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Memoir & BiographyNEWEverything Rustles: A MemoirJane Silcott • Anvil PressIn this debut collection of personal essays, Silcott looks at the tangle of midlife, the long look back,the shorter look forward, and the moments right now that shimmer and rustle around her: marriage,menopause, fear, desire, loss, and that guy on the bus, the woman on the street, wandering bears,marauding llamas, light, and laundry rooms.Silcott is interested in the places where the raw bones of the personal intersect with the wider world. Wherea moment or gesture suddenly feels emblematic or prophetic or final, and why is that? Why do somemoments shimmer, while others fade into a quickly growing morass of “I can’t remember?”ISBN-13: 9781927380413paperback / 192 pp5.5 x 8 / $18.00April 2013Jane Silcott is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her work has been published widely in Canadian literarymagazines and anthologies, and recognized by the CBC Literary Awards. She has a MFA in creativewriting from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver with her family and teaches atUBC and SFU.Key words: Creative non-fiction, Memoir, Language & writingFierce Virgin:Letters Home from a Canadian Journalist in postwar England, 1949–1954Ouida McLellan • Bayeaux ArtsA rare glimpse into the moral strengths and values of a vanishing era. The diary of a young Canadianwoman working as a journalist in England in 1949–1954. Each entry is in fact a letter sent to her motherin Canada. Their relationship, founded on a Catholic upbringing, is as uninhibited as the Confessional.ISBN-13: 9781897411391paperback / 304 pp8 x 9 / $19.95November 2012Ouida MacLellan succeeded in gaining entry to the newspaper empire of Lord Beaverbrook, a rareachievement for a woman. The narrative interest of her letters derives from her work and her social life,enhanced by her attractiveness to men.Ouida MacLellan was twenty-one years old in 1949 when she set off from Canada to work for six yearsin London’s Fleet Street. Born in Monctton, New Brunswick in 1927, she started her journalistic career onthe editorial staff of the Moncton Times. Ouida passed away 2009.Key words: Women’s literary traditions, Letters, Journalism, Narrative, Canadian literary historyaka bpNichol: a Preliminary BiographyFrank Davey • ECW Pressaka bpNichol is the biography of major Canadian poet bpNichol. Though he died at the young age of 44,Barrie Nichol was internationally influential as a visual poet and sound poet, authoring (among otherworks) The Martyrology, one of the most substantial long poems of the twentieth century. Davey examineshow the autobiographical inquiries and Freudian dream analyses linked with the young Nichol’sbiographical self-awareness, ultimately producing a writer whose main psychoanalytic client had becomehis own writing, and who could explore its slips, accidental puns, “unintended” meanings, and implicationsfor the future.ISBN-13: 9781770410190paperback / 360 pp6 x 9 / $22.95October 2012Frank Davey is a widely published author and literary critic. He has taught at York University and theUniversity of Western Ontario, where he held the Carl F. Klinck Professorship in Canadian Literature. Heis most recently the author of When Tish Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada’s “Most Influential LiteraryMagazine.”Key words: Canadian literary history, Narrative & biography, Concrete poetry, VisPo, “Borderblur,”Textuality, Reading & writing28 Literary Press Group / Congress 2013