7 March 2008
Robert Bringhurst Shortlisted for Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that Robert Bringhurst’s Everywhere Being is Dancing (2007) has been shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, one of seven BC Book Prizes awarded annually. Fellow nominees for the non-fiction award are The 100-Mile Diet by J.B. MacKinnon & Alisa Smith (Random House Canada), Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden by Don Gayton (Thistledown), Phantom Limb by Theresa Kishkan (Thistledown) and The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941–67 by Patricia E. Roy (UBC Press).

The BC Book Prizes, administered by the West Coast Book Prize Society, have celebrated the achievements of British Columbian writers and publishers since 1985. Readings featuring the shortlisted authors are currently being organized in four regions – North, South, Kootenays & Greater Vancouver. The winners of the 2008 awards, along with the recipient of the fifth Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, will be announced at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala to be held on Saturday 26 April 2008 at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver. For tickets to the gala, reading tour details and more information about the awards, please visit: www.bcbookprizes.ca

BACKGROUND
Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design. Its publications have won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Evelyn Richardson Prize, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Alberta Book Award for short fiction, and numerous Alcuin Awards for excellence in book design.

In Everywhere Being is Dancing, the companion volume to The Tree of Meaning (GP, 2006), Robert Bringhurst collects twenty pieces of thinking under the subversive principle that “everything is related to everything else.” His studies build upon this sense of basic connection, involving the work of poets, musicians, artists and philosophers as varied as Aristotle, J.S. Bach, Empedokles, Glenn Gould, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Joan Miró, Plato, Ezra Pound, Skaay and Gary Snyder. Accompanying the English narrative are passages in Chinese, German, Greek, Haida, Navajo, Russian and Tlingit, including Bringhurst’s own translations of the fragments of Parmenides and Cháálatsoh’s Navajo narrative “The Origin of Horses.” This is a book for readers who want to find the patterns and taste some of the vocabulary for themselves, and for those interested, like Bringhurst, in meeting languages part way.

For more information contact
Beth Crosby at Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
902-678-6002, info@gaspereau.com