Ekstasis Editions Spring 2020 elcome to the Ekstasis Editions Spring 2020 catalogue. As we W celebrate 38 years of publishing, Ekstasis has some extraordinary offerings this Fall. Ekstasis Editions produced its first book in Victoria in 1982, and has gone on to publish over four hundred fine volumes of today’s best literature. In this season we are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support of the revival of our translation series, now called “Passport to the Imagination,” which allows us to publish non-fiction by Robert Lalonde and poetry by Denise Desautels. is season we also present the completion of e Empress Trilogy by Linda Rogers, new fiction from Manolis , and new poetry by Jude Neale , Bill Wolak , Janet Vickers, Karen Shenfeld , and Deborah L. Kelly . Ekstasis Editions has been characterized by a creative spirit and resilience during more than 38 years of remarkable growth. From early books of poetry, meticulously produced by hand, to a stimulating front and backlist of fiction, criticism, metaphysics, non- fiction and children’s books, Ekstasis Editions has maintained the commitment to literature that inspired its creation. From newly translated fiction to drama and a healthy variety of poetic passions, our books will nourish the hungry mind and satisfy the longing spirit, as they have for the last 38 years. Join us in this literary adventure as we forge into our next thirty-eight years of publishing! Please see our back cover for ordering information and our generous ‘Terms of Trade.’ Richard Olafson, Publisher Ekstasis Editions acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada, the B.C. Book Publishers Tax Credt and of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts transla - tion program. Contents New Fiction Repairing the Hive by Linda Rogers 4 The Empress Trilogy by Linda Rogers 5 Swamped by Manolis Aligizakis 6 New Poetry All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses by Bill Wolak 7 Impromptu by Jude Neale 8 Sleep With Me:Lullaby for an Anxious Planet by Janet Vickers 9 To Measure the World by Karen Shenfield 10 Lessons from Venice by Denise Desautels 11 Songs of the North by Deborah L. Kelly 12 New & Notable Non-Fiction Haiku in Canada by Terry Ann Carter 13 Iotékha' by Robert Lalonde 14 A Poet’s Journey by Stephen Morrissey 15 Cutting Knots by Mike Doyle 16 Juvenile & Youth There Once Was a Camel by PK Page & Kristi Bridgeman 17 New from Libros Libertad 18 Notable Fiction - Now Available Celebrations by Naim Kattan 19 Gregor Samsa Was Never in The Beatles by J.J. Steinfeld 20 Saying Hello to the Hangman by Stanley Evans 21 Catching Desire by Carmelo Militano 22 Recent Poetry - Now Available In Formless Circumstance by Trevor Carolan 23 What the Dead Want by Paulette Claire Turcotte 24 City of Beasts by Robert Martens 25 It Began with a Story by Pelin Batu 26 Aftertime by Daniel G. Scott 27 Letters from the Old Country by Ken Cathers 28 A Thousand Pieces by Joanne Morency 29 WesternTerrace by Allan Graubard 30 new Fiction Repairing the Hive LINDA ROGERS Repairing the Hive is the third and final book in The Empress Trilogy, which follows a family and diverse community through generations of social and political change to reconciliation in post-colonial Victoria. The previous volumes, The Empress Letters and Tempo Rubato, are first person accounts of the lives of women artists who struggle to thrive in a family buried in secrets and lies, genocide in Europe and the opium trade and rum running on the west Coast of America. The final book is a third person account of the community coming together to bring the post-colonial generation out of the silence as readers are asked to consider the lilies where they isbn 978-1-77171-303-0 grow in fields nourished by history. Fiction 293 pages Linda Rogers’ multi-layered narrative about East 5 x 8 meets West finds common ground from the impact of $25.95 music on our lives. Rogers brilliantly tweaks the Available musical imagination to pull you into the inner world March 2020 of the characters. ~ Gary Karr, solo bassist Poet, Novelist, lyricist and journalist Linda Rogers is a past Poet Laureate for Victoria. Her recent pub - lications include: Homing , poetry from Ekstasis Editions, and e Carter Vanderbilt Carter Anthology 2014 , from Exile Editions. She is a recip - ient of the Gwendolyn MacEwen Award, 2013, and the Montreal Broadside Prize, 2012. In addition to the Empress Trilogy , with two subsequent volumes, current projects include co-writing e Arioso Games with Ben Murray and Bozuk, a travel novel. Ads: Pacific Rim Review of Books, BC Bookworld Readings: Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and other locations across Canada. Review copies available. 