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Catalogue: New in 2008


Light {Broadsheet}

New poems by Shane Neilson. by Zachariah Wells.
Original drawing by Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst.

This broadsheet features two new poems by Shane Neilson, Moonlight and Daylight, which are addressed to an unborn child. The theme is made even more complete with the addition of an original drawing titled Seven Months by Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst.

Printed on mould-made Zerkall paper and presented in a folder of red cotton paper with silk inclusions, this broadsheet is published in an edition of 30 personalized copies for private distribution - an additional 30 regular copies have been printed and, of these, 20 are offered for sale.

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 2008

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Excerpts from
Gerald, God and the Chickens

Poems and illustrations by
Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst.

“So quirky, so forthright, so weary… I’m enchanted,”
—Shane Neilson wrote in his acceptance letter to
Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst.

Notes from the Editor: Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst has written poetry that, like its title, is irreverant, and which is also supremely concerned with the alienation of God and the alienating force of mental illness. This is not poetry for the pews, nor poetry from the disheveled street, more a collection of verses that effortlessly channel all of incredulity and whimsy in a tone that's as serious as the philosophical implications of God.

Is Gerald hallucinating? Or is he closer to that which moves us? And where do the chickens come in? Read and find out what happens, what is made happened, by Gerald, who is child-like in intensity. Who so clearly loves, and who must peck amongst the sorrows, or wander in Food Basics.

Offered in two bindings, this book is printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. There are 15 full-colour illustrations. Covers are printed on bookcloth and mould-made papers using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. Signed and numbered cards will accompany each book. 32 pp.

Deluxe Edition: (HC) An edition of 20 case-bound books, Japanese (100% cotton) cloth-over-board; endpapers; headband; only 12 copies are for sale. (7 copies remain)

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 75 numbered books, Smyth-sewn with a cover of mould-made Saint-Armand and a flyleaf of Nepalese kozo paper ; approximately 45 copies are for sale.

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Deluxe Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-2-3

2008

$60

$73.00 (incl. s/h, etc.)

Regular Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-1-6

2008

$35

$41.00 (incl. s/h, etc.)

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Illustrations from Excerpts from Gerald, God and the Chickens can be purchased from Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst's website: www.hiemstra-vanderhorst.com


Exterminate My Heart

Contemporary Canadian Poets: Volume 4
Poems by Shane Neilson.
Wood engravings by George A.Walker.

New poems from Shane Neilson about the loves of his life and his rediscovered love of life. Poems come under the headings Absolution at Big Park, Love Life, Prenuptial, etc. With titles like “Monsterology,” “Disney Propaganda” and “Your Daughter’s Weird,” these poems are neither bedtime lullabies, nor your usual love poems. Instead, they are honest, edgy poems about being a father and about finding out, after a dodgy start, what it means to be a loving and loved husband. Poems that look back to a steamy love affair that failed and several that try to make sense of his relationship with his mother round out this collection of poems about trying, failing, and trying yet again.

REVIEWS

In Thirsty: A Biblioasis Miscellany (Apr.13, 2008), Dan Wells said:

"... a new collection by Shane Neilson titled Exterminate My Heart. Another beautiful, beautiful Frog Hollow Press Production, wonderfully illustrated with wood engravings by George Walker. It's a lovingly produced volume of love poems to Neilson's wife, daughter and mother. But like all else by Neilson, this collection of love poems is not typical, neither sweet or saccharine. They are tensely dark and open and howling and beautiful and loving and generous and read true. Very powerful..."

Offered in two bindings, this book is printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. Covers are printed on bookcloth and mould-made papers using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. Signed and numbered cards will accompany each book. 96 pp.

Deluxe Edition: (HC) An edition of 25 case-bound books, Japanese (100% cotton) cloth-over-board with endpapers of cotton paper (India); only 12 copies are for sale. (7 copies remain)

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 125 numbered books, Smyth-sewn with a cover of mould-made Saint-Armand and a flyleaf of a cotton paper (India); approximately 90 copies are for sale.

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Deluxe Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-0-9

2008

$60

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Regular Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-1-6

2008

$35

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Catalogue: Forthcoming in 2008


Miracle Mile

Short story by Alexander MacLeod.
Title page wood engraving by George A.Walker.

Notes from the Editor: Miracle Mile is a kind of love story amongst the runners, a story that drips with the mindless sweat of preparation and eventual culmination of what is won, but more enigmatically, what is lost. And there is no preparation for the ending of this story, something brutal but always rooted in MacLeod's rendering of character.

