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01/08/2024

rob mclennan reviewed A Net of Momentary Sapphire by R. Kolewe! Read the review here.

https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/07/r-kolewe-net-of-momentary-sapphire.html?m=1

31/07/2024

lettuce lettuce please go bad by Tiziana La Melia and the forthcoming Chambersonic by Oana Avasilichioaei are featured in Read Local BC's article on experimental books! Check it out!

https://www.readlocalbc.ca/2024/07/17/five-bc-books-that-bend-the-rules/

30/07/2024

Author and translator Chantal Bilodeau is the Playwright's Guild of Canada's featured playwright for July! Check it out!

Each month we interview member playwrights to share their work, stories, and inspiration with the community. We recently spoke with Chantal…

26/07/2024

Hot off the press! lettuce lettuce please go bad by Tiziana La Melia has arrived. Using the idea of compost as composition – since the organic process of recycling leaves, words, or food scraps into valuable fertilizer enriches both soil and human life – the book draws on divination systems, herbal healing rituals, the cycles of the moon, experiences of stress and grief, and inherited and invented agricultural practices to tease out a poetics of rural embodied language.

You can grab a copy today! https://talonbooks.com/books/?lettuce-lettuce-please-go-bad

25/07/2024

MLA Chernoff looks at still by A Jamali Rad, Pandemic Poems by Philip Resnick, and il virus by Lillian Necakov in a review for Canadian Literature.

Read it here:

https://canlit.ca/article/recessive-potentials/

24/07/2024

Celebrate the launch of we the same, the new play by Sangeeta Wylie, at TAIWANfest Vancouver! Enjoy a reading of the text, a cultural discussion, music, and more.

Inspired by a true story, we the same opens in 1979 Việt Nam, where six children and a mother become separated from their father and husband as they flee their homeland by boat. Oscillating between humour, romance, and devastation, this powerful debut play explores the aftermath of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective.

For more event information and to see what else is on at TAIWANfest, click here:

https://programs.vancouvertaiwanfest.ca/we-the-same-book-launch-a-cultural-discourse-with-music-and-readings/

23/07/2024

Amanda Follett Hosgood conducted a fantastic interview with Lorraine Weir and Chief Roger William about Lha yudit’ih We Always Find A Way: Bringing the Tŝilhqot’in Title Case Home in the Tyee. Read it here!

A book by a retired UBC professor and a Tŝilhqot’in Chief tells the story behind a landmark title case.

22/07/2024

Have you picked up a copy of Sangeeta Wylie's amazing debut play "we the same" yet?

Inspired by a true story, we the same opens in 1979 Việt Nam, where six children and a mother become separated from their father and husband as they flee their homeland by boat. Against all odds, they survive pirate attacks, typhoons, and starvation, ending up shipwrecked on a desert island. Thirty-five years pass, and the mother at last shares heartfelt secrets and an unbelievable story with her daughter ... allowing the past to be escorted into the present.

Oscillating between humour, romance, and devastation, this powerful debut play explores the aftermath of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective.

Order your copy now!

https://www.talonbooks.com/books/?we-the-same

21/07/2024

M.A.C. Farrant's companion chapbook to Jigsaw has come out from above/ground press! Check out The Literary Cow Festival here.

The Literary Cow Festival M.A.C. Farrant $5 1. Cow Satori We believe cows experience eternity by living in a perpetual now. Doing so, th...

19/07/2024

Tomorrow is the opening of Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital at Kamloops Art Gallery where author of lettuce lettuce please go bad Tiziana La Melia will be showing her work! The exhibit is on until September 21. Check it out!

Architects Against Housing Alienation // Rodney Graham // Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill // Karin Jones // Tiziana La Melia // Carel Moiseiwitsch // Alex Morrison // Janet Wang // Holly Ward // Tania Willard // Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Central Gallery July 20 to September 21, 2024 Morris and Helen

18/07/2024

Check out this review of A Family of Dreamers by Samantha Nock in the Winnipeg Free Press:

https://shorturl.at/d2KNE

18/07/2024

Check out this review of A Family of Dreamers by Samantha Nock in the Winnipeg Free Press:

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/2023/12/23/collections-connections-nourish-narrator

17/07/2024

On July 20, join Daniel f. Bradley and Clint Burnham for a reading at The Secret Handshake Gallery!

16/07/2024

Book launch of Sangeeta Wylie’s we the same, the award-winning play about Vietnamese refugees, featuring live readings, music, and more.

16/07/2024

Chadd Scott interviewed author of Slow Scrape Tanya Lukin Linklater about her new art exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Forbes Magazine.

Tanya Lukin Linklater’s Held in the air I never fell (spring lightning sweetgrass song) soars overhead of visitors at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University in Columbus.

