NEWS from the FORGE

New Titles: Forthcoming

Our Spring ’09 list features the kinds of innovative and progressive books that Anvil Press is known for: Private Grief, Public Mourning by John Belshaw & Diane Purvey is a fascinating investigation into the cultural and historic relevance of Roadside Death Memorials; Animal, a piercing new collection of short stories from Toronto writer Alexandra Leggat; Loop, Print, Fade + Flicker: David Rimmer’s Moving Images, the first title in the Pacific Cinémathèque Monograph Series, focuses on the work of one of Canada’s foremost experimental filmmakers; A Verse Map of Vancouver, edited by poet laureate George McWhirter, is a fabulous full-colour tabletop book celebrating Vancouver’s diversity of voice. Eighty-seven poets are represented alongside the resplendent city photography of Derek von Essen; Inventory, a debut collection of “object poetry” from Vancouver writer Marguerite Pigeon examines the often hidden dimensions of the objects we encounter.

And there’s more good stuff coming this fall: Kaspoit!, a gut-punch novel from Dennis E. Bolen; The Devil You Know, an arresting volume of short fiction from Jenn Farrell; The Skeleton Dance from Toronto writer Philip Quinn is a searing tale of friendship betrayed; Frenzy, an expectant compilation of muse-quests from Catherine Owen; and Wild at Heart: The Films of Nettie Wild, profiles one of the leading documentarians working in Western Canadian cinema today (Pacific Cinémathèque Monograph Series, #2).

For a complete list of our backlist titles, please click the genre link to the right. Happy reading!

Recent Releases include:

Scalawags, Jim Christy’s compendium volume of rogues, roustabouts and brazen ne’er-do-wells through the ages will intrigue and entertain; Accelerated Paces is a fascinating hybrid of creative fact and honest fiction that crosses boundaries and blurs borders. Suicide Psalms, a new collection of poetry from Mari-Lou Rowley is both hymn and visceral scream—of loss, despair, hope, and redemption that suggests “more honourable, tender, sustainable ways of living together on this groaning, delicate, crying earth.” Equally engaging and insightful is Jennica Harper’s What It Feels Like for a Girl, a series of poems that examine the friendship between two teenage girls as they delve into the big, strange world of sex. Tortoise Boy is a startling new play from Victoria playwright Charles Tidler.