Offered in two bindings, this book is printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. Covers are printed on bookcloth and mould-made papers using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. Signed and numbered cards will accompany each book. 48 pp.

Deluxe Edition: (HC) An edition of 20 case-bound books, Japanese (100% cotton) cloth-over-board; endpapers; headband; only 15 copies are offered for sale.

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 75 numbered books, Smyth-sewn with a cover of mould-made Saint-Armand; flyleaf; approximately 45 copies are offered for sale.

Due July 2008.

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Deluxe Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-4-7

2008

$50

$62.50 (incl. s/h, etc.)

Regular Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-1-6

2008

$25

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The Stages of J.Gordon Whitehead

Short story by Steven Heighton.
Original artwork by George A.Walker.

Notes from the Editor: In The Stages of J.Gordon Whitehead, Steven Heighton, a master of the short story, playfully suggests a history of an actual character who may or may not have responsibility for the death of Harry Houdini.

Whitehead could be thought of as a refugee from irony; ever since a fateful blow to Houdini's stomach, irony stalks him meticulously and mercilessly until the closing scene, yet the story is not judgemental and even allows for the doomed Whitehead, in his own way, to be redeemed.

Offered in two bindings, this book is printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. Covers are printed on bookcloth and mould-made papers using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. Signed and numbered cards will accompany each book. 48 pp.

Deluxe Edition: (HC) An edition of 20 case-bound books, Japanese (100% cotton) cloth-over-board; endpapers; headband; only 15 copies are offered for sale

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 75 numbered books, Smyth-sewn with a cover of mould-made Saint-Armand; flyleaf; approximately 45 copies are offered for sale.

Due late Summer 2008.

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Deluxe Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-6-1

2008

$50

$62.50 (incl. s/h, etc.)

Regular Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-7-8

2008

$25

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A Baker's Dozen (working title)

Poems by Ben Hart.

A letter to Ben Hart from the Editor:
"I myself have been known to write love poems; but the love poems I write are predictable. They are written to a lover, a daughter, a mother. Yours are not so expected. You have written delightfully about delectations; you are the bard of Boston Crème. I admit that I initially thought it impossible; I didn’t think it could be done. I suppose a poem or two could accomplish the feat, but a whole sequence of poems dedicated the donut? And baked with such linguistic playfulness, such antic language? I sensed dreary confections. And I was surprised: you use the language of devotion, a language with appetite, with jam-filled centres. What should be utterly silly is actually slavish in its attention, is careful, is serious. These are love poems. They are emphatic. I get the sense that from you they could be nothing else." - SN

Offered in two bindings, this book is printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. Covers are printed on bookcloth and mould-made papers using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. Signed and numbered cards will accompany each book.

Deluxe Edition: (HC) An edition of 20 case-bound books, Japanese (100% cotton) cloth-over-board; endpapers; headband; approximately 15 copies are offered for sale.

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 75 numbered books, Smyth-sewn with a cover of mould-made Saint-Armand; flyleaf; approximately 45 copies are offered for sale.

Due December 2008.

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Deluxe Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-9-2

2008

$50

$62.50 (incl. s/h, etc.)

Regular Edition

ISBN: 978-0-9784232-8-5

2008

$30

$35.00 (incl. s/h, etc.)

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Oneiric

Poems by Nyla Matuk

Notes from the Editor: "I have read and reread Oneiric. Indeed, it is the very stuff of dreams: symbolic, and slippery, imagistic, occasionally pithy, fluid, fluent, and re-inventive. There is just a touch of the nightmare, of terror; and it is this fear, but not fearfulness, that instils in the reader a sense of wonder." - SN

Offered in two bindings, this book is printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. Covers are printed on bookcloth and mould-made papers using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. Signed and numbered cards will accompany each book.

Deluxe Edition: (HC) An edition of 20 case-bound books, Japanese (100% cotton) cloth-over-board; endpapers; headband; approximately 15 copies are offered for sale.

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 75 numbered books, Smyth-sewn with a cover of mould-made Saint-Armand; flyleaf; approximately 45 copies are offered for sale.

Due Winter 2008.

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Catalogue: Forthcoming in 2009-10


John Glassco and the Other Montreal

Canadian Masters Series, Vol. 2.
Selections and essay by Carmine Starnino.
TBA

Poem by George Murray- Broadsheet

New Poem by George Murray.
TBA.


