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Butter Cream A Year in a Montreal Pastry School DeniseWhat happens Roig when a 56-year-old fi ction writer decides to ditch it all and attend professional pastry chef school for a year? In writing that brings to mindAbout the thework Book of journalist/chef Michael Ruhlman, Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School tells the story of eleven months of whipping, spreading and creaming in the pursuit of perfection.

When Denise Roig set out to do this – a lark, she thought – she had no idea what it would cost and what it would give back. Butter Cream is the chronicle of an intense year of learning and tasting, dramas at the stove and in the locker room. It’s about fi ghts, friendship and competition, fallen cakes and rising doughs. And sometimes, unexpectedly, the sheer joy of baking. It’s a memoir that also includes trips back to her mother’s and grandmother’s kitchens and to her own complicated relationship with all things sweet.

I am the only one wearing the bloody uniform. Not only am I the oldest one here — judging from a quick scan of younger and way younger faces — but I look like a dork. A keener. And I know, since I’m usually teaching kids this age at this time of year, that there’s nothing less cool than a fi rst-day keener.

I take the last available stool, shove my massive toolbox and bulging backpack under Non-fiction, CKB030000, BIO022000 the chrome counter, fumble for pen and paper. Everyone is dressed in late-summer 1-897109-29-6, 978-1897109-29-8 casual, while I glow extra-white in my high-necked chef’s jacket. $18.95 Cdn, $15.95 US 160 pp, 5.25 x 8, Paper Just last night Beauch, my husband, asked if I was going to tell my classmates at the start that I’m writing a book about this. No, I said. I want to blend in, be a student among students in the beginning. Sure.

from Butter Cream



About the Author Denise Roig has published two collections of short stories — A Quiet Night and a Perfect End, and Any Day Now (Signature Editions). The fi rst was translated into French as Le Vrai Secret du bonheur (Les éditions de la Pleine Lune), with fi ve stories produced on CBC Radio One’s “Between the Covers” in 2003, and rebroadcast in 2006. Any Day Now was shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation prize for fi ction in 2005. Denise has made a living for the past thirty years from corporate writing, freelance magazine and newspaper journalism and has taught both creative writing and journalism at Concordia University. Originally from Los Angeles, Denise has lived in Montreal for many years. New Title / Non-fi ction … 3

Marrying Hungary Linda Leith’s Leith memoir, Marrying Hungary, is the moving story of the daughter of Irish Communist parents who, after a peripatetic childhood, fallsAbout in love the and Book marries a Hungarian refugee. It is a glimpse into a life spent among foreigners, a tale of identity and eventual independence. And it reveals what few memoirs reveal: what brings a couple together, what marriage means to an ambitious and accomplished woman, and why sometimes even a good marriage eventually fails.

I loved the idea of Andy’s big, lively family with all its stories and secrets and extraordinary characters. I’d heard the stories about how Andy and his sixteen fi rst cousins spent their summers together in the years before the revolution. That was at the family estate in the village of Csömör, north of Budapest. I’d heard all about its glory days, the tennis court, the orchards, the peasant children in the village with a striking resemblance to the philandering grandfather. I’d heard about the great-uncle’s extramarital affair, the profl igacy of this uncle, the injustice suffered by another, and the way yet another deliberately smashed his fi st into a tray laden with full glasses of pálinka under a crystal chandelier.

All this was deeply romantic to me, a world out of a book. I was in love with the sound of that alien language and with all these stories at least as much as I was in love with Andy himself. Tomatoes and peppers had a fl avour I had never known. Non-fiction, BIO026000, BIO022000 In every corner restaurant a surly waiter served delicious caulifl ower soup, bean 1-897109-29-6, 978-1897109-29-8 soup with smoked pork, spicy gulyás soup. I loved them all. The children’s staple $18.95 Cdn, $15.95 US was bread and lard sprinkled with salt and paprika and eaten with slices of raw 160 pp, 5.25 x 8, Paper onion. Even this I ate with gusto, Andy and I agreeing it was far superior to bread and butter.

