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A Centenary Edition of Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Poetry

Peter SangerJohn Stokes’ Horse

Monica KiddHandfuls of Bone

Basma KavanaghDistillō

natural History

Ian McLarenAll the Birds of Nova Scotia

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This catalogue was written & designed by Andrew Steeves & printed under the direction of Gary Dunfield at Gaspereau Press.

The typeface is W. Ross Mills’ Huronia Pro , available from Tyro Typeworks, Vancouver: www.tiro.com

GasPereau Press celebrated its fifteenth birthday this February, or rather we would have celebrated it if we

could have found fifteen spare minutes to eat some cake. Things have been hectic here at Gaspereau Press this spring, as they have been for some time. In fact, things have been so busy that once again our catalogue got lapped by a few of the books it aims to herald and promote. I’d worry about that, but fifteen years of experience tells me that it is better to have books ready on time than to have a catalogue done on time. Traditionally, publisher’s catalogues have been seen as a sort of prospectus or statement of intent regarding the nature and scope of forthcoming titles. Publishers would produce truckloads of the things months in advance of publication and scatter them hither and yon to retail bookstores, libraries and prospective buyers. Publishers, the larger ones anyway, would also dispatch a sales force clutching arm loads of cata-logues to pitch new titles to booksellers across the nation. It truly was a valuable sales tool, and its release was timed to sync with the cycles of the retail book trade. As we witness the erosion of the independent book retail trade in Canada and an increased consumer interest in receiving texts as a sort of ‘app’ for digital devices, I won-der how long the printed catalogue will survive as a viable sales tool. The electronic and digital communication tools available to booksellers and publishers today are truly aston-ishing. Their use at present is rather superficial and their potential remains largely unexplored due to the lack of time and resources—and sometimes imagination—on the part of

book publishers. As usual, such change, when it comes, will be driven by economic necessity more than by innovative thinking; I expect commercial publishers will be willing to ‘reflow’ their content into whatever vessel the public will accept and pay for, regardless of its properties. As personal digital gadgets gradually succeed in becoming as essential to the daily enactment of our being as our very fingers, more and more texts will become disembooked, shuffling off their mortal coil and floating into the new digital realm, unhing-ing our long-evolved notions of language and knowing in the process. This shift, should it succeed, will have many consequences for human culture, not all of them necessar-ily negative. But I’m cautious about any technology that moves us further away from the physical world, the world of things found and of things made. A willingness to shuffle-off that world does not bode well for our commitment to such concepts as responsibility and memory, concepts essential to culture, literary and otherwise. Down here in Kentville, somewhat away from the din and clatter of the bigger world, we’re still making books at Gas-pereau Press and we’re still printing catalogues too, though sometimes they are late. In my opinion, a catalogue is as much a statement of intent in its physical form as it is in its content. It says, This is who we are, this is what we do, and this is the way we do it. It is an invitation to the occasion of a new book, an occasion rooted in a specific time, place and tradition, an invocation of human success and frailty. It is rooted. It is winged. anDreW steeves

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a centenary eDition of stePHen leacocK’s

Sunshine Sketches of a Little TownIn April 1912, the ‘unsinkable’ ocean liner, the Titanic, was lost on her maiden voyage, a happenstance which—while in no way funny—for the student of history offers a certain irony. While many publishers will no doubt see fit to cash in on the centenary of this historic tragedy, Gaspereau Press has the anniversary of another shipwreck, and its ballast of irony, in mind: the sinking of the Mariposa Belle—that intrepid pleasure steamer which has plied the waters of the Canadian literary imagination since it was first described (and sunk) in Stephen Leacock’s short-story sequence Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912. This may well be the funniest book ever written by a Canadian—at least intentionally. Leacock himself claimed that “the works are of so humorous a char-acter that for many years it was found impossible to print them. The compositors fell back from their task suffocating with laughter and gasping for air.” Impressively, the stories remain laugh-out-loud funny even today—especially for refuges from or residents of small-town Canada, where the echoes of Mariposa’s belle-ish époque are still audible, and delight in its playful subversion still taken. As the popularity