Catalogue: New in 2007


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Against

Contemporary Canadian Poets: Volume 3
Poems by Sharon McCartney.
Wood engravings by George A. Walker.

Notes from the Editor: I've always wondered what the female response to George Meredith's Modern Love would be; Sharon McCartney's Against is that response.

In Against, McCartney's femininity is rancourous, carnal; her style breathless and breath-taking. Her urge to say is sublime; the poems are oral, suggestive. She writes from the trenches of a doomed relationship, a natural arc that follows a fractious togetherness to a worn, measured retrospection. In Against, love does end, but not before it coughs and hurrahs.

Each poem is a bete-noire, an antic anti, a railing against something, be it cleanliness, an oblivious competitor, or skunks. Thus it's a collection that shows versatility of subject and of mood, a collection that's mired in life, that refuses to succumb, that defiantly writes back, that writes against. There is no sad-sack pining here, only a lesson that love is brief, and to be treasured, and, as the conclusion attests, perhaps its only real province - and compromise - is memory. — SN

REVIEWS

In Books in Canada (Dec.2007), Andreae Prozesky said:

"Against is a... more polished, more solid effort...written in the voice of a more mature, more confidant woman...once-fresh wounds are faded battle scars, markers of absences that have become presences...McCartney's lines are long, and her sentences longer, cataloguing emotion and phenomena with dizzying intensity. The voice is alternately sharp and tender... If McCartney establishes herself as a significant voice in Canadian poetry, it will be due in no small part to Against, which is an achievement."

Zachariah Wells said this about Against in his blog, Career Limiting Moves:

“A powerfully emotional and very tightly-strung suite of 26 poems, with woodcuts by George A.Walker. This is, I think, Sharon’s best work to-date, and beautifully presented...by Frog Hollow Press.” (www.zachariahwells.com/log.html)

 

Offered in two bindings, this book is printed on acid-free, archival Mohawk Eggshell 80 lb. Text. A signed and numbered card accompanies each book. 64 pp.

Deluxe Edition: (HC) An edition of 25 case-bound books, cloth over board with endpapers and flyleafs of a cotton Indian paper; only 15 copies are for sale. SOLD OUT

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 150 Smyth-sewn books with a cover of mould-made Saint-Armand and a flyleaf of cotton Indian paper; approximately 117 copies are for sale.

All books are numbered and a card signed by the author will accompany each book.

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Deluxe Edition

ISBN 978-0-9735847-8-3

2007

$55

out of print

Regular Edition

ISBN 978-0-9735847-9-0

2007

$29

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Aerobic Capacity

Poems by John Lofranco.
Letterpressed chapbook.


If you think that running is a grueling, lonely pursuit, that it's all about training, stopwatches and body aches, John Lofranco might agree—but only to a point. In these poems, running is not only about pushing the body to the limits of endurance and the discipline required to achieve results, it is about life itself.  For Lofranco, running is the backdrop against which other elements play out—love, the blues.…

This chapbook is letterpress printed on Magnani Biblos paper and hand-sewn into an inner cover of St-Armand Canal paper with a wrap of handmade St-Armand 'Red'. Edition of 125 copies. (40 pp.)

REVIEW

Zachariah Wells said this about Aerobic Capacity:

“John Lofranco: Aerobic Capacity. ... collection of 21 poems, all about running, a subject its author, a competitive long-distance runner, knows intimately. The best poems – and there’s a handful of them – capture that intimate knowledge, and the passion that attends it, memorably. Other poems are marred by a felling of excessive strain and labour in language and metaphor, lacking the flow of a race well-run. Still, a lovely little book that makes what as always seemed to me a peculiarly masochistic form of insanity (I used to run some myself) compelling. ”

Career Limiting Moves - Reading Log July 16, 2007. www.zachariahwells.com/log.html

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Hand-sewn Chapbook

ISBN: 978-0-9735847-7-6

2007

$35

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Now That You Revive

Contemporary Canadian Poets: Volume 2
Poems and Afterword by A.F. Moritz.
Introduction by Shane Neilson.
Wood engravings by Wesley Bates.

In Now That You Revive Al Moritz writes poems of love and desire, of coming to terms with the passage of time and its attendant glimpse back to earlier days. Moritz loves, and is loved, and not without complication. Written concurrently with recently published works and polished over time, these poems reveal a lighter, more playful Moritz than we usually encounter; a Moritz that is accessible and, as always, a joy to read.

