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2011 Spring

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Leaf Press was founded in 2001 as a poetry chapbook publisher. Since 2007 we have been publishing trade poetry while continuing our

chapbook tradition and our weekly on-line Monday’s Poem.

Our interactive trade book catalogue links to updated page spreads,hi-res author photos and book covers, reviews, audio and video

even for the backlist.

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Baker, Winona: Flesh in the InkwellBoschman, Leanne: Precipitous Signs: A Rain JournalCampbell, Wanda: Looking for LucyCarmen Leñero: Curvando la líneaChristine Lowther: My NatureCrozier, Lorna (Translator): Curving the Line Elliot, Kirsty: TrueGoldberg, Kim: Ride Backwards on DragonKope, Beth: Falling SeasonMusgrave, Susan: Obituary of Light: the Sangan River MeditationsNeale, Jude: Only the Fallen Can SeePaull, Shauna: roughened in undercurrentPepper, Kit: Let Beauty Be: A Season in the Highlands, GuatemalaPilarski, Patrick: Huge BlueShillington, Joan: RevolutionsTomasic, Bibiana: So Large an AnimalVincent, K. Louise: The Discipline of Undressing

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Only the Fallen Can SeeJude Neale

“Beautiful, poignant, raw and powerful”

“These poems follow a fractured trajectory that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit against despair. Beautiful, poignant, raw and powerful, Jude’s

poetry is of a woman unbroken by her illness.” Phillip W. Long MD

A remarkable book of poems which explore and chronicle the compelling journey of a mother struggling with bipolar illness. "For anyone who has been lost in a fog of drugged numbness or who has simply been dispirited, Jude Neale's pertinent imagery offers comfort and sustenance." Audrey Grescoe

Jude Neale's first book of poetry is called The Perfect Word Collapses. She has been featured frequently with Ascent Aspirations Magazine and was recently awarded an honourable mention for her short story submission in the 2010 winter edition. When Jude isn’t writing she is giving vocal concerts, where she enjoys sharing her rich mezzo-soprano voice with others. She lives on a small island near Vancouver, Canada.

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Interviews (Audio on Website): World Poetry Café on Co-op Radio; Bowen Island Undercurrent.

Readings: International Day for Persons with Disabilities Dec. 3, 2010 in Vancouver, B.C.; World Poetry Assn. Awards Feb. 14, 2011; Bowen Writers Festival July 10, 2011.

April 2011 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 70 pp | 978-1-926655-24-6 | $15.95

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Christine Lowther: My Nature

“Writing the west, coasting The Sound, Clayoquot-style.”

“In this Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, we discover/uncover her poses: as poet, memoirist, con-fabulist, and eco photo-journalist. It has been said that the author writes and gardens on water. She has a genius for loci, the tutelary deity or the pervading spirit of a place —Anne Burke

Christine Lowther is the author of New Power (Broken Jaw Press, 1999) and A Cabin in Clayoquot; she is co-editor and co-author of Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place (Ronsdale, 2008).

Oct 2010 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 112 pp | 978-1-926655-10-9 | $17.95

Audio available on the website

Cover blurbs by Anne Burke and by George Elliott ClarkeAuthor lives in Tofino and in a floathouse in Clayoquot Sound.

Beth Kope is collaborating with Maureen Ulrich on a play based on the book. She is donating her royalties from Falling Season to the Alzheimer Society. She lives in Victoria, B.C.

Beth Kope: Falling Season

“This is a quietly stunning book.”

Betsy Warland: “Falling Season is shaped by an exquisite sense of craft and consciousness that is rare to find in a first book ... Beth Kope wrestles with one of our most vexing sources of human suffering: the melancholy of meaning. She gives us a visceral experience of breaking paths to different ways of perception and intimacy.”

Oct 2010 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 68 pp | 978-1-926655-11-6 | $15.95

TrueKirsty Elliot

March 2011 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 70 pp | 978-1-926655-23-9 | $15.95

“Simple, lovely, true.” Charlotte Gill

Kirsty Elliot is one of my favourite writers of all time. We wrote two songs together and they are still my biggest hits. Our first song, “Humminah,” is a

story made into a song, verbatim, from Kirsty’s mouth ... Kirsty excels at finding the balance-points of humour and heartbreak, whimsy and depth, light-

heartedness and dark twists. She’s a fairy who has lived in the deeps of the forest for ages and knows how to cast some damn potent spells. I can’t WAIT

to read her book! Kim Barlow

Kirsty Elliot was accidently born in England because she’s Scottish. Her mom was a midwife and her Dad was a chemical engineer. She lived in Carnoustie until she was 3 and then moved to the Bahamas until she was 7. Life was all glass bottom boats and swimming all day until her dad was recruited by a nuclear power plant in Ontario. She spent the rest of her childhood in Inverhuron and then she thinks she went to high school in Port Elgin but she’s kind of blocked it out.

She attended Trent University until a global cycling addiction prevented her from finishing her native studies degree. She passed the 90s living in the NWT and Yukon before moving down south to caretake a dreamy, private island. She spent three years living all alone in a house that floated in the ocean and looked like a walnut that fell from outerspace.

