Goose Lane Editions

01/14/2025

Congratulations to Dominique Bernier-Cormier, Ali Blythe, and all nominated! 🤩🥳

Congratulations from all of us at the Royal City Literary Arts Society!

We are pleased to announce the
2024 Longlist for the
11th Annual Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry

Thank you to our 2024 Judge Rob Taylor!

In alphabetical order by author

the berry takes the shape of the bloom by andrea bennett (Talonbooks)
Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier (icehouse poetry/Goose Lane Editions)
Stedfast by Ali Blythe (icehouse poetry/Goose Lane Editions)
Lent by Kate Cayley (Book*hug Press)
After That by Lorna Crozier (McClelland & Stewart)
Baby Book by Amy Ching-Yan Lam (Brick Books)
A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen by Erin Noteboom (Brick Books)
People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi (Book*hug Press)
The White Light of Tomorrow by Russell Thornton (Harbour Publishing)
Ultramarine by Harry Thurston (Gaspereau Press)

The news is now live on our website here https://rclas.com/2024-fred-cogswell-award/.

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The Top 3 will be announced later this month.

01/13/2025

01/13/2025

For lovers of this book, keep your eyes out for Atlantic Salmon Flies 2, coming out in February!

Throwback: The Atlantic Salmon Treasury: Vol II, edited by Monte Burk and Charles Gaines, reviewed by TMR contributor and writer Jeffery D. Muzzerall. Published by Goose Lane Editions.

“Few fish have captured the souls and minds of men and women quite like wild Atlantic salmon.” — Bill Taylor, President, Atlantic Salmon Federation

📚”Talented novelists, editors and conservationists Monte Burk and Charles Gaines have compiled the best writing in the last half-century imploring the humble reader to behold a ‘curated selection of the most compelling, evocative, and insightful’ essays, articles, pictures, poems and paintings.”

Jeffery’s article continues ⬇️
https://miramichireader.ca/2025/01/throwback-the-atlantic-salmon-treasury-vol-ii/

01/10/2025

Joyce Wieland: Heart On is as bold, audacious, and colourful as the artist and activist herself! This absolute show-stopper of an art book will be available in February in both French and English. You can pre-order your copy now at gooselane.com/joycewieland

01/09/2025

We’re looking ahead to a few of the ✨spectacular✨books by Canadian authors we will be celebrating in 2025!

Interested in reviewing these titles and uplifting amazing CanLit with us? Join our River Street Reads community. Just head to RiverStreetWriting.com then click on the River Street Reads tab and fill out the super short form.

Or click this link:

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More about the books below! 👇

📖: Ley Lines (novel) by Tim Welsh, Guernica Editions. Set in the waning days of the Klondike Gold Rush, Ley Lines begins in the mythical boom town of Sawdust City, Yukon Territory where a mysterious discovery leads to the town’s ruin.

📖: Skin (short stories) by Catherine Bush, Gooselane Editions. In Skin, Catherine Bush summons relationships between the human and more-than-human, exploring a world where touch and intimacy are both desirable and fraught.

📖: Oxford Soju Club (novel) by Jinwoo Park, Dundurn Press. When North Korean spymaster Doha Kim is mysteriously killed in Oxford, his protege, Yohan Kim, chases the only breadcrumb given to him in Doha’s last breath: “Soju Club, Dr. Ryu.”

📖: Home Fires Burn (novel) by Anthony Bidulka, Stonehouse Publishing. A celebrated philanthropist is found slumped against his car, frozen to death. Trans private investigator Merry Bell is hired by his son, country music star Evan Whatley, to find out the truth behind what really happened.

📖: Remaindered People and Other Stories, (short stories) by Pratap Reddy, Guernica Editions. This stunning collection explores the often-neglected aspects of immigration: the plight of empty nesters left behind in India, parents compelled to immigrate with their adult children, about immigrants returning to their home country for good or for holiday, of people aspiring to migrate but falling by the wayside.

📖: Seeking Spirit: A Vietnamese (Non)Buddhist Memoir by Linda Trinh, Guernica Editions. Trinh says she had everything she thought an immigrant woman should want, yet she felt empty. Growing up in Winnipeg, Linda helped her mom make offerings to their ancestors and cleaned her late dad’s altar. These were her mother’s beliefs, but was Buddhism Linda’s belief?

01/09/2025

This Sunday at the Prow Gallery!

Don’t miss this wonderful event with Dawn MacNutt as she launches her new book, Timeless Forms!

01/09/2025

Watch the incredibly moving interview here: https://youtu.be/oNBC3TQ1Ir0?feature=shared

Our host Carrie interviews author Jules Delorme, who shares insights from his memoir, 'I Heard a Crow Before I Was Born.' The conversation delves into Jules' childhood experiences in a Mohawk community, the impact of family dynamics, the struggle with identity, and the journey of forgiveness. Jules reflects on the silence surrounding his family's history, the challenges of living with Asperger's, and the significant relationships that shaped his life. The discussion also touches on his experiences in the army, the complexities of racism, and the importance of finding light amidst darkness.

