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Past Publications
Wood engraving by Andy English
(from The Eve of St. Agnes, 2003)
Many of the titles published by Barbarian Press in the past are now out of print. Descriptions and publication details of some of those titles are available here for your perusal.
Please note that all of these books are
OUT OF PRINT
Poems by Tim Bowling
SUMMER 2010
In the summer of 2010, while Pericles was nearing the end of his picaresque journey, we published a slim volume of poems by Tim Bowling, an award-winning Canadian poet and novelist whose work we have admired for some years. His second book of poems, Dying Scarlet (which won the Stephansson Award for Poetry in 1998), remains for us one of the most intelligent and sensitive collections published in this country.
Tim Bowling has published seven collections of poetry, among them Darkness and Silence (winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry), The Witness Ghost, and The Memory Orchard (both nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award). He is also the author of three novels, Downriver Drift (Harbour), The Paperboy’s Winter (Penguin), and The Bone Sharps (Gaspereau Press), and a poignant and beautiful memoir, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture. He has won the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, the National Poetry Award, and the Orillia International Poetry Prize. Raised in Ladner, not far from the press in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, he now lives in Edmonton.
Between Rainfalls comprises twenty new poems, many of them evoking the Fraser Valley and the west coast of British Columbia. Tim Bowling is a poet well worth meeting, and we hope this book will introduce him to a wider and more international audience.
The book was set and printed in the interstices of work on Pericles, when at various times and for one reason or another we had been becalmed because of unforeseen delays, and most of the work on it was done under our supervision by apprentices and friends whose enthusiasm led them to ask for the opportunity to learn something of the crafts we practise here with our customary Barbarism.We are most thankful to Kristin Liu, Antonia Weberling, Ivo Marchand, and Alanna Simenson for their work on this book, and we think you will agree that Between Rainfalls is a credit to their delight and facility in the work. Crispin designed the book, and Jan supervised the printing. The binding design was a collaboration between Crispin and Alanna Simenson.
Between Rainfalls is hand-set in Van Dijck roman and italic with Huxley Vertical for display, and printed on Biblio. It is bound in a cahier binding, with covers of St-Armand handmade Slate paper. Tall 8vo. 100 copies. 52 pages. C$132. OUT OF PRINT