Offered in two bindings, this book has been printed on Magnani Biblos. (80 pp.).

Deluxe Edition: (HC) Printed in an edition of 50 books Coptic bound, Japanese bookcloth-over-board with endpapers of handmade St-Armand Old Masters. NOTE: The remaining 25 copies of the Deluxe Edition will be case-bound, Japanese cloth-over-boards with Zerkall Ingres endpapers; headbands.

Regular Edition: (PB) Printed in an edition of 140 books Smyth-sewn in an inner cover of St-Armand Sisal with a letterpressed wrap of handmade St-Armand Old Masters.

Unbound: 10 copies offered unbound.

REVIEWS:

Ewan Whyte, The Globe and Mail,
Books p.D4, Saturday, June 23, 2007.

“The latest book by … Moritz is quite different in style and tone from his previous volume, Night Street Repairs. …. Moritz’s new work is lyric, lighter in tone and accessible… His language is polished and precise. …These poems about mature love express a Gnostic sensibility. Love in human terms is dictated by the deepest part of one’s humanity, which for many Gnostics, and perhaps for Moritz, is also love of God. … Moritz exhibits an effortless control of language, as well as a heightened joy in the music of words. His book succeeds in reviving love poetry for an audience that may have grown tired even of the thought of love poetry.”
-Ewan Whyte

Marnie Parsons, Books in Canada,
vol.36 #5, Summer 2007, pp.35-36.

“…so deeply musical that singing is everywhere implied, and music courses through this volume-as poem title, as image, as form, as presence. Beautiful cadences, finely framed repetitions highlight language as sound. Moritz uses form with grace and flexibility, but he is no less accomplished at the level of syllable.”

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Deluxe Edition

ISBN 978-0-9735847-2-1

2007

$55

$67.75 (incl. s/h, etc.)

Regular Edition

ISBN 978-0-9735847-3-8

2007

$35

$41.00 (incl. s/h, etc.)

Unbound

ISBN 978-0-9735847-4-5

2007

$15.00

$18.00 (incl. s/h, etc.)

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Editing Moritz

Correspondence Between Shane Neilson and A.F. Moritz during the editing of Now That You Revive.
Wood engravings by Wesley Bates.
Companion to Volume Two of the Contemporary Canadian Poets series, Now That You Revive.

Printed on Magnani Biblos and offered in one version in an edition of 200 books (144 pp.). Smyth-sewn into an inner cover of St-Armand Sisal with a letterpressed wrap of handmade St-Armand Old Masters paper.

REVIEW:

Ewan Whyte, The Globe & Mail, Books, p. D4, June 23, 2007.

"A companion book, Editing Moritz… by Shane Neilson and A.F. Moritz, is a revealing look at the creative process between editor and poet, and allows us to observe some of Moritz’s poems as they arrive at their final crafted state.”

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Smyth-sewn Book

ISBN 978-0-9735847-6-9

2007

$35

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"Achromatope" {Broadsheet}

A new poem by Zachariah Wells.

Zach Wells describes "Achromatope" as a dramatic monologue in the voice of a colour-blinded painter, a verse adaptation of an essay by Oliver Sacks in his book An Anthropologist on Mars.

"Achromatope" is arguably one of the best poems Zach has written.

Presented in a folded broadsheet format and printed on Arches watercolour paper in an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies. Illustration: Photoshop-manipulated stock photograph (iStock) with some hand-colouring on the printed copies. August 2007.

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Broadsheet

 2007

$10

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"Cassandra" {Broadsheet}

A new poem by A.F. Moritz.

The publication of the broadsheet by Al Moritz, "Cassandra", continues our love affair with this poet's work that began earlier but blossomed during our recent work with him. "Cassandra" continues the romance of Now That You Revive, providing us with a look back at old loves and dreams that may or may not have come true.

Printed in a folded broadsheet format on Arches 90 lb. watercolour paper; edition of 100 copies. Illustration: Redrawing and colouring of original botanical drawing, some hand-colouring after printing. October 2007.

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Broadsheet

 2007

$10

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Catalogue: Books in Print 2001—2006

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A Set of Deadly Negotiations

Sonnets by George Murray.
Letterpressed chapbook.

