CATALOGUE

Titles in the Dis/Ability Series:

• #11 How to Lose Friends Without Really Trying — by Syd Lazarus, 2019
• #10 Frozen Charlotte — by Elizabeth Tessier, 2019
• #9 Conversion - or a theory — by Concetta Principe, 2019
• #8 even the idea of maya is maya— by Stuart Ian McKay, 2019
• #7 For a Long Time — by Matthew Tomkinson, 2019
• #6 Unremembered — by Agnes Cserhati, 2019
• #5 Call Down the Walls — by Pearl Pirie, 2019
• #4 We, Old Young Ones — by Dominik Parisien, 2019
• #3 Windsock — by John Barton, 2018
• #2 Tantramar Vespers — by Christopher Snook, 2018
• #1 Upend — by Kevin Spenst, 2018.

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Titles in the Literary Criticism Series:

• #9 Oblique Identity: form and whiteness in recent Canadian poetry — Carl Watts, 2019
• #8 How Mind & Body Move: the poetry of Patrick Friesen — Maurice Mierau, 2018
• #7 Parallel Universe: the poetries of New Brunswick — Sue Sinclair & Shane Neilson, editors, 2018
• #6 Am, Be: the poetry of Wayne Clifford — by M.Travis Lane, Jeffery Donaldson, Ingrid Ruthig and Shane Nielson, 2018
• #5 How Thought Feels: the poetry of M.Travis Lane — by Jan Zwicky, Jeanette Lynes & Shane Neilson, 2015
• #4 Living in the Orchard: the poetry of Peter Sanger — by Amanda Jernigan, 2014
• #3 Dr. Acorn or: How I Joined the Canadian Liberation Movement & Learned to Love the Stern Nurse Fusion Bomb Sun — by Shane Neilson, 2013

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Titles in the New Brunswick Chapbook Series:

• #11 Ve1xe — text by RM Vaughan; illustrations by D. Boyd, 2019
• #10 This Mud, A Word — by Simon Brown, 2019
• #9 Gnaw & Gnarl — poetry anthology edited by Sue Sinclair and Shane Neilson, 2018
• #8 A Field Guide to Northeastern Bonfires — by Danny Jacobs, 2018
• #7 Blessings — by Jo-Anne Elder, 2018
• #6 One Year After — by RM Vaughan, 2018
• #5 The Varying Hare — by Tammy Armstrong, 2018
• #4 Voyages & Reves — by Hermenegilde Chiasson, 2017
• #3 Core Sample — by Ian LeTourneau, 2017
• #2 mouth human must die — by Lee D. Thompson, 2017
• #1 The Noise of the Weeping of the People — by Nancy Bauer, 2016

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2019 titles — new & forthcoming

• Call Down the Walls — Pearl Pirie (Dis/Ability #5)
Announcement (PDF)
• Conversion - or a theory — Concetta Principe (Dis/Ability #9) Announcement (PDF)
• Death Is a Side-Effect — April Ford (occasional chapbook) Announcement (PDF)
• even the idea of maya is maya — Stuart Ian McKay (Dis/Ability #8) Announcement (PDF)
• For a Long Time — Matthew Tomkinson (Dis/Ability #7) Announcement (PDF)
• Frozen Charlotte — Elizabeth Tessier (Dis/Ability #10)
• How to Lose Friends Without Really Trying — Syd Lazarus (Dis/Ability #11)
• Oblique Identity — Carl Watts (Literary Criticism #9)
Announcement (PDF)
• The Stained Glass Sequence — James Dunnigan (Chapbook Contest '18 winner) Announcement (PDF)
• there is no minor violence just as there is no negligible cough during an aria — Kevin Heslop (occasional chapbook)
• This Mud, A Word — Simon Brown (New Brunswick Chapbook #10)
• Unremembered — Agnes Cserhati (Dis/Ability #6) Announcement (PDF)
• Ve1xe — RM Vaughan; illustrations by D. Boyd (New Brunswick Chapbook #11)
• We, Old Young Ones — Dominik Parisien (Dis/Ability #4) Announcement (PDF)

2018 titles

• Am, Be: the poetry of Wayne Clifford — M.Travis Lane, Jeffery Donaldson, Ingrid Ruthig & Shane Neilson (Literary Criticism #6) Announcement (PDF)
• Anthropocene — Ali Kisat (CC '17 shortlist) Announcement (PDF)
• Blessings — Jo-Anne Elder (NB Chapbook Series #7) Announcement (PDF)
• A Field Guide to Northeastern Bonfires — Danny Jacobs (NB Chapbook Series #8) Announcement (PDF)
• Gnaw & Gnarl (NB Chapbook #9) — HA&L/FHP co-production Sue Sinclair & Shane Neilson, eds. (NB Chapbook Series #9) Announcement (PDF)
• Highly Sensitive Femme — Alessandra Naccarato (CC '17 winner) Announcement (PDF)
• How Mind & Body Move: the poetry of Patrick Friesen (Lit Crit #8) — Maurice Mierau Announcement (PDF)
• On the Oven Sits a Maiden — Alexandra Oliver
  Announcement (PDF)
• One Year After — RM Vaughan (NB Chapbook Series #6) Announcement (PDF)
• Parallel Universe: the poetries of New Brunswick — Sue Sinclair & Shane Neilson, editors (Literary Criticism #7)
• Rhinocerotic — Ellie Sawatzky (CC '17 shortlist)
  Announcement (PDF)
• The Shape of Things — Rilke translations by Geoffrey Cook Announcement (PDF)
• Tantramar Vespers — Christopher Snook (Dis/Ability #2)
  Announcement (PDF)
• Upend — Kevin Spenst (Dis/Ability #1)
  Announcement (PDF)
• The Varying Hare — Tammy Armstrong (NB Chapbook #5)
  Announcement (PDF)
• Windsock — John Barton (Dis/Ability #3)

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OBLIQUE IDENTITY: form and whiteness in recent Canadian poetry

Literary Criticism Monograph #9
by Carl Watts
Cover art by Dave Skyrie

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ISBN 978-1-926948-76-8   2019   Price $20.00

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Ve1xe
New Brunswick Chapbook Series #11

Text by RM Vaughan
Illustrations by D. Boyd

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ISBN 978-1-926948-84-3   2019   Price tba