I had no real idea what to expect, when I fi rst went to Budapest, but I accepted what I found there and I wanted to be accepted in turn. And why would I not be?

from Marrying Hungary



About the Author Linda Leith was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. One of the most international of Canadian writers, she has lived in London, Basel, Brussels, Paris, Ottawa, Budapest and Montreal, where she founded and directs the hugely successful Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of London, England, and is Adjunct Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of six previous books, including three critically well-received novels, Birds of Passage, The Tragedy Queen, and The Desert Lake, all published by Signature Editions. She has also been published by Vehicule Press and ECW Press, as well as XYZ Editeur and Lemeac (in French), and Rad (in Serbian). 4 … New Title / Fiction

 It’sThe 1970, Checkout and the optimism Girl of Trudeaumania is giving way to fears of wageSusan and priceZettell controls. In Varnum, Ontario, where the smell of industry is Aboutthe smell the of Bookmoney, a lot of that money’s heading south, just like Bobby Orr. e Checkout Girl is the story of Kathy Rausch, whose life these days is something that just seems to happen to her. After sneaking out on her boyfriend in , Kathy moves back to Varnum and hides out in the basement of her high school buddy, Penny Lehman, in a room she shares with Penny’s skittish boa constrictor, Freddie. When Kathy isn’t checking out groceries, she practices hockey drills. And when she isn’t practicing, she’s warding off advances from fellow basement dweller “Little” Barry Bender, ignoring her well-meaning mother, Connie, hanging out with her best friend, champion baton twirler Darlyn Smola, and dealing a bit of marijuana for Penny’s husband Pete. But when Kathy stumbles upon a brutal murder she is fi nally driven to put her hockey stick where her heart is: on the ice.

Connie wants Kathy to be normal: have a reasonably good job with decent wages, preferably a union job with benefi ts and some security; have a stable relationship; live in a decent apartment; act like a responsible citizen. Fiction, FIC019000 In the kitchen Kathy notices a new sports article about a guy named Jerry 1-897109-26-1, 978-1897109-26-7 Rahn, a bowler who won $300. $19.95 Cdn, $17.95 US “Who’s Jerry Rahn?” she calls to her mother as she tapes the hijacking article under Reasons to Not Fly in Airplanes. 256 pp, 5.25 x 8, Paper “No idea,” Connie yells back, “but it’s an article that doesn’t have to do with war or strikes or airplanes and 300 bucks is a lot of money. I was thinking maybe I should take up bowling.” That’s how the hijacking section started. Connie thought she should take up fl ying. She’d never fl own before. Still hasn’t because she keeps developing theories about fl ying, or deterrents to fl ying, really. One of them has to do with the amount of worry it takes to hold an airplane in the sky. Worry keeps airplanes from crashing, Connie’s theory goes. Worry’s a bit like prayer. Carries the same weight and has the same effect, which is sometimes none, depending on the moment.

from The Checkout Girl



About the Author Susan Zettell is the author of two short story collections, Night Watch and Holy Days of Obligation. Her stories have also been anthologized in Quintet, Spider Women, When the Men Went to Town and The Company We Keep. She edited, along with Frances Itani, the posthumous story collection One of the Chosen by Danuta Gleed. The Checkout Girl is her fi rst novel. Born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, Zettell has lived in Cambridge, Vancouver, Halifax, Ottawa and Whitehorse. She now lives in Cape Breton with her husband, Andrew Watt. New Title / Poetry … 5

 BloodIn her passionate Mother second collection of poetry, Blood Mother, Su Croll casts Sufresh Croll light on the timeless maternal life of women. Collating singular momentsAbout the in theBook unfolding narrative of birth, she draws us into the emotional interior and shifting identity that comes with new motherhood, from the simple desire for children to the chaos and pain of labour, from the meditation on a child’s fi rst breath to the long-wanted birth of a second child. Always mindful of the relationships between mothers, and tackling the feminist challenge of representation, Croll asks how mothers are meant to see themselves when the language itself seems insuffi cient. How is a woman supposed to express the strange miracle of mothering without falling into “the soft / sponge of hopeless / cliché”? What “lattice of wording,” Croll wonders, is enough to convey this “ridiculous and contradicting / trick” of nurturing new life? Set against ’s urban and natural spaces, Blood Mother answers with remarkable originality in poems that never background the frustrations of motherhood while celebrating the rapturous pleasures that many women are summoned to in giving birth to their children and our families.

a room becomes beautiful with women women’s hands and the heads of their babies mouths latched to the mothers’ Poetry, POE011000 bodies the bow river 1-897109-27-X, 978-1897109-27-4 $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US turns a corner bends outside windows 96 pp, 6 x 9, Paper where women hold children fl awless infants utterly without

history

their thin shaking cries twisting at us making our milk come in….

from “outside history” 

About the Author Su Croll’s fi rst book of poetry, Worlda Mirth, won the 1992 Kalamalka New Writers Competition and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has studied English and visual art at the University of Ottawa and writing and fi lm at Concordia University in Montreal. Widely published in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies and the recipient of numerous awards for her fi ction and poetry, Croll teaches English as a Second Language and lives in with her husband and children. She is currently working on a novel. 6 … New Title / Poetry

