Press News

2009 Releases:

Learning to Dance with a Peg Leg:
three dozen tunes for a third mate
Contemporary Canadian Poets: volume 5
poems by Wayne Clifford
drawings by MJ Edwards
"The age is not conducive to love poetry; poets aren't doing it anymore, it is as if they are rebelling against that most natural of modes, or, at least, poets out of their adolescence seem to distrust it. So, to start off with, I appreciate the genre. Secondly, I love several of the poems
in this small collection. I especially love the shorter lyrics;
they seem to articulate the word "love" without mentioning it,
they are quick direct sorties to the heart, they make me yearn.
These are clearly love poems of experience." - Shane Neilson

Oneiric
poems by Nyla Matuk
etchings by George Raab
"Part netherworld, part playground of the possible, part dizzying rush, part wordscape, Nyla Matuk is a maker: her poems chide the stuff of dreams according to an internal logic, a lyric experimentation.This is a poetry with definition, with realization, with what I call “capture”:
the jumping off point of the image, the lateral move into encapsulation, the recourse to joy.This is emphatically not an anecdote-did-what collection; Oneiric is about the mix and contiguousness of meaning
and meaninglessness, of skew, of metaphor, of how things cohere
and dehisce...."   - Shane Neilson

Forthcoming in 2009:

Approaches to Poetry: the pre-poem moment (anthology)
edited by Shane Neilson
due Fall 2009

John Glassco and the Other Montreal
Canadian Masters Series: volume 2
selections and introduction by Carmine Starnino
due Winter 2009-10

LATE 2007-2008 Releases:

Against by Sharon McCartney
Dough Rolled Perfect by Ben Hart
Excerpts from Gerald, God and the Chickens
poetry & illustrations by Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst
Exterminate My Heart by Shane Neilson
Miracle Mile by Alexander MacLeod
The Stages of J.Gordon Whitehead by Steven Heighton

Please see the catalogue section for books
released earlier.

Book Sale

TRACERY & INTERPLAY by matt robinson
letterpressed chapbook - regular price $25 on sale for $20

ALDEN NOWLAN & ILLNESS edited by Shane Neilson
letterpressed - case-bound HC - regular price $90 on sale for $75

A SET OF DEADLY NEGOTIATIONS by George Murray
letterpressed chapbook - regular price $35 on sale for $20

NOW THAT YOU REVIVE by A.F. Moritz
case-bound HC - regular price $55
Smyth-sewn paperback - regular price $35 on sale for $25

EDITING MORITZ Shane Neilson & A.F. Moritz
Smyth-sewn paperback - regular price $35 on sale for $25

Please see the catalogue section for more details.

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Notes on Typography and Book Design:

"Typography exists to honor content."
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style.

Frank Newfeld, Drawing on Type
ISBN 978-0-88984-304-2
(Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill, 2008)