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THIS MUD, A WORD
New Brunswick Chapbook Series #10

by Simon Brown

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ISBN 978-1-926948-82-9   2019   Price tba

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there is no minor violence just as there is no negligible cough during an aria

by Kevin Heslop
Cover photograph by Derek Boswell

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ISBN 978-1-926948-85-0 2019 Price tba

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DEATH IS A SIDE-EFFECT

by April Ford

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How to Lose Friends Without Really Trying

Dis/Ability Series #11

by Syd Lazarus
Cover art by Madsie Bouffard

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Edition of 100 copies. pages tba
ISBN 978-1-926948-81-2   2019   Price $15.00 (in Canada)

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Frozen Charlotte

Dis/Ability Series #10
by Elizabeth Tessier
Cover art by Yvonne Felix

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ISBN 978-1-926948-83-6   2019   Price $15.00 (in Canada)

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CONVERSION — OR A THEORY

Dis/Ability Series #9
by Concetta Principe
Cover art by Darian Goldin Stahl

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ISBN 978-1-926948-79-9   2019   Price $15.00 (in Canada)

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EVEN THE IDEA OF MAYA IS MAYA

Dis/Ability Series #8
by Stuart Ian McKay
cover art by Stuart Ian McKay

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Edition of 100 copies. 38 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-80-5   2019   Price $15.00 (in Canada)

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FOR A LONG TIME

Dis/Ability Series #7
by Matthew Tomkinson
Cover art by Darian Goldin Stahl

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ISBN 978-1-926948-77-5   2019   Price 15.00 (in Canada)

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UNREMEMBERED

Dis/Ability Series #6
by Agnes Cserhati
Cover art by Carleton Wilson

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ISBN 978-1-926948-75-1   2019   Price 15.00

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THE STAINED GLASS SEQUENCE

Winner of Frog Hollow Press's 2018 Chapbook Contest
James Dunnigan

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Edition of 100 copies. 36 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-72-0   2019   Price $15.00

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CALL DOWN THE WALLS

Dis/Ability Series #5
by Pearl Pirie
Cover art by Trish Malcomess

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ISBN 978-1-926948-74-4   2019   Price 14.00

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We, Old Young Ones

Dominik Parisien
Cover painting by Immy Smith
(Dis/Ability Series #4)

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ISBN 978-1-926948-73-7 2019   Price $14.00

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Windsock

John Barton
Cover painting by James Gordaneer
(Dis/Ability Series #3)

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Edition of 100 copies. 34 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-67-6   2018   Price $13.00

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Tantramar Vespers

(Dis/Ability Series #2)
Christopher Snook
Cover painting by Brenda Powers
(Dis/Ability Series #2)

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Edition of 100 copies. 46 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-64-5   2018   Price $15.00 (incl. s/h) SOLD OUT

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Upend

Kevin Spenst
Cover painting by Karen Colville
(Dis/Ability Series #1)

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Edition of 100 copies. 40 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-65-2   2018   SOLD OUT

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How Mind & Body Move: the poetry of Patrick Friesen

Literary Criticism Monograph: number eight

Maurice Mierau
Cover photograph by Cylla von Tiedemann
Illustrations by Richard Hildebrandt

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ISBN 978-1-926948-71-3   2018   Price $20.00

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Parallel Universe: the poetries of New Brunswick

Literary Criticism Monograph: number seven

Sue Sinclair and Shane Neilson, editors
A co-production of Frog Hollow Press and Hamilton Arts & Letters

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ISBN 978-1-926948-70-6   2018   Price 35.00

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Am, Be: the poetry of Wayne Clifford

Literary Criticism Monograph: number six

Essays by M.Travis Lane, Jeffery Donaldson, Ingrid Ruthig and Shane Neilson.
Shane Neilson, editor
Photographs by M.J. Edwards

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and bound into a soft cover. Endpapers. 112 pages

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ISBN 978-1-926948-61-4   2018   Price $20.00 (incl. s.h)

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How Thought Feels: the poetry of M.Travis Lane

Literary Criticism Monograph: number five
Shane Neilson, editor
Essays by Jan Zwicky, Jeanette Lynes and Shane Neilson

Travis Lane is a sorely neglected poet from New Brunswick. With over fifteen books of poetry published, her poetry has sung largely out of earshot of the Canadian poetry establishment. She is also a humble woman and did not grab the megaphone to force people to listen. In How Thought Feels, Frog Hollow Press grabs the megaphone. Celebrated poet, philosopher, and essayist Jan Zwicky considers Lane's poetics; Jeanette Lynes situates Lane in the ecopoetics tradition; and Shane Neilson considers demographic and thematic factors (especially Lane's superlative moral-ethical-spiritual work) which reinforce Lane's ongoing neglect. Because Lane has served as a poetry reviewer for over fifty years, and because her prose is the spiritual antecedent to the critical prose in this volume, How Thought Feels provides a complete prose bibliography on Lane as well as two unique compiled long poems that scavenge elements from Travis' poetry to make for a coherent statement upon Lane's central concerns as poet.

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Edition of 150 numbered copies. 176 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-23-2   2015   Price $27.50 — $35.00 incl. s.h

See also Literary Criticism monographs
#4 — Peter Sanger
#3 — Milton Acorn

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Living in the Orchard: the Poetry of Peter Sanger

Literary Criticism Monograph: number four
by Amanda Jernigan
Artwork by John Haney

It gives Frog Hollow pleasure to bring together a young, talented Canadian poetry critic with Peter Sanger, dean of Canadian poetry criticism, and an unfairly neglected poet in his own right. Living in the Orchard is Amanda Jernigan's intimate look at Sanger's work and example. Suspicious of biography, Sanger is nonetheless intensely interested in the relationship between art and life: Jernigan considers the intersections between life and letters that his work enacts. Including a comprehensive bibliography of Sanger's prose-works, this monograph is both a major contribution to and a starting point for future Sanger scholarship. It includes new artwork by Jernigan's husband, the visual artist John Haney, making for a tribute to Sanger's own history of word-and-image collaborations. You will feel personally involved in this essay: a story of metamorphosis, it is a metamorphosis in itself.

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ISBN 978-1-926948-15-7   Price $22.

