news | Wednesday September 19, 2012
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In Chickens, a rural musical comedy “penned” by Lucia Frangione, a farmer raises exotic chickens while his wife struggles to keep their farm afloat. Out in the chicken coop, roosters and hens mirror the couple’s life.
Chickens runs from September 21 to October 27, 2012 at Chemainus Theatre.
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- We honour the passing of Talon founder David Robinson, January 5, 1947 to November 24, 2020
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- 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
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- 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!
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- “The Old Routine” by Lionel Kearns, is now up on the Poetry in Transit website
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- Margaret Christakos reads – in stereo – from charger!
- Orwell in Cuba is hot off the presses!
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- 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
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- 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
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- Michel Tremblay's Desrosiers Diaspora series
- Rite of Passage journeys to Talon
- I Saw Three Ships: A Best BC Book of 2019!
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- I Saw Three Ships #1 in Paperback Fiction at McNally Robinson
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- Spot Pots at a Bookstore Near You!
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- 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!
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- TISH poets read from their Talon books in North Van
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- 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!
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- 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
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- Give another cheer for Indigiqueer!
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- Talon plays on stage now in Sudbury, Halifax, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Belleville, New York state, Ottawa, Richmond, and Pennsylvania state!
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- Holiday greetings!
- Daphne Marlatt’s collected earlier poems have come ashore
- Join us for the launch of Daphne Marlatt’s Collected Earlier Poems
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- New poetry in the house!
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- From Oral to Written is launched!
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- 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
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- Adeena Karasick archive donated to Simon Fraser University
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- 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
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- “Winners and Losers” opens in Calgary tomorrow!
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- 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
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- 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
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- Reviews of The Days are in!
- Another great review of U Girl
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- Annotating Gertrude Stein, a century later
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- 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!
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- An honourable mention for Rom Com in the Alcuin Awards!
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- Mend the Living is up for the Man Booker International Prize!
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- Jordan Abel’s new book is here!
- Valentine’s Day Specials!
- Rest in peace, Gordon Shillingford
- George Elliot Clarke plugs Prairie Harbour!
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- 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
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- Songs in the Key of Cree, December 12 & 13 in Toronto
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- 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
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- New arrival! Moss Park & Tough! by George F. Walker
- Film screening: “Other Losses” by James Bacque in Kitchener, ON
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- Sila is a breath of fresh air
- Book Trailer #3: Dina and Daniel recommend that you get a divorce
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- October 8: Talon events across the country!
- Writing the Okanagan is here!
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- 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
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