Some Days I Think I Know Things ARhonda contemporary Douglas retelling of the story of Cassandra, Rhonda Douglas’s Some Days I ink I Know ings explores what “truth” really means andAbout asks thewhat Book Homer’s iconic young prophetess might have to say to anyone wise enough to pay heed to her in the twenty-fi rst century. We fi nd Cassandra walking among us once more and, just prior to the sacking of a Troy not unlike any modern city, she sheds light on the idyllic domestic life that she shares with her father Priam, mother Hecuba, and the rest of her doomed, if royal, family. No sooner has she relished in the timeless sexual awakening dreamt about by most girls than she must stoically submit to the indignities of the invading Greeks. As a captive, she pronounces a series of prescient “Lost Prophesies” intended for our time. However much her Cassandra remains faithful to the fi gure of the ancients, Douglas destabilizes her heroine’s primacy as “truth-teller” with a witty, varied chorus whose voices we can’t fail to recognize from our present-day lives. Questions about how to construct personal narrative, the imminence of environmental apocalypse, and the power of young girls make Rhonda Douglas’s fi rst book of poetry a fresh and unforgettable look at what causes the present to tick so inevitably from times immemorial.

Poetry, POE011000 1-897109-23-7, 978-1897109-28-1 $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US Go to the temple. Be reminded in its silence 96 pp, 6 x 9, Paper of the sky and all that continues in the distance. See Apollo. Know immediately what he is looking

for here, what possession might feel like. Want, don’t want, want again: does it matter? Negotiate your own terms, then give in. Fall,

fall down into sweetness. Ask for a gift, concede. Change your mind. Find his anger irrelevant, now that you can see.

from “Being Cassandra”



About the Author Originally from Grand Bank, Newfoundland, Rhonda Douglas has published her poetry and fi ction in literary journals across and in New Zealand, with her writing earning prizes in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition and Memorial University’s Gregory J. Power Poetry Contest. In 2006, she won both The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry and Arc’s Diana Brebner Prize. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Douglas is completing the Optional-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at UBC. She lives in Ottawa with her husband and their two daughters. New PB

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In story after story, Randall fi nds Relationships columnist Barbara MARY SCORER AWARD FOR BEST BOOK BY A At seven, Sosi is stoned by a group the perfect pitch, getting right to Crossie is invited to join a MANITOBA PUBLISHER FINALIST From the surprisingly upbeat title of village children, taunting her ScotttheCharacter heart ofRandall ordinary Actor characters— LindaCanadianThe Desert Leith delegation Lake to China, MargaretReleased Macpherson storyLast about Chance the widower dealing LindawithSosi cries Ghan of “infi del.” Her father not the brilliantly burning stars, where she is to meet up with Coming across a yellowed to Renew is a Muslim Turk, her mother a Scottwith his Randall wife’s death, to the tale but the kind of people we see all her long-distance lover, Josh. newspaper clipping about a of the childless couple preparing Christian Armenian, and they around us every day. In the title Deeply distressed when he fails recently released prisoner who themselves with crisis-response haven’t forgotten the Turks’ story, the unsung are honoured to appear, Barbara continues with saves a drowning boy triggers a training, Randall’s beautifully extermination of 1.5 million by two friends who strive to her companions on the Silk Road wrenching into memory rendered short stories examine Armenians. Moved to safety in maintain their bond through the and eventually fi nds herself in the for middle-aged Ruth Callis, the small moments in ordinary the city, Sosi awaits her parents’ years, the deaths of the would-be Taklimakan Desert, known as the forcing her to confront the events lives with exacting detail and return, only to discover they have forgotten character actors thrown Ocean of Death. It is there, by the of her past, and, ultimately, her intimate characterization, calling been murdered by their own into relief against the backdrop of astonishing desert lake, that she own act of forgiveness. to mind master storytellers neighbours. their own lives. sees the way past her crisis.  Book club guide available Munro, Ford, and Wolff .  Book club guide available