See also
#5 — M.Travis Lane
#3 — Milton Acorn

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Dr. Acorn or: how I joined the Canadian Liberation Movement and learned to love the stern nurse fusion-bomb

Literary Criticism Monograph: number three
by Shane Neilson

Shane Neilson has written an "adventures in creative non-fiction criticism" monograph about Milton Acorn. Shane writes about Acorn's life and work as the example it should be for Canadian poets. Acorn's successes and failures are considered, using the recently released In a Springtime Instant, a collected poems of Acorn released by Mosaic Press, as a foil. The exuberance of Shane's prose attempts to match Acorn's restless energy.

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ISBN 978-1-926948-12-6   Price $17.50

See also literary criticism monographs
#5 — M.Travis Lane
#4 — Peter Sanger

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Gnaw & Gnarl

Sue Sinclair & Shane Neilson, editors
Photograph by James Wilson
New Brunswick Chapbook Series #9

Poetry by Jenna Lyn Albert — Brandon Arnold — Adam Beardsworth — Monica Bolduc — Simon Brown — Spencer Folkins — Kayla Geitzler — Matthew Gwathmey — Juan Carlos Martinez — Jennifer Houle — Elena Johnson — Ian LeTourneau — Neyda Long — Carlos Morales — Angel Moulton — Michael Pacey — Gabriel Robichaud — Emily Skov-Nielsen
Translations by Jo-Anne Elder & Sophie M. Lavoie
Cover photograph by James Wilson
New Brunswick Chapbook Series #9

Sue Sinclair and Shane Neilson wish to apologize to Jenn Carson for failing to include her poem "Dispatches from the suburbs must sound like angels pissing" in Gnaw and Gnarl. The error was discovered by the editors after the chapbook was printed. To attempt to remediate the mistake, Frog Hollow has printed its first ever erratum sheet that will be inserted in all remaining copies of the chapbook.

A co-production of Frog Hollow Press and Hamilton Arts & Letters

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Edition of 100 copies. 58 pp.
ISBN 978-1-926948-69-0   2018   Price CA$ 17.00 (incl.s/h)

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A FIELD GUIDE TO NORTHEASTERN BONFIRES

Poetry by Danny Jacobs
cover by Dave Skyrie
New Brunswick Chapbook Series #8

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Edition of 100 copies. 48 pp.
ISBN 978-1-926948-68-3   2018   Price CA$ 15.00 (incl.s/h)

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BLESSINGS

Poetry by Jo-Anne Elder
Cover photograph by Elisabeth Elder-Gomes
New Brunswick Chapbook Series #7

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ISBN 978-1-926948-66-9   2018   Price CA$ 15.00 (incl.s.h)

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ONE YEAR AFTER

A play by RM Vaughan
New Brunswick Chapbook Series #6

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Edition of 125 copies. 48 pp.
ISBN 978-1-926948-62-1   2018   Price CA$ 15.00

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The Varying Hare

Poetry by Tammy Armstrong
Cover art by Deanna Musgrave
New Brunswick Chapbook Series #5

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Edition of 100 numbered copies. 48 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-59-1   2018   Price CA$15.00

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Voyages & Rêves

Nouveau-Brunswick Series de Chapbooks — volume 4
New Brunswick Chapbook Series #4
By Hermenegilde Chiasson
Cover art & other images by Hermenegilde Chiasson

Please note: this is a French language chapbook.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 46 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-53-9   2017   Price $15.00

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Core Sample

New Brunswick Chapbook Series #3
Poetry by Ian LeTourneau
Cover painting by Dave Skyrie

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 40 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-49-2   2017   Price $15.00 incl. s/h

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mouth human must die

New Brunswick Chapbook Series #2
Short fiction by Lee D. Thompson
Cover art by Dave Skyrie

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 48 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-38-8   2017   Price 15.00 (incl. s/h)

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The Noise of the Weeping of the People

New Brunswick Chapbook Series: volume one
Short Fiction by Nancy Bauer

Nancy Bauer was born in Massachusetts and moved to NB in 1965. She has received awards like the CBC Literary Award for the short story in 1982 and the Alden Nowlan Award for Literary Excellence in 1999. She co-founded the Maritime Writers' Workshop, served as a member of the organizing committee of the Writers' Federation of NB, and held the writer-in-residence position at UNB. This is her first bound publication in over twenty years.

New Brunswick Chapbook Series:

Nancy Bauer released 25 chapbooks as publisher of the New Brunswick Chapbook series. Authors in the series included some names that form the firmament of Canadian Literature, including a chapbook of poetry by David Adams Richards. The cover of The Noise of the Weeping of the People is inspired by the original design used on those same chapbooks, originally commissioned from Fredericton-located (but nationally renowned) artists Bruno Bobak and Marjory Donaldson. Our Volume One (2016) features an architectural drawing of the Arts ad Library Groups at the University of New Brunswick — the University has graciously granted us permission to use this image. Nancy Bauer's chapbook will be the first entry in a revisioned New Brunswick Chapbook series published by Frog Hollow Press.

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Limited edition of 125 numbered copies. 34 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-36-2   2016   Price $12.00 — $15.00 incl. s/h

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The first 3 titles in The New Brunswick Chapbook Series are being offered at a discounted price. Due to increased postage for US and other International locations, it is being offered to Canadians only. For non-Canadian locations, please e-mail us for the correct price. The New Brunswick Chapbook Series consists of 3 titles:

• #1 The Noise of the Weeping of the People — short fiction by Nancy Bauer (2016)
• #2 mouth human must die — short fiction by Lee D. Thompson (2017)
• #3 Core Sample — poetry by Ian LeTourneau (2017)

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On the Oven Sits a Maiden

Poetry by Alexandra Oliver

13 Poems based on Jan Kadar and Elmer Klos's The Shop on Main Street

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Edition of 100 copies
ISBN 978-1-926948-60-7   2018   Price $13.00 incl. s.h

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The Shape of Things: translations From Rilke's Neue Gedichete (1907 and 1908)

(German originals & English translations)
Geoffrey Cook

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Edition of 100 copies. 46 pp.
ISBN 978-1-926948-55-3   2018   Price $15.00 incl.s.h

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2017 FHP Chapbook Contest (published in 2018)

• Winner: Alessandra Naccarato — Highly Sensitive Femme
• Shortlist: Ellie Sawatzky — Rhinocerotic
• Shortlist: Ali Kisat — Anthropocene

Highly Sensitive Femme

Poetry by Alessandra Naccarato

Winner of the 2017 Frog Hollow Chapbook Contest

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 46 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-54-6   2018   Price CA$ 13.00

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Rhinocerotic

Poetry by Ellie Sawatzky

Shortlisted for the Third Frog Hollow Chapbook Contest

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Edition of 100 numbered copies. 46 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-58-4   2018   SOLD OUT

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Anthropocene

Poetry by Ali Kisat

Shortlisted for the Third Frog Hollow Chapbook Contest

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and bound into a soft cover. Endpapers.

