"Ball's phrases often fold in on themselves suddenly to produce startling mouthfuls of dream and delight ... The reader doesn't even notice the trapdoor that's opened beneath their giddy feet."
"Ball is not only a virtuoso of language and form, but a virtuoso of our present moment, exploring how we are entwined in words and history and how we find ourself here and now, surrounded by ourselves and our words."
"Jonathan Ball deploys [a] distinctive blend of sinister insight and munificent imagination, illuminating horror and dark humour, artful precision and formal play."
The Lightning of Possible Storms
$25.00PRE-ORDER (SHIPS FALL 2020) — The first collection of “stranger fiction” from Jonathan Ball, the poet laureate of Hell. More information coming soon, but can be pre-ordered anytime. Forthcoming from Book*hug Press. If price lowered before publication, you will be partially refunded. All pre-orders signed by the author. Cover image just a dream at this point. Thank you for buying this book!
Ex Machina (eBook)
$9.00A choose-your-own-adventure-style experimental long poem concerning the symbiosis of humans, books, and machines.
The National Gallery
$20.00PRE-ORDER (SHIPS FALL 2019) — A poetic meditation on the modern world: Rilkean elegies for an iPhone, sonnets about The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and other strange missives from the poet laureate of Hell. All pre-orders signed by the author. Thank you for buying this book!
Parallel Prairies: Stories
$22.00The Canadian Prairie teems with life — not all of it of this world. Get acquainted with baby dragons, killer insects, faery kings, infernal entities and more, as 19 authors let the Manitoban landscape inspire weird and wondrous tales.
LIMITED-TIME DEAL (ends November 1, 2018): ANY ORDERS OF PARALLEL PRAIRIES OR THE SHADOW OVER PORTAGE AND MAIN: WEIRD FICTIONS COME WITH A FREE SIGNED COPY OF THE POLITICS OF KNIVES (NORMALLY $18)
The Shadow Over Portage and Main: Weird Fictions
$20.00An anthology of weird fiction featuring writers who have all lived in Winnipeg for a time and been inspired, horrified, changed by that experience. Features an introduction by Jonathan Ball and a short story by Richard Crow (aka Jonathan Ball).
LIMITED-TIME DEAL (ends November 1, 2018): ANY ORDERS OF THE SHADOW OVER PORTAGE AND MAIN: WEIRD FICTIONS OR PARALLEL PRAIRIES: STORIES OR COME WITH A FREE SIGNED COPY OF THE POLITICS OF KNIVES
Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry
$20.00An anthology of poetry that scrutinizes Canada’s poetic avant-gardes for signs of humorous life. Moving deftly between entertainment, attack, and critique, this poetry makes us laugh while making us wonder why we’re laughing at all.
John Paizs's Crime Wave
$22.00An academic monograph examining the Winnipeg filmmaker’s 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters, including the much later Hollywood film Adaptation.
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$7.00An experimental novella sculpted entirely from passages from out-of-copyright novels transcribed by Project Gutenberg that were e-mailed to me by spambots. The result is a fractured narrative in 35 chapters, with sources ranging from Stendhal to Virginia Woolf to D.H. Lawrence, including occasional interruptions by the copyright policies of Gutenberg itself.
The Politics of Knives
$18.00Poems about violence and spectatorship, with topics ranging from Kafka and Hitchcock to Greek myth and political assassination.
Clockfire
$17.0077 poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce — plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience or the laws of physics are defiled.
Ex Machina (print + ebook)
$18.00A choose-your-own-adventure-style experimental long poem concerning the symbiosis of humans, books, and machines. Signed print + ebook bundle.