Welcome to the new Frontenac House website. We have lots of news!
Our online store is now open. You can order books directly from this site.
When you find a book on our website that you like, you can buy it directly from us, now. Shipping in Canada is free by regular post (we have options for express), and we’re discounting out-of-Canada shipping by 50%.
Quartet 2020 Launch Event
Frontenac House is holding an online book launch featuring the 4 authors from Quartet 2020. We would be delighted if you could join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Quartet series with readings from Tyler B. Perry, Lisa Richter, Joan Shillington, and Alex Williamson. The event will start at 6:15pm MST (Calgary time) on Thursday Oct. 22nd, and can be viewed on either Facebook or Youtube to your convenience at the links below.
Join us afterwards for our post-launch Wine and Cheese Zoom Q&A with bonus live readings with the Poets behind this year’s Quartet. Everyone is invited to participate, the only prerequisites for attending are a love of poetry and good spirits (but if you’d like to buy some books, that’d be great too).
Quartet 2020
Launching October 22
Launching Soon
Announcing Quintet 2021
A Selected History of Soul Speak
Andrea Thompson
In this sonically satisfying collection of poems, Andrea Thompson investigates the intersection of page and stage, and the evolution of Spoken Word as a hybrid form of oratory literature. Part text-book, part journal – this collection blurs the space between public and private, while excavating the influence of Black North American art, music and culture on contemporary spoken word. It’s a collection that asks: Why write? Why speak? And then takes us on a journey spanning decades, generations and cultures in the exploration of possible answers.
Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli
Daniel Lockhart
Bearmen Descend on Gimli is a collection of poems that act together as a narrative of a mythic curling bonspiel set in contemporary Gimli, Manitoba. The collection utilizes the narrative point of view of Raymond Northwind, a past-middle aged man of Ojibwe descent, who is the primary icemaker and custodian for the Gimli Curling Club. Through the use of scenic “glimmer” poems and dream poems, the collection follows the story of Northwind as he brings forth a semi-supernatural curling team of Indigenous “bearmen” to face off against other teams from across Canada for a large and prestigious prize.
Tell The Birds Your Body is not a Gun
Rayanne Haines
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Thee Golden Age of the Internet
Tyler Engstrom
Thee Golden Age of the Internet contains poems, none of which are about the internet. They are about eating oysters, eating the rich, Ferrari jackets in deadbeat bars, many crying men, bagged milk, and poison generations. These poems are a reflection of our culture and what it means to be a real human person, focused only on the things that you didn’t even look twice at when you passed them by even though they stared at you the entire time. These poems are also about none of these things.
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Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions
Wendy Donawa
Donawa’s adult Caribbean life, followed by her re-settlement on her childhood’s salty BC coast, invites poems peopled with casualties of colonizing desires: historical, mythical, personal. Penelope regrets her career choice; news of Martin Luther King’s murder stuns Barbadians; Benedictine monks chant an ars poetica; the provenance of cathedral bells and shopping carts unpacks darker societal realities: “The air fills with atoms of the dear dead”.
Recent Releases
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A Brush With Depth: The Art of Rick Sealock
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Borderlands
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