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Lives of the Poets
Brian Bartlett / Joe Blades / Cavafy / Lesley Choyce / Mike Doyle / Walter Hildebrandt / Dvora Levin / Manolis / Annick Perrot-Bishop / Yannis Ritsos / Richard Stevenson / Janet Vickers / Yolande Villemaire / Ludwig Zeller
Brian Bartlett of Halifax is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including The Afterlife of Trees (McGill-Queens, 2002) and The Watchmaker’s Table (Goose Lane Editions), winner of the 2009 Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry. His Wanting the Day: Selected Poems, published in 2003 by Goose Lane Editions in Canada and Peterloo Poets in England, was honoured with the Atlantic Poetry Prize. He grew up in New Brunswick, lived in Montreal for for fifteen years, and since 1990 has taught creative writing and literature at Saint Mary's University.
Potato Blossom Road
Ekstasis Editions
Forthcoming
Joe Blades lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. On the editorial board of revue ellipse mag, he is President of the League of Canadian Poets, producer–host of the Ashes, Paper & Beans radio program, and founding publisher of the independent 25-year-old Broken Jaw Press. The author of seven poetry books, including Cover Makes a Set (1990), River Suite (1998), from the book that doesn’t close (2008) and the forthcoming Casemate Poems (Collected), two of his books were translated and published in Serbian editions in 2005, and several other book translations are in the works.
Prison Songs & Storefront Poetry
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-60-6
Poetry
77 Pages
6 x 9
$21.95
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Constantine P. Cavafy is considered one of the most influential poets of modern Greece. Along with Palamas, Kalvos, Seferis, Elytis, Egonopoulos and Ritsos he was instrumental in the revival and recognition of Greek poetry both in Greece and abroad.
Cavafy: Selected Poems
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-76-7
Poetry
150 Pages
6 x 9
$22.95
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Lesley Choyce is the author of 67 books for adults, teens and children. He has taught at Dalhousie University for the past 25 years and is the publisher of Pottersfield Press. Lesley surfs year round in the North Atlantic and is considered the father of transcendental wood-splitting. He’s worked as a rehab counsellor, a freight hauler, a corn farmer, a janitor, a journalist, a lead guitarist, a newspaper boy and a well-digger. He lives in a 200-year-old farm house at Lawrencetown Beach overlooking the ocean.
The Discipline of Ice
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-21-7
Poetry
96 Pages
5 x 8
$18.95
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Mike Doyle is a poet, critic, biographer and editor. His other work includes William Carlos Williams and the American Poem (1982), Richard Aldington: A Biography (1989), Paper Trombones (2007) and its sequel Softwood Trumpets (2012), a journal of his life as a poet in Canada, and Intimate Absences (1993), a “Selected Poems” from work up to that date. Doyle has lived in Victoria for over forty years and is a Canadian citizen of long standing.
Echoes from Pluto
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-77171-004-6
Poetry
122 pages
6 x 9
$22.95
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Collected Poems (1951-2009)
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-63-7
Poetry
508 Pages
6 x 9
$55.95
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Historian and poet Walter Hildebrant was born in Brooks, Alberta and lived in Winnipeg from 1979 to 1992. He now lives in Edmonton. He has worked as an historian for Parks Canada and as a consultant to the Treaty 7 Tribal Council, the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Banff Bow Valley Task Force. His long poem Sightings was nominated for the 1992 McNally-Robinson Book of the Year for Manitoba. His book Where the Land Gets Broken won the Stephen G. Stephensson Award for Poetry in 2005. He is presently the Director of the Athabasca University Press. This is his seventh book of poetry.
The Time in Between / Adorno's Daemons
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ISBN 978-1-897430-70-5
Poetry
80 Pages
6 x 9
$24.95
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Dvora Levin is a vessel, thinning her clay through poetry, to reveal more light. Sharav is her first full-length book of poems. She has published the chapbook This Time In the Land, as well as poems in five chapbooks edited by Patrick Lane (Leaf Press). A regular reader at Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria, BC, she has read poems on CBC Radio and participated in the Poet Tree Project. She leads poetry writing workshops in the workplace and for people of the street.