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MANUELA DIAS BOOK DESIGN OF THE YEAR AWARD FINALIST GastonThe Kimono Petit and the Cross RobertTheatre WithoutAstle Borders CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD FINALIST Cameron has an ear for a good An in-depth look at the Linda Ghan puppeteers, clowns, raconteurs, tale, an eye for the telling detail, “This book lets us glimpse an unusual ABlack compelling Teeth collection that andContinental the thoughtful Drifter sensibility of The Fleeting Years and solo performance artists Ryszard Dubanski Dave Cameron Laura Pratt Quebecer of high culture and inspiring who infl uence and invigorate the explores the challenges of a new the true traveller. On his four- “There’s occasion here for both tears humanitarianism. How comforting to Laura Pratt, author of parenting In this fascinating portrait we current theatre scene in Canada. immigrant in Winnipeg’s famously month bus trip from Dawson and some hearty laughs.” —The know that such people—Montreal are among Gazette us.” multicultural North End—from City to Key West, he meets a advice columns and articles, come to know Gaston Petit, a learning a new language to fi tting variety of strangers, from gold shares her personal experiences as Catholic priest who has lived Included:  eatre Beyond Words, in with a new culture, especially miners in designer sunglasses, a mother of four.  ese vignettes and worked in Japan for many Les Deux Mondes, Yves Dagenais, diffi cult for a boy with, literally, evangelistic co-eds, and alcoholics, will bring a pang of recognition years. Petit is a man whose grand  eatre Smith-Gilmour,  eatre black teeth, the of his to the Crocodile Lady, and the to all parents.  is book is the curiosity brings joy and beauty Columbus, Axis  eatre, Wendy early childhood life in a displaced sunbaked senior who’ll get his perfect gift for any mother you into the world. Gorling, Ronnie Burkett, and Jest person’s camp in Europe. fun in the sun if it kills him. know, any day of the year. in Time.

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The Yellowknife Journal e only journal on birchbark IntroductionJeanever discovered,Steinbruck by Harry this Duckworth unique Canadian artifact is reproduced in full-colour facsimile, with a French transcription, an English translation, and an introduction by Harry Duckworth. NATIONAL NEWSPAPER AWARD WINNER FromA History MFire ofARGARET Theatre toMCW Flood ILLIAMSin Manitoba Tango on the Main ScatterABoth Traveller’s an accomplished the Medley Mud: musician Homo Erectus…& Joe FioritoQSPELL AWARD FINALIST A confessed Transitional Man, LOCAL HISTORY AWARD WINNER and travel writer with credits Other Popular Tales in e New York Times, GEO, Yanofsky conducts a hilarious Kevin Longfield In this award-winning collection, Nancy Lyon examinationof True Romance of dating habits Longfi eld’s engaging, illuminating Fiorito reveals the true heart and Ms., Montreal Gazette, Chicago Joel Yanofsky “Jean Steinbruck, at a North West examination of Manitoba theatre Tribune, and Miami Herald, to in the wild, Intimacy 101, the Company post in the Great Slave Lake soul of a large city, the real people challenges of being short and since its beginnings almost a who live and work there, toiling in name a few, Lyon recounts her area, wrote his 1802-03 notes on balding, and getting dumped birchbark after he ran out of paper. The century and a half ago places obscurity, never front-page news. unique experiences with such prairie theatre in its social and panache that any armchair gracefully, to name but a few Yellowknife Journal is an extraordinary In these memorable columns of the topics in his search for volume, of interest both as an artifact historical context. Fiorito unerringly fi nds the traveller will want to “scatter the mud” with her. answers to how the New Man and as a record of the particulars of universal truth in the individual should act. one man’s winter.” —The Beaver details. ISTORY ON ICTION H , HIS006000 N -F , PER011020 RAVEL 0-921833-62-8, 978-0921833-62-8 0-921833-79-2, 978-0921833-79-6 T , TRV001000 ON ICTION $22.95 Cdn, $19.95 US $19.95 Cdn, $17.95 US ON ICTION 0-921833-42-3, 978-0921833-42-0 N -F , HUM013000 N -F , LCO010000 CUR000000 64 pp, 11 x 8.5, Paper 272 pp, 6 x 9, Paper, photos $18.95 Cdn, $16.95 US 0-921833-48-2, 978-0921833-48-2 0-921833-46-6, 978-0921833-46-8 27 colour plates & maps 176 pp, 6 x 9, Paper $16.95 Cdn, $14.95 US $18.95 Cdn, $15.95 US 176 pp, 5.25 x 8, Paper 176 pp, 5.25 x 8, Paper Poetry … 11

