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Lingual Ladies (Put a Frame on It) - Adeena Karasick
news | Monday February 28, 2011
Lingual Ladies (Put a Frame on It) - Adeena Karasick
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Good Thing: One Good Thing Has Arrived!
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We're hiring!
In remembrance of Taran Kootenhayoo
January 28 Zoom Launch!
Pause and Repeat: A Christmassy story from M.A.C. Farrant's The World Afloat
Talonbooks Fall 2020 Launch!
We honour the passing of Talon founder David Robinson, January 5, 1947 to November 24, 2020
Fa la la la la la la literature!
Marking Remembrance Day with Iron Peggy
Kuroko has arrived!
Excerpt from Orwell in Cuba up at the Walrus
PoemTalk discusses Daphne’s poem “Arriving”
Oana Avasilichioaei’s Eight Track is a finalist for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry!
Carmen Aguirre shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize
The paperback of Taking Measures is now available!
eat salt | gaze at the ocean has arrived!
The Diary of Dukesang Wong has arrived!
Desire Path has arrived!
Oana Avasilichioaei, Sophie Bienvenu, Mercedes Eng, Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny at the Winnipeg Thin Air Festival
Music at the Heart of Thinking has arrived!
Mégantic has arrived!
Celebrating Dorothy Parker Day with M.A.C. Farrant
Arleen Paré reads from Earle Street
$40 for the Desrosiers Diaspora series!
George Elroy Boyd has passed at age 68
Oana Avasilichioaei on the cover of the Montreal Review of Books
Wanda John-Kehewin reads from Seven Sacred Truths
Synapses excerpted by Geist
A new printing of Crossing the Continent – with a new cover!
Iron Peggy has arrived!
Arleen Pare reads from Earle Street
Cottagers and Indians – now with the Leacock Medal finalist sticker!
2020 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards nominations
Searching for Sam has arrived!
Justice for Chantel Moore
Black Lives Matter
annie ross on CBC's North by Northwest
"every miracle is a hidden (yet in plain-view) supernatural event."
Daphne Marlatt reads for SpokenWeb
Curb-side pick-up at Talonbooks!
Talonbooks Reading Sale! 25% off all titles, plus new shipping rates!
Drew Hayden Taylor's Cottagers and Indians shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
David Fennario's Banana Boots documentary is available on the NFB!
“The Old Routine” by Lionel Kearns, is now up on the Poetry in Transit website
Wanting Everything, the collected works of Gladys Hindmarch, has arrived!
Margaret Christakos reads – in stereo – from charger!
Orwell in Cuba is hot off the presses!
The 2nd edition of Jordan Abel's Un/inhabited has arrived!
Impurity has arrived!
Gladys Hindmarch reads from A Birth Account, included in Wanting Everything
Livestreamed reading of Kim Senklip Harvey's Kamloopa now available
Frédérick Lavoie reads from Orwell in Cuba, translated by Donald Winkler
An excerpt from annie ross's Pots and Other Living Beings
Danielle LaFrance reads from Just Like I Like It
An excerpt from Deni Ellis Béchard's My Favourite Crime
An excerpt from Mercedes Eng's new book, my yt mama
An excerpt from Larry Tremblay's new book, Impurity, translated by Sheila Fischman
An excerpt from Laiwan's new book, TENDER
Oana Avasilichioaei performs Operator, from Eight Track
Margaret Christakos's charger has arrived!
Christian Guay-Poliquin speaks with Seven Days Vermont
A bit of good news: I Saw Three Ships adds a new bestseller list!
Talonbooks' Spring 2020 Launch: Postponed
Update on upcoming Talon events and author events
I Saw Three Ships nominated for a BC and Yukon Book Prize!
Earle Street sets down roots
TENDER has arrived in-house!
Ken Belford (1946–2020)
Our Spring 2020 Catalogue is now available!
Mercedes Eng's my yt mama has arrived!
CISSY has arrived in-house!
