Bøger udgivet af Talon Books,Canada

In a time of floods, fires, plagues, and famines, nothing could be more pertinent than the work of Maya/Irish writer and artist annie ross. Some People Fall in the Lodge and Eat Berries All Winter, her follow-up to Pots and Other Living Beings,gives voice to the pain of living ¿where the machine is the exalted power.¿ This new series of prose and poems, anchored by woodcuts by the author, explores extinctions, species interdependence, environmental justice, soul loss in modernity, the natural and Supernatural worlds, and animal rights and power, always keeping peace and love for Mother Earth in view.

Incendiary new poems working through the politics and theory of sexuality and desire by the author of JUST LIKE I LIKE IT.

At the crossroads that lead to the end of childhood, Nana faces the hectic passage of her adolescence and the new responsibilities that fall on her shoulders when her grandmother Josephine approaches death. In parallel, Nina's rebellious mother Maria, languishes back in Montreal, torn between conflicting desires.

LaFrance combines poetry and autotheory as a means to target ideological infatuation, spilling into an obsession with ideological abolishment. The book includes a reworking of several sections of The Iliad.

A collection of essays that are at once personal and political, covering a variety of topics, ranging from the author's tumultuous relationship with his criminal father and the ways writing can help us transform our own understanding to long-form journalistic dispatches from around the globe.

Taking Measures collects the major serial poems of Canada's inaugural Poet Laureate, George Bowering, including work from each of the last six decades. Here is Bowering at his experimental and irreverent best.

Mercenary English seizes "the politics of language" and foregrounds the literal and figurative violence behind the euphemism "missing women."

'Nlaka'pamux Elder York explains the red-ochre inscriptions on rocks of the Stein Valley, a landmark in the evolution of writing.

An existential thriller that philosophically explores the purity of love. Russian-doll narrative, with self-referential loops and reflections on the literary medium.

A delightful collection of seventy miniature fictions and comics riffing on the theme of happiness, The Great Happiness offers a series of lively antidotes to the current climate of doom.

Pots and Other Living Beings is made up of poems with paired photographs, each describing an aspect of living in the postmodern, neoliberal age, with its promised and failed utopia, ruin, and dispossessions.

After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in the snow and cut off from the world by a nationwide power failure. He is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for wood, food, and eventual escape from the village. Will they manage to stand up against external threats and intimate pitfalls?