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The publisher would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada, the Arts Council, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation, for our publishing activities. THE OLD MAN IN THE MIRROR ISN’T ME: LAST CALL HAIKU RAY ROBERTSON In his first book of poetry Robertson’s singular touch lies in words of clean musicality. APRIL 1, 2020 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 96 pages 978-1-55096-873-6 $18.95

“A haiku by Ray Robertson, like a novel by Ray Robertson, is the language we actually speak – whether by ‘language’ you mean what it sounds like, or what life seems to us, given that we talk this way. ‘Corn Flakes before bed / Zoloft for breakfast / I’m doing the best I can.’ The language is so mordant, relaxed, flint-chip shapely and edged, I think Sam Spade must have said these haiku first, between gun-butts to the skull, and Robertson channelled them. ‘Telling yourself it’s going to be okay / Over and over and over.’ They’re the alleys, sidewalks, offices, subways of modern Toronto, and they have the Zen ’s reverence for the world as presence of the All (‘Sleet storm / Tin roof / Who needs Mozart?’). Their search for a way out only momentarily succeeds, and never ends, but it hovers around ecstasy. ‘Gasoline rain- bows / Exist / Look!’ ” —A. F. MORITZ Poems about getting old and not liking it. About getting high on Christmas Eve. About a hole in the sky where Honest Ed’s used to be. About killing mosquitoes and petting strange dogs, and a homeless man who feeds the pigeons who are always happy to see him. About tuning out and turning off and unplugging. About friends who’ve died, and confused skyscrapers on foggy days, and Nabokov in his underwear. About shame in the evening, regret in the morning, and, if there’s time, a nap in the afternoon. About a world where the Clash is classic rock and experience killed curiosity and the corpse wondered what’s next. “Why I Am Not a Poet” is the lively preface-memoir about growing up and becoming a writer in Toronto in the ’80s and ’90s, and being influenced by it’s long-gone bars, bookstores, and people.

Marketing Highlights ePUB, KINDLE, PDF • National media mailing. • 978-1-55096-874-3 Previous praise: • Targeted media interviews. • 978-1-55096-875-0 “One of the country’s finest literary voices” • Ottawa Writers Festival. • 978-1-55096-876-7 — • Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Goodreads giveaways. “Robertson is a moral writer and a bitingly intelligent one, a man who writes with penetrating insight of what needs to be written about: beauty, truth and goodness.” —Globe and Mail

Ray Robertson is the author of eight novels and four collections of nonfiction, among them: Moody Food, 1979, and Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live. His work has been translated into several languages. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, he lives Toronto.

1 Poetry and Autobiography. BISAC: Poetry/General. Poetry/Canadian. General Readers AMUN Fiction MICHEL JEAN / KATHRYN GABINET-KROO Indigenous storytelling, powerful with emotion, and imbued with great sensitivity. Recently released in France, Switzerland, and Belgium. APRIL 1, 2020 5.5 x 8.5 Trade Paperback 112 pages 978-1-55096-877-4 $22.95

In the Innu language, amun means “gathering.” Under the direction of Michel Jean, the Innu writer and journalist, this collection brings together Indigenous authors from different backgrounds, First Nations, and generations. Their works of fiction sometimes reflect history and traditions, other times the reality of First Nations in Canada. Offering the various perspectives of well-known creators, this book presents the theatre of a gathering and the speaking out of people that are too rarely heard. Included are original texts by Joséphine Bacon, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Naomi Fontaine, Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Jean Sioui, Alyssa Jérôme, Maya Cousineau-Mollen, Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, and Michel Jean.

“Young or old, men or women, Innu, Huron-Wendat or Métis, the ten authors of Amun have one thing in com- mon… they write to a certain extent with their blood: their stories resonate with personal dramas and a memory abused by centuries of oppression… “Not surprisingly, the short stories in Amun lead one after the other to a rather sobering observation about the relationships between men and women. This reality ends up highlighting the strength of women – and, in fact, women have written seven of the original short stories in this col- lection… [which represents] a means of expression as rare as it is necessary.” —CHRISTIAN DESMEULES, Le Devoir

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Michel Jean is Innu and a member of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation. He is a news anchor and investigative reporter (notably at Radio-Canada, RDI and TVA), a fiction writer, and the author of nine books. Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo is a translator who works for clients in the pub- lic and private sector. Her translations of four novels by Quebec authors have been published by Exile Editions, including her translation of Marc Séguin’s Hollywood, one of five final- ists for the Governor General’s Award for French in 2013. She is an active member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation, and the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada.

General Readers Fiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies. Fiction/Native American-Aboriginal. 2 Pages 3 onward are Recent Releases BAWAAJIGAN: STORIES OF POWER The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Eighteen Fiction NOVEMBER 2019 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 260 pages 978-1-55096-841-5 $21.95

Edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith Bawaajigan – an Anishinaabemowin word for dream or vision – is a collection of short fiction by Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. Ranging from gritty to gothic, hallucinatory to prophetic, the reader encoun- ters ghosts haunting residential school hallways and ghosts looking on from the afterlife, bead-dreamers, talking eagles, Haudenosaunee wizards, giant snakes, sacred white buffalo calves, spider’s silk, a burnt and blood-stained diary, wormholes, poppy-induced deliri- ums, Ouija boards, and imaginary friends among the many exhilarating forces that drive the Indigenous dream-worlds of today.

