Ice: Moments
Photographs by Klaus Hochheim

includes

• Foreword by Martha Hochheim
• "Frozen moments, fluid meanings: Considering the circumpolar photographs of Klaus Hochheim" by Sarah Hodges-Kolisnyk
• "From prairies to poles: The scientific career of Klaus Hochheim" by David Babb

June 2024 | 96 pages | 78 colour images |
cloth 11 x 12 | $60 | ISBN 978-1-987986-20-4
PHOTOGRAPHY / EARTH SCIENCE
A project with MHC Gallery

A review in Miramichi Reader

Watch:

• TALKING ABOUT ICE event at CMU (November 27, 2024)
• ICE: MOMENTS & MHC Gallery CTV MORNING LIVE 19 Aug 2024-a
• CTV MORNING LIVE 19 Aug 2024-b
• CTV MORNING LIVE 19 Aug 2024-c
• CTV MORNING LIVE 19 Aug 2024-d
• CTV MORNING LIVE 19 Aug 2024-e

Listen:

• CBC Radio Interview 20 July 2024

This full-colour coffee-table-format art book of stunning Arctic and Antarctic photographs by Klaus Hochheim captures both the working life and the artistic eye of this ice researcher. In the tradition of great modernist photographers, Hochheim's pictures offer intimate seeing and profound clarity. This beautiful book of nearly 80 large-scale photos also includes essays by exhibition curator Sarah Hodges-Kolisnyk and ice scientist David Babb, and a foreword by Martha Hochheim, the photographer's widow.

Photographer Dr. Klaus Hochheim, a climatologist and ice researcher at the Centre for Earth Observation Science at the University of Manitoba, was born in 1958 and died in a helicopter crash in the Canadian Arctic in 2013.

New & Selected Poems
of Sarah Klassen
Lyrik Poetry Series 1

Sarah Klassen
Edited and with a new essay by Nathan Dueck

June 2024 | 232 pages | 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" paper | $20.00
ISBN 978-1-987986-13-6

Including an introduction by editor Nathan Dueck and an afterword by the poet, this beautiful "best of" volume presents new and uncollected poems as well as a generous selection from Sarah Klassen’s eight books of poetry. Full of faith, curiosity, and surprise, these poems offer readers grace and insight at every turn.

Sarah Klassen (born in 1932) is the Manitoba author of four works of fiction and eight collections of poetry. Her first book, in 1988, Journey to Yalta, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Other awards include the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award for A Curious Beatitude (2006). In 2014 Klassen's novel The Wittenbergs was the winner of the Margaret McWilliams Award.

New & Selected Poems
of John Weier
Lyrik Poetry Series 2

John Weier

Edited and with an introduction by Nathan Dueck

March 2025 | 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" paper | $20.00
ISBN 978-1-987986-16-7

This is writing which slips between genres and moods—surprising and occasionally exacting. Selected from a writing career of more than forty years, the poems are also lyrical and reflective, steeped in travel and the natural world, but always against a backdrop of loss. Including an imaginative and thorough introduction by editor Nathan Dueck and an afterword by Weier, this volume presents a suite of new work which reveals that his perceptive questioning of self and world is as keen as ever.

John Weier has published over a dozen books, including six major collections of poetry. His first book of poetry, in 1986, was After the Revolution and his most recent is Where Calling Birds Gather (2013). He is Past President of the League of Canadian Poets and was involved during the formative years of the Literary Press Group, Access Copyright, and Canadian Book Information Centre. For many years a professional luthier, he now has a career as a therapist. Known for his birdwatching mastery, he has logged over 3,400 species of birds.

New & Selected Poems
of David Waltner-Toews
Lyrik Poetry Series 3

David Waltner-Toews

Edited and with an introduction by Nathan Dueck

March 2025 | 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" paper | $20.00
ISBN 978-1-987986-17-4

In the third volume of the Lyrik Poetry Series, CMU Press presents the highly varied and entertaining poetry, past and present, of Dr. David Waltner-Toews, who is also an epidemiologist, professor, veterinarian, humourist, and mystery author. With an afterword by the poet.

David Waltner-Toews is Professor Emeritus at University of Guelph and founding president of Veterinarians without Borders-Canada. In 2022, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. His poetry titles include The Gravity of Love, The Complete Tante Tina, and The Impossible Uprooting. Other Waltner-Toews books are The Origin of Feces; Eat the Beetles! An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects; On Pandemics; and the memoir A Conspiracy of Chickens.

