Like I Care – Stephen Guppy
ISBN 9781926639536 Price: $21.95 Like I Care is set in Vancouver a year or two into the future, when everything is just like it is now, apart from the invasion of monsters from Japanese Horror movies,...
View ArticleKeir Lowther will be blogging for the National Post in late October.
In the meantime, look at this preview of his novel Dirty Bird here.
View ArticleThe 5th instalment of Best Canadian Poetry in English will be out shortly...
Vancouver On Thursday October 11, 2012 in Vancouver at Montmartre Cafe 4362 Main Street join hosts Nathaniel G. Moore and Dina Del Bucchia with readings from local Vancouver poets. Toronto On Monday...
View ArticleToronto singer Abigail Lapell will be playing a handful of dates for us this...
Tightrope Books is very excited to announce that Toronto singer Abigail Lapell will be playing a handful of dates for us this fall and next year! Her first will be at the Toronto leg of Best Canadian...
View ArticleBest Friends and a Tea Party Fundraiser
Tightrope Books and The Best of Canadian Poetry in English Celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of our Canadian Poetry Annual with the Inauguration of Best Friends and a Tea Party Fundraiser on Sunday...
View ArticleTightrope Books Presents: For the Birds Fall Group Launch
Join Tightrope Books and Augusta House for the official celebration and launch for three fantastic one of a kind books! Keir Lowther’s debut novel DIRTY BIRD and Sandra Kasturi’s new poetry collection...
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Here We Are Among The Living – Samantha Bernstein Super! We are so pleased to announce Samantha Bernstein’s debut Here We Are Among The Living has Been long-listed for the B.C. non-fiction award! Be...
View ArticleThe Acrobat Launch is set for March 6 in Toronto
When: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 – 6:30pm Where: No One Writes to the Colonel 460 College St. Toronto TAKE MY BOOK, PLEASE! — is the title of a fun social event this winter that introduces The Acrobat...
View ArticleKasturi nominated for the 2013 Rhysling Award
Sandra Kasturi ‘s book of poetry Come Late To the Love of Birds published by Tightrope Books has been nominated for the Rhysling award for best genre poetry. The Rhysling award is an annual award given...
View ArticleKelly Ward talks up the spring!
Check out Kelly Ward’s spring interview on The Acrobat’s tumblr page where she talks about her upcoming book “Keep It Beautiful.”
View ArticleEAT YOUR HEART OUT WITH MORRO AND JASP
ISBN: 978-1926639727 PRICE: $19.95 Inspired by the award-winning show Morro and Jasp: Go Bake Yourself, this comedic, multifaceted, and interactive book involves comics, stories, poetry,...
View ArticleWOLF IN A BEAVER COAT – ROSARIO LLORET
ISBN-13: 978-1926639710 PRICE: $21.95 In his darkest hour, the night in which his son, Amorak, is stranded in the middle of an Arctic snowstorm, Jimmy Whitefox, a First Nation elder from the Northwest...
View ArticleBEST CANADIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH 2013 LAUNCH
Join Tightrope Books and Series Editor, Molly Peacock, for the Toronto launch of The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2013. The evening will featuring readings by a selection of the anthology’s...
View ArticleBEST CANADIAN ESSAYS 2013 LAUNCH
Join Tightrope Books and editor Chris Doda for the launch of Best Canadian Essays 2013. This fifth annual collection contains award-winning and nominated nonfiction Canadian articles that are topical,...
View ArticleTangle – Julie Cameron Gray
PRICE: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1926639574 Teetering on the brink of longing and the downtrodden, Julie Cameron Gray’s poetic debut explores isolation and the distance between human understanding and human...
View ArticleHart Strings – Julie Hart
PRICE: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1926639635 Being married is one thing, but being married to Bret “Hitman” Hart—former five-time World Wrestling Entertainment Champion—is another. In her vibrant and honest...
View ArticleI Thought I Would Be Happy – Jim Nason
PRICE $21.95 ISBN: 978-1926639604 A modern-day Greek tragedy, I Thought I Would Be Happy revolves around Marco Morelli, an aspiring filmmaker with a passion for heights. Set in New York, Toronto, and...
View ArticleKeep It Beautiful – Kelly Ward
PRICE: $21.95 ISBN: 978-1926639628 This debut collection of stories teems with characters just on the fringe of the mainstream, and each story examines the mundane and abject sides of normalcy. A...
View ArticleStanding in the Whale’s Jaw – Kathy-Diane Leveille
PRICE: $21.95 ISBN: 978-1926639611 Fifteen-year-old Elsa Byrd is on the verge of becoming a woman in the summer of 1935. It seems to her that, in a world run by men, coming of age is more of a...
View ArticleMagical Narcissism: Selected Writings on Books, Writers, Food, and Chefs –...
PRICE: $21.95 ISBN: 978-1926639598 What has happened to Bret Easton Ellis ego? Why does Ferran Adrià reject the gastronomy its said he invented? Who was the novelist that punched her poet husband in...
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