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Talonbooks

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

The Full Light of Day by David Brooks
Untimely Passages: Dossiers from the Other Shore by Jerry Zaslove
OЯACULE by Nicole Raziya Fong
Flying Red Horse by Dale Martin Smith
Twists of Fate: If by Chance and Destination Paradise by Michel Tremblay and Linda Gaboriau
The Grand Melee by Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman
A History of the Theories of Rain by Stephen Collis
still by Anahita Jamali Rad
The Diary of Dukesang Wong by Dukesang Wong, David McIlwraith and Wanda Joy Hoe
One and Half of You by Leanne Dunic
Here by Colin Browne
Taking Measures: Selected Serial Poems by George Bowering and Stephen Collis
Music at the Heart of Thinking by Fred Wah
Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor
breth /th treez of lunaria: selektid rare n nu pomes n drawings, 1957-2019 by bill bissett
Flow: Poems Collected and New by Roy Miki and Michael Barnholden
Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis
The Eyelash and the Monochrome by Tiziana La Melia
The Art of Building a Bunker by Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia
In Search of New Babylon by Dominique Scali
Forward: The second Play in the Arctic Cycle by Chantal Bilodeau
Daisy by Sean Devine
Reveries of a Solitary Biker by Catriona Strang
A Crossing of Hearts by Michel Tremblay
After Class by George F. Walker
Wayside Sang by Cecily Nicholson
Prison Industrial Complex Explodes by Mercedes Eng
From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980–2010 by Tomson Highway and Jordan Abel
full-metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead
Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968-2008 by Daphne Marlatt and Susan Holbrook
Same Diff by Donato Mancini
U Girl by Meredith Quartermain
for love and autonomy by Anahita Jamali Rad
Human Tissue by Weyman Chan
Reading Sveva by Daphne Marlatt
I, Bartleby by Meredith Quartermain
Empire of the Son by Tetsuro Shigematsu
Once in Blockadia by Stephen Collis
Cosmophilia by Rahat Kurd
As Always: Memoir of a Life in Writing by Madeleine Gagnon and Phyllis Aronoff
Injun by Jordan Abel
page as bone — ink as blood by Jónína Kirton
Odd Ducks by Bryden MacDonald
The Shoplifters by Morris Panych
Winners and Losers by Marcus Youssef and James Long
Rom Com by Dina Del Bucchia and Daniel Zomparelli
Writing the Okanagan by George Bowering
Un/inhabited by Jordan Abel
The Divine: A Play for Sarah Bernhardt by Michel Marc Bouchard
Limbinal by Oana Avasilichioaei
Get Me Out of Here by Sachiko Murakami
The Properties by Colin Browne
Specks by Michael McClure
Crossing the Continent by Sheila Fischman and Michel Tremblay
King of Thieves by George F. Walker
Bolsheviki by David Fennario
Signed Wings by Lola Lemire Tostevin
Corked by Catriona Strang
From the Poplars by Cecily Nicholson
Fortified Castles by Ryan Fitzpatrick
Downverse by Nikki Reimer
Peacock Blue: The Collected Poems by Phyllis Webb and John F. Hulcoop
The Vestiges by Jeff Derksen
Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard
Thrum by Natalie Simpson
The Place of Scraps by Jordan Abel
The Monument Cycles by Mariner Janes
The (Post) Mistress by Tomson Highway
Tracing the Lines: Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki by Maia Joseph, Larissa Lai, Christopher Lee and Christine Kim
Davie Street Translations by Daniel Zomparelli
Leave of Absence by Lucia Frangione
Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now by Daphne Marlatt
In the Dog House by Wanda John-Kehewin
To the Barricades by Stephen Collis
Internodes by Ken Belford
The Book of Esther by Leanna Brodie
Blue Box by Carmen Aguirre
Api 2967 by Robert Gurik and Marc F. Gélinas
The Trial of Jean-Baptiste M. by Allan Van Meer and Robert Gurik
poems for yoshi by bill bissett
Seven Hours to Sundown by George Ryga
Names and Nicknames by James Reaney
Raft Baby by Dennis Foon
Ignoramus by James Reaney
novel by bill bissett
textual vishyuns by Carl Peters
News by Drew Hayden Taylor
The Edward Curtis Project by Rita Leistner and Marie Clements
Miss Take by Will Browning and Réjean Ducharme
sublingual by bill bissett
On the Material by Stephen Collis
Discovery Passages by Garry T. Morse
Bardy Google by Frank Davey
The Heretic by John Murphy
Skydive by Kevin Kerr
How to Write by Derek Beaulieu
Open Air Bindery by David Hickey
Decompositions by Ken Belford
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by Drew Hayden Taylor
Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics by Jeff Derksen
My Darling Nellie Grey by George Bowering
And Other Stories by George Bowering
The Heart Laid Bare by Michel Trenblay and Sheila Fischman
Tsubaki by Aki Shimazaki
The Buz'gem Blues by Drew Hayden Taylor
The Lil'wat World of Charlie Mack by Dorothy Kennedy and Randy Bouchard
Jewel by Joan MacLeod
Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters' Reports from the War of 1885 by Michael Barnholden
