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Gillian Jerome Nominated for Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Nightwood Editions is please to announce that Red Nest by Gillian Jerome has been nominated for the 2010 BC Book Prize's Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia. This is Jerome's first book of poetry. Congratulations, Gillian!

Nightwood Announces their Spring 2010 List

Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon is the follow-up to Ray Hsu’s award-winning first collection, Anthropy, and the second book in a prospective trilogy that explores the “grammar of personhood.”

Jay MillAr is a Toronto poet, editor, publisher and virtual bookseller. His new book Other Poems, resists classification.

Patternicity by Jim Johnstone contains a suite of poems that won a 2008 CBC Literary Award.

In Triny Finlay’s second collection of poetry, Histories Haunt Us, she asks what it means to let in the ghosts of the past.

The Summer Between Praised by Xtra

Read a recent review of The Summer Between by Nightwood's debut novelist, Andrew Binks, which appeared in Xtra. Reviewer Jim Bartley writes: "There are no lapses worth mentioning in this deftly structured and perfectly inflected story.... We watch him revel in love’s beginning and absorb the knowledge of its inevitable change. What a wonderful fictional debut." Binks recently read from his book at the Kingston Writers' Fest, at the Proud Voices Stage during Toronto Pride, for Joyland at Stealth Lounge, and at the Prince Edward County Authors' Festival. He will be reading in Vancouver at the Robson Reading Series, UBC Bookstore Robson Square (800 Robson Street), on Thursday, April 1, 2010. The reading starts at 7 pm.

Catch Laisha Rosnau, Stephen Rowe and Joe Denham at the Robson Square Reading Series

Stephen Rowe will read from his debut book of poems, Never More There, with Laisha Rosnau, author of the poetry title Lousy Explorers, on Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 7 pm (UBC Bookstore Robson Square, 800 Robson Street). Joe Denham (pictured left), author of Windstorm, will also read at the Robson Reading Series on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 7 pm. In October, Nightwood and Brick Books co-launched three books of poetry at Heritage Hall: Red Nest by Gillian Jerome, Windstorm by Joe Denham and Chris Hutchinson's Other People’s Lives (Brick Books). Vancouver’s Poet Laureate Brad Cran hosted the launch.

Rob Winger Receives Three Nominations

Congratulations to Rob Winger whose first book, Muybridge's Horse, A Poem in Three Phases (Nightwood, 2007) was shortlisted for the GG, Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and the Ottawa Book Award. On December 8 he read at the Art Bar Poetry Series with Pier Giorgio Di Cicco and Moira MacDougall at Clinton's (693 Bloor Street West, Toronto).

Poet Philip Kevin Paul is Nominated for a 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award

Nightwood Editions is pleased to announce that Philip Kevin Paul’s second book of poetry, Little Hunger, was shortlisted for a 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award and was also shortlisted in the 2009 ReLit Award's poetry category. His first book of poetry, Taking the Names Down from the Hill, won the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry. Paul's second book "continues almost seamlessly the creative work of his first book, but with a lighter vision and more playful rhythms." --Arc

Never More There makes SPARKS

Stephen Rowe read at SPARKS, a day-long literary festival sponsored by the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University in Newfoundland on January 17. Rowe recently launched his debut book of poems, Never More There, on October 21, 2009 at the Joseph R. Smallwood Arts and Culture Centre Art Gallery and, later, in St. John's. For details, go to: www.stephenrowe.ca or check out Nightwood's gallery page.

Adam Getty @ Livewords in Toronto

Nightwood author Adam Getty, with Sonja Greckol and Blair Trewartha, read at the Livewords Reading Series on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at Sage West. The literary reading was followed by an open mic contest with cash prizes for the best sonnet, sestina or cento. Repose by Getty was recently reviewed in the Dalhousie Review: "[this] well-composed book examines the conditions of labour, of the human interaction with the world, and finds in them a world that is poetic..." Repose and Living Things by Matt Rader were highlighted as 2008's best books by the Winnipeg Free Press.

