Talonbooks

30/09/2025

On October 23, catch Hajer Mirwali featuring at Emily Carr University of Art + Design's On Edge reading series! Mirwali will read work from her debut collection Revolutions. For more details and to tune in on Zoom, click here:

https://www.ecuad.ca/events/hajer-mirwal-on-edge-reading-series-fall-2025-oct23

30/09/2025

Tomorrow! Enjoy a discussion between Jeannot Clair and Oana Avasilichioaei author of Chambersonic! The duo will discuss Avasilichioaei’s writing and translation practices.

https://www.facebook.com/events/783341154143036/

29/09/2025

On Friday, October 24, you’re invited to the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall for the Talonbooks fall 2025 launch! We’re celebrating the arrival of five fantastic new books of poetry. Please join us in welcoming:

The Book of Z by Rahat Kurd
th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett
No Depression in Heaven by ryan fitzpatrick
Stigmata by Scott Jackshaw and
tours, variously by Drew McEwan!

The launch will be hosted by the author of , Danielle LaFrance!

For more details about parking and the venue, click here: https://talonbooks.com/events/talonbooks-fall-2025-launch.

28/09/2025

Today is World Rivers Day! Celebrate with some fluvial poetry: Conversations with the Kagawong River by sophie anne edwards and beholden: a poem as long as the river by rita wong & fred wah are wonderful collections with which to mark the occasion.

27/09/2025

Anosh Irani, author of Behind the Moon, is one of the instructors performing at Vancouver Writers Fest’s UBC Night Class event! Get all of the details (and your tickets!) here: https://writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event-2025/31

26/09/2025

We are thrilled to announce that cop city swagger by Mercedes Eng has been named a finalist for the 2025 Vancouver Book Award! Congratulations, Mercedes!

Check out this year’s finalists and winner here: https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/winner-2025-city-of-vancouver-book-award.aspx

25/09/2025

Calgary! Head to Shelf Life Books on October 21 to celebrate the launch of No Depression in Heaven by ryan fitzpatrick, Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr, and crohnic by Jason Purcell. Be a little bit country. Or a little bit prairie. Or a little bit reflective about being chronically ill. Or be all three! Can't wait to see you there!

https://shelflifebooks.ca/events/3650920251021

24/09/2025

On October 18, Stephen Collis, author of The Middle, will be one of the poets featured for Victoria Festival of Authors’ famed Forest Poet/Tree Walk event! More details here: https://victoriafestivalofauthors.ca/event/forest-poet-tree-walk/

24/09/2025

Toronto! On October 15, head to Type Books on Queen Street West to celebrate the launch of The Book of Z by Rahat Kurd and The Book of Interruptions by Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi.

The event starts at 7 p.m. ET. This evening of poetry is not to be missed.

https://typebooks.ca/pages/💌-events

23/09/2025

We are delighted to share that Leanne Dunic and Fred Wah both took home awards at the 2025 BC & Yukon Book Awards Gala!

Wet by Leanne Dunic was awarded the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, given each year to an outstanding book of poetry! Wet is a gorgeous work of poetry and photography that follows a Chinese American model in Singapore as she thirsts for fair labour rights, climate justice, and human connection.

Author, educator, and literary icon Fred Wah received the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence! A prolific author, an appointee to the Order of Canada, Canada's fifth Parliamentary Poet Laureate, and a beloved pillar of community, we couldn't be happier to see Fred Wah recognized for his tremendous achievements.

A huge congratulations to Leanne and Fred, and to all of this year's winners and nominees.

23/09/2025

Kuei, My Friend by Deni Ellis Béchard and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (translated by Deni Ellis Béchard and Howard Scott) is in The Madawaska Valley Current’s list of recommended reading for Truth and Reconciliation Day.

https://madvalleycurrent.com/2025/09/16/recommended-reading-for-truth-and-reconciliation-day/

23/09/2025

Michaela Tassone reviews Domino Theatre's production of 7 Stories by Morris Panych. Check it out:

A dark comedy, Morris Panych’s 7 Stories follows an unnamed protagonist, Man (Aaron Manier), as he prepares to jump from the seventh floor of his apartment building. However, his various eccentric neighbours interrupt him with stories from their own chaotic, comedic lives in ways that are often me...