of Corner Gas and Little Mosque on the Prairie (television sitcoms which are clearly descendants of Leacock’s Sketches) attest, the tangled web of small town interrelations is a rich, rewarding and enduring terrain for the humourist. ¶ Why, you ask, would Gaspereau republish this classic volume of Canadian humour when both inexpensive and tarted-up editions abound, and the text itself is readily available on the internet? The answer is simple: For pleasure! We want to honour the hundredth birthday of Leacock’s classic by creating a straightforward, affordable and extremely well-made sewn paperback edition that pays homage to the original format and typography of John Lane’s The Bodley Head edition of 1912. Our edition will be typeset in Canada Type’s Ronaldson, a revival of Alexander Kay’s Ronaldson Old Style, originally designed for the MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan foundry of Philadelphia in 1884.

stePHen leacocK (1869–1944) was a Canadian humour-ist, essayist and political economist. Canada’s highest award for humour is named in his honour.

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Zena Pepperleigh used to sit reading novels on the piazza of the judge’s house, half hidden by the Virginia creepers. At times the book would fall upon her lap and

there was such a look of unstilled yearning in her violet eyes that it did not entirely disappear even when she picked up the apple that lay beside her and took another bite out of it. With hands clasped she would sit there dreaming all the beautiful day-dreams of girlhood. When you saw that faraway look in her eyes, it meant that she was dreaming that a plumed and armoured knight was rescuing her from the embattled keep of a castle beside the Danube. At other times she was being borne away by an Algerian corsair over the blue waters of the Mediterranean and was reaching out her arms towards France to say farewell to it. Sometimes when you noticed a sweet look of resignation that seemed to rest upon her features, it meant that Lord Ron-ald de Chevereux was kneeling at her feet, and that she was telling him to rise, that her humbler birth must ever be a bar to their happiness, and Lord Ronald was getting into an awful state about it, as English peers do at the least suggestion of anything of the sort. Or, if it wasn’t that, then her lover had just returned to her side, tall and soldierly and sunburned, after fighting for ten years in the Soudan for her sake, and had come back to ask her for her answer and to tell her that for ten years her face had been with him even in the watches of the night. He was ask-ing her for a sign, any kind of sign,—ten years in the Soudan entitles them to a sign,—and Zena was plucking a white rose, just one, from her hair, when she would hear her father’s step

on the piazza and make a grab for the Pioneers of Tecumseh Township, and start reading it like mad. She was always, as I say, being rescued and being borne away, and being parted, and reaching out her arms to France and to Spain, and saying good-bye forever to Valladolid or the old grey towers of Hohenbranntwein. And I don’t mean that she was in the least exceptional or romantic, because all the girls in Mariposa were just like that. An Algerian corsair could have come into the town and had a dozen of them for the asking, and as for a wounded English officer,—well, perhaps it’s better not to talk about it outside or the little town would become a regular military hospital. Because, mind you, the Mariposa girls are all right. You’ve only to look at them to realize that. You see, you can get in Mariposa a print dress of pale blue or pale pink for a dollar twenty that looks infinitely better than anything you ever see in the city,—especially if you can wear with it a broad straw hat and a background of maple trees and the green grass of a tennis court. And if you remember, too, that these are culti-vated girls who have all been to the Mariposa high school and can do decimal fractions, you will understand that an Algerian corsair would sharpen his scimitar at the very sight of them. Don’t think either that they are all dying to get married; because they are not. I don’t say they wouldn’t take an errant knight, or a buccaneer or a Hungarian refugee, but for the ordinary marriages of ordinary people they feel nothing but a pitying disdain. So it is that each one of them in due time marries an enchanted prince and goes to live in one of the little enchanted houses in the lower part of the town […]