MacPherson takes us on a grand At his death from AIDS in 1994, Building on earlier explorations To be anonymous in today’s urban In these remarkable worldly tour of Europe, where the vast Derek Jarman, the pioneering, of memory, sexuality, and culture places is to be free yet isolated, poems, Sean Horlor questions AndrealegacyAway of human MacPherson history combines Keithcharismatic,Blue Garebian and sometimes AndythatBowling are Quan the Pinsignatures Fire of Andy GenniinFaceless a constant Gunn fl ux of longing for SeantheMade nature Horlor Beautiful of praise, recastsby Use the with her own ancestral origins to reviled director, left a legacy of Quan’s best work, Bowling Pin and fear of “the dead and beating seven basic tenets of Christianity, make a mark on her. In reaction, idiosyncratic and iconoclastic Fire transcribes the arc of one heart.”  e faces Gunn confronts and retells the stories of saints’ she assembles suites of deft, fi lms that stand among the most man’s life from growing up on the streets of the city make her lives. Belief, faith, hope, loss…Can personal lyrics for each country. celebrated experimental works of Chinese in Vancouver, to seeing book a compelling read—as does what we believe in be reduced to In this book of quiet beauty and the last century. Garebian brings the world through the lens of the “delicious anxiety” she sees signs that prove existence? Horlor careful observation, MacPherson Jarman vividly back to life in this fearless, free-spirited youth, to hanging in ecstatic, sometimes questions what constitutes faith reinvents the travel poem on her life-affi rming, cinematic, at turns arriving at the initial cautionary terrifying suspense in the liminal in a time when too many have own terms. randy and elegiac verse-biography. glimmerings of midlife. spaces between. stopped believing.

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From the title poem about giving DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY AWARD FINALIST In this searing exploration of In Budde’s “fl ickers,” glimpses of In this brave and candid book, Heronup the beloved Cliff home where a Moving& CITY OF VICTORIA Day BUTLER PRIZE FINALIST Allfemale the sexualityLifters Mazakian Flickernarrative and character, or story, WhatMichael You V. SmithCan’t exploresHave Margoson had takenButton his own life, to Terence Young Esthercaptures Mazakian the intensity of Robare conveyed Budde through the intense Michaelthe experience V. Smith of the modern poems about her own childhood Young’s is a landscape of obsession and desire in a voice personal imagery of poetry. working poor, with poems that and interconnectedness to the conjecture about what is really that singes across the page Within these short prose pieces, look at sex, sexuality, and the ever-lengthening branches of the going on, about the kind of doubt as quickly as thought, with many of which have the emotional sex trade in a straightforward family tree, to poems about the that’s at its strongest when we fi rst electrifying leaps from memory intensity of lyric poems, the manner, as well as a counterpoint larger upheavals of the world, wake up and our dreams are still to refl ection to immediate sense narrative arc tells one story, while of poems inspired by the Button articulates a vision of life with us. Here, an ordinary house experience, encoding private the tightly constructed language American photographer William where the darkest grief has a place can rise from its foundations and cruelties, seduction, and the and profoundly personal imagery Gale Gedney, who documented alongside the most profound joy. fl oat over the horizon, taking its nightmarish reaches of psychic tells another, the emotional the lives of the poor in Kentucky Heron Cliff is a passionate work awe-struck, astonished occupants pain in language both visceral heartbeat that lives beneath during the 1960s. of consummate skill. with it. and fresh. language.

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 e central metaphor in e FINALIST: George Payerle escapes city life JOHN HIRSCH AWARD FINALIST Octopus is the search for new QWF A.M KLEIN AWARD , and returns to the coast where ATLANTIC POETRY AWARD FINALIST lifeThe in Octopus the universe—to fi nd Vetiver Satie’sMARY SCORER Sad BEST B OOKPiano BY A MANITOBA heAlterations was born.  e old coast of The ABrevityCORN -PLANTOS A WARDof FINALISTRed Jennica Harper translatedJoëlWINNER Des G byOVERNOR Rosiers GENERAL ʼS AWARD Carolyn Marie Souaid George Payerle Jill MacLean something beyond ourselves PUBLISHER AWARD , logging and fi shing is all but FOR TRANSLATION , GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE and simultaneously be found. PAT LOWTHER AWARD extinct, inhabited by ghosts of  e poems in this collection are DE MONTRÉAL & GRAND PRIX DU FESTIVAL  e tension between wanting Hugh Hazelton men with peaveys in their hands the product of long refl ection INTERNATIONAL DE LA POÉSIE DE TROIS RIVIÈRES to understand and giving in to  e news of former Prime and bulldozers in their eyes. It’s on loss: of a daughter, a sister, the mysteries of the universe Minister Pierre Trudeau’s death a coast where the mountains fall parents. MacLean unerringly Acclaimed Haitian-born Des culminates in the long poem sends fi fty-something Venus into the sea as waves of rainforest, calls us to attention within this Rosiers’ work evokes the wild “ e Octopus.” In the end, it’s the on a downward spiral through a coast of “shadow weather,” where moment in these intelligent, opulence of the world hope of the search that matters, memories of a past relationship the light of everyday is a Turner vivid, carefully crafted poems as he plumbs the depths of not fi nding or being found, but and a fl ashback to 1968, the painting, a land/seascape suff used which honour the dead, yet avoid memory in rich and multihued looking. height of Trudeaumania. with the spirit made visible. easy answers. language.

