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.

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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.

news | Thursday December 4, 2025

Hummingbird in BC BookWorld

Caroline Woodward reviews Hummingbird by Elaine Ávila in BC BookWorld! In her piece, Woodward calls Hummingbird “skillfully layered … Ávila deftly balances the dark and the light, conflict and humour … [a] lively, sophisticated, and textured work of art … with great resonance for all ages.” Read the complete piece here.

news | Wednesday December 3, 2025

rob mclennan Reviews The Book of Z

rob mclennan reviews The Book of Z by Rahat Kurd in periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. mclennan calls the collection “Compelling … furthering a lineage of literary works that seek to provide a perspective that counterpoints and contradicts the male gaze … Kurd articulates a lineage of Persian language and culture, one that moves across centuries of lyric thought … allowing her Zulaykha her own thoughts, her own history, wants, and desires.”

Read the whole piece here.

news | Tuesday December 2, 2025

Cozy Fest 2025: Dina Del Bucchia

Ready to get cozy? Catch poet, author, and literary socialite Dina Del Bucchia reading work from her latest poetry collection, You’re Gonna Love This for Cozy Fest 2025, a series put on by All Lit Up! Celebrate the spirit of the season with Del Bucchia here.

news | Monday December 1, 2025

End-of-Year Shipping Details

Talonites, it’s somehow December again. We’re coming at you with some end-of-year shipping information: all orders placed after December 22, 2025 will be shipped after January 7, 2026. Whether you’re picking up presents or stocking up on books for your own reading pleasure, get your orders in soon!

Happy reading, everyone!

news | Saturday November 29, 2025

Crowd Source Named One of The Grind's Books of the Year

Crowd Source, the latest poetry collection by multi-award winning poet and educator Cecily Nicholson, has been named one of The Grind’s books of the year! Crowd Source focuses on the habits, communications, and twice-daily migration of the crows who stitch across Vancouver’s skies.

The Grind says of Crowd Source: “Here, Nicholson applies her capacious, multi-dimensional imagination to the covenly world of crows. Her language dances like light on water, moving from corvid facts to industrial history, from formal play to anti-colonial instruction, ever restless and shimmering. Nicholson employs mischief as a texture of movement; collective responsibility as a pathway to embodiment. This book is not meant to be just read, but practised.”

Check out all of The Grind’s favourite books of the year here.

news | Friday November 28, 2025

Revolutions Featured on All Lit Up

Author Greg Rhyno has put together a gift guide for book lovers on All Lit Up and Revolutions by Hajer Mirwali is one of his recommendations! Of the collection, Rhyno says, “Mirwali’s inventive use of repetition, shape, and redaction explores the endless cycle of pleasure and shame that informs the identities of many Arab women … Her precise and careful use of language demonstrates a wisdom far beyond her years.” Get your holiday gifting inspiration here.

news | Tuesday November 25, 2025

rob mclennan on Revolutions

Revolutions, the debut poetry collection by Hajer Mirwali is included on rob mclennan’s list of recommended books in this article on 49th Shelf.

Of Revolutions, mclennan says “this collections weaves and interleaves such wonderful structural variety, offering a myriad of threads that swirl around a collision of cultures … [Mirwali] writes of multiple points of departure and relationships to people, to individuals, to geographies and geopolitical crises; she writes of home, of hearth. She writes of the contradictions of where the heart may go and how one connects to the world, seeking solace and urgency, a connection to where part of her might always remain.”

news | Saturday November 22, 2025

ryan fitzpatrick in The Calgary Guardian

The Calgary Guardian ran a profile on the author of No Depression in Heaven ryan fitzpatrick for their “A Day in the Life” segment. Learn more about what poet, author, and editor ryan fitzpatrick is up to here. You may even get a peek at their amazing bookshelf!

news | Friday November 21, 2025

Jovanni Sy on Getting Lit with Linda

Tune in to the latest episode of Canadian literature podcast Getting Lit with Linda with special guest, actor, director, and playwright Jovanni Sy. Linda and students from Bishop’s University interview Sy and talk about Sy’s powerhouse play A Taste of Empire wherein delectable samples from a real-time cooking demonstration offer food for thought about colonialism and the ethics of modern-day food systems. Listen to the episode here or wherever you listen to podcasts.

news | Wednesday November 19, 2025

Dina Del Bucchia on Wax Poetic

Looking for a fun, quick, poetic listen? Tune into this interview with Dina Del Bucchia on Wax Poetic. Del Bucchia shares excerpts from You’re Gonna Love This, chats pop culture, the life of a working class poet, the joys of poetry in transit, and the classic smelter-to-poet pipeline. Listen to episode here.

news | Tuesday November 18, 2025

th book uv lost passwords 1 in The Literary Review of Canada

There’s a review of th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett in the December 2025 issue of The Literary Review of Canada. The write up calls bissett’s latest collection “nothing short of profound.” To get your copy of the latest issue of The Literary Review of Canada to read the full review, click here.

news | Friday November 14, 2025

Hot Off the Press! Heartlines: A Love Story Is Here!

