CUE Books is pleased to announce the much-anticipated launch of

Mercenary English, by Mercedes Eng

6 x 8 | Paper | 110 pp. | ISBN 978-0-9879052-0-8 | $15

A joint-launch with Marie Annharte, whose Indigena Awry is just out from New Star.

Saturday March 16th
8:00 pm
People's Co-Op Books
1391 Commercial Drive
Vancouver BC

a mercenary pursuit to unsettle, rechart, and set ships in motion. woman at the helm. “dead, almost and alive” making the money, women hold it down. honey cake. workshirts mended, an arsenal in her pocket, at the ready, everyday the frontlines. body of work on the table, more weapons in the drawer. “words are confusing…what’s the one for the big men dressed in boots and helmets holding shields, holding assault rifles?” interlocking violences to be disarmed, we call war. with all her might Eng speaks from experience, intervenes to right the vertical, spits hard words that shine like justice and the concrete trembles. “the eagles know”

-- Cecily Nicholson

she knows complicit explicit illicit attack apology abattoir she is poet opticon sposed she maps narrative down her turquoise hustle her vortex velocity slams scenes frontline back alley corner she is fierce flash authentic arsenal of poems she chants protest she lookin tight women in grid stare surveillance back she speaks sex sweet easy she says come in come out fill in whole sisters now know how Mercedes spells out stasis séance how disappeared women scream shout volatile skin of text strikes oscillates back upside down fist upward soars improbable limits of the expressible she is percussive what comes round

-- Marie Annharte

One More Once: for Pierre Coupey's 70th

One More Once: for Pierre Coupey's 70th celebrates Pierre's exceptional achievements as painter, poet, and TCR founder and editor. 60 writers, artists, friends, and collaborators contribute to the volume. There are spirited pieces by George Bowering, Peter Culley, Brian Fawcett, Brian Fisher, Marion Llewellyn, Daphne Marlatt, Erín Moure, Michael Ondaatje, Stan Persky, Meredith Quartermain, Arnold Shives, George Stanley, Sharon Thesen, Fred Wah, Alan Wood, and others.

CUE Books is pleased to announce the launch of
Species Branding by Danielle LaFrance:

Saturday October 1st
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Pulp Fiction Books
2422 Main Street @ E. Broadway
Vancouver, BC

"Abjection, translation, insurrection: in LaFrance's Species Branding these coordinates give new garb to some of poetry's most enduring idealisms and abstractions: beauty, desire, and friendship. No frame is left uncatalogued. Every bastion of the bourgeoisie is stormed. Every wall - every gender - is scaled. In other words, 'revolution ends here, man.'"

6 x 8 | Paper | 72 pp. | ISBN: 978-0-9810122-8-5 | $15

CUE books launch: Louis Cabri's Poetryworld

Join Louis Cabri and Roy Miki, in a joint CUE/New Star production, at People's Co-op books on Commercial Drive, Thursday August 4th at 8:00pm. Louis will be reading from his new book Poetryworld; Roy will be launching his latest, Mannequin Rising (New Star). Refreshments will be served. Free.

"In Poetryworld, you may qualify for Mensa once you exit Cabri's beguiling and expansive brainstorm. Freshly reflected, spacious chords of gusty, switched up social critique with charm to spare."

- Lissa Wolsak

Louis Cabri reads from Poetryworld

(with Rosemary Nixon and Roy Miki)
7:30 p.m., Wednesday 6 April
Katzman Lounge, Vanier Hall
University of Windsor

CUE announces its 2010 publications:

Danielle LaFrance's Species Branding and Louis Cabri's Poetryworld. Stay tuned for launch and readings info!

CUE announces its 2009 publications:

Soma Feldmar's Other and Roger Farr's anthology Open Text: Canadian Poetry and Poetics in the 21st Century (Vol.2).