New Star Books

10/16/2024

For fans of engrossing literary fiction exploring love, identity, and belonging, “Duck Island” by is a must-read this fall.

Set against the backdrop of a fictionalized Wausau, Wisconsin, Cal Bedrick, who is Jewish, meets a very nice Catholic girl, Frannie Sinkiewicz, who falls hard for the troubled young man. Their courtship leads quickly to a marriage that fills their acquaintances with doubts in their eclectic small town.

“Duck Island” is out now from New Star Books!

09/11/2024

Many streets once bearing the name of our final villain, Joseph Trutch, have since been renamed in efforts towards reconciliation with First Nations communities.

"By reducing the size of reserves and successfully advancing the illegal separation of BC First Nations from their lands, Trutch made it impossible to reconstruct, following European immigration, a viable economy for First Nations."

09/09/2024

Despite the lakes, rivers, and communities named after him, British Columbia's 17th premier, William Bowser, had a particularly ruthless reputation with labour organizers even in his own time.

"Bowser was the iron fist in McBride's velvet glove. He was not a popular man, particularly among working-class men, who held him responsible for the 1912-14 strike in the goal fields of Vancouver Isalnd, when he sent in the 72nd Regiment, among others, to put down the riots that attended the lockouts"

09/06/2024

The first of three historical heroes of British Columbia's past, Dr John Helmcken, cast in another light in Bartlett and Robertson's 'When Heroes Become Villains'

"Smallpox, the scourge of the First Peoples of the Americas, had ravaged those populations wherever Europeans arrived...And the one mad who had the knowledge and the power to prevent it instead set the stage for it to happen. That man was Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken."

09/04/2024

In 'When Heroes Become Villains' Jon Bartlett and Brian Robertson bring home the “naming” controversy, telling the stories of three erstwhile heroes - John Sebastian Helmcken, Joseph Trutch, and William Bowser - and how our reconsideration of their roles in our collective story is unsettling our maps.

Coming soon! https://newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554202124

06/24/2024

We are excited to announce that Tantor Media (Tantor Audio) will be issuing an audio book edition of Misguided: My Jesus Freak Life in a Doomsday Cult, by Port Alberni author Perry Bulwer!

Tantor Media is a division of RBMedia, one of the largest audio book publishers in North America. Their audio edition of Misguided is set to release in late August, check out their website for more details.

The acquisition was facilitated by The Rights Factory's Trisha Telep.

06/19/2024

"Robert his tent and
shopping carts more rare
more likely a stroller or
UberEATS bag holding
discarded bottles, cans,
increasingly sought after
plastic bags to hold cans,
bottles waterproof
breathable responsible a
slipper breathalyzer paper"

Read two poems from BC poet Clint Burnham's new collection THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (New Star Books).

alllitup.ca/two-poems-the-goldberg-variations/

06/05/2024

We share that invoke summertime tourism from BC-based poet Hamish Ballantyne's new collection, TOMORROW IS A HOLIDAY (New Star Books).

https://alllitup.ca/two-poems-tomorrow-is-a-holiday/

05/12/2024

04/11/2024

Today marks the publication of our two spring poetry titles!
Tomorrow is a Holiday by Hamish Ballantyne and The Goldberg Variations by Clint Burnham are both available now. Find links to buy a copy from your favourite local bookstore here:
https://www.newstarbooks.com/news/2024-spring-poetry
And don't forget to join us for the launch tomorrow evening, 7PM at the People's Co-op Bookstore. 1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver.

04/05/2024

Join us next Friday at the People's Co-op for a double poetry launch!
Hamish Ballantyne's Tomorrow is a Holiday and Clint Burnham's The Goldberg Variations. With readings from Danielle LaFrance and Andrew Mburak - and musical guest Julian Butterfield.
Friday April 12, 7PM
1391 Commercial Drive

03/31/2024

'Resistance gets “levelled up” into whatever stage of madness this is, I’ve lost track. But Burnham keeps up while refusing to not remember, which is funny in time’s almost. Absurd the ways language spins out in societies of control.'
– Laura Elrick, author of 'What This Breathing'

03/29/2024

Featuring a sliver of the Vancouver skyline as captured by Arni Haraldsson, check out the cover of Clint Burnham's 'The Goldberg Variations' - design by Oliver McPartlin.
Available April 11 at your local independent bookstore!

03/27/2024

The poems in Clint Burnham's 'The Goldberg Variations' appear on the page as sonnets and columns, big and small, wide at the bottom and skinny on top (like Vancouver condos)
Available April 11!
https://newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554202094

03/25/2024

‘Shivers of mood—now blunt, now gleaming—pierce and puzzle Tomorrow is a Holiday...these crystalline sequences give way to affinities that resist what the “imagination a parasite swimming in memory / makes / of the past.” ’
– Roberty Tejada, author of 'Why the Assembly Disbanded'

Hamish Ballantyne's forthcoming collection of poetry available April 11!
https://newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554202086

03/23/2024

Hamish Ballantyne's poems sit as much on the mountainside as they do on city streets. Resisting the urge of revelation in favour of idiomatic observation, Tomorrow is a Holiday brims with restless curiosity.

03/21/2024

Happy World Poetry Day! We've pulled this excerpt from Hamish Ballantyne's forthcoming collection 'Tomorrow is a Holiday' - Available April 11. Keep an eye out over the next week or so for more on our upcoming spring poetry titles.

https://newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554202086

02/09/2024

A fantastic lineup for this marathon event tomorrow afternoon!
Be sure to drop in and support our friends at The Capilano Review
Tickets at: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/capilano-review-contemporary-arts-society/events/as-good-as-rocks-a-poetry-marathon-with-the-capilano-review/

With only two days left until our virtual poetry marathon, we're pleased to share the program schedule for the 8-hour event with you so you can plan how you would like to tune in. The event begins at 1pm PST / 4pm EST over Zoom webinar, allowing you to drop in and out throughout the day.

Additionally, all tickets are automatically entered to win a few prize packs featuring TCR merchandise! Winners will be announced live around 5pm PST.

Please note the event will not be recorded, so mark your calendars and purchase your tickets today to make sure you don't miss out! Link in our bio to purchase your ticket and show The Capilano Review some love this Valentine's Day weekend 💘

02/02/2024

10/05/2023

Next week at Iron Dog Books! Join us at a launch event for Perry Bulwer's extraordinary memoir, Misguided: My Jesus Freak Life In a Doomsday Cult.

Thursday October 12, 7pm.
2671 East Hastings St, Vancouver.

10/02/2023

Join us at Cross & Crows Books on Wednesday October 18th for a "postlanguage, dramatological inferno" as we launch Tom Prime's Male Pregnancy in Reverse, with guests Mark Laba and Warren Dean Fulton.
Find more details and preorder your copy from Cross & Crows here: https://crossandcrows.com/events/29081

09/30/2023

We have EXCITING NEWS! Tom Prime's latest collection of poetry, Male Pregancy in Reverse, is OUT TODAY!

Visit shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/9781554202072 to find a copy at your local independent bookstore, or check out our upcoming Vancouver launch even next month at Cross & Crows Books here https://crossandcrows.com/events/29081