Frontenac House News
Dektet 2010 // Apr 1, 2008
Frontenac House announces an exciting variation on their Quartet series for 2010, our tenth year of poetry publishing. Instead of our usual quartet we will be publishing ten poetry books. For information and guidelines go to Dektet 2010.
- Dektet 2010
- Guidelines for Sending Manuscripts to Dektet 2010
- Submission and Registration form
- 10 Questions about Dektet 2010 and their answers
Frontenac author Ron Wood a Leacock Award Finalist // Mar 27, 2008
Frontenac House is delighted to announce that Ron Wood author of And God Created Manyberries is one of the five finalists for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal and the T.D. Financial Group $10,000 prize. [continued below]
Quartet 2008/Close Encounters of the Word Kind // Mar 26, 2008
Frontenac House is flying into another year of poetry publishing with our eighth Quartet of visionary books and poets. Join us for an intimate evening of readings, discussion, refreshments and door prizes.
The Books
she is reading her blanket with her hands by Sharron Proulx-Turner
Proulx-Turner offers a sensitive compendium of poems each dedicated to a friend or relative. The result is a deep insight into the poet’s life and philosophy and her Aboriginal experiences and traditions.
Autopsy of a Turvy World by Sheri-D Wilson
Sheri-D Wilson, winner of the 2005 WGA Stephan G Stephansson award for best book of poetry, presents a scalpel-sharp view of 21st century afflictions such as noise pollution, airport security, and fast food encounters. A shocking and wildly funny book.
Water Strider by Karen Hofmann
An elegant first book dealing with tensions, ambiguities, imperfect relationships, language, memory and longing. Don McKay says in his cover quote: “Probing, spare, acutely angled and scrupulously nuanced, Karen Hofmann’s poems are as surprising as the remarkable arthropods invoked by the title poem.”
Wiser Pills by Richard Stevenson
The edict of better living through chemistry had sixties boomer kids dropping this, smoking that, snorting something else, or poking it directly into their veins to grow taller, get smaller… Richard Stevenson’s twenty-first collection of poetry is a rollicking and uninhibited portrayal of adolescent life, middle-aged regret, and points in between.
The Launches
- Wednesday, April 2, 7:00 p.m. at Memorial Park Library, 1221-2nd Street, SW, Calgary, with Pages Books on Kensington as our bookseller.
- Thursday, April 10, 7:00 p.m. at the Edward Day Gallery, 952 Queen Street W., Toronto, with University Toronto Bookstore as our bookseller.
- There will also be readings at Lethbridge and Kamloops time, date and venue TBA
[continued] Frontenac author Ron Wood a Leacock Award Finalist // Mar 26, 2008
And God Created Manyberries has been flying off the shelves in Canadian bookstores, and nowhere more so than in Manyberries and Ottawa. Here is a sampling of the reviews:
With sharp wit, bold characterization and a keen eye for observing what is important – and funny – to Canadians, Ron Wood has written a book which skews the political leadership and the small town foibles of this country. Sounds rather Leacock-ian doesn’t it? As a former political backroom communications advisor, Wood knows of which he speaks. It is easy for the reader to imagine the characters in this book with their concerns, their plots and their humorous approaches to life in a small Alberta town. Carrying on the great tradition of Haliburton and Leacock, Ron Wood has portrayed a western small town that seems as real as it is funny. ~ Leacock Medal Jury, 2008
Ribald, raucous and readable. ~ Pat Macadam, Ottawa Sunday Sun.
A rip-roaring good read! ~ Lorne Gunter, Edmonton Journal
A lively, satiric take on just about everything Canadians hold dear. ~ Ruth Myles, Calgary Herald
He simply invites readers to pull up a chair, and listen in. ~ Dave Brown, Ottawa Citizen
Absolutely loved the book. Felt like a regular at the Ranchmen’s at the end of it. ~ Sean Durkan, Embassy Newspaper
Small-town folks in Calgarian’s humorous book are universally Canadian. ~ Dave Sulz, Lethbridge Herald
What do you get when you put a retired rancher, a retired but still working unpaid post master and a well read retired “old guy” around a ranchman’s saloon table drinking beer in a town of 100? Well the makings of a humorous fiction of course called And God Created Manyberries, ~ Bea Vongdouangchanh, “Heard on the Hill”, Hill Times
It just makes me laugh out loud. I’ve been exactly there. ~ Rosaleen Dickson, author, journalistic legend, retired reporter/editor
The complete list of finalists/ The Leacock Award Press Release:
Today, March 27 at the T.D.Bank in Orillia, Ontario, the Stephen Leacock Association Inc. announced the five finalists for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal and the T.D. Financial Group $10,000 Prize.
They are alphabetically by author as follows:
Douglas Coupland, THE GUM THIEF, Random House of Canada Ltd.
Terry Fallis, THE BEST LAID PLANS, iUniverse, Inc.
Will Ferguson, SPANISH FLY, Viking Canada ( Penguin Group )
Scott Gardiner, KING JOHN OF CANADA, McClelland & Stewart
Ron Wood, AND GOD CREATED MANYBERRIES, Frontenac House Ltd.
Further information can be obtained by visiting the website at http://www.leacock.ca, or by contacting Judith Rapson, Chair Stephen Leacock Association Ltd. at drapson@encode.com. or by telephone at 705.835.3218
And God Created Manyberries Ottawa Launch Video // Nov 25, 2007
Next Page
