Nature Vancouver presents an evening with Andy Lamb, co-author of the newly revised Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest (with Phil Edgell), on Thursday, September 9 at 7:30pm at Unity Church (5840 Oak Street in Vancouver).

While the fish are essentially unchanged since Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest first appeared in 1986, our many relationships with them have drastically altered. The fully revised second edition of this popular field guide addresses conservation issues that have surfaced in the interim. Andy has been a certified scuba diver since 1967 and he is the co-author of the tremendous photographic encyclopedia Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest (with Bernard P. Hanby). Andy will share his dive stories and relate his concerns for the uncertain future facing many of our coastal fishes at this free public presentation. For more information, contact Joan Lopez at joan.lopez@live.com or visit www.naturevancouver.ca.

Don't miss Harbour Publishing's booth at this year's The Word on the Street, a national celebration of literacy and the written word. Come out to Library Square and CBC Plaza in Vancouver on September 26 from 11am-5pm--you'll find Harbour at Tent 4 and can take a look at our new fall titles, and enter a raffle for free Harbour books.

This will be a great chance to see some of Harbour's authors up close, as some of them are reading at Word on the Street! Check out:

Grant Lawrence, Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nudist Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound—2:00, Canada Writes Tent (on Homer Street)

Norman Watt, Off the Beaten Path: A Hiking Guide to Vancouver’s North Shore—3:40, Canada Writes Tent (on Homer Street)

Carolyn Herriot, The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food—4:40, Canada Writes Tent (on Homer Street)

From Nightwood Editions:

Ray Hsu, Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon—3:00, Poetry Tent (on Homer Street at Georgia)... Click to see news item

Nightwood Editions celebrates Gillian Jerome’s nomination for the 2010 ReLit Awards shortlist for her debut book of poetry entitled Red Nest.

The ReLit Awards (Ideas, Not Money) were founded in 2000 and celebrate new work released by independent Canadian literary publishers. ReLit is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, Relighting Literature.

Enter the surreal adventure that is Gillian Jerome’s debut collection of domestic, urban and intergalactic eclogues. Just when you’ve been ambushed by gods and stars, you’re catapulted back into a wild sprawling city filled with cordless phones, coyotes and the hairdos of dandelions. The brave and rambunctious creatures in this book nest in the humour and horror of the 21st-century. ... Click to see news item

Nightwood Editions and Caitlin Press congratulate their 2010 Poetry in Transit  poets! The project will be launched at  Vancouver's Word on the Street festival on September 26, 2010 and the poems will appear on buses in the Lower Mainland immediately and in Skytrains in October. Joe Denham's poem "South of Black Point, Southeast Wind Screaming" (Windstorm), and Laisha Rosnau's poem "He was the Number 14" (Lousy Explorers) were selected from Nightwood Editions. Caitlin Press poets Fiona Tinwei Lam ("Water Park", from Enter the Chrysanthemum) and Kuldip Gill ("Mill Yard Sounds", from Valley Sutra) were also chosen to be two of the sixteen poets in this year's program. Congratulations all!

Nightwood Editions is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Bachinsky’s God of Missed Connections has been shortlisted for this year’s eighth annual George Ryga award for Social Awareness in BC writing and Publishing. Also shortlisted is A Thousand Dreams by Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd & Lori Culbert (Greystone) and Where The Blood Mixes by Kevin Loring (Talonbooks). ... Click to see news item

Ryan Wahl will be signing copies his book Legacy in Wood: The Wahl Family Boat Builders at Coles- Avalon Mall (48 Kenmount Road) in St John’s, NL on Saturday, September 4th from 1-3 pm.

Legacy in Wood is a detailed portrait of master boat builder Ed Wahl and the important role his family business played in the creation of British Columbia's fishing industry. ... Click to see news item

Sterling Haynes will be signing copies of his new book, Wake-Up Call: Tales from a Frontier Doctor at Mosiac Books (411 Bernard Avenue), on Saturday, September 11th at 12:00 noon.

In his second book, Wake-Up Call, Sterling Haynes begins by telling us that at the age of seventy a left hemisphere stroke rearranged his brain. “My right creative side took over and I started to write poetry and humour. I was left with a partially paralyzed right foot, but a writer’s creative right brain. I think I got the better of the deal, a new brain in trade for a foot. The funny episodes in my medical practice became hilarious. The sad, melancholy parts of my life’s memories looked less bleak.” ... Click to see news item

The Boreal Gourmet: Adventures in Northern Cooking website launched this weekend. Curious cooks can now visit www.borealgourmet.com for new recipes with unique northern flavours. Author Michele Genest will update the website regularly with new recipes, journal entries and website links that she believes adventurous cooks will enjoy.

The Boreal Gourmet cookbook is available in stores now. Cooks and food lovers in Whitehorse, Vancouver, Toronto and Dawson City can meet Genest and taste some of her recipes at events happening across Canada in June.

In The Boreal Gourmet, Michele Genest shares her taste for northern life and flavours. This unique cookbook transports readers through northern meadows, forests, rivers, lakes, oceans, gardens and even pantries. Be it braised moose ribs with espresso stout and chocolate, marinated caribou blade steak with blueberry reduction, or elk liver pate, Genest remains faithful to the rich culinary culture of Canada’s north.