Happy Birthday, Bibbi—From the 49th Shelf

Today in anticipation of our IFOA Anniversary Bash—happening TONIGHT, btw, at Harbourfront, #hiphip #PSyoushouldGO—Kerry Clare of the 49th Shelf has listed her ten favourite Biblioasis titles of all time. It's a great survey of titles both new and old, poetry and prose, fiction and non. Many thanks to Kerry for her birthday wishes and support over the years. We couldn't ask for a better present!!

Precision-Crafted Machines Spring Anticipation

Over at The Afterword, Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway by the inimitable Alexandra Oliver is one of Michael Lista's four Canadian Poetry Books of the year for 2013, cited for "precision-crafted" poems at once  "[t]heatrical, funny,  [and] formally ingenious."  Also listed alongside the stellar cast of Oliver, Sara Peters and Karen Solie is Amanda Jernigan, author of the much-lauded 2011 Biblioasis debut Groundwork, for her most recent book All the Daylight Hours from Cormorant. Congrats to all!

& for those of you hoping to beckon the thaw with anticipation/wishful thinking, here are The 49th Shelf's most anticipated books of Spring 2014, among which distinguished company you will find mention of not one but two of our forthcoming titles: Novelists, a new short-story collection by the enigmatic C.P. Boyko, and I Was There the Night he Died, the new novel by "the Jerry Lee Lewis of North American letters," Ray Robertson.