news | Wednesday January 15, 2025

Tom Power Interviews Anosh Irani

Tom Power interviews Anosh Irani about his latest play Behind the Moon on CBC’s Q! The pair discuss how one of Irani’s characters “haunted him” until this most recent of his plays was developed. Listen to the full discussion here.

news | Wednesday January 15, 2025

The Diary of Dukesang Wong in Canadian Literature

Botao Wu writes about The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe and edited by David McIlwraith and In | Appropriate edited by Kim Davids Mandar (Gordon Hill Press) in Canadian Literature. Read his complete essay here.

news | Tuesday January 14, 2025

Leanne Dunic Named the University of the Fraser Valley's Writer-in-Residence

Leanne Dunic, author of photography and poetry collection Wet, has been named the University of the Fraser Valley’s writer-in-residence! Check it out here. Congratulations, Leanne!

news | Monday January 13, 2025

My Turquoise Years in The British Columbia Review

Valerie Green reviews the twentieth anniversary edition of My Turquoise Years: A Memoir by M.A.C. Farrant: in The British Columbia Review.

An excerpt from the review: “The book is a charming, humorous, yet heartbreaking story … With Farrant’s impeccable talent for language, her story is beautifully detailed.”

Read the complete piece here.

news | Saturday January 11, 2025

sophie anne edwards Named Geopoet-in-Residence at Queen's University

sophie anne edwards has been named Geopoet in Residence at Queen’s University! edwards’ debut hybrid collection Conversations with the Kagawong River is a phenomenal site-specific engagement with an ecosystem of Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Island). Read the announcement from Queen’s University here. Congratulations, sophie!

news | Friday January 10, 2025

Conversations with the Kagawong River Launch Covered in the Manitoulin Expositor

The Manitoulin Expositor provided in-depth coverage of the Gore Bay Launch of Conversations with the Kagawong River by sophie anne edwards.

From the article: “As Sophie took the stage, she admitted to ‘feeling emotional’ and to ‘choking up’ on the culmination of several years of effort in the production of Conversations with the Kagawong River. ‘I always wanted to write. It took me until age 50 to do it. There is time to write, people!’ she laughed. ‘Coming to writing after so long, I finally allowed myself the space.’

As she read, images from her book were projected in a continuous stream onto a large screen beside her. The reading became a visual performance – scenes of the River with Sophie’s scattered letters and texts floating, sinking, disintegrating; the artist underwater; paddling through lily pads and cattails; tracing on bark; we experience what she saw and heard along the River’s edge, we feel the water as at one point she dove in, we consider her artistic responses to the River’s calls, we feel the icy cold, the heat of summer as her words and images resonate through the stillness of the room, like a meditation.”

Read the full article here.

news | Thursday January 9, 2025

Talon Titles in rob mclennan's Top Poetry Books of the Year

A Net of Momentary Sapphire by R. Kolewe, The Middle by Stephen Collis, cop city swagger by Mercedes Eng, and Conversations with the Kagawong River by sophie anne edwards all appear on rob mclennan’s list of top Canadian poetry collections he has reviewed this year. See all of his top titles on Dusie here.

news | Wednesday January 8, 2025

Samantha Nock in Read Local BC

Great to see Samantha Nock, author of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize–shortlisted collection A Family of Dreamers, named in Read Local BC’s article on must-read debut authors. Check it out here.

news | Tuesday January 7, 2025

An Interview with Jordan Abel

Laura Mushumanski interviews Jordan Abel, winner of the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction for his novel Empty Spaces (Penguin Random House, 2023) and author of multiple Talonbooks titles including The Place of Scraps and Injun, in Alberta Native News.

An excerpt from the article: “Along Abel’s journey, he came to realize the importance of genuinely trying to be a part of a community, and ‘to exist with community, you’re there actually to support people—it goes a long way.’ Jordan realized that the more he opened up by becoming involved in community, actually make friends – because we writers are a bit of a recluse, things started to open up for him, emphasizing on ‘be a part of those things that can support each other.’”

news | Friday January 3, 2025

Happy New Year from Talonbooks!

Happy New Year from all of us here at Talonbooks! Thank you for another year of reading our books, coming to our events, and spreading the word about titles you loved.⁠

Here’s to our amazing community! We can’t wait to share what we’re cooking up for this year.⁠