Frontenac House has just published a Dektet of poetry books for their 10th Anniversary - 10 poetry books in the place of their annual quartet of poetry books. Here are the videos from the launches of Dektet 2010 and Quartet 2009. More about these poets and their books can be found at http://frontenachouse.com Frontenac House is an independent publishing house located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 2000 by Rose and David Scollard, this literary press has 65 titles in print.
Adebe D.A. is reading from her book ex nihilo at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. 'These lyrics dare to ?bring da noise? ? not only the funk and blues of race snafus, but also the exquisite soul sound of intellectual analysis, harmonizing rhythmic lines and gritty insights. They come from a woman who knows the intricate gradations connecting black skin to white, pop culture to academia, and links sophisticated analysis with the verve and drive of performance poetry.' ?Dektet Jury htt...
Edmonton AB poet Laurie MacFayden is reading from her book White Shirt at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. '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. Here is Sappho crossed with the Supremes.' ?Jury, Dektet 2010 http://frontenachou...
Nikki Reimer is reading from her book [sic] at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. 'Gorilla condoms? Goldilocks? bent-over cootchie? Gonzo cocaine? Everything?s 4-sale when language is loosed as it is ici (icy) (sic). These poems are a pile-up of pop culture at ?the intersection of Art and Commerce?, and the city is caught at the stoplight.' ?Jury, Dektet 2010 http://frontenachouse.com/titles/single/sic/ The year 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Frontenac House and the Quartet poetry ...
Douglas Burnet Smith is reading from his book Learning to Count at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. 'Always, in our best poetry, the hovering care for place. Douglas Burnet Smith hears landscape; he hears the way it resounds in the people who travel its subtle and complex surface. Landscape for Smith is a kind of musical instrument.' ?Robert Kroetsch http://frontenachouse.com/titles/single/learning_to_count/ The year 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Frontenac House and the Quartet ...
S. McDonald is reading from his book Confessions of an Empty Purse at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. 'confessions of an empty purse is a poetic transmemoir of passion and fear, laughter, nightmares and dysphoria, preservation, degradation, dreams and pride ? and it really happened. I was ? am ? there.' ?S. McDonald http://frontenachouse.com/titles/single/confessions_of_an_empty_purse/ The year 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Frontenac House and the Quartet poetry series. To cele...
Lori Cayer is reading from her book Attenuations of Force at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. "Attenuations of Force is a collection that commands our attention. Unnerving and charming in turns and at all points, linguistically supple, Cayer?s fierce, unflinching poems of selves made and unmade, of postmodern lusts and blind faith, will torque your brain around. Whether Cayer is mapping a weather that "drums your body apart" or riffing off a neo-gothic Jeff Goldblum morphing into a f...
Keith Garebian is reading from his book Children of Ararat at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. 'Children of Ararat addresses the legacy of the Armenian genocide. A son shaped by his father?s experience serves as witness to the aftershocks of brutality. This poet is unafraid to face the horror that is too often the result of politics and too much the truth of history.'?Jury, Dektet 2010 http://frontenachouse.com/titles/single/children_of_ararat/ The year 2010 marks the 10th anniversar...
Edmonton AB poet Jannie Edwards is reading from her book Falling Blues at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. Familiar comforts ? marital beds, teacups ? are balanced on the knife edge of language, scissored into poetic forms from villanelle to blues. The result is attentive and disconcerting. The beautiful success of this superb collection is due to the use of verbs, always freshly precise and colourfully sound.?Jury, Dektet 2010 http://frontenachouse.com/titles/single/falling_blues/ T...
Calgary AB poet Jocko Benoit is reading from his book Standoff Terrain at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. 'A guy looks for love in all the wrong places, but comes up with all the right lines. What happens when Sun Tzu?s The Art of War meets the Indian erotic-religious text The Kama Sutra? Well, you get philosophical verse that?s fun, frank, and funky.'?Jury, Dektet 2010 http://frontenachouse.com/titles/single/standoff_terrain/ The year 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Frontenac Ho...
Edmonton AB poet William Nichols is reading from his book Fallacies of Motion at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. 'Here is contemporary wisdom in verse. Imagine ancient Solomon revived and even more cynical, witty, precise, and scathing. These lyrics are delightfully arch and delicately stern. They range from wry takes on technology and white-collar conundrums to introspective riffs on grief, loss and the compensations of travel.'?Jury, Dektet 2010 http://frontenachouse.com/titles/si...
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