“This is, overall, a stunning collection of writing from Indigenous sources, stories with the power to trans- form character and reader alike…the high points are numerous and often dizzying in their force… “As one might expect, contributions from heavy-hitters Richard Van Camp and Lee Maracle are among the many highlights… Just as powerful are stories from lesser- known writers… “This is an inspiring and demanding collection, and that is by design. The stories challenge readers on numerous levels: thematically, narratively, and linguisti- cally… “Anthologies like Bawaajigan can play a significant role in this process of education, removing passivity and dis- tance from what might seem – to outsiders – like fan- tastic events, depicting both horrors and hope with an equal force and vitality.” —Quill & Quire Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler is the author of Wrist, an Indigenous monster story written from the monster’s perspective. He holds a B.A. in English and Scan the code for the complete review. Native Studies, a B.F.A. in Integrated Media, and is an M.F.A. candidate in Creative Writing. He is Anishinaabe and Jewish, a member of Lac des Mille Or read at tinyurl.com/Bawaajigan-Q-Q Lacs First Nation, and resides in Mono, Ontario. Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith of Toronto is a Saulteaux writer/editor/journalist from Peguis First Nation, and holds an M.A. in Education for Social Justice, along with a B.A. in ePUB, KINDLE, PDF Aboriginal Studies. 978-1-55096-842-2 978-1-55096-843-9 Contributors: Richard Van Camp, Autumn Bernhardt, Brittany Johnson, 978-1-55096-844-6 Gord Grisenthwaite, Joanne Arnott, Délani Valin, Cathy Smith, David Geary, Yugcetun Anderson, Gerald Silliker Pisim Maskwa, Karen Lee White, Sara General, Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Francine Cunningham, Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith, Lee Maracle, Katie-Jo Rabbit, Wendy Bone.

3 Fiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies. Fiction/Native American-Aboriginal General Readers YO! WIKSAS? / HI! HOW ARE YOU? Children RANDE COOK and LINDA ROGERS This book is for curious kids who ask big questions, and adults who help them discover the answers. NOVEMBER 2019 8 x 9 Colour 66 pages 978-1-55096-828-6 $19.95

“Squirrel Nation and discerning kids everywhere will be delighted with this fun, fast-paced, and rollick- ing collection of poems by Linda Rogers, accompa- nied by silk screen images by Chief Rande Cook. Yo! Wiksas? is an innovative fusion of Kwakwaka'wakw art, Kwak'wala terms, and delightful English-language verse.” —Richard Mackie, Editor, The Ormsby Review

Illustrated conversations are the Indigenous way of showing rather than telling, and these conversations between Isla and Ethan – son and daughter of Chief Rande Ola K'alapa (Cook), a much loved artist of mixed European and Indigenous decent – and their invisible friend Siri touch on bullying, environmental protection, and inclusivity – all very important top- ics for children. Isabel Rogers, also a kid, is part of the storytelling process.

We want this book to be a bridge, a route to one important thing: kindness… This book will also be a useful classroom adjunct to interpersonal rela- tionships and a key to opening the potential for student narratives.

“This is sound evidence of true reconciliation based on mutual respect and regard, the embodiment of inter-cultural collaboration that – especially for children – is essential in a divided world.” —Karen Lee White, author of The Silence “I received this brilliant book and went through it cover to cover twice now. Wow! What a journey. I will be reading this to my little grandchildren when I see them.The collaboration between Linda, Rande and the kids is amazing.” —Christine Gunsie Hunt, President of the Kwakiutl Fisheries Commision, Commissioner at Agricultural Land Commission, contributor to Awakwis newspaper ePUB, KINDLE, PDF 978-1-55096-829-3 Rande Cook is represented by several important galleries which 978-1-55096-830-9 respect his voice as a ground breaker in contemporary Canadian 978-1-55096-831-6 northwest coast culture and urban Indigenous reality. Fluidity of line, innovation in colour and design, and wit are the hallmarks of his art, which is a natural companion to oral storytelling. Next spring, Rande will curate a major show of art by “Coast Protectors,” a personal mis- sion shared by Linda Rogers. He tells the stories of his N’amgis, Ma’amtagila and Mamalilikala people through blending tradition and innovation. Linda Rogers of Victoria, British Columbia, is a past Poet Laureate and Canadian People’s Poet of Victoria, who writes poetry, fiction, song lyrics, scripts, and literary criticism. She has been awarded the Gwendolyn MacEwen, Livesay, Leacock, National Poetry, Rukeyser, Acorn, Cardiff, Montreal, Kenney, Voices Israel, Prix Anglais and Bridport literary prizes. Recent titles include Bozuk., Crow Jazz, and Repairing the Hive.

Children/Adult Children’s Fiction. Art. BISAC: Fiction/Fantasy/Contemporary. Art/Native American. 4 Fiction DREAMERS AND MISFITS OF MONTCLAIR MARK PATERSON Wise and humorous stories that explore people’s extraordinary lives in suburbia’s little wild spaces. NOVEMBER 2019 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 202 pages 978-1-55096-836-1 $19.95

In his third short story collection, Mark Paterson intro- duces the town of Montclair, a fictional yet familiar suburb of Montreal. With distinctive humour and emotion he celebrates the refusal of the monotonous, and the struggle for individuality in a bastion of boredom and conformity. Dreamers and Misfits of Montclair is an exploration of suburbia’s little wild spaces.

