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CATALOGUE: 2015 Titles


MILK TEETH
Poetry chapbook by Daniel Kincade Renton
Artwork by Eva Brannen
Dan Renton's long-awaited chapbook debut (by everyone, especially us!). Like Michael Prior, Renton appears with Frog Hollow as fully-formed poet: formal, or fun, or menacing, Renton seems to have perfected the art of leaving audiences wanting more (including us!).

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers.

Edition of 125 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-27-0 — Price $18

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ISBN 978-1-926948-27-0
2015
18.00
$22.00(incl. s/h)

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THE CHILD ALONE
The Kid Series: volume two
Brian Bartlett, editor
Artwork by Laura Bartlett
For this second volume Brian has chosen “poems about childhood without a parental point-of-view.”

The Poets:
Margaret Avison –Tim Bowling – Alice Burdick – Don Coles – Nancy Holmes – M. Travis Lane – Irving Layton – Ross Leckie – Dennis Lee – Sharon McCartney – Carmelita McGrath – Don McKay – Eric Miller – Vanessa Moeller – Alden Nowlan – Eric Ormsby – P. K. Page – James Reaney – Robyn Sarah – Eleonore Schönmaier – Carmine Starnino – Bruce Taylor – Susan Telfer – Patrick Warner

The Kid Series evolves, in this instance with Brian Bartlett selecting poems that involve the theme and subject of childhood, and with the requisite series twist: these poems feature a child-consciousness without the overwhelming presence of a parent speaker. To introduce the volume, Brian has written a superb essay that contextualizes the "kid poem" in Canada and also establishes his own personal vision of the form.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers. Illustrations. 78 pages.

Edition of 150 copies, of which approx. 105 will be for sale.
ISBN 978-1-926948-21-8 — Price $21

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ISBN 978-1-926948-21-8
2015
21.00
$26.00(incl. s/h)

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HOW THOUGHT FEELS: THE POETRY OF M.TRAVIS LANE
Literary Criticism Monograph: number five
Shane Neilson, editor
Essays by Jan Zwicky, Jeanette Lynes and Shane Neilson
Travis Lane is a sorely neglected poet from New Brunswick. With over fifteen books of poetry published, her poetry has sung largely out of earshot of the Canadian poetry establishment. She is also a humble woman and did not grab the megaphone to force people to listen. In How Thought Feels, Frog Hollow Press grabs the megaphone. Celebrated poet, philosopher, and essayist Jan Zwicky considers Lane's poetics; Jeanette Lynes situates Lane in the ecopoetics tradition; and Shane Neilson considers demographic and thematic factors (especially Lane's superlative moral-ethical-spiritual work) which reinforce Lane's ongoing neglect. Because Lane has served as a poetry reviewer for over fifty years, and because her prose is the spiritual antecedent to the critical prose in this volume, How Thought Feels provides a complete prose bibliography on Lane as well as two unique compiled long poems that scavenge elements from Travis' poetry to make for a coherent statement upon Lane's central concerns as poet.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers. Illustrations. 176 pp.

Edition of 150 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-23-2 — Price $27.50

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ISBN 978-1-926948-23-2
2015
27.50
$35.00(incl. s/h)

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CRITO DI VOLTA (I-IV, VII AND XIII)
Poetry by Marc di Saverio
Marc Di Saverio has applied his preternatural poetic abilities to the epic form. Frog Hollow Press is proud to present completed poem-fragments from the beginning of Crito Di Volta, Marc's epic, a blistering work meant to change the way mental illness is perceived in Canada. Marc's own art illustrates the poems.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers. B&W illustrations. 36 pp.

Edition of 125 numbered copies.

ISBN 978-1-926948-29-4 — Price $20.00

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ISBN 978-1-926948-29-4
2015
20.00
$24.00(incl. s/h)

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THE CITY SERIES:
NUMBER TWO - FREDERICTON
Rebecca Salazar, Guest Editor
The Poets:
Carson Butts — allison calvern — Benjamin Dugdale — Katie Fewster-Yan — Jennifer Houle — Lisa Jodoin — Micheal Meagher — Patrick O’Reilly — Noah Page — Hayden Wheeler

Rebecca Salazar, a poet gaining prominence in Canada, collects together 10 poets from Fredericton who have yet to publish in chapbook or book form. Her selection provides a snapshot of poetry as it is being written, providing attention to poets who will, like Rebecca, be known based on the quality of the work they've written and work they will write.