Heartlines: A Love Story, the brand new play by Sarah Waisvisz has arrived back from the printer! Heartlines imagines the extraordinary love, art, and resistance of gender pioneers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. This work of historical fiction takes readers and audiences through the dizzying romance of Cahun and Marcel’s early lives together in the Parisian avant-garde – and the subsequent fracturing of their lives with the rise of nazism. Identities of all kinds are explored, suppressed, and liberated as their love withstands oppression, violence, and time itself.

An excerpt from Heartlines:

“SUZANNE
I won’t actually do that, Claude. But can’t we do something?

CLAUDE
We are doing something. Our job is to not get arrested.

SUZANNE
That’s not enough. I’m sick of doing nothing. I don’t want
to ration paper anymore. I don’t want to eat soup made from
vegetable skins or worry that another of our friends has
disappeared. People are being rounded up! Where the fuck are
they being taken to?

CLAUDE
You need to keep your voice down. Do you think I don’t
know all that? But someone might hear you. We can’t trust
anyone anymore.

SUZANNE
What happened to all your bravado? You’re telling me to keep
my voice down? You? The one who used to dance all night on
the street, drunk, singing with the musicians until you lost your
voice? You, who dragged me into Contre-Attaque with all those
arrogant men like Breton so you could wage surrealist battle on
fascism – you want me to be quiet?

CLAUDE
You’re not the one they’re after. You’re not the Jew.

SUZANNE
I am a Jew too, inside, where it counts. And we’re both
disgusting homosexuals to them.

Pause.

CLAUDE
I know.”

Pick up your copy of this riveting new play here.

news | Thursday November 6, 2025

2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation Winner!

We couldn’t be happier to share that Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon, translated by Jessica Moore has won the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation!

Uiesh / Somewhere is a dual-language poetry collection in Innu-aimun and English. The poems in Uiesh / Somewhere are rooted in Innu Elder Joséphine Bacon’s experiences of moving between the nomadic ways of her Ancestors in the northern wilderness of Nitassinan and the clamour of the city. Wherever she is, Bacon is attentive to the smallest details of her environment, from the moon and the stars, the Northern Lights, and the falling snow, to the sirens of fire engines and the noise of a busy bar night. From her quiet centre, she listens to the voices of the Old Ones, whose stories are alive within her, and reflects on the beauty and the pain of her long life.

The peer assessment committee, comprised of Bilal Hashmi and Dimitri Nasrallah says of Uiesh / Somewhere: “Jessica Moore leans into Innu Elder Joséphine Bacon’s Uiesh/Quelque part with humility, admirable care and sensitivity to space. Through this timely dual-language edition, Moore charts a path for the interpretation of poetry and sharing of wisdom across generations. This is translation at its highest calling—an opening for a wider audience to discover a poet’s life and work.”

A huge congratulations to Joséphine and to Jessica, and to all of this year’s winners! Uiesh / Somewhere is an incredibly special book and we are so pleased that Bacon and Moore’s outstanding work is being celebrated and honoured. If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, pick up your copy here.

news | Wednesday November 5, 2025

Junie Désil in The Vancouver Guardian

Jen Currin

The Vancouver Guardian ran a feature on Junie Désil, author of allostatic load and eat salt | gaze at the ocean for their “A Day in the Life” segment. Get to know this amazing poet (and goat rearer?!) better! Here’s A Day in the Life with Junie Désil.

news | Saturday November 1, 2025

th book uv lost passwords 1 Has Arrived!

It’s here! The latest book from the legendary bill bissett has landed and is ready to wow you. Part poetry collection part novel in verse, th book uv lost passwords 1 is a cosmic experience. It expands on bissett’s multivalent and long-standing poetic practice by rearticulating the novel as a radiant field of sound, image, story, memory, dream, and fantasy. It criss-crosses geographies, hopping on planes and between planes to get to th breth uv th pome and everywhere else.

An excerpt from “th alphabets uv our beings”:

“dayze n nites retreev us
conseev us re create us row
guide n steer us enlarge us
diminish us find sheltr n
recuse releev spin resiliens
clasp each othr in hopeful em
brayce th pineal mysterious

n as th mewsik n lettr s change
sew ar we sumtimes carreeing
what we can or nothing as we
go our mouths suckin in a secret”

th book uv lost passwords 1 oxygenates the brain and soul. Order a copy of your own here.