$5,000 marketing and publicity budget Advance review copy give away at BEA and ALA Advertising in Rain Taxi, BC Bookworld, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, Subterrain Magazine, Canadian Literature, BC Studies Promotion on Talon's website Giveaway on Library Thing Online social media promotion: Good Reads, Facebook, Twitter.
Garry Thomas Morse has had two books of poetry published by LINEbooks, Transversals for Orpheus (2006) and Streams (2007); one collection of fiction, Death in Vancouver (2009), published by Talonbooks; and two books of poetry published by Talonbooks, After Jack (2010) and Discovery Passages (2011), finalist for the Governor General's Award for Poetry and finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Grounded in the work of Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Desnos, Ezra Pound, Jack Spicer, Rainer Maria Rilke, and his Native oral traditions, his work has been featured in a variety of publications, including Branch Magazine, Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, CV2, dANDelion, EVENT Magazine, Filling Station, memewar, Poetry Is Dead, PRISM international, subTerrain, the quint, The Vancouver Review, and West Coast Line. Morse is the recipient of the 2008 City of Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Artist and has twice been selected as runner-up for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.
“Surreal, complex, and hilarious … Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour is
best savored slowly … Reading it is like reading poetry, a
synaesthetic experience where technology and terrorism are as
intimate and tangible as the smell of food or the texture of mud.
Infused with Morse’s irrepressible humor, the books [in The Chaos!
Quincunx] satisfy all the senses.”
—Rain Taxi
“A vision of life with the liminal and the interstitial excised;
our lives if we lived inside the current media representation of
our lives … hilarious and bizarre … In Rogue Cells / Carbon
Harbour, Garry Thomas Morse has created something new, and we
should celebrate it.”
—subTerrain
“Surreal, complex, and hilarious”
—Rain Taxi
“Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour provides two books in one, beginning
with a satiric parody, romping across Native American territory to
skewer a breadth of contemporary idiocracies as they emerge from
celebrity narcissism, bizarre cult fervor, fundamentalist zealotry,
and rampant paranoia over terrorism. Fun for the whole family! Meet
you in the alleyway, George Orwell! There is no escape clause as we
pursue the Ignoble Prize during a dystopian eco-meltdown, replete
with alien life-forms, brazen mineral exploitation, extreme
bio-harvesting, and luxuriously decadent contamination junkies,
hustling us through a disintegration dance, during the Age of
Aquarium. Unrepentant and unremitting pandemonium! An outrageous
tour de farce! Read it! Be moved by Morse!”
—Karl Jirgens, Editor, Rampike magazine
“Carbon Harbour is an outrageous romp – wickedly inventive, clever
as well as wise, deliciously satirical and steamier than sex and
vegetables. Crackling with neologisms, sly elisions and provocative
infelicities, it’s a meteoric fable of a future in which unhinged
gardeners and gourmands should be particularly pleasured.”
—Des Kennedy, author of Climbing Patrick‘s Mountain
“Of contemporary surrealist writers, Garry Thomas Morse is the most
uncompromising. He courageously severs the umbilical cord with
so-called reality and ventures into an invented world paradoxically
more real than our own. Brandishing a garish, jolting, jittery,
hyper-technicolour style whose energy never flags, his alternate
universes embody a satire on current trends that is more biting and
relevant than that of seemingly realistic fiction. Enjoy the
rollercoaster ride.”
—Barry Webster, author of The Lava in My Bones
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