
1988
Goose Lane Editions
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Currents In The Stream is
an affectionate portrait of the Miramichi by a son of the
river. Wayne Curtis describes communities from Juniper to
Loggieville and some of the notable people and events
which have contributed to the story of this special
region. Writing about
founders and settlers, poets and musicians, politicians
and poachers, as well as the ballads and songs that draw
on the Irish tradition, Curtis offers an introduction to
the vivid history of the Miramichi Valley.
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1994
Goose Lane Editions
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One Indian
Summer is a powerful and eloquent
novel about a boy whose coming-of-age on the Miramichi
River coincides with the death of his father and the end
of the family farm. "This
is very fine writing. Its closeness to detail vibrates
with an honesty which bears witness to lives lived humbly
and poignantly. It resonates with truth, and the insights
are of a very high order. Wayne Curtis is a splendid
writer." ~ Alister MacLeod
"When I read this
novel, I was struck by the maturity, intelligence and
sensitivity of its author. In it Wayne Curtis conveys the
essence of what it is like to grow up in the Miramichi
valley during the years following World War ll."
~ Fred Cogswell
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1994/1996
Goose Lane Editions
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In Fishing
the Miramichi, Wayne Curtis shares
stories from decades of fishing and guiding. Setting his
angling tips and character sketches of outfitters and
guides within the context of responsible sportsmanship,
he composes a lyrical tribute to the river that he calls
home. "The
best little book about the Miramichi you're likely to
find for many seasons to come."
~ Atlantic Salmon Journal
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1997
Goose Lane Editions
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More than twenty of the Miramichi River's
most experienced guides told Wayne Curtis their best
stories for River Guides of the
Miramichi. Guides including Renate
Bullock, Eugene Harris, Ernest Long, Bill MacKay, and the
author's own father John Curtis, show the strength, skill,
sense of humour, and love of the river and its great
Atlantic salmon that have become famous throughout the
angling world. "A garland of local
lore gathered by a fishing poet."
~ Gene Hill, Field & Stream
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1998
Nimbus Publishing |
Wayne Curtis' short story
collection Preferred Lies
explores the underlying tension between his characters'
inner passions and persona they present to the world. The
complexity of relationships from childhood through old
age shapes their lives and both helps and hinders their
freedom to become, essentially, themselves. Poignant and
tender, these stories carry their characters along myriad
paths to self-deception about who they are and what they
need. "The
prose of Wayne Curtis is beautiful to read, for no detail
escapes his discerning eye."~
Books in Canada
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1999
Nimbus Publishing |
In Last Stand,
we discover that clear-cutting applies not only to
forests but to the human heart: the result - a barren
landscape - is the same. Just as age-old trees are felled
by modern equipment, so do history and heredity conspire
to undermine intention and desire. We might expect that
tracing family roots in familiar territory would leave
small margin for the same failures, but we find that
human folly is no student of history. Curtis illustrates
with prose as clear and steady as the river that travels
through it that we are all too easy prey to our own
demons. "A sensitive and insightful
writer of the short story, Curtis' prose has a solid core
and a rhythm that carries the reader along."
~ Sinclair Ross
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2000
Nimbus Publishing |
Whether depicting the loss of childhood loves, the comic campfire talk of once-a-year
visitors, or one man’s desperate mid-life struggle to bring home a fish, Curtis portrays
the growing pains of his Miramichi people with empathy, humour, and vivid description
in stories held together by the rhythm of his language, by the voice of the river itself. "Curtis has an eye for the telling detail,
giving us the most information in the fewest possible words."
~ New Brunswick Reader
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2005
Bawdy House Press |
Green Lightening,
Some of these poems appeared in literary journals such as the New Muse and Cormorant.
Others have appeared in the New Brunswick Reader. Many have been read by the author
on CBC Radio in his Post Card Series in the autumn of 2001. "Wayne
Curtis has a warmth in his command of language and a
genuine insight in his description of place and time."