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Peter sanGer

John Stokes’ HorseOne of the great privileges of running a literary publishing house is that of working with particular writers over time, helping them to shape their voice and vision and to fos-ter a readership. One such writer intrinsically associated with Gaspereau Press is the poet and essayist Peter Sanger. Building on the themes of his 2006 collection Aiken Drum, Sanger’s new volume of poems takes its title from the sub-ject of an engraving by Newfoundland printmaker David Blackwood—a simple wooden horse carved by a Cape Freel man in 1907 as a gift for his grandson. In the figure of John Stokes’ horse, Sanger locates an imaginative gesture requir-ing the suspension of disbelief, for child and adult alike—a winged mount into a world where myth and memory mix. Looking at language, memory and art through the lens of language presents the very sort of riddle on which Sanger’s poetics thrive. As well as the title sequence, the book fea-tures a section composed of object poems (“Fishing for Jade”) generally expressing a preoccupation with light—shadows and reflections, signals, moon, water—and a more topical

section (“Civics”) which assails the present state of public dis-course in a tone and cadence reminiscent of T.S. Eliot’s great modernist poem, The Waste Land. The book also includes a short essay (“Leaping Time”) which combines memories, childhood books and equine lore to provide a sort of mir-ror to John Stokes’ horse. These poems evoke, in Sanger’s words, “imagination’s creative energy, immanent in time and yet timeless, evidence of love, devotion and patience, evidence that by seeing art through its eyes we see more clearly through our own.”

Peter sanGer has published numerous books of poetry, including Aiken Drum, which was shortlisted for the Atlan-tic Poetry Prize. His recent prose projects include The Stone Canoe: Two Lost Mi’kmaq Texts, White Salt Mountain: Words in Time, Spar: Words in Place and his extensive study of the life and poetry of Richard Outram, Through Darkling Air. He lives in South Maitland, Nova Scotia.

$21.95 • 9781554471133This book will be printed offset on laid paper making 128 pages trimmed to 5 × 8 inches; Smyth-sewn and bound in a paper

cover with a letterpress-printed jacket. The frontispiece will be a colour reproduction of a David Blackwood engraving.

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sea Horse

Hippocampus, not hippo-potamus. The arkdidn’t bounce and recoverone handsbreadth of freeboardwhen you disembarked. IfLamarck was right, by thenyou’d refused the taskwe now assume of being invariablybig. You flippedyourself over the rail,rode the tail of a salty brookswallowing itself into ocean.

Unlikely as art, or the sizeof a thumbnail sketch,you keep the continuous archof a chess knight. All yourmoves are upright, steeringby two rounded fins where your neckswells down into what mighthave been shoulder if you’d hadour recourse to arms. Instead,you inhabit eelgrass and seaweedwhere we might observe you approachan amphipod in a casual manner,

peer at it a second or twoand placing your pipestem snoutin the most convenient positionsuddenly engulf your meal. Youare said by those with the patienceto listen to make a monotonous soundakin to that of a tambourwhich becomes (understandably so) moreintense and frequent in breeding seasonwhen a female deposits one hundredand fifty eggs in a male’sventral brood pouch. This marsupial

solution makes you fish, bird,mammal. Practising such finessewhy did you ever rejectthe amphibian? A male marsupialwho carries all her eggs in his basketcould only have had an enviable future.As it is, you’re seaside prelude to Ovid,and we also did best to begin by inventingWestminister Abbey. Later times will findleisure and bombs to destroy it.Sea pony, salt crystal, gallop me home,mare, maris, marriage-maker.

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Monica KiDD

Handfuls of BoneMonica Kidd’s Handfuls of Bone takes the reader to the end of the road and back, to outports both literal and figurative, to consider how it is that things somehow hold together. The poems, primarily short, narrative in form and lyric in spirit, are driven by distilled observation and concern them-selves with the elemental. These truths find their expression in images of fish drying on Newfoundland clotheslines, of the velvety breath of a newborn baby, of a family’s grief fol-lowing a sudden death, of Amelia Earhart’s ambition and apprehension, and of motherhood through thick and thin. In confronting uncomfortable moments of loss, want, illness, uncertainty and conflict, Kidd holds a level gaze, avoiding sentimentality and nostalgia. Kidd’s is a poetic which embod-ies the twin skills of her physician’s training—cool-headed and unblinking observation-based diagnosis combined with compassion, empathy and humanity.