To Bite the Blue Apple
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-16-3
Poetry
36 Pages
5.5 x 8.5
$10.00
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Sharav
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-17-0
Poetry
88 Pages
6 x 9
$17.95
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Manolis has written three novels anda large number of collections of poetry, which are slowly appearing as published works, various articles and short stories in Greek as well as in English. After working as an iron worker, train labourer, taxi driver, and stock broker, he now lives in White Rock where he spends his time writing, gardening, and traveling. Towards the end of 2006 he founded Libros Libertad, an unorthodox and independent publishing company in Surrey BC with the goal of publishing literary books.
Opera Bufa
Libros Libertad
ISBN 978-1-926763-09-5
Poetry
116 Pages
6 x 9
$17.00
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Vernal Equinox
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-69-9
Poetry
116 Pages
6 x 9
$21.95
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Annick Perrot-Bishop is a Francophone Canadian author of multicultural background (Vietnamese, Indian and French). A resident of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she has published some sixty short stories and translations in literary journals and anthologies as well as five books. Her highly-acclaimed poetry collection Femme au profil d’arbre (Éditions David) was published by Ekstasis Editions in Neil Bishop’s English translation as Woman Arborescent (2005). In Long, Secret Rivers is Neil Bishop’s translation of Annick Perrot-Bishop’s En longues rivières cachées (Eds. David), a translation for which he won First Prize in the prestigious John Dryden Translation Competition (2008), organized by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation.
In Long Secret Rivers
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-42-2
Poetry
72 Pages
6 x 9
$21.95
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Of Amber Waters Woven
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ISBN 978-1-897430-79-8
Poetry
262 Pages
6 x 9
$25.95
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Yannis Ritsos was born in Monemvassia (Greece), on May 1st, 1909 as cadet of a noble family of landowners. His youth is marked by devastations in his family: economic ruin, precocious death of the mother and the eldest brother, internment of the father, suffering of mental unrests. He spent four years (1927-1931) in a sanatorium to take care of his tuberculosis.
Yannis Ritsos: Poems
Libros Libertad
ISBN 978-1-926763-07-1
Poetry
440 Pages
6 x 9
$34.00
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Richard Stevenson lives and teaches in Lethbridge, Alberta. His other Ekstasis Editions titles are From The Mouths of Angels, Flying Coffins, Nothing Definite Yeti, Hot Flashes, A Charm of Finches and Bye Bye Blackbird.
Casting Out Nines
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-894800-68-2
Poetry
80 Pages
5 x 8
$19.95
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Janet Vickers’s poems have appeared in various Canadian and UK anthologies such as Down in the Valley (Ekstasis, edited by Trevor Carolan, 2004), literary journals such as The Antigonish Review, Grain and Sub-Terrain, and online in nthposition. You Were There is the title of her first chapbook published in 2006. Her second chapbook Arcana was published in 2008. Janet is currently BC/Yukon Rep. for the League of Canadian Poets, and lives on Gabriola Island with her husband Tony.
Impermanence
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-90-3
Poetry
64 pages
6 x 9
$21.95
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Yolande Villemaire is one of Quebec’s most prolific writers, proficient in both poetry and prose. She has given poetry readings and performances around the world. Her novel La vie en prose won an award from the Journal de Montreal in 1980 and her poems, L’armoure received a Radio-Canada award in 2002. She also received a Quebec-Mexico poetry prize in 2008 and the Career Award from Quebec’s Council of Arts and Letters in 2009. She has published more than twenty-five books, four of which are available in English translation from Ekstasis Editions: Midnight Tides of Amsterdam, Poets & Centaurs, India, India and Little Red Berries. Yolande Villemaire lives in Montreal and is the director of TOTEMPOÉSIE.
Silence is a Healing Cave
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-77171-006-0
Poetry
104 Pages
5 x 8
$23.95
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Ludwig Zeller has been called the heir to André Breton. Born in 1927, in northern Chile, Zeller moved to Toronto at the time of the collapse of Salvador Allende's government, and currently resides in Oaxaca, México. An internationally recognized poet and surrealist artist, Zeller published his epic Woman in Dream in a unique trilingual edition by Ekstasis Editions, with Spanish-English translation by A.F. Moritz and French-English translation by Jean-Paul Bedard.
For a Savage Love / Por un amor salvaje
Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 978-1-897430-92-7
Poetry
206 Pages
6 x 9
$25.95
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