news | Monday November 24, 2025

Talonbooks Distribution Agreement with Login

Exciting distribution news: Talonbooks and Login have announced a new exclusive Canadian distribution agreement! All orders in Canada for Talonbooks titles should be directed to Login as of December 15, 2025. Frontlist orders can be placed with Login immediately. US distribution will still be performed by Consortium.

Sales representation for Talonbooks will continue to be provided by Ampersand, Inc.

Please note that Login will not accept returns of Talonbooks titles that were not purchased from Login. University of Toronto Press is accepting returns of Talonbooks titles until March 15, 2026. Talonbooks titles purchased from Login will be returnable for 12 months.

Standard recall notices will be provided prior to the return date for each book.
Please see lb.ca/returns for Login’s return policy.

About Login

Founded in 1991, Winnipeg-based Login provides customers with access to over 400 publishers, stocks thousands of titles in its Winnipeg and Mississauga distribution centers, and offers over 2 million more. Login is Canadian owned and operated, with over 34 years of investment in the Canadian book and publishing industry.

For more information about Login, visit www.lb.ca.

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news | Friday December 19, 2025

Margaryta Golovchenko Reviews Chambersonic

Margaryta Golovchenko considers Chambersonic by Oana Avasilichioaei alongside Klara du Plessis’ Post-Mortem of the Event in a thoughtful review in the summer 2025 issue of Arc Poetry Magazine. This in-depth piece says that “to read Chambersonic … is to attend a concert that occurs on the page.” Pick up the issue of Arc here.

news | Friday December 19, 2025

ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok in the Rocky Mountain Review

Rob Jackson pens a thoughtful, and in-depth piece about ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn in The Rocky Mountain Review Volume 79, Number 1. Jackson says ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok is “a major event for students and scholars of nêhiyaw ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ thought and communities … By weaving together extensive research, concrete language lessons, and practical wisdom, ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok makes a vital contribution to Indigenous language revitalization, Indigenous political thought, and the grounded resurgence of nêhiyaw ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ lifeways.”

Read the complete piece here.

news | Thursday December 18, 2025

rob mclennan Reviews tours, variously

rob mclennan reviews the new poetry collection tours, variously by Drew McEwan. mclennan says tours, variously is “an exploration of betweenness, becoming and having become, having been the whole time, achieving an exploration not of uncertainty but of seeking, plumbing the depths of language.” Read the complete review here.

news | Wednesday December 17, 2025

Uiesh / Somewhere and th book uv lost passwords 1 on CBC Books

Winner of the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon, translated by Jessica Moore, and th book uv lost passwords 1 by appointee to the Order of Canada bill bissett are featured in CBC Books’ article about books that came out in 2025 by former CBC literary prize winners and finalists. Read the full article here.

news | Tuesday December 16, 2025

rob mclennan Reviews No Depression in Heaven

rob mclennan pens a write up on No Depression in Heaven by ryan fitzpatrick. mclennan reflects on the aspect of nostalgia at play in the text and in country music and more. Check it out here.

news | Wednesday December 10, 2025

bill bissett on Q with Tom Power

Phenom of art and poetry bill bissett is a guest on Q with Tom Power. In addition to sharing poetry, bissett and Power chat about the first poem bissett ever wrote after the passing of his mother, bill’s home planet of lunaria, the role pain might play in creativity, bissett’s dramatic first poetry reading, being a person of interest to the police, and of course, bill’s new book th book uv lost passwords 1. Listen to the full interview here.

news | Wednesday December 10, 2025

An Interview with Jessica Moore

Rita Simonetta connects with Jessica Moore regarding her recent Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation win for her translation of Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon for Concordia University. The pair talk about how Moore got started in translation and what she loves about it. Read their conversation here.

news | Tuesday December 9, 2025

rob mclennan on Stigmata

rob mclennan reviewed the debut collection Stigmata by Scott Jackshaw. mclennan says, “Jackshaw’s lyric multitudes include an element of the monologue, of performance, blending the divine, desire and the profane across a meditative and performative theology of action and interaction.” Read the article here.

news | Saturday December 6, 2025

Mountain Lake PBS on Kisses Deep

There’s a review of Centaur Theatre’s production of Kisses Deep by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau featured on Mountain Lake PBS. The write up states that Kisses Deep “confirms Michel Marc Bouchard as one of Quebec’s most fearless and poetic storytellers … Kisses Deep stitches together the raw complexities of family, ambition, identity, and the desperate human desire to be seen and heard … Linda Gaboriau’s exquisite English translation preserves every rhythmic pulse and lyrical nuance of Bouchard’s original text, offering audiences a version that feels both faithful and fiercely alive.”

Read the complete piece here.

news | Friday December 5, 2025

ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok in The Tyee

New work of nonfiction ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn is featured in The Tyee’s article “10 Perfect BC Books for Everyone on Your Holiday List.” In ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok, quinn uses the spirit marker writing system as a foundation for teaching ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ nêhîyawewin. Check out all of The Tyee’s suggestions here.