http://frontenachouse.com/index.php en info@shadowboxcreative.ca Copyright 2010 2010-03-01T15:29:38+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/a_celebration_of_canadian_poetry/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/a_celebration_of_canadian_poetry/#When:15:29:38Z 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,… 2010-03-01T15:29:38+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/amazing_flights_and_flyers/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/amazing_flights_and_flyers/#When:15:42:08Z 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… 2010-02-22T15:42:08+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/download_untitled_child/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/download_untitled_child/#When:20:30:37Z 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. 2009-12-01T20:30:37+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/wait_until_late_afternoon_or_distilled_decanted_and_debauched/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/wait_until_late_afternoon_or_distilled_decanted_and_debauched/#When:17:55:13Z 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… 2009-10-23T17:55:13+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/moon_nibbler_book_launch/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/moon_nibbler_book_launch/#When:17:59:33Z 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… 2009-09-08T17:59:33+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/on_the_road_with_frontenacs_quartet_2009/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/on_the_road_with_frontenacs_quartet_2009/#When:14:51:11Z 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… 2009-06-16T14:51:11+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/frontenac_house_shortlisted_for_the_2009_alberta_book_publishing_awards/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/frontenac_house_shortlisted_for_the_2009_alberta_book_publishing_awards/#When:01:38:00Z 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 &… 2009-05-02T01:38:00+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/frontenac_house_unveils_dektet_2010/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/frontenac_house_unveils_dektet_2010/#When:04:00:57Z White Shirt “This is the ‘classic’ hard-drinking, hard-living, gravelly poet’s voice – only it comes from a woman. It’s a bust-out-of-the-closet voice where occasional touchstone rhymes and furious lists score the page. The poems are stripped down, poignant, exact, and as heartily playful as any serious blues.… 2009-04-02T04:00:57+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/quartet_2009_an_astonishment_of_poets/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/quartet_2009_an_astonishment_of_poets/#When:23:06:00Z This April, Frontenac House is launching their annual poetry Quartet 2009 in Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto. Frontenac has dubbed this year’s selection, “an astonishment of poets.” Join us for a dramatic evening of poetry, performance and music with Quartet poets Nancy Jo Cullen,… 2009-03-09T23:06:00+00:00 http://frontenachouse.com/site/something_to_cheer_about/ http://frontenachouse.com/site/something_to_cheer_about/#When:15:49:00Z Frontenac poet Kevin Irie is a finalist in the prestigious CBC Literary awards for his poem “Viewing Tom Thomson (A Minority Report)”. Kevin has published two books with Frontenac House, Dinner at Madonna’s and Angel Blood: The Tess Poems. He… 2009-02-26T15:49:00+00:00