Kim Senklip Harvey on the enriching work of translating the n̓səl̓xcin̓ parts of Kamloopa
Laiwan: WANDER: Toward a Lightness of Being, in Vancouver
Our Spiritual Lives: A Christmas-y tale from M.A.C. Farrant
Michel Tremblay's Desrosiers Diaspora series
Rite of Passage journeys to Talon
I Saw Three Ships: A Best BC Book of 2019!
Kamloopa Is Here!
I Saw Three Ships #1 in Paperback Fiction at McNally Robinson
Congratulations to Stephen Collis, the 2019 recipient of the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
Governor General's Literary Award Nominees now 30% Off!
Eight Track Is in the Building!
People Live Here Lives Here Now!
Governor General's Literary Award Nominations!
Spot Pots at a Bookstore Near You!
No White Picket Fence Arrives In-House
Just Like We Like It
Caught Red-Handed with Our Favourite Crime
I Saw Three Ships Sets Sail
Flow's Softcover Edition Has Arrived!
Rita Wong's Public Sentencing Statement
Happy Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day!
A poem from Wanda John-Kehewin's Seven Sacred Truths
Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day
Christine Stewart in conversation with Erina Harris for CWILA
Our Fall 2019 Catalogue is now available!
TISH poets read from their Talon books in North Van
Redpatch: in house and on the stage!
Colleen Wagner's moving play, The Living, arrives in-house
beholden shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize!
Save the date: Talonbooks Spring Launch!
"more horse statues": a poem from Nikki Reimer's new book, My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan
Our Great Happiness: M.A.C. Farrant's new book has arrived!
A Bouquet of Delights: My Heart Is a Rose Manhattan has arrived!
It's a Big Deal! arrives to mammoth fanfare
A PEЯFACT way to start your day: poetry from Nicole Raziya Fong!
Christian Guay Poliquin’s Governor General Award–winning The Weight of Snow Is Here!
Newly published! Essential early work by the award-winning Carmen Aguirre.
All Synapses Firing!
Our first Spring book – Cottagers and Indians – has arrived!
Roy Miki interviewed by Shelagh Rogers on CBC's The Next Chapter
Talonbooks welcomes UTP as our new distributor.
"Happy New Year": A Story from M.A.C. Farrant's forthcoming book, The Great Happiness
Flow flowing out to a bookstore near you!
A new addition to our library: He Speaks Volumes
Fall Launch a Resounding Success!
Talonbooks Fall Poetry Launch is Tonight!
Stephen Collis launches Almost Islands in Vancouver!
beholden arrives on Talon's shores
The Mystery Play in the Wild!
Fall Drama Has Arrived: 1 Hour Photo and Thanks for Giving!
The Heart Laid Bare gets a Bookmark on the CanLit Trail
Cecily Nicholson's Wayside Sang Wins a GG!
Statement on incident at Vancouver Writer's Festival
Seven Sacred Truths has arrived!
Mercedes Eng's Mercenary English has arrived in-house!
Drew Hayden Taylor Unearths Sir John A's Legacy
Deni Ellis Béchard's new novel has arrived!
Finding Mr. Wong Launches in Vancouver Tomorrow!
All signs point to Treaty 6 Deixis
Talonbooks Fall Poetry Launch in Vancouver
Reprints Rolling In!
The first of our Fall list: Almost Islands and Around Her
M.A.C. Farrant – three stories at Geist
The Eyelash and the Monochrome – now IRL and in full colour!
Talonbooks authors win Jessie Awards
Pride Month Reading!
Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!
Find Finding Mr. Wong on a shelf near you!
New Plays in Town: Talker’s Town and The Girl Who Swam Forever
David McFadden (1940–2018)
King Arthur’s Night and Peter Panties has arrived!
Prison Industrial Complex Explodes wins the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize!
Check it out: Checking In!
Byrne’s Duets grace us during Poetry Month
Gracie has arrived!
Same Diff is a finalist for the Griffin!
Four Talon titles nominated for ReLit Awards!
Give another cheer for Indigiqueer!
“This play is dangerously cool.”
Dead by lightning? We have the cure!
Montreal Gothic in the house
[Updated] Job opportunity: Talonbooks needs a Production Editor
Kuei, My Friend has arrived!