4 new edition reprint fiction The Empress Trilogy LINDA ROGERS Volume 1: The Empress Letters In the pristine gardens of quiet Oak Bay, the von Stronheim family seems perfectly at home, until young Poppy uncovers a mysterious subterranean world in which her mother is involved. Now years later, aboard the ocean liner The Empress of Asia, en route to China in search of her own daughter, Poppy begins a series of letters, determined to reveal the family secrets that shrouded her own life. s she isbn 978-1-77171-372-6 crosses the Pacific towards a hoped for reunion, Fiction Poppy relives and relates the extraordinary events of 288 pages her life. From the proper drawing rooms of turn of 5 x 8 the century Victoria, to the Chinatown opium trade $25.95 and the studio of painter Emily Carr, to the gay London of Tallulah Bankhead, The Empress Letters is a riveting adventure exposing disturbing fractures beneath the smooth veneer of colonial society. Volume 2: Tempo Rubato Based on the musical term meaning ‘stolen time,’ Tempo Rubato is a concerto of passion that moves between past and present, Western and Eastern culture, exploring the meaning of identity and love. Continuing the saga of the Von Stronheim family of Victoria, BC, this second novel of a trilogy by Linda Rogers, centres on Precious Von Stronheim, daughter of the main character of the previous volume The Empress Letters . Like an intricate oriental brocade, Tempo Rubato weaves strands of culture and personal history into a fascinating isbn 978-1-77171-374-0 celebration of music, identity and love. Caught in the Fiction echoes of past loss and the plaintive melodies of the 288 pages East, Precious at last comes to terms with the present 5 x 8 moment and the enduring nature of love. $25.95 5 new fiction Swamped MANOLIS ALIGIZAKIS This book is a compass that guides the reader through the vortex of life and the whims of the stock market. Eteo, the Greek-Canadian protagonist, sometimes drags us into the depths of the Stock Exchange where he catches its unseen secrets and sometimes returns us back, like a mysterious river the waters of which turn back to memories of his birth and childhood in Crete. A book that oscillates between yesterday and today, poverty and wealth, good and evil yet it remains steadfast in the universal human values by watching them through the lens of an honest stockbroker who reaches Vancouver's top while he remains intact. Lyrical, erotic, humane, isbn 978-1-77171-392-4 realistic and at the same time surrealistic, it Fiction captivates the reader as it manages to keep alive the 276 pages child within by releasing his curiosity through the 5.5 x 8.5 lens of humanity. The hero learns that man is made $25.95 for greatness and it teaches him the lesson of dignity, Available reinforcing within him the power of grace and love. May 2020 Emmanuel Aligizakis, ( Manolis ) is a Cretan- Canadian poet and author. He was recently appointed an honorary instructor and fellow of the International Arts Academy, and awarded a Master’s for the Arts in Literature. He emigrated to Vancouver in 1973. He now lives in White Rock, where he spends his time writing, gardening, travel - ing, and heading Libros Libertad, an unorthodox and independent publishing company which he founded in 2006 with the mission of publishing lit - erary books. Ads: Pacific Rim Review of Books, BC Bookworld Readings: Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and other locations across Canada. Review copies available. 6 new poetry All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses BILL WOLAK Bill Wolak has given us a cornucopia of sexual delights, some sweet, others mouth-watering, and many more that titillate our veiled fantasies. His poems are finely tuned expressions of urgency and desire. They explore the body with expectation on the brink of pleasure. ~ John Digby Bill Wolak is a poet who lives in New Jersey and teaches Creative Writing at William Paterson University. He has published his fieenth book of poetry entitled e Nakedness Defense with Ekstasis Editions. His poetry has appeared in over a hundred isbn 978-1-77171-368-9 magazines. His most recent translation with Poetry Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, Love Me More an the 112 Pages Others: Selected Poetry or Iraj Mirza , was published 6 x 9 by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2014. His $23.95 translations have appeared in such magazines as e Available Sufi Journal, Basalt, Visions International, World February 2020 Poetry Journal , and Atlanta Review . His critical work and interviews have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Persian Heritage Magazine, Gargoyle, Southern Humanities Review , and Prime Numbers Magazine. Ads: Pacific Rim Review of Books, BC Bookworld Readings: Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and other locations across Canada. Review copies available. 7 new poetry Impromptu JUDE NEALE Jude Neale’s latest collection of poetry, Impromptu , grew from an International Poetry Month challenge that required the writer to respond to a daily prompt, creating a poem each day for one month.