Bachinsky and Scofield at VIWF

Elizabeth Bachinsky and Gregory Scofield read at the Vancouver International Writers Fest on Saturday, October 24 at a sold-out event with England’s poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Pulitzer Prize nominee Heather McHugh, Canadian Robert Bringhurst, winner of the BC Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, and China’s widely translated Xi Chuan. Bachinsky was a finalist for the Kobzar Literary Award, and was photographed here for her interview in the Vancouver Courier. For more details, check out Bachinsky's blog. (Photo by Rebecca Blissett)

Rosnau's Glowing Globe Review

Check out the recent review of Laisha Rosnau's spring poetry title Lousy Explorers: "The subtlety with which Rosnau evokes the range of human emotion is striking. Ambition, vulnerability, thoughtlessness, desire – so much is laid bare by the smallest of details..." To read the full review, visit the Globe and Mail.

Gregory Scofield on Thin Air

Fabulous Métis poet and performer Gregory Scofield read on opening night for the Thin Air festival in Winnipeg. He also recently read at Harbourfront Centre on August 22, 2009 from his fifth collection of poetry kipocihkân: poems new and selected, released by Nightwood Editions in spring 2009.

Tim Bowling at the Robson Square Reading Series

Tim Bowling's The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture won the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction and was selected as a 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. This year, Bowling received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the sole Canadian writer to receive the prestigious award. He recently read at the Gibsons Summer Reading Series and at the Robson Square Reading Series in Vancouver, BC.


Brad Cran, Vancouver’s New Poet Laureate

Congratulations to Brad Cran, who was recently appointed the City of Vancouver’s Poet Laureate for 2009-2011, to raise the status of poetry in the everyday consciousness of Vancouverites. Cran’s first book of poetry, The Good Life (Nightwood Editions) was published in 2002. Cran's book, Hope in the Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (with Gillian Jerome) was the winner of the 2008 City of Vancouver Book Award.

Announcing the Fall 2009 Titles

Nightwood Editions is pleased to announce our forthcoming books: O Canada Crosswords Book 10 by Macleod and Olson
Slapshot Hockey Quizbook by The Puzzling Sports Institute
Windstorm by Joe Denham
Red Nest by Gillian Jerome (pictured left)
Never More There by Stephen Rowe

A Loss for BC's Literary Community

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of author Kuldip Gill on Sunday, May 10, 2009. Gill’s first book, Dharma Rasa (Nightwood Editions, 1999), intertwined English and Punjabi, life in Canada and life in India, past and present, myth and imagination. It won a BC 2000 Book Award and received much acclaim. MORE


Nightwood Spring Gala an Immense Success

Poets Elizabeth Bachinsky, Laisha Rosnau, Gregory Scofield, and novelist Andrew Binks, launched their spring books to a full house on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at the Heritage Hall in Vancouver BC. Thanks to everyone who attended the festivities and bought books. For photos of the event, check out the gallery.

Forage takes the BC Book Prize for Poetry

Rita Wong's collection of poetry, Forage, won the 2009 Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry and was a finalist at this year's 11th Annual Asian American Literary Awards. The book was reviewed by George Elliott Clarke as a "fierce achievement...a formidable fusion..." and has recently been added to the New York Public Library's collection.

McCartney named "The People's Poet"

Congratulations to Sharon McCartney who was awarded as “The People’s Poet” for her accessible collection The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The 2008 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry goes to a book written in the tradition of Acorn, Livesay, Purdy, and Plantos--accessible to all people in its use of language and image.

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Awards


Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry 2009











Shortlisted
for 2008 ReLit Ring for Short Fiction


Shortlisted for the 2008 Atlantic Poerty Prize, the EJ Pratt Poetry Prize and the CAA Poetry Prize


W.O. Mitchell Book Prize 2007


2007 Shortlists: Trilliam Book Award for Poetry, Ottawa Book Award, the GG's Award for Poetry

Shortlisted
Amazon.ca Books in Canada First Novel Award


Shortlisted
2006 Governor General's Award


Winner 2006
People's Poetry
Prize


Winner 2005 Lampert Award, shortlisted Trillium



Shortlisted
2006 Trillium Award


Winner 2006 Ottawa Book Award


Shortlisted
2006 Lampert Award


Shortlisted 2005 Lampert Award


Winner 2004 CAA Award, shortlisted
Lampert


Winner
BC Book Prize for Poetry


2005 International White Raven
Selection