“Paterson had me…on the first page of the first story… Throughout this collection, the sweet and bitter, the ordi- nary and odd commingle. Paterson provides us with a lovingly resolute reminder that even in the suburbs, any- thing…is possible. “But it’s in the longer, more reflective narratives that Paterson is at his best – wrestling with his characters’ mixed feelings about who they are, where they come from, and how the two questions invariably collide. Often, Paterson’s protagonists end up surprising them- selves…” —Montreal Review of Books

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Previous praise: “With this book, Paterson secures his place in the ranks of fellow Montrealers Neil Smith and Barry Webster, of Mark Anthony Jarman and the Americans Dennis Johnson and George Saunders: all writers who trade in the zany, the pell-mell, the lunatic and absurd. It’s a kind of comic writing also committed to the travails of victims, of people who suffer misunderstanding and the razor of their own doubts. Mark Paterson is a funny, often empa- thetic writer.” —The Malahat Review

ePUB, KINDLE, PDF “Punchy, off-kilter, and highly imaginative.” —Quill & Quire 978-1-55096-837-8 978-1-55096-838-5 “Compellingly narrated with a slacker’s eye for the 978-1-55096-840-8 bizarre, the writing seems effortless.” —Globe and Mail

Mark Paterson is the author of the short story collections A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine, and Other People’s Showers. He was shortlisted for the $15,000 Carter V Cooper Short Fiction Competition (2018), is a past winner of the 3Macs carte blanche Prize (2010) and the Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest (2009). He lives in Lorraine, Quebec.

5 Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Short Stories. Fiction/Urban. General Readers CRACKER JACKS FOR MISFITS Fiction CHRISTINE OTTONI A finely layered narrative of interconnected short stories about discovering independence, strength, and the power to love. NOVEMBER 2019 5 x 8 TPB 198 pages 978-1-55096-832-3 $19.95

Naomi, Joanne, Jake and Marce find themselves caught in the crosshairs of modern-day chaos marked by urban claustrophobia and loneliness. They are searching for inti- macy, hungry for human connection; looking for it online, in dive bars, on road trips, in unfamiliar bedrooms, on curbs outside house parties, and in hushed conversations with strangers.

This is a contemporary and poignant portrait of the moment when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments… Discontent and over-connectivity joust with those responsibilities at the core of today’s society: understanding and respecting the strengths and frailties of those who we call friends, family – and the other.

“Ottoni weaves a symphonic tapestry of strength and courage.” —Bruce Meyer, author/editor of over 60 books.

“Ottoni’s style is subtle and direct, evoking a trace of Mary Karr and the cleanness of Cormac McCarthy.” —Teresa Toten, author of The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B.

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Christine Ottoni has had work appear in the pages of untethered journal and The Alaska Quarterly Review. She was shortlisted for PEN Canada’s nomination to the New Voices Award and was featured at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festivals in the emerging writers set, 2018. She lives in Toronto.

General Readers / LGBTQ Fiction. Women’s Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Short Stories. Fiction/General. 6 Nonfiction FACETS OF EROS THE DRAWINGS OF CLAIRE WILKS DAVID SOBELMAN An insightful and authoritative look at a singular Canadian woman artist who broke conventions. SEPTEMBER 2019 8 x 8 TPB 96 pages 978-1-55096-824-8 $24.95

42 B&W DRAWINGS BY CLAIRE WILKS

With no dominant art form in the 1970s and early ’80s the Toronto art scene was in forma- tion. This was a time when there were no models and anything was possible. During this key period Toronto thought itself Canada’s most important art centre, but history has shown that the nascent downtown art com- munity – not the established uptown scene of commercial galleries – was where it was hap- pening. Claire Wilks was a part of that down- town community, except she was a woman in what was often a "man’s world," drawing nude women and men, alone and together; passion and aggression and compassion; the beauty of the human body expressed... something not readily accepted in those days! This period was the beginning of her 40-year career.

In Facets of Eros, David Sobelman, explores the early drawings of Canadian artist Claire Wilks, their presciently feminist visual vocabu- lary. He does so by looking at the drawings – so open in their sexuality, so puzzling in their vision of motherhood, so sensually affirming in their engagement with death in the Shoah camps – through the lens of ePUB, KINDLE, PDF that ancient figure Eros, as first discussed by Plato. This is a startling, orig- 978-1-55096-825-5 978-1-55096-826-2 inal approach to a startling, original artist, the meta-portrait of a singular 978-1-55096-827-9 woman who expressed the world she saw around her with her hands.

David Sobelman is an award-winning writer of feature documentaries (Runaways: 24 Hours on the Street, 1987; McLuhan’s Wake, 2002; Samuel Bak: Painter of Questions, 2004). His first book of poetry, After the End, was published in 2006. He has also published several literary and philosophical essays. Born to an old Jewish French family in Haifa, Israel, Sobelman was schooled in Europe. In 1972, he moved to Toronto to study film and literature at . After graduating, he decided to stay in exile and make his home in Canada. He lives in Oakville, Ontario.

Claire Wilks was a Canadian artist who worked in conté drawing, brush drawing, lithography, mono- printing, and sculpture in bronze and clay. Her works are in numerous private collections in Canada and abroad, and have been exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada, and in Toronto, Calgary, Stockholm, New York, Jerusalem, Venice, Rome, Zagreb, Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico. She died in 2017.