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Charach has learned about terror at QWF A.M. KLEIN POETRY AWARD WINNER QWF A.M. KLEIN POETRY AWARD FINALIST It is only when we become still the side of patients whose exquisite NIAGARA BOOK PRIZE WINNER enoughThat Singing that we can You hear the RonsensitivityElephant Charach makes Street them, willingly or SusanInVolta Volta ,Gillis Gillis plays with the CarolynLooselySnow basedFormations Marie on Souaid’s Souaid own Radio & Hear at the Edges not, the antennae of the race. “turn,” exploring new directions, experience along the Hudson- Other Miracles Suesinging MacLeod at the edges. TerranceThe miracle Cox of radio opens a new angles, and changing forms. Ungava coast, Snow Formations boy’s ears to the music of the takes an unfl inching look at the world around him. And Cox modern Inuit world. Steeped in tells of other miracles too— contradiction, this is Canada’s sailboats and spaceships, ice- “MacLeod writes often about small “Elephant Street explores the themes North with all its trappings: skates and tropical jacaranda, moments, small movements we all see of urban restlessness, and fears arising “Intelligent, sophisticated, witty, this is igloos and pool halls, raw meat hair-raising escapes from but think we alone notice. And when her from such complex social issues as poetry of both technical virtuosity and and radio, dogsleds and diapers. danger, and the eerie harmony keen eye is trained on close relationships, social class inequalities, society’s feeling. Its language is tuned so fi nely  e North may be great and of coincidence. MacLeod writes something near to a overemphasis on appearances, and the it can move from the mundane to the white, but it is not always pretty. simple, basic eternal truth of those ever-present spectres of ill-health and rhapsodic in a few beats of the line, in death, whether by ‘natural’ or terror- everyday occurrences, those gestures the of a breath.”—Mary di Michele OETRY OETRY she mentions.” —The Coast related causes.” —Prairie Books Now OETRY P , POE011000 OETRY P , POE011000 OETRY P , POE011000 0-921833-82-2, 978-0921833-82-6 P , POE0111 P , POE0111 0-921833-86-5, 978-0921833-86-4 0-921833-85-7, 978-0921833-85-7 $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US 0-921833-90-3, 978-0921833-90-1 0-921833-89-X, 978-0921833-89-5 $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US 112 pp, 6 x 9, Paper $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US 80 pp, 6 x 9, Paper $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US 96 pp, 6 x 9, Paper 96 pp, 6 x 9, Paper 96 pp, 6 x 9, Paper Poetry … 13

JEWISH BOOK PRIZE WINNER QWF A.M. KLEIN POETRY AWARD FINALIST MANITOBA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER Dungenessque SwimmingPAT LOWTHER POETRY Among AWARD FINALIST October The Grand Hotel of Latent Heat Ron Charach the Ruins& RELIT POETRY AWARD FINALIST Carolyn1970.  e FLQMarie has Souaid kidnapped Foreigners Catherine Hunter Susan Gillis and murdered Pierre Laporte. For Claude Beausoleil  e submerged foundations of the narrator, growing up in those translated by “A practising psychiatrist and the a ruined city, ancient statuary days meant living through one of PRIX ALAIN -GRANDBOIS WINNER & GRAND PRIX author of six previous volumes of and place names, a drop of water the darkest episodes in Canadian Jed DUEnglish FESTIVALE DE LA &POESIE WINNER “A work of exceptional poetic inspiration poetry, Charach deftly manages to echoing in an empty tomb, heat left history—a time when army tanks George Morrissette and ability. Hunter combines the talent combine psychological insight with on a path walked by generations— rolled through the streets and Beausoleil takes the reader on and technique of the storyteller with dextrous word play. Charach’s voice Gillis examines these remnants bombings and other random acts a voyage as he questions the the fi nely chiselled images of the poet. is pliant and sonorous; sinuosity of of passage, looking back toward of violence became l’ordre du jour. nature of solitude, wandering, the Lovers of poetry will sink into the thought fl owers into deep and true their origins and forward into the distance which forms and grows cool, clear waters of Hunter’s vision, feeling. This is an impressive and possibilities of transformation. between people, and writing. never once asking to come up for air. engaging collection.”—Canadian Jewish News But meaning here is not buried under OETRY OETRY mountains of words. It fl oats on the P , POE 011000 P , POE011000 surface of magnifi cently—Winnipeg fl owing Free lines.” Press 0-921833-76-8, 978-0921833-76-5 OETRY 0-921833-67-9, 978-0921833-67-3 OETRY P , POE011000 OETRY $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US P , POE011000 $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US P , POE011000 0-921833-59-8, 978-0921833-59-8 96 pp, 6 x 9, Paper 0-921833-70-9, 978-0921833-70-3 96 pp, 6 x 9, Paper 0-921833-55-5, 978-0921833-55-0 $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US 64 pp, 6 x 9, Paper 96 pp, 6 x 9, Paper 96 pp, 6 x 9, Paper