~ David Adams Richard

2005
Dreamcatcher Publishing |
In Monkeys in a Looking Glass,
Curtis draws upon his travels to give readers a portrait of the young
Che Guevara in love for the first time and to describe the fear and
exhilaration of Pamplona's "running of the bulls." At the same time, he
applies his discerning eye to things closer to home: a man searching for
his family roots in the goldfields of the Yukon; and ex-convict looking
for love at a singles' dance, a young family chasing a dream in rural
New Brunswick. Readers will finish this book knowing a good deal more
about the human condition than when they started. "A seductive storyteller wholly immersed in
the world he vividly creates, Curtis reveals himself to be a lyrical and
sensuous stylist." ~ The Globe and Mail
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2006
Goose Lane Editions |
Wild Apples marks Wayne Curtis’s return to the embrace
of home and the colourful lives of the people who inspire him. Simple
pleasures, like fishing on the Miramichi River, and even chores--cutting
wood, planting beans, and picking crabapples--call forth homespun
recollections. The birth of his sister at Christmastime, the story of
his mother in her own words, and a memorable trip to the circus embody
unexpected moments of family love. His meditations on public figures,
such as Robert Frost and Lord Beaverbrook, cast a new, humane light on
these icons. "Curtis' prose is more true to life than most
current short fiction." ~ Quill and Quire
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2008
Lion's Head Press |
Night Train to Havana ,
Night Train to Havana is a riveting story of love and deception set in a land still scarred by the
hardships of a forty year revolution. Part travelogue, part love story, it follows one man's
journey into the clutches of seduction, revealing much about the collision of global politics
and human desire.
Wayne Curtis has travelled frequently to Cuba to observe first hand the struggles and triumphs
of the Cuban people."A seductive storyteller wholly immersed in
the world he vividly creates, Curtis reveals himself to be a lyrical and
sensuous stylist." ~ The Globe and Mail
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2010
Pottersfield Press |
Long Ago and Far Away ,
is a memoir set in the Miramichi. It reflects how a family lived and prospered
through the late 1880s, when Wayne Curtis''s grandfather was a young man. The story follows the
lives of Wayne and his father, chronicling Wayne''s youth and adult years in rural New Brunswick.
He brings back to life an extraordinary time and place and reflects upon the changes that have
all but erased those days gone by. The memoir tells the story of the rough and rowdy Miramichi
of the past when the hunting and killing of wild animals was very much the norm and people
struggled to survive off the land. "Of all Canadian writers, Wayne Curtis is the one I keep coming back to.
He is perhaps the greatest unsung talent in the country." ~ David Adams Richards
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2012
Goose Lane Editions |
Of Earthly and River Things: An Angler's Memoir ,
Wayne Curtis voyages back through the tributaries of his past, throwing a pastoral net over the backwaters of his childhood to ensnare the sepia-tinged moments of love, loss, and life lessons gleaned through his rise to maturity on the waterways of New Brunswick.
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Fall 2014
Pottersfield Press |
Sleigh Tracks in New Snow: Maritime Christmas Stories ,
is a collection of Christmas stories set mostly in rural New Brunswick - principally the Miramichi Region - in a bygone day and age. The stories range from the early 1950s to the 21st century, as Wayne Curtis recounts the old Christmases of his boyhood and more modern incarnations of the holiday. In this entertaining book, Curtis honours the deeply held traditions and rituals that made celebrating Christmas such a special time for his family and community.
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March 2016
Pottersfield Press |
In The Country ,
is a collection of Wayne Curtis’s unflinching but lovingly told stories of the hardships of rural life for his generation. Despite an abiding love for the natural settings in which he himself grew up, Wayne describes the restrictions facing young people who yearned for a life beyond the farm. Country life, with its tranquility and beauty, its seasonal rhythms and gifts, also
held many boys and girls back from achieving their potential.
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September 2017
Pottersfield Press |
Home Coming ,
is Wayne Curtis’s seventeenth book is a series of thirteen short stories, all of which have the theme of coming back home, both physically and or spiritually. “The word ‘home’ can be interpreted in a variety of ways,” Curtis said. “It could be an orphanage, a farm, a factory, or just a place in the mind.”
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September 2018
Goose Lane Editions |
Fishing In The High Country ,
From the first sentence, "I come from a long line of river people,” to the last, "Bad luck to kill a moose bird,” Wayne Curtis signals that this book occupies the territory of a classic, a lyrical memoir of a river and those who submit to its call.”
New Brunswick’s Miramichi River is one of the most entrancing salmon rivers in the world. In Fishing the High Country, Curtis has created what can only be described as a river masterpiece, a lyrical record of time and place, of those who are drawn to its side and those who cast their lines into its waters.
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