She now lives with her husband and their two children on Lasqueti Island where they cleared some land, dug some ponds, made a garden and built a cute little plastic shack. They just spent their fourth winter all together in the plastic shack. So please buy this book. Hell, buy two. Ad in BC Bookworld

Readings: Lasqueti Island, Parksville, Nanaimo, Lower Mainland, Whitehorse

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Bibiana Tomasic: So Large an Animal

“An insistence on being heard, on being alive”

This book is a response to the silence of a child growing up in a Communist country, where only certain things were ‘say-able.’ “It is the rebellion I might have had at sixteen, which turned into the voiced declaration of a forty-year-

old woman needing to express her passion about her childhood, immigration, her partner, and her children,” says Tomasic.

Oct 2010 | 6 x 9 | 84 pp | 978-1-926655-04-8 | $16.95

Cover blurbs by George McWhirterand Fiona Tinwei Lam

Bibiana Tomasic lives in New Westminster, B.C.

Carmen Leñero : Curving the Line / Curvando la líneatranslated and with an introduction by Lorna Crozier

“A joyful exchange of poetry and language”

“What I so admire about her poems–their luminosity, their philosophical insights manifested through the senses, their elegance, their aphoristic wit–I

pray the reader will find here.” Lorna Crozier

Mexican singer and writer Carmen Leñero has published twenty books and has won several literary awards and grants, including the 1998 Nacional Poetry Award Carlos Pellicer. She has set to music, recorded and performed a number of texts of contemporary and traditional poets.

Oct 2010 | 4.5 x 7.25 | 54 pp | 978-1-926655-16-1 | $16.95

Audio on the website

English / Spanish editionAuthor lives in Mexico CityTranslator lives in Victoria, B.C.

Winona Baker: Flesh in the Inkwell: poems from a writer’s life

“When poverty enters the door, love flies out the window.”

“Baker shares her internal and external life over eight decades with grace, charm and more than a little self-deprecation.” Goody Niosi

Baker’s poems have been published all over the world and translated into six languages; she has received many international honours and awards. This book

is her autobiography in verse.

2010 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 112 pp | 978-1-926655-09-3 | $18.00

Kit Pepper: Let Beauty Be: A Season in the Highlands, Guatemala

“Simply radiant sight!” Phil Hall

“Kit Pepper, a runner with a machete-sharp eye for detail and a linguist’s ear for polyphonous sound, takes us on a journey of self-discovery through a

landscape of beguiling beauty and heart-wrenching poverty”... Ruth R. Pierson

2009 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 92 pp | 978-1-926655-03-1 | $17.95

Patrick Pilarski: Huge Blue

“Even the cold wind seems visible” Lanie Shanzyra Rebecanos

Patrick Pilarski’s spare poems shape a pointillist map of the west, placing dot by dot exactly on the large canvas of place and emotion. His poems locate

“the quiet point a hook can never reach, with lyric exactness and flashes of sly fun”—Alice Major

2009 | 4.25 x 5 | 104 pp | 978-1-926655-02-4 | 16.95

Susan Musgrave: Obituary of Light: The Sangan River Meditations

This new book of poems is a sequence of reflections, of mindful blessings, on the everyday goings-on around Susan Musgrave’s home on the Sangan River,

near Masset on the Queen Charlotte Islands/Haida Gwaii.

“Of all the books, this is my favourite, the one that I will keep on my bedside table and reread. Its stark lines are freighted with wisdom deep enough that

I’ve yet to scrape bottom.” Karin Cope, in Dalhousie Review.

Audio on Website | 2009 | 4.5 x 7 | 68 pp | 978-1-926655-01-7 | $16.95

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Leanne Boschman: Precipitous Signs: a Rain Journal

“The book of the Coast, period.” Harold Rhenisch

“Read it the way you would read the rain, falling through a landscape of houses, trees, and industrial Prince Rupert, in all the senses

it can be touched, because that’s the way it was written: in drops and streams and rivulets and torrents...”

2009 | 6 x 9 | 64 pp | 978-0-9783879-9-0 | 16.95

BACKLIST

Looking for Lucy by Wanda Campbell 2008 90 pp $16.95 978- 9783879-5-2Lucy Adaline, wife of Sir William Van Horne: their unlikely romance is set against the progress of the railroad as Van Horne pushed it westward.

Revolutions by Joan Shillington 2008 84 pp $16.95 978-0-9783879-6-9 The Romanovs as they construct their nest over 23 years of rule.

roughened in undercurrent by shauna paull 2008 60 pp $15.95978-0-9783879-4-5 Lives lived at risk, the confinements of isolation, the persistent miracle of community.

Ride Backwards on Dragon by Kim Goldberg 2007 128 pp $18.959780978387914 Rights reverted. Available from liuhebafagirl.wordpress.com.

The Discipline of Undressing by K. Louise Vincent 2007 104 pp $17.95978-0-9783879-0-7 Forms of undressing or letting go the poet hadn’t known before. Longlisted for the ReLit Awards.

Page spreads, hi-res author photos and book covers, reviews, audio and video all available on-line

www.leafpress.caand linked from the interactive trade catalogue

AWARDS

Precipitous Signs: A Rain Journal | Leanne Boschman | longlist ReLit AwardsRide Backwards on Dragon | Goldberg | shortlist Gerald Lampert AwardObituary of Light: the Sangan River Meditations | Susan Musgrave | shortlist

CAA Awards and longlist ReLit AwardsThe Discipline of Undressing |K. Louise Vincent | longlist ReLit Awards