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The latest titles from Turnstone Press
- Mike Grandmaison's Prair…
- Dating: a novel
- Drift
- Hang Down Your Head
- Alert to Glory
- Dadolescence
- What the Bear Said
- Portraits of Winnipeg
Mike Grandmaison's Prairie and Beyond
In lush full colour, award-winning photographer Mike Grandmaison’s expert lens captures the vastness of sky and land that define the prairie landscape.
Read moreDating: a novel
Jenkins never dreamed he’d live long enough to be dating again. Hilarious, touching, and a little saucy, Dating proves that life is full of surprises no matter how old you are.
Read moreDrift
South Africa is long way from Canada. In 1899, two prairie boys throw themselves into the conflict of the Second Boer War looking for something their small-town lives cannot provide. With breathtaking grace, Leo Brent Robillard delivers an unstoppable story.
Read moreHang Down Your Head
Join Randy Craig for a roller coaster read with more twists than the Mindbender. Hang on to your hat for Hang Down Your Head. It’s Janice MacDonald at the top of her game. —Suzanne North, author of the Phoebe Fairfax
Read moreAlert to Glory
"Sound the trumpets! Sally Ito’s Alert to Glory is a clarion call … A transformative book both salt and sweet." — Susan McCaslin
Read moreDadolescence
"This witty meditation on manly manliness is a head-butt at academic pretension and the Sword of Damocles that is the PhD thesis. A new novel so good, you’ll actually finish it." - Al Rae, Artistic Director, CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival.
Read moreWhat the Bear Said
What the Bear Said is a marvellous collection of fables. The stories are immediate, the characters, both human and supernatural, crackle with life . . . —W. P. Kinsella
Read morePortraits of Winnipeg
Winnipeg artist and designer, Robert J. Sweeney, captures Winnipeg’s urban landscape in this remarkable collection of sketches, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink.
Read morePoet Carla Funk Victoria Book Prize Finalist
WINNIPEG, MB - Turnstone Press is honoured that Carla Funk is a finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for adult literature for her latest poetry collection apologetic. The former inaugural poet laureate of the City of Victoria published the nominated volume in the Spring of 2010, which appears as the sole poetry title on a non-fiction-heavy shortlist.
Apologetic captures microscopic moments in time and nature. Traditional poetic forms yield to experimentation, the flesh-and-bones body bends to the spirit, and the natural world opens up small rooms of wonder.
Sue Sinclair, author of Breaker (Brick Books), says of the collection, “these poems embrace the sometimes cumbersome fact of bodily, earthly existence...I am glad to be reminded of this fundamental solidarity, glad to reconnect with the dignity of mortal life.”
Carla Funk was born and raised in Vanderhoof, BC and now lives in Victoria with her family. Her work has been featured in anthologies and literary journals, and she has published three collections of poetry including The Sewing Room. She was Victoria’s inaugural poet laureate from 2006 – 2008, and currently teaches at the University of Victoria.
The City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for adult literature awards $5000 annually to a local writer chosen by an independent jury based on literary merit. Winners will be announced on October 12th, 2011.
Apologetic
Gardens and roadkill, even the moon, all play a part in Carla Funk’s collection of emotional poems that capture the fleeting impressions of the human experience.