Nightwood Editions

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Innovative literary book publisher based in British Columbia, Canada. https://linktr.ee/nightwoodeditions

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Calling Canadian poets! 🍁📚 The Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize awards a $10,000 prize to an outstanding book of poetry by an established Canadian poet whose work demonstrates distinguished achievement. You can find the guidelines and entry form on the Al Purdy A-frame Association website.

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Lisa’s final book tour stop: Calgary! 📍 Shelf Life Books 📅 October 7 at 7 pm 💬 In Conversation with paulo da costa Come join Lisa for the final stop on her book tour. We’d love to see you there!

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Kelowna friends! Join us at the Kelowna Central Library on October 6, where Lisa Lopez Smith (Hallelujah Anyhow) and Sakiru Adebayo (Wildfire Verses) will launch their debut collections, alongside Matt Rader, who will read from his latest work, FINE. We’d love to see you there!

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Tickets to Vancouver Writers Fest events are going fast! 🎟️ Don’t miss Jess Housty reading from their new collection, How to Nourish a Cannibal, at the Poetry Bash on October 22 at 8:30 p.m. Come hear Jess bring this powerful new collection to the stage!

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Shari Narine speaks with Jess Housty about their latest collection, How to Nourish a Cannibal. "A cannibal in the Heiltsuk culture," says Housty, "is a complex idea…as something that takes, but also something that gives. There's a really deep inherent reciprocity to the cannibal figure.”

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Check out this wonderful review of Sakiru Adebayo's collection, Wildfire Verses: "Adebayo’s voice is like a stone dropped in a pond... poems create the first ripple, moving outward to communal laments, then further to post-human landscapes, ending with resonant and rippling litanies for change."

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Victoria friends, there’s still time to join Lisa Lopez Smith tonight at 7 p.m. at St. Barnabas Anglican Church, where she’ll be presenting her debut poetry collection, Hallelujah Anyhow. Come hear Lisa read from this wonderful new collection and celebrate its launch with us. Free to attend!

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In this debut novel, the intimate community of Toronto Island is fractured by a death in the ice—one that binds two families across generations. 🏝 Available for order NOW! Order from your local indie bookstore, major retailers and our website. 🏝 Cover design by the ultra-talented Natalie Olsen

Graphic including text, the cover image of "Islanders” and Adrick Brock's author photo. The cover is a graphic with text of the title and the author’s name oriented in a cross surrounded by a broken circle like a lifebuoy. Adrick Brock’s author photo is in black and white and he is looking at the camera with a half-smile. Text at the bottom reads "Order Now, October 6".Graphic including text and the cover image of "Islanders" as well as Nightwood Edition's logo. Text reads: "In this debut novel, the intimate community of Toronto Island is fractured by a death in the ice—one that binds two families across generations. When Theo Frith, a teenager growing up on Toronto Island, discovers the body of artist Dan Rainier in the harbour ice, he’s thrust into the center of a drama that will alter the course of his life—and the lives of everyone around him. Dan’s sudden death jolts the close-knit island community, including Theo’s mom, Yvonne, who is struggling to keep her drinking in check, and Dan’s daughter, Maxine, who is left with the senselessness of losing her dad. Inhabiting the world of Toronto Island in vivid detail, Islanders captures the ache of isolation and belonging amidst the rare backdrop of one of Canada’s most unusual neighbourhoods."Graphic including Adrick Brock's author photo and their biographical statement, which reads: "Adrick Brock grew up on Toronto Island. His short stories have appeared in The New Quarterly, EVENT, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Riddle Fence and The Dalhousie Review, and have been short- and long-listed for the CBC Short Story Prize. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and lives in Vancouver, BC. Islanders is his first novel."
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New book spotlight: Jess Housty talks with CBC’s Daybreak North about kinship, ancestral knowledge, and the surprising ways the concept of nourishment shaped the creative process in writing their new collection, How to Nourish a Cannibal.

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