7 Women’s Studies. Erotica. BISAC: Art/Canadian. Art/Women Artists. General Readers INFINITE GRADATION Nonfiction ANNE MICHAELS WINNER: 2019 VINE AWARD FOR NONFICTION At a time when facing death has become an unavoidable topic around the world, this book is a surprising meditation on death which is to be read as a celebration of life. 4.25 x 7 TPB 88 pages 978-1-55096-774-6 $19.95

Infinite Gradation is an astonishing meditation on what art makes of death, and the moral, emotional, and philosophical implications of love and the creative act, especially those creative works that. In lines as precise and profound as any Michaels has written, it is also a lyrically compelling praise song to love and the enduring mysteries at the core of existence. Asking urgent questions, she explores how art might serve as a witness in extremis, and she examines the nature of responsibility, and the form it takes in poetry, fiction and image- making when everything is at stake.

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General Readers Nonfiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Nonfiction/Literary.

RAILTRACKS ANNE MICHAELS /

Prose with an enormous reach, compassion, and wisdom. Fiction This Canadian edition follows the acclaimed releases in the U.K. and U.S. 4.25 x 7 TPB 104 pages 978-1-55096-778-4 $19.95

The book takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors, here ren- dered simply as J and A, infusing them with a fictive resonance as well as the weight of their reputations, accomplishments and autobiographies. Railtracks is a unique collaboration, a profound meditation on exile and migration, separa- tion and consolation, reunions and railways, love and loss. It moves from the industrial to the metaphysical. And from the present to a past that still exists in vivid, essential traces. It asks what we carry with us when we must leave every- thing behind. It fuses longing and intimacy, distance and presence. Railtracks is the original text of the London stage production, Vanishing Points, performed by the authors and Theatre Complicite, and directed by Simon McBurney. With 16 B&W photographs by Janice Johnson

ePUB, KINDLE, PDF 978-1-55096-779-1 978-1-55096-780-7 978-1-55096-781-4 Anne Michaels is an internationally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and poet. Her books have been translated into over 45 languages, and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the , the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and longlisted for the IMPAC Award (twice). Her novel, , was adapted as a feature film. Her latest book of poetry, All We Saw, was published in 2017.

General Readers Fiction, Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Literary. Fiction/Visionary & Metaphysical. 8 MUSIC IS EVERYTHING Poetry SELECTED POEMS OF SLAVKO MIHALIC´ Translated by DASHA C. NISULA Mihali´c is one of the giants in , and a musician of the word who depicts the human condition in an edition that seeks its readers. SEPTEMBER 2019 5.25 x 7.75 TPB 184 pages 978-1-55096-857-6 $23.95

Slavko Mihali´c (1928-2007), upon finishing high school, moved to Zagreb where he worked for a newspaper and published his first book of poetry, Komorna muzika (Chamber Music) in 1954. During the course of his life, he worked as an anthologist, publisher, editor, critic, writer for children, authored over twenty books of poetry, and established several literary journals and the literary review Most (Bridge), which brought Croatian literature to international readers. Translated into major world lan- guages, Slavko Mihali´c is a recipient of numerous literary awards, among them Tin Ujevi´c, City of Zagreb, Matica Hrvatska, Miroslav Krleža, Goranov Vjenac, Vladimir Nazor and others. Early on in his life Slavko Mihalić also became a musician. Bach and Mozart inspired him and the musicality of these masters he applied to the word. And through the word in this volume one can detect the wondrous nature of this artist. The poems in this edition are taken from his last three publications: Sabrane pjesme (Collected Poems), 1998; Akordeon (Accordion), 2000; and Moc˘vara (Marsh), 2004.

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Poetry YOU WITH HANDS MORE INNOCENT SELECTED POEMS OF VESNA PARUN Translated by DASHA C. NISULA Poetry that once enraged the social-realist critics of her country is now recognized and respected for its romantic lyrical accomplishment. APRIL 2019 5.25 x 7.5 TPB 144 pages 978-1-55096-729-6 $23.95

The poems in this edition are deeply moving, and great examples of language that exposes Eastern European culture to the English-speaking world – a vol- ume that captures the feeling, essence, rhythm, and depth of the author's words as best as English can through superb translations.

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Dasha C. Nisula (translator) taught Russian and Croatian languages, literature, and culture. She is a translator of poetry and short stories from these languages, and the author of four books, numerous articles, reviews, and translations. Her work has appeared in An Anthology of South Slavic , and the literary journals Modern Poetry in Translation, Southwestern Review, International Poetry Review, and Massachusetts Review, among others. She is a member of the American Literary Translators Association, living and working in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

9 Poetry. European Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General. Poetry/European/General. General Readers THE HERMIT SAYS GOODBYE Poetry RICHARD TELEKY Daring, delicate, unguarded, and tender – a collection that is equally buoyant, forthright, and clear-eyed in pleasure of language. NOVEMBER 2019 4.75 x 7.75 TPB 66 pages 978-1-55096-853-8 $17.95

“This book is a poet’s farewel – to a time, a world, a life. Richard Teleky writes: ‘Death will always be with us…/I cannot fall in love/with it, no matter how I try.’ With quiet clarity and grace, he makes his peace with what we cannot let go of and must, even as it slips away. The poems gather what matters.” —Anne Michaels The Hermit Says Goodbye completes the triptych Richard Teleky began with The Hermit’s Kiss, followed by The Hermit in Arcadia. Through the persona of the hermit, the author explores the nature of love, loss, solitude and mortality, asking what peo- ple can be to each other and what they are for themselves. As the hermit quests for understanding, he revels in – and meditates on – what the world has to tell us and what we might do with that knowledge.

