Frontenac House News
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, info@bookpublishers.ab.ca. Further information can be found at http://www.bookpublishers.ab.ca/ABBookPubAwards2009_Shortlist.pdf
Frontenac House Unveils Dektet 2010 // Apr 1, 2009
April 2010, marks the 10th anniversary of the Quartet poetry series. To celebrate, Frontenac House will simultaneously publish 10 poetry books – Dektet 2010. The titles have been chosen using a blind selection process by a jury of leading Canadian writers: bill bissett, George Elliot Clarke, and Alice Major. The jurors and publishers were impressed by both the number and quality of the submissions. Here are the final Dektet 2010 titles with comments from the jury. The official announcement will be made at 9 pm MDT, April 1st 2009 at the Quartet 2009 launch, John Dutton Theatre, Calgary Public Library.
Quartet 2009: An Astonishment of Poets // Mar 9, 2009
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, Pierrette Requier, Anna Marie Sewell, and Bob Stallworthy. All events are free.
CALGARY LAUNCH
AT THE CALGARY INT’L SPOKEN WORD FESTIVAL
April 1, 2009, 7:00 pm
John Dutton Theatre
Central Library, 616 Macleod Tr. SE
EDMONTON LAUNCH
April 2, 7:00 pm
the ARTery
9535 Jasper Ave
TORONTO LAUNCH
April 30, 7:00 pm
Edward Day Gallery
952 Queen St. West, Suite 200
FIFTH WORLD DRUM by Anna Marie Sewell. Linda Goyette says of this first book of poems: “With Mi’gmaq roots, and Slavic relatives too, Sewell moves easily across cultural borderlines that inhibit other people. Everywhere she goes, she searches for unlikely intersections, and she finds them. I love Sewell’s poems because she describes the Canada I crave – intimate, beautiful, brave, forgiving.”
THINGS THAT MATTER NOW by Bob Stallworthy examines how reactions to persons and events change with age; how memories lose their power to control; how there is choice in those things one reacts to – in short, the things that matter now. A successor to Optics (Quartet 2004), which was shortlisted for the City of Calgary Prize for Literature.
UNTITLED CHILD by Nancy Jo Cullen. In her third collection of poems, Cullen once again turns her questing and multidimensional mind to the nature of madness, addiction, impermanence and loss. This confessional collection takes an unflinching look at the path of a life’s destruction to create a harrowing chronicle of bereavement. As Zoe Whittall says, “Nancy Jo Cullen gets to the guts of grief, revealing its complexity with wit and poetic precision.”
DETAILS FROM THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE by Pierrette Requier.
This first book of poems offer a single stunning narrative arc that is novelistic in its sweep. A bilingual component merges northern Alberta French seamlessly into the flow. Alice Major says of it: “Pierrette’s work is about speaking from the margins—from the almost forgotten fringes of French on the northern prairies, and from the liminal lingual space where English and French talk to each other. Her poems come from these edges but speak to the heart.”
Something to cheer about // Feb 26, 2009
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 was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award ( Colour of Eden ), and the Relit Awards ( Angel Blood ). He won first prize in Rice Paper’s 2000 literary competition for his poem “Tashme”.
The winners will be announced on Thursday, February 26. Literary Awards Host Shelagh Rogers will unveil the English-language winners at 10:30 a.m. on CBC Radio One’s Q with Jian Ghomeshi.
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