Canadian publishers are deeply disappointed by Nova Scotia's cancellation of the Publishers Assistance program. Support for local publishers has been reduced from $700,000 to $0, making NS the only province that does not invest in its own publishers. @nsgov.bsky.social publishers.ca/nova-scotia-...
Feb 19–March 1, 2026
Nothing But Time: Three Films by Peter Mettler
@thecinematheque.bsky.social
Series curator & author of "Nothing But Time: Three Films by Peter Mettler" (Anvil), José Teodoro, will attend Feb 19, as will the filmmaker. Books available.
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the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ;
March 24-30, 2026: check out the full schedule and ticket information at verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
March 24-30, 2026: readings + performances in English and French (and Polish)! 2 new Hall of Honour inductees!
workshops by Sheri-D Wilson + Paul Vermeersch! & a free reading at Carleton University by Karen Solie!
check out the full schedule and ticket information at verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
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BC Living's "25 B.C. Books to Read in the Bathtub" includes "Pools" by Martin West, a novel set in the hedonistic party culture of 1980s Vancouver.
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"It turns out that the book was a fantastic idea, as the first batch of books printed sold out in no time. But don’t sweat, more books are on the way."
(it's true, 2nd printing is landing on bookstore shelves now!)
Calvin Wharton has a light skin tone, and a light grey mustache and goatee. He’s wearing a tee shirt and sweater with glasses and a flat cap.
“There was a distinct pleasure in imagining strangers unexpectedly discovering and reading my poem”
Imagine you have lost connection to gravity, a condition that has developed so gradually you didn’t notice it was underway —Calvin Wharton, “Do This, Do That: Exercise 2”
Poetry in Transit spotlight: Calvin Wharton✨ @anvilpress.bsky.social
We spoke with Calvin Wharton and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
#PoetryInTransit #ReadLocalBC #BCPoet
#BCPoetry
"A Sign of the Times: The Best of the Penthouse Marquee" comes in at #7 this past week! Due to popularity, stock has become scarce. The good news (!) is: the book's 2nd printing will land at Vancouver area bookstores in the next few days! (and via Anvil's website) www.readlocalbc.ca/bc-bestselle...
Book cover for Frontier: A Memoir & A Ghost Story by Erica Stern (Barrelhouse Books): Hybrid featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "a researched history of birth’s industrialization and a second, fictional birth story set in the Wild West that asks: What if there had been no doctors?"
Book cover for So We Blush Less When the Phone Rings by Mark Wagstaff (Anvil Press): Literary fiction. Winner of the 45th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest. In a future hotter than today, people meet their needs through tailored forms of intelligence. From the cyborg security at the food mart to the ever-learning, ever-loving forms that can effectively — and acceptably — be a life partner. The processing nous of an AI spouse is all the more valuable in a world where everything’s a game. An actual game. And even a respectable, happy married couple, once they step outside the game, find themselves talking to bullets. https://www.anvilpress.com/books/so-we-blush-less-when-the-phone-rings
🧵 4/5 ... Frontier: A Memoir & A Ghost Story by @ericarstern.bsky.social (@barrelhouse.bsky.social) & So We Blush Less When the Phone Rings by Mark Wagstaff (@anvilpress.bsky.social). See alt-text!
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books #bookish #BooksWorthReading #readingcommunity #booktok
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"No doubt the new book, which sold out its initial print run (it’s expected back in stores in mid-January) will add to the growing legend around the club."
(Preorders also available at Anvil's website!)
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Vera Hadzic / @anvilpress.bsky.social ;
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small one a ringette game in Metcalfe, so starting to poke through new poetry titles by Canisia Lubrin & Vera Hadzic, // @anvilpress.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Cover for That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence (@jasonschneidermedia.com, @anvilpress.bsky.social, 2025)
That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of Hey Joe' and Popular Music's History of Violence ( (@jasonschneidermedia.com, @anvilpress.bsky.social, 2025)
An absolutely eye-opening and revelatory account of the history and legacy of the great modern murder ballad.
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Thank you STIR for recommending my @anvilpress.bsky.social street photography book Night Moves as gift for arts fans! It's a honor to be included on this stellar lists of authors! #streetphotography
www.createastir.ca/articles/5-t... @figure1publishing.bsky.social @anvilpress.bsky.social
Ladner! You’re invited to a meet & greet and book signing of A SIGN OF THE TIMES at @blackbondbooks.bsky.social on Dec 21 from 12-2 ✨ Get signed copies ahead of the holidays, and meet Benjamin Jackson, Aaron Chapman, and Danny Filippone from the Penthouse — the men behind the book!
These days, the neon marquee outside the legendary Penthouse Nightclub gets more attention than the nearly 80-year-old establishment itself. Now, it’s the subject of a new book — A Sign of the Times: The Best of the Penthouse Marquee. #NewsRadioBookshelf vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/12/07/b...
WATCH: Ben Jackson, @theaaronchapman.bsky.social, and Danny Filippone talk about their new book, A Sign of the Times: the Best of the Penthouse Marquee. #NewsRadioBookshelf @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social @anvilpress.bsky.social youtu.be/8lOUWZ-khe4?...
The Christmas gift for all your Barfly friends… and a lilttle humour to go with your city history!
Coming to bookstores everywhere in BC this month- A Sign of The Times: The Best of The Penthouse Marquee—publisher by @anvilpress.bsky.social! #VancouverBC
Event poster for Vera Hadzic's Ottawa Book launch; photos of Vera Hadzic, Jennifer Baker, and Stephen Brockwell, and details the time of the event, 7pm on November 18th, and its location, Lieutenant's Pump, 361 Elgin Street
I'm launching my first book of poetry, Several Small Animals Enclosed in a Benedictine Monastery, in Ottawa on Tuesday Nov 18th at the Lieutenant's Pump, featuring Jennifer Baker and Stephen Brockwell!!! Join us if you can :)
Vancouver's popular Penthouse Nightclub sign is getting its own book
Congratulations to the CLMP members publishing new books this month! Find novels, poetry collections, memoirs, and more in our latest roundup: www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
Today on GET LIT Jason Schneider talks about That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of ‘Hey Joe’ and Popular Music’s History of Violence.
1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or on pods or here:
tinyurl.com/5dwu8ht6
@anvilpress.bsky.social @jasonschneidermedia.com
Thank you to @raypadgett.bsky.social and his great site Cover Me for letting me highlight some of the more obscure versions of 'Hey Joe' featured in my book That Gun In Your Hand
@anvilpress.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social #booksky
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