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THREE BOOKS WINTER IN THE COUNTRY

ON “THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH” Poetry AN ATOMIC CAKE VLADIMIR AZAROV Azarov explores living under Stalin, through Khrushchev and “The Thaw,” and most recently from his new life in Toronto. A unique reading experience. SEPTEMBER 2019 5.25 x 7.25 TPB 276 pages 978-1-55096-849-1 $19.95

With these three books Vladimir Azarov moves toward the completion of what is now a most extraordinary 19-book autobiography.

Vladimir Azarov is an architect and poet, formerly from Moscow, who lives in Toronto. He has published Of Architecture (with illustrations by Nina Bunjevac), Seven Lives, Sochi Deterium, Broken Pastries, Mongolian Études, Night Out, Dinner With Catherine the Great, Imitation, Of Life and Other Small Sacrifices, The Kiss from Mary Pickford: Cinematic Poems, and Voices in Dialogue: Dramatic Poems – and with Barry Callaghan, Strong Words, translations in an English/Russian bilingual edition, of Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Pushkin and Andrei Voznesensky.

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General Readers Poetry. BISAC: Poetry/General. Poetry/Canadian. 10 Fiction I DO REMEMBER THE FALL M.T. KELLY Told in an inimitable style, this is a viscerally exciting story set in the Canadian prairies. Number Thirty in the Exile Classics Series NOVEMBER 2019 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 192 pages 978-1-55096-869-9 $19.95

I Do Remember the Fall is a gem from the past, and a window on a dramat- ically less politically correct era. As this new edition proves, it’s as readable, contemporary and outrageously funny as it was when first published in 1977. According to the Vancouver Sun, Kelly “…never writes a boring sentence…” This is certainly true in this story, a series of sublime ruminations told in an inimitable style – full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irre- pressible humour. No reader will forget this satirical, desperate, beautiful fiction debut.

WITH 8 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS BY CATHERINE P. WILSON

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Fiction. BISAC: Literary Fiction. Urban Fiction. General Readers

CVC8 CARTER V. COOPER SHORT FICTION

Fiction ANTHOLOGY SERIES: BOOK EIGHT From the annual short fiction competition that has awarded $100,000 to Canadian writers. SEPTEMBER 2019 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 176 pages 978-1-55096-845-3 $19.95

SELECTEDAND PRESENTEDBY GLORIA VANDERBILT

The CVC Anthology series features each year's finalists from the annual $15,000 Carter V. Cooper (CVC) Short Fiction Competition, held in memory of Carter Cooper ($10,000 for the best story by an emerging writer, and $5,000 for the best story by a writer at any career point).

Contributors: Leanne Milech (Emerging winner: $10,000), Edward Brown (Any Point co-winner: $2,500), Priscila Uppal (Any Point co-winner: $2,500), Andrea Bradley, William John Wither, Mark Paterson, Christine Miscione, Martha Bátiz, Bruce Meyer, Cara Marks, Lorna Crozier.

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11 Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Literary. Fiction/Anthologies. General Readers THE SILENCE Fiction KAREN LEE WHITE Karen Lee White holds the torch brightly as a new and powerful voice, her style and sensibility encompassing the traditional and the contemporary. DECEMBER 2018 (second printing 2019) 5.5 x 8 TPB 176 pages 978-1-55096-794-4 $21.95

The Silence, with the Yukon as a canvas, White engages in a deep empathy for characters, emergent Indigenous identity, and discovery that employs dreams, spirits, songs, and journals as foundations for dialogue between cultures, immersing the reader in a transitional world of embattled ethos and mythos. Her first novel is a cri de coeur that lives alongside Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and Kogawa’s Obasan.

Karen Lee White is a Northern Salish, Tuscarora, Chippewa and Scots writer from Vancouver Island, B.C. She was adopted into the Daklaweidi clan of the Interior Tlingit Tagish people on whose land the story unfolds.

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General Readers Fiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Cultural Heritage. Fiction/Native American-Aboriginal.

OVER THE RAINBOW FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE MARGINS

The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Seventeen Fiction Born of imagination and constantly adapted to fit new cultural contexts. DECEMBER 2018 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 256 pages 978-1-55096-712-8 $19.95

A collection of adult stories that invite us to imagine new possibilities for our contemporary times. Collected by nine-time Prix Aurora Award-winner Derek Newman-Stille, these are stories that brings together views and perspectives of the under-represented, from the fringe, those whose narratives are at the core of today’s conversations – voices that we all need to hear.

Contributors: Nathan Caro Fréchette, Fiona Patton, Ace Jordyn, Rati Mehrotra, Robert Dawson, Richard Keelan, Nicole Lavigne, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Kate Heartfield, Evelyn Deshane, Lisa Chen, Tamara Vardomskaya, Chadwick Ginther, Karin Lowachee, Kate Story, Ursula Pflug, Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy, Sean Moreland.

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Derek Newman-Stille is a queer, nonbinary, disabled author, editor, artist, academic, and activist They are also the creator of the digital human- ities site Dis(Abled) Embodiment, and co-creator of the sites QueerPop and the fairy tale site Through the Twisted Woods. Derek teaches at Trent University in the English Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Department.