QWF A.M. KLEIN POETRY Shadowing the Shakespearean EILEEN MCTAVISH SYKES BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD FINALIST sonnet, Sommer takes the most AWARD WINNER , CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG CarolynSwimming Marie into the Souaid Light RichardtraditionalThe Shadow form Sommer for expressingSonnets love ChandraAugustBOOK AWARD FWitchINALIST Mayor & MARY SCORER BEST AlNecropsy Purdy of Love CatherineRush Hour Hunter OOK WARD INALIST and expands its range and message B A F “The greatest —The Canadian Globe poetand Mail of the “With its musical accompaniment to refl ect our times, going beyond 20th century.” by The Weakerthans, Rush Hour the sonnet’s traditional territory of In a voice that is at once is imbued with an unaccountable “Written with a tough intelligence and love between man and woman to confessional, playful and “Includes some of the fi nest lyric energy as if Hunter, like us, is hearing  e late great Canadian lyric poet a bracing earthiness, Swimming into embrace the natural world around linguistically sophisticated, poems written in the —Booksannals ofin Canadamodern the track for the fi rst time. It is the Light tells a poignant story that him and the deteriorating ecology Mayor delves into realms of desire, CanadianAl Purdy’s literature.” work lives on—and in gripping. The music adds an ethereal brings together three generations in of the planet.  e result is a rich domesticity and psychoanalytic his own voice—in Necropsy of dimension that complements the the land of Souaid’s ancestors. The weave of past and present, love complexity in poems that range Love, an audio poetry collection haunting nature of the poem. It book manages to graft the sensibility and pain, language and world. from the lyric to the narrative. interspersed with fascinating makes one wonder how we have dared of a contemporary North American interviews. to listen to poetry without musical woman struggling with infertility to a accompaniment.”—Winnipeg Free Press delicate search for distant roots.” OETRY —Montreal Gazette OETRY OETRY P OETRY , POE011000 P P , POE011000 P , POE0111 OETRY 1-894177-08-8, 978-189417708-5 , POE011000 P , POE011000 0-921833-17-2, 978-0921833-17-8 1-894177-12-6, 978-189417712-2 $12.95 Cdn/US 0-921833-43-1, 978-0921833-43-7 1-894177-01-0, 978-189417701-6 $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US $13.95 Cdn/US 77 minutes, Audio CD, Cyclops Press $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US $12.95 Cdn/US 80 pp, 6 x 9, Paper 112 pp, 6 x 9, Paper 80 pp, 5.75 x 4.75, Paper Cyclops Press 70 minutes, Audio CD 14 … Drama

ree on the Boards features Two Hands Clapping features A tragedy in the classic sense, Threefull-length on and the one-act Boards scripts SummerELIZABETH STERLING of H MyAYNES O UTSTANDING Twofull-length, Hands one-act, Clapping and short The e PianoPiano Tuner Tuner follows Bob Z: A Meditation on Kitfor threeBrennan, actors editor by Canadian NEW PLAY AWARD WINNER Kitscripts Brennan, for two actors. editor Included Robertinto his harrowing Astle past, revealing SASKATCHEWAN BOOK OF THE YEAR playwrights from across the Amazing Luck are: , Mike McPhaden; the shocking murder of Bob’s Oppression, Desire Chris Craddock Poochwater AWARD WINNER country. Included are: Curtsy by With all the humour, compassion e Dinner Party, Rose Cullis; former wife and his subsequent &Freedom Anne Szumigalski Brian Drader, In the Yichud Room and intelligence of Miriam 3…2…1, Nathan Cuckow and incarceration. But this is also a At the end of WW II, Szumigalski by Joel Fishbane, Suicide Notes by Toews’ novel, this inventive stage Chris Craddock; Jane’s umb, story of redemption. As Bob worked with concentration camp Kenneth T. Williams, Canada adaptation takes audiences on Kelley Jo Burke; e File, struggles to bring the piano into survivors as a translator for the House by J. Karol Korczynski, a hilarious and heartbreaking Greg Nelson; Lola Shuffl es the tune, he rediscovers his long- British Red Cross. In Z, she Starter Home by Katherine journey as single mom Lucy Cards, Kit Brennan; e House lost son, Baby Boy; it is he who transforms that experience into an Koller, ree Dogs Barking by discovers this may be the summer Wife, Sherry White and Ruth has fi lled the piano with the amazing theatrical event, a blend Frank Barry, and Purity Test by when everything changes. Lawrence; Afterglow by Peter sounds, objects, and stories and of drama, poetry, and dance. Scott Sharplin. Boychuk. summoned the piano tuner.

