry Syzygy a sharp and challenging fact poems. Working from Jeanette Love in the Age of louise bak postmodern argot that Confusion Winterson’s idea of a “constant ex- combines terminology rang- change of emotion” between the art- A sexy romp packed with ing from Cantonese and Mandarin ist, the painting, and the writer, Sze’s mouth-watering descrip- to Latin, Korean, punk, and Klingon. ekphrastic verse is unrelenting in its tions of food, endless Bak’s poetry exploits the lyric’s founda- commitment to action, so that each supplies of ouzo, gags, tional status as riddle rooted in meta- poem sparked by a picture comes to and absurd collisions. In this fictional phor and synecdoche by showing us follow its own impetus, the origin début by the well-known food-writer, how language itself consists of a string of which is always a deeply felt en- pure laine Quebec locks horns with of riddle terms. Here the glossary ap- counter, whether familial, erotic, or moneyed Westmount when coquettish, pendix we have come to expect with strange. street-wise Arletty Daoust-Tremblay daz- her work now creeps up from the bot- zles, then dumps, pampered scion and Gillian Sze, April 2009, tom of the page like another represen- fledgling experimental filmmaker Ari Poetry, 80 pages, 5 x 8, tational tide of potential explanation “Pennyloafers” McLeod. But their moth- 987-1-897190-46-3 Paperback $16.95 and meaning. ers, in odd alliance, have other ideas. 978-1-897190-49-4 Hardcover * $31.95 Louise Bak, April 2011, Byron Ayanoglu, November 2001, * This book is “perfect bound” with an add-on Poetry, 85 pages, 5 x 8, hard cover, no dust jacket. Fiction, 258 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 978-1-897190-69-2 Paperback $16.95 978-0-919688-88-9 Paperback $18.95 978-1-897190-70-8 Hardcover * $31.95 978-0-919688-90-2 Hardcover * $28.95 DC Books 35 SAMPLE Works by Dudek, Druick, BACKLIST & Armstrong 1-800-387-9777 JENNIFER DUNCAN & BARRIE SHERWOOD

The Birth of Reason Through the Eyes The Pillow Book of Lady Here Dudek estab- Through the Eyes is award- Kasa lishes the link between winning playwright Don Here is the diary of a pre-Socratic Atomism Druick’s acclaimed tour court lady of Japan from and modern quantum de force for a solo actor. the golden age of Nara, mechanics. In characteris- Set in the Versailles of more than a thousand tically unencumbered terms, he shows the Sun King, this play is the story of years ago. The Naran age, character- how this revolutionary philosophy the great Italian artist, Gianlorenzo ized by hierarchy, rigid adherence to has been consistently misrepresented Bernini’s visit to France in 1665. The tradition and the performance of rit- and resisted. Atomism nevertheless Italian finds himself in an opulent ual, was a sophisticated urban society marks the transition from primitive and dangerous world, bristling with as different from ours as can be imag- mythological thinking (mythos) to cruelty and intrigue, tyrannized by ined. But what is The Pillow Book of the abstract, concept-based rational- passion and violence. Bernini is com- Lady Kasa? Is it a legitimate historical ity (logos) that informs our modern missioned to carve a bust of the king; document or a flight of invention by approach to an ultimately unknow- the resultant clash between these two a melancholy archaeologist, fatally able reality. great egos is fearsome to behold. infected by his own sad past? Louis Dudek, December 1994, Belles- Don Druick, December 2004, Drama, 80 Barrie Sherwood, August2000, Fiction, 164 Lettres, 111 pages, 5.25 x 9, ISBN 978-0- pages, 5 x 8, ISBN 0-919688-15-2, pages, 8 x 5, ISBN 0-919688-66-7, 919688-41-4 978-0-919688-15-5 Paperback $15.95, 978-0-919688-66-7, Paper $17.95 Paperback $12.95, 978-0-919688-43-8 0-919688-97-7, 978-0-919688-97-1, 978-0-919688-68-1 (HC) $32.95 Hardcover * $29.95 Hardcover * $29.95

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