Spring 2024 Releases Available for Pre-order
We are excited to announce our Spring 2024 titles available for pre-order: Anatomical Venus by Courtney Bates-Hardy, Realia by Michael Trussler, and A Simple Carpenter by Dave Margoshes. Read more about each book below.
Anatomical Venus by Courtney Bates-Hardy
Poetry ✷ Release Date: April 9 2024
Anatomical Venus is a visceral collection of poems that invoke anatomical models, feminine monsters, and little-known historical figures. It’s a journey through car accidents and physio appointments, 18th century morgues and modern funeral homes. Grappling with the cyclical nature of chronic pain, these poems ask how to live with and love the self in pain. Magic seeps through, in the form of fairy tales, in the stories of powerful monsters, in the introspection of the tarot, and the transcendence of queer love. Available for pre-order here: https://radiantpress.ca/shop/p/anatomicalvenus
Realia by Michael Trussler
Poetry ✷ Release Date: April 16 2024
In Realia, Michael Trussler grapples with the black fire of mental illness, revels in the joy inherent to colours, and probes what it means to be alive at the beginning of the Anthropocene. These are poems requiring Jonah and Little Red Riding Hood to change places if we are to measure diagnostically homeless oceans, surveillance capitalism, and the vulnerable human body. Including a mini-essay on the author’s OCD and another on how a Caspar David Friedrich painting is an uncanny neighbour to ourselves, Realia is fluent in mitochondrial psychology and the diaries of Katherine Mansfield. It also offers lessons in extinct Barbie Doll arrangement. Available for pre-order here: https://radiantpress.ca/shop/p/realia
A Simple Carpenter by Dave Margoshes
Fiction ✷ Release Date: May 2024
Part biblical fable, part magic realism, and part thriller. A ship’s carpenter becomes stranded on a small Mediterranean island. He has completely lost his memory but in exchange has acquired the ability to speak, write, and understand all languages. After his rescue, he spends time in a Lebanese coastal village recuperating with a group of nuns who, observing him perform what appear to be small miracles, take him to be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Later, in Beirut, he’s hired as a translator for the UN peacekeeping force, and is recruited as a messenger for Black September. Feeling disillusioned with both of these occupations, he treks on foot across the Galilean hills to the Sea of Galilee, encountering a series of strange communities evoking biblical times. He eventually settles with a Palestinian family and unwittingly becomes entangled in a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Available for pre-order here: https://radiantpress.ca/shop/p/asimplecarpenter