Monica KiDD grew up on the rural Alberta prairies. She completed a B.Sc. at the University of Calgary, an M.Sc. at Queen’s University, attended medical school at Memorial University and is now a practising physician and writer. She is the author of two novels (Beatrice and The Momentum of Red), a book of non-fiction (Any Other Woman: An Uncom-mon Biography) and a collection of poetry (Actualities). Her short experimental films have shown in Atlantic Canada and in Amsterdam. She has worked as a seabird biologist and as a reporter for CBC Radio, where her news items and documentaries have won numerous awards. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, with her husband and children.

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MaiDen naMe

A storm. We stand at the window, dame and damsel, listening through the snowfor the John Deere protectorate. Insect machinery beetling over city streets.

Perched on my shoulder, you are possibility. An object in motion, pawing at the gateswhere I, like all white-knuckled mothers, waitwith the spells we’d sing against peril.

Oh, what we’d give to speed you: our eyes, our arms, our fists, our feet. Into the soft egg of your ear I whisper my one true charm: Geronimo

coMe to Grief

Size of coffin length 5 ft 9 in 22 ins from head to shoulder, depth 12 ins 21 ins wide on shoulders

— Written on the beam of Mike Green’s twine store, Fogo Island

He wasn’t the first and he wasn’t the last man lost to the water, a foot in the line, a hand slammed fast against the gunwale — too late.

A shock of salt in the lungs,the light hurtling skyward.

All day, talk on the radio of boats circling like hounds,his grave already sealed and smooth, not a ripple to show where another one come to grief.

Find the lumber. Measure it twice.Nail him in. Comfort his wife.Bury him down on the rocky shore.He can never be lost no more.

From Monica Kidd’s Handfuls of Bone

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BasMa KavanaGH

DistillōIn her debut collection, Basma Kavanagh engages the natu-ral world and seeks to explore our relationship to it. Hers is a poetics of description which subverts scientific obser-vation and the authoritative language of nomenclature for mythopoetic ends. In the opening section (“Moisture”), precipitation is dissected and categorized, but ultimately the deluge of “rain making rain, /making rain” overwhelms controlled interrogation and undulating imagery saturates everything. Nomenclature reappears elsewhere in the book, attempting to anchor object poems about west-coast flora and fauna—salmon, elk, bear, bigleaf maple, bog myrtle—which otherwise drift toward the mythworld and gesture in the direction of the ethereal and the totemic. Understanding that language can be most precise when it harbours ambigu-

ity and surprise, Kavanagh experiments with pattern poems and the layering of multiple voices in her attempt to express “a fullness /an absence /of self.” This is a book which turns over rocks and looks under them in search of truth in its soft, damp hiding places, poems which instruct us to “[d]escend. Blend /your knowing with the breath of earth”.

BasMa KavanaGH is a painter, poet and letterpress printer living in Kentville, Nova Scotia. She produces artist’s books under the imprint Rabbit Square Books. Her poems have appeared in the chapbook A Rattle of Leaves, published by Red Dragonfly Press, and included in anthologies in the United States.

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you run out of Moon

You save up starlight, cacheits cool currency, a formof fuel for your heart, your regimen of dreaming.

You hide away sunin your blood, your skin—in garden greens and garlic,vivid paintings.

You stash moonlightin your bones, insuranceagainst weeks of rain.Its blue shine meets

a need, like a vitamin.You soak in it, hoard mineral glow in marrow,quiet your clear sky hunger.

DescenD

from eagle-thick canopy to decomposing twig, to rubble tumbling within the stream, salmon carcasses beneath great trees,the battered hold that held bear

snoring. Slide between fissuredfirs, inhabit fern shadow-lace;creep under fallen cedar, inhale its odour. Crawl the carpet of beetle-minced matter,

fingering moist, slug-mapped shag—mosses’ starry stalks mimic dense forest in miniature, and liverworts plump with water loom in the half-dark. Descend. Blend your knowing with the breath of earth,

hold a root the truthand hold your breath is in the earth and send it down as far as it will go.

