Frontenac House News
A Celebration of Canadian Poetry // Mar 1, 2010
The year 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Frontenac House and the Quartet poetry series. To celebrate, Frontenac will simultaneously publish 10 poetry books in April– Dektet 2010. Titles were chosen by a jury of leading Canadian poets: bill bissett, George Elliot Clarke, and Alice Major using a blind selection process. Jury members did not know the identity of persons submitting manuscripts.
Dektet 2010
Attenuations of Force, Lori Cayer Winnipeg, MB
Children of Ararat, Keith Garebian, Mississauga, ON
Confessions of an Empty Purse, S. McDonald Toronto, ON
Ex Nihilo, Adebe D. A., Toronto, ON
Fallacies of Motion, William Nichols, Edmonton, AB
Falling Blues, Jannie Edwards, Edmonton, AB
Learning to Count, Douglas Burnet Smith, Antigonish, NS
[sic], Nikki Reimer, Vancouver, BC
Standoff Terrain, Jocko Benoit, Calgary, AB
White Shirt, Laurie MacFayden, Edmonton, AB
Edmonton Launch
April 27, 7 pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
#7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
An extension of the Edmonton Poetry
Festival
All 10 Dektet poets will be at the event.
Calgary Launch
April 29, 7 pm
John Dutton Theatre
Macleod Trail
The closing event of the Calgary
International Spoken Word Festival
All 10 Dektet poets will be at the event.
Toronto Launch
September, date tba
All 10 Dektet poets will be at the event.
In May, the Dektet poets will be at
events in their home communities across
Canada
A big thank you to Sheri-D Wilson and the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival for including Dektet 2010 in their wonderful array of events. Thanks also to Alice Major and the Edmonton Poetry festival for allowing Dektet 2010 to be an honorary extension of the festival presentations. Frontenac House is grateful to the Alberta Creative Development Initiative for their support in publicising and marketing Dektet 2010. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts and of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for our publishing program.
Amazing Flights and Flyers // Feb 22, 2010
Shirlee Smith Matheson’s new book is now available. It is Frontenac’s 50th book to be published.
Amazing Flights and Flyers will be launching at the Aero Space Museum on February 28, 2010, 2 – 4 pm. 4629 McCall Way NE, Calgary, AB
Admission to the launch and to the museum will be free.
Razzama Jazz will perform and light refreshments will be provided.
For an invite, contact Lyn Cadence at 403.465.2345 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). You must bring an invitation to receive free admission into the museum.
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.
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