Written on Water by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau
News from Éduourd by Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman
A Thing of Beauty by Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman
Down the Road to Eternity by M.A.C. Farrant
The Gull by Daphne Marlatt
Sentenced to Light by Fred Wah
The Trigger by Carmen Aguirre
Benevolence by Morris Panych
Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock by Sherrill Grace
Going Home by Ken Norris
The Commons by Stephen Collis
Baseball Love by George Bowering
Carmela's Table by Vittorio Rossi
A Few Words Will Do by Lionel Kearns
ths is erth thees ar peopul by bill bissett
Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral Traditions of the Hul'q'umi'num' Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island by Beryl Mildred Cryer and Chris Arnett
Omniscience by Tim Carlson
The Hunting Ground by Lise Tremblay and Linda Gaboriau
Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry/Anarchy/Abstraction by Stephen Collis
narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett
northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing by bill bissett
What Lies Before Us by Morris Panych
In the Eyes of God by Raul Sanchez Inglis
Cul-de-sac by Daniel MacIvor
The Painter's Wife by Monique Durand and Sheila Fischman
Dominican Moon by Ken Norris
400 Kilometres by Drew Hayden Taylor
The Concise Köchel by Normand Chaurette
The Leisure Society by François Archambault and Bobby Theodore
Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France by Jerry Wasserman
George Ryga: The Other Plays by James Hoffman
George Ryga: The Prairie Novels by James Hoffman
My Name is Bosnia by Madeleine Gagnon, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
Je me souviens: Memories of an Expatriate Anglophone Montréalaise Québécoise Exiled in Canada by Lorena Gale
The Baldwins by Serge Lamothe
In the Eyes of Stone Dogs by Daniel Danis and Linda Gaboriau
The Death of René Lévesque by David Fennario
Rose by Tomson Highway
Cariboo Magi by Lucia Frangione
The Dishwashers by Morris Panych
The Driving Force by Michel Tremblay and Linda Gaboriau
All That Glitters by Martine Desjardins, Fred A. Reed and David Toby Homel
The Centre: Poems by Barry McKinnon
Past Perfect by Michel Tremblay
Mambo Italiano by Steve Galluccio
Back to the War by Frank Davey
Fractal Economies by Derek Beaulieu
Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout by Tomson Highway
In a World Created by a Drunken God by Drew Hayden Taylor
The Ventriloquist by Larry Tremblay
Wanted by Sally Clark
The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements
Beyond Recall by Lise Weil and Mary Meigs
Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006 by George Bowering
Go Figure by Réjean Ducharme
Mile End by Lise Tremblay
The Riddle of The World by David French
Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych
Poet to Publisher: Charles Olson’s Correspondence with Donald Allen by Ralph Maud
Dream Pool Essays by Gil McElroy
Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy
Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia by Donald Luxton
The Shape of a Girl by Joan MacLeod
Write It On Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller by Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire and Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
Tracing the Paths: Reading ≠ Writing The Martyrology by Roy Miki
The Animals In Their Elements by Cynthia Flood
My Father Took a Cake to France by Cynthia Flood
Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr
Talking Bodies by Larry Tremblay and Sheila Fischman
Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology by Ralph Maud
16 Seconds by Bobby Theodore
Fairy Ring by Martine Desjardins
Soldier's Heart by David French
Fearless Warriors by Drew Hayden Taylor
15 Seconds by François Archambault and Bobby Theodore
The Coronation Voyage by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau
Songs of the Say-Sayer by Daniel Danis and Linda Gaboriau
Cultural Mischief: A Practical Guide to Multiculturalism by Frank Davey
The Invisibility Exhibit by Sachiko Murakami
Marcel Pursued by the Hounds by Michel Tremblay, Bill Glassco and John Van Burek
Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka by Roy Kiyooka and Roy Miki
Lost in North America: The Imaginary Canadian in the American Dream by John Morgan Gray
The Shovel by Colin Browne
And Other Stories by Claude Boisvert and Gernot Wieland
The Heart Laid Bare by Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman
Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau
All the Verdis of Venice by Normand Chaurette and Linda Gaboriau
Great Lake Suite by David McFadden
The Rain Barrel by George Bowering
Lasagna: The Man Behind the Mask by Ronald Cross and Hélène Sévigny
Other Schools of Thought by Morris Panych
Life Skills by Marlis Wesseler