Edition of 100 numbered copies. 36 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-56-0   2018   Price CA$13.00 (incl. s/h)

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Safe Spaces

Poetry & illustrations by Conor Mc Donnell

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ISBN 978-1-926948-52-2   2017   Price $13.00

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An Equally Uncharitable Wonderland

Poetry by Shane Neilson

Inspired by:
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Tom Waits' album Alice
George A. Walker's Alice wood engravings
Illustrated with wood engravings by George A. Walker as well as some adaptations of the original Tenniel images.

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Edition of 100 numbered copies. 44 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-50-8   2017   Price 13.00

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The City Series: number 6 — Montreal

Patrick O'Reilly, editor

The Poets:
Jake Byrne — Lily Chang — Rhiannon Collett — Lars Horn — Kasia Juno — Karissa Larocque — Eli Jack Lynch — Madeleine Maillett — Ally Turner — William Vallieres.

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Edition of 100 numbered copies. 40 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-37-9   2016   Price $10.00 (incl. postage).

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Titles in The City Series:

• #6 — Montreal (2017) — ISBN 978-1-926948-51-5
• #5 — Halifax (2016) — ISBN 978-1-926948-37-9
• #4 — Edmonton (2016) — ISBN 978-1-926948-34-8
• #3 — Toronto (2016) — ISBN 978-1-926948-31-7
• #2 — Fredericton (2015) — ISBN 978-1-926948-28-7
• #1 — Vancouver (2015) — ISBN 978-1-926948-26-3

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ISBN 978-1-926948-26-3, 28-7, 31-7, 34-8, 37-9 and 51-5   2015-2017   CA$48.00

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Right Hand Hymns

Poetry Chapbook by Aidan Chafe

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 32 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-38-8   2017   Price $13.00(incl. s/h)

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2016 CHAPBOOK CONTEST (published in 2016-17) Co-winners:

Cowinners:

• Daniel Cowper
• Andy Verboom and David Huebert

Shortlist:

• Dominique Bernier-Cormier
• Janice Colbert
• Chris Johnson
• Brian Palmu
• Jim Roberts
• Shaun Robinson
• Carl Watts

The God of Doors

Poetry by Daniel Cowper

Co-winner (with Andy Verboom & David B. Huebert) of the Second Frog Hollow Chapbook Contest.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 40 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-40-9   2017   $13.00 (incl. s/h)

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Full Mondegreens

Poetry by Andy Verboom and David B. Huebert

Co-winners (with Daniel Cowper) of the Second Frog Hollow Chapbook Contest.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 32 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-39-3   2016   Price $15.00 (incl. s/h)

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Englishing

Poetry Chapbook by Dominique Bernier-Cormier

Shortlisted for our Second Chapbook Contest.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 34 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-44-7   2017   $13.00 (incl. s/h)

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Rose and Brine

Poetry Chapbook by Janice Colbert
Cover based on painting by Janice Colbert

Shortlisted for our Second Chapbook Contest.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 48 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-41-6   2016   Price $10.00 (incl. s/h)

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Listen Partisan! And other stumbling Haibun

Poetry Chapbook by Chris Johnson

Shortlisted for our Second Chapbook Contest.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 26 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-42-3   2016   Price $12.50 (incl. s/h)

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Sunset Mathematics

Poetry Chapbook by Brian Palmu

Shortlisted for our Second Chapbook Contest.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 38 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-45-4   2017   Price $13.00 (incl. s/h)

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Left Shoulder Voices

Poetry Chapbook by Jim Roberts
Photographs by Jim Roberts

Shortlisted for our Second Chapbook Contest.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 40 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-46-1   2017   Price $13.00 (incl. s/h)

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Manmade Clouds

Poetry Chapbook by Shaun Robinson

Shortlisted for our Second Chapbook Contest.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 36 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-47-8   2017   Price $13.00 (incl. s/h).

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Reissue

Poetry Chapbook by Carl Watts
Cover art by Michael Pittman

Shortlisted for our Second Chapbook Contest.

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Edition of 125 numbered copies. 36 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-43-0   2016   Price $13.00 (incl. s/h)

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CATALOGUE: 2016 Titles

The City Series: number 5 — Halifax

Chantelle Rideout, editor

The Poets:
Tim Fogarty — Alex Hanam — Justin Kawaja — Erinn Beth Langille — Cory Lavender — Nanci Lee — Maryann Martin — Paul Merrimen — Andrew Patterson — Samantha Sternberg

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Edition of 150 numbered copies. 40 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-37-9   2016   Price   $10.00 (incl. postage).

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The City Series: number four — Edmonton

Claire Kelly, editor

The Poets:
Liam Coady — Joanne Ellison — Aaron Everingham — Gary Garrison — Skye Hyndman — Curtis LeBlanc — Megan Paranich — Nisha Patel — Deborah Faith Ramkhelawan — Matthew Stepanic

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Edition of 150 numbered copies. 42 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-34-8   2016   Price $10.00 (incl. postage)

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Distributaries

Poetry chapbook by Laura McRae

Laura McCrae's debut chapbook is an ambitious long poem that distributes a wide range of film, visual art, and literary references across a personal and public narrative that relies upon water for order, just as humans history has done. Obviously impressive at the level of structure and endurance, the key recommendation we make about this text is its scoured, careful language: McCrae's precision, brevity, and magpie eye make this a quite unusual debut, one that makes each word earn its keep.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and bound into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers.

Edition of 125 numbered copies. 44 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-35-5   2016   Price $17.00 (incl. postage)

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Nobody's Empire

Poetry chapbook by Nathaniel G. Moore

Nathaniel Moore offers readers his trademark poignant nostalgia: love as an adolescent, undercut by goofball and tragic humour. Frog Hollow Press is proud to present this veteran poet in a disciplined way, with Moore's beautiful excess of antique pop imagery and jokes steadily doing the work of poetry.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and bound into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers.

