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.

For information regarding the distribution agreement, please contact:

Login at 1 (800) 665-1148 or (204) 837-2987.

news | Wednesday February 18, 2026

An Interview with Hajer Mirwali

Manahil Bandukwala interviews Hajer Mirwali about her debut poetry collection Revolutions! The duo discuss the incorporation of Arabic texting code into Mirwali’s poems, Mona Hatoum’s + and –, and the experience of reading your work in front of an audience. Read the full exchange here in periodicities.

news | Saturday February 14, 2026

Happy Valentine's Day from Talonbooks

Happy Valentine’s Day! We may not have glittery little cards with even littler mazes on the back to put in a decorated paper bag for you, but we still have offerings to make this day of chocolates and impossible-to-get reservations at restaurants more fun. You guessed it! It’s books! These books draw their power from desire, heartbreak, connection, identity, and above all, love.

1. Whale Riding Weather by Bryden MacDonald

Whale Riding Weather is a love story in which a faded old queen finds his life slipping away from him along with his young lover, who meets a new, younger man. Messy, painful, moving, and lovely, this is a must-read tale of love and heartbreak. Pick up your copy here.

2. The Book of Z by Rahat Kurd

The Book of Z is a sumptuous poetry collection rooted in Kurd’s imaginings of Zulaykha’s passion for Yusuf that parses what consolation human desire and divine longing might offer. Get a copy of your very own here.

3. Heartlines: A Love Story by Sarah Waisvisz

Heartlines envisions the lives, loves, and activism of gender pioneers and queer couple Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. To learn more about this love that withstood and challenged fascism, order a copy of this powerful play here.

4. The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key by Dorothy Dittrich

The Piano Teacher illuminates the relationships, platonic and romantic, that carry us through our most unimaginable hardships. An unforgettable story about the powers of connection and music. Snag your own copy of the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning play here.

Happy Valentine’s Day from your team at Talonbooks!

news | Saturday February 7, 2026

Junie Désil in BC BookLook

There’s an article in BC BookLook about Junie Désil, Caleb Hart, and Wayde Compton’s upcoming event at Victoria’s Baumann Centre. Désil is the author of eat salt | gaze at the ocean and allostatic load. She will be the keynote speaker at an event put on by the BC Black History Awareness Society taking place at the end of February. Read more about the event here.

news | Friday February 6, 2026

On Thin Ice on CBC’s Superior Morning with Mary-Jean Cormier

This month, Magnus Theatre presents the world premiere of On Thin Ice by Drew Hayden Taylor! Magnus Theatre’s artistic director Thom Currie and the play’s director Vinetta Strombergs discuss the play and the production on CBC’s Superior Morning with Mary-Jean Cormier. On Thin Ice is Drew Hayden Taylor’s first thriller. To learn more, listen to the interview here.

news | Thursday February 5, 2026

Stigmata in The Miramichi Reader

Alicia Beggs-Holder reviews debut poetry collection Stigmata by Scott Jackshaw in The Miramichi Reader. Of the collection, Beggs-Holder says, “With a sort of pained beauty … this poetry collection brings out a different version of the profane and it flourishes across the pages.” Read the complete review here.

news | Tuesday February 3, 2026

Crowd Source on All Lit Up

Crowd Source by Cecily Nicholson is in great company on All Lit Up’s list of books to check out to mark Black History Month! Whether you’re looking for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or just to be surprised by a great book, check out All Lit Up’s list of suggested titles here.

news | Sunday February 1, 2026

Black History and Black Futures Month 2026

It’s Black History and Black Futures Month! If you’re looking to check out some top-tier titles by Black authors, we have some new books (and some still to come!) that we’d love to introduce to you. We’d like to shine a spotlight on:

Crowd Source by Cecily Nicholson. Crowd Source parallels the daily migration of crows who, aside from fledgling season, journey across metro Vancouver every day at dawn and dusk. Continuing Nicholson’s attention to contemporary climate crisis, social movements, and Black diasporic relations, this is a text for all concerned with practising ecological futurities befitting corvid sensibilities.

Of Crowd Source, The Grind says “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.”

Pick up your copy of Crowd Source here.

Perhaps you’ve had the pleasure of reading an except of allostatic load by Junie Désil on your commute as part of Books BC, BC Transit, and Translink’s Poetry in Transit Program? If you haven’t had the opportunity to read the whole thing, allostatic load navigates the racialized interplay of chronic wear and tear during tumultuous years marked by global racial tensions, an ongoing pandemic, the commodification of care, and the burden of systemic injustice. Moving between diaristic intimacy and the remove of news reportage, this collection invites readers to hold the vulnerability and resilience required to navigate deep healing in a world that does not wish you well, in a world that is inflamed and consequently inflames us, in a world where true restoration and health must co-occur with the planet and with each other.

The British Columbia Review says, “this is a book that… touches and changes deep perceptions.”

Pick up your copy here.

Have you checked out the debut publication of Black, Jewish playwright Sarah Waisvisz? Heartlines imagines the lives and loves of activists, artists, gender pioneers, and queer couple Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore who resisted the nazis in 1940s Europe.

Broadway World says of Heartlines: “the writing is fast paced, keeping the story flowing.”

Order your copy of Heartlines here.

Coming soon to bookstores near you is the brand new play Selma Burke: Carving a Sculptor’s Life by Caroline Russell-King and debut author Maria Crooks! Selma Burke: Carving a Sculptor’s Life is a flight of fancy based on the incredible life of sculptor Dr. Selma Hortense Burke, who lived from 1900 to 1995, approximately 49,932,000 minutes. Here, imagined, are ninety of them, in a play that asks, “Who gets to make art, and who gets to destroy it?”

Pre-order your copy of Selma Burke: Carving a Sculptor’s Life here.

We hope your Black History and Black Futures Month is vibrant with books that stay with you long after you’ve finished reading them.

news | Wednesday January 28, 2026

Hajer Mirwali in The Toronto Guardian

The Toronto Guardian has a piece about Hajer Mirwali, whose debut book Revolutions was released in April, 2025, in their “Day in the Life of an Artist” section. Mirwali shares that she has been “working on a very exciting project with the artist Javid Jah for Falasteen360, an immersive exhibition on Palestinian narratives. Javid is reworking one of his existing sculptures, and it will include remixed poems from my book — the art is made and unmade!” Learn more about what Hajer Mirwali has been up to, her creative aspirations, and more here.

news | Friday January 23, 2026

Cecily Nicholson on Wax Poetic

Want to learn more about poetry phenom Cecily Nicholson? Check out this interview with her on Wax Poetic on 100.5 CFRO. Nicholson shares poems from her latest collection Crowd Source and talks about her interest in interstices, the role of poetry in wellness, what drew her to write about crows, and much more.

news | Thursday January 22, 2026

Growing My Way Home on 49th Shelf

Forthcoming Talonbooks title Growing My Way Home by Jenn Ashton is on 49th Shelf’s list of most anticipated fiction of 2026! From abuse to early involvement in the criminal justice system, from her experiences as a thirteen-year-old drug dealer, a fifteen-year-old parent, and finally an award-winning writer, artist, and filmmaker, Jenn Ashton has survived it all. A work of autofiction based on her teenage journals and fifty years of lived experience, Growing My Way Home documents a long journey to acceptance and understanding. Check out all of 49th Shelf’s picks here.