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1945 - 2044 Timeline Books Authors Presses Resources Search home Presses TalonBooks [Very Stone House] (1965- ) Vancouver, B.C. Talonbooks began as a poetry magazine at Magee highschool in Vancouver in 1963. Right from its beginnings, Talon was a literary publisher of Canadian authors of national and international importance. Authors featured in Talon magazine included Margret Atwood, bill bissett, George Bowering, Frank Davy and pbNichol. When the editors of Talon graduated from high school in 1965, they took their magazine with them and it became a UBC poetry magazine. In 1967 Talon began its life as a book publisher, publishig the first books of poetry by the young authors it had published as a magazine. In 1969, Talonbooks diversified into drama with the publication of Beverly Simon's Crabdance, James Reaney's Colours in the Dark, and George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, all of which have become international classics of the Canadian stage.Talon then diversified into fictaion in 1973 with the publication of Audrey Thomas's Songs My Mother Taught Me and Jane Rule's Desert of the Heart, feminist works of continued wold-wide importance. The 1974 publication of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs in English, translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco, marked the debut of Talonbooks' publication of translations of Quebec works. In 1979, Talonbooks further diversified into non-fiction with the publication, in four volumes, of The Salish People by the work of amateur ethnographer and B.C. pioneer Charles Hill-Tout. Patrick Lane, Seymour Mayne, bill bissett, Jim Brown [1965-67] David Robinson, Jim Brown & Gordon Fiddler [1967-1985(?)]/Karl Siegler 1966 the jinx ship and other trips, bill bissett 1967 Fireweed, Ken Belford 1967 If There Are Any Hoahs, Jim Brown 1967 Circle Without Center, Pierre Coupey 1968 This Difficult Flowering, Pat Lowther 1968 Three Ring Circus Songs, John Hulcoop 1968 Awake in the Red Desert, bill bissett 1969 Forgetting, Jim Brown 1969 Moving Through the Mystery, Peter Trower 1969 Two Police Poems, George Bowering 1969 The Man Whose Path was on Fire, Jamie Reid 1969 By the LIght of the Silvery McLune, Lionel Kearns 1970 The Post-Electric Caveman, Ken Belford 1970 still water, bpNichol 1970 Wave, David Phillips 1971 The Carcasses of Spring, Barry McKinnon 1971 Monotones, bpNichol 1971 Drifting into War, bill bissett 1971 Toward a Chemistry of Reel People, Jim Brown 1971 Kalala Poems, Skyros Bruce 1971 Taking Places, John Pass 1971 is & London, David Rosenberg 1971 Selected Poems 1954-1965, Phyllis Webb 1972 king Lots, Victor Coleman 1972 King of Swords, Frank Davey 1972 A Book of Occasional, Dwight Gardiner 1972 Stone, Sharon Stevenson 1973 Songbook, Douglas Barbour 1973 Pass the Food, Release the Spirit Book, bill bissett 1973 The Clallam, Frank Davey 1973 Snakeroot, Gary Geddes 1973 Cock Tales, Bertrand Lachance 1974 Love: A Book of Remembrances, bpNichol 1974 The Stick, George Stanley 1974 Speech Sucks, Victor Coleman 1975 Pictograms of the Interior of B.C., Fred Wah 1975 Tish No. 1-19, Frank Davey, ed. 1975 Even Yr Photograph Looks Afraid of Me, Artie Gold 1975 Transcanadaletters, Roy Kiyooka 1976 Grounds, Gerry Gilbert 1977 Pomes For Yoshi, bill bissett 1977 A Short Sad Book, George Bowering 1977 Creatures of State, Brian Fawcett 1978 Sailor, bill bissett 1980 Beyond Even Faithful Legends, bill bissett 1980 ticular Accidents, George Bowering 1980 The Arches, Frank Davey 1980 As Elected, bpNichol 1980 Loci is Buried at Smoky Creek, Fred Wah 1981 Northern Birds in Color 1981 Breathin' My Name with a Sigh, Fred Wah 1982 Aggressive Transport, Brian Fawcett 1982 The Vision Tree, Phyllis Webb 1983 Seagull On Yonge Street, bill bissett 1983Syntax, Robin Blaser 1984 The New York Book of the Dead, Dwight Gardiner 1985 Canada Gees Mate for Life, bill bissett |