Rumours of Bees. Paintings by Tricia Sellmer, Poems by Alexander Forbes. An outstanding new poetic talent teams up with one of Canada's most celebrated painters to pay harmonious tribute to those remarkable denizens of the hive, purveyors to the breakfast table and all-around buzzing wonders: The Bees. The result, elegantly bound and beautifully type-set and printed on top-quality archival paper by Abacus Press, makes a charming and thought-provoking dialog between the visual and poetic arts. An unusual gift and an elegant addition to the home library or the parlor coffee table. Soft Cover. 7.5" X 12". 64 pages. ISBN: 0-9631478-8-9. Price: US $24.95; Canadian $34.95.
Double Exsposure.  Drawings by Tricia Sellmer Poems by Alexander Forbes. "There is much to see in  Double Exposure -- a collaborative exhibit that unites free verse with black-and-white drawings on papers in grid formats.  Avoiding the well-worn commonplaces that so frequently surround roses, both Sellmer and Forbes look at these complex flowers from unusual perspectives.  Lurching flower heads, petals drooping, reminiscences of color, thorns exposed -- Sellmer places us into unruly gardens and riotous rosebushes, and the force that roams through them is fierce and undeniably undisciplined.  Into rosebushes tumble words.  Yet, as Forbes reminds us in 'rose hips' as he probes the complexity of this fruit that announces itself only after rose petals fall, rose hips reiterate the rosebush." - Excerpt from the Introduction by Constance Brim Soft Cover. 5.5" X 8.5". 16 pages. ISBN: 0-9730315-2-2. Price: US $10.00.