Read Jules' memoir:
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01/09/2025

Renée Belliveau calls War among the Clouds a "well-researched and valuable" book in her wonderful review - thank you! We couldn't agree more.

Experiences come to life! War among the Clouds: New Brunswick Airmen in the Great War by J. Brent Wilson is new non-fiction reviewed by TMR contributor and author Renée Belliveau. Published by Goose Lane Editions.

📚”Aviation was still in its infancy at the outbreak of the First World War. The Wright brothers had made their first successful flight only a decade earlier in 1903, and few people had ever seen, let alone flown in, an airplane.”

Renée’s article continues ⬇️
https://miramichireader.ca/2025/01/war-among-the-clouds-new-brunswick-airmen-in-the-great-war-by-j-brent-wilson/

01/08/2025

01/08/2025

Some excellent books to bring the outdoors to you this winter - including Signs of Life by Sarah Cox! 🌿

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01/07/2025

📚 ART BOOK ALERT 📚

Beauty and frailty: these are the two sides of the human condition that have informed Nova Scotian artist Dawn MacNutt’s evocative work for more than 45 years. Now, Timeless Forms marks the first retrospective of her incredible career.

This stunning collection accompanies an exhibition at MSVU Art Gallery and the Owens Art Gallery and is published by the exhibiting galleries.

The exhibit will open at MSVU on January 18, 2025, with a reception at 1:00 p.m., featuring remarks from co-curators Melanie Colosimo and Emily Falvey, and MacNutt, who will be on hand to sign copies of the book.

Timeless Forms is available now in stores and online at https://gooselane.com/timelessforms

12/19/2024

There also happens to be a fantastic book that accompanies this exhibition coming out on January 7 👀👀

Upcoming exhibition:
Dawn MacNutt: Timeless Forms
January 18 – April 12, 2025

MSVU Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Owens Art Gallery, is pleased to present a comprehensive retrospective exhibition celebrating Nova Scotia artist Dawn MacNutt, opening on January 18th, 2025, at 1:00 pm. Co-curated by Melanie Colosimo and Emily Falvey, this exhibition will showcase MacNutt's unique approach to weaving, which she transforms into large-scale figurative sculptures that explore themes of human fragility. Accompanying the exhibition is a catalogue featuring essays by the artist herself.

Join us in honouring an artist whose work profoundly reflects the complexities of the human experience.

For more information, please visit our website or contact us directly: [email protected]

Opening Reception
Saturday, January 18 at 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Opening remarks at 1:30 pm

All are invited to a relaxed reception celebrating “Dawn MacNutt: Timeless Forms”. MSVU Art Gallery is committed to making its events accessible to everyone. Information on access, location, and interpretive services can be found in the About section of our website. Please contact [email protected] with any access requests, service needs, or inquiries.

About the Artist:
Dawn MacNutt obtained a bachelor of arts (art and psychology) in 1957 from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick. In 1970, she obtained a master’s degree in social work from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts in 2008. In 2005, she was honoured with a Doctorate of Humane Letters by Mount Saint Vincent University.

Image credit:
Spirit Within, detail, Dawn MacNutt, 2004
Twined willow, painted detail
Photo: Bruce Murray, VisionFire
[image description: detail of a brown woven column with a turquoise funnel shape woven inside.]

12/19/2024

Crow is among excellent company!

12/16/2024

Thank you, James!

12/16/2024

Today's Featured in-store is 'Sarah Maloney's Pleasure Ground: A Feminist Take on the Natural World' by Laura Ritchie, seen with Seek & Bloom Creative Co. joyful holiday card! 💕🇨🇦📚🎄

"Sarah Maloney’s Pleasure Ground: A Feminist Take on the Natural World is the first major survey of contemporary sculptor and textile artist Sarah Maloney, RCA. Recognized for her representations of botanicals and the human body, Maloney uses media ranging from embroidery to bronze to challenge ideas of “women’s work,” craft, and artistic labour. Maloney looks at Western history and culture through a feminist lens, and the results are depictions of plants, bones, and organs that reference gender, pleasure, desire, and power.

Sarah Maloney’s Pleasure Ground showcases Maloney’s artwork from her thirty-year career, with the selection of work exemplifying her explorations of sexuality, reproductivity, economics, and colonial systems of representation. Accompanying a nationally touring exhibition opening first at Art Windsor-Essex before moving to the MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, in the spring of 2024, Sarah Maloney’s Pleasure Ground features essays by exhibition co-curator Laura Ritchie, textile scholar and curator Sarah Quinton, and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia CEO Sarah Moore Fillmore, as well as 70 full-colour images of Maloney’s provocative and joyful work."

Visit us in person or online at tidewaterbooks.ca! 💕🇨🇦📚

Goose Lane Editions

12/12/2024

The perfect gift for the outdoor explorer in your life!