16/07/2024

Chadd Scott interviewed author of Slow Scrape Tanya Lukin Linklater about her new art exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Forbes Magazine.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2024/06/25/tanya-lukin-linklater-reveals-and-withholds-in-exhibition-at-wexner-center-for-the-arts-in-columbus-oh/

15/07/2024

Next week, author of No Town Called We Nikki Reimer features at the Calgary Poetry Slam! Don't miss it!

https://allevents.in/calgary/calgary-poetry-slam-ft-nikki-reimer/200026659101647

14/07/2024

Suzanne Hunter wrote an article about Art Miki and his recent memoir Gaman – Perseverance: Japanese Canadians’ Journey to Justice for the Winnipeg Free Press! Check it out:

https://shorturl.at/GQOh4

13/07/2024

Thank you for nominating Talonbooks for Best Book Publisher in the Georgia Straight's Best of Vancouver Awards! We're thrilled to be on the list (and in such great company) and to have such a wonderful community.

Voting is open until July 21, we'd love it if you voted for us! Cast your vote here:

https://best-of-vancouver-2024-voting--georgia-straight.contest.vote/groups

12/07/2024

A profile of Lha yudit'ih We Always Find A Way: Bringing the Tŝilhqot’in Title Case Home by Lorraine Weir with Chief Roger William was featured in the summer 2024 issue of British Columbia History! You can check out the issue on British Columbia History Magazine's website:

https://bchistory.ca/magazine

11/07/2024

In Klara du Plessis’s recent book of literary criticism, I’mpossible collab, there is a chapter dedicated to the remarkable 2019 poetry collection Eight Track by Oana Avasilichioaei. Check out l'mpossible collab here:

http://www.gaspereau.com/bookInfo.php?AID=0&AISBN=9781554472574

10/07/2024

It's Disability Pride Month! Want to read some excellent poetry by disabled writers? Look no further! Learn more about these stellar titles here:

https://talonbooks.com/news/it-s-disability-pride-month

09/07/2024

Legendary pioneer of sound, visual, and performance poetry bill bissett has been appointed the Order of Canada! bill is the author of over 60 books of poetry including its th sailors life / still in treetment, breth, and inkorrect thots. He co-founded the Secret Handshake Gallery, a peer-support facility for people with schizophrenia. A huge congratulations to bill for this well-deserved honour!

There were 83 Canadians appointed to the Order of Canada in June 2024. The Order of Canada is considered one of Canada's highest civilian honours.

09/07/2024

This summer, take in the art of Tanya Lukin Linklater, author of Slow Scrape, at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Her exhibit, Inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by the weather), runs until August 21.

https://wexarts.org/exhibitions/tanya-lukin-linklater-inner-blades-grass-soft-inner-blades-grass-cured-inner-blades

08/07/2024

Legendary pioneer of sound, visual, and performance poetry bill bissett has been appointed the Order of Canada! bill is the author of over 60 books of poetry including its th sailors life / still in treetment, breth, and inkorrect thots. He co-founded the Secret Handshake Gallery, a peer-support facility for people with schizophrenia. A huge congratulations to bill for this well-deserved honour!

https://www.cbc.ca/books/poets-bill-bissett-sylvia-d-hamilton-author-solomon-ratt-among-new-order-of-canada-appointees-1.7248303

07/07/2024

On July 14 at 4, catch the July instalment of the Dead Poets Reading Series at Massy Arts Society! Daphne Marlatt will read the work of Judith Fitzgerald, Lydia Kwa will read the work of Xi Xi, Jessica Lee McMillan will read the work of Rebecca Elson, and Winston Le will read the work of Lyn Hejinian.

https://massyarts.com/event/dead-poets-reading-series-july/

06/07/2024

Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal and translated by Jessica Moore is featured in Electric Literature’s article about seven novels about learning a skill. Camille Bordas says, "Maylis de Kerangal [is] a French national treasure. Her writing is out of this world. Her sentences are immediately recognizable ... luscious and immersive.

https://electricliterature.com/7-novels-about-learning-and-mastering-a-new-skill/

05/07/2024

melanie brannagan frederiksen reviewed the berry takes the shape of the bloom, the recent poetry collection by andrea bennett in the Winnipeg Free Press.

Of the collection, melanie brannagan frederiksen says: “The poems pulse with urgency arising from the tension between the line and the life to which it bears witness, between thought and experience.”

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/2024/06/29/urgency-permeates-musings-on-the-body

04/07/2024

Recently longlisted for both the Raymond Souster Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, No Town Called We by Nikki Reimer can't be missed.

Exploring the intersections of disability, gender, and climate crisis, No Town Called We offers poignant meditations on societal norms and our connection to the environment.

From the publisher:
No Town Called We writes through the death of elders, social panic, and the climate crisis via the lens of the multiply disabled, female-coded body approaching midlife. Punching through the veils of complacency and greed that shape the cultures of the petrostate, these poems are meditations on an emergency, dispatches from wombat burrows and prairie hospitals. They consider the variegated forms grief can take, both marking and resisting their own decay. Reimer asks: How do you and I relate? How might we commune? Can we enjoy our sick prostrated time? What does it mean to occupy a land? What duty of care do we owe each other? And poet, what have you done with the moon?

04/07/2024

It was great to see everyone at ! What a joyful, hopeful thing to be in the company of so many Book People. Until the next time we all gather, good reading!