Tomorrow! Catch Danielle LaFrance and Kate Rogers featuring at #PlanetEarthPoetry at Russell Books in Victoria! This is an evening of #poetry not to be missed. Hope to see you there! #BookSky📚💙
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Helen Shaw writes about themes of forgiveness at this year’s Stratford Festival in The New York Times with a special shout out to the brand new play The Tao of the World by Jovanni Sy. Read Shaw’s article here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/t... #TheTaoOfTheWorld #JovanniSy #StratfordFestival
At This Canadian Theater Festival, Forgiveness Is a Power Move
The outgoing artistic director of the Stratford Festival, Antoni Cimolino, directs “The Tempest,” and like Prospero, he understands how to wield acts of kindness.
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The latest #play by the iconic Michel Tremblay is here! Familial bonds and tensions are on glorious display over a Thanksgiving dinner in Dear Chekhov, translated into English by Linda Gaboriau. Available now through Talon's website or your favourite local indie! talonbooks.com/books/dear-c...
Wonderful to see Grace of Centuries by Hope Anderson and A Child’s Seance by Weyman Chan in great company in CBC Books’s article about Canadian #poetry collections to look forward to this fall! Check out all of their recs: www.cbc.ca/books/25-can... #CanLit #Poetry #TBRPile #BookSky💙📚
We are delighted that Crowd Source by Cecily Nicholson has been named a finalist for the 2026 City of Vancouver Book Award! A huge congratulations to Cecily and to all of this year's shortlisted authors! bcyukonbookprizes.com/2026/09/02/a...
What’s at the top of our reading piles this coming season? Check out our fall preview: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...
Congratulations! @caitlinpress.bsky.social, @heritagehouse.bsky.social, #NoworNeverPublishing, @orcabook.bsky.social, @talonbooks.bsky.social, and tidewaterpress.bsky.social were named winners across various categories at the SCWES Annual Book Awards for BC Authors. 👏 Read the full list at scwes.ca.
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"Innovation is the empty calorie of corporate jargon." Read from Taryn Hubbard's BEAUTIFUL UNKNOWN FUTURE (@talonbooks.bsky.social), a collection of long poems that hold space for messy feelings about motherhood, the climate crisis, family ghosts, and office dynamics. alllitup.ca/two-poems-be...
Jovanni Sy is a guest on Q with Tom Power speaking about his new play The Tao of the World on now at the Stratford Festival! Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #BookSky📚💙 #Theatre #Drama #Plays #CanLit
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The Tao of the World by Jovanni Sy has arrived! Recently liberated from the constraints of COVID-19, Singapore’s wealthy elite – armed with taste, bon mots, and the invisible labour of the working class – scheme, woo, connive, and behave badly. Get your copy here: talonbooks.com/books/the-ta...
Taryn Hubbard, Beautiful Unknown Future / @talonbooks.bsky.social @bcbooklook.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/08/tary...
Taryn Hubbard, Beautiful Unknown Future
Sweetie notices my sudden shift in attention and tries to draw me back to another world. I must focus so hard now on my paid tasks. None...
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Congratulations to LPG members and their authors shortlisted for the 2025 Warland Award, which recognizes outstanding hybrid-genre books published in Canada: @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @talonbooks.bsky.social & Véhicule Press!
Thank you so much for nominating Talonbooks for the Georgia Straight's Best of Vancouver Award for Best Book Publisher! ❤️ We're so honoured you chose us and we're happy to be in such wonderful company. If you'd like, you can vote for us here until August 23: www.straight.com/living/vote-...
August 12 is #QuébecBookDay! The literary scene in Québec is world class and Talonbooks has the joy of publishing so many incredible authors based throughout the province. Here are some recent and forthcoming books by Québec-based authors that we think you'll love. talonbooks.com/news/quebec-...
Cecily Ross pens a piece about George Bowering in The Literary Review of Canada, covering his farewell collection Pearl and more. Ross says “Lyric poems reflect Bowering’s sly humour and love of everyday ... detail.” reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
As the Matador Says | A review of “Pearl” and “Barefoot Gringo” by George Bowering | Literary Review of Canada
Cecily Ross reviews “Pearl,” and “Barefoot Gringo,” two books by George Bowering.
