news | Monday November 24, 2025

Talonbooks Distribution Agreement with Login

Exciting distribution news: Talonbooks and Login have announced a new exclusive Canadian distribution agreement! All orders in Canada for Talonbooks titles should be directed to Login as of December 15, 2025. Frontlist orders can be placed with Login immediately. US distribution will still be performed by Consortium.

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news | Tuesday December 23, 2025

Crowd Source in Wingspan Magazine

An excerpt of Crowd Source, the latest poetry collection from Cecily Nicholson is featured in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Wingspan Magazine. Flip through the entire issue here.

news | Friday December 19, 2025

Margaryta Golovchenko Reviews Chambersonic

Margaryta Golovchenko considers Chambersonic by Oana Avasilichioaei alongside Klara du Plessis’ Post-Mortem of the Event in a thoughtful review in the summer 2025 issue of Arc Poetry Magazine. This in-depth piece says that “to read Chambersonic … is to attend a concert that occurs on the page.” Pick up the issue of Arc here.

news | Friday December 19, 2025

ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok in the Rocky Mountain Review

Rob Jackson pens a thoughtful, and in-depth piece about ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn in The Rocky Mountain Review Volume 79, Number 1. Jackson says ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok is “a major event for students and scholars of nêhiyaw ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ thought and communities … By weaving together extensive research, concrete language lessons, and practical wisdom, ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok makes a vital contribution to Indigenous language revitalization, Indigenous political thought, and the grounded resurgence of nêhiyaw ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ lifeways.”

Read the complete piece here.

news | Thursday December 18, 2025

rob mclennan Reviews tours, variously

rob mclennan reviews the new poetry collection tours, variously by Drew McEwan. mclennan says tours, variously is “an exploration of betweenness, becoming and having become, having been the whole time, achieving an exploration not of uncertainty but of seeking, plumbing the depths of language.” Read the complete review here.

news | Wednesday December 17, 2025

Uiesh / Somewhere and th book uv lost passwords 1 on CBC Books

Winner of the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon, translated by Jessica Moore, and th book uv lost passwords 1 by appointee to the Order of Canada bill bissett are featured in CBC Books’ article about books that came out in 2025 by former CBC literary prize winners and finalists. Read the full article here.

news | Tuesday December 16, 2025

rob mclennan Reviews No Depression in Heaven

rob mclennan pens a write up on No Depression in Heaven by ryan fitzpatrick. mclennan reflects on the aspect of nostalgia at play in the text and in country music and more. Check it out here.

news | Wednesday December 10, 2025

bill bissett on Q with Tom Power

Phenom of art and poetry bill bissett is a guest on Q with Tom Power. In addition to sharing poetry, bissett and Power chat about the first poem bissett ever wrote after the passing of his mother, bill’s home planet of lunaria, the role pain might play in creativity, bissett’s dramatic first poetry reading, being a person of interest to the police, and of course, bill’s new book th book uv lost passwords 1. Listen to the full interview here.

news | Wednesday December 10, 2025

An Interview with Jessica Moore

Rita Simonetta connects with Jessica Moore regarding her recent Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation win for her translation of Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon for Concordia University. The pair talk about how Moore got started in translation and what she loves about it. Read their conversation here.

news | Tuesday December 9, 2025

rob mclennan on Stigmata

rob mclennan reviewed the debut collection Stigmata by Scott Jackshaw. mclennan says, “Jackshaw’s lyric multitudes include an element of the monologue, of performance, blending the divine, desire and the profane across a meditative and performative theology of action and interaction.” Read the article here.

news | Saturday December 6, 2025

Mountain Lake PBS on Kisses Deep

There’s a review of Centaur Theatre’s production of Kisses Deep by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau featured on Mountain Lake PBS. The write up states that Kisses Deep “confirms Michel Marc Bouchard as one of Quebec’s most fearless and poetic storytellers … Kisses Deep stitches together the raw complexities of family, ambition, identity, and the desperate human desire to be seen and heard … Linda Gaboriau’s exquisite English translation preserves every rhythmic pulse and lyrical nuance of Bouchard’s original text, offering audiences a version that feels both faithful and fiercely alive.”