Edition of 125 numbered copies. 28 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-33-1   2016   Price 12.50 - $15.00 incl. s/h

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2015 Titles

Brotherly Love: poems of Sappho and Charaxos

Poetry chapbook by Annick MacAskill

Taking off from recent discoveries, Annick MacAskill creates an alternate, imaginative history-in-poetry involving Sappho and her lesser-known sibling, Charaxos, creating a poetic epistolary conversation that is sharp in image and steeped in wry tenderness. MacAskill is a new voice that animates an ache across the centuries.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers.

Edition of 125 numbered copies. 44 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-32-4   2015   Price $20.00 — $25.00 incl. s/h

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The Child Alone

The Kid Series: volume two
Brian Bartlett, editor
Artwork by Laura Bartlett

For this second volume Brian has chosen "poems about childhood without a parental point-of-view".

The Poets:
Margaret Avison — Tim Bowling — Alice Burdick — Don Coles — Nancy Holmes — M. Travis Lane — Irving Layton — Ross Leckie — Dennis Lee — Sharon McCartney — Carmelita McGrath — Don McKay — Eric Miller — Vanessa Moeller — Alden Nowlan — Eric Ormsby — P. K. Page — James Reaney — Robyn Sarah — Eleonore Schönmaier — Carmine Starnino — Bruce Taylor — Susan Telfer — Patrick Warner

The Kid Series evolves, in this instance with Brian Bartlett selecting poems that involve the theme and subject of childhood, and with the requisite series twist: these poems feature a child-consciousness without the overwhelming presence of a parent speaker. To introduce the volume, Brian has written a superb essay that contextualizes the "kid poem" in Canada and also establishes his own personal vision of the form.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers. Illustrations.

Edition of 150 copies, of which approx. 105 will be for sale. 78 pages.
ISBN 978-1-926948-21-8   2015   Price $21 — $26.00 incl. s/h

See also The Kid Series
#1 — Play: poems about childhood, Shane Neilson, ed.

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The City Series: number two - Fredericton

Rebecca Salazar, Guest Editor

The Poets:
Carson Butts — allison calvern — Benjamin Dugdale — Katie Fewster-Yan — Jennifer Houle — Lisa Jodoin — Micheal Meagher — Patrick O'Reilly — Noah Page — Hayden Wheeler

Rebecca Salazar, a poet gaining prominence in Canada, collects together 10 poets from Fredericton who have yet to publish in chapbook or book form. Her selection provides a snapshot of poetry as it is being written, providing attention to poets who will, like Rebecca, be known based on the quality of the work they've written and work they will write.

Printed on 70 lb. paper and Saddle Stitched (stapled) into a full colour cover. B&W illustrations.

Edition of 150 copies. 40 pages

ISBN 978-1-926948-28-7   2015   Price $10.00 (incl. s/h)

See also The City Series
#6 — Montreal (2017)
#5 — Halifax (2016)
#4 — Edmonton (2016)
#3 — Toronto (2015)
#1 — Vancouver (2015)

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The City Series: number three — Toronto

Jess Taylor: Guest Editor

The Poets:
Eric Bennett — Michelle Brown — Vincent Colistro — Nicole Grimaldi — Canisia Lubrin — F.A. Meier — Hannah Peck — Andrew Williams — Magdalena Wolak — Catriona Wright

Printed on 70 lb. paper and Saddle Stitched (stapled) into a full colour cover. B&W illustrations.

Edition of 150 copies. 40 pages
ISBN 978-1-926948-31-7   2015   Price $10.00 (including postage).

See also The City Series:
#6 — Montreal (2017)
#5 — Halifax (2016)
#4 — Edmonton (2016)
#2 — Fredericton (2015)
#1 — Vancouver (2015)

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Loid

Poetry chapbook by Danny Jacobs
Artwork by Jesse Jacobs

Danny Jacobs already has a reputation as a poet with an impeccable sonic sense. In Loid, Jacobs builds upon his skill with sound and writes poems with heart, formal elegance, and structure. This chapbook suggests his next full-length collection will be unstoppable. Frog Hollow watches this New Brunswicker with real pride!

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers. 44 pp. Edition of 125 numbered copies.

ISBN 978-1-926948-30-0   Price $18.

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The City Series: number one — Vancouver

Michael Prior, Guest Editor
Cover photograph by Amanda Siebert

The Poets:
Emily Chou — Emily Davidson — Ruth Daniell - Sugar le Fae — Megan Jones — Darius Kinney - Allesandra Naccarato — Shazia Hafiz Ramji — Laura Ritland — Shaun Robinson

Wunderkind Michael Prior assembles together ten Vancouver poets who are all unpublished in book or chapbook form. He has sought out talented people whose verse somehow represents his city's poetic and introduced that poetic in personal prose. The poets in The City Series: Vancouver constitute a cross-section of poetry that is diverse, brainy, and emotional, upending stereotypes about Vancouver as a poetry-town.

Printed on 70 lb. paper and saddle-stitched (stapled) into a full-colour paper cover. B&W illustrations. 40 pp.

Edition of 150 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-26-3   Price $10.00 (including postage)

Reviewed in Maisonneuve Magazine.

See also The City Series
#6 — Montreal (2017)
#1 — Halifax (2016)
#4 — Edmonton (2016)
#3 — Toronto (2016)
#2 — Fredericton (2015)

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Factory

Poems by Robert Colman

Rob Colman embraces the theme of factory work and industrial decline to create a poetics of parts. These parts work together to create a kind of found, cut life that mocks white collar hypocrisy as much as it satirizes the empty pleasures of sex. In the end, this impressive collection seems to say, there is only verisimilitude and the real pleasure of form.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour paper cover. Endpapers. B&W illustrations. 36 pp.

Edition of 100 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-25-6   SOLD OUT

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Sing to Me in the Cut: Ekphrasis on George Walker by Canadian Poets

Shane Neilson, editor
Wood engravings by George A. Walker

George Walker is one of the transcendent artists of our time. That he largely works in wood engravings has limited his popular appeal but recent efforts (like Walker's The Life and Times of Conrad Black, a biography of Conrad Black published by the Porcupine's Quill & The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook, also from the Porcupine's Quill, also a biographical mosaic of its famous subject) will change that. Early accomplishments will cement his legacy too: Walker was the first Canadian to illustrate Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Walker's track record transforming other cultural materials into art has now been paid back in a very preliminary sense: Frog Hollow Press' Sing to me in the cut is a book of ekphrasis by Canadian poets who have responded to images in either of Walker's The Inverted Line (PQL 2000) or Images from the Neocerebellum (PQL 2007). Poem and wood engravings are paired in the book, demonstrating that Walker has inspired several generations of Canadian poets. The poets range from mature, generation-leading talents like Al Moritz to up-and-comers like Blair Trewartha. Each poet answers George's incredible work, agreeing that, yes, the roads are their veins; the moon matters; portraits are always of pain; that there's something not right with the picture.

