Anvil Press

Contemporary Canadian Literature with a Distinctly Urban Twist

newest releases

Mayan Horror: How To Survive the End of the World in 2012
Non-Fiction | Bob Robertson
November 2011 | 160 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-87-5
$16 CAN / $16 US

A Credit To Your Race
Fiction | Truman Green
October 2011 | 160 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-86-8
$18 CAN / $18 US

Who Killed Janet Smith?
Non-Fiction | Edward Starkins
October 2011 | 406 pp | 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-897535-85-1
$24 CAN / $24 US

Shag Carpet Action
Fiction | Matthew Firth
October 2011 | 160 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-84-4
$18 CAN / $18 US

Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960
Non-Fiction | Diane Purvey & John Belshaw
November 2011 | 224 pp | 7.5 x 9.5
ISBN 978-1-897535-83-7
$25 CAN / $25 US

Exit
Fiction | Nelly Arcan (translated by David Scott Hamilton)
Spring 2011 | 192 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-66-0
$20 CAN / $20 US

Hard Hed
Fiction | Charles Tidler
Spring 2011 | 192 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-69-1
$20 CAN / $20 US

Afflictions & Departures
Non-Fiction | Madeline Sonik
Spring 2011 | 184 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-67-7
$20 CAN / $20 US

The Song Collides
Poetry | Calvin Wharton
Spring 2011 | 80 pp | 5.5 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-68-4
$16 CAN / $16 US

Galaxy
Poetry | Rachel Thompson
Spring 2011 | 104 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-71-4
$16 CAN / $16 US

Nondescript Rambunctious
Fiction | Jackie Bateman
Spring 2011 | 204 pp | 5.5 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-70-7
$20 CAN / $20 US

The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers
Non-Fiction | Myrl Coulter
Spring 2011 | 214 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-72-1
$18 CAN / $18 US

Ravenna Gets (Winner, 2011 ReLit Award!)
Fiction | Tony Burgess
Fall 2010 | 96 pp | 5.25 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-32-5
$16 CAN / $16 US

The Mountie at Niagara Falls
Fiction | Salvatore Difalco
Fall 2010 | 144 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-33-2
$18 CAN / $18 US

Vs. (Finalist, Acorn-Plantos Award)
Poetry | Kerry Ryan
Fall 2010 | 96 pp | 5 x 7
ISBN 978-1-897535-34-9
$16 CAN / $16 US

Spaz
Fiction | Bonnie Bowman
Fall 2010 | 368 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-27-1
$20 CAN / $20 US

Spat the Dummy
Fiction | Ed Macdonald
Fall 2010 | 272 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-31-8
$20 CAN / $20 US

Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature
Non-Fiction | Trevor Carolan
Fall 2010 | 272 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-29-5
$20 CAN / $20 US

A Room in the City
Art/Photography | Gabor Gasztonyi
September 2010 | 160 pp | 7 x 11
ISBN 978-1-897535-28-8
$40 CAN / $40 US

The Devil You Know
Fiction | Jenn Farrell
Spring 2010 | 128 pp | 5.75 x 8
ISBN 9781897535066
$16 CAN / $16 US

Wombat: The Collected Comic Strip
Art/Photography | Rod Filbrandt
Spring 2010 | 144 | 5.75 x 7.75
ISBN 9781897535301
$16.00 CAN / $16.00 US

Poetry

Bizarre Winery Tragedy

By Lyle Neff

Lyle Neff’s Bizarre Winery Tragedy is a book of lyric poems about country folk, city folk, alcohol and urbanism.

Bogman's Music

By Tammy Armstrong

GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD NOMINEE

Bogman’s Music is a debut collection of poetry that is both elegiac and sensitive in its exploration of family dynamics, the enduring power of childhood experience, and the healing ability of faith and love.

Cusp/Detritus by Catherine Owen photographs by Karen Moe

Cusp/detritus: an experiment in alleyways

By Catherine Owen & Karen Moe

Rooted in the back alleys, squats and psychiatric wards of contemporary Vancouver and Montreal, these unyielding poems enter the intersecting tensions and intensities in characters such as Mike, a panhandler on Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Matthew, a runaway punk, and Dara, a single mother.

Frenzy

By Catherine Owen

In Greek mythology the Muses preside over the arts and inspire writers and artists to produce works of genius. In Frenzy, Catherine Owen pays homage to the muse in a six-part compilation of muse-quests, some the author’s, some those of others. These muses can be a person, a place, or even the absurdity itself of indefinitely seeking the muse.

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