Who in Canada writes dangerous poems anymore? In A Set of Deadly Negotiations, George Murray has married a questing intelligence with a deeply dissatisfied view of the world. Murray writes poems that are intimidating, that ask difficult questions, that are each a set of negotiations with the reader. This chapbook is part parable, part virtuoso piece, but wholly a strict interrogation of how we are in the world. With this unsettling volume, more interested in the whys of our existence than merely cataloguing our decline, George Murray takes his place in the front rank of Canadian poets.

A Set of Deadly Negotiations was published as a hand-printed chapbook with text on Magnani Biblos; hand-sewn into an inner cover of Indian-made paper with an outer wrap of St. Armand 'charcoal'. 40 pp. Edition of 150 signed and numbered copies.

REVIEW:

Matthew J. Trafford, Books in Canada (Jan-Feb. 2006):

"Caryl Peters’s design for this chapbook includes the image of a small dangling spider, which is brilliantly appropriate for Murray’s poetry. Every line shimmers with seduction and the possibility of danger, a savage beauty and ruthless efficiency. Certain poems, such as “The Beautiful Hands of Skeptical Women” and “An Evolution of Injury,” fuse violence, sensuality, and grace into a seamless whole that feels both familiar and vaguely predatory. These poems describe a gossamer world where “rain falls in prison bars” and the “future floats foetal through a landscape/ of broken teacups and toppled salt pillars.” Technically these poems are as intricate and fine as a dew-covered web; rhetorical questions and capitalization are used competently and significantly, punctuation with an elegant touch, parentheses sparingly and with a haunting sense of the possible. “Weather the shape of eggs,” memory, hope, “humanity opening like nesting dolls,” the “tiny cannibalisms of everyday,” “one burning city,” “the hourglass body, the sandy soul” – the poetic voice treats each subject reverently, as a delicacy to be savoured. The reader of this collection is a fly in George Murray’s parlour, hypnotized by his rhythm and assonance, fascinated with his philosophical ruminations, and surprised by the “sheer range of darkness and light.”

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Chapbook

ISBN 0-9732776-9-6

2005

$40

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Demilunes:
Little Windows on Quebec

Contemporary Canadian Poets: Volume One.
Translated and introduced by David Solway.
Letterpressed books.

This anthology features the work of thirty-two prominent and emerging Quebecois poets.

Hand-printed on Magnani Book Wove and originally offered in two different hand-sewn bindings (the deluxe edition is sold out). 64 pp.

DELUXE edition: Hand-sewn binding of bookcloth covered boards with a soft spine; endpapers are French marble reproductions. SOLD OUT

REGULAR edition: Binding is Smyth-sewn into a cover of Grey Flax with a wrap (French flaps) of Blue Denim - both are 100% cotton from St. Armand's Mill in Quebec.

REVIEW:

Matthew J. Trafford, Books in Canada,
vol. 35 #1, Jan-Feb. 2006, p. 35.

“…the collection manages to remain cohesive while presenting such a variety of poetic material; poems which are urban and rural, imagist and conceptual, modern and contemporary. What unifies these very different pieces… is the quality and con sistency of the translation. Solway’s language never seems forced or awkward, but hums with the proper tension, a tautness which brings each poet’s distinct voice into sharp relief.”

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Deluxe Edition

ISBN 0-9732776-8-8

2005

$85

Out of Print


Regular Edition

ISBN 0-9732776-7-X

2005

$45

Sale Price: $35.00; very limited supply.

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Alden Nowlan & Illness

Canadian Masters Series: Volume One.
Poems selected and essay by Shane Neilson with fore- and after-words by Gregory Cook and Robert Gibbs.
Original wood engraving by Wesley Bates.
Letterpressed book.

This deluxe volume was the first in a series on Canadian Master Poets to be published annually by Frog Hollow Press. We were delighted to start the series by featuring the work of Alden Nowlan. The poems were chosen by the young Maritime poet and essayist, Shane Neilson; the book also contains an essay on the influence of illness on Alden Nowlan's writing and on the influence Nowlan has had on Shane's careers as writer and medical doctor.

Alden Nowlan & Illness was originally published in a Coptic binding with reproduction marbled endpapers. The remaining 35 copies (2008) are offered in a casebound, cloth-over-board binding.

Hand-printed on Magnani Book Biblos, a mould-made paper from Italy; endpapers are cotton paper. Edition of 150 copies, including 25 for private distribution. 96 pp.

REVIEWS

Robert Moore, Books in Canada</