General Readers Fiction, Folklore and Mythology. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies. 12 Fiction CLI-FI CANADIAN TALES OF CLIMATE CHANGE The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Fourteen A diverse literary genre that is becoming more Important to writers, critics and journalists around the world, 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 304 pages 978-1-55096-670-1 $19.95

“Meyer has gathered an eclectic variety of eco-fictions from some of Canada’s top genre writers, each of which, he writes, reminds readers that ‘the world is speaking to us and that it is our duty, if not a covenant, to listen to what it has to say.’… The anthology may be inescapably dark, but it is a necessary read, a clarion call to take action rather than, as a character in Seán Virgo’s ‘My Atlantis’ describes it, ‘waiting unknowingly for the plague, the hive collapse, the entropic thunderbolt’. Luckily, it’s also vastly entertaining. It appears there’s nothing like catastrophe to bring the best out in authors in describing the worst of humankind.” —Publishers Weekly

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Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies. Fiction/Alternative History. General Readers

THAT DAMMED BEAVER CANADIAN HUMOUR, LAUGHS AND GAFFS The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Fifteen Fiction “What exactly makes Canadians funny? This effort from long-standing independent press Exile Editions takes a wry look at what makes us laugh and what makes us laughable.” —Toronto Star 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 384 pages 978-1-55096-691-6 $24.95

Margaret Atwood, Austin Clarke, , Priscila Uppal, Jonathan Goldstein, , , Jacques Ferron, Marsha Boulton, Joe Rosen-blatt, Barry Callaghan, Linda Rogers, Steven Hayward, Andrew Borkowski, Helen Marshall, Gloria Sawai, David McFadden, Myna Wallin, Gail Prussky, Louise Maheux-Forcher, Shannon Bramer, James Dewar, Bob Armstrong, Jamie Feldman, Claire Dé, Christine Miscione, Larry Zolf, Anne Dandurand, Julie Roorda, Mark Paterson, Karen Lee White, Heather J. Wood, Marty Gervais, Matt Shaw, Alexandre Amprimoz, Darren Gluckman, Gustave Morin, and the country’s greatest cartoonist, Aislin.

“While the Aislin cartoon of an earmuffed beaver on the cover marks this paperback as an airport favourite, the bill of fare inside is much more esoteric and wide-ranging..” —Winnipeg Free Press

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13 Humour/Fiction/Stories. BISAC: Humour/General. Fiction/Humourous/General. General Readers 100 LOVE SONNETS Poetry PABLO NERUDA 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 248 pages 978-1-55096-387-8 $24.95

The expanded edition. Translated by Gustavo Escobedo. Introduction by Rosemary Sullivan. Reflections on reading Neruda by , Beatriz Hausner and A.F. Moritz. Includes four interior colour paintings by cover artist Gabriela Campos.

Pablo Neruda is still one of the most widely read, influential and beloved 20th- century . He was a Nobel Laureate, famous for his politically engaged lyrics. He also wrote bold and sensual sonnets. Now, 40 years after his death, this compilation of his sonnets, unlike previous translations, captures the true spirit and verbal dexterity of the lesser-known genre. As part of the Exile Classics Series, the poems are followed by three reflections on reading Neruda by the notable poets and translators A.F. Moritz and Beatriz Hausner, and Toronto’s Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke, an Afterword by the transla- tor, as well as questions for discussion and recommended readings.

“This handsome, bilingual edition...is a worthy tribute and a rollicking good read, staying true to the poet’s expansive, idiosyncratic style.” —Globe and Mail Over 5,000 copies sold in Exile Editions’ various editions.

General Readers Poetry. Women’s Studies. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Poetry/General

THAT SUMMER IN PARIS MORLEY CALLAGHAN

5.5 x 8.5 TPB 280 pages 978-1-55096-361-8 $19.95 Memoir

A new and expanded edition of the classic memoir, plus over 60 added pages of Callaghan’s later reflections on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and his own return to the Left Bank 50 years later.

It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America had moved to the Left Bank of Paris. Hemingway was reading proofs to A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away Fitzgerald was struggling over Tender Is the Night. And Morley Callaghan, his first book published to acclaim in New York, arrived in Paris to share the felicities of the literary life, not just with his two friends but with James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Robert McAlmon. Amidst these tangled relations, some friendships flourished while others failed. A tragic and sad and unforgettable story told in Callaghan’s lucid, compassionate prose.

ePUB, KINDLE, PDF 978-1-55096-401-1 A timeless classic. 978-1-55096-402-8 Over 5,000 copies sold in Exile’s editions. 978-1-55096-400-4 Over 50,000 sold since original publication.

“There are so many interesting characters dropping in and out of the narra- tive… [enjoy] the personalities, the complicated relationships, the bilateral stories, the history.” —National Post

General Readers Memoir. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Canadian History. European History 14 Fiction DEAD NORTH CANADIAN ZOMBIE FICTION The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Eight Zombies in Canada? You better believe it! Coast to coast across the Great White North… 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 336 pages 978-1-55096-355-7 $19.95

An enjoyable and rollicking ride, this collection contains 20 short stories that explore a broad spectrum of the undead, from Romero-style corpses to zom- bies inspired by Canadian Aboriginal mythology, all shambling against the back- ground of the Great White North. The anthology's specific focus on Canadian settings distinguishes it from the pack, and its exploration of many types of zom- bies weaves a vast compendium of fiction. Strong writing and imagination are showcased in clever stories that take readers through thrills, chills, kills, carnage, horror, and havoc wreaked across the country. Tales deal with a lone human chasing zombies across an icy landscape after the apocalypse, whales returning from the depths to haunt the southern coast of Labrador, a marijuana grow-op operation in British Columbia experiencing problems when the dead begin to attack, and a corpse turned into a flesh puppet for part of a depraved sex show, among other topics. Providing a unique location and mythology that has not been tackled before, Dead North will appeal to speculative fiction, horror, and zombie fans.

