NEWS from the FORGE

New Titles:

Check out our Fall 2009 season:
Kaspoit!, a gut-punch novel from Dennis E. Bolen; 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 Canadian cinema today (Pacific Cinémathèque Monograph Series, #2).

Coming this Spring!
The Devil You Know by Jenn Farrell is an arresting volume of short fiction dealing with the familiar, yet ever-engrossing, territories of sex, love, work, birth, and death; A Room in the City: the photographs of Gabor Gasztonyi presents Gasztonyi’s five-year project of photographing the residents of the Cobalt, Balmoral, Sunrise, and Regent Hotels in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Introduction by Harold Rhenisch and a Preface by Gabor Mate; The Waterbird, a new novel from Vancouver author Robert Strandquist. Humans too often live lives based on the surface—on appearances alone, seldom breaking beyond the outer shell of the world that sustains us. The Waterbird contemplates a look inward instead.; A Pattern of Interpretation: Making B.C. and Pacific Northwest Literature, edited by Trevor Carolan is an anthology of fifteen essays focusing on a broad spectrum of topics, including nationalist and post-nationalist traditions, regional perspectives, First Nations groundings, Beat/Black Mountain and cross-cultural linkages, and the shifting grounds in the defining of community identity.

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

Nettie Wild Friday, January 15th, 7:00 p.m.

In conjunction with the launch of the Wild at Heart: The Films of Nettie Wild, Wild’s exemplary work will be the subject of a career retrospective at Pacific Cinémathèque. (1131 Howe Street, Vancouver). Running January 15-17, the retrospective includes Wild’s four documentary features – A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution (1988), Blockade (1993), A Place Called Chiapas (1998), and Fix: The Story of an Addicted City (2002), as well as Wild’s most recent film, the medium-length documentary Bevel Up (2007).

Book Launch reception: 6:00-7:00 in the lobby.

Ms. Wild will be in attendance for all screenings.

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.