Read the complete piece here.

news | Friday December 5, 2025

ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok in The Tyee

New work of nonfiction ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn is featured in The Tyee’s article “10 Perfect BC Books for Everyone on Your Holiday List.” In ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok, quinn uses the spirit marker writing system as a foundation for teaching ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ nêhîyawewin. Check out all of The Tyee’s suggestions here.

news | Thursday December 4, 2025

Hummingbird in BC BookWorld

Caroline Woodward reviews Hummingbird by Elaine Ávila in BC BookWorld! In her piece, Woodward calls Hummingbird “skillfully layered … Ávila deftly balances the dark and the light, conflict and humour … [a] lively, sophisticated, and textured work of art … with great resonance for all ages.” Read the complete piece here.

news | Wednesday December 3, 2025

rob mclennan Reviews The Book of Z

rob mclennan reviews The Book of Z by Rahat Kurd in periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. mclennan calls the collection “Compelling … furthering a lineage of literary works that seek to provide a perspective that counterpoints and contradicts the male gaze … Kurd articulates a lineage of Persian language and culture, one that moves across centuries of lyric thought … allowing her Zulaykha her own thoughts, her own history, wants, and desires.”

Read the whole piece here.

news | Tuesday December 2, 2025

Cozy Fest 2025: Dina Del Bucchia

Ready to get cozy? Catch poet, author, and literary socialite Dina Del Bucchia reading work from her latest poetry collection, You’re Gonna Love This for Cozy Fest 2025, a series put on by All Lit Up! Celebrate the spirit of the season with Del Bucchia here.

news | Monday December 1, 2025

End-of-Year Shipping Details

Talonites, it’s somehow December again. We’re coming at you with some end-of-year shipping information: all orders placed after December 22, 2025 will be shipped after January 7, 2026. Whether you’re picking up presents or stocking up on books for your own reading pleasure, get your orders in soon!

Happy reading, everyone!

news | Saturday November 29, 2025

Crowd Source Named One of The Grind's Books of the Year

Crowd Source, the latest poetry collection by multi-award winning poet and educator Cecily Nicholson, has been named one of The Grind’s books of the year! Crowd Source focuses on the habits, communications, and twice-daily migration of the crows who stitch across Vancouver’s skies.

The Grind says of Crowd Source: “Here, Nicholson applies her capacious, multi-dimensional imagination to the covenly world of crows. Her language dances like light on water, moving from corvid facts to industrial history, from formal play to anti-colonial instruction, ever restless and shimmering. Nicholson employs mischief as a texture of movement; collective responsibility as a pathway to embodiment. This book is not meant to be just read, but practised.”

Check out all of The Grind’s favourite books of the year here.

news | Friday November 28, 2025

Revolutions Featured on All Lit Up

Author Greg Rhyno has put together a gift guide for book lovers on All Lit Up and Revolutions by Hajer Mirwali is one of his recommendations! Of the collection, Rhyno says, “Mirwali’s inventive use of repetition, shape, and redaction explores the endless cycle of pleasure and shame that informs the identities of many Arab women … Her precise and careful use of language demonstrates a wisdom far beyond her years.” Get your holiday gifting inspiration here.

news | Tuesday November 25, 2025

rob mclennan on Revolutions

Revolutions, the debut poetry collection by Hajer Mirwali is included on rob mclennan’s list of recommended books in this article on 49th Shelf.

Of Revolutions, mclennan says “this collections weaves and interleaves such wonderful structural variety, offering a myriad of threads that swirl around a collision of cultures … [Mirwali] writes of multiple points of departure and relationships to people, to individuals, to geographies and geopolitical crises; she writes of home, of hearth. She writes of the contradictions of where the heart may go and how one connects to the world, seeking solace and urgency, a connection to where part of her might always remain.”

news | Saturday November 22, 2025

ryan fitzpatrick in The Calgary Guardian

The Calgary Guardian ran a profile on the author of No Depression in Heaven ryan fitzpatrick for their “A Day in the Life” segment. Learn more about what poet, author, and editor ryan fitzpatrick is up to here. You may even get a peek at their amazing bookshelf!

news | Friday November 21, 2025

Jovanni Sy on Getting Lit with Linda

Tune in to the latest episode of Canadian literature podcast Getting Lit with Linda with special guest, actor, director, and playwright Jovanni Sy. Linda and students from Bishop’s University interview Sy and talk about Sy’s powerhouse play A Taste of Empire wherein delectable samples from a real-time cooking demonstration offer food for thought about colonialism and the ethics of modern-day food systems. Listen to the episode here or wherever you listen to podcasts.