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ian Mclaren

All the Birds of Nova ScotiaGaspereau Press is pleased to present, in partnership with the Nova Scotia Bird Society, a new and comprehensive study of the ornithology of its own backyard. In working up copy for the catalogue, I found myself at a loss to improve upon the author’s own foreword, which is reproduced in its entirety here.

This book is written to help readers evaluate their sightings of birds in Nova Scotia. I began birding (“birdwatching” then) almost 70 years ago and, especially since I moved to Nova Scotia in 1967, observing, studying, and thinking about birds became serious distractions from my “real” work. The years since I began birding have seen huge advances in equipment and skills of birders, and especially with development of modern field guides to identification, now being augmented and even supplanted by almost unlimited resources on the Web. So, why a book restricted to the birds of Nova Scotia? Birders everywhere save and savour their records (often as avidly kept “life lists”) in geographical contexts—birds of

the World, North America, Canada, and by province. Every province of Canada has a book or books on its birds. Some are massive, multi-volume, and profusely illustrated; some are merely annotated lists. For Nova Scotia, the standard has been Robie Tufts’ Birds of Nova Scotia (1985; reprinted 2008), but it is more than 25 years out of date. Some more recent books on the birds of Nova Scotia or Atlantic Canada are dated, incomplete, inaccurate and poorly illustrated. There is also lively interest elsewhere in Nova Scotia’s birds. Birding tourists visit because of our diversity of birds and high incidence of unusual ones. Birders in eastern usa see patterns of occurrence here that inform their understanding of bird records in their own regions. Birders in Europe see us (correctly) as a potential source of North American species that wander across the North Atlantic. This book is broad in coverage yet restricted in scope. The book focuses on occurrences and identification, and does not include information about general behaviour, nesting habits, diets, and other features of biology that are exhaus-

$47.95• 9781554471164This book will be printed offset on wove paper making 320 pages (estimated) trimmed to

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tively covered by general works on birds. The Introduction gives information particularly pertinent to observers seeking birds in Nova Scotia. Then the core of the book includes brief accounts of the status of all species and distinctive subspecies or other variations that I believe have (or could have) occurred in the province to the end of 2010. In these accounts, readers can find answers to questions about birds they see here. Where does the bird normally occur? Is it common or very rare, becoming more, or less, common? Is it seasonally unusually late or early? Some regional bird books include detailed descriptions of species and a few are lavishly illustrated with paintings or photographs of all or nearly all the species that have occurred. Although they may enhance the aesthetics of such books, these features rarely add to the reader’s abil-ity to identify the regional birds. Why describe or illustrate American Robin or Common Crow? Indeed, today’s birders are well-served by excellent field-guides to birds of North America and other resources devoted to identification of birds that might occur in their particular regions. Neverthe-less, some birds pose problems that are not readily resolved by existing resources. For these, I give up-to-date information and photographic examples to aid in critical identification.

I hope the information in this book on the status and fine points of identification and variability of birds will also encourage birders in Nova Scotia to observe and record more critically, to go beyond merely “ticking” species on their day, year, or life lists, and to think about the evolution, geography, meteorology, and human history embodied in the birds they find.

ian Mclaren is a professor emeritus at Dalhousie Uni-versity. Born and raised in Montreal, he completed degrees in biology at McGill and Yale, specializing in marine biol-ogy. His birding enthusiasms have found expression through many contributions to the Nova Scotia Bird Society’s quar-terly, Now Nova Scotia Birds, as a regional editor for Atlantic Canada of North American Birds, and in his scientific papers. In the early 1980s, he undertook coordination of the post-humous third edition of Robie Tufts’ Birds of Nova Scotia (1995 ). Since retirement, he has spent more time birding and has published more on avian research, especially on using long-term birders’ lists for evidence of shifts in population, seasonal trends and weather effects, and for explaining the extraordinary bird ‘fallouts’ that are such a feature of Nova Scotia in particular. He lives in Halifax.

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