The Poets:
Brian Bartlett — John Barton — Stephanie Bolster
Wayne Clifford — Jim Johnstone — Katie Jordon
M.Travis Lane — Ross Leckie — Nyla Matuk
Sharon McCartney — Al Moritz — Sandy Pool
Michael Prior — Peter Richardson — Blair Trewartha

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Edition of 150 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-22-5   Price $22.

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CATALOGUE: 2014 Titles

Play: Poems About Childhood

The Kid Series: volume one
Shane Neilson, editor
Artwork by Kazuo Neilson

Shane Neilson has collected together poems about childhood and parenthood by over 25 Canadian poets. The list of assembled poets is a holistic who's who of Canadian poetry: Christian Bok, George Elliott Clarke, Alden Nowlan, Steven Heighton, Ken Babstock, Milton Acorn, Susan Holbrook, Travis Lane, Wayne Clifford, and more. These poems served Shane during the year his son and daughter were ill. An introductory essay provides a cognitive mapping of the provenance of the anthology, situating the poems that come afterward. Part scholarly, part impression, and all record of a difficult time, this is an unusual, idiosyncratic anthology that follows an emotional logic. The poems build a narrative of beauty, destruction, defiance, and life.

Play: Poems About Childhood is the first in a planned series of such "rotating personal canon" anthologies, and future anthologists in the series will put their stamp on the same topic by including poems that they apply to their own lives.

The Poets:
Milton Acorn — Ken Babstock — Gary Barwin
Derek Beaulieu — Linda Besner — Gregory Betts
Christian Bok — Mark Callanan — Margaret Christakos
George Elliott Clarke — Wayne Clifford
Jesse Patrick Ferguson — Steven Heighton
Susan Holbrook — Jim Johnstone — Katie Jordon
M.Travis Lane — Ian Letourneau — Laura Lush
A.F. Moritz — bpNichol — Alden Nowlan — Mark Sampson
Nick Thran — Zachariah Wells

Printed on 80 lb. archival and acid-free Mohawk Via 'vellum' and released as a numbered limited edition, Smyth-sewn book; endpapers of Nepalese Lokta. Typeset in Warnock Pro with P22's Kaz Pro for display.

Edition of 150 numbered copies, of which approx. 105 will be for sale.
ISBN 978-1-926948-18-8   Price $22

See also Kid Series
#2 — The Child Alone, Brian Bartlett, ed.

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CATALOGUE: EARLIER TITLES IN PRINT

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 originally offered in an edition of 150 hand-sewn Coptic-bound books. In 2008, the remaining 35 copies were commercially bound in a traditional cloth-over-boards format.
Hand-printed on Magnani Book Biblos, a mould-made paper from Italy; endpapers are cotton paper.

Edition of 150 numbered copies, including 25 for private distribution. 96 pp.
ISBN 0-9735847-0-X SOLD OUT

REVIEWS

Robert Moore, Books in Canada, January-February 2006.
Eric Marks, The New Brunswick Reader, November 5, 2005.
Vincent Hanlon, The Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 173, July 19, 2005.

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The Book of Widows

Contemporary Canadian Poets: Volume 6.
New poems by M.Travis Lane
Wood engravings by George A.Walker

Notes from the Editor: "Travis Lane has crafted a book comprised of grief: the first half is devoted to grieving myths, taking famous widows and their kicking sorrows; the second half is visceral grief, the poet's own, focusing on the death of her husband and its aftermath. This is a morbid collection in the best sense: funereal and felt, a resigned protest against what can't be fought, the inevitability of all things returning to poetry." - Shane Neilson

REVIEWS

The Book of Widows was reviewed by Patricia Young in The Fiddlehead, #244 Summer 2010 Poetry Issue, pp. 206-208.

Offered in two bindings, both of which are 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. 64 pp

Deluxe Edition: (HC) An edition of 30 numbered case-bound books, unbleached cotton Japanese bookcloth-over-board with batik endpapers, flyleafs, headbands.
ISBN 978-0-9810354-9-9   2010   SOLD OUT.

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 70 numbered Smyth-sewn books with covers of mould-made Saint-Armand 'white cotton' paper; batik flyleaf.
ISBN 978-1-9865437-0-8   2010   SOLD OUT.

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John Glassco and the Other Montreal

Canadian Masters Series: volume two
Selections and essay by Carmine Starnino
Original portrait by Wesley Bates

"Unsmiling and seigneurial, John Glassco stares out from the back of his 1971 Selected Poems. He is sixty-two. His mustache is trimmed, his ascot crisp; a pampered air attends his expression…

Glassco — Buffy, to friends — was at the height of his prestige not only as a poet (Selected Poems would go on to win the Governor-General's Award for Poetry) but as a diversely gifted man of letters. Memoirs of Montparnasse, a sparkling evocation of Paris during the 1920s, had been published to wide acclaim the previous year. It was joined by The Poetry of French Canada in Translation, a landmark anthology where nearly half the contributions were done by his own hand. Adding to these achievements were critical essays, book reviews, short stories, even pornographic novels…
A first-rate stylist, Glassco regarded writing as a challenge best overcome by panache. No matter the genre, he always showed the world a well-cut form. He ran with a pack of Montreal poets, among them F.R. Scott and Ralph Gustafson, who brought something courtly and sophisticated to Canadian Literature…"

And so begins Carmine Starnino's introduction to the book.

REVIEWED BY:

George Fetherling, "Remembering Glassco" in CNQ, Canadian Notes and Queries,   Number 83,   Summer/Fall 2011, pp. 82-84.

Andrew Lesk, "Two Books on John Glassco" in The Malahat Review,   Number 176,   Fall 2011.

Reviews of Brian Busby's A Gentleman of Pleasure (Montreal, McGill-Queen's, 2011) and our John Glassco and the Other Montreal, essay and selections by Carmine Starnino.

