All Roads Lead to Manyberries 2 Jun 2010, 4:14 pm

"In Ron Wood’s Manyberries, Canada’s sacred cows suffer the fate of the buffalo." – Stephen Harper  "Carrying on the great tradition of Haliburton & Leacock, Ron Wood has portrayed a western small town that seems…

Get your poem published by Frontenac House in Extravaganza 20 Apr 2010, 1:58 pm

Do you have a poem pacing about in the confines of your computer or your mind? Is it wild? Gentle? Hilarious? Tragic? Insane? Serious? Abstract? Concrete? All of the above? Or is it something completely different? Submit it to Wattpad and you may get published! Be sure to…

A Celebration of Canadian Poetry 1 Mar 2010, 10:29 am

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 Elliott Clarke,…

Amazing Flights and Flyers 22 Feb 2010, 10:42 am

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…

Download Untitled Child 1 Dec 2009, 3:30 pm

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 23 Oct 2009, 1:55 pm

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…

Moon Nibbler Book Launch 8 Sep 2009, 1:59 pm

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…

On the Road with Frontenac’s Quartet 2009 16 Jun 2009, 10:51 am

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…

Frontenac House Shortlisted for The 2009 Alberta Book Publishing Awards 1 May 2009, 9:38 pm

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 &…

Frontenac House Unveils Dektet 2010 2 Apr 2009, 12:00 am

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.…