[Updated] Give a cheer for Indigiqueer!
Kirton and Eng short-listed for BC Book Prizes!
Poetry readings across Canada this week
Poetry on the mountain this Thursday
Talon plays on stage now in Sudbury, Halifax, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Belleville, New York state, Ottawa, Richmond, and Pennsylvania state!
Oana Avasilichioaei performs in Vancouver on January 24
Morse’s ideas of North
Holiday greetings!
Daphne Marlatt’s collected earlier poems have come ashore
Join us for the launch of Daphne Marlatt’s Collected Earlier Poems
Here’s to fifty more years of Talonbooks!
Marcus Youssef wins the Siminovitch Prize!
New poetry in the house!
Marcus Youssef wins City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award!
A GG nomination for In Search of New Babylon!
Marcus Youssef nominated for Siminovitch Prize!
The Days is a finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize!
Talonbooks needs a copy editor/proofreader! Perhaps it’s you?
Fall fiction is in the house! New novels by Wajdi Mouawad and Philippe Arseneault
Réjean Ducharme, a loss for Quebec and all of us
Talon poets in Contemporary Verse 2: Convergence
From Oral to Written is launched!
Tonight! Tomson Highway launches From Oral to Written
Cross your heart and hope to read
From Oral to Written has gone from written to published!
Abel proves able: Jordan Abel wins the Griffin!
Home again, home again after the convention circuit
Donato Mancini will be writer in residence at the University of Windsor this fall
50 years of Talonbooks, and a new catalogue that includes every title in print!
50 years since Expo 67, and a book bundle to celebrate!
Bev Sellars books shortlisted for First Nation Communities READ 2017–2018 award
Mend the Living wins Wellcome Book Prize!
Save the date! Our Spring 2017 Poetry Launch is on April 27 in Vancouver
Jordan Abel’s Injun short-listed for the Griffin!
New poetry in house, right on time for National Poetry Month!
Thank you, poetry lovers of the eastern US!
New books for spring! Poetry, fiction, and drama
March 25–31: Anahita Jamali Rad, Danielle LaFrance, and Donato Mancini on tour in California
Adeena Karasick archive donated to Simon Fraser University
Once in Blockadia is short-listed for the George Ryga Award!
Mend the Living is short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize!
BC book publishers and members of parliament celebrate BC Book Day
All-Star Talon poets on tour in the eastern U.S.
Same Diff has arrived!
Talon book design in the press
Once in Blockadia long-listed for the George Ryga Award!
Bev Sellars speaks to UBC’s business students
Join Daphne Marlatt and M.A.C. Farrant in Calgary this Thursday
Sachiko Murakami is the new writer in residence at U of T
“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.”
UNBC welcomes Janet Rogers as Writer in Residence
Scree is launched! Watch the video, see the photos
New arrival! Moss Park & Tough! by George F. Walker
Film screening: “Other Losses” by James Bacque in Kitchener, ON
bill bissett is a Chemical Brother
Tomson Highway Wins 2015 Herbert Whittaker-CTCA Award!
Alain Deneault to speak next week in Toronto about Canada’s part in tax havens
Montreal Gazette: Revival of Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna dominates Montreal English Theatre Awards
The blues are back in Drew Hayden Taylor’s new play
Montreal Review of Books calls As Always “intelligent, passionate, and determined”
No regrets about reading Impeccable Regret
Tomorrow: Bowering and Browne together at the Vancouver Writers Festival!
As Always is launched – and nominated for a QWF award!
Sila is a breath of fresh air
Book Trailer #3: Dina and Daniel recommend that you get a divorce
Jewel tones on a dark and stormy night
Two GG Nominations for Talon this year!
Rom Com is here!
October 8: Talon events across the country!
Writing the Okanagan is here!
Book tour! This fall, George Bowering will bring the Okanagan to you
Book Trailer #2: Dina and Daniel on “love” and Rom Com
Congratulations to Stephen Collis, winner of the 2015 Sterling Prize for Controversy!
Jabber is here!
Garry Thomas Morse harbours Prairie Harbour on the prairie
Rom Com is coming to a city near you!