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It’s 1999. Fifty years ago, Lee Venus of Dublin was inspired by WalkingKwan, chauff on eur Water to the town’s Emphysema Venusthe famous of portrait Dublin of the actor Magpie, ese three plays Having, explore secrets, TheA phone Last call Journey from the nomadicof Davenewspaper Carley publisher, was found MarianneEdmund Kean, Ackerman which hangs in obsessions, and desire through the Captain Harte, an old friend of murdered under his employer’s (A Love Story) London’s Garrick Club. While on Hunger Striking Captain Harte Janet Munsil Kitstories Brennan of three women: Bernice, Dianneher husband’s, Warren awakens a middle- Packard. But who did it?  e “Infl uential theatre critic Kenneth tour in Dublin, the once-great, the fantasy-prone victim of aged widow’s imagination. As the crime has never been solved. An Tynan’s fascination with silent-fi lm untamable Kean hires a local small-town repression in Magpie; Captain makes his circuitous way engaging and theatrical murder performer Louise Brooks led him renegade to paint his portrait. As Sarah, who must deal with her home, she follows his journey mystery, Walking on Water is a to track her down to her Rochester Kean relives his encounters with own past struggles with anorexia and prepares to throw off the moving and panoramic return to apartment in the 70s. The developing the Huron of Quebec, the spirits when one of her students dies in practical responsibilites of her life a place and time of moral clarity, relationship between the enigmatic, of the wilderness inhabit him and Hunger Striking; and Erin, whose and escape from her small prairie good guys and bad guys, tough Garbo-like Brooks and Tynan, living unleash a mystical and surprising epileptic seizures leave her scared world. broads and daring dames. a rich fantasy life with the fi lm- portrait of desire. and vulnerable in Having. inspired Lulu, fi res up Emphysema,

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SASKATCHEWAN WRITERS GUILD LITERARY GOVERNOR GENERAL ʼS AWARD FINALIST Spring PlantingAWARD WINNER Selkirk Avenue The is Queen play goes behind the The FHatsINALIST FOR 4 DORA AWARDS Woman by a Window Kit Brennan Bruce McManus ofheadlines Queen to Street examine the life of Mr. Zenobe & Céleste Maureenof Bertha Rand,Hunter Winnipeg’s RobertBased on Astle the life of Vahan Marianne Ackerman notorious Cat Lady, who battled Poladian, a displaced Armenian “Woman by a Window is an elliptical “Selkirk Avenue. It’s just one of those her neighbours and city hall to who lost his family during the little gem of—The post-modern, Montreal Gazette post-feminist “Spring Planting charts the journeys Winnipeg things. Say the words and save her more than fi fty cats. Turkish invasion, e Hats of Mr. theatre.” of four people, mother and daughter, a picture comes to mind. What better Hunter delves into Rand’s tragic Zenobe is a poignant indictment grandfather and grandson, all of way, then, to tell the story of Selkirk life of poverty and deprivation, of war. In this one-man show, “Céleste is no simplistic tale of two them trying to fi nd a way to make it Avenue than through the eyes of a giving a sensitive portrayal of the Astle brilliantly imagines and solitudes brought together by love. through the confusion that ordinary photographer? It’s a beautifully written circumstances that led Rand to recreates Poladian’s twice-daily These characters’ emotional intricacies life often presents. The absolute show, touching, and angry, and sad and retreat into squalid isolation. street performances. and their geographic and linguistic confi dence of youth is paralleled wise all at once. It’s also very funny, differences ultimately come to symbolize with the wisdom of age in this moving and very ‘right’ in the way fi ction can the solitude of the human—The soul.”Globe & Mail story.” sometimes come closer to the truth than RAMA — RAMA RAMA RAMA D , DRA013000 fact.” —Winnipeg Sun D , DRA013000 D , DRA013000 D , DRA013000 RAMA 0-921833-45-8, 978-0921833-45-1 0-921833-53-9, 978-0921833-53-6 0-921833-58-X, 978-0921833-58-1 D , DRA013000 0-921833-56-3, 978-0921833-56-7 $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US 0-921833-57-1, 978-0921833-57-4 $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US 80 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Paper 96 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Paper $14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US 96 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Paper 64 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Paper 96 pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Paper

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