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Jónína Kirton is a guest on the radio show Wax Poetic! Kirton talks about the knowledge of the body and how love changes with age. Hear @jkirton.bsky.social read #poems from Save Your Prayers – Send Money and listen to the whole interview here: archive.org/details/wax-...
WAX POETIC 072226 WITH JONINA KIRTON
Sonya Littlejohn and RC chat with Jonina Kirton as she reads from her new Talon Books, collection Save Your Prayers, Send Money.
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August is Women in Translation Month! It's exciting to see translated works (and the highly skilled women in the field) get more shine in recent years. The work of translation is the work of connection, it's essential. We're marking the occasion with 3 amazing books. talonbooks.com/news/women-i...
Whether you love love in all its forms or crave something darker and titillating, choose your perfect summer novel ❤️ 🩸
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : rob mclennan : SUBTEXT, by Nicole Raziya Fong / @montrealprize.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/08/rob-...
rob mclennan : SUBTEXT, by Nicole Raziya Fong
SUBTEXT , Nicole Raziya Fong Talonbooks, 2026 The third full-length collection from Montreal poet and collaborator Nicole Raziya Fon...
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Check out this interview in The Vancouver Guardian with #author and #artist @raveonstudio.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2026 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editor's Society's Book Awards for BC Authors! vancouverguardian.com/vancouver-vi...
“A Day in the Life” with: Visual Artist Jenn Ashton
Jenn Ashton is a multidisciplinary Squamish artist whose work explores creativity, connection, and the beauty woven through everyday life.
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Growing My Way Home by Jenn Ashton is a finalist for the 2026 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society’s fourth annual Book Awards for BC Authors in the Indigenous Voices category! A huge congratulations, Jenn! See all of this year's finalists here: www.scwes.ca
“This book is about the #decolonization process. It's…about showing that there are a lot of us out there who are in this middle road, who don't know our past and there's a lot of people coming home…” #Indigenous #FirstNations #books #autofiction
Connecting to Indigenous roots takes more than just showing up with a status card and DNA, author says
Jenn Ashton is clear: Growing My Way Home: Stories of Resilience and Care may be classified as an autobiographical fiction, but it is her true story. The abuse, the time as a runaway and in juvie, the...
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Two Talonbooks authors, Mercedes Eng and A Jamali Rad, are on the 2025 #WarlandAward Longlist judged this year by Phanuel Antwi! The Warland Award annually recognizes an outstanding hybrid-genre work published in Canada. Congratulations, Mercedes and A! warlandaward.ca #hybridforms
LOCAL NEWS: Lakeland authors recognized with Indigenous literary prizes
Lakeland authors recognized with Indigenous literary prizes
Reuben Quinn of Saddle Lake Cree Nation and Daly Quintal of Lac La Biche are among the recipients of the 2026 Indigenous Voices Awards, a literary prize.
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Meredith Kerr interviews ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn following his win of the 2026 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English for his work of nonfiction ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one another in @coldlaketoday.bsky.social. www.lakelandtoday.ca/st-paul-news...
Lakeland authors recognized with Indigenous literary prizes
Reuben Quinn of Saddle Lake Cree Nation and Daly Quintal of Lac La Biche are among the recipients of the 2026 Indigenous Voices Awards, a literary prize.
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Seasons change. What doesn’t change is the joy of a good book. We’ve curated a list of B.C.-published, Canadian-authored books you can read this summer to explore the histories and geographies of our little corner of the world. 📖☀️
Eight Local Books to Upgrade Your Summer Reading List | The Tyee
A curated booklist to suit varied seasonal whims.
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@thetyee.ca has put out a list of local books to pick up for great summer reading. We’re thrilled to see two new Talonbooks titles named! Check out Growing My Way Home by @raveonstudio.bsky.social, ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn, and all of The Tyee's recs. thetyee.ca/Presents/202...
Eight Local Books to Upgrade Your Summer Reading List | The Tyee
A curated booklist to suit varied seasonal whims.
thetyee.ca