Offered in two limited edition bindings and printed on archival and acid-free 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell Text. Typeset in 'Filosofia' designed by Zuzana Licko of Émigré Fonts with titling in 'Tisa' designed by Mitja Miklavcic. 88 pp.

Deluxe Edition:(HC) An edition of 40 numbered copies, red silk Japanese bookcloth-over-boards, endpapers of reproduction French marbled papers, woven silk head- and tail-bands. (11 copies remain)
ISBN 978-0-9735847-1-4   2011   Original price was $60

Regular Edition (PB) An edition of 70 numbered copies, Smyth-sewn into a cover of bespoke Saint-Armand mould-made paper, batik paper for flyleafs.(23 copies remain)
ISBN 978-0-9735847-5-2   2011   Original price was $40

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Seawrack

Contemporary Canadian Poets, volume 7
Poetry by David Helwig
Cover art by George Loewen

David Helwig has written two-handed poetry: a lyrical seasonal record appears in series with a strange, discomfiting, valedictory narrative. The seasonal record is short and tight, the odd narrative explosive in subject and in emotion. Helwig has already found acclaim as a poet but this book will surprise his devoted readers and should attract new ones.

Offered in two bindings, both of which have been printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Superfine Text. Covers have been printed using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. Typeface: Sabon, designed by Jan Tschichold. 108 pp.

Deluxe Edition:(HC) An edition of 30 numbered case-bound books, cloth-over-board; printed on a white cotton Japanese bookcloth; Nepalese Lokta endpapers; headband.

ISBN 978-1-926948-09-6   2013   Original price $60.00.

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 80 numbered Smyth-sewn books with a St-Armand white cotton cover and Nepalese Lokta flyleafs.

ISBN 978-1-926948-10-2   2013   Original price $28.00.

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Small Data

by Steve Noyes

Featuring short, tight lyrics of lexical exuberance, Small Data showcases the best work of Steve Noyes' career to date. This small collection builds on Noyes' familiar humour and emotion, adding to the data already compiled about Noyes: a deft showman.

Printed on 80 lb. archival and acid-free Mohawk Via 'vellum', this book has been released as a numbered limited edition, Smyth-sewn chapbook. Covers and endpapers are also of Mohawk Via. Typeset in 'Bembo Book', designed by Robin Nicholas and based on Stanley Morison's 1929 version of the original 15th century cuts.

Edition of 125 numbered copies. 48 pp.
ISBN 978-1-926948-17-1   Original price $20.

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Approaches to Poetry:
the pre-poem moment (anthology)

Edited by Shane Neilson.

Essays & Poems by: Mark Abley - Brian Bartlett - John Barton - Stephanie Bolster - Tim Bowling - Ron Charach - Evie Christie - Wayne Clifford - Geoffrey Cook - Jason Dewinetz - Crispin Elsted - Ben Hart - Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst - Amanda Jernigan - Jim Johnstone - Monica Kidd - M.Travis Lane - Nyla Matuk - Alison Pick - Harold Rhenisch - Claire Sharpe - Goran Simic - Sue Sinclair - David Solway - Carmine Starnino - Sara Tilley - Zachariah Wells.

"The origin of poetry is presumed to be song; but what is the origin of the poem? This anthology attempts to explain the origins of original poems by asking 27 poets to create a dialogue with a favourite poem (their own) in the form of an essay.

Offered in two bindings, both printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. Covers are printed on Japanese silk bookcloth and on custom-made St-Armand papers using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. 208 pp.

Deluxe Edition: (HC) Edition of 30 numbered case-bound books, cloth-over-board; endpapers; headband.
ISBN 978-0-9810354-4-4   2009   Regular price was $70.

Regular Edition: (PB) Edition of 200 numbered copies, of which #90-200 will be for sale. Smyth-sewn; paper cover; flyleaf.
ISBN 978-0-9810354-5-1   2009   Regular price was $40.

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OUT-OF-PRINT TITLES

For a complete list of our out-of-print titles please see the drop-down menu at the top of the Catalogue section.

Against
Contemporary Canadian Poets: Volume 3

Poems by Sharon McCartney.
Wood engravings by George A. Walker

ISBN 978-0-97357847-8-3   Hard copy   2007
ISBN 978-0-9735747-9-0   Regular version   2007

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Commentary on a Non-Existent Self-Portrait

Poetry by Katie Jordon
Cover art & illustrations by Hayden Menzies

Cover and text were printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Superfine; the binding is Smyth-sewn binding into a soft cover; full-colour illustrations. Flyleafs: Nepalese Lokta — Font: Arno Pro. 48 pp.

Edition of 100 copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-06-5   2012

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The Critique of Pure Reason

Contemporary Canadian Poets, volume 8
Poetry by Ross Leckie
Cover art by George Raab

Offered as a limited edition sewn chapbook of 45 pp. Printed on 57 lb. 100% PCW paper with a full-colour cover featuring an etching and aquatint by George Raab. Endsheets. Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro. Edition of 125 numbered copies.

ISBN 978-1-926948-13-3   2013

Due to the demand for copies of "The Critique of Pure Reason" which has outstripped our supply, we have agreed to print a second edition of 200 unnumbered copies which will be distributed by the Author. ISBN for the second edition is 978-1-926948-19-5
To order copies, please email Ross Leckie at Leckie@unb.ca with "Critique" in the subject line.

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Elegies

Poetry chapbook by Madeline Bassnett

Chapbook. Printed on 70 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum, hand-sewn into a cover of Khadi cotton rag; coloured illustrations. 32 pp. 100 copies.

ISBN 978-1-926948-04-1   2011   SOLD OUT

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Epoch

Poetry by Jim Johnstone
Artwork by Michael Pittman

Printed on Mohawk Via 'vellum', this book has been released as a numbered limited edition, Smyth-sewn chapbook with covers printed on archival and acid-free St-Armand's 'white cotton' and flyleafs of Japanese Yamato Chiri. 44 pp. Edition of 100 numbered copies.

ISBN 978-1-926948-11-9   2013   SOLD OUT

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Exhibition Catalogue

Poetry by Claire Sharpe

ISBN 978-0-9865437-8-4   2011

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Exterminate My Heart

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

REVIEWS:

In Prairie Fire online Review of Books (January 2009) by Andrew Vaisius; in The Fiddlehead (Summer 2008, #236, pp.174-7) by Karen Schindler; and in Thirsty: a Biblioasis Miscellany (Apr. 13, 2008) by Dan Wells.