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Fiction The Exile Book of Anthology Series: Number Nine We like to imagine the end. How we might survive. How we might live after the fateful moment that changes everything – and that moment has arrived. Welcome to Canada after the apocalypse! 5.5 x 8.5 TPB 360 pages 978-1-55096-409-7 $26.95

Fractured is a collection of stories by 23 writers who imagine life after the end of days. The waters have risen around Vancouver, nuclear disasters have devas- tated the Prairies, a strange sickness has relocated the capital of the nation to Yellowknife, aliens have invaded Manitoba, even ghosts have returned to exter- minate the living. Across this vast nation, a country fractured and rent asunder by disasters both natural and unnatural, come the stories of survivors, of the brave and the wicked, the kind and the hostile. These are tales that reveal the secrets at this critical point for humanity, exploring a diversity of scenarios and settings from small rural communities to large cities, and protagonists from all walks of life.

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15 Fiction. BISAC: Fiction/Anthologies. Fiction/Alternative History. General Readers THE LIFE CRIMES AND HARD TIMES OF Memoir RICKY ATKINSON LEADER OF THE DIRTY TRICKS GANG RICHARD ATKINSON WITH JOE FIORITO A breathtakingly scandalous story, and a tale of redemption after having been drawn into a life of crime. 6 x 9 TPB 376 pages (plus 8 pages colour photos) 978-1-55096-674-9 $29.95

A sober memoir that provides a solid understanding of how crime is situated in structural, cultural, historical, and situational contexts. This is the life story of Ricky Atkinson, leader of the Dirty Tricks Gang, who grew up fast and hard in one of Toronto’s toughest neighbour- hoods during the social ferment of the Sixties, during the fledgling Black Power Movement in Canada. His life was made all the more difficult coming from a black, white and aboriginal mixed family. Under his leadership, the gang eventually robbed more banks and pulled off so many jobs that it is unrivalled in Canadian history. Follow him from the mean streets to backroom plot- ting, to jail and back again, as he learns the hard lessons of leadership, courage and betrayal. Today, after reconciling his past and life, he works to educate youth and people from all backgrounds about the no-win choice of being a criminal.

“Atkinson’s memoir is as riveting as true crime gets. He’s a veteran of gangland Toronto and as gifted as a storyteller as he was a street hustler. Working with journalist Fiorito, he recounts all the bloody brawls and fast scores of Hogtown’s gritty streets in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. Atkinson’s book describes an outlaw’s life and is also a rich depiction of Toronto’s history; readers learn, for example, that the now-hip Kensington Market neighbourhood was once a multiethnic enclave where livestock was butchered on the sidewalks. It is also a reckoning of the city’s racist sins. Atkinson has mixed black, white, and First Nations heritage; his family had to cope with the preva- lent prejudice of the day, and Ricky was particularly abused by police: ‘Black rage was not just an American thing… We took up their chant in Toronto – the cops were pigs. They were racist oppressors and imperialists.’ Through four decades, Atkinson mixes it up with Black Power radicals, forms the Dirty Tricks Gang, commits a string of larcenies, dodges bullets, and takes multiple trips to prison before leaving the criminal life in his later years. Though he takes responsibility for his own actions, Atkinson makes the convincing connection between societal prejudice and crime in minority communities. It’s a revelatory and fascinating story told from a rare perspective.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review ePUB, KINDLE, PDF Now into a second printing after 2,000 copies sold via trade distribution and at events. 978-1-55096-675-6 978-1-55096-676-3 978-1-55096-677-0

General Readers Autobiography. True Crime. BISAC: Biography/Criminals and Outlaws/Personal Memoir. 16 Fiction ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE BARRY CALLAGHAN Short stories, like tiny novels you drown in, filled with people of our modern moment who find in every instance some trick of survival, that remarkable homage to human resourcefulness. NOVEMBER 2018 5.5 x 8 HC 504 pages 978-1-55096-790-6 $37.95

PREFACE BY Callaghan’s writing is wide-ranging but often takes the perspective of a mar- ginal individual's view of the human experience. These tales are told in a variety of voices – street hustlers, priests, blues singers, Holocaust survivors, cross-dressers, paramilitary snipers, even those we may euphemistically consid- er the “ordinary” – all of them authentic, and all would subscribe to the maxim that “happiness is overrated.”The dialogue is true to speech as it is spoken, shot through with humour, piercing sadness and puzzling beauty.

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Fiction. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Fiction/Short Stories. Fiction/General. General Readers

RAISE YOU ON THE RIVER ESSAYS AND ENCOUNTERS 1964–2018

Nonfiction BARRY CALLAGHAN The modern-day raconteur deftly places and times with a geographical range of language that is voluptuous, erotic, and even fanciful. NOVEMBER 2018 6 x 9 HC 472 pages 978-1-55096-786-9 $37.95

For some six decades Barry Callaghan has been a singular presence in Canada. His distinctive literary style, tone and temperament reveal him to be an inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman celebrated for his sharp intellect and startling imagination. Always attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure, he is also a public scholar, unflinching before the harsh complexities of our time.

