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28/10/2025

CBC Books is celebrating the Toronto Blue Jays reaching the World Series with a spate of fantastic book recommendations about – you guessed it – baseball! On that list is George Bowering's Baseball Love and other fantastic titles. Check it out:

https://www.cbc.ca/books/15-books-about-baseball-to-celebrate-the-blue-jays-in-the-world-series-9.6949022

28/10/2025

A production of Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre by Larry Tremblay and translated by Chantal Bilodeau runs from October 28–November 9 at the Great Canadian Theatre Company! Don't miss it!

https://www.gctc.ca/2526-season

27/10/2025

Tomorrow! Join the amazing bill bissett reading alongside the venerable bill bissett (from the archives) at this free afternoon event. Present-day bissett will be reading from his new collection th book uv lost passwords 1. The event will take place at Henderson Hall from 12:30 p.m. –2:00 p.m. MDT and the amazing team at Audreys Books will be bookselling. ⁠

This event is presented by the SpokenWeb Project, the University of Alberta’s Department of English and Film Studies, and the Centre for Literatures in Canada.
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Be sure to attend this fantastic reading with bill and bill.

26/10/2025

On November 20, celebrate the launch of Heartlines: A Love Story, the powerful new play by Sarah Waisvisz at Novel Idea Bookstore in Kingston! Blending fact and fiction, Heartlines delves the extraordinary love, art, and political resistance of gender pioneers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

Join Sarah Waisvisz alongside actors Evalyn Parry and Zoë Sweet for an evening of literature and theatre. Attendance is free! Help us welcome Heartlines to the world.

25/10/2025

Baseball reads? Yes please! This list of World Series reads knocked it out of the park. Great to see Baseball Love by George Bowering here and in such good company.

Okay, Blue Jays! Let's play ball.

25/10/2025

October 25 is fine art appreciation day! If you haven't had the opportunity to take in the late, great Phyllis Webb's visual art, you have to check out A Dream in the Eye. The depth of feeling and beauty alive in her poetry shines undeniably through her paintings and collages. We're grateful to have published this gorgeous book, edited by Stephen Collis, that has compiled her art so her many fans can enjoy it and return to it again and again.

https://talonbooks.com/books/a-dream-in-the-eye

24/10/2025

We are elated to share that Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon and translated by Jessica Moore is a finalist for the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation! The poems in this incredible dual-language collection appear in Innu-aimun and English.

The pieces in Uiesh / Somewhere are rooted in Innu Elder Joséphine Bacon’s experiences of moving between the nomadic ways of her Ancestors in the northern wilderness of Nitassinan and the clamour of the city. Bacon is attentive to the smallest details of her environment, from the moon and the stars, the Northern Lights, and the falling snow, to the sirens of fire engines and the noise of a busy bar night. In this collection, she listens to the voices of the Old Ones, whose stories are alive within her, and reflects on the beauty and the pain of her long life.

A huge congratulations Joséphine and Jessica, for this wonderful and well-deserved accomplishment, and congratulations to all of this year’s finalists!

https://ggbooks.ca

23/10/2025

Angie Rico reviews Electric Company Theatre’s production of Fire Never Dies by Carmen Aguirre running at The Cultch in Stir. Read all about it:

Written and directed by Carmen Aguirre, Electric Company Theatre’s new production hums with the complex, revolutionary rhythms of 20th-century art and politics

23/10/2025

Tomorrow! Help us welcome 📖five amazing poetry titles📖 to the world. Join us in person at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or tune into the live stream on the Talonbooks YouTube channel!

📚️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 Danielle LaFrance! Books will be sold by the amazing folks at The Paper Hound.

Looking for more details? Check here: https://talonbooks.com/events/talonbooks-fall-2025-launch

We can't wait to see you!

22/10/2025

Fire Never Dies spotted in the wild 🔥

22/10/2025

Brooklyn! Celebrate the launch of Stigmata, the debut poetry collection by Scott Jackshaw at the Eglantine Poetry Reading Series at the Sunview Luncheonette Acropolis! Readings by Scott Jackshaw, Kendra Sullivan, and Ada Smailbegović. The event takes place at Sunview Luncheonette Acropolis (257 Nassau Ave, Brooklyn) on October 25th, 6 p.m.

22/10/2025

It’s a poetry launch for music lovers! If you're in Winnipeg on November 5, help celebrate the release of Manor's Ransom by Cam Scott and No Depression in Heaven by ryan fitzpatrick at McNally Robinson!

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18835/Cam-Scott-&-ryan-fitzpatrick-Dual-Book-Launch