Deluxe Edition — ISBN 978-0-9784232-0-9   2008
Regular Edition — ISBN 978-0-9784232-1-6   2008

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Fatherhood:
The Poetry of Wayne Clifford

Literary Criticism Monograph: number one
by Shane Neilson

This 36-page chapbook has been printed in an edition of 100 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine Text and hand-sewn into a cover of Canson Mi-Teintes; flyleafs are Nepalese Lokta. Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro.

ISBN 978-1-926948-01-0   2011

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Friar Biard's Primer to the New World

an illustrated poem
Poetry by Asa Boxer
Illustrations by James Hillis

48 pp. Chapbook printed on 70 lb paper.

Edition of 150 numbered copies of which #43-150 are for sale.
ISBN 978-1-926948-08-9   2013   Original price $25

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Homing Instinct

Poetry by Shoshanna Wingate

REVIEWED BY:

Peter Crymble on The Fiddlehead News blog:
"Show Me the Way to Go Home: Place & Belonging in Shoshanna Wingate's Homing Instinct", March 14, 2012.

ISBN 978-1-926948-03-4   2011.

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Knife in the Head
(Suicide by Morphine and Paris Green)

Short Story by Mark Anthony Jarman

Offered in two limited edition bindings and printed on archival and acid-free 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell Text. 48 pp.

Deluxe Edition — ISBN 978-0-9865437-3-9   2010
Regular Edition — ISBN 978-0-9865437-4-6   2010

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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.

Originally offered in two bindings, both printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. Covers printed on linen bookcloth and mould-made cotton and sisal papers using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. Typeset in Adobe Jenson Pro roman and swash italics. 80 pp.

Deluxe ISBN 978-0-9810354-2-0   2009
Regular ISBN 978-0-9810354-3-7   2009

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Looking for Tito

Short stories by Goran Simic

Offered in two limited edition bindings, both printed on archival and acid-free 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell Text. 96 pp.

Deluxe Edition: (HC) An edition of 30 numbered copies, Japanese bookcloth over boards, endpapers, flyleafs and headbands.
ISBN 978-0-9810354-7-5   2010

Regular Edition: (PB) An edition of 70 numbered copies, Smyth-sewn into a cover of Saint-Armand mould-made paper, flyleafs.
ISBN 978-0-9810354-8-2   2010

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Milk Teeth

Poetry chapbook by Daniel Kincade Renton
Artwork by Eva Brannen

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers.

Edition of 125 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-27-0   2015   Price $18

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Miracle Mile

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

Originally offered in two bindings, this book was printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. Covers were printed on bookcloth and mould-made papers using an Epson printer with K3 pigment inks. Typeset in Sabon. 48 pp.

Deluxe Edition — ISBN 978-0-9784232-4-7   2008
Regular Edition — ISBN 978-0-9784232-5-4   2008

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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.

Offered in two bindings and printed on Magnani Biblos. Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro with ITC Garamond Handtooled for display. 80 pp.

Deluxe Edition — ISBN 978-0-9735847-2-1   2007
Regular Edition — ISBN 978-0-9735847-3-8   2007

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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.

Originally printed on Magnani Biblos and Smyth-sewn into an inner cover of St-Armand Sisal with a letterpressed wrap of handmade St-Armand Old Masters paper. Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro with ITC Garamond Handtooled for display. 144 pp.

ISBN 978-0-9735847-6-9   2007

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Proofs & Equational Love:
the poetry of Jim Johnstone

Literary Criticism Monograph: number two
by Jason Guriel and Shane Neilson

This 32-page chapbook originally published in 2011 in an edition of 100 numbered copies has been revised and is no longer available under this title. Please see our 2014 entries for the new edition.

ISBN 978-1-926948-02-7

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Road Trips

Short stories by Rebecca Rosenblum

Originally offered in two limited edition bindings and printed on archival and acid-free 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell Text. 48 pp.

Deluxe Edition — ISBN 978-0-9865437-1-5   2010
Regular Edition — ISBN 978-0-9865437-2-2   2010

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Sea Legend

Poems by Mark Callanan

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 BP NICHOL CHAPBOOK AWARD
WINNER OF AN ALCUIN BOOK DESIGN AWARD, 2010

Originally offered as a hand-sewn chapbook (ISBN 978-0-9810354-6-8), this title has now sold out. However, Mark Callanan has posted an electronic version which can be viewed at:
http://issuu.com/markcallanan/docs/sealegend

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A Set of Deadly Negotiations

Sonnets by George Murray.

Letterpressed chapbook.

Originally published as a hand-printed chapbook with text on Magnani Biblos; handsewn into an inner cover of Indian-made paper with an outer wrap of St. Armand 'charcoal'. 40 pp.

ISBN 978-0-9732776-9-2   2005

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The Stages of J.Gordon Whitehead

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

Originally offered in two bindings, this book is printed on acid-free, archival 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell paper. 48 pp.

Deluxe Edition — ISBN 978-0-9784232-6-1   2008
Regular Edition — ISBN 978-0-0784232-7-8   2008

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Swan Dive

Poetry by Michael Prior
Cover and artwork by Angela Yen

Reviewed by Jay Ruzesky in The Malahat Review.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers. 40 pp.

ISBN 978-1-926948-24-9

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their blue drowning

Poetry by Dean Steadman
Paintings by Francoise Steadman

Offered in two limited edition bindings and printed on archival and acid-free 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell Text. 112 pp.

Deluxe Edition — ISBN 978-0-9865437-5-3   2010   SOLD OUT
Regular Edition — ISBN 978-0-9865437-6-0  2010   SOLD OUT

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The Thing about Things

Short story by Andrew Hood

Offered in two limited edition bindings and printed on archival and acid-free 80 lb. Mohawk Eggshell Text. 40 pp.

Deluxe Edition — ISBN 978-0-9865437-9-1   2011
Regular Edition — ISBN 978-1-926948-00-3   2011

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We Are Not the Bereaved

Poetry by Jesse Eckerlin
Cover art & illustrations by Joshua Bastien

Cover and text printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Superfine; Smyth-sewn into a soft cover; flyleafs of Nepalese Lokta. 48 pp. Edition of 100 copies.

ISBN 978-1-926948-05-8   2012

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