Barry Callaghan, of Toronto, is the well-known novelist, poet, and person of letters who has been included in every major Canadian anthology, and his fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages. His works include The Black Queen Stories, The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings, When Things Get Worst, A Kiss Is Still a Kiss, Barrelhouse Kings, Between Trains, and Beside Still Waters.

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17 Essays. Cultural Studies. BISAC: Literary Criticism/General. Literary Criticism/Canadian. General Readers Reviewer: January, 2019 Robert J. Wiersema

Barry Callaghan holds a position in the Canadian literary firmament that is at once praiseworthy and unenviable. Callaghan wrested himself from the shadow of his father, CanLit icon Morley Callaghan, to create a varied career as poet, fiction writer, anthologist, editor, essayist, journalist, filmmaker, and professor. He has been referred to, in this magazine, as “one of Canada’s pre-eminent persons of letters,” on a level with Margaret Atwood and He is also, unfortunately, more written about than read, more discussed than digested. Two new publications will – hopefully – redress that balance, and place Callaghan where he rightfully belongs. All the Lonely People collects Callaghan’s short fiction. This isn’t a “complete works,” but at almost 500 pages it is a rich and enthralling overview. Callaghan writes with a powerful verve, a seeming abandon and heedlessness which upon closer exam- ination reveals itself to be the result of careful, subtle, and unobtrusive skill and care. Stories like “Because Y Is a Crooked Letter” seem to ramble unchecked before snapping, in their closing lines, into sharp, breathtaking relief. Callaghan doesn’t write about characters so much as inhabit them, as comfortable in the voice and world of a fading lounge singer as that of an aging hustler or a middle-aged poet. “Drei Alter Kockers” draws together the disparate pasts of three Toronto pensioners – a concentration camp survivor, a capo in the same camp, and a low-level mob killer who dis- patches his victims with a piano-wire garrotte – and builds toward a final confrontation in a Bathurst Street apartment build- ing which one of the characters refers to as “Little Tel Aviv.” It is difficult to find fault with the stories in All the Lonely People, but the collection as a whole suffers from a lack of criti- cal apparatus: there is no information as to the source of the stories, and no dates given for initial publications. The volume, instead, is organized along subtle thematic lines, with elements from individual stories gaining resonance and force from their placement beside or in opposition to other stories. If All the Lonely People highlights Callaghan’s skill at inhabiting the voices of a broad spectrum of humanity, Raise You on the River highlights Callaghan’s own inimitable voice and character. A collection of essays, travel pieces, interviews, and remem- brances, Raise You on the River is another 500-page tome; while some of the entries sprawl, they never fail – individually and collectively – to hold the reader’s attention. The nonfiction volume weaves together motifs and themes, regardless of the ostensible form or purpose of any individ- ual work. Thus, an early encounter with Billie Holliday (which leaves the young Callaghan speechless) serves as a counterpoint to “Fattening Frogs for Snakes,” a winding piece about bluesmen Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGee much later in the volume. Two pieces praise and Joyce Carol Oates (the Oates entry is particularly strong), while an analysis of Margaret Atwood’s Morning in the Burned House is at once a cogent piece of critical writing, a powerful dissection of grief, and an investigation into what it means for a writer to put herself in the skin of another. While much of the collection dates from nearly a half-century ago, they remain vital. Callaghan writing about Trudeau (the first one) is a thing of conflicted beauty, while his letter home from the Black September War in 1970 is genuinely sus- penseful, despite its age. Each of the two new volumes serves as a powerful reminder of Callaghan’s consummate skills, but it is when the two books are taken together that one truly sees the scale and force of Callaghan’s work. As one might expect from any writer, the fiction and nonfiction share a series of concerns, themes, and motifs, including an attention to life in the urban under- belly, the legacy of the Holocaust, and a disconcerting fixation on women’s breasts. But the pieces in these two volumes go beyond that, and begin to engage in a dialogue with one another. Thus, a key turning point in “Because Y Is a Crooked Letter” has its roots – and gains its significance – from two selections about Callaghan travelling to Munich and the camp at Dachau. Similarly, a narrative line in the story “Out Thirteenth Summer,” about a father teaching his son to box, resonates against Callaghan’s conversation with Oates. A piece in Raise You on the River even addresses my concern about the fiction collection. As Callaghan recounts help- ing his father collect some of his talks for publication, he reminds the reader of the structure of Morley Callaghan’s Complete Short Stories, “which he insisted were to be printed without the original publication dates. That this process frus- trated a certain kind of professional academic pleased him to no end.” Taken together, these thousand-odd pages are a profound testament to a unique Canadian voice and vision, a keen talent and far-reaching, incisive intellect. There are a lot of great books in this catalogue... keep your notes below.

Exile Editions is a Canadian literary press that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, drama, and graphic books, with some 500 titles released since 1975.

By Deborah Dundas – Books Editor Fri., Nov. 22, 2019 Time: 9 min. read

THE ‘INTREPID CALLAGHANS’ ADD A NEW CHAPTER TO THEIR MASSIVE LITERARY LEGACY IN CANADA Feeling an exile in their own home has informed the lives – and the myth – of Toronto’s Callaghan family. You’ll have heard of them: Morley Callaghan, short-story writer; his son Barry, also a writer but a professor, too, the founder of a magazine and publishing house called Exile; and Barry’s son Michael, the third generation of the “intrepid Callaghans,” as poet Anne Michaels referred to them in a celebratory event a year or two back. The family is that rarity in Canada: three generations who have lived, and are living, the writing life…

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