Wonder-Work

Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
Translated by Joanne Epp, Sally Ito, and Sarah Klassen

POETRY / LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION / 17th CENTURY STUDIES
November 2023 | 168 pages | 5½ x 8 paper | $30.00
ISBN 978-1-987986-14-3

includes Introduction to Greiffenberg's Life & Work, Translators' Afterword, and Bibliography

An unusual poet from the Baroque period meets 21st century poet-translators in this exceptional book. Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's intense devotional poems are matched with innovative and moving new English versions from Canadians Epp, Ito, and Klassen. This is astonishing Metaphysical poetry: original, provocative, reverent.

The translators have chosen 65 poems from 300 in Greiffenberg's best-known work, Geistliche Sonette, Lieder und Gedichte. The sonnets in Wonder-Work are presented in both German and English.

Not only in distress and death, but in my very mouth
my beloved gives himself to me in sweetness.
His blood, inflamed by love, shall quiet my heart’s heat.
I kiss and eat him out of love, here in my throat.
He could not be more closely wed with me.
—On Reverently Receiving The Most Holy Supper (2)

Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–1694), considered one of the most noteworthy German-language poets of the seventeenth century, was born into a family of the Protestant nobility in Austria midway through the Thirty Years’ War. Unusually well-educated for a woman of her time, she read widely and learned several languages. After experiencing a spiritual awakening as a young adult, she resolved to glorify God through her writing. Her works include a volume of poetry and three volumes of meditations on the life, suffering, and death of Christ.

About the translators: Joanne Epp is a Winnipeg poet and musician with two published collections, Eigenheim (2015) and Cattail Skyline (2021). Sarah Klassen is a Winnipeg poet and fiction writer. Her first language was German, but she writes only in English. She has published four books of fiction and eight books of poetry; her upcoming New and Selected Poems is also published by CMU Press. Sally Ito is a poet and translator living in Winnipeg. Her first book of translated poetry, with Michiko Tsuboi, was Are You an Echo: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko, published in 2016. Her own latest collection, Heart’s Hydrography, was published in 2022.

On Mennonite/s Writing: Selected Essays

Hildi Froese Tiessen
edited and with an Introduction by Robert Zacharias

LITERARY CRITICISM / MENNONITE STUDIES
December 2023 | 318 pages | 6 x 9 paper | $34.00
Index, bibliography, 9 photos
ISBN 978-1-987986-12-9

Watch the livestream of the June 1 launch at McNally Robinson Booksellers

In 1973, Hildi Froese Tiessen published the first academic essay about Rudy Wiebe's fiction (included in this volume). Since then, in scholarly essays and talks, she has examined with great insight the literary careers of Di Brandt, Patrick Friesen, Julia Kasdorf, Sandra Birdsell, and David Waltner-Toews, as well as key origin figures like Arnold Dyck and Al Reimer. Dr. Froese Tiessen’s widely admired essays include several (among the first of their kind) which situate Mennonite literature in relation to postmodernism, as well as investigations of the sometimes disconcerting ethnic and theological assumptions about Mennonite artistic practice. The essays in On Mennonite/s Writing are the first solo collection of Dr. Tiessen’s writings, and she has written a major new piece especially for this publication.

Hildi Froese Tiessen is one of the foremost scholars of Mennonite literature today. Raised in Manitoba, Hildi Froese Tiessen earned a BA at the University of Winnipeg and an MA and PhD at the University of Alberta. She taught English and Peace & Conflict Studies (1987-2012) at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, where she also served as academic dean. She is the editor of Liars and Rascals (1989), an anthology of short fiction by Mennonite authors and, with Paul Tiessen, After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery's Letters to Ephraim Weber (2006).

"Hildi Froese Tiessen has played an essential role in the remarkable flowering of Mennonite/s writing over what is now half a century. The publication of this volume of her essays reveals anew the great generosity, critical acumen, and encyclopedic knowledge that Tiessen has offered to the Mennonite writing community—one that she has actively nurtured and guided into being over her long career as critic, editor, and organizer. This gathering is a great gift to anyone interested in that writing."???????—Jeff Gundy, author of Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing