Bøker utgitt av Talon Books,Canada

All Things Become Alive by the Touch of the Parabola is the first full account of the journey by surrealist artist Wolfgang Paalen and poet Alice Rahon down the Northwest Coast. It weaves together travelogue, biography, Northwest Coast Indigenous cultures, art histories, anthropology, and an account of museum collecting during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A poetic study of biome, water, soil, seed, and race.

Two young-adult plays exploring anxiety and depression, the complexities of gender dynamics, bullying, and the challenges that arise when the lines between friendship and romance are blurred.

Set in a school facing the real-life challenges of immigration, income inequality, and fears of violence in our schools, The In-Between is a realistic, relatable exploration of the complex social circumstances students must navigate in contemporary schools.

Flying Red Horse is a book of lyric poetry about fatherhood and masculinity, and the conditions of whiteness that pressure those terms. It looks at the precarity of relationships between people and place in diverse geographic and racial contexts; it addresses the crisis of climate change; and it considers parental connections to children in uncertain global circumstances.

A rigorously feminist and poetic record of thinking through trauma as it unfolds and a document of life under military lockdown, "a book like a cluster of thorns with some few fragrant petals caught in them."

A Future Perfect is a collection of constraint-based poems written in the future-perfect tense, used as a way of bending time and playing with non-linearity. They challenge the "self" imagined as a unified monolith by pulling language apart, dissecting idioms and speech in new and unconventional ways.

Humour allows the exploration of Indigenous relationships with settler law.

From one of Canadäs most influential poets, poems written in response to the discovery of letters by her father. These poems explore a sense of place and home on Canadäs West Coast now on the brink of global climate change. ¿There Then¿ permeates any ¿Here Now¿ of immigrant consciousness and highlights the impermanent quality of ¿home.¿

A work exploring sibling and romantic love, and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another

It¿s May 1922, wedding preparations are in full swing, and old memories, past desires, and big regrets threaten to turn the big celebration into a big melee.

Explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, and asks what resistance to the tenor of these out-of-joint times might look like.

Written in sixty short epistolary chapters, award winning author M.A.C. Farrant¿s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society.

Maya is a hikikomori, an extreme recluse who hasn¿t left her bedroom in five years, spending all her time in Virtual Reality. So her father hires an actor to befriend her online and entice her back into the real world. How? By visiting the scariest place on earth, Aokigahara, the ¿Suicide Forest.¿ Can virtual worlds offer real solutions? Is an honourable death better than a meaningless life? Kuroko is a story about a family who are worlds apart, separated by pain, from past and present, alone in the real and virtual worlds, each unsure of the way back home.

Life-long poem project from the Governor General's Award¿winning former parliamentary poet laureate.

In this fascinating piece of investigative journalism, written like a thriller, journalist and social activist Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny reveals the inner workings of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster that killed forty-seven people, and the individual and corporate authorities responsible for it. She reveals how the tragedy, far from being just the "error of a faulty system," was knowingly caused by powerful people and institutions distant from the town itself.

The only known first-person account by a Chinese worker on the Canadian Pacific Railway, an invaluable contribution to Canadian history.

This high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless trickster who face the world head-on. Kamloopa explores the fearless love and passion of Indigenous women reconnecting with their homelands, ancestors, and stories. This boundary-blurring adventure will remind you to always dance like the ancestors are watching.