Fred Wah sure is busy these days
Two-week special: 25% off all translated books for International Translation Day!
Book Trailer #1: Dina and Daniel on love and Rom Com
Carmen Aguirre remembers the Chilean revolution
Our windiest book yet has just blown in
Webb belongs in all CanLit libraries!
This weekend: WORLD POETRY VANCOUVER at the Britannia Library
Bev Sellars will speak at UVic tomorrow
Opening this weekend: Panych’s The Shoplifters at the Philadelphia Fringe
Tonight! Jónína Kirton at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg
Learning about Lil’wat ethnography and ethnohistory in Pemberton and Mount Currie
Highlights from the CBC, Q&Q and 49th Shelf fall previews
Karasick’s one-woman show, Salomé: Woman of Valor, returns to NYC
Rave reviews for The Divine, now playing at the Shaw Festival
“Collective Grievances” – Reimer and fitzpatrick in Canadian Literature
Understanding tax havens with Alain Deneault and the new documentary, “The Price We Pay”
Tomson Highway named one of five Indigenous Music Awards nominees to watch out for in 2015
Miracle on stage: See turn-of-the-century actress Sarah Bernhardt at this year’s Shaw Festival
Touring Vancouver Island this summer for the first time in decades, Boiler Room Suite by Rex Deverell
New Arrival! Canada: A New Tax Haven
World Premiere of The Watershed in Toronto
Translator Linda Gaboriau a newly minted Member of the Order of Canada
JAMIE REID 1941–2015
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2015 the Jessie Awards!
Opening tomorrow! Annabel Soutar’s play, Seeds, at the Blyth Festival
Now Available! The Talonbooks Fall 2015 Catalogue
Stephen Collis, a Commoner Across the Pond
Jacob Richmond’s “Legoland” in Calgary, June 11–20
CBC Recommends Memoirs by 15 Canadian Women
Talon’s Monthly E-Newsletter for June 2015
Talonbooks at Congress 2015
George F. Walker’s Dead Metaphor: It’s Alive!
We are at Book Expo America 2015!
From St. Leonard, Montreal to Your Eyes
Book Review: Quartermain’s blend of poetry and fiction
This week’s Lunch Poems at SFU Vancouver: Chelene Knight and Dina Del Bucchia
Seeds to tour in 2016!
Listen to poems from Limbinal by Oana Avasilichioaei this Friday in Toronto
God and the Indian, now playing in Toronto, “an emotional experience”
Winners and Losers, hot off the presses!
As Always, We’re Thrilled About a New Book
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
Rose Brouillard, Lost and Found, Home at Last
Authors for Indies Day! Tomorrow (Saturday, May 2)
Opening Tonight in Edmonton! All Six Suburban Motel Plays
Tonight in Toronto! Talon’s Spring 2015 Poetry Launch
Congratulations Cecily Nicholson, Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize!
We Have Liftoff! (Photos from Talon’s Spring 2015 Poetry Launch in Vancouver)
A Packed House for Phyllis Webb on Saltspring Island
Malahat Review hails Peacock Blue as “literary event of the year”
Book Review: Peace in Duress in Transmotion academic journal
Interview with Cecily Nicholson in Room Magazine
Book Review: Peace in Duress in Muskrat Magazine
Horses Records’s Talonbooks
All the Winners and Losers in Edmonton
Talon’s Spring Poetry to Launch in Vancouver and Toronto
Introducing Talon’s Newest Author: Mochaccino Latte (Mocha)
Meet Garry Thomas Morse in the Middle
Two More Spring Books Have Arrived! The Shoplifters and page as bone ~ ink as blood
Oana Avasilichioaei Launches Limbinal in L.A. and S.F.
Limbinal was neither here nor there … but now it is indubitably here.
I, Bartleby, Am Here
New Arrival! Odd Ducks by Bryden MacDonald
Our Literary Landmarks: Marlatt, Rule, and Bowering
Rebuild and then Get Out
From the Poplars to the B.C. Book Prizes
Phinder Dulai on the Prairies
Larry Tremblay’s Abraham Lincoln in Sudbury