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Leon Rooke will be touring this spring in support of
his first collection of poems Hot Poppies.
Thursday, April 7, in Toronto at the Rivoli on Queen Street as part of Pages' This is Not a Reading Series. Wednesday, April 27 at Hart House on the University of Toronto campus. Friday, May 13 in Calgary at Pages on Kensington. Contact Greg Gerrard at pages1@telusplanet.net Sunday, May 15 in Victoria at the James Bay Inn. Contact Jill Margo (Sundays at the JBI) at jbisundays@shaw.ca Wednesday, May 18 in Vancouver at the Vancouver Public Library. Contact Karin Konstantynowicz at karin_zk@telus.net Saturday, May 28 in Picton at the Prince Edward County Authors' Festival. |
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Awards and Nominations |
Photo by Barbara Pedrick |
Planet Earth, Selected Poems by P. K. Page, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. The book was published by the Porcupine's Quill in the fall of 2002, and edited by PQL Poetry Editor Eric Ormsby. In his introduction to the volume, Ormsby writes, `It has become customary in Canada to describe P. K. Page as ``distinguished'', but that epithet betrays her. P. K. Page is simply too vivacious, too cunning, too elusive, to be monumentalized. She is in fact the supreme escape artist of our literature.... One of the finest and most distinctive Canadian poets, P. K. Page is no provincial. She is a citizen not merely of the world, but of the earth.' |
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Photo by Terry Byrnes |
Congratulations to Ian McGillis, author of A
Tourist's Guide to Glengarry, which was shortlisted
for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.
`If J.D. Salinger or Mark Twain had lived in Edmonton, they might have written
A Tourist's Guide to Glengarry. Prepare to slip into the mind of a
nine-year-old. Prepare for a trip like Huckleberry Finn's, except here it is
not a river that is travelled but a single day in the life of little Neil
McDonald. Prepare for a story that is simple, deep, psychologically dead-on,
minutely observed yet worldly - and very funny.' |
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Photo by Alex Porter |
Mary Swan won America's most prestigious award for short fiction, the O. Henry Award (2001), for her story `The Deep', first published in The Malahat Review. The story attracted the attention of Random House USA, Simon & Schuster and Little Brown. The Porcupine's Quill published The Deep as a stand-alone novella and released it in Canada in September, 2002, at the fourteenth annual Eden Mills Writers' Festival. The book was then shortlisted for the Canada-Caribbean Region of the Commonwealth Writers Prize (2003), `Best First Book' category. We congratulate Swan on this string of successes! |
Photo by Mary Harman |
Norm Sibum is the recipient of the A. M. Klein Award for Poetry from
the Quebec Writers' Federation, for his collection Girls and Handsome Dogs.
`A world is glimpsed from the corner of his eye, a multiplicity
of voices is briefly overheard. From these Sibum has made a rough,
durable fabric; he is a Browning for our times while at the same time
having developed a voice that is completely his own.' |
Henighan at the Miller's Tale |
Stephen Henighan's collection of essays When Words Deny the World was
nominated for the 2002 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. The nomination
was a fitting culmination of the months of media attention garnered by Henighan's
take on Canadian literary culture:
`One this year's jury did get right is When Words Deny the World, by Stephen Henighan,
a novelist, critic and University of Guelph professor. His essays on Canadian writing are thought-provoking
and irritating almost in equal measure, especially in Toronto literary circles. Some of the response has been
absurdly excessive.... That only serves to prove the author's argument
that the `TorLit' establishment ... is as insecure as it is commercially
driven and lacking in good taste.' |
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At the 14th annual Eden Mills Writers' Festival, PQL publisher Tim Inkster
was awarded the Janice E. Handford Small Press Award, presented by the Organization
of Book Publishers of Ontario:
`Since founding the Porcupine's Quill in the small town of Erin, Ontario in 1974,
Tim Inkster has become a key figure in Canada's small-press movement. A rare amalgam of publisher, designer
and printer, he has combined an adventurous editorial instinct with a passion for
imaginative design and fine, uncompromising book-making.' |
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