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January 2017

Wednesday January 25, 2017
Play: “Winners and Losers” in Calgary, AB

Thursday January 26, 2017
Cecily Nicholson at the Anti-Colonial Machine Conference, UBC

Thursday January 26, 2017
Anti-Colonial Machine Conference (Cecily Nicholson)

Thursday January 26, 2017
Poetry Reading: Stephen Collis at SFU in Burnaby, BC

Friday January 27, 2017
Play: “Halo” by Josh MacDonald in Abbotsford, BC

Monday January 30, 2017
Play: “The (Post) Mistress” in West Vancouver, BC

Monday January 30, 2017
Play: “Crees in the Caribbean” in Thunder Bay, ON

Tuesday January 31, 2017
Presentation: Bev Sellars at the UBC Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)

February 2017

Thursday February 2, 2017
Play: “You Will Remember Me” at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, BC

Friday February 10, 2017
Jónína Kirton at the Emerging Leaders in Publishing Summit 2017, SFU

Saturday February 18, 2017
Galiano Island Literary Festival (5 Talon authors attending)

Wednesday February 22, 2017
Poetry Reading: Jónína Kirton at the Real Vancouver Writers Series

March 2017

Tuesday March 7, 2017
Play: “You Will Remember Me” at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal

Wednesday March 8, 2017
Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival, Vancouver

Sunday March 12, 2017
Dead Poets Reading Series: Shazia Hafiz Ramji reads Judith Fitzgerald

Friday March 24, 2017
Play: “Winners and Losers” in Portland, OR

April 2017

Thursday April 27, 2017
Talonbooks Spring Poetry Launch!

May 2017

Thursday May 4, 2017
Play: “Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth” in Kamloops, BC

July 2017

Thursday July 6, 2017
Play: “Hosanna” at the Centaur Theatre, Montreal

Post-War Apology and Reconciliation

A retired officer in the US army has apologized to the German army for the mass deaths of German prisoners in US army camps after World War Two. Following extensive private investigations in the US and Germany, Merrit P. Drucker (retired) has sent an e-mail to Lt. Col. Max Klaar, Bundeswehr (retired), head of the Verband der deutscher Soldaten (German Veterans’ Association), regretting the lethal conditions in the US camps where some 750,000 Germans died while they were denied available food and shelter.

Drucker has also formed a committee of six people, in Germany, the UK, Canada and the US to pursue further investigations and make amends by way of apologies to the families of the dead, and veterans’ institutions. Drucker’s first e-mail letter has been posted on the veterans’ website where there is also a questionnaire asking for details of prisoners’ internment.

The book Other Losses by James Bacque, which helped to set off the investigation, is being re-issued in an American edition in October. The launch will be held in Washington in the Marriott Hotel where Drucker plans to present a formal letter of apology to Klaar who is flying over for the occasion. Klaar will present in his turn a proposal for a peace treaty between the USA and Germany. It has 14 points. Two films about postwar Germany are included in the program.

Other Losses, a world-wide best-seller published in 13 countries, has been suppressed in the US for over 20 years. The new edition is being published by Talonbooks of Vancouver, whose editor, Karl Siegler, is the son of a former prisoner in a US army camp. When his father told him what had happened to him in the US camp, Siegler said, “I don’t believe you.” He changed his mind after reading Other Losses. Because of such sad events, Lt. Colonel Klaar has said that “Germany is a country of wounded souls.” Many Germans have already written to Major Drucker to thank him for taking a heavy weight of grief and guilt off their minds.

TIME AND PLACE Monday, October 31, 2011, at the Courtyard US Capitol Marriott Hotel, 1325 Northeast Street, Washington, DC 20002, (202) 898-4000. The meeting will be in the Congressional and Monument Rooms. Time TBA.

REQUESTS FOR INTERVIEWS Please contact Talonbooks: (604) 444-4889.

For further information, contact Kevin Williams (kevin@talonbooks.com) or James Bacque at (705) 549-8148 or Merrit P. Drucker at (202) 722-6716.

• “Winners and Losers” opens in Calgary tomorrow!
• Tomorrow! Stephen Collis on Gabriola Island
• Cecily Nicholson is the new writer in residence at SFU
• Danielle LaFrance and Anahita Jamali Rad are in Calgary for the Flywheel Reading Series
• Enter Time with Colin Browne and Charles Edenshaw
• This weekend: Carl Peters at the MLA Convention in Pennsylvania
• Happy holidays from Talonbooks! What a year 2016 has been…
• All Fall 2016 plays are now available!
• Watch the trailer for the new movie based on Maylis de Kerangal’s novel, Mend the Living
• Save the date! False Starts launches in Montreal on November 8
• Opening tomorrow! Empire of the Son at the Cultch, Vancouver
• Read Local BC 2016
• Fred Wah and Colin Browne at the Vancouver Writers’ Fest this past weekend
• Our Fall 2016 books are launched!
• Tomorrow: Talon’s big fall launch!
• Thanks for a great reading, Victoria!
• Join M.A.C. Farrant at Munro’s in Victoria to launch The Days
• Phinder Dulai in NYC, Montreal, and Saint Catherines in early/mid-October
• Prairie Harbour is a finalist for the Governor General’s Awards!
• All the Fall 2016 poetry is in the house!
• Talonbooks at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show
• Karen X. Tulchinsky is Richmond’s Writer in Residence this fall
• Photos from WORD Vancouver 2016
• bill bissett wins Pandora Award!
• This Sunday: WORD Vancouver!
• Bev Sellars in Vancouver this week
• U Girl has arrived!
• George F. Walker’s new website is launched
• Talonbooks is British Columbia’s Publisher of the Year!
• Price Paid is already a BC bestseller!
• U Girl on the radio
• This fall, hear readings from Once in Blockadia along the Cascadia coast
• Price Paid has arrived!
• Reviews of The Days are in!
• Another great review of U Girl
• The first review is in: Ubyssey loves U Girl
• Oana Avasilichioaei on the East Coast this September!
• The dog days of summer, and The Days of Fall
• On stage now! “Salt-Water Moon” at the Pacific Theatre in Vancouver
• Tomorrow! Carl Peters talks Gertrude Stein at People’s Co-op Books, Vancouver
• Tonight in New York City, the Poets House Poetry Publication Showcase opens New York City
• Starting today! Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival 2016​
• Running on Fumes has arrived!
• Fall 2016 previews!
• Opening this Friday at the Vancouver Art Gallery: Colin Browne’s Emily Carr and Wolfgang Paalen exhibit
• Tomorrow night, the 2016 Woodcock and Ryga Awards will be presented
• On Monday, June 27 in Vancouver, the 2016 Jessie Awards will be presented
• A new home for Ralph Maud’s Charles Olson library
• Canadians and the Panama Papers: We’re not as innocent as we think we are
• Two new reviews of Mend the Living
• Tomorrow in Toronto! Lakeside Play Readings
• The Watershed has arrived!
• Talonbooks will be at Congress 2016 this weekend
• Talonbooks at BEA 2016
• Listen: Full audio recording of our recent Vancouver launch
• Book review: Canada, A New Tax Haven in the Vancouver Sun
• Take a ride on the ferry boat, and pick up a great book!
• Tomorrow: Authors for Indies Day across Canada!
• Photos from our big launch last night
• Two quadruple book launches this week!
• Annotating Gertrude Stein, a century later
• This week! Weyman Chan at the Edmonton Poetry Festival
• Now available: “the best script Morris Panych has ever written”
• Photos from the 2nd annual BC Book Day at the British Columbia Legislature
• Our final Spring 2016 poetry title is here – Human Tissue!
• Clint Burnham’s first Talon book!
• Hot off the press: Jason Patrick Rothery’s debut play!
• Alain Deneault warned us about Panama
• The North + South Book Tour – Garry Thomas Morse in the prairies
• Forever Yours, Marie-Lou is on stage in England
• This Saturday in Montreal, join us for the launch of Mend the Living
• Save the date! April 26 – the Talon Spring 2016 Poetry Launch in Vancouver
• Save the date! April 28 – the Talon Spring 2016 Poetry Launch in Calgary
• An honourable mention for Rom Com in the Alcuin Awards!
• Read an interview with Rahat Kurd
• We the Family has arrived!
• Mend the Living is up for the Man Booker International Prize!
• Th Book is the new book
• Jordan Abel’s new book is here!
• Valentine’s Day Specials!
• Rest in peace, Gordon Shillingford
• George Elliot Clarke plugs Prairie Harbour!
• The first book of spring!
• No fewer than nine Talon plays on stage across Canada this spring!
• A look at what’s coming this spring
• Two Talon classics at Toronto’s Factory Theatre this spring!
• Checking in with Cecily Nicholson
• One night only! “Seeds” in Cranbrook, BC
• Best of 2015
• Happy Holidays 2015!
• Songs in the Key of Cree, December 12 & 13 in Toronto
• CBC’s Best Books of 2015
• Judith Fitzgerald: In Memoriam (1952–2015)
• Passing of Judith Fitzgerald
• Scree has arrived!
• Tonight! The Western Front in Vancouver launches its archives
• BC Books Online website launched!
• Today! Lunch Poems at SFU (downtown Vancouver) with Jónína Kirton & Clint Burnham
• Two reviews of Morse’s Prairie Harbour
• “When the Emperor arrived among us, it was as if we had been expecting him.”

Read scenes from Empire of the Son

Empire of the Son is the story of two generations of CBC broadcasters and the radio silence between them. It premiered in Vancouver in 2016 and was nominated for six Jessie Richardson Awards, and Tetsuro Shigematsu is currently touring Empire of the Son across Canada. Empire of the Son is also the first Talon book to be published in the Spring 2017 season – it’s now available! – and we invite you to read brief but tantalizing excerpts on Meta-Talon.

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“New Year’s Day”: A Very Short Story

Happy (Gregorian) New Year! On this occasion, while you are perhaps nursing a hangover or traveling or making resolutions, please enjoy a very short story from M.A.C. Farrant’s book The Days: Forecasts, Warnings, Advice.

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“Kristmas Kraft”: A Very Short Story

Happy Christmas! On Meta-Talon today for your holiday-related cheer (and/or despair), please enjoy a very short story from Down the Road to Eternity by M.A.C. Farrant.

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“Below the Canoe”: Selections from Colin Browne’s new book, Entering Time

During the groundbreaking Charles Edenshaw exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2013, poet Colin Browne found himself returning often to study three large argillite (slate) platters carved by the Haida master in the late 1800s. Browne has since authored Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw, an exploration of the art, history, and folklore behind Edenshaw’s platters. In this newly published book, Browne ranges through the fields of art history, literature, ethnology, and myth to discover a parallel history of modernism within one of the world’s most subtle and sophisticated artistic and literary cultures. On Meta-Talon today, we share selections from Chapters Five and Six of Entering Time.

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