Printed on 70 lb. paper and Saddle Stitched (stapled) into a full colour cover. B&W illustrations. 40 pp.

Edition of 150 copies

ISBN 978-1-926948-28-7 — Price $10.00 (including postage)

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ISBN 978-1-926948-28-7
2015
10.00
$10.00(incl. s/h)

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THE CITY SERIES: NUMBER ONE – VANCOUVER
Michael Prior, Guest Editor
Cover photograph by Amanda Siebert
The Poets:
Emily Chou – Emily Davidson – Ruth Daniell - Sugar le Fae – Megan Jones – Darius Kinney - Allesandra Naccarato – Shazia Hafiz Ramji - Laura Ritland – Shaun Robinson

Wunderkind Michael Prior assembles together ten Vancouver poets who are all unpublished in book or chapbook form. He has sought out talented people whose verse somehow represents his city's poetic and introduced that poetic in personal prose. The poets in The City Series: Vancouver constitute a cross-section of poetry that is diverse, brainy, and emotional, upending stereotypes about Vancouver as a poetry-town.

Printed on 70 lb. paper and saddle-stitched (stapled) into a full-colour paper cover. B&W illustrations. 40 pp.
Edition of 150 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-26-3 - Price $10.00 (including postage)

Reviewed in Maisonneuve Magazine.

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ISBN 978-1-926948-26-3
2015
10.00
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FACTORY
Poems by Robert Colman
Rob Colman embraces the theme of factory work and industrial decline to create a poetics of parts. These parts work together to create a kind of found, cut life that mocks white collar hypocrisy as much as it satirizes the empty pleasures of sex. In the end, this impressive collection seems to say, there is only verisimilitude and the real pleasure of form.

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour paper cover. Endpapers. B&W illustrations. 36 pp.

Edition of 100 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-25-6 Price $ 18.00.

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ISBN ISBN 978-1-926948-5-6
2015
18.00
$22.00(incl. s/h)

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SING TO ME IN THE CUT: EKPHRASIS ON GEORGE WALKER BY CANADIAN POETS
Shane Neilson, editor
Wood engravings by George A. Walker
George Walker is one of the transcendent artists of our time. That he largely works in wood engravings has limited his popular appeal but recent efforts (like Walker's The Life and Times of Conrad Black, a biography of Conrad Black published by the Porcupine's Quill & The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook, also from the Porcupine's Quill, also a biographical mosaic of its famous subject) will change that. Early accomplishments will cement his legacy too: Walker was the first Canadian to illustrate Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Walker's track record transforming other cultural materials into art has now been paid back in a very preliminary sense: Frog Hollow Press' Sing to me in the cut is a book of ekphrasis by Canadian poets who have responded to images in either of Walker's The Inverted Line (PQL 2000) or Images from the Neocerebellum (PQL 2007). Poem and wood engravings are paired in the book, demonstrating that Walker has inspired several generations of Canadian poets. The poets range from mature, generation-leading talents like Al Moritz to up-and-comers like Blair Trewartha. Each poet answers George's incredible work, agreeing that, yes, the roads are their veins; the moon matters; portraits are always of pain; that there's something not right with the picture.

The Poets:
Brian Bartlett — John Barton — Stephanie Bolster
Wayne Clifford — Jim Johnstone — Katie Jordon
M.Travis Lane — Ross Leckie — Nyla Matuk
Sharon McCartney — Al Moritz — Sandy Pool
Michael Prior — Peter Richardson — Blair Trewartha

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers. 88 pages. Other details to follow.

Edition of 150 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-22-5 Price $22.

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ISBN 978-1-926948-22-5
2015
22.00
$27.00(incl. s/h)

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CATALOGUE: FORTHCOMING IN 2016


LOID
Poetry chapbook by Danny Jacobs
Artwork by Jesse Jacobs
Danny Jacobs already has a reputation as a poet with an impeccable sonic sense. In Loid, Jacobs builds upon his skill with sound and writes poems with heart, formal elegance, and structure. This chapbook suggests his next full-length collection will be unstoppable. Frog Hollow watches this New Brunswicker with real pride!

Printed on 80 lb. Mohawk Via Vellum and Smyth-sewn into a full-colour soft cover. Endpapers.

Edition of 125 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-1-926948-30-0 — Price $18. — Due early 2016

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Regular Edition
ISBN 978-1-926948-30-0
2015
18.00

Discussion of Travis Lane's "Astronomical" and "Sleeping Children" at McMaster University