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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 celebrate, Frontenac simultaneously published 10 poetry books: Dektet 2010. Titles were chosen by a jury of leading Canadian poets: bill bissett, George Elliot Clarke, and Alice Major using a blind selection process. Jury members did not know the identity of persons submitting manuscripts.

• Release Date

  May 30, 2010

• Runtime

  08:18