Frontenac House News
Dektet 2010 // Aug 8, 2008
In 2010, the 10th anniversary of the Quartet poetry series, Frontenac House will simultaneously publish 10 poetry books – Dektet 2010.
Titles will be chosen by a jury of leading Canadian writers. This will be a blind selection process – jury members will not know the identity of persons submitting manuscripts.
- An advance on royalties of $1,000 will be paid to each writer accepted for Dektet 2010.
- The deadline for submission has been revised to October 31, 2008.
- Guidelines, a comprehensive FAQ, and entry forms are on this website at: Frontenac’s 10th Anniversary Celebration or can be requested from the publisher by writing to:
Submissions Manager
Frontenac House Ltd.
1138 Frontenac Ave. SW
Calgary AB T2T 1B6
We regret that email and phone inquiries regarding Dektet 2010 cannot be answered.
Breathing Stone: Contemporary Haida Argillite Sculpture // May 31, 2008
Northwest Coast art authority Carol Sheehan’s new book Breathing Stone: Contemporary Haida Argillite Sculpture profiles 15 exceptional artists re-invigorating an old Northwest Coast art form. The book will be launched at Masters Gallery, Calgary on June 19 with author, artists, and photographers Jack Litrell and John W. Heintz in attendance. With 200 colour photographs taken in artists’ workshops, galleries, collectors’ homes and on-site in Haida Gwaii – the Queen Charlotte Islands – Breathing Stone is passionate, original and beautiful.
Inspirited by Haida master Bill Reid, the last 20 years have seen the emergence of prolific new sculptors on Haida Gwaii. “These Haida artists have been recognized in Canada and worldwide for their artistic passion, innovation, and excellence,” said Sheehan.“Exceptional in vision and execution, their work is expanding the legacy of fine art that has come from the people of Haida Gwaii for centuries.” Throughout Breathing Stone, the excitement and commitment of the Haida artists shines through. For them, argillite sculpture is a source of intense pride, a means of showing the world the richness of their culture. See sample pages of the book.
The artists of Breathing Stone are:
Sean Brennan; Michael Brown; Donnie Edenshaw; Shaun Edgars; Chris Russ; Gary Minaker Russ; Marcel Russ; Lionel Samuels; Jay Simeon; Robert Vogstad; Darrell White; Gryn White; Martin Williams; Cooper Wilson; and Freddie Wilson.
Breathing Stone book launch events are being planned for Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria and Haida Gwaii.
Calgary: Masters Gallery, June 19, 6:pm; Exhibition June 19 – 21
Old Masset, Skidegate: June 29, 30
Vancouver: Bill Reid Gallery July 19 (Also Lattimer and Coastal Peoples Galleries)
Victoria: July TBA
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
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