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Download Untitled Child // Dec 1, 2009
Untitled Child by Nancy Jo Cullen, published by Frontenac House in April, 2009 as part of Quartet 2009 is available as a free pdf December 1 – 3, 2009 only courtesy of author and publisher under a creative commons license.
Wait Until Late Afternoon OR distilled, decanted and debauched // Oct 23, 2009
David Bateman and Hiromi Goto’s collaborative poem, Wait Until Late Afternoon, is a nostalgic/anti-nostalgic creative autobiographical conversation. Tracing their relationship to their fathers, their lives, and to each other through the transfiguring effects of alcohol, the narrative travels from glamorous nightclubs and the Jade Market in Taipei to Peterborough, Ontario and Nanton, Alberta. Through memory, mourning, geographies and sexualities, this poetic narrative is at once a memento mori and meditations upon wabi sabi.
Launches in Edmonton and Vancouver
EDMONTON LAUNCH
Thursday, November 5, 6 pm
No cover charge.
The ARTery, 9535 Jasper Avenue NW
780 441-6966
VANCOUVER LAUNCH
Saturday, November 7, 7 pm
Wait Until Late Afternoon is launching with Automaton Biographies, the first full-length poetry collection by Larissa Lai.
Rhizome Cafe
317 E Broadway
Vancouver, BC
(604) 872-3166
Calgary and Toronto launches coming soon!
Moon Nibbler Book Launch // Sep 8, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 6 pm
Free admission, Refreshments, Cash Bar
The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts
104, 800 Macleod Trail SE
Calgary, Alberta
Join us to celebrate the publication of Moon Nibbler: The Art of Pat Strakowski, on Thursday October 1, 6 pm at The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts.
Artist Pat Strakowski, author Andrew Oko, photographer John W. Heintz, designer Neil Petrunia, and Frontenac editor and publisher Rose and David Scollard will be in attendance. Jacek Malec, Triangle Gallery Director, will be the Master of Ceremonies. A selection of Pat Strakowski sculptures will be on display.
On the Road with Frontenac’s Quartet 2009 // Jun 16, 2009
Three of Frontenac’s Quartet 2009 poets – Bob Stallworthy, Pierrette Requier and Anna Marie Sewell – are off to the Wordspinner Festival with Frontenac publicist Lyn Cadence. Wordspinner is the annual Peace Country’s Book Festival in Grande Prairie, Alberta, which runs June 18-21, concurrent with the Iskoteo Arts Festival and The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards ceremony and gala event.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
3:00 – 5:00 pm Centre for Creative Arts $30
Poetry in French Workshop with Pierrette Requier
3:00 – 5:00 Centre for Creative Arts $30
Publishing & Publicity Panel with Angela Kublik, Jenna Butler and Lyn Cadence
Friday, June 19, 2009
11:30 am – 1:30 pm Montrose Cultural Centre
Frontenac House – Quartet 2009 Book Launch with Bob Stallworthy, Pierrette Requier, Anna Marie Sewell
Readings by Angela Kublik & Jenna Butler
Saturday, June 20, 2009
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Centre for Creative Arts $30
Memoir: Writing Your Life Workshop with Bob Stallworthy
1:00 – 3:00 pm Rabbit Hole Bookstore
Reading by Sid Marty, award winning author of The Black Grizzley of Whiskey Creek
1:30 – 3:30 pm Grande Prairie Friendship Centre $10 or donation
Youth Writing Workshop with Anna Marie Sewell
Pre-register at the Centre for Creative Arts: 780-814-6080 http://www.creativecentre.ca
Frontenac House Shortlisted for The 2009 Alberta Book Publishing Awards // May 1, 2009
Frontenac House has been shortlisted for two 2009 Alberta Book Publishing Awards – Publisher of the Year and the Trade Non-Fiction Book Award.
The short-listed non-fiction title is Breathing Stone: Contemporary Haida Argillite Sculpture by Carol Sheehan, photography by Jack Litrell & John W. Heintz
Award recipients will be named on Friday, May 8 at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards Gala at the Faculty Club in Edmonton. This celebration of our province’s book publishing community is hosted by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta.
Everyone is welcome to be a part of this celebration of Alberta books!
Ted Bishop, author of Riding with Rilke, will give the keynote address at the Gala. Ken Davis, Host of CKUA’s Bookmark, will emcee the evening. Tickets for the Gala are available from the Book Publishers Association of Alberta at (780) 424-5060, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Further information can be found at http://www.bookpublishers.